Chapter 31: Don't Make Rash Promises

  "Don't be surprised, I'm telling the truth." Jiǔ Mìng slightly shrugged his shoulders, not minding Shí Fēng's puzzled expression. "After all, it made you do a few more things, satisfying your curiosity is also acceptable, a fair trade, that's all."

  "Fair trade? Are you really that mysterious merchant (and not a middleman)?" Currently at a disadvantage, Shokuhou Misaki can only go along with Kuzuryuu's words.

  "Of course, I sell various... uh, well, the goods are limited for now, but I can accept some commissioned items. However, I plan to develop this into a mainstream business."

  Well, at least by accepting the commission, I don't have to worry about going all over the place to find goods.

  "Really?" A hint of a sly smile appeared on Shokugeki's face, "I've had a request too... will you accept it?"

  "Oh, we're not familiar with each other, let's discuss the pay first." Jiǔ Mìng rolled his lips and said "close brothers settle accounts clearly", directly getting to the point without any ambiguity.

  "Do you want money?"

  "Whatever, you're not the first and definitely won't be the last!" Nine Lives scratched his head, answering with a hint of frustration, "Why is it that whenever individuals discuss compensation, they always bring up money first!?"

  Especially under the expression of that old lady who didn't care about money, but he really didn't need money. What did he want money for? Is this world a hellhole where giving him some paper money to burn might be useful?

  "Don't mention money to me! And whether or not I accept the commission depends on my mood."

  That's right! Whether to accept or not depends on his mood. The restrictions imposed by the mysterious shop, apart from the two basic message leakage restrictions that can be ignored, are just the monthly submission of a fixed amount of 'source'. Apart from that, most of the distribution rights there are in Jiǔ Mìng's hands.

  So he won't be like those system streams, main god accompany streams and the like, where he encounters some event and has to accept a 'task' without even going through his own will. Here, it's up to him whether he accepts or not, and he can set his own reward, even asking for an astronomical price or simply taking nothing at all is no problem!

  As long as he can hand in a fixed amount of 'yuan' every month, if not, replace the store manager...

  Compared to drifting with the current, he seems more like drifting with his heart.

  "Tell me about your entrustment, I'm listening."

  "Lick my feet..."

  Kun looked slightly stunned, gazing at the starry-eyed girl's fox-like smile, and before he knew it, the fear that had accompanied her was gone. Ah? Had she discovered that he was a 'good person'?

  Cough! Cough! Cough!

  Shaking her head, Jiǔ Mìng already knew that her previous malicious behavior had been seen through as fake. Now, from her being able to directly joke around, it can be inferred that she also judged that he didn't have any ill intentions towards her.

  Sometimes it's easy to talk to smart people, but discussing prices with them is a rather troublesome thing.

  "Cough, anyway, you promised me before, you definitely don't want to see the scene of me getting angry. Alright, let's talk about the price of this 'entrustment', what can you offer?" Jiǔ Mìng's hands were clasped together, maintaining a proper and decent smile, as if he had already begun to get down to business.

  "Sure enough, it's that kind of merchant who is full of greed and would sell out anything for profit!"

  "Nonsense! My setting for myself is that of a mysterious merchant who always appears with all sorts of rare and precious treasures, super divine artifacts..."

  "What do you have now?" Shi Feng asked back very impolitely, as if to take back all the 'humiliation' he had just received.

  "Alright, I've just started this line of work and don't have much on hand, only three things at most." Jiǔ Mìng shrugged his shoulders and replied with a relaxed expression, but he actually had something special in his hands! Did he really have a 'divine artifact' or what?

  "Really?!?" Chī Mèng's face was full of "are you kidding me?" expressions, if she couldn't read Jiǔ Mìng's thoughts, how could she appear so 'passive'?

  "Well, do you want to listen to the introduction? By the way, those dog legs of yours have good physical quality, they woke up so quickly." The students who were originally lying on the ground and were knocked down by Jiǔ Mìng suddenly gasped in surprise, their plan for a sneak attack was instantly foiled.

  "It's really useless, you all go down first."

  "Yes, Your Majesty."

  "......" Queen!? Tsk tsk!

  "What did you just do?" Jiǔ Mìng asked, slightly tilting his head to ask Shí Fēng Cāo Qí, and those students' brief loss of focus was seen very clearly by him.

  "It's nothing, just making them forget what they heard earlier and by the way, letting them do what you said before." Shokuhou was a casual respondent, but Kuroba felt she was showing off.

  "It's a very convenient ability. Indeed, those with spiritual abilities are either extremely self-disciplined (@X Professor), or... well, nothing."

  Seeing the girl's embarrassed face, Jiǔ Mìng smiled slightly and stopped what he was about to say. "Alright, let's get back on track. Want to take a look at what I have here?"

  Item display...

  "What? A cell phone that can call other worlds? Are you kidding me?! It sounds like you're trying to deceive me!"

