Ch.46Chapter 46 – This is Random Gacha!

Glesius Academy has three dormitories.

One is the commoner dormitory exclusively for common students.

Another is the nobility dormitory for nobles and ability users.

Lastly, there’s the recently built foreign dormitory for foreign royalty, nobility, and ability users.

These three dormitories were divided into sections around a circular building at the center.

This central building housed various public amenities used by many students.

The atrium, a circular plaza-like space in the central building, was designed to accommodate over a hundred people without feeling crowded.

However, right now, the central building’s atrium was more crowded and packed with people than ever before.

[Pathos Repair Shop Ticket Gacha]

This was all because of a single stall set up in the central building’s atrium.

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[Pathos Repair Shop Ticket Gacha]

Perhaps I’ll be recorded as the first person in this world to incorporate a gacha system into an actual business.

‘How about selling tickets at a low price? But to prevent wealthy people from taking all the opportunities to obtain tickets, the acquisition of tickets would depend entirely on one’s luck.’

The Chancellor’s suggestion.

It was precisely a gacha system.

Needless to say, Erasto Chronicle also had a gacha system.

As a free-to-play user, I used to draw heroines with resources earned from daily quests.

To think that after being reincarnated into a game world with a gacha system, I’d be introducing a gacha system myself.

I don’t know how absurd this is, but anyway, I’ve become the first person to introduce a gacha system in this world.

The gacha system has a very simple structure.

Those who use the gacha system invest resources to obtain their desired products.

However, what product they’ll get depends entirely on the individual’s luck.

In other words, investing resources doesn’t necessarily lead to obtaining the desired product.

So at first, I wondered if introducing a gacha system would be okay. After all, all I can provide is just “repairs.”

This means that there are only two possible outcomes I could apply to my gacha system.

Win or lose.

Of course, I could solve this by setting the winning probability at 0.1% and the losing probability at 99.9%.

‘But if I do that, there’s a high chance no one will use it.’

To secure funds for my long and slender life, I need to make people use my service.

However, a monotonous product lineup might cause people to lose interest.

So I decided to insert decoy products to act as buffers between winning and losing.

[Product List]

[1st Prize – Free Equipment Inspection Ticket: 1%]

[2nd Prize – 90% Inspection Discount Coupon: 4%]

[3rd Prize – 50% Inspection Discount Coupon: 10%]

[4th Prize – 25% Inspection Discount Coupon: 20%]

[5th Prize – 10% Inspection Discount Coupon: 30%]

[Miss – Exchange Ticket: 35%]

The decoy products I added were the inspection discount coupons between the free equipment ticket and the miss.

Although the probability of missing is high, continuously drawing misses is definitely not a loss.

If you draw a miss, you get an exchange ticket. Collect 5 exchange tickets for a 10% inspection discount coupon.

10 tickets for 25%, 20 tickets for 50%, 30 tickets for 90%, and 50 tickets for a free equipment inspection ticket.

Looking at the exchange ticket system, I might seem like someone obsessed with money, but equipment repairs can be requested without going through the random gacha.

The cost of equipment repair without going through the gacha system is five silver coins, equivalent to 50 exchange tickets obtained from misses.

In other words, the reason I introduced the gacha system is absolutely not to ruthlessly extract money from students.

It’s to suppress the complaints of those who have neither money nor time, preventing them from disturbing my peaceful daily life.

As long as the gacha system isn’t excessively ruthless, people will eventually spend money on it.

I’ve even created a ceiling with exchange tickets, so isn’t this quite generous?

All the equipment needed to implement this gacha system was provided by the Chancellor.

She said she was aware that some academy students had complaints, and she found my efforts to reduce the academy’s burden admirable.

I had no such intention at all, but I was grateful that she evaluated my actions positively.

And finally, I opened the [Pathos Repair Shop Ticket Gacha].

The opening location was the atrium of the central building, located in the center of the three dormitory buildings.

“Huh? Gacha?”

“What’s gacha?”

As I set up the stall, students who often entrusted their equipment to me came looking for me.

“It’s an abbreviation for random drawing.”

