Chapter 8 – Poor Noble Daughter, Alva Sylvia
Silvia, with her bright red hair neatly tied into two pigtails like a blazing fire, glared at her guest with her raised eyes.
Beep!
The customer who made eye contact with her as she scanned her barcode shook her body.
“Keuhumhum.”
Am I embarrassed for no reason?
As Sylvia stamped her item with her barcode again, her customer, wearing the uniform of a nearby blacksmith guild, cleared his throat.
The customer, who appeared to be a guild clerk, could not make eye contact with Sylvia.
“4 gold and 22 silver.”
A sharp impression and a bright voice, but a dull tone that doesn’t suit him.
In addition, what was visible underneath the DG convenience store vest was the school uniform of the Imperial Palace Academy.
A part-time student wearing a school uniform at the Imperial Palace Academy, which is said to be attended only by nobles.
This meant that her status was unusual.
The commoner who works in the guild is someone you cannot dare to make eye contact with.
Sylvia counted out her change to her guest, who casually handed her a 10 gold coin.
“I received 10 gold. “The change is 5 gold and 78 silver.”
“Okay, thank you.”
A customer bows his head almost reflexively.
Ah, you know what that feels like.
“Goodbye.”
Sylvia did not forget her kind greeting.
The customer felt awkward and left the convenience store.
Sylvia had quite a fierce look. If she keeps an expressionless face, she looks like she’s about to start a fight.
A noble daughter of a count who is stubborn and doesn’t seem to listen well.
That’s my first impression of her.
So when customers who came to the convenience store saw Sylvia for the first time, they all reacted that way.
A reaction she takes without realizing it.
Her strangely classy demeanor and expression made me suspect that she was a great noblewoman.
In fact, she was a great noblewoman.
Sylvia Pollion.
She was the third daughter of Count Pollion, a central noble family with a strong tradition and strong influence.
‘Former’ academy student.
An unfortunate daughter who was suspended from school due to an accident she caused at the academy, and was removed from the family register for causing harm to the family.
She is now a part-time worker who handles the morning and afternoon departments at our convenience store.
So, the strange feeling of intimidation that guests feel is perhaps natural.
She has been working here for about two years now and has improved a lot.
She used to be enormous.
‘Why should I calculate yours?’
‘You take the picture yourself.’
‘Ha, will you understand if I have to say it twice? It’s 11 gold and 8 silver.’
‘Store manager! ‘I have to clean up here?’
Wow, you don’t know how much I stooped to resolve the complaint that came in at that time.
I seriously almost developed a herniated disc from bending over every day.
Now that she has learned the spirit of service through education and knows that there is no other way to make a living, she treats her guests very kindly.
That’s exactly what it looks like now.
“I’ve finally passed the busy time.”
After sending off the last customer, I wiped the sweat from my forehead.
I guess it’s not really rush hour. A lot of people came.
“Thank you for your hard work. Store manager.”
“Silvia, you worked hard too.”
“It’s already 11 o’clock.”
“It’s lunchtime in just one hour.”
It wasn’t as big as now, but it meant that office workers who came out to eat would soon come in.
This time is less than commuting time, but it is a hectic time in its own way.
It will be full of people wanting to eat box lunches or cup ramen.
There were many people in this world who ate cup ramen to solve their busy daily lives.
Most of them were office workers working at a nearby guild or workers wandering around Oscar.
Not as many adventurers came as I thought.
I spoke to the receptionist at the Adventurer’s Guild.
‘Most adventurers live outside the castle, so they often solve problems with rice balls. Cup ramen is not as popular among adventurers as expected, and they say they don’t like it because it smells too much.’
Does that mean that triangle gimbap is sold in large quantities?
“Hey, store manager…”
Sylvia, who was cleaning up the counter, hesitantly approached me and asked.
“Why?”
“Well, is there anything left to be discarded yesterday?”
“Disposal?”
“Yeah, that’s…”
Grumble!
A loud noise came from Sylvia’s stomach.
A completely different sound from Elena.
“There’s probably one lunch box left.”
Sylvia’s face brightened at my words.
“Well, then…”
“You can eat it. “Because disposal is impossible anyway.”
Sylvia’s face lit up.
I took out the pork cutlet lunch box that she discarded yesterday from her refrigerated storage and handed it to her.
