Convenience Store Worker From Another World Chapter 116

Episode 116. The Gate’s Effect on the Pyeondol (4)

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There is one trick I learned while getting my license. When there are multiple types of magic on an object, I choose to remove only the magic I want to remove.

And, not all magic uses the same amount of mana. For example, slowing, silence, and shock absorption magic. The amount of mana that goes into these three magics is also different. Weak magic, strong magic.

I’m thinking about using this idea now. Water that swallows fire, fire that burns water. If one of the two has more mana, what would be the difference between strong magic and weak magic?

I guess I can just pick one of the two and erase it. I don’t know which one will be erased, though. As I said that, my sister blinked a few times.

“You really act like you’ve been doing this for five years? It’s not like it’s only been a month. What do you mean, this is your second time in life?”

“Don’t be so weird, are you sure you can do this? If you erase one of the two, it’ll either just turn into water or just turn into fire.”

The bottle capacity appears to be about 100ml, and the contents are a little over half. In other words, if you spill it by mistake, you will receive a mysterious damages claim from your sister’s office.

“Sure. I didn’t say anything about bringing this, and I didn’t bring it to use.”

“Then why on earth are you doing this…?”

“Because I need it. If it’s not enough, you can use it all.”

I made eye contact to see if she was serious, but her expression was incredibly serious. I still have no idea what her intentions are…

“I’ll do it outside, so come out, sis.”

If this is the wind, I will let it be. I went outside holding the bottle and took a quick look around. Looking at the gloomy street, it seemed like there would be flies fluttering around the store for a few hours.

When I looked back, my sister was holding the puppy in her arms. I asked her right away.

“Do it right away.”

“uh.”

I’ve already figured out how to do it. It’s not complicated. Just drop a few drops of the contents of the bottle onto the back of your hand.

The problem is, what kind of mindset should I have when doing this? When I erased the magic I wanted to erase before, I knew exactly ‘what I had to erase’. Because the store manager told me.

I don’t know that now. I only know that the amount of mana in fire and water is different, but I don’t know exactly how much.

This is the method of elimination. Starting with 100 in numbers, we go until we find a winner.

After taking a deep breath, I dropped a few drops of the contents onto the back of my hand. Something, whether liquid or gas, fell onto my hand as if shaking… .

It blazed up and disappeared, evaporating into a thin vapor. It was neither hot nor cold, but insensitive. It seemed that even the sensations of warmth and cooling that should have been felt had been erased by my constitution.

I glanced back and saw that Mongmongi had his ears folded down, and his older sister was looking at me with a slightly worried expression. I satisfied her curiosity.

“It’s not hot for me, sis. It’s not cold either.”

Only now did his expression relax. He concentrated again. Neither of them had 100 mana. Next time, he thought about 90… .

“… Oh. The boss has become very serious, Miss Yoon-ha.”

“He’s been like that before too. He seems like he was born that way.”

what.

After four attempts like this, the winner was decided. I thought of 50 and tilted the bottle, and the liquid that fell on the back of my hand disappeared, emitting steam.

On the other hand, the flame remained. It burned for a long time, like a candle without a wick on the back of the hand. I got tired of waiting and waved it away.

“Is this a fire burning water? Not burning water.”

“Yeah. It looks like that.”

“Now that you’ve done everything, tell me why you did this.”

I asked because I was curious, but my sister’s reaction was that it wasn’t a question that could be asked simply out of curiosity. She put the dog down with an annoyed expression on her face and took out a smoking stick.

He took a deep sip and spat it out before speaking, but even the tone of his voice was clearly annoyed. It wasn’t directed at me.

“That’s the one I got from the gate of the school district. The one that was on the news.”

“No, when did you go in there and come out, Sister?”

“Just before you come here. Anyway, it’s normal for it not to come out from the gate on the academy district side, right?”

In this city, the scenery inside the gate that opens in each district is said to be different. I think that’s what I was talking about with themes earlier.

The gate on the academy district side is the sea. The gate on the forest park side, about 10km to the southeast, is the volcanic zone, and this water-burning fire is a medium mainly found in that volcanic zone.

So, when my sister saw this, the first thing she suspected was that a small volcano had erupted on the seabed inside the ocean-themed gate. Why, a volcano had erupted on some island nation—that’s the concept.

“That’s why I asked you to confirm whether that was right or not… No.”

“What if that’s not the case?”

“I agree with you. The gate on the forest park side and the gate on the academy district side.”

Taken literally. Agree. It is about fitting your opinion or behavior to something else, and if there is nothing to fit it to, it doesn’t work. In other words…

“Is there a gate open on the forest park side too?”

“I don’t know about that. It could have already been opened and closed, or it could really be open.”

“Ugh… .”

“As I said before, the gate being open itself isn’t dangerous. Even if space is distorted and looks like a mess on the outside, it will return to normal once the gate is closed.”

I’ve talked about this before. The gate itself being open isn’t dangerous, but it becomes a problem the moment the open gate closes on its own.

My sister mentioned natural disasters like earthquakes as the problem, but I still don’t know if natural disasters in this world are the same as natural disasters in my world. I asked directly.

“What the heck is going on? Not a natural disaster.”

When I asked, my older sister asked back with a slightly bewildered expression.

“Where the hell do you live?”

“Why do deer roam the streets at night and wild potatoes grow on the side of the road?”

“Hey, if there’s a place where the gate doesn’t open, I’d like to live there too.”

“Don’t even think about it, there’s nothing good about this neighborhood. Anyway, what’s going on?”

“hmm….”

My sister thought for a moment, then said, “Aha.” and pointed at me and spoke.

“You’ll see that deer you saw turn ferocious, or that wild potato grow to the size of a gimbal.”

