Chapter 6
Chapter 6
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 6
Chapter Title: Isekai Life, Not Bad
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Isekai life isn't bad.
Even if it meant holing up in an abandoned warehouse, with no clue if it was day or night.
[High-Grade Bed/Brand Random] - 10,000 points
"...Tch, too pricey."
Still, I couldn't help but covet it.
I'd aimed for a better bed to improve my gallery grinding, but 10,000 points? That's no joke.
It was equivalent to 10,000 tuna cans—enough left over even if you ate one every day for nine years straight.
[Buying. Selling.]
[The Market now features bartering!]
[Trade items via exchange.]
"Oh!"
Right then, I spotted the bartering function, which was like light and salt to me.
I jumped into the barter tab, and as the new feature unlocked, tons of gallery users had already gathered.
- What's this place for anyway?
- Came to check it out since it's new ㅇㅇ
Ah lol, no shit to sell but can't resist window-shopping
"For now, what I need most is a bed."
[Want: Bed]
[Requirements: Haven't been sleeping well lately, back hurts; soft ones preferred if possible.]
"Like this?"
[Register your trade item.]
I pondered what I could offer, then my eyes landed on one item.
"Tuna can?"
My go-to meal.
A 1-point high-nutrition meal that kept my belly full while grinding the gallery nonstop!
Of course, I had no intention of actually trading it for a bed—just registering it as a test.
[Tuna Can registered.]
[Waiting for trade partner...]
"Oh, so that's how trading works."
I'd just grasped it from the new trade window and was about to close the screen when—
[Trade request received!]
[Trade request received!]
.
.
[56 trade requests total.]
['PleaseTradeWithMe' offers a purple canopy bed.]
['WasOnceTheKingdomsTopMerchant' offers a crown prince custom-made, unused royal crest canopy bed.]
"Huh?"
*
Tuna is righteous, and tuna cans are divine.
"But trading for this feels off."
As someone with a conscience—Judak, that is—I knew the value of a single tuna can.
I wasn't after medieval noble canopy beds, no matter how many offers piled up.
So I canceled it for now.
But then—
-Judak you bastard!!! Don't you dare delete the trade!!!
-Why reject us?
-Not picking one person, just deletes and dips;
-Says he has plenty of tuna cans to eat?
-Want tuna cans~
The gallery exploded into ten separate threads.
"Hmm, what the hell..."
I rubbed my chin, pondering, but no clue.
Plus, with this many posts regenerating, even seriously deleting them would be overwhelming.
Before the gallery descended into total chaos, I posted one myself.
Title: Me. Descending.
Hey other-gal dwellers
Calm down first
Sorry for posting and canceling the trade, but is it really that rage-inducing? (No idea)
[Upvotes 35] [Downvotes 86]
ㄴ Haha, "calm down" my ass
ㄴ Thinks he can handle our shitposting?
ㄴ Fuck, why should Judak deal with your shit;
ㄴ Up if you wanna buy Judak an elf lol
ㄴ Up if you wanna get rubber bullet barrage from Judak lol
ㄴ If you're dangling tuna cans only for dwarves on purpose like bait after Antares reclamation, wouldn't that drive anyone insane??
But the users' fury didn't subside despite my sincerity.
Of course, I knew.
Just how explosively tuna cans were reacting in the gallery right now.
It started with the dwarves' trolling.
Quality Post) Do you gentlemen know of this tuna can thing? [999+]
(Tuna can opening gif)
(Close-up of tuna chunks gif)
They catch this tuna beast from the sea and preserve it in this mystical thin iron canister.
And how convenient it is—you who've tasted it know well—but the shelf life is incredibly long too.
According to brother Judak, at least over five years. Haha.
Wish I could share, but alas.
(Dwarves smug thumbs-up gif)
Upvotes 624 Downvotes 999+
ㄴ Lmao you midget shits write the worst posts. No flow, no point. Especially when the intent to mock is obvious from the start—that's already a failed troll ㅇㅇ And "you who've tasted it" contradicts "wish I could share." Shows exactly your level of thinking ㅇㅇ
ㄴ Still, poster's intent landed perfectly
ㄴ Properly scraped, gonna leave scars
ㄴ Don't cry, look at the camera and speak slowly
ㄴ Why look at the camera fucker
Quality Post) Judak discriminating by race right now?
Why only coddling dwarves since Antares reclamation?
We get bread and bottled water, but they get shiny oily tuna?
I know how to eat tuna too?
No wait, actually nobles hog it so I don't know, but I wanna learn?
Why!!! Only me!!!
Why not give to me too!!!!!
