I'm just an internet cafe owner

Glancing at the time, Shiori Itsuka realized it was getting late and she might be late if she kept dressing up. So, she grabbed her schoolbag and prepared to leave for school.

However, the moment she ran out of the room, she instinctively stopped. Because a very handsome young man was standing at her door.

The young man had the same appearance as me, the same eyes, and almost the same height.

This is a boy who is almost indistinguishable except for his gender, clothing, and hair length.

The moment she saw the boy, she felt her heart race.

"Hello, is there anything I can help you with?"

Looking at the girl before him, Itsuka Shido was also shocked. With the help of the Law of Cycles, the timeline of the world he lived in had aligned with the timeline when he made his wish.

He subconsciously came back to take a look at the home he used to live in.

I never expected to see another version of myself in this house? A girl... myself?

“I just…wanted to see this house.”

For some reason, Shiori Itsuka felt that the boy in front of her had a strange charm, and at the same time she could sense the sadness in him.

After much hesitation, she made a decision that went against the wishes of her ancestors.

"Would you like to come in and have a seat at my house?"

"Okay!"

For a moment, Shiori Itsuka hesitated, but a feeling of mutual understanding made her lead Shido Itsuka into the room.

Upon entering the living room, Itsuka Shido pointed to Itsuka Kotori's room and asked curiously, "Whose room is this?"

"This is a guest room, um, reserved for my future sister~"

"Little sister...yes, you should have a little sister. I'm sorry..."

Kotori Itsuka made a contract with the Law of Cycles, completely severing herself from this world. This resulted in Shiori Itsuka no longer having a younger sister, Shido Itsuka.

"It's alright. By the way... what's your name?"

"Itsuka Shido, and you?"

"Itsuka Shiori..."

While remaining silent, Shiori Itsuka was also shocked. Looking at the boy in front of her who had similar hair color and appearance to her, she made a bold guess.

Did your parents have another child?

Sensing the girl's shocked gaze, Itsuka Shido took out his phone: "How about we add each other as friends?"

"Okay!"

Shiori Itsuka didn't hesitate, but after adding each other as friends, she suddenly had a brain fart and boldly spoke up.

"Hey, you also have the surname Itsukawa, and we even look so alike. Would you like to be my older brother?"

This question stunned Itsuka Shido, when her brother…

After hesitating for a long time, Itsuka Shido nodded: "Sure! My lovely little sister~"

Shido Itsuka reached out and pinched Shiori Itsuka's cheek. After touching it, he was certain of one thing: the other person was definitely not him. Because Shiori Itsuka's face was very soft and bouncy, and her body felt even softer to the touch.

Even when he touched Itsuka Shiori, his body reacted strangely, as if she was attracting him.

Shiori Itsuka felt the same way. The moment her cheek was touched, she blushed and stared blankly into the boy's eyes. She felt as if he were her destined one, making her irresistibly want to get closer, to look at him more, even…

Chapter 480 New Store, Digimon, and New Employees

Inside the internet cafe, Liu Yuan looked at his recent haul with a thoughtful expression.

This time, he gained a lot from his efforts. The power of the world where the Law of Cycles resides increased, and he also received praise from his superiors.

According to the higher-ups, this whole ordeal helped Itsuka Shido, increased the strength of the Law of Cycles, and allowed him and the Law of Cycles to get twelve combatants with almost unlimited working hours for free. At the same time, it also increased the reputation of the internet cafe.

With a name, more and more customers will come to the internet cafe, and the speed at which you open your own shop will also increase.

This is a win-win-win situation. However, considering the psychological age of Itsuka Shido and the spirits, Liu Yuan gave them twenty years to live and learn in his own world.

After all, they'll be working their whole lives, so let them enjoy a peaceful life first, and we can consider other things later.

Of course, Liu Yuan had deeper thoughts on this as well.

According to his observations, the spirits who have ties with Itsuka Shido are all extraordinary. A chaotic love triangle is inevitable within a few years. If Itsuka Shido becomes the protagonist of a harem, then everyone will be happy, and he can come to work happily.

In case the harem falls into chaos and a battlefield unfolds, he can simply watch the show from the sidelines and let them get back to work once the chaos is over.

However, according to Liu Yuan's observation, the girl named Tohka has a very high chance of winning, whether it's a harem ending or a chaotic love triangle ending.

"It's just time to open a new store..."

Liu Yuan observed the fourth branch, which was now fully operational. After several months, the number of players had grown from just two to over a hundred.

Meanwhile, Alicia was also very helpful, diligently recruiting people in her world. According to the information she had gathered, Alicia seemed to have infiltrated an organization called the Fire Moth, which had many geniuses, ample funding, and was full of humanity.

Alicia plans to bring these people into the internet cafe; she can't say how many, but there should be several hundred.

After learning about the fun at the internet cafe, other customers gradually brought their friends or trusted acquaintances into the internet cafe as well.

Not

Reliable people coming into the internet cafe? Liu Yuan wasn't worried about that at all. Customers who had been to his establishment knew the terrifying power of internet cafes, so they were always a little cautious when inviting people in.

In addition to the screening mechanisms within internet cafes themselves, each world also has its own screening mechanism. If someone's psychological age is not up to standard, they will be directly rejected by their own world.

As I said before, 4D Space Internet Cafe is a legitimate internet cafe. Minors are prohibited from going online to play games, so everyone who comes here is an adult.

"Open branches! Open branches!"

Opening a branch store is like opening a mine; the larger the branch store, the higher the maintenance costs, but also the more money you make.

