Jiu Ming did not care in the slightest about Panel-kun's amusement. He casually clicked his tongue twice, then went off to do his own thing. "Let me know once those zones are ready."
[Okay.]
After giving Jiu Ming a simple reply, Panel-kun vanished from before him. After that, he set about bringing some more people here.
The testing period was neither long nor short. After adding in a few more things, Jiu Ming examined the fantasy zones and cultivation zones Panel-kun had created. To the people there, they had perhaps appeared out of thin air...
Well, Jiu Ming had no intention of digging into how Panel-kun had solved that problem. Time would wash everything away anyway. Once enough had accumulated, what the truth had once looked like would no longer matter.
All in all, it was pretty good... no, Jiu Ming simply could not find anything to criticize. "Come to think of it, you'd absolutely make the best butler, Panel-kun... Your initiative is just a little lacking."
[The first store manager gave me roughly the same role, but the first store manager is gone.]
Panel-kun's text showed not a ripple, utterly calm.
"If he heard you say that... well, he couldn't possibly know." Jiu Ming clicked his tongue as he walked through the town. To outsiders, he merely looked like he was muttering to himself. Compared to the enormous urban zone, this fantasy zone was a composite region of multiple cities, villages, and towns clustered together like stars surrounding the moon.
Like a nation, really. Strictly speaking, the urban zone was the same, except it had more people, so the links between its various areas were much closer—like a city built from piled-up blocks... once stacked together, the dividing seams between them could basically be ignored.
The difference was that