Capítulo 45: Chapter 45
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God of Conquest POV.
Today is the same, the real world trying to intervene in my life, and having to intervene with the 3D girls, all because of the Escaped Spirits or Weiss... But for today is Thursday and I'm going to my paradise! Or at least that's what I expected, because when I get to my favorite store I discover that there is another store there...
"That's weird, I'm completely sure that the entrance to the store is here... and it doesn't seem like the store had financial problems to close it..." The store in front of me has nothing on the display windows, it doesn't even have a name, however it has an open sign, turning around I can see my usual store to the right of this one...
I know I usually ignore everything around me and I'm always playing my games, but I'm sure the store was here, in fact some sidewalk signs still say that this is the store... how come the entrance moved some meters to the right... Although my common sense clearly tells me not to enter, I could only react when I heard the door bell open.
'Why did my body move on its own to open the door... Although I think they really just opened this place' I look around and I am surprised, the store is no more than 5 meters long outside, however inside the size is multiplied... clearly it should reach the corner of the street, could this be a demon store?'
"Welcome! to my humble store, as you can see we just finished construction so I still don't have products in sight, I still have them in my warehouse if are you looking for something?"
I hear a voice and see how a man in a fearsome armor appears... so it's a demon shop well I'm always interested to know what they sell, Elsie doesn't help at all for it, Besides that I want to know if I can get your service to expand my storage room, so I can keep many more games in my room.
"Nothing really... I was just curious that a new store appeared in the games area... but since I'm here I'll take the opportunity to see what titles have just been released." I can only answer, if he opened his store in the electronic zone, at least he must have something about it, since I don't think that a store selling occult stuff can survive in this zone...
'Still, his presence is terrifying, he clearly doesn't want to scare me, but his presence alone... is much more darker, clearly saying look at me I'm a demon... not that I've really met many, just Elsie who doesn't really look like a demon and Haqua...' I hear the bell from the store and I see Elsie enter, well at least with her here I'm safer, even so I had told her that she didn't have to accompany me to buy video games, she still hasn't learned.
" Kami-nii-sama, this is where you were!? Please don't disappear without saying anything..." I'm sure I told you that you didn't have to come with me...
I turn to see the seller of the store and he presents me with a catalog of games, the first thing I notice are the images shown on the cover... many characters I don't know... although the style is more western, so this store sells foreign games...?
This is weird... I don't know any of these games... I know that I'm not interested in normal games but even so I realize the existence of popular games and frankly I don't know any of these... This person are you making fun of me!? I look up to see the man in armor and mask, getting more annoyed with what he's doing as if he's presenting me with something extraordinary.
"Hey, are you making fun of me? You think you can make fun of me so easily, don't you know that I am god!!" I can't help but get angry... he is clearly making fun of me, although his presence is fearsome I am god! He looks at me surprised after that, he remove his mask and finally shows his face... but once the mask is removed, his presence changes and I stop feeling that fear towards him... what strange sensation....
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Leonhard POV
Apparently I'm not the only one surprised, the girl Elsie is also surprised letting out a small sound of surprise, turning to look at Katsuragi Keima intently, who seems to have fire coming out of his eyes, while looking at me menacingly. Not caring about my height, my armor, and that my face is covered by a mask, which I guess it's better that I take off now...
"What's the problem... god?" I ask once I take off my mask, I clearly notice that Elsie takes a small step backwards... you hurt my self-esteem by reacting like that when you see my face, you know... I know I'm not handsome but at least I hope I'm not unpleasant... In the end Katsuragi without saying anything more just points to the catalog... which is pointing to the game of God of War.
"This is a good game, without giving too many spoilers, you control a character called Kratos in his fight against the gods of Olympus, it is a game full of action and fights." In the end I don't say much because frankly, I don't think Katsuragi likes this kind of game, after all he plays Galges so it's a totally different genre. Although apparently that continued to bother him somehow...
"So you keep lying to me... even after I gave you a chance to fix your mistakes, alright Elsie let's go, we will never come back to this store." He says as he turns around and starts walking towards the door…
"Wait, wait, can you at least tell me what was bothering you? I really don't understand the problem you have..." I have to stop it, I really want to have a peaceful world where I can finally take girls to meet each other, I can't pass up this opportunity. luckily for me he stopped and turned to see me.
"You really don't understand what you're doing? I may not play other genres that I don't like, but that doesn't mean I'm not an expert in them, clearly that God of War game seems to be popular, now answer me this, why had I never heard of it? And not only that, Assassins Creed, Need for Speed, Dante's Infierno, Medal of Honor 2, Call of Dury... All those games have the basics to be famous, even their release years are marked, why have I never heard of them? If you're not a liar then you're a scammer" After saying that he points to me and starts walking towards the door again... so that's what it was about, well I'd be annoyed about that too... the good thing is that I can fix it.
