The protagonist, Imai Saki, a seemingly ordinary Japanese woman, finds herself unexpectedly transported to another world during a hero summoning ritual. Unlike the summoned heroes, Saki was merely caught in the periphery of the magic circle. She awakens in a white space before a god who explains that returning to her original world is impossible. Saki, who lived a rather bleak life in Japan with no hope for the future, accepts this with surprising calm, having been an avid reader of online novels.
Her primary goal is to live a stable and uneventful life in this new world, avoiding powerful individuals. The god grants her basic abilities essential for survival: **Sealing** (though her own ability is too weak to seal the Demon Lord), **Auto-Translation** (allowing communication but with automatic language switching), **Adaptation** (protecting her from local diseases and digestive issues), and **Storage** (a four-and-a-half tatami mat space with time stop, but unable to store living beings). These abilities consume significant divine resources, leaving little for a personalized skill.
Saki requests an "ordering ability" to secure food and essentials, drawing inspiration from online shopping. The god agrees, but with severe limitations: she can only order items she has personally purchased before, at the price she paid, and with a daily limit of approximately 1,000 yen. Her total purchasing power is capped at the equivalent of 8 million yen, derived from her inheritance. She learns that larger items can be purchased in grams or by dividing them. After negotiation, her Storage is modified to a two-tatami mat, manual-access "storage shed" type, sacrificing time-stop and size for a more practical, personal space.
Upon arrival in the new world, Saki finds herself on a road leading to a moderately sized city. She checks her abilities, finding her Storage to be a literal shed. Her first purchases are water and a historically cheap hamburger, using her "1,000 yen repeat" ability. She discovers she can buy items in bulk, like a case of water, which also provides useful cardboard. She also buys raisins, rock salt, and sugar, considering them potential trade goods. She realizes the limitations of her ability, as she cannot buy items her parents owned, only those she personally purchased.
Saki decides to disguise herself to avoid drawing attention, adopting a fabricated backstory of being a traveler who lost her memory after an accident in the mountains. She also modifies her voice to sound like a foreigner with a low pitch to conceal her gender. Her immediate goal is to find work. She heads to the city and, after a brief encounter with a gatekeeper named Barn, successfully registers at the Adventurer's Guild.
At the Guild, a woman named Mathilda explains the system. Saki, seeking low-risk, daily work, accepts a house-cleaning job for 3,000 gold. She travels to the client's house, an elderly man named Jill, and begins cleaning his cluttered kitchen. She discovers that Jill has a vast amount of salt and sugar, diminishing her hopes of profiting from these items. She also learns that the local bread is surprisingly delicious, suggesting this world isn't a "food-is-terrible" setting as she initially assumed. She offers Jill some of her purchased raisins and finger biscuits, which he enjoys.
After completing the cleaning job, Saki receives her payment of 3,000 gold. She then visits Gordon's general store to inquire about prices and sell some of her raisins. She learns that flour is relatively affordable, but salt and sugar are monopolized and expensive. Gordon offers a good price for her raisins, and she uses the earnings to purchase a cloak, a bag, simple clothes, and cloth bags, along with some basic cleaning supplies like baking soda. She also realizes she can buy hot water and tap water, suggesting the potential to purchase electricity and gas, though the method of delivery is problematic. She begins to suspect her "1,000 yen repeat" ability might have dangerous offensive applications.
