32 32. Album Packages
When Ryūhei returned to the shop and wanted to go up to his room upstairs, Xingqiu called out to him. And it seemed he was alone as he didn't see Chongyun's figure.
"What's up?"
"I want to ask something, and it is related to your manga."
"Oh."
Ryūhei was slightly interested in what Xingqiu wanted to talk about so he sat down in front of him.
"Let me hear it out." Ryūhei said.
"If you estimate, how long will the story of One Piece and Dragon Ball run?"
With such a question, how could he answer it? He wasn't an acute otaku. So he couldn't calculate how long it would take him to finish the stories because he didn't know how many volumes the two would have. What he remembered was that the One Piece story still held up even after more than 20 years of being broadcast on tv.
Ultimately, Ryūhei replied to him.
"Dunno. However, the story of One Piece will be twice as long as the story of Dragon Ball."
"I see. By the way, I have a good idea, but I need to ask your opinion."
"Sure. What is it?"
"Since the One Piece manga is starting to gain popularity, what do you think if I make figures of the One Piece characters? If many people like the One Piece manga, especially if they have Mora, surely many people will also like to buy action figures." Xingqiu presented his idea and asked Ryūhei's opinion. Ryūhei nodded.
"Sure, you can take advantage of the situation. However, you won't make much profit if you run the business now."
"Hehe, running a business won't be so smooth at first. Aren't you the same?"
Ryūhei wanted to say "No" because his business was smooth sailing since he didn't just get Mora, but also system points. However, he only nodded in response. Then, Ryūhei got an idea.
"In that case, why don't you add something else?"
"Hmmm? Like what?"
"Costumes." Ryūhei replied with a word. But, Xingqiu didn't get what Ryūhei was saying.
"Huh?"
"Haven't you seen the outfits the characters wear in One Piece? Wouldn't you like to try to make outfits like them for people which means to imitate their looks, like Zoro with a green bandana and carrying three swords or Luffy with his straw hat?"
What Ryūhei suggested to Xingqiu was none other than a costume for Cosplay. Although he felt that business was not going well for the time being, he believed the future would be a different story, especially when his manga shop grew in popularity. Since Xingqiu seemed to believe that his idea would work, it wouldn't hurt for Ryūhei to suggest such a business to him.
Xingqiu lit his eyes delightfully.
"Hahaha. I'm not wrong for asking you. In that case, I will devise a plan to start the business we talked about earlier."
With that said, Xingqiu said goodbye to Ryūhei and hurriedly returned to his house.
"Hehe, there might be a Cosplay festival next year." Ryūhei chuckled in amusement.
— — — —
An hour later, Ryūhei looked at the surroundings with his eyes open, without covering them with a blindfold whatsoever. There was no discomfort when he used his eyes to scan the surroundings.
When he thought of it, it would look weird if he was wearing a blindfold or sunglasses all the time. So, getting a reward that could eliminate discomfort really helped him a lot.
"Well, it's more comfortable without covering my eyes. Now, let's see how many points I get today."
While laying on the bed in his room, he opened the system and checked the notification.
[Laughter from Gaiman: 50 points (One Piece)
Laughter from Caspar: 50 points (One Piece)
Amazement from Dvorak: 50 points (Dragon Ball)
Appreciation from Geri: 50 points (Dragon Ball)
Laughter from Freki: 50 points (One Piece)]
He read the last five people who gave Ryūhei some points and it didn't seem like they were locals from their names. However, this was good since people from other nations were interested in his manga. It meant he would be accepted if he opened a manga shop in their nation.
[Point limit:
Dragon Ball (4550/8000)
One Piece (7750/8000)]
Both mangas have already unlocked their sixth volume. One Piece was a few points away from unlocking the seventh volume. And luckily for him, the points cap to unlock all volumes was 50,000. Otherwise, it would be impossible to unlock all the volumes.
Ryūhei didn't know that the One Piece manga had more than 100 volumes, if he knew that and no points cap, he would throw the towel to give up immediately.
"Now, I have more than 100,000 points. Should I buy musical instruments? A laptop? Or something else? Oh right, I planned to introduce the Coffin Dance to Hu Tao, so I should buy an electric keyboard and a sound system."
Although he wanted to buy a laptop and a set of stereo sound systems to play music, there was no internet in his current world. Though, he could still record his playing and then play it later on the laptop.
Ryūhei tapped the music tab in the system market. He hadn't had time to explore the music tab, so he tried to take a look, starting with guitar, piano, bass, electric guitar, electric keyboard, and others. He casually tapped the "other" option before exclaiming in surprise.
"These…these are cd box set albums and the deluxe edition…"
However, he frowned. It was certainly a nice thing if he could let people hear music from Earth. It was just, he couldn't explain if someone asked who the musicians were. Unless he covered the music or introduced something like a voice pack that recorded people's voices, he couldn't carelessly let people hear the music from Earth.
On the other hand, musical instruments were different. There are many types of musical instruments in Teyvat, both traditional and modern. So, it wouldn't be strange if someone held a concert with modern instruments like electric guitars and others.
"Perhaps I should buy these CDs for private use. But, isn't the price a bit too high? CD box set Dream Theater, complete studio albums Deluxe Edition, 120,000 points. What a rip-off. Then, this one, CD box set Bullet For My Valentine, 7 studio albums Deluxe Edition, 20,000 points. CD box set Helloween, complete studio albums Deluxe Edition, 100,000 points. Gehhh. It seems the older the band is, the higher the price since they released more albums."
Ryūhei was familiar with those bands. As a musician in his previous life, he liked to cover many songs with any instrument live on streaming platforms to earn money.
So even though bands like Dream Theater and Helloween are old bands, he still likes them because a lot of their songs are so good but hard to cover. Though he only managed to cover a tenth of the total songs of the two bands, he gained popularity due to successfully covering some difficult songs.
In Teyvat, he knew a lot of people love music. Some were even willing to travel around the world to gain inspiration.
"If I showed my skill in musical instruments here and covered some good songs from Earth, I wonder how the musicians in this world would react. But well, let's leave that aside."
Ryūhei scrolled down and found something interesting.
"Anime Op, Ed, and Ost pack; JoJo Bizarre Adventure. It was quite cheap, just 1000 points. If the packaged song is available here, is the anime also available?"
But too bad, he didn't find any Anime available in the system market. Instead, he found a lot of outfits for cosplaying.
"Well, never mind. I'll just buy a two-tier electric keyboard, mp3 player, several song packages, and unlock some manga."
In that instant, 60,000 points were spent.
— — — —
Meanwhile, in a certain building around Feiyun Slope, a young maiden with characteristics that are clearly not local is listening to people talking about a book that is an innovation from a novel that is none other than the manga.
"Oh, this is practically breaking news. To think that someone implemented the idea to create a graphic story that is no less interesting than a novel. Hehe, this kind of news is worth digging up."
