Versatile: Alternate World

The road to Nagoya is peaceful and there are fewer cars passing by which made the drive a lot smoother. For the next couple of hours traveling, I didn't encounter any problem that would compromise the time I traveled to Nagoya. Although Nagoya is not as populated as Tokyo, it is still one of the busy places in Japan with so many business opportunities. That is why my mother and father decided to use this chance to grab a business. I heard that they made a restaurant that serves fresh fish and other services involving fish.

Fish is quite a good business since it is a fresh serving and my father is quite good at cooking. In the past timeline, I am also not sure how my parents got bankrupt after. They even said to me before that the business was good when they just opened. They even said that they have patrons before but slowly but surely, the patrons disappeared and the business begins to undergo its downfall.

I refuse to believe the business was not good. Someone must have plotted this. If the accident of my mother was due to someone else, then the downfall of the business was also due to someone else too. Right now, the business is in the middle of debt and losing its customers slowly like what happened in the past timeline.

With the road clear from traffic and delays, I managed to arrive in Nagoya a lot earlier than expected.

The first I did was not visit my parents but secure a house that is good to use as a place to make a teleport waypoint. It is much better to find a house to buy as soon as possible. There might be someone who will buy it and I don't want to risk losing them. There might be a potential house that has the same affinity as my mansion in Tokyo where it was built around a place full of natural mana.

There were a lot of realtor businesses around and it seems they are competing which businesses will be capable of selling the most houses. Even though there are a lot of them, I don't really care if the house was crappy and dirty or even if it is expensive as hell. With the amount of money I possess, it didn't matter if I waste a lot of money. I can still earn it without a problem and my stash is still overflowing from it.

The first one I choose is the biggest realtor company out of all of them. They tend to have the best places to sell and most of the time they have the most accommodating services to those who are looking for a house to buy. However, I didn't expect that even in realtor businesses in which the realtors themselves wanted to impress the buyer, there are also those crappy companies.

"Huh? A house? Are you sure you are buying?" a woman that has the looks of a model asked me. Apparently, this woman is a realtor and it seems she is looking down at me.

"Of course, I need a place to live here in Nagoya. Isn't it obvious that I would buy a house if I was in a realtor business like this?"

"Hmph, from the looks of you, you seem like a student. Isn't it better to look for an apartment rather than a house? Besides, I don't think you can afford the prices of our houses that much."

"Don't worry, I am not just staying here for a short time so I am in need of something I can use for the permanent purpose of staying in Nagoya. And you don't need to be worried about my budget, it is big enough."

"Tch... alright, here are the catalog of our houses, look for one and just tell me if you are done."

After that, she haphazardly throw the catalog into the table and left her post. I look at the time and it seems like it was their lunchtime break. However, this was just a big disgrace of leaving a customer behind and take lunch without even saying anything.

However, I am in need of a house, I don't care if she has a bad personality, I need to buy a house. I wanted to ask her some questions about the details of the house but this b*tch actually decided to talk to her other coworkers without even caring about my inquiries. If she wanted to eat lunch, can't she just eat at her table? It wasn't that much clutter and I do not mind her eating if she is really hungry. But this treatment? It is a big straight F to me. I tried calling for her but she would just look and the other workers would start giggling.

I hold back my urge to materialize my weapon and just bash them with a shield in the face to ruin their makeup. Because they are too much in the bad service, I decided that even if the house I am looking for is in their place, it would be no longer part of my business, I would rather look for somewhere else, this is not just the only realtor business in the area. I slam the catalog and left the building. It is best if a business like this gets the lesson they deserve for treating customers like nothing.

The next realtor business I checked this time is another woman but this time, she was a mature woman, has an air of professionalism, and has a friendly air with her.

"Welcome! Are you looking for an apartment sir?" she asked.

"Uh, no. I am looking for a house to live in here in Nagoya."

"A permanent house huh? Are there any specifics of a place you want? We have a variety of categories and it would be great to narrow it down so that you can easily find the house you wanted."

Good, I was right at the point, this woman is good at handling the customers compared to the other one I just visited.

"Hmm, I don't have demanding specifics but it would be great if the house is not that far from the city and is in a place where I can relax."

"Do you have a range of price on your budget right now?"

"No worries, I have a big budget. Just let me see the places that would fit the category, whether it is a small house, a mansion, or a small apartment."

"Oh, then here are your choices, you can look at them and see which places seem to fit your tastes. We can also visit them if you wanted a live checkup on these places."

"That's good to know!"

I started checking on the places and out of the whole bunch of places she showed to me, two caught my eye. One is just a medium-size house which is a pretty common one around Japan and another mansion. Although it caught my eye, the mansion seems to be a bit unattractive to me. But there is something that seems to be keeping me pull into it but I have no idea what it was. It was just in the photo too so this got me weirded out.

"Can we visit these two?" I asked and gave her the picture of the two houses.

"Ah, alright sir. However, you might have to wait for a bit, I want to go to have some lunch for now so I wanted to close the business for a while. I will have to eat in the nearest eatery since I don't bring any lunch.

"Oh, is that so? Then let me accompany you and I will also take my lunch too. This way, we can discuss the houses in detail. You might have some insights regarding the two so I would like to discuss them."

"Hmm, that is good too. Actually, I wanted to give you some warning about one of them."

"A warning?"

"We can talk a bit later, lets go, I am already starving."

...

The eatery she mentioned is the convenience store. It seems like she is on a tight budget that she has to spend less money just to buy food. Since I felt sorry for her only buying one onigiri for lunch, I decided to buy her one lunchbox set the convenience store sell.  She insists to decline but I also insist that she accepts the food. In the end, she accepted it and she keeps on thanking me.

"Alright, now let's discuss things. You mentioned earlier that there is something wrong with one of the places I picked. Is something the matter? Which one of the two?"

"The mansion one. This place is one of the places that seems to put on a curse on anyone who lives here. This is one of our oldest houses that we wanted to sell but cannot be sold easily since the moment the people who bought the property move in, the next day, they will move out and will return the property to us. They said it was "cursed" or "haunted."

My ears perked up. Looks like I found my target.