Kujonin

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Kujonin
Author: Hanabokuro
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Having woken up on the beach, for now I returned to the inn while cradling the cat monster.

When I reached the inn, just when I thought the cat monster was climbing onto my shoulders, it leapt onto the inn roof and disappeared somewhere.

I opened the door and looked into the dining hall, my employees were gathered eating breakfast.

"Our president has returned."

Holding her head, Velsa lifted her cup to her mouth.

"Naoki, do you remember when you made a declaration before in this inn"s room?"
Ayl asked.

"Aah, I remember, but I"ve forgotten it now."

"You said you wouldn"t drink alcohol."

"As expected, the words of my Vice President who drunk herself unconscious together with Red Dragon holds some weight."

"Wh-…!"

Seth and Merumo turned their faces downwards, stifling laughs.

"Seth, did I go dancing around the town again?"

"You don"t remember?"

"I remember up until the toast."

"President, after you got drunk and left Margaret-san"s mansion, you went through town casting Cleanup. And then … you also drunkenly threw up…"

"Aah, you don"t have to tell me any more. Anyway, I didn"t do anything that will become a crime, right?"

"You"re fine on that."

"My bad. Seems like you"ve been taking care of me."

I patted Seth on the shoulder and sat in the seat next to him.

"No, it"s fine. It was Margaret-san"s instructions."

Looks like I owe her again.

"I see. And so, I think I said it yesterday, but right now our company is out of funds. And so, let"s go get the requests from the Merchant"s Guild."

"About that, we already did that."

Velsa said as she drained her cup of her drink.

"As expected, our employees are excellent. Then let"s divide them up and a.s.sign duties. Um, how many were there again?"

"We"ve already done that, too. Here"s the ones for Naoki, who"s the only one who can use Cleanup."

So saying, Velsa handed me 18 request doc.u.ments.

"Huh? Aren"t I the only one with so many?"

It"s okay. If it"s Naoki, you can handle it. Take out all the poison rat dumplings and sticky boards you have for exterminating masmascarl."

Velsa said.

I took the poison rat dumplings and sticky board traps out of the item bag and lined them up on the table.

During that time, Merumo returned the tableware to the kitchen. I haven"t eaten yet, but I"m already not loading food on my plate; I"m hungover, so I have not appet.i.te.

"Hm~ there"s not enough with this, na."

Ayl said, crossing her arms.

True, we have 45 requests; I can make as many sticky board traps as needed as long as we have boards, but we don"t have enough poison rat dumplings.

I also ran out of the poison I got from Camilla.

"I wonder if pharmacists sell poison?"

"Floura"s pharmacies don"t have anything other than recovery medicine and antidotes. I went many times during the time when I was training the newbies, but there wasn"t any. And Elf"s Pharmacy isn"t here, so there"s probably no poison. Camilla is a superior pharmacist in Kubenia."

Ayl responded. I only know about the first town I lived in in this world.

"Then there really is no option but to make it, huh?"

Can I find the ingredients in the forest?

"What do we need? I might have it collected together. Ayl, bring that out."

Velsa pet.i.tioned Ayl. Ayl took a large-sized bag out of the item bag.

It seems that there are bottles inside the bag, and a clattering sounded.

"What is this?"

"Research materials. Vegetation I"ve gathered in the forest and the bodily fluids of monsters in the desert and the like. This is the nerve poison from the sandscorpion"s tail, this is a sleep-inducing mushroom, the mandrain plant, mushrooms with a gigantifying effect I picked from Marcus-san"s place, and even the bodily fluids of zombies I collected from the dragons" island."

Velsa began lining up bottles containing vegetation and liquids on the table.

"Ah! Come to think of it, didn"t we collect fluids from the yellowfrog on the dragons" island?"

I checked with Ayl.

"We did, we did! We collected it after defeating the dragon zombie."

Ayl said.

Fishing through the item bag, she took out a bottle with yellow fluid in it.

Yellowfrogs are monsters with a poison that causes instant death.

The table"s covered in poisons.

When I looked at the kitchen, the inn"s chef was looking over and gave a cough.

Apologizing with a, "Sorry," I cleared off the table and went around to the rear of the inn.

Spreading a cloth in front of the well, everyone wore masks and gloves, making poison rat dumplings.

The yellowfrog"s poison is powerful, so we diluted it a little with water.

We also tried using the sleep-inducing mushroom and the sandscorpion"s poison.

We"ve collected a lot of blood from monsters during dismantling, and I still have some stock of flour.

"Naoki, do we have recovery potions?"

Velsa asked.

