"...That amazing?" Jiu Ming couldn't help but glance at Haruhi again. In just this short while, she had handed everyone present an application form. From Panel-kun's explanation, no matter how one looked at it, this was a business guaranteed to turn a profit!
[Her status is right there. It would be one thing if she had never come into contact with beings from other worlds, but now that she has, there is no need to be too surprised if she unconsciously makes moves beneficial to her own world. Besides, what she is doing is an equal exchange, not one-sided taking.]
"This is probably something only Haruhi can pull off." Jiu Ming shook his head. Haruhi could do this because of her status. If anyone else did the same... would it even work?
Even if they changed a world and that world generated additional Source, without some special ability or mechanism, how much could the changer obtain? Most of it would still return to the altered world. In the end, the one benefiting would still be the world itself.
"I'd like to know how much Source you skim off each time."
[Within standard limits. The first shopkeeper's moral integrity is fully guaranteed.]
Panel-kun replied leisurely, neither salty nor bland as it brushed Jiu Ming's words aside.
"Tch!"
"Big Sister!" Watatsuki no Yorihime finally couldn't hold back when she saw Watatsuki no Toyohime casually pick up a pen—provided by Haruhi—and begin writing her name on the application form.
"It's fine, it's fine. There's nothing to lose anyway, and don't you think this is interesting? Come on."
"...I don't find it interesting at all." After muttering under her breath, Watatsuki no Yorihime could no longer withstand Watatsuki no Toyohime's pestering. With a long face, she began writing on it. As for the format...