"If I help you make puppets, can I gain some of your favorability?"
"Give it up. I'd be thankful enough if you didn't cause trouble." Chen Luo rolled his eyes at Little Nine.
"Then if I don't cause trouble, can I gain some of your favorability?"
"...Favorability can rise, but it can also fall," Chen Luo said earnestly.
Even back when Chen Luo had been obsessed with grinding favorability, he had never considered such a crooked method as Little Nine's.
"Then forget it." Little Nine obediently sat in the bar, watching Chen Luo make puppets from all sorts of materials.
"Why are the materials for these puppets all different? Aren't they supposed to be a set of sisters?" Little Nine found it rather strange.
"Come to think of it, asking you questions now won't lower my favorability, right?"
"It's just chatting between friends... Just treat me like a game character, an NPC. As long as you don't enter story mode, do whatever you want." Chen Luo had made that favorability system to fool Little Nine, not to let everyone resort to any means necessary to grind his favorability.
Still, Chen Luo did have quite a few jobs he could hand out to his friends and ask them to help with.
After all, he had gotten this busy precisely because he was helping them.
Fortunately, those puppets were not something Chen Luo needed to worry much about. As long as he gave them a place to farm monsters, they could handle the rest themselves. A mature puppet had to learn to take care of everything except dungeons on its own.
"As for why these six sets of materials are all different, even septuplets should each have their own distinctions. The seven Rose Puppets each have their own traits."
"Besides preparing one