“Ah, pork cutlet lunch box…”
Sylvia’s eyes sparkled, as if she had received a sacred object.
She swallowed hard and put her lunch box in her hands.
It was our rule to eat lunch a little early as customers came in during lunchtime.
No matter how bad it is that she can’t use the count’s name, it’s hard to believe that she, who was once an aristocrat in her former academy life, was having such fun with one of her discarded lunch boxes.
Who knew?
She, who was said to be a promising wizard, would tremble over a lunch box like this.
I didn’t know either.
That’s why two years was such a long time.
Enough for people to change.
“I’ll eat well!”
Sylvia lowered her head.
And I saw the frayed academy uniform visible under her vest.
It was the clothes I had been wearing ever since I was suspended from the academy and kicked out of the family due to some kind of incident two years ago.
She always wore a school uniform, as if to remember what she had done in the past.
It is said to be highly durable due to special magic treatment, but it is likely to wear out after about 2 years.
‘It seems like you are taking good care of it.’
If you look at the fact that it still looks quite fine.
“Even if you don’t have to dispose of it, you just take it out and eat it?”
I spoke to Sylvia, who was putting an expired pork cutlet lunch in the microwave.
“No.”
Her answer was firm.
“You decided to give me a little more salary instead of paying for meals. However, if you eat the lunch box as you please, you will be pitied and begged by the manager.”
Isn’t waste generation similar?
The words came up to my chin, but I held back.
Because I am not a low-quality store manager who humiliates my part-time worker.
In fact, I couldn’t bear to tell her that the reason there was leftover pork cutlet lunch yesterday was because I had left it out.
I feel like it would destroy what little pride she had left.
And knowing why she is sensitive to receiving something for free, she was hard to recommend anymore.
“Okay. Enjoy it.”
“Thank you.”
Sylvia hummed and took out a pork cutlet lunch box from her microwave.
“Hmm~. Pork cutlet~ Pork cutlet~~.”
A tsundere-style noble lady who would never smile in front of people is smiling brightly while looking at a steaming pork cutlet lunch box.
It was quite precious.
That alone made me think it was a good idea to set aside the disposal.
Yes, the store manager just needs the part-time worker to be happy.
“I will eat well!”
Students who attended her academy in the past will have no idea.
Silvia has become a pork cutlet enthusiast thanks to her two years of working part-time at a convenience store.
“Hmm~, now I can’t be satisfied without pork cutlet!”
Eating too much convenience store food is bad for your health.
“Anyway, I’m off work now, so I’ll take care of it with Elena later.”
“Yes! I understand!”
I went out through the back door of the convenience store, leaving behind Sylvia, who was humming and eating pork cutlet.
It’s not easy for a noble to have that kind of lifestyle.
Why did a young lady from an aristocratic family, who gave off an aura that no one could approach, end up like that?
Of course, I don’t have any mercy on customers who try to do things for no reason.
I took good care of her in my own way.
I climbed up Sylvia’s stairs, thinking about how she had changed.
When I went up the stairs to the second floor, I saw two doors.
-My house.
On the left is the house I live in.
-Part-time worker’s lodging and guest room.
And the other one was a door leading to the part-time workers’ dormitories.
When you open that door, there are six accommodations, similar to an officetel, separated by a hallway.
I remember that each room was 21 pyeong.
Currently, Elena and Sylvia are staying at that lodging.
The other four rooms were empty.
[Manager: Kim Do-jin]
[1st floor: convenience store & warehouse]
[2nd floor: house & accommodation]
[3rd to 7th floors: Locked]
[The 3rd floor will be constructed additionally once unlocked.]
This is the end.
There are stairs from the 3rd floor, but they are locked with an iron door, so you can’t go up.
Even if you try to climb up somehow using magic.
[This is an incorrect approach. It is impossible.]
It was of no use, except that the massage appeared.
I gave up because it didn’t work no matter how many times I tried.
I thought it wouldn’t matter if I didn’t have to open it.
There have been no problems so far.
There will be no major problems in the future.
‘It will open on its own when the time comes.’
With such optimistic thoughts, I opened the left door.
Rattling.
My house with a total of 37 pyeong.
A modern apartment with a large living room, kitchen, and four bedrooms.
