Mark thought that he would create a detailed plan on how to monetize his other skills aside from Replicate, at least for now, but he first needed to purchase a few set of clothes. He called Melissa and asked her if she could help him shop for clothes since he lost lot of weight. Melissa of course happily agreed. He then said to her that he would come get her after two hours.

After the call, Mark used the Uber app to set up a ride to the nearest used car dealership. He really needed a car to get around. When he got to the dealership he asked for a car worth fifty thousand that he could take away immediately and the man lead him to a used two thousand nineteen Chevrolet Silverado. A quick search on the internet said that he was overpaying for more than ten thousand dollars but did not care. As long as it was running without any problem, he was fine with it. He gave his details and money to the man and the man said he would handle the paperwork and gave Mark the keys. Mark drove it to get Melissa so they could start shopping for clothes.

When Mark arrived on Sam’s place, Sam and Melissa were surprised with Mark’s new car but Melissa was even more surprised on how he looked.

“Wait! It’s been only a couple of days and you’re thinner again! How the heck are you doing it?!”

“I told you, it’s a secret.” Mark laughed.

Melissa wheedled again. “I’m willing to pay. Please Mark, recommend me. I can’t even see any loose skin. And your skin, is it smoother?!”

“I don’t know about that. I will talk to the guy okay so stop asking."

"Fine. But this is not the end and you know it.”

Mark said goodbye to Sam and Sam just waived and said that he had a lot of work to do. When he and Melissa were driving, Mark gave a pouch with fifty thousand dollars to her and said that, that was all the budget they had for shopping. He also said to her that she could keep the remaining if there were any. Melissa just said that of course she could not do that but was clutching the pouch anyways as if afraid he would take it back.

“Why do you have so much cash, anyway? Are you dealing drugs?” Melissa jokingly asked.

“It’s from Nanya.”

“Who”s Nanya?”

“Nanya business.” Mark said while he laughed loudly.

“Lame.” Melissa snorted. “No really. Aren’t you afraid the IRS will, I don’t know question you or something?”

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“I don’t know. Maybe. Don’t care. I’m not buying luxury or illegal things anyway and that money is not that much in the grand scheme of things. “

Mark thought he should really be careful especially since the FBI got their eyes on people who were there when the incident happened in the hospital. He also thought that maybe they got their eyes on him particularly because of the weight lost thing. If he thought of it, it was really impossible to lose one hundred and fifty pounds within a week. He was hoping that the FBI did not really know his actual weight when he first started losing it.

When they arrived at the mall, Mark just followed Melissa around wherever she wanted to go. He did especially told Melissa that he will be losing at least ten more pounds in a few days so she should buy things with that in mind. Melissa stared at him for a minute the just said to follow her. He followed her every command. What shirt to try, pants, blazer, shoes, basically everything that she could think of. After trying one set, Melissa said to him that he looked really fine. He did turn some heads but he was still self conscious of his height. When he mentioned it to Melissa, she just snorted and said that when it comes to him, being short was an advantage because he really looked cute enough to eat, then she laughed.

Melissa spent a total of thirty five thousand for his things and as promised, gave the rest of the funds to her. Melissa smiled happily and continued shopping, but this time, she shopped for herself. After a grueling five hours of shopping, they stopped to eat a meal at a restaurant and then went home. He brought Melissa to Sam’s place and since it was a bit early, took a look at what they had done so far.

Sam showed Mark all the Movies, Animes, Manga, and Web Novels he had downloaded so far. He was also making sure that every single one was categorized properly and that each and every one of them had a trailer and synopsis.

Melissa also showed to him the music she had downloaded so far. After that Sam showed the expense report to show him exactly how much money they had spent. Mark was really happy with what Sam and Melissa did and gave Sam another pouch filled with fifty thousand dollars.

Sam happily accepted. He knew the worth of his work. Mark then said to Sam to bring the four laptops that they were using and all the hard drive in three days to his apartment and Sam agreed. He was planning to keep a copy on his inventory just in case .

Mark went home, parked his new car and brought all his new things inside his apartment. He then arrange the clothes as a set as per instructed by Melissa on what goes where and which looked good on which and put the set on organizer boxes that he bought so he can keep them on fewer grids on his Inventory. He used Inventory Item Restoration on all of them to make sure that they were all clean and in peak condition. It was a good thing that the his new clothes only took a small amount of his inventory space due to the level he put on Inventory Grid Control.

Mark also replicated the bento box that he bought and arrange the food that he currently had on his inventory. The bento box that he bought was very clear so he could actually see what food was inside and he could take any one of them, put them on the replicate grid and then take them out of the inventory. Now he had unlimited food and clothes as long as he had MP. He knew he needed to add more things for variety but again that was for later when his Inventory was bigger.