AIWON Mall Isekai Store, Grand Opening Today! - Chapter 61
Volume 7: Employee Appreciation Day is important. I also found a clue for my next business!
Episode 7-0 Prologue
The 13th day since I became the manager of the Aion Mall in the otherworld, where we started selling drugs (meds) and daily necessities, ended without any issues.
Number of visitors: 162 people.
Sales: 377,000 yen.
The increase in the number of visitors was because Anna-san promoted the drugstore in the town. The reason the sales did not increase much might be because some customers only purchased low-priced items such as daily necessities.
“How was it, Naoya! Did we sell the new products? Were we able to make a record!?”
“Chloe, your excitement level is way too high. Well, things don’t always go smoothly.”
The one who approached me while I was closing up shop was Chloe, an elf. She is a knight of this country and the former manager dispatched to the Aion Mall in the otherworld, recognized by the country for business. Despite her beautiful appearance, her personality is a bit strange, and her colleagues apparently call her “Disqualified Elf” or “Incompetent Knight.”
“We didn’t make a big announcement on the first day of selling the new products. It would be great if there were cost-effective advertising methods.”
“Why did you look at me, Naoya? Don’t tell me! Like when you introduced ready-to-eat meals, you want to embarrass me again! Saying things like ‘For those who buy this product, without fail,’ and then exposing me to lustful men… Ugh, kill me!”
“Your imagination is going too far, Ero Elf. Well, the swimsuit signboard did have an effect.”
Chloe, who is capable enough to be entrusted with the position of store manager in a world without Aion Mall, has a regrettable tendency to jump to erotic thoughts.
Despite her high combat abilities and being able to use body enhancement and healing magic like a “Holy Knight.”
“I’m sorry, Naoya-san… even though we’ve just started the ‘drugstore.'”
“Oh no, don’t worry about it, Anna-san. Getting the remedy for the Red Death disease from you is more than enough.”
Ignoring Chloe, who is wriggling with her fantasies, Anna-san spoke to me. She looks normal with a slightly pale complexion, but in reality, Anna-san is an undead, a high-ranking undead called a lich.
“If the Red Death disease becomes widespread in the town, it’s not the time for business. Let’s think about increasing sales patiently.”
“Hehe, thank you, Naoya-san. In that town, there will never be anyone dying from the Red Death disease again.”
Anna-san used to be in a church that existed in this place 800 years ago, and she was called the “Saint.” However, when the epidemic disease struck, causing a 100% mortality rate, the town perished, and she couldn’t save it. Frustrated, she became a lich.
Finally, she succeeded in developing a remedy for the Red Death disease and achieved her long-cherished wish. However, instead of passing on, she continues to work as an employee alongside the skeletons and ghosts who support the Aion Mall in the otherworld, who don’t need sleep and never get tired.
Honestly, if it weren’t for the undead, the store probably wouldn’t be able to operate.
“…I’m hungry.”
Barbera, who is staring intently at the closing work, speaks. Despite her appearance as a 10-year-old girl, Barbera is not what she seems.
A dragon.
She belongs to a mythical species and, of course, can transform back into the form of a dragon.
“…I want to eat beef stew.”
“Ah, if it’s made with regular meat, sure. I’ll be done with work in a bit, so please wait a little longer.”
“…Got it. I, look around.”
The ready-to-eat dishes that we started selling at the Aion Mall in the otherworld. The flagship product offered during the once-every-tenth-days ‘Behold! Only available on every tenth day Dargon Sale!’ is a ready-to-eat dish made with dragon meat. While wondering about the appropriateness of eating the meat of Barbera, who works as an employee, she seems to enjoy it, so it’s probably fine. Most likely.
Currently, there’s a traveling merchant family staying, but the official employees are only the store manager, me, and these three.
The apron-wearing skeletons and the skeleton squad under Anna-san, as well as the mascot ghost, well, they’re around, but…
“I’ll also go look around and lock up, Barbera! As a Holy Knight! I will come too!”
“Naoya-san, I’ll check the drugstore shelves.”
Aion Mall in the otherworld. Despite being called a “mall,” only the supermarket section, the drugstore corner, and the daily necessities corner are open at the moment.
If we don’t achieve a monthly sales target of one billion yen within five months, the gate connecting to the original world may become unusable if we go bankrupt. If that happens, I won’t be able to return to my original world. It’s quite a desperate situation. Achieving a monthly sales target of one billion yen requires a daily average of 3.34 million yen in sales. But today’s sales are only 377,000 yen.
“Uhh. Even though there’s still time, it’s still hmmmm… Well, what should I try next?”
By the way, on the first day I became the store manager and didn’t do anything, the number of visitors was 42, and the sales were 16,000 yen. The number of visitors has increased fourfold, and sales have increased more than 20 times.
“Eight times more. Eight times the sales… It’s okay, I’ll figure something out. The unused space is still much larger. It’s called ‘Aion Mall,’ but there are no tenants yet.”
As if encouraging myself, I muttered to myself.
The rabbit mascot peeks at me.
Seems like it’s worried about me mumbling while doing the closing work.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Alright, next is definitely finding tenants! Haa, in Japan, you just choose from the stores that ‘want to enter.'”
In the dimly lit Aion Mall in the otherworldly realm after closing, my lament echoed.
But at that time, I didn’t know.
That tomorrow, an extraordinary customer would visit the store.
Well, even if I knew, there wouldn’t be much I could do about it.