"Take the Star Rail Express Duty Roster on your desk. From now on, Passenger Sunday, you need to check the roster carefully and do your assigned chores properly."
In the Parlor Car, Pom-Pom instructed Sunday:
"Pom-Pom will award you train funds based on how well you do. Do you understand, pom?"
"I understand, Train Conductor." Sunday nodded gently.
"Good! That's the spirit!"
Pom-Pom added:
"Since you've only recently boarded and you're short on money, you'll be assigned a few extra shifts for a while so you can earn more train funds."
"You can then spend those funds aboard the train. For example, say you wanted a computer that cost one hundred thousand Credits..."
Sunday smiled faintly.
"Then I would pay you one hundred thousand in train funds. Is that right?"
"No. You'd pay the corresponding amount to whoever agreed to buy the computer for you. The two of you would negotiate the price," Pom-Pom explained.
"For example, Passenger Yan Huan might agree to buy you that computer, but demand two hundred thousand in train funds for it..."
That made Sunday curious.
"Train Conductor, if the deal went through and Mr. Yan Huan received the two hundred thousand I paid him, what could he do with those funds?"
"Lots of things," Pom-Pom said.
"The train fund system was reformed not long ago."
"Passenger Yan Huan had plenty of Credits to live on, so he simply stopped doing his chores."
"Before, passengers were given Credits for their shifts."
"Now that we use train funds instead, passengers can exchange them for Credits with me or Passenger Himeko, or arrange for someone else to take a shift."
"You can also transfer train funds to another passenger in exchange for help, as long as you both agree on the price."
Pom-Pom looked straight at Sunday.