Kaori did get a few looks as she headed down the street with a shopping cart full of books and figurines but she was able to ignore them for the most part. The punkish little teen who ran by yelling NEET at her did annoy her a bit but, thankfully, he kept going to wherever he was in such a hurry to get to. When she got to the alley, the street was deserted and she was able to take the cart right to her apartment realm.
After putting up her books, she decided to read a chapter of her book before returning the cart. She didn’t want to seem like she was staying right next to the book store when there were no hotels in this part of town. She took her time and then returned it with a thank you and the man was more than a little polite to her after that. He also dropped a few hints about her coming back on her next visit home to stock up on all the series that she would no doubt get behind on. He then saw her off with a bow and a genuine smile.
The next stop was to the electronics store or it would be but Kaori didn’t think she could get away with the same shopping cart trick for the electronics. Therefore, she would have to make two more stops. First was to a bank to get a card to hold the vast majority of her wealth. The second stop would be to a car rental lot to get a vehicle for her stay.
The two stops were quick and unremarkable. Kaori did have to fabricate her drivers license but she remembered all the details of it so it likely only cost her a single WP. Finally, it was time to hit the electronics store!
With a car, it was much easier than before but it did present another sort of problem. Now that she was in a car, Kaori found that she couldn’t just park it in front of an alleyway and start hauling her stuff to the back of some random store. There would be way too many questions from that. She would have to find another way.
Kaori began to roam around the city looking for deserted areas of the town. She found a good spot with nobody around and a lot of alleyways. It was in an industrial district and this part of it was only used for part of the year. The problem that she found, or didn’t, was that there were no doors in any of the alleyways here. So it was back to searching.
Kaori considered using her godly abilities to locate one but she couldn’t imagine how that would work. She also didn’t want to use her power too much here because this wasn’t her domain even if it was her original home. So, Kaori reluctantly went back to driving around looking.
Eventually, she found what she was after. There was an old building that used to be some kind of parts store. It was long out of use and the building was in a part of town far from the hustle of the more prosperous or residential zones. There was also a fenced in back parking lot for the employees. It was the perfect spot for what Kaori wanted. She pulled in and shut the fence before opening the back door into her apartment.
It only took her a few minutes to unload everything but she did have one more thing she wanted to do on Earth this trip. It would have to wait until the next day however because it was a little late in the day now. Kaori took the car to an expensive hotel and checked in for the night. This was a fairly common dream or so she had read. Just once, or maybe a bit more, Kaori wanted to be treated like some kind of visiting debutante or CEO.
That evening, Kaori decided to go to the restaurant in the hotel and order an expensive meal. She ordered a special cut of Wagyu beef and a rare spread of sashimi as well as a rather old koshu white wine. Kaori was glad she didn’t have to worry about the mess with imported fakes being labeled as domestic wine since the laws had changed in the last couple years. They even made the places with older stock relabel their old stock of false domestic wines.
When it all got there, Kaori was practically drooling. Eating wasn’t something that she particularly had to worry about since she was a goddess but this was a vacation. The food was exquisite and the wine paired perfectly with it just as promised. Kaori wasn’t a connoisseur or high-quality foods or wines but everything tasted spectacular to her. It also decided her on her course of action for the following day.
Kaori had paid for a four day stay and then she would be taking a trip. She hadn’t really decided where she wanted to go on her trip to. The choices she was most interested in were either the beach or a hot-springs resort. Kaori had been next to the beach for a whole week once before but it was part of a business training trip and by the time they got out of seminars each evening, everyone was too exhausted to go to the beach.
If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.
She went back to her room but the moment the door closed, she opened it again into her own domain and stepped in. She had piled all of her prizes from earth into the living room area of her apartment and decided to address that now. First was the big-screen TVs. She had purchased two for herself. One would go up in the living room and the other in her bedroom.