I immediately pictured a deer and a wild potato in my head, and then I imagined the deer doing a drop kick or the wild potato rolling down a four-lane road. Hmm… .

“This is a mess.”

“Right? No one really knows what kind of mess will happen. The big things that happen are earthquakes and fires, so that’s why I gave you the example.”

I don’t know if I’m crazy or normal for thinking that an earthquake or a fire would be better.

“Isn’t there any way to prevent it in advance?”

“It’s not that there aren’t any. The association and the Magic Bureau do make forecasts, but the scope is limited each time. So, places where gates rarely appear don’t do it―”

Since the probability of being caught is low, there is a tendency to roll with the punches. People say that unless you are extremely unlucky, there are not many casualties, so it is not considered a big deal… .

“―Well, okay. That concludes the explanation.”

Then, my older sister takes a deep breath of the cigarette and exhales it. The cigarette smoke scatters faintly in the air, and she stretches her arms to the scattered smoke.

“For that reason, I’m going to be in trouble again starting the day after tomorrow. I came back after working all night for five days, so what’s this sudden bolt from the blue?”

“Is that physically possible? Staying up all night for five days?”

“I did it magically because I couldn’t do it physically, Tasha. It’s good to be healthy at times like this.”

There seems to be some kind of magic that allows you to work on-site for 120 hours without sleeping. It seems like the Ministry of Employment and Labor in this world has its lights on 24 hours a day… .

“Anyway, be careful, strange things might happen soon. Or have they already happened?”

“It’s always the same here. The real troublemakers come and cause trouble, and break the shelves.”

“What’s broken?”

“The display case broke. I took care of it, so don’t worry about it. Did you hear anything from the store manager?”

“I couldn’t even tell you. I was busy… Ah.”

My sister looked down, flinching. It was because the puppy started rubbing its head against my sister’s leg.

The flinching only lasts for a moment, and soon a smile breaks out on his face as he grabs the puppy and lifts it up.

“Oh, I’m sorry for listening to such a boring story. But don’t your arms hurt when you listen like this?”

“It’s okay. More importantly, what I was talking about earlier, Miss Yoon-ha.”

“What kind of thing? A gate?”

The dog nodded and continued speaking in a voice that was half questioning and half bewildered.

“You said that deer can become violent. Does that apply to wild dogs too?”

My sister tilted her head, and I realized as soon as I heard it. Could this be the story about the dogs in the park where that guy lives becoming violent?

“That may be true. Why, are you worried?”

“I’m worried, but more than that… .”

After slightly lifting his tail, he began to recite in detail what had happened at the park today. At first, his sister’s face became complicated, as if she felt sorry… .

He became serious in the middle of the story. He put the puppy down and crouched down himself.

“Where exactly is that park located?”

“If you leave this store and walk 30 minutes to the right, you’ll find it there.”

A dog stretched out its front paw and pointed to the right end of the road. The dog looked in the direction the dog pointed, crouched down, and sucked on a cigarette. It seemed like it was craving a cigarette.

“… It’s on the opposite side of the school district.”

My sister muttered and sat up. She went straight to the container, grabbed the handle, and opened the door wide. When I looked inside, no.

“Lee Chan, let’s take these out together.”

“Hey, what the hell kind of ramen did you bring so much of?”

The inside of the container was jam-packed with snacks, ramen boxes, drinks, and eggs. The store manager had always handled the logistics, but this was my first time doing it…

“Hey, the receipt.”

“…uh.”

But there’s nothing I can’t do. I’ve done it before. After receiving the receipt and stuffing it in my back pocket, I received the supplies my older sister gave me and laid them out on the sidewalk.

So I got 20 boxes of ramen, 15 sets of canned drinks, 18 sets of PET drinks, and 18 sets of beer. After that, I stopped thinking about it. It’s really a lot.

“Hey. Last one.”

Finally, he hands over the bag of necessities, closes the container door, and picks up the puppy and hugs it.

“Puppy. Excuse me, but can you go with me to the park I mentioned?”

“Of course. Before that, to the president―”

“Go and come back, Inma.”

After answering as best as I could, I asked my older sister.

“Sister, instead of complaining about staying up all night for 5 days, why don’t you get some proper rest?”

“There’s no way I can check this. Later.”

I understand. Given the circumstances, it seems like the older sister thought the gate had opened near the park where the dog eats and lives. And indeed, that seems to be true… .

I can’t tell the other hunters. No, really, what can I say? ‘This punk said the dogs in the park have become ferocious. I’ll go check it out.’

I knew she was going to tell me to bring the puppy. Thinking that way, I watched my sister stuff the puppy inside her jacket. It didn’t fit well.

“Miss, gently! Let me bite the reins instead!”

“No. This guy won’t let anyone else ride on his back but me. Hide here so they can’t see you, and then talk to him when you get off. Got it?”

“Why is he doing that?”

“Even if I did, we weren’t able to communicate with each other… This should be enough.”

My sister took her hand off, as if everything was gone. The puppy was poking its head out through the open zipper of my sister’s jacket. My sister was still riding the horse and stroking its head.

“Lee Chan, I’m sorry I couldn’t help you organize the logistics.”

“Okay, stop crashing into the building.”

“Okay. Then…bye.”

“Uh. Bye.”

“Goodbye, boss! I will return after I have gained enlightenment!”

The horse began to flap its wings, and in the middle of it a small barking voice was heard.

“But Miss Yoon-ha. Don’t you have a seat belt or something?”

“There isn’t any?”

Then it flew away, leaving me and about 80 boxes of logistics boxes in front of the street. Since things have come to this, the first thing to do is… .

I immediately called the store manager. After two rings, the manager picked up.

[ Oh, Chan-ah. ]

“Store manager. Are you resting well?”

[ No? I couldn’t get enough sleep because I was waiting for Chan’s call. ]