It looks more like an apartment in the world I lived in than a building from the fantasy era.
Thanks to this, it was very easy to adapt.
When I moved to another world, I had a convenience store and a spacious house in my name.
With this, purchasing my own home was a solution.
The best in this world!
It was too spacious for a man to live alone, but when I put all the things in, there was no unused space.
I turned on the air conditioner, took off my clothes, laid them out on the floor, and went straight into the shower.
I saw my body reflected in the mirror.
In order to forget Serin, who remembered that day every night, the muscles that had been strengthened through regular exercise and training were gathered together.
Thanks to those muscles of hers, I no longer remembered her nightmares about her. Because I am no longer the weak Kim Do-jin I was back then.
Nevertheless, my expression reflected in the mirror was not very bright.
Numerous scars all over the body.
The terrible wounds that did not completely disappear even with magic and divine power reminded me of other memories.
A memory that can never be forgotten.
My past here that cannot be erased.
“Ha.”
Shoot!
Hot water poured out of the shower.
My image in the mirror completely disappeared due to the steam.
“Whoa…”
After adjusting the temperature appropriately, I soaked my body with water pouring from the shower.
I felt like the fatigue I felt all day yesterday was completely washed away with this one shower.
“Ha, I guess I’ll buy it.”
Let’s forget it now.
All you have to do is focus on your real job as a store manager.
That’s fine.
***
I was organizing the warehouse and checking the list to see if anything was missing.
Meanwhile, Counter and Elena kept her position.
Now she is in her third year as a part-timer at a convenience store. It’s gotten to the point where it can be done on its own even when I’m not there.
“The snacks didn’t sell as much as expected. “We are running out of a lot of daily necessities this week, so we have to place new orders, and we are almost out of beverages.”
Finding items that are lacking and placing orders for those items.
It was something I had to take care of in the warehouse today.
[Order: You can order the product you want.]
The most essential skill to run this convenience store, ordering.
Without this skill, it was clear that this convenience store would have lost its value due to lack of inventory.
I don’t know how this skill works.
[Buldak Ramen: 7 Silver, maximum order quantity of 50 bowls]
[Ionic beverage: 9 silver maximum order quantity 200 bottles]
[Condom (ultra-thin): 25 silver maximum order quantity 50 boxes]
If you pay the empire’s currency in goods, the system automatically recharges the warehouse with the necessary items an hour later.
As if Santa had left a gift while you were sleeping.
There is no truck delivering the logistics, but the trucks are stacked in the right place on their own.
All I do is check the items and put them on the shelf later.
Both refrigerated warehouses and frozen warehouses operated on the same principle.
There are fresh foods such as drinks and fruits in the refrigerated warehouse.
You could order ice cream and various frozen foods from the freezer warehouse.
If you look at the size, it was not a convenience store but almost a supermarket.
‘Originally, convenience stores weren’t this big.’
The scale only grew as we moved to another world.
It was truly the perfect skill for a convenience store.
However, there are a few things that are disappointing.
There is a maximum quantity for each product, but this quantity never increases, and even though we worked hard for three years, we were unable to expand the product list.
Except that occasionally items with unusual effects come in.
[This is a locked feature. Level up your convenience store.]
[This is a locked feature. Level up your convenience store.]
Looking at things like this, it definitely seems like a new system I can open.
I won’t tell you.
The system was quite unfriendly to me.
Cheat abilities, such as game skills acquired by transferring to a new reality.
If I was possessed by a game or a novel I’ve read at least once, I would look for any clues.
There was absolutely no clue about this.
‘I think it would be okay if we keep ordering.’
When will that happen?
Still, what the system said.
[A new life for you who are unhappy.]
I was really enjoying my new life.
Smirking at the money accumulating in the POS machine is the joy I feel every day.
Every time I deposited the money I earned during the week into the bank, the corners of my mouth twitched.
Tomorrow, the number of 0s in your bank account balance will increase by one.
‘I’m happy.’
Except that I got involved in a lot of troublesome work in order to survive here.
By the time we had ordered all the items in the warehouse.
“Manager.”
Elena stuck her head out into the warehouse.
“A customer came looking for the store manager.”
The guide sent by the crown prince has arrived.
“I’ll be out soon.”
