I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

"Sousuke Araki, you are already a social person who has participated in the work (haven't found it yet). It's time to say goodbye to the arcade."

Holding his wallet tightly and restraining his inner desires, Sousuke Araki didn't dare to look at the arcade again, turned around and walked towards his original destination.

With the rise of many otaku cultures in recent years, the basic functions of Akihabara have gradually been forgotten.

This is an electrical street.

Akihabara, which was rebuilt after the Tokyo Air Raid, was originally a serious electrical street with electrical appliance sales as its main business.

It was not until the economic crisis in the 1990s and the decline in sales of electrical appliances that this street had to go through the hard transition of digital products-home culture.

A serious electrical street has slowly grown into a "coquettish bitch"-like housing circle.

Stepping into an unknown middle-aged shop hidden deep in the alley, Sousuke Araki walked around familiarly.

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

In the basement-like space, the shelves are densely packed with various commodities.

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

There are even many tables, chairs and benches.

In Japan, due to the high cost of moving and discarding large garbage and home appliances, many people choose to sell worn-out home appliances and furniture to such old-fashioned stores at low prices or even free of charge.

After the second-hand shop is recovered, repaired and cleaned, the old and new are identified and sold at an increased price.

Poor students and renters are frequent customers of such shops.

Here, even a double-door luxury refrigerator with an original price of more than 100,000 yen is often available for 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.

However, the disadvantage is that in addition to the inability to guarantee the quality, there may be "psychologically defective items" in these second-hand home appliances.

After all, you never know how many different owners, how many different liquids, how many late-night shows and DVDs the TV you bought back has...

You can't imagine how many vicissitudes of life for men and women, how many vicissitudes of life for men and women, and how many dying old people's sincere exhortations...

"Welcome, please buy at will."

An old man stuck his head out from behind the shelf and greeted Sousuke Araki feebly.

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

Sousuke Araki walked around in admiration and found quite a few antique-like electrical appliances.

"Boss, my newly rented apartment is so empty that it explodes. Are there any discounts?"

"If there is a discount event... there are new bundles in the corner."

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

Sousuke Araki put his hands in his pockets and quickly walked to the place where the other party was guiding him.

"These 90% new double-door refrigerators, 60-inch large color TVs, DVD players, microwave ovens, and washing machines cost only 100,000 yen?"

Sousuke Araki quickly calculated in his heart. According to the price of similar products on the shelves outside, the sum of these items would cost at least 200,000 yen.

It is equivalent to a 50% discount.

"Hey, boss, at such a cheap price, it won't explode when you turn it on... Or is it some kind of stolen goods of unknown origin that the police will knock on your door a few days after you buy it?"

"Hehehehe... How is it possible, it's not because the store has been messed up recently... No, this is a limited promotion for 'moving to a new house' recently launched by our store in order to recover funds... Besides, not every customer can be one-off Buying so many appliances."

The old man smiled exaggeratedly, denying his wild guess.

"That's right..."

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

There are many kinds of "limited products" in Japan, which are divided into time limit, region limit, quantity limit, season limit and so on...

Although we clearly know that this is just a promotional activity by the merchant, the reason behind the popularity of limited products in Japan is that the quality, content or discounts of these products are indeed "unique and not waiting for expiration" to a certain extent.

He and the boss negotiated the price for a while. After the other party agreed to give away a half-year warranty service, he decisively decided to take this set of home appliances.

After all, this price is too tempting.

Originally, his budget was to buy a TV, DVD player and refrigerator.

Now you can buy an extra microwave and a washing machine with a dryer, and you can save a lot of money at coin laundromats.

Most places in Japan's urban areas do not allow clothes to be dried. On weekdays, clothes have to be taken to the laundry to be washed and dried.

"I really found a treasure..."

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

He was shy, he thought it would take a long time to pick and choose, but he didn't expect it to be so smooth.

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

Taking a look at the phone, Sousuke Araki walked into the SEGA arcade humming a ditty.

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"The key to victory is now..."

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

In front of her, through a layer of glass, a huge robotic arm immediately grabbed it down, and moved the carton slightly across the two metal rods.

"Damn, just a little bit..."

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

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

Although she is the head of the 9th Special Operations Division directly under the Tokyo Metropolitan 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 various supernatural tragedies, UU reading www.uukanshu. If there is no channel to release the pressure, I am afraid that whoever sits in this position for three months will only end up in a mental hospital.

And her way of releasing the pressure is... the claw machine.

Japan's "claw machine culture" is quite developed. Not only are there various ways of grasping, but the products that can be grasped are also varied and frequently updated.

From the beginning of various dolls, to animation-related scenery figures, wallets, towels, snacks, and recently even vegetables and fruits, instant curry, lobster, and doll machine customized instant noodles can be clipped...

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

And it is also "April special limited maid outfit can be taken off".

The square carton is pushed repeatedly on the two metal rods with the claws, until it falls from the gap between the metal rods, and the grasping is successful.

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

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

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

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

The ominous foreboding made her immediately quicken her pace.

Sure enough, in front of her original machine, there was a tall man with a golden nose, who was smilingly pulling out the box from under the machine and putting it into the pocket that the clerk respectfully handed it over.

"Yeah, I'm really lucky today. As soon as I arrived, I found a leak that someone caught the last blow... It's such a pity for that person, he obviously missed the last blow."

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