I Level Up With In-app Purchases

I Raise With In-app Purchases – 13

EP.13 The Saintess is a Con Artist (2)

If I casually hand over the Divine Relic to her, what will happen?

The power of this shameless girl explodes.

She freely uses her strength everywhere.

‘I saw a miraculous scene, so there’s no way followers wouldn’t appear.’

She makes a new leg for the disabled, opens the eyes of the blind, and revives the dying.

It’s inevitable that fanatical followers of the fake church will emerge around her.

Then, of course, the influence of the fake church will greatly expand.

Are they called fake for no reason?

Those who suck the spine of the believers are indeed the fake ones.

‘It’s a bad ending.’

It’s only natural that she got involved with them.

She sucks up to the fake church.

What are the results of being sucked dry to the marrow?

These fake guys split the belly of the goose that lays golden eggs without any hesitation.

‘Damn. At least treat the goose that lays golden eggs with care.’

Do you even know how many times I’ve warned her?

Don’t act recklessly if you don’t know.

Because it pisses me off.

“Give it back.”

“Nope.”

“You keep saying no, but why did you call me if you were going to do this?”

“Hmm.”

“You even got a drink! Do you really know where the Divine Relic is? Did you lie to me?”

Frustration seeps through her words.

Honestly, if there’s a chance to get a drink from her, shouldn’t I take it, right?

How could she miss that?

But saying this directly would make her angry enough to punch me, so I decided to answer with some embellishments.

“Because the way you go about it is pitiful.”

By the way, I despise NTR.

She is a woman who irritates me in that aspect.

Her scenario is filled with regret, filth, and obsession.

Isn’t she the type who doesn’t recognize her real father and flirts with other men?

‘Shameless…’

Even if her Divine power pouch isn’t that big… even if her performance isn’t uniquely outstanding…!

‘I would never put her in my party.’

She was so unnecessarily competent that she became one of the characters I couldn’t leave out of my party.

Before a better healer nerf than her comes out.

“The healer nerf hasn’t been patched yet, so she is still the best healer.”

The problem is, if you leave her alone like Shine, there’s a very high chance she’ll cause trouble and die.

“Before a new healer character comes out, what will happen to the world if she dies?”

It’s unimaginable to form a party without her.

I hope she won’t be selected or that she’ll be chosen after I establish my position.

But summoning her with mileage…

I felt no desire to do something for her out of sheer spite.

Of course, I have to help for the sake of this world, but I won’t help as gracefully as I did to Shine.

“Do you think I’m pitiful?”

“Yeah. Figure out why yourself.”

Having finished drinking the ‘Choco latte with Lots of Cream’, I got up from my seat without any regrets.

“Wait a moment. Where are you going?”

“I’m done with what I needed to do.”

“You’re done? What about the Divine Relic?”

“I’ll think about it later.”

Do I really have to put effort into rehabilitate her?

‘I should. Without her, who will save the kids?’

It’s impossible to just give her a weapon and ignore her like Shine.

Dealing with Tier 1 characters, who are used in parties, is different from dealing with Tier 2 characters who just have business cards.

‘All I can do is outside the shop window. I can’t directly control the scenario like before, and I can’t keep drawing until she becomes a 5-star.’

However, I needed to ensure that the result wasn’t the child committing suicide.

She is a tier 1 stat that affects the party even without the main stat SSS.

But what if Fran died?

‘The situation will become serious. She’s not even a legitimate Saintess.’

Suddenly, I became curious about how the scenario for a character I couldn’t access was progressing in reality.

And conveniently, there was someone nearby who could answer my curiosity.

It’s Shine.

There’s a reason to keep an eye on her a bit more.

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Fran was persistent.

She chased me all the way, found out the location of my general store with her clumsy tracking skills that anyone could notice, satisfied herself, and then disappeared.

Whether a new fake church that didn’t exist in this world was born with Fran’s appearance, or if Fran entered an existing fake church, I wasn’t sure.

But when I recalled Fran’s regret, obsession, and filthy scenario, I thought that soon, in some way, I might hear rumors about the detailed contents of the fake church.

‘Where did I put the Divine Relic.’

Because I had so many items, it took me a while to find where I had placed the Divine Relic.

‘I need to organize my item inventory.’

For unique items that shouldn’t be shown to others due to the risk of theft, I always kept them in the inventory for safekeeping.