"Very well, wait, now I understand what you mean... and to tell you the truth if you were in any other store that would be the truth, but mine is special... It's a dimensional store, so I have several magical products that can be used by the demon lady who accompanies you..." In the end, when he stops it before opening the door, watching me carefully, I make a movement with my hand and make several bottles appear on the counter, besides that I also took out a copy of God of War: Ghost of Sparta in my hand.
"What kind of game are you playing?" Katsuragi asks me from the door, clearly nervous about my way of proving my point.
"I'm just a vendor, the door to my shop pops up in several places, you can clearly tell by looking at the size of my shop as opposed to the floor space it needs to occupy." Apparently he had also noticed that since he is not as surprised as Elsie, who begins to look at the walls inside my store and at the walls outside it.
"What kind of products do you sell in your store, Mr...?" Elsie asks as she comes to my counter to, but halfway is stopped by Katsuragi, well at least I have their attention, now I just have to make them buy me something.
"My name is Leonhard, Leonhard Hauser. I would like to say that I have everything, but clearly that would be a lie, there are few things that I cannot get, although it is another very different thing to have enough to pay me... of course I do not accept souls or things like that, only money , gold, jewels, they can even be knowledge or magical objects" I add quickly when I see that Katsuragi starts to make a worried face, although I don't blame him, clearly I was speaking like a demon...
'Although I think I lost this time, clearly Katsuragi don't want to buy anything, he's too cautious for that... so I got my first customer and ended up in failure...' I notice how Elsie approaches the counter and begins to see the potions that I put there, it is a pity that she has no idea what they do, and even if she ask, she probably won't understand my explanation.
'Well I guess I should put some things on the shelves while I'm here, so the next time someone walks in they won't see everything so desolate...' Ignoring Katsuragi and Elsie who are at the door and counter, I go to one of the shelves and begin to place things, I place swords, spears, bows, maces, axes in the wall, not many really, just enough to decorate a bit, I take out a mannequin and put an armor on it, on other shelves I put books, ornaments, in the counter I put brooches, some silver jewelry, some old wine bottles, now clearly this place looks like a medieval antique shop.
Although remembering a little what Katsuragi said, this place must be a place for games, so I prepare the shelve and put several games on it in another one I put some manga and novels, in addition to buying some posters and putting them on the walls, at least so if any gamer comes in I can attend to them. When I finish decorating a bit, which doesn't last more than 10 minutes, I turn to the door where Katsuragi continue standing looking surprised at what I did.
"Did you change your mind Otoshi-gami? If I said it right, right? Sorry if my Japanese isn't exactly correct, but I'm sure you won't find these games anywhere..." I make my last effort by opening the page where the Galges are shown, and getting closer so that he can see it, for a few moments I see him hesitate but I know very well that I shouldn't push him now... Although before he can decide anything, some girls open the door behind him and walk in.
"Hey Elsie, what are you doing? If you were going to come to the mall you could have told us and not waste your time accompanying Otamegane." the first girl has short, dark-brown hair and wears a pink hair-band over her head if I remenber correctly she is called Ayumi, she approaches Elsie, on the other hand the other girl has a short brown hair that is somewhat similar to Katsuragi's hairstyle. She wears a pink or cream-colored hairpin on the left side of her head... this one has to be Chihiro right?
"Hey, Otamega, if you're not going to buy something in the store, stop covering the entrance, they'll scold you if you cover the entrance like that... Hey, anyone home?" Chihiro approaches Katsuragi and begins to talk to him, although when he ignores her, she begins to touch his shoulders and then passes her hand in front of his eyes where he finally reacts.
Although instead of saying something to Chihiro because she touches it, he immediately comes to me and takes the catalog in the Galges section that I was showing him... by the end he only looks up and stares at me... with eyes that say I don't trust you, I only trust the heroines... so without losing anything I walk to the counter where I take out one of galges on the first page of the list.... Air...
Although we quickly discovered a problem... when he put it in his PFP the game just doesn't start... so before he starts calling me a liar or a scammer I proceed to take out a console and give it to him, observing some differences like a circle, triangle buttons instead Roman numerals on the buttons of the PFP, even so Katsuragi didn't care and started playing the game quickly...
