Love from the Male Protagonist's Harem

Chapter 18-Points at the Mall Part 2

Translated by Snowfall77

Worried, the system lowered its voice: [Actually, If You’re Willing To Believe, You Could Become First Under Heaven.  Then You Could Rob The Thousand Souls Sect.  Not Only Would You Get Rich Quick, You’d Also Gain The Respectable Reputation Of ‘Demon Slayer.’  Very Good, Right?]

(The Thousand Souls Sect was the #1 demon sect on the continent.)

Xia Ge promptly perked up: “Little puppet!  How come I never realized you were completely shameless?!  How could you so misrepresent the honor of being a righteous demon killer?!  How could such sacred duties be polluted with the stench of money grubbing?!  Too preposterous!”

The system: [Hehe.  Apparently, Host Does Not Want It.  Oh Well, No Matter.  I Didn’t Want To Give It Anyways.]

Always ready to listen to others’ good advice, Xia Ge changed tack: “Little puppet, isn’t good versus evil no more than the advantages and disadvantages between humans?  It’s only natural to rob the rich and feed the poor.  Destroying demons and defending righteousness is my job as a disciple of Lingxi.  Still, I’m convinced that occasionally filling my pockets in addition to that other honorable stuff is also alright with the heavens……”

System: [……]  So you do still fucking remember you’re a disciple of Lingxi.

Perceiving the system’s aloofness, Xia Ge continued her principled words: “After all, when it’s all said and done, people’s capabilities are finite……”

The system’s tone was ice-cold: [Oh.]

Xia Ge: “……little puppet, we’ve spent about three years together, how is it you still don’t understand my heart?”

……because I understand it all too well.  That’s why I don’t want to talk to you!

Giving in, the system jeered: [Yes, I Admit It, I Have Shamelessly Misrepresented Your Ideal Of ‘Righteous Demon Slayer.’]

Xia Ge didn’t blink an eye: “All I said was that good and evil are essentially the advantages and disadvantages between humans.  Nothing wrong with making a little money while decimating demons and defending the Tao.  Everybody has got to eat somehow……Is simply stating the facts considered brazen now?”

System: [……]

You are truly the most shameless.  No one else stands above you.

Snickering to itself, the system still managed to give rewards.

[Ding!  System Upgrade Rewards!  Congratulations To Host For Accumulating 15 Points!  The Points Mall Is Now Open!]

[Ding! {ghost and shadow} Upgrade!  {soul capture} Upgrade!  {one strike} Upgrade!  Congratulations To Host For Enabling New Skill, {soul-controlling voice}!

“What’s {soul-controlling voice}?”  Xia Ge didn’t care much about the points mall, but specially clicked on the extra skill panel.

[See For Yourself.]  The system still felt very apathetic.

[{soul-controlling voice} Level 1

Proficiency: 0/3

Skill Introduction: You May Use A Musical Instrument To Control A Puppet, Moving It As You Desire.  After Level 3, You Will Be Able To Control Evil Spirits.]

Xia Ge stared at the words ‘evil spirits’ for a long time.  “Controlling evil spirits, huh?  That seems very fierce.”

The system couldn’t help being a little proud: [Of Course It’s Awesome.  I Have The Most Powerful Skills!]

Xia Ge: “Just I don’t know how to play any musical instruments.”

System: [……]  Could you not make me proud for a mere 3 minutes?  I’d even settle for just 3 seconds.

Concern washed over Xia Ge’s face: “Can I exchange the skill for a different one?”

The system recovered its vigor: [No Good, It Won’t Work.  There Are Three Classes Of Small Puppet Masters.  Skills Are Assigned Arbitrarily, And Once Determined, Cannot Be Altered.  Unless You Can Obtain The Zhen Hun, And Soar To The Level Of Grand Puppet Master.”

Xia Ge: “……”

So the new skill turned out to be something of little interest or value.  Not what Xia Ge would categorize as a pleasant surprise.

Xia Ge clicked on the points mall panel.

There were many, many things in the points mall.  Things that dazzled the eyes.  Xia Ge even spotted a machine gun.

Xia Ge: “……”

C’mon……wasn’t that the wrong style of item for this kind of setting?!

The system made it obvious that it’d been secretly monitoring Xia Ge’s inner monologue: [It’s Not Wrong, It’s Good.  Besides, You Can’t Afford It.]

Xia Ge moved her gaze to the price below a ‘millet plus rifle.’

“1, 2, 3, 4……”

Already knowing the answer, the system asked anyways: [What Are You Counting?]

Expression wooden, Xia Ge answered: “The zeros at the end.”

[Hehehe.  Aiya, There Are A Lot.]

Xia Ge, a suffering poor citizen, once again felt the weight of the system’s heavy malice.

“What can 15 points buy?”

After doing a once through, Xia Ge found that if the item was ‘wrong’ for the The Boundless Beauty of the Wind and the Moon setting, said item would be prohibitively expensive.  The points needed for such items started in the millions and ended in the hair-raising billions.

For example, a piece of Shu X Jia soap was priced at 10 billion.

……unbelievable.

Finally, at the very end, Xia Ge found something she could actually afford.

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【Steamed dumplings from the Jinjiang branch at the base of Lingxi!   Neither the old nor the young will be cheated!  Free shipping for locals!  15 points. 】

Xia Ge: “……”

Enough!  The Jinjiang bao store by Lingxi’s entrance gate sold steamed meat dumplings for just one copper coin!

Waste 15 points just get free shipping to your fucking door?!!

Suffocating!

Garbage system!  Garbage points mall!!!

Xia Ge decisively shut the panel: “I’m going to bed now.”

Sounding like a brothel keeper recruiting customers to Xia Ge’s pained ears, the system said: [No, Don’t Go, Young Sir.  Look Again.  Steamed Dumplings With Free Delivery To Your Doorstep Are Not The Same As Dumplings You Have To Get Yourself ~”]

Xia Ge: “Hehe.”

What a fucking kick-in-the-balls reward.

天下第一tiānxiàdìyī

the best in all the land; No. 1 in the world; peerless; the first under heaven – unequalled

millet plus rifle

Millet + rifle = food supplies and main equipment of the People’s Army.

With the addition of millet and rifle, relying on this material basis, the Chinese Communist Party led the people to defeat the Japanese invaders and defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries. The millet plus rifle embodies the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and hard work of the Communist Party and the people’s army under its leadership, and the spirit of heroic struggle under extremely difficult conditions. In the era of peace building, the “millet plus rifle” still has important epochal significance.