Green Grape Flavored Candy
A candy boasting ultimate cost-effectiveness, on par with Scorched Rice Flavored Candy and Peppermint Candy.
[Green Grape Flavored Candy (15 pieces) - 3P]
[A candy that tastes like green grapes. A human air-freshener manufacturing machine. While eating it, the surroundings become filled with the scent of green grapes.]
If I register this, it should be enough to quell the gallery users' frenzy.
[Green Grape Flavored Candy? I, too, am curious about that taste.]
Huh?
Sora had suddenly said something completely unexpected.
"Sora, can you eat this too?"
I asked on the off chance,
[No. I cannot eat it right now.]
I received an answer that sounded somewhat downcast.
"I can't eat it right now"...
"So does that mean you could eat it before, or that you'll be able to in the future?"
[I'm sorry. I cannot tell you yet.]
What the hell.
It seemed like some tremendous secret was being hidden.
Could Sora really be the mastermind or something?
If that were the case, I think I'd be quite sad.
A scenario where the being who always helped by my side was actually the mastermind, stealing all my power at the decisive moment?
"Uwaa. I'm baby Jujak. I can't do anything."
I had full confidence that I wouldn't even be able to resist and would have everything taken from me.
Since I was so scared that I couldn't take a single step outside right now.
[I could not understand the intent of your question. Could it be that your mental development is lagging behind your appearance?]
"No, that's not it... It's nothing."
Though it must have tried hard to understand what I said, I took considerable damage.
"Uhk... uheuheuk..."
Wiping away my flowing tears, I purchased jam and green grape flavored candy.
One hundred pieces. I didn't forget to set them to auto-register, either.
"And I should charge 4P for the green grape flavored candy."
[Green Grape Flavored Candy (15 pieces) - 3P]
[A candy that tastes like green grapes. A human air-freshener manufacturing machine. While eating it, the surroundings become filled with the scent of green grapes.]
[Do you wish to change the selling price in 'Just a Shop' to 4P?]
[YES / NO]
YES, of course.
I pressed the button firmly.
After definitely finishing the item registration, I checked once more to make sure I hadn't forgotten anything.
It seemed I had now finished all the things I needed to do.
Since I would have to wait a bit to see the reactions to the candy, I opened the very last page of my notebook to pass the time.
On the page where my things to do were written, I crossed out the memos for tasks already completed with a ballpoint pen.
Memos regarding the apology letter, memos about resolving the big issue within a week—I erased them one by one.
And I jotted down several new things to do that I had thought of earlier.
So the remaining memos were:
'★ Buy Bunker ★'
'...'
'It's cold...'
'...'
'Need to create a consistent revenue structure. But how?'
'Too little information. Need to think of a way to find out information about this world.'
'...'
'Wolves are scary...'
'...'
'Maybe wolves aren't actually dangerous? Does it make sense that a house-sized wolf can't break through a single wooden door?'
'...'
'Take a picture of the four-eyed wolf and ask the gallery. Need to know what it is to be able to deal with it.'
Half worrying about gallery management, half scared of wolves.
And scattered complaints in between.
I had completed a truly worthless page.
Having finished organizing the tasks for tomorrow me, now it was time to check the gallery.
But what was this feeling?
Maybe because I had seen the frenzy over sweetness in the posts earlier, I felt somewhat cold.
"Sora. Could you summarize the current gallery atmosphere for me in one word—no, one sentence?"
At times like this, I should ask Sora.
[Yes. Understood. If I were to summarize the current gallery atmosphere in one sentence: they are collectively rampaging, overcome with happiness from properly tasting sweetness for the first time. That is all.]
"Uh... thank you, Sora."
[Not at all. Please call upon me whenever you need me.]
As expected.
Added on top of the reactions to the jam earlier, now candy too, and the quantity was essentially infinite?
It was a natural result that they'd go crazy rampaging.
Having finished the preview, I opened the list of posts to see the gallery users' reactions directly.
[This is sex]
[White bread, sweet jam, and even refreshing candy. Could this... be happiness?]
[Jujak is fattening up the gallery users, upvote if you wanna smooch him lol]
[Releasing food at 1 AM? Are you sane?]
[This was the best meal of my life...]
[I... a...m st...ill sh...edding t...ears...]
[It is a fact that eating strawberry jam and green grape flavored candy together is even more delicious!]
[Bread with jam. I think this would be the ultimate drinking snack. What do my brothers think?]
"Ugh... I think I've seen enough."
It was exactly the reaction to the jam from earlier, plus the candy.
I figured I could sleep after checking out a few selected ones.
[This is sex]
Author: Can_Eat_Books_Too
- Me? A great archmage who has walked only the path of magic for 150 years.
(Picture of parchment, books, and crumpled paper piled on a desk)
Upon entering the ranks of the great archmages, my lifespan had increased to excess.