‘Once a unique item appears, it won’t come out again.’

There were a few changes in the game system that became part of reality, and one of them was that if you pulled a character’s unique equipment, the same equipment wouldn’t appear again.

If such weapons were duplicated and appeared multiple times, it would be a problem.

Was the Resurrection Stone also so scarce that it almost never appeared, making it a virtually impossible item to obtain?

Even though it was a bit frustrating, I had to accept these realistic patches.

‘If they didn’t patch this, it would have been too unfair for me.’

Even though I wasn’t an Awakener, my abilities were already quite overpowered.

I didn’t want to distort things too much by being too greedy.

“Hmm.”

Flies still buzzed around the general store.

I caught a mosquito making buzzing sounds with a flyswatter.

“A dead mosquito is the only good one.”

After delivering this cool line, I sat back in my relaxed chair.

No one came to the general store.

If I were an ordinary merchant, I might have felt anxious in this quietness, but for me, this silence was too good.

‘I hope it continues like this.’

– Thud, thud, thud –

At that moment, I heard footsteps outside.

“Two people.”

Predicting from the sound of footsteps, it seemed like the steps of two people.

And when those two people’s footsteps passed in front of the general store, they suddenly stopped.

Look here…

That’s right, it’s the storekeeper.

Whispering sounds reached my ears.

Seeing them talking in front of the general store indicated their clear intentions.

The two standing in front of the door had something to do with my shop.

‘Is it Fran?’

The person knocking on the general store door didn’t seem like an ordinary customer.

How many people would come to a secluded place like this and enter a general store?

Despite the advantage of being near the academy, students already favored much larger general stores than mine.

Even I used to buy school supplies from there during the game.

“Excuse us.”

“Hello!”

The two finally opened the door of the general store.

The well-lubricated door opened smoothly.

Shine waved her hand towards me.

Meeting her here was quite pleasant.

Next to her, her friend looked tense, awkwardly greeting me with a stiff expression.

“What’s up?”

I was tense, thinking they might have come with Fran to steal the Holy Relic for the fake church, but that seemed to be an overly optimistic thought.

“Oh~ What are we doing in a general store? We came to buy things.”

Shine cheerfully entered and admired the store.

“Wow~ There are so many weapons. I thought a general store would sell things like pens and ink.”

“I sell everything.”

“But weapons aren’t exactly miscellaneous…”

R-grade weapons that came out in the gacha I used to get SSR weapons were hanging all around the general store.

To me, they were practically royal, but to ordinary people, R-grade weapons would seem quite useful.

“Moreover, it’s not just weapons, right? Magic books! Wow! They’re here too.”

After pretending not to know me, Shine and her friend went straight into the general store to browse.

From the perspective of the general store owner, it was natural for customers to come in and browse, so I let them explore as much as they wanted.

‘Hope I didn’t display anything strange.’

Yet, as the first-time customer arrived, I couldn’t help but feel a slight tension.

“Mister!! Is this really for sale? I know it might be uncomfortable to ask this, but… is it possibly fake?”

“What do you mean fake?”

“This! With this level of performance, it should be sold as a limited edition in a magic shop!”

It turned out to be a doping scroll.

Having experienced the greatness of scrolls during my mercenary life, these kids also seemed to know about it, hence their suspicions.

“If you doubt it, don’t buy it.”

I didn’t understand why they were doubting me when I wasn’t threatening them with a sword or anything.

“It’s absurd that a scroll with such performance is openly sold here, but if I know the owner, it doesn’t seem like he would sell something like this as a fake.”

So what?

“I’ll trust you and buy this.”

“Do as you wish.”

“Hey… are you really going to buy it?”

Her friend seemed to be trying to stop Shine, thinking it might be a scam.

“I trust my instincts. They’re telling me this is genuine.”

“It doesn’t look like it’s worth a penny or two…”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. This is affordable within my allowance. Can I continue looking around?”

I shrugged in response.

After a while, despite her friend’s objections, Shine brought a basket full of items to the checkout counter.

“Hehe, as I was picking things, I thought I might need various stuff.”

“Hmm.”

She picked quite confidently.

Looking at the purchased items, I couldn’t help but think she might be preparing for a real battle in the Contaminated Zone.

All the items she bought seemed useful for real combat.

‘Shine, what was your character’s scenario again.’