Liu Yuan, on the other hand, did not hesitate at all and directly opened a new branch.

With the opening of a new branch, new games naturally need to be released.

Originally, Liu Yuan was considering whether to release Stellaris or Hollow Knight, but after this incident, he suddenly realized something. Both Hollow Knight and Stellaris have very high requirements for players.

Hollow Knight is alright, but the combat difficulty in Real Mode isn't much better than the Old Man's Ring. Experienced players can beat it easily, while newbies suffer endlessly.

Stellaris is even more of a challenge; without a bit of brains and a good grasp of time, you might not be able to beat it in real mode. Especially with natural disasters, in real mode, most players who can handle it will probably avoid the game for now.

This won't do. Since he's opening a branch, Liu Yuan has to consider how to get customers to spend money!

Online or mobile games with pay-to-win models? No rush! Let's wait. Right now, all our stores only have around 10+ customers. If these customers are evenly distributed across various games, even if pay-to-win games were released now, these customers wouldn't spend much.

Online games can only be released once the number of internet cafe users stabilizes at one or even two million. Putting aside other games, just considering games like World of Warcraft, JX3, and Puppet Master 14 with large raid groups, if the number of players isn't enough, they might not even be able to form a raid group.

DNF is alright, but Liu Yuan is keeping DNF as a major source of revenue for ripping people off.

Customer traffic! Customer traffic! And more customer traffic.

With insufficient customer traffic, nothing can be done.

Opening a new store would be a huge expense, and Liu Yuan decided to shift that expense to the players. He was going to launch a new game, Digimon.

In fact, Liu Yuan had considered both Digimon and Pokémon. The reason he finally chose Digimon was simple: the Pokémon series of games could only make money from the game and Poké Balls. At the same time, players had to go to special worlds to catch Pokémon, which was too expensive and wouldn't make him break even.

But Digimon is different; the entire game is very cheap. Furthermore, you don't need to go to a special world to obtain Digimon; you can just buy them directly.

Once it's on the shelves, it's a one-time solution; both newcomers and seniors can buy it.

The price is a bit high, one million each, and each person is limited to one Digimon. You can only raise one Digimon in your lifetime, and what kind of Digimon you can get depends entirely on the player.

Does it seem unprofitable? Actually, no. Whether it's Pokémon or Digimon, the money internet cafes make isn't from selling those games, but from selling related merchandise.

Daily maintenance supplies for Digimon, and the qualifications for Digimon to operate normally in the everyday world—these are all ways to make money.

Just like Izumi Konata's world, this world has no special powers; it's just an ordinary world. The cost of letting Digimon come out to play varies from ten to ten thousand yuan per second, depending on their level, and they have no fighting ability afterward. Their own power is weakened to the average level of an adult human.

In a world like No Game No Life, all Digimon with open access in internet cafes can operate at full power. As for those particularly overpowered Digimon, internet cafes have temporarily locked out those accesses.

The real cost of materializing is the Digimon's food, clothes, and tools.

These are the real, sustainable ways to make money. Besides that, Liu Yuan also set his sights on Pokémon. Once he has enough customers in the internet cafe, he'll get them involved too.

After all, you can only raise one Digimon, while Pokémon, according to Liu Yuan's understanding, although obtained through a special method, can be raised in large numbers. Once the number of players increases and he can afford all the expenses and make a stable, substantial profit, he'll arrange to add Pokémon as well.

So, when Liu Yuan opened his new store, he also bought Digimon games and related merchandise.

This set is extremely expensive. Apart from the basic funds needed to maintain the store for a year, Liu Yuan spent all the money he had saved since purchasing Civilization to buy this new game.

While purchasing the new game, Liu Yuan also sent out job postings for the new store manager.

However, to Liu Yuan's surprise, the moment he posted the job advertisement, a pink-haired girl appeared in the new store. How to describe this girl? Liu Yuan just wanted to ask her if she wasn't afraid of catching a cold by showing her belly button.

Chapter 481 Newcomer Coral Palace Heart Sea

Coral Palace Heart Sea, a "living human god priestess" from the island of Inazuma in Teyvat. From the day she became a priestess, she governed the island of Inazuma with great order.

A few days ago, she heard that General Thunder was going to issue an Eye Hunt order, but it seems that it was canceled or suspended for various reasons, which put her mind at ease.

To prepare for the worst, she had already made preparations in case General Thunder issued another Eye Hunt Order to hunt for the Eye of God, but at the same time, she also gave herself a little vacation.

But it was during her vacation that she saw a tree.

The tree was so sacred that it completely overwhelmed her.

Shu Mingming

She couldn't speak, but she vaguely sensed a thought from the tree.

"Go apply to be an internet cafe manager!"

Then she suddenly appeared in this strange space. Looking at the man in front of her, Coral Palace Heart Sea blushed slightly.

"Excuse me, is there a problem?"

"Yes, I'm curious, doesn't showing your belly button cause diarrhea...?"

"... "

She's in a very bad mood right now; she asked such a rude question on our first meeting.

However, recalling that sacred being and the strange scene of her suddenly appearing here, Coral Palace Heart Sea had a slight guess.

"Could I have been chosen by the gods to become... a shop assistant?"

Xin Hai's mind is incredibly fast, and he believes that gods exist in his own world. Besides the ruling gods of various countries, there are many other legends about deities. Like that tree—it must be a god, right?

The people you meet in the place chosen and sent by the gods... might also be gods?