Hiro eventually managed to convince Yuta to ignore his desperate attempt to downplay the failure of Yuta's skill. After talking for a bit, Yuta leaves the shop with the feeling of having done the right thing.
"I can't wait to read the book", is what Hiro thought while staring at the empty shelves of the shop. The sun barely shined through the windows, illuminating the ground sparsely. It was not like he wanted the shop to be empty, but he had trouble to sell his beloved finds.
The shopkeeper realized that this mentality might have been what held back the shop. Also his inability to actually make an effort to advertise his shop. "Nevermind, I will change that today. It's not like anyone will enter my shop now anyways", were the thoughts of the man who rolled his eyes in annoyance of his lack of customers.
Skimming through the book would not do it justice, hence Hiro was prepared to sacrifice his afternoon for the book. He would not have to enter a dungeon for another week anyways, so it did not matter.
"How To Shopkeep 101 - A Max Shop Guide For Dummies" - Hiro read out to himself. This was not a really creative title, his mind snarkily remarked.
As soon as his hands opened the book, it vanished. A blue screen appeared out of thin air, which was nothing new to him. Everyone had a system, right?
[Dimensional Shop - New Skill Obtained]
"What? [Dimensional Shop]? That's a similar naming scheme to [Dimensional Pocket], isn't it?". The young shopkeeper did not expect to suddenly gain a skill from this book. The skill itself sounded very promising, yet he could not fully imagine the extents of it.
Hiro used the skill, summoning a small shop.
[6 Slots Are Still Unoccupied - Shop Currently Offline]
[Choose Your Items]
It apparently wanted Hiro to choose items to... sell? While he pressed the symbol to choose his items, his mind went blank as soon as he saw it was interconnected to [Dimensional Pocket].
"This is not happening, right?" came over his lips, as he could not believe his luck. His skills were connected in some kind of way, which made Hiro's work even easier.
He quickly selected 6 items, making sure that every of those was of the best quality that he could manage to find. They were still low ranking, but they had to bring in some coins, didn't they?
After a long day of standing around without any customers, Hiro eventually came back to his flat. His frustration only grew higher, as he neither sold anything in his shop nor in his [Dimensional Shop].
"It's not like I could sell anything with empty shelves. Though people nowadays have trouble to appreciate some proper items, if they aren't of the highest ranks" he added onto his own thoughts, his hurt ego clearly visible.
Following a long tirade that aimed to attack the current state of society, Hiro went to bed as he felt like he had talked enough to himself for today.
*Blink*
[6 / 6 Items Sold]
A message pops up as soon as Hiro opens his eyes next morning. Apparently all six items have been sold. This was unexpected, as people from his era are rather picky due to influx of items that are of high ranks.
He noticed that he did not assign a price to those items, thus he panicked and immediately opened his system. But to his surprise the system had sold the items under an auction, which explains why he did not sell any items while he was awake - he just had to wait a certain amount of time.
[46 Coins Received - Thank you!]
"46 Coins? Is that even a lot? That sounds like I got scammed.
[Skill Shop Activated - Commencing Selection]
Hiro's eyes became monstrously big by the surprise of what was to come.