ㄴ Fact) Bread and water is already a blessing
ㄴ You're not alone. I haven't had it either
ㄴ Pointy-ears go munch grass
ㄴ We're not like those old-ass elves
ㄴ Don't cry dearies! Not jealous of those midgets' bragging at all!
ㄴ Poster) How can I want it... I want fancy food like tuna instead of wheat too...
ㄴ Waaah... Elder elf wants it too actually...
ㄴ Elves need comfort?
ㄴ How bad was the dwarves' trolling...
"No, this wasn't all a joke."
When I first dropped into this isekai, the gallery was flooded with posts begging for bread.
So I'd just listed plain baguettes on the market.
Even with tuna cans, I figured no one knew what they were, so there was a risk of getting ripped off.
But it turned into a guillotine atmosphere.
-So what's the reason for not sharing with us?
ㄴ Judak☆) Wait; didn't know you liked tuna;;
ㄴ ??
ㄴ You guys always whining for bread in the mornings so I thought that was your fave
ㄴ What even...
ㄴ If no tuna, just eat bread.
-Judak, give us tuna cans too!
-Judak oppa I want tuna cans... ㅠㅠ
-Judak stop the race discrimination!!
In the end, I headed back to the market barter.
Registered the tuna can like before, and the numbers exploded like they'd been waiting.
[172 trade requests total.]
I clicked the most eye-catching one first.
[Chat window created with 'BuyElfUsedBedGuy'.]
BuyElfUsedBedGuy: !!!Nice to meet you!!
Judak☆: Hey
BuyElfUsedBedGuy: (Bed photo) 100% Elrad solid wood bed. Super eco-friendly, good for the body too!
Judak☆: How many tuna cans. Make an offer
BuyElfUsedBedGuy: Uh, um... Ten...? That'd be great
Tuna cans were worth that much?
The longer I stayed here, the more my basic economic sense crumbled.
Not that there's much economy here anyway.
Judak☆: Deal, sending 150.
BuyElfUsedBedGuy: Heeeeeek
Then I spotted a flaw.
Elf bed—wouldn't that be old?
Looking closer, the condition seemed iffy.
Judak☆: Hmm, but isn't this bed pretty worn?
BuyElfUsedBedGuy: (Selfie gif) (Wet hair tousled gif) (Desperate upward gaze gif)
Judak☆: But old furniture gets better with care and quality. ㅇㅇ Looks good
BuyElfUsedBedGuy: Kyaaak! Overwhelming thanks. Qu-quick, let's trade...
I quietly saved the gifs, mesmerized, hand hovering over the confirm button.
"What's this? Spiders?"
Something weird around the bed's wood.
No, spiders would've been better.
Ants swarming, plus bizarre bugs I'd never seen crawling all over it.
Don't tell me "eco-friendly" meant...
Judak☆: Ah, aah!
BuyElfUsedBedGuy: ?! Judak what's wrong!
Judak☆: Right, gas stove!!!!!
BuyElfUsedBedGuy: ??
[Judak canceled the trade.]
I bailed on the trade and returned to the market main.
[252 trade requests total.]
They'd exploded in the meantime.
But it wasn't welcome.
What if I missed defects like that elf's, or they slipped in weird shit?
"Plus, this is the Isekai Destruction Gallery—what was I expecting..."
Maybe I hoped for too much in a ruined world.
I was thinking of checking a few more out of regret before closing when—
['FallenNobleLady' offers Ophelia Ducal House canopy 3-piece set.]
"Hmm."
One that caught my eye.
*
The world had ended.
To Evelyn, that meant becoming an outcast.
"No one's here. Everyone's gone."
At the vast Ophelia Ducal House mansion at the edge of the territory.
In that sprawling place, Lady Evelyn huddled in a third-floor room.
The great war started, and everyone was conscripted.
Her father the family head, her second and third brothers too.
"Where did they all go?"
Of course, all missing.
When monsters breached the kingdom walls, the servants fled en masse.
Now just a ghost mansion with no one.
Only the occasional lost monster wandering.
Grrrrumble.
"...Hungry."
She'd snuck food from the kitchen avoiding mansion monsters, but it was gone now.
Her once-glorious dress stained black, the room filthy with dust.
Nearly a week starved.
No strength left to sneak to the kitchen.
Two choices remained.
Starve here.
Or venture out and luckily join survivors—if she could find them.
'But where?'
With even her pinnacle kin missing, were her odds even 1%?
Yet Evelyn lacked the courage to end it honorably like other nobles.
She figured she'd just starve day by day.
[Buying! Selling!]
[New Market feature added.]
"...?"
Until Judak presented a fourth option.