Gensokyo's Dimensional Black Shop

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When the portal lit up again, Yifang was the first to emerge, followed by a tall, blonde woman wearing an extremely loose white robe.

Upon arriving at the dimensional shop, the woman looked around and clapped her hands in delight.

"This feels completely different from before. It really is another world. Are you the master of this place?"

"...So be it."

"Interesting, interesting." After glancing at Bai Ye with an expression that was hard to describe, the woman sat down on the sofa and picked up an instruction manual to read through it.

"Manager Bai Ye... is this message referring to you?"

"Ah."

“OK, since it’s a shop, it’s much simpler to handle…” The woman tugged at the end of her hair, spinning it around and around, and said, “I’m here on behalf of Aleister, the chairman of Academy City, to discuss a deal with you. The details of the deal… let me find out first.”

white night:"……"

Was that guy named Aleister really serious about sending someone as unreliable as you?

"Found it. He said that one side is related to one of His plans. He can guarantee that if the plan is successfully completed, the other side will not be in any danger. On the contrary, they will gain a lot. He hopes that you will not interfere excessively."

"Intervention...what do you mean by that?"

“Because He cannot stop one of them from coming to you,” the woman replied.

"You can't stop her either?" Bai Ye's intuition told him that this blonde woman was a very dangerous presence, possibly even more dangerous than Kazami Yuuka...

"I haven't tried it. That's His plan. Even if one of them stays here with you and never goes back, what does it have to do with me?"

white night:"……"

Chapter 036 Do you accept cities here? What about planets?

Since it has nothing to do with you, why did you go to Yifang and make a special trip to the Dimensional Shop?

Rolling his eyes, Bai Ye didn't delve into the matter further.

From the perspective of the Dimensional Shop, there is no such thing as absolute good or absolute evil. Moreover, apart from the 10,000 "basic offerings" he receives each month, Bai Ye actually has a high degree of freedom. Therefore, he does things based on his own preferences... in short, he does whatever he wants.

In other words, the relationship between Aleister and Evans is meaningless to him.

After asking some more questions about the basics of the Dimensional Shop, Aiwas now had a card with over eight figures in his hand.

Like Kazami Yuuka, she was the type to calmly and confidently accumulate points, which made Byakuya envious.

To be honest, storing so much Origin Coin is pretty useless... *cough*

"Manager, you refer to this currency unit as 'Original Coin,' right?"

After fiddling with the card for a moment, Aiwass asked a question.

"Yeah, is there a problem?"

"Of course there is. Based on what I've seen and heard since being summoned by Aleister, currencies should be the kind that can be taken out individually, right? So, yours..."

Ok?

Is the way you ask questions so tricky?

Bai Ye's lips twitched as he contacted the dimensional store auxiliary program that he called the system.

The system's response did not disappoint him.

After closing his eyes and meditating for a moment, a golden coin appeared in Bai Ye's hand, which was the manifestation of one Origin Coin.

But this thing doesn't seem to be very useful, does it?

I examined the coin in my hand. There was no number on it. The front had a profile picture of a brooding, white-haired shopkeeper, and the back showed the image of the dimensional store as seen from the outside.

“Hold the card and silently say ‘take it out,’ and you can take out the Origin Coin inside.”

After clenching his fist and converting the coin back into a simple number, Bai Ye spoke to Aiwas, who was looking at him curiously.

"Okay... I'll give it a try first."

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, several gold coins appeared in Aiwas's hand. However, unlike Bai Ye's action of taking the coins back, Aiwas tossed the coins into the air and caught them directly in his mouth.

"So it really is the origin of the world, capable of directly converting the energy within my body into this form... Take back some of my previous thoughts, I admit you are qualified to have an equal dialogue with me."

Bai Ye stroked his chin: "If you don't mind, could you please explain what your previous thoughts were?"

I feel like I've been unfairly targeted and attacked without even realizing it.

“…None of that matters.” Aiwass turned to look at the wall of the Dimensional Shop.

"So, what do the guests consider important?"

