"Sousuke Araki, you're already a working (haven't found it yet) social person, it's time to say goodbye to the arcade."

Holding his wallet down and suppressing his inner desire, Sousuke Araki didn't dare to take another look at the game hall and turned around and walked towards his original destination.

With the rise of many otaku cultures in recent years, the original basic function of autumn leaves has gradually been forgotten.

This is one, Electric Street.

Akihabara, which was rebuilt after the Great Tokyo Air Raid, was originally a serious electric town with the sale of electrical appliances as its main business.

It wasn't until the economic crisis in the 90s and the decline in sales of electrical appliances that the street had to go through the arduous transformation of digital products - home culture.

A serious electrical street, it has slowly grown into a "bewitching and cheap" house.

Stepping into an unknown second-hand shop hidden deep in the alley, Sousuke Araki walked around with familiarity.

It is not so much a "shop" as a "warehouse on the first floor".

In the basement-like space, there are dense shelves stacked with all kinds of goods.

You can see second-hand home appliances of various ages, styles, and prices.

There are even quite a few tables, chairs, benches, and the like.

In Japan, due to the high cost of moving and disposing of large garbage and home appliances, many people choose to sell dilapidated home appliances and furniture to second-hand stores at low prices or even free of charge.

After the second-hand shop comes to recycle, repair, and clean, it identifies the old and new condition, and sells it at a higher price.

Poor students and renters are frequent customers of such shops.

Here, even if it is a double-door luxury refrigerator with an original price of more than 100,000 yen, there is often a chance to buy it for 30,000 or 40,000 yuan.

However, the disadvantage, in addition to the quality can not be guaranteed, these second-hand household appliances, there may be "psychological defects".

After all, you never know how many different owners you've bought your TV, how many different liquids have been splashed, how many great late-night shows and DVDs have been played......

You can't imagine how many men and women have been singing night and night, and how many dying old people's pure advice has been carried on the bed of N hands......

"Welcome, please feel free to shop."

An old man poked his head out from behind the shelves and greeted Sosuke Araki weakly.

"Oh! Now there is still this kind of big-headed TV with a Brown tube, and it only costs 1,000 yuan? Can it really be turned on? ”

Sousuke Araki shook around in admiration and found a lot of antique-like electrical appliances.

"Boss, my newly rented apartment is so empty that it explodes, are there any discount activities?"

"Discount campaigns...... There's a bundle of new items in the corner. ”

The old man rubbed his eyelids and pointed to the deepest shelf.

Sosuke Araki put his hands in his pockets and quickly walked to the place where the other party was leading.

"Ninety percent of the new double-door refrigerators, 60-inch color TVs, DVD players, microwave ovens, and washing machines are only 100,000 yen?"

Sousuke Araki quickly calculated in his heart that according to the prices of similar goods on the shelves outside, these items would add up to at least 200,000 yen or more.

It's equal to a 50% discount.

"Hey, boss, such a cheap price, it's not going to explode when you turn it on...... Or is it some kind of stolen goods from unknown origin, and the police will knock on the door a few days after buying it?"

"Hehehehe...... How is it possible, it's not because the store has been too messy lately...... No, this is a limited promotion of 'housewarming' recently held by our store in order to recoup funds...... Moreover, not every customer can buy so many home appliances at one time. ”

The old man smiled exaggeratedly, denying his presumptuous speculation.

"That's right......"

Hearing the word "limited", Sousuke Araki no longer hesitated.

There are a variety of "limited products" in Japan, including limited-time, regional, quantity-limited, and seasonal......

Although we know that this is just a merchant's promotion, the reason behind the popularity of limited products in Japan is that the quality, content, or discounts of these products are indeed "unique and expired" to a certain extent.

He cut the price with the boss for a while, and after the other party agreed to give away half a year's warranty service, he decisively decided to take this set of home appliances.

After all, this price is too tempting.

Originally, he only planned to buy a TV, DVD player and refrigerator.

Now you can buy an extra microwave oven and a washing machine with dryer, and you can also save a lot of money at a coin-operated laundry.

Most parts of the city in Japan are not allowed to dry laundry, and they have to be washed and dried in a laundry on weekdays.

"You've really found a treasure......

After paying for the purchase and registering the delivery address, Sousuke Araki happily walked out of the dreary basement and happily breathed in the fresh air.

He was shy in his pocket, and originally thought that he would have to pick and choose for half a day to get it, but he didn't expect it to be so smooth.

"In that case, the rest of the time and money must be used to celebrate!"

Glancing at his phone, Sosuke Araki walked into the SEGA game hall humming a little song.

……

"The key to victory is ...... now"

The petite Mochizuki Ayano stood in front of a large machine with sharp eyes, and after carefully manipulating it, she took a deep breath and carefully pressed a huge red button that looked like a nuclear weapon.

In front of her, through a layer of glass, a huge mechanical arm immediately grabbed downward, moving the carton across the two metal rods slightly.

"Damn, it's almost ......"

Mochizuki Ayano took out a pale yellow coin clip, found it empty, sighed, and walked to the change machine in the corner.

That's right, she's not operating some dangerous machine.

Although she is the head of the 9th Special Operations Division directly under the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, in her spare time, she is actually just a 16-year-old girl.

Even though she is talented, but staying up late, working overtime, and witnessing all kinds of supernatural tragedies for a long time, if there is no channel to release pressure, I am afraid that whoever sits in this position for three months will end up in a mental hospital.

And the way she releases stress is ...... Crane machine.

Japan's "claw machine culture" is quite developed, not only in a variety of ways to catch, but also in a variety of products, and often updated.

From the beginning of the various dolls, it has developed into anime-related scenery figures, wallets, towels, snacks, and more recently, even vegetables and fruits, instant curry, lobster, and instant noodles made by crane machines can be sandwiched......

What Aya Mochizuki was holding just now was a box of blue-haired maid character figures from "Life in a Ghost World from Zero".

And it's also a "April special limited maid outfit can be taken off the version".

Use your claws to push the square carton repeatedly on the two metal rods until it falls through the gap between the metal rods.

Of course, there are already a large number of netizens on 2CH who have thoroughly analyzed this type of machine.

After repeated calculations, according to the optimal method, under the condition that the angle of the claw and the output are perfect, it will take at least 4 times to push the scenery down.

Just as Ayano Mochizuki returned from changing change, a burst of cheerful music sounded in the store.

This is the sound that only rings when someone successfully catches a prize.

The ominous premonition made her immediately quicken her pace.

Sure enough, in front of her original machine, a tall man with a golden airplane head was grinning as he fished out the box from under the machine and put it in the pocket that the clerk respectfully handed over.

"Ah, I'm really lucky today, I picked up someone to catch the last leak as soon as I came...... It's a shame that that man, it's just the last one. ”