The 14th Story: Rich man
"Hey, are you guys injured?" [Yoji]
I checked the adventurer kids who are around the buffalo screaming "Kya Kya".
The kids check their bodies as if they just remembered.
At first glance, two of them have sc.r.a.ps on their knees, so I change the points from earth magic to healing magic to heal them.
With this, it is completed.
For the moment I don"t have any MP recovery items, so I will have to wait around an hour to be able to use magic again.
The effect of the MP recovery item is amazing, but as I currently don"t have much money I can"t buy it.
"Thank you"
The scar is gone now.
The girl that looks like an archer thanks me.
And so does too the boy that looks like the tank. [1]
"Onii-chan is amazing, you can even use magic!"
He is looking at me with shining eyes.
"It is just beginner-level magic, and with just this I have to wait one hour. So I can"t use any more magic for the moment" [Yoji]
Although my max MP increased a bit from when I first fainted, considering the fact that with just two earth magic and two healing magic and I am already out of MP isn"t a lot of growth.
To be honest, I thought it would be a little better.
"Oh, it is great, I know because I was studying before to be a mage, but without rods or wands, it is quite the talent to be able to cast four skills chant-less"
The boy who looks like a priest told me so.
Hmmm, this child is saying something interesting.
I have to know more about this.
"What do you mean?" [Yoji]
"What are you talking about, it is obvious that if you don"t have a wand your casting will cost you a lot more of your spirit"
"Is that so?" [Yoji]
"You really don"t know? It is learned at the beginning, it is the basic of the basics"
"Well… it is because I am a genius, so I learned everything by myself, so I wouldn"t know about that…" [Yoji]
I was embarra.s.sed when I was told that it was the basics, so I changed character at the end to fool them.
"Haa, are you serious? You learned magic by yourself? I am shocked, I studied for 5 years and I gave up because I didn"t have any talent!!"
He looks far away as he realizes the unfairness of the world.
I think that I broke the kid"s dreams, and my chest started to hurt.
Well, because it is an On/Off cheat, it can"t be helped.
I told myself so.
By the way, the kids that I helped are adventurers after all.
When I heard his story I turned suspicious, so I used the status display to check their information. [2]
Looking at the information in my head, they are:
Tank Cain Human (Male) 14 years old Lv 3 Rank F Leader
Tank Dan Cat (Male) 13 years old Lv 2 Rank F
Tank Mich.e.l.le Human (Female) 14 years old Lv 3 Rank F
Archer Mui Human (Female) 14 years old Lv 3 Rank F
Archer Ky Dog (Female) 13 years old Lv 2 Rank F
Unfortunately there are not any handsome boys nor beautiful girls, they have normal appearance.
It is a party slightly weird, only having tanks and archers, but all the low-level adventurers are like this.
The number of clerics and mages is low.
So as soon as they register they enter a high-level party that needs one mage or cleric.
As a result the low-level parties are formed with the rest of the kids.
Well, the low-level enemies are easy, so there is no need to worry.
It is quite unusual that low-level parties have clerics or mage like Naria.
Well, I got useful information.
If it is true that chanting while using a wand or staff reduces the consumption, I will have to try it when I go back to the Valles Castle.
As I was thinking to myself.
"Hey Onii-chan, what about this Buffalo?"
Cain asked me.
"What do you mean?" [Yoji]
"Don"t pretend you don"t know, if you bring the buffalo and sell its skin and meat you will make a lot of money!"
"What? Is that so?" [Yoji]
"Oh!? You didn"t know… Oh, I f.u.c.ked up, I shouldn"t have said it…"
"Oops, it seems I let out my thoughts… I"m sorry Onii-chan"
"It can"t be helped, well if you want, why don"t you go to Valles and borrow a wagon to carry the buffalo, after that I will give you 10% of the sales" [Yoji]
"Yes! It is a promise, ok, you can"t cancel it. Okay, everyone lets go to Valles"
After he says so Cain started running with his friends without giving me any time to say anything.
"Return soon-" [Yoji]
I screamed to the running kids.
After two hours they brought a rather big carriage.
With the magic that I managed to recover in the meantime I used levitation magic to help carry the buffalo, so with that we managed to put it on the carriage.
After that it took one hour to reach Valles.
While returning I asked Cain why they were being chased by the buffalo.
They said that they wanted to hunt some goblins that were around the highway and return by noon, but they didn"t find any goblins.
Since it couldn"t be helped they stealthily entered the plains, but they saw a lot of buffalos in the distance and they started to run.
Well, cows like to pursue.
"Hmm?" [Yoji]
Well, when it was nearing noon I decided to take a break from hunting goblins and orcs around the highway. Is it that? Was it my fault that they were attacked?
The more I hear the more I am sure that it was my fault so I decided to keep silent.
After arriving at Valles, we went to the shop that specializes in dismantling at the commercial district.
The shop owner looks at the buffalo.
"Oh, you brought quite a big one, did you defeat it?"
"No, it was this Onii-chan who defeated it"
"This is amazing, one of this size is quite the challenge for intermediate-level adventurer"s parties, why are there no forefeet?"
"Onii-chan took its forefeet"
"I don"t understand it, but well, I will go to disa.s.sembly it"
As he said so he calls for four people from the store to help him carry and dismantle the buffalo.
At the end everything was sold for around 150.000 Zen.
The price per Kg was low, but there was around four tons.
Ten percent of that 150.000 Zen was handed to Cain and the others as promised.
The five kids were delighted and jumping around.
The shop owner said that 10% was too much for just helping carry the buffalo to the store, but well.
The previous guilt feeling came to bite back at me and I got a feeling that I lost.
Even so, 150.000 Zen should be around 1.5 million yen in j.a.pan.
Is it all right to get such a big amount of money that easily? I became a bit worried about my money value in the future.
Tank is a term used in MMO, it is used to describe a player which job is to receive any damage instead of his comrades. Return to reading
TLN: This feels like an act of voyeurism. Return to reading
Translator: Leoito