I had obtained everything that could be obtained, and what I could accomplish was overwhelmingly greater than what I could not.
Because I had always done my best, it was a life without the slightest dissatisfaction.
But there was just one thing. Because I walked only the path of magic, never forming a relationship with the opposite sex remained as a regret.
But today, I realized.
(Picture of a baguette neatly placed on the desk, two jars of jam, and green grape flavored candy)
This is sex.
This can be nothing other than sex.
(Picture of parchment, books, and crumpled paper scattered on the floor)
I will accept no rebuttals.
Upvotes: 1,322 Downvotes: 26
(Comments)
- Elder, that's not sex.
└ (Can_Eat_Books_Too) This can be nothing other than sex!
- Aren't those things thrown on the floor super valuable?
└ I'm from Magic Mountain and I've never even seen such things.
- G... gramps...?
- You use reaction images so well ^__^.
- But there aren't even many great archmages, is it okay to post like this?
└ I'm sure they know what they're doing~
└ Making all great archmages virgins with one post lol
└ Uk lolol
Yeah. He's totally lost his mind.
Regular user 'Can_Eat_Books_Too'
This person definitely had a very light, casual tone in the posts and comments I had seen until now, but their concept had completely shattered.
"Well, I guess it's fine since he enjoyed it that much?"
Honestly, the great archmage virgin conspiracy theory?
Not my problem.
After finishing reading the post that would become the start of the great archmage virgin conspiracy theory, I checked a post with a title that had caught my attention.
[Releasing food at 1 AM? Are you sane?]
Author: Noname
- (Picture of the upper body of a scrawny man with a protruding belly)
Jujak, are you sane?
What the hell are you trying to do by fattening me up, Jujakie~
I'll give you a real smooch so come here!
Upvotes: 1 Downvotes: 3,278
(Comments)
- Gallery users who came in to curse, sighed, downvoted, and left, upvote lol
└ Can't upvote so I viciously downvote lol
└ Only two comments but a mountain of downvotes lol
"Eing... it wasn't trolling, just bait."
Maybe because the gallery was too clean, I ended up properly biting the bait of that provocative title.
Soon, instead of simple bait like that, there would be tons of real troll posts, right?
Anyway, I confirmed that the photo function was being used well.
What kinds of reaction images would be uploaded later?
Just imagining it made me want to quit everything already, so I immediately moved to the next post.
[It is a fact that eating strawberry jam and green grape flavored candy together is even more delicious!]
Author: Guardian_of_the_World_Tree
- It is exactly as the title says!
First, prepare a spoon!
Next, drop the candy into the jam!
And then put it in your mouth!
Finally, when the jam disappears in your mouth, put another spoonful in!
If you repeat this, it is truly delicious!
(Picture of a spoon stuck in a jar of strawberry jam)
Upvotes: 5,237 Downvotes: 2
(Comments)
- I am thankful that you told us, it is!
└ I am thankful, it is!
└ I too am thankful, it is!
└ (Guardian_of_the_World_Tree) Do not copy me, it is!
└ I refuse, it is!
└ It is our hearts' desire, it is!
└ It is so, it is!
- (Guardian_of_the_World_Tree) Eeeek...! I said do not copy me, it is!
└ (Guardian_of_the_World_Tree) Why do you keep copying despite me saying not to, is it?!
└ Is this a new speech pattern, is it?!
└ It is!, Is it?!(NEW!)
└ Why are you deciding my speech pattern, is it?! Whatever I use is my choice, it is!
As expected, a dizzying comment section.
Regular user 'Guardian_of_the_World_Tree'
A being who changes all gallery users' speech patterns just by appearing.
Today too, countless gallery users had their speech patterns unified into 'it is!'
After reading Guardian_of_the_World_Tree's post, I read other posts as they caught my eye.
Delicious. Joyful. Happy. Tearing up. Eating it this way is more delicious. I wanna smooch Jujak, etc.
From simple happiness posts to information-sharing posts, and even somewhat embarrassing ones.
Most were delightful posts that made the corners of my mouth rise.
But the number of posts written by the gallery users was enormous.
I read an eye-catching post and returned to the main page?
Then the post I had just read had already disappeared from page 1, no longer visible.
"The firepower is tremendous..."
Would a favorites or bookmark function be needed?
Or creating sub-galleries to disperse the load didn't seem like a bad idea, either.
I tucked the thoughts that came to mind into a corner of my head.
It was already 1:30 AM.
I could see the firepower of the gallery users, who had been excited by tasting sweetness for the first time in their lives, weakening bit by bit.
I should sleep now too.
Before falling asleep, after checking just one last thing.
"Sora, could you display my remaining P on the screen?"
[Yes. Understood. Displaying Rain-nim's current remaining P below.]
[46,---]
Points rapidly accumulating thanks to the candy.
Looking at this, the corners of my mouth wouldn't calm down.
Tomorrow, I can finally leave this stinky room.