Kaori didn’t bother with the mounting brackets and just willed them to stay on the walls she placed them on. The one in the living room was set on a wall opposite the seats. In her bedroom, Kaori decided that she would be using it more for gaming than for watching movies or the like so she set it up low to the floor in what she dubbed her gaming nook. She sat this space aside for that purpose and even had a separate shelf for all the games she would buy for it.
She took a moment to place the ones she had purchased on those shelves now. Most of them were from the RPG and strategy gaming categories but not all. They served a dual purpose as reference materials should she become stumped on aesthetics or ideas in the future. None of them had any real answers for her current predicament but she ignored that for the moment.
Next up was the computer desk and her gaming platform that she had purchased for it. She mounted the huge triple monitor setup and connected her computer. This was one of the reasons that she had decided to go ahead and set everything up. The computer was brand new and it would require a lot of updates and downloads from the internet.
Since she had no way of getting a subscription to any services in her dimension, Kaori had to get access, at least during setup, from an outside source. This was a solution that she was rather fond of but wasn’t sure how she would fund before. Now, however, she got to play the part of a rich woman for a few days. She didn’t want to overdo it though.
The setup took a small part of forever but she had her gaming systems. The problem, they also had to do updates and downloads for each game. Still, there were a lot of books and anime and she was engrossed in one of them while she waited on the various updates. It was during the first of the updates that one simple fact finally registered. It was very early morning on a Saturday.
Kaori had something that she wanted to do but it would have to be on a weekday and she currently had two days before that. When all the many games and computer programs had finally finished updating, she decided to take a long neglected sleep. Once again, Kaori was profoundly glad for her goddess powers as she simply willed herself to sleep and dozed right off like a narcolepsy patient.
Kaori awoke to a gentle knock on the door of her hotel room. After all of the updates had finished, Kaori had shut her dimension off from Earth again. She slept the night in the luxurious and overly fluffy bed but rested very well and decided to add the bed to the list available in the menu of her apartment builder. When Kaori opened the door, the attendant politely informed her that there was only thirty minutes before breakfast would stop being served.
Kaori ordered room service breakfast and stayed in her room with alternate dimensional attachment all day. She connected her domain through the bathroom door this time. She mostly stayed in her room playing games or read while sprawled out on the big hotel bed. She also ordered room service for lunch and finally went downstairs for dinner in the restaurant again. She had pan seared salmon this time.
The next day she had a nice full breakfast and immediately started on her planned full day of goofing off gaming and reading. However, after only a few hours, she got a little stir crazy and began walking around aimlessly and thinking about her current problem. She reminded herself she had to take her mind off of that and turned to her gaming consoles but really didn’t feel the mood strike her.
Kaori decided to go out instead. She was walking out of the hotel foyer when she spotted the pool and came up with a plan. She decided she would go shopping for a while and eat lunch in town somewhere. While shopping, she would pick out a swimsuit or three and come back to use it this evening in the pool.
Kaori went to a few places to pick up a number of odds and ends for her apartment. The hundred-yen shops and several department stores. She bought a lot of different items that she could have easily produced with her powers but decided she wanted the real thing for sentimental reasons. She also went to several clothing stores and took in all the different looks while only buying a few articles from each.
She went to a ramen shop for lunch and just wanted to melt from the splendid umami flavor she had been missing. She ordered six bowls and the itamae looked at her skeptically when she ordered the second bowl. By the time she finished the fifth and ordered the sixth, he just accepted it with a mirthless grin on his baby-face. Kaori had her reasons, namely, her ability to copy items for the future. She had done the same thing with every meal she had eaten while here on Earth again and wasn’t ordering the same thing twice.
After lunch, it was time to go to the swimsuit shop. As she left the ramen shop, several sets of eyes followed her and one woman pondered where she put it all in her slender frame. Kaori took her slender frame and fitted it into a couple dozen bikinis before settling on three she liked and bought them. That evening, a lot of old men got a real show around the pool as she sauntered to the pool in her saucy new red string bikini in a very racy cut! She went to bed early because she had plans for tomorrow. Even if she didn’t have to get up early, she wanted to be well rested.