"You sell everything here, right?" Aiwass suddenly appeared in front of Bai Ye, looking at him expectantly.

"Theoretically speaking, that's true."

"So, do you take in cities here, the kind with technology thirty years ahead of the outside world? I can sell you all the students inside as a package." Amidst Xiao Yifang's horrified expression, Aiwas spoke these terrifying words with a blank expression.

Academy City and its students...

How do you expect the chairman to save face?!

They wouldn't be thinking of selling out the chairman too, would they?!

"By the way, since your place can connect to various worlds, a mere city will probably become worthless in a while. How about I try to steal Earth and sell it to you? As long as I'm quick enough, they shouldn't be able to find your way here."

"This is getting more and more exaggerated!" Bai Ye slumped onto the counter like a salted fish: "Besides, can't you recharge your Origin Coins yourself?"

"It's useless. The amount I put in myself is almost the same as before after I reabsorb it. After all, I used my original essence to recharge in the first place..." Aiwas said with a frustrated look, "And after recharging, I will be permanently weakened, okay?"

As he spoke, the eight-digit value on the card in Aiwass's hand instantly dropped to zero, and a look of satisfaction flashed across Aiwass's face.

"Hmm, it seems like we're still short about a hundred Origin Coins. It looks like this conversion isn't entirely without losses."

"That hundred is the price for making the card, don't confuse it with... However, your internal energy will be permanently weakened after being converted into Origin Coins, are you sure?"

The thought of a certain green-haired female demon calmly tossing him a ball of demonic energy suddenly made Bai Ye's heart skip a beat.

When Kazami Yuuka unleashed that ball of demonic energy, she didn't seem to have suffered much damage.

I feel that Yuuka Kazami's long, white legs are becoming more and more alluring to me.

"Of course, at our level, we've long surpassed what most beings understand as realms. The origin of the world is what we pursue, not to mention I'm currently stuck at a bottleneck... uh..."

"How long was it stuck?"

"Only eighteen years." Aiwas looked up at the sky.

Forcing himself not to complain, Bai Ye tilted his head and asked, "If I remember correctly, Academy City is a technology-driven city, right?"

"If you mean standing on the opposite side of those who use magic."

“That makes things easier.” Bai Ye picked up an instruction manual, turned to a page, and showed it to Aiwas: “Whether it’s the technological weapons or some useful or useless superpowers, they are all urgently needed items for the Dimensional Shop, which is still in its early stages.”

Since Academy City is the first supply channel I developed myself, I, the shopkeeper, can buy goods from you at an extra 20% of the buyback price!

What? You're saying I'm dark-skinned?

This is already double the amount of other guests!

Chapter 037 A New Guest Who Seems to Have Some Background

After finalizing some specific details of the cooperation with Aleister's Academy City, Aiwass happily returned to Academy City through the portal.

According to her agreement with Bai Ye, Aleister will send other people to trade with Bai Ye next. All Bai Ye needs to do is deduct half of the Origin Coins that Aleister should have received, and she is willing to split this half 50/50 with Bai Ye.

In the end, Aleister, whom I had never met before, was treated the same as the other guests.

Watching helplessly as Aiwas, who should have been an ally of the chairman, reached an agreement with Baiye that was almost impossible to expose, he felt that his young mind was greatly shocked.

"Brother Bai, is it really okay for you to treat the chairman like this?" Yifang asked, pursing his lips.

"How should we deal with it?"

"It's you and that angel... the two of you... um..."

"Can't you speak properly, you little brat?" Bai Ye reached out and ruffled Xiao Yifang's hair into a mess: "Or do you really think that your chairman, who can create a city of the scale of Academy City, is some kind of simple character?"

"Eh?"

"Since your chairman sent Aiwass over, I think that besides Aiwass being strong enough, he must also know something about her. Similarly, Aiwass's little tricks should also be within his consideration... I don't believe your chairman would dare to send someone whose background is unknown."

"That's it..."

One of them lowered his head, seemingly lost in thought, as if he had been persuaded by Bai Ye's twisted logic.