"Aah, we do."

We should still have some stock of the ointment-type recovery potion.

"Taking the opportunity to sell it?"

"Yeah, everyone take some with you as well. I want both the liquid type and the ointment type."

"I see, then shall I make some more?"

We used quite a few of the liquid-type recovery potions in Gnomefield.

"Are all of the medicinal herbs used up?"

When I searched my own item bag,

"If normal medicinal herbs are fine, then we have quite a stock. I got them while training Seth and Merumo."

Ayl brought a large amount of medicinal herbs from the item bag.

The medicinal herbs have kept their freshly picked condition.

I"ll make recovery potions during the time the poison rat dumplings dried.

Throwing away the gloves full of poison, I wash off every drop of poison from my hands with soup and water and use Cleanup.

Preparing a new cloth, I lined the medicinal herbs up on that. Drawing the IH magic circle on the ground, I set a pot on it and make recovery potions one after another.

I"m not troubled for empty bottles, since I drank a lot of alcohol.

"You"res putting highly concentrated recovery potions in this kind of empty bottles again. Is that okay?"

I heard Merumo"s statement from somewhere.

"Isn"t it fine? There"s nothing in it, and I"ll use Cleanup to make them clean."

I responded.

"Oh yeah. Doing that is absurd, isn"t it?"

Velsa checked with Ayl.

"It"s the usual business so I"d forgotten, but I was also put off at the beginning, na."

While nodding, Ayl told the newbies, "I don"t know if it"s good or bad, but you"ll get used to it."

Finishing the recovery potions and poison rat dumplings, I quickly made sticky board traps, gave them to my coverall-wearing employees, and sent them out from the spot. Velsa didn"t forget to give us lunch money.

I also made my preparations, received a silver coin from Velsa, and set off.

The difference between me and my employees is whether or not we have a pump. Within is the dark green monster repellent. If you ask the governmental office they"ll probably lend out pumps and monster repellent, but traps and poison rat dumplings won"t hinder others" business.

Placing poison rat dumplings and sticky board traps in houses and stores and heading towards the next places one by one, I"ll retrieve the traps and corpses after leaving them for some time. It should be alright to retrieve the traps set in the morning in the afternoon. My obligations will be complete if I do a little cleaning up afterwards.

I"ll sell the recovery potions to customers for 1 gold coin.

""Ello. I"ve come from the Merchant"s Guild. It"s Komuro Company."

In a restaurant before lunch, a smooth-headed, scary-faced shopkeeper was sweeping the floor with a broom.

Looking at me, the shopkeeper gave me a look like, what is he talking about?

"Um, you requested an extermination company to exterminate masmascarl, right?"

I checked with him.

"Aah! That"s right. Welcome, welcome. I already thought you wouldn"t be coming."

The shopkeeper grinned.

"Sorry. I went all the way to HillLake for work. I"ve made you wait."

"HillLike, huh? That"s quite a faraway job. As expected of the Hero of the Desert."

Oh yeah, they were calling me the Hero of Desert weren"t they?

"Is it alright to begin working?"

"Aah, of course."

I placed poison rat dumplings and sticky board traps in the corners of the kitchen, in the eaves, and underneath the floor. If it was dirty, I used Cleanup first. It seems like underneath the floor was never cleaned so it was unbelievably filthy, but a single use of Cleanup made it sparkly clean.

"Is it done with this?"

"Yes, I"ll come around evening time to retrieve the masmascarl corpses and boards."

"Oh, I see. Do you want to eat lunch?"

"No, I"m a little hungover. I"ll take it later!"

When I said so while rubbing my stomach, the scary-faced shopkeeper laughed and plucked a leaf from the potted plant in the window and handed it to me.

"Here, chewing on this will make things a little easier."

When I tried chewing on the leaf, my nose cleared and I felt better.

"Thank you very much."

"Think nothing of it. Then, see you later."

"See you later."

The restaurants were all like this, and I dealt with scary-faced shopkeepers or beautiful poster girls.

Weapon stores and armor stores were mostly about cleaning, so I used Cleanup over and over, continuing to complete my jobs.

While cleaning the tool store, I sold recovery potions as well.

There"s also a pharmacy, but the goods a.s.sembled were poor and they didn"t buy any recovery potions. Looks like they"ll make recovery potions themselves. I tried showing it to them at least, and their eyes went wide and they went quiet.

Continuing on, it"s the governmental office. Previously, before the locusthopper extermination, I had come intending to clean and exterminate in order to show my abilities, but I had been caught by Riddle-san along the way.