Meanwhile, the other girls after seeing this interaction, enter and begin to see the store... As is natural, they approach the weapons section and observe them a bit, as well as the armor and quickly while they are not looking, I place some stuffed animals and dolls of some Ragnarok monsters in a box near the counter, plus some key rings of the different jobs of the game, I hope these catch their eyes too. Now that I remember it, do I need or have to have a permit to be able to sell weapons...? Details...
"Nothing happens if you want to hold them, they're made of metal so nothing really will happen to them even if you drop them." I see that some things call their attention so I approach them to show them, taking a couple of blunt swords, a Blade and a Falchion from the counter and presenting them to Ayumi and Chihiro... I'm not going to give Elsie a pointed weapon even if it is blunt... besides that apparently she doesn't like me... Whenever I get close to where she is, she takes a few steps to get away from me. It's weird that Ayumi and Chihiro don't react like that to me.
"Wow, it's really heavy... even so, it's still comfortable in the hand." Ayumi says while holding the Blade with both hands, to tell the truth this sword is one of the lightest I have, not to mention that it's simple and elegant, although it's rare that they say it's comfortable... frankly I don't remember that about the weapon. ..
"Yes, I had seen and even held a katana before, although clearly western swords are very different..." Chihiro also comments, something I hadn't really thought of before... the market is Japanese, so who the hell is coming to Japan to buy western weapons and armor... I guess I should put the genius meme here, so I'm going to have to create samurai weapons and armor too...
"I don't think I could move in this armor... how come people used to use it to go fight in it before?" Elsie, for her part, is concentrating on the armor that I placed, as I remember the mannequin is female... is that why the armor became a woman's armor? The armor is simply plate armor with a little more room in the chest ar.... I was going to speak when I feel someone hitting my side a bit, when I turn around I see Chihiro hitting my side generating a metallic blow.
"Chi-Chihiro what are you doing!? Excuse her please, she's just too curious about the things she sees and always acts without thinking about the consequences." Ayumi quickly begins to apologize when she sees what Chihiro is doing, though I stop her before she can bow.
"Nothing happens, don't worry, before you have to be careful, remember that you have a weapon in your hand and even if is it blunt it is still dangerous" I immediately stop her and take the sword that she had in her hand, from what I see Chihiro already placed hers on the shelf where it was before.
"Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience we are causing you Mr...?" Ayumi immediately apologizes and although Chihiro is more interested in my armor, she also lowers her head and apologizes to me.
"True, my name is Leonhard Hauser... I think in Japan it would be Hauser Leonhard? You can call me Leon or Leo. Nice to meet you."At the end I raise my right hand to greet them, I know it's not common in Japan but apparently it's something built into me, both of them are a bit surprised but they quickly return my greeting.
"My name is Takahara Ayumi, nice to meet you." Apparently even if her personality is lively she can still be educated
"My name is Kosaka Chihiro, it is rare to find a foreigner speaking Japanese so fluently." Ayumi immediately tries to stop her by telling her that it is rude to do that.
"Awah~ My name is Eri Ka-Katsuragi...." I still don't understand why she is afraid of me, or perhaps it is that she unconsciously feels my presence... let's see let's change the job to Swordman... And magically Elsie turns to various sides and ends up tilting her head while looking at me... so she could really feel my presence.
"Mr. Hauser, from what I see your armor is made of metal, is it heavy?" Chihiro asks me looking at my Guillotine Cross armor, it's lucky that I always keep my weapons in my inventory, even so the armor clearly has some cuts and scratches... Well that's easier to explain, at the moment I start to remove one of my gauntlets, which, looking at it, has an integrated blade...
Chihiro receives it carefully and apparently she did not expect it to be so heavy, to tell the truth it is an ignorable weight for me, but it really is heavy for normal people, I estimate that it must weigh 4 or 5 kg... how much does the armor actually weigh if a single gauntlet weighs that... and that's not to mention that this armor is on the light end, the heavy armor of the Royal Guard for other part....
In the end I even served them some drinks and chatted with them a bit, not to mention giving them some dolls, Ayumi chose Little Angel Doll that works as a headband, Chihiro Rocker Doll and Elsie a Cold Blooded Queen Doll... which is practically a Zherlthsh doll... I always wonder who the fuck makes those dolls in Midgard?
I even got permission to call them by their names, in the end we ended our conversation when Katsuragi ended up crying at the end of the game, after that he set out to finish his money in games. In the end, I was able to tell him Kirei's phrase. Rejoice, boy. Your wish will finally come true when I presented him with the dimensional catalogs of galges...
The interesting thing that happened was that once they accepted the dolls, the names above their heads stopped showing question marks, finally showing me their names, that limits me a bit in my decisions, but it's nothing I can't work with, seeing in my world list shows that I have access to the world The World God Only Knows.
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