“Random drawing? That’s an interesting method. Can I try it?”

I briefly explained to them what gacha was, and a female student who showed interest tried the gacha.

The method of rolling the gacha is simple.

Insert ten copper coins into this ‘random drawing device’ made by the Chancellor and turn the handle.

Then, as the handle turns, a paper with the contents is printed.

“Wow! What’s this?”

“It’s a paper with the result of the drawing. If you present this paper later, you can receive the benefit written on it.”

This paper was magically treated to prevent the written content from being altered.

I checked the face of the student who drew the ticket from the random drawing device, or gacha machine.

But the expression on the female student’s face was somewhat ambiguous, making it unclear whether it was good or bad.

“So, what did you draw?”

“It says ‘Free Equipment Inspection Ticket’?”

What the female student drew was the 1st prize.

The first customer drawing the 1st prize. This is an opportunity I absolutely cannot miss.

“Congratulations. You’ve won the 1st prize.”

I deliberately announced loudly so that the news of the first customer drawing the 1st prize would be heard by those around.

“R-really? Wow! I got 1st prize, 1st prize!”

The female student was very happy to learn that she had drawn the 1st prize, and her voice gradually attracted the attention of passing students to the stall.

“Equipment inspections are processed in bulk on weekends, so please visit Pathos’s repair shop behind the dormitory with your ticket.”

By the way, I recently opened a second branch of my repair shop.

The second branch is located behind the dormitory, in a place easily accessible to students.

I used to fix things in my room, but it seemed a bit strange to invite people into someone else’s room, so I asked the Chancellor to arrange a separate place.

It’s reassuring to have a powerful person as a backer.

“Yes! Thank you!”

I safely sent off the first customer after explaining how to use the ticket.

“Excuse me, can we do this too?”

“Yes. Regardless of your status, insert 10 copper coins and activate the device, and products will come out according to probability. Even if you draw a miss, you can exchange the exchange tickets for specific products depending on the quantity you have, so I recommend not throwing away the exchange tickets.”

After the first customer drew the 1st prize and left, other students started turning the device.

“Ah, that’s a shame. 3rd prize.”

“Hey, a 50% discount is still good. It’s a whole 10%!”

“Hey, hey. Let me try. Let me roll once too.”

“Whoa, this guy got 2nd prize? So damn lucky.”

As the second and third customers consecutively won prizes, the area in front of the stall quickly began to fill with people.

Students, each holding coins in their hands, lined up in front of the device and started operating the gacha machine.

“Please! Please! I bet all the money I have! Let me draw the 1st prize!”

“Damn, I spent all my meal money for today. Is there anyone who wants to exchange exchange tickets for copper coins?”

Some people were putting in all their money to draw the 1st prize, and others started exchanging the exchange tickets they drew for money.

“It’s a bit vulgar for our dignity to roll that. Is it possible to request equipment inspection without doing that?”

“Ah, yes. It’s possible. The price has increased a bit due to the academy’s recommendation, is that okay?”

“How much is it?”

“It’s increased to five silver coins. I decided to accept the academy’s recommendation for the sake of fairness.”

By the way, the academy’s recommendation was an excuse for the price increase prepared through conversations with the Chancellor.

If the academy tells me to raise the price, what can I do?

“That’s pocket change. For some reason, when I entrust my equipment to you, it seems to help much more with training or dueling than before.”

“Haha. It must be a coincidence.”

Fortunately, my main customers, the children of wealthy families or high nobility, consider the cost of five silver coins as pocket change.

“No. It’s definitely not a coincidence. When I use equipment entrusted to you, strangely, training seems to go better. Even after taking expensive medicines, I don’t feel any improvement in skills, but equipment that has passed through your hands makes me physically feel that training goes well. In that sense, five silver coins is not an expensive price. Rather, I think even five silver coins is not enough.”

“Hahaha. Thank you for the advice. Please visit the repair shop around evening.”

I’ve heard from customers that training and dueling go well when using equipment I’ve repaired with my ability, but it’s probably just a placebo effect.

Come on, as if my ability to repair equipment would help with training?