I informed the reception desk that I came to clean and exterminate today as well and the employees began to panic and told me to go around the bas.e.m.e.nt. It seems like Riddle-san isn"t here today.

When I take a look with the Search Skill, there were masmascarl within the walls. I inserted the pump"s nozzle and sprayed. I put sticky board traps at the cracks where they came out, and it was a huge haul.

Returning to the first floor, while the employees have a break, I continued to clean. I tidied up love letters and poem anthologies and other such black histories of the employees, and cast Cleanup.

The office that was the Investigation Office had pictures of monsters and pictures of the lives of the townspeople and the like, as well as what looks like erotic pictures no matter how you look at it. It can"t be helped since the chief and the subordinates are all men, huh? Let"s not talk about how I asked the chief about his recommended brothels.

Next, the office called the Gardening Office has nothing but women. And there was food hidden all over the office. There were bags of cookies left with the bags of seeds, and for some reason meat on the bone had fallen behind the bookshelf, making you think the question, "Can you eat this!?" It was a hotbed of masmascarl and bugroaches, and telling them to stop immediately, I installed traps. When I left the room, the plump woman who is the manage looked like she was going to cry, and when I returned the meat on the bone, she cried, saying, "Thank you."

On the second floor, there was a commotion in each room. It"s a pain, so I stuffed bottles with smoke-type sleeping agents and tossed them in. I used boards as a cover for the stairway. Once it became calm, I took off the boards. Putting on a mask I clambered up and opened all the rooms" windows.

I carried the sleeping employees down to the first floor and went around to each room, casting Cleanup.

There were sleeping masmascarl, so I killed them with a knife and stuffed them in bags.

Bundling doc.u.ments and the like together, I pile them and leave them on top of desks. I left the doc.u.ment with statements of love on the very top so you could see it. I a.s.sume the employees will sort through them later.

With the work done for now, I went to the first floor, let the employees smell the revival potion, and woke them.

While listening to the agonized cries, I received the stamp of confirmation on the request doc.u.ments from the reception desk and headed for the next request.

Next is the Adventurer"s Guild.

There weren"t any adventurers who wanted to be entangled with me once they saw me in my coveralls. When an adventurer who totally looked like he"d just come from the countryside accosted me, he was stopped.

When I told the receptionist that I"d come from the Merchant"s Guild on a request to exterminate and clean, Guild Master Langley came out in a hurry.

"F,for now, come to the training grounds and stop her."

He said, and when I went to the training grounds, there were adventurers collapsed there.

In the dead center of the collapsed adventurers stood Ayl, holding a wooden sword.

"Oh, Naoki."

"Don"t give me ,"Oh"! Ayl, what about your jobs?"

"No, well, it"s already lunchtime, right?"

The sun is at its height in the sky.

Now that she"s mentioned it, the discomfort from the hangover has been completely cured and my stomach"s hungry.

"I see. Do you have any food on you?"

I asked.

"No, I don"t."

"Should we eat together in the Guild"s dining hall?"

"Sure."

Ayl returned her wooden sword to the barrel and came walking over.

"And so, what"s up with those adventurers?"

"They were all sorts of persistent in trying to find quarrels, so I defeated all of them."

"H~m. Ah, Langley-san. Is it okay if I clean after we eat?"

Langley nodded and looked at the collapsed adventurers.

"Ah, we have recovery potions, and they"re 1 gold coin each."

Telling that to Langley, I headed to the dining hall.

"If you were going to sell the recovery potions, then I should have broken more bones."

Ayl said while eating a hamburg steak in the dining hall.

"Any priests or other healers within the Guild should head immediately to the training grounds as quickly as they can!"

A Guild staff member yelled.

"Ayl, didn"t you go too far?"

When I asked,

"It"s fine. I didn"t do anything that would cause death."

She said.

After our meal, Langley came over.

"I won"t tell you to raise your rank anymore, so tell me if you get entangled with them, and the Adventurer"s Guild will deal with it."

He said.

Ayl and I responded with a nod and a, "Understood," and I returned to cleaning work, while Ayl headed to the next place.

I finished cleaning the training grounds, the dining hall, the main hall, and the reception desk and received the stamp on the request doc.u.ment. When I randomly looked at the request board, a large parchment with [All adventurers who accost the blue jumpsuit labourers of the "Hero of the Desert" will be withdrawn! Furthermore, the Adventurer"s Guild cannot guarantee your lives!] written on it was posted up.

"It"s been tough, hasn"t it?"

I said to the employee posting it.

"Haha…"

He gave a wry laugh.

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