In fact, Bai Ye really misunderstood Aleister this time. In His eyes, Aiwass was a superior being who was indifferent to everything and only did things according to his own interests.

Even though Aiwass specifically emphasized the true method of using the Origin Coin when explaining it, Aleister never considered the possibility that this angel would collude with White Night to trick Him.

The Academy City had already been established for some years by this time; otherwise, even He, the former number one magician, wouldn't have been able to gather over a million students...

As the main base for science, producing a batch of weapons for trade would be a piece of cake.

With a single thought from the chairman, several machine processing plants within Academy City were transformed into military factories.

Although the price of a single gun is not very high, the advantage is that there are plenty of them!

Following instructions, several undercover agents moved batches of weapons to the vicinity of the windowless building in the Seventh School District. Then, Xiao Yifang loaded all the weapons into the space bags rented from Bai Ye. Bai Ye, Aiwass, and Aleister, who was still kept in the dark, all got their satisfactory haul.

After experiencing the sensation of the source entering his body, the chairman felt a rare moment of joy.

"Aiwass, shall we have a go? I'll do you or you do me, it's up to you."

As Aiwass was tallying her spoils, her hand trembled, almost thinking that her scheme against Aleister had been discovered. However, she quickly realized Aleister's current mental state.

Of those billion-plus possibilities, which one has gone mad?

"Tell me, how do you want to die?" An indescribable substance condensed in the angel's hand.

……

The very nature of the dimensional shop dictates that as long as customers who have visited still harbor desires, at least 80% will become repeat customers—provided, of course, that Bai Ye acknowledges their potential and grants them the right to come here.

For example, this Warring States period place that I visited once before.

"General Immortal Stone, it's been a long time. Do you have any fruits to sell this time?"

"Ah."

Sengoku nodded, then pulled out a few Devil Fruits from somewhere and placed them on the counter.

These are some of the fruits that were not recorded by the Navy Headquarters.

As a powerful force spanning the Grand Line and the four seas for hundreds of years, the Marine Headquarters naturally wouldn't have such a small inventory. However, in the world of One Piece, Devil Fruit users, once they grow up, can at least be considered mid-level combatants. The sudden disappearance of too many would definitely raise the World Government's suspicions about the Marines...

It can only be said that the people of the Warring States period were really going all out.

Paramecia-type Devil Fruit: The Hado-Hado Fruit

"Zoan-type Devil Fruit - Monkey-Monkey Fruit - Gibbon Form"

Paramecia-type Devil Fruit: Plague Fruit

"Zoan-type Devil Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Nekomatata Fruit"

"Paramecia-type Devil Fruit, Ancient Zoan, Spinosaurus Fruit"

"There are five fruits in total. The Wave-Wave Fruit and the Plague Fruit are somewhat interesting, so I'll give you a buyback price of 50,000 for each of them. As for the Monkey-Monkey Fruit in its gibbon form, it's similar to the Husky Fruit you brought last time. And the remaining Mythical Zoan and Ancient Zoan fruits... are you sure you want to sell them?"

"Ahem, let's forget about these two for now, sorry." Sengoku, who had been eyeing the Neko-mata Fruit and the Spinosaurus Fruit ever since he saw their names, blushed.

Even ordinary Zoan-type Devil Fruits can provide a significant boost to physical combat experts. As for Mythical Zoan and Ancient Zoan types, as long as the user isn't an idiot, it's no exaggeration to say that they can reach at least Vice Admiral level after growing up.

"It's alright. If everything I put out has to be sold, then my place would become a black market."

Completely oblivious to the fact that he was now running a black market business, Bai Ye carefully put away the Wave-Wave Fruit, the Gibbon Fruit, and the Plague Fruit, and then transferred 110,000 Origin Coins into Sengoku's card.

Just as I was about to ask if there was anything the Warring States needed, the portal lit up again.

What came out of there this time was... um... a moving clay figure?

Terracotta Army?

"Who are you people, and why am I here?"