Chapter 5 Irene's Personality Enchantment Magic
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 5
Chapter Title: Irene's Personality Enchantment Magic
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The next day...
Aside from the daily routine of watching the shop, Evan now also had the added task of taking care of Erza.
He controlled his gravity while holding Erza, who was slightly smaller than him, in his arms and rocked her gently. Because it was a state of semi-weightlessness, it barely cost Evan any effort.
"Morning, Evan~"
"Mm! Morning!"
As the bakery opened for business, customers entered the shop one after another to buy fresh bread as breakfast for their children.
Evan didn't raise his head to look at them at all. Right now, in his eyes, there was only Erza in his arms.
"Ah! What a cute child!"
After the customers came in one by one, they instantly noticed Evan on the counter holding Erza. They leaned in close while looking at Evan and Erza in his arms, and exclaimed in admiration.
"She’s indeed very cute!"
Evan nodded. On this point, his thoughts were in complete agreement with these customers.
"Whose child is this? Could it be... could it be Irene's child?"
A customer looked at the short scarlet hair on Erza's head, her expression jolting as if she thought of something, and asked.
"Mm, her name is Erza, she’s my younger sister!"
Evan nodded. In his view, this wasn’t something that needed to be hidden. Moreover, as Erza slowly grew up, the people in the town would also slowly figure things out through her face, which was practically carved from the same mold as Irene's.
"Erza, huh? Good name..."
"However, since she really is Irene's child, then some people might start crying..."
This group of customers, who looked to be in their thirties or forties, looked at Evan and Erza with expressions of enjoying gossip.
However, Evan didn't care about these customers' words at all. He merely continued to take care of Erza while doing business.
"Evan, two carrot breakfast buns, I left the money here!"
"Alright!"
Evan casually glanced over and nodded. For some of the regular customers who already knew the prices, he generally just let them serve themselves. They paid by themselves, took a basket to get the bread themselves, and after finishing eating, they just needed to bring the empty basket back.
The town wasn't big to begin with...
As more and more customers came and went, the news that Irene had given birth to a daughter named Erza quickly spread throughout the entire town.
Around ten o'clock in the morning, a sturdily built man whose skin was slightly darkened due to his work quietly pushed open the front door of the bakery and slipped in when there were fewer people inside.
"Pfft, damn it! It really is true!"
As soon as this man entered the bakery, his eyes tightly locked onto Evan and baby Erza in his arms.
Looking at the latter’s short scarlet hair, his eyes immediately couldn't help but swell with redness, and teardrops rolled around in them.
"Did I really come too late after all?!"
"Evan, is your mom already taken by someone else?"
This man was naturally John from next door. At this moment, he looked at Evan and spoke incoherently.
"Do you want to listen to what you’re saying?"
If Evan wasn't afraid of destroying the bakery, he would have already thrown this guy in front of him straight out with a Gravity Blade.
"You better be here to buy bread..."
Evan looked at the tearful John, stayed silent for a while, and then spoke.
"Evan, I won’t give up! I won’t..."
John casually picked out a few loaves of bread. He seemed to be planning to say something else, but before he finished speaking, he felt a massive repulsive force push him out of the bakery.
"Thank you for your patronage..."
Evan used gravity to collect John's money, placed it in the drawer, and simultaneously spoke to the man already outside of the bakery.
"Hahaha..."
Inside the room, the few customers who saw the entire process play out laughed heartily, as if they had long expected to see the scene before them.
"Sigh..."
Evan sighed and continued to nurse the child in his arms.
In the following days…
Aside from the three daily quests of watching the shop, the system added two new daily quests for Evan.
They were respectively...
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[Quest 4: Please change Erza's diaper before she cries, obtain 2,000 funds]
[Quest 5: Please promptly prepare milk formula for Erza, obtain 2,000 funds]
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That is to say, right now, if Evan could complete all of his quests on time every day, he could obtain a maximum profit of 7,000.
To him, Erza was just like a lucky cat, making him endlessly delighted.
However, baby Erza was still a small infant after all. Whether it was drinking milk or pooping, it was almost completely random. Several times, while Evan was watching the shop or doing other things, Erza would suddenly start crying loudly, catching him off guard.
Irene also saw all of this.
In order to make things a bit easier for her little boy, Irene had an idea!
"Evan, I thought of a particularly good method! It can solve our current situation of lacking manpower!"
Irene stood in front of Evan and spoke with a grin.
"What method?!"
Evan floated in front of the crib while continuously wiping his sweat. He had just expended the strength of nine bulls and two tigers to successfully coax Erza to sleep.
"We can hire someone else to help us watch the shop!"
Irene spoke her method out loud.
"Hiring!?"
Evan's eyes narrowed slightly. He had actually also thought about whether to hire someone else.
But honestly speaking, neither he nor Irene lacked secrets. If they hired someone else, he would always feel somewhat uneasy.
If they spent a lot of time together day after day, and the hired person noticed something, it would be bad.
Although with Irene's magical prowess, let alone ordinary people, even the Ten Wizard Saints wouldn't be able to see anything, Evan still adhered to the principle that caution makes the ship sail for ten thousand years. He was relatively sensitive regarding the aspect of hiring helpers and staff.
"But then again, I don't want to talk much with anyone other than you, Evan..."
Just as Evan was thinking, he heard Irene continue speaking.
"If you don't communicate with others, how can you hire someone else?"
After hearing Irene's words, Evan found her somewhat cute thoughts amusing. He chuckled softly and said.
"Forget it, although it's a bit tiring, I can still keep an eye on things. Once Erza gets a bit older, it’ll get easier."
"That’s why I thought of a brilliant idea!"
Irene leaned close to Evan, looking at him mysteriously as she spoke.
"Hmm?!"
The latter blinked his large eyes while looking at Irene in confusion.
"Look..."
Just as Evan was confused, he saw Irene gently wave her hand. A maid outfit, a rolling pin, and a pitch-black katana appeared in mid-air. Then, she looked at the three items in the air and spoke seriously.
"I thought about it all night yesterday, and I finally came up with a method to recruit employees without having to talk nonsense with outsiders. That is to create the employees ourselves! As long as I enchant personalities onto these tools, our problem of lacking manpower can be solved!"
The instant Irene's voice fell, a burst of blinding light instantly flashed before Evan's eyes.
In the next second, the maid outfit, the rolling pin, and the katana vanished completely without a trace. In their place were three cute-looking girls.
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T/N - I was wondering when Irene would do this. It’s the perfect solution to their manpower problem. Still, does no one notice that the MC just floats around with what basically looks like gravity magic? Or is he already on the counter by the time the customers come in? The novel never specified, especially with how blatant the MC was in using gravity to push John out of the shop.