  "What is this thing? A century egg? Why didn't you say it was a fossil!"

  "Come on, are you kidding me with this unscientific nonsense? Fifty days of life? Please, this isn't, and neither are you some kind of devil with horns and wings."

  “…The one with the long horns and wings is a demon, right? Now, there's a ghost standing in front of you, and you're still talking to me about science?” Jiǔ Mìng made two clicking sounds, directly sealing away the fossilized egg that had been poisoned by eating certain foods, the cheapest divine artifact mobile phone in history, into a card. If the life force wasn't used on living things, pinching the card would make the sealed life force disappear instantly like air... No wonder... He knew he couldn't sell it, yet he still took it out, a kind of showy mentality.

  "Was it because you're a ghost that you were able to pass through the window just now?"

  "Of course."

  The bee eater sat down on one side, feeling more at ease in his heart. Since it was a ghost, he didn't have to worry about the physical aspects anymore. "Let's continue discussing the commission from earlier."

  "Lick my feet!? You haven't forgotten, have you?" The nine-tailed one curled up the corners of his mouth, his eyes slightly cast downward. A pair of white stockings with spider web patterns on the edges adorned her beautiful legs, and especially when his line of sight shifted over, the girl bluntly removed her shoes from one foot, revealing a pair of delicate little feet.

  "Hmph, he's not a pervert foot fetishist after all. His gaze shifted away abruptly, 'I refuse this unreasonable and absurd request!'"

  "Wait, I haven't named the price yet." The girl playfully batted her eyelashes, and one of her long socks slipped down from her leg in front of Jiǔ Mìng's face, being carelessly tossed aside by Shí Fēng Zǒu, "How about me?"

  "Serpent Scourge, not worth evaluating!" Jiǔ Mìng glanced at the smooth leg and curled his lip, seduction? He had experienced death over a hundred times, if he didn't have self-control, it would be too humiliating!

  The panel that suddenly popped out provided him with a piece of information.

  "You! Thank you for the compliment!" At first, she was angry, but then it seemed like Shoku Houkou thought of something and revealed a faint smile. However, this time when she saw Kurenai's gaze on her, it felt... somewhat eerie?

  There seems to be something not quite right.

  "Ah ha? Sorry, sorry, I misunderstood earlier. How are you? En en, it can be said that you're absolutely the most generous guest I've ever seen, even more so than that person who risked their life for just a few dozen photos."

  Don't you have any integrity? Even the hardest integrity will eventually be shattered by a more piercing price!

  The words of Shí Fēng's prayer seemed to have triggered some hidden mechanism in the mysterious shop, and the Panel Lord, who was rarely seen, suddenly popped out and gave him a hint.

  Mysterious shop allows itself to act as a price tag

  Then the nine lives of fruit decisively asked a bunch of related questions, if someone really did that, then once the transaction or entrustment was reached, the other party's 'household registration' would have to change from XX world to mysterious store 'household registration'.

  Similarly, the "source" that the world endows on the other party is also transferred. If you don't understand, just think of it as "fate". When the world pays more attention to something, the person's fate naturally becomes stronger. Fate is also a special blessing from the world's original power.

  That particularly notable one... we can call it the main character!

  That is to say, the value you place on yourself also depends on your status in this world, not as an individual, but as a member of this world. Even if you are a billionaire, living in a luxurious mansion, waking up every day from a 50,000 square meter bed...

  Unfortunately, you are not an important existence in this world. Under the 'valuation' of the mysterious shop, even a destined extra in that world is more valuable than you. If you want to sell yourself, you should consider how important you are to your own world.

  Let's not discuss this issue if it wouldn't make a difference even if there was one less earth.

  In short, this time Panel Jun explained a lot, and even transformed from a passive response to an active one, with a considerable amount of persuasion in between.

  "Commission confirmed?"

  Looking at the suddenly changing tone of Jiǔ Mìng, Yáng Zhe's small feet were covered with a rather unnatural feeling, as if... no matter what he did, he would always end up losing?

  As soon as she had this idea, she immediately wanted to withdraw her legs, but wouldn't that be showing weakness again!?

  Absolutely not!!

  "Of course!"

  "Alas, why bother? Why suffer!" Shaking his head, Jiǔ Mìng asked a question, "Do you have family? Can you bear to part with them?"

  "What do you mean?"

  "Hiss——" He blew a whistle, Jiǔ Mìng smiled, "Not bad reaction, you don't seem to be heartless either. I'll give you some advice out of kindness, next time you encounter something like this, never show off again."

  Jiuming grabbed the small foot that was waving in the air with one hand, and it felt pretty good. Since he had decided to give up on scamming people, getting a little benefit out of it wouldn't hurt, would it?

  "What?" He slightly struggled with his legs, but Shokuhou Misaki couldn't struggle free.

  "Haven't you heard of the devil's deal? Just now, after you answered my inquiry, in a certain sense, you have already signed your name on the devil's contract."

  "Hah, thank me!"