New mber
“Thanks! Heey, is Nii-san going shopping? Ah, it’s Goshujin-sama from now on, right!”
The slave dealer was like that as well, now with his problem child gone, he just looked like it couldn’t be helped even if he barely profited at all.
I’m happy that negotiations finished quickly.
After paying the fifty silver, as well as after the contract magic was completed, I took the chance to buy her clothes while I was at it.
A dress and underwear for a silver coin.
“Co to think of it, I haven’t asked your na huh. What is it?”
“Huh? What’re you sayin’, slaves get their nas from Goshujin-sama y’know? Yah, at-senpai ?”
“Really?”
“Eh? You didn’ know? It’s always like that. Since a night attendant could have the sa one as their mom by chance, it gets thrown away no matter how beautiful it is when becomin’ one.”
Ah, I get it.
“… Well, you don’ really go and forget your real one, you want to answer with the na I had before becomin’ a slave? … Aah, but I wanna new na after gettin’ bought. Can’t I?”
“Hmm. What was your na before you were bought?”
“Hmm? Weeell, I was also called [at] yah?”
She licked her fingers, as though she recalled the taste of sothing.
… I wonder if it’s the ‘thing’ she bit off? The second I realized that, I took a sharp breath.
Hmm. So at is a popular slave na then huh? Like a dog being Pochi and a cat being Tama.
“Using that na would be confusing huh. Right then… what’s your favorite thing to eat? Then your na will be taken from foods… like Apple or at Skewer?”
“Setting aside Apple I’d like to refrain from at Skewer… how ’bout lon? Aaah, won’t you buy so lons? I wanna eat ’em.”
“I’ll get you so to eat later if you still want to.”
“Really!? Wooow I’ll do my best~”
She laughed like she wasn’t a slave… umm, miss naless.
“Ah, right. Then how ’bout [Ichika]?”
“Un? What’s its aning?”
“It’s a na related to the god of food. The god called Ishidaka is the goddess of the sea, though I don’t see one around here. Well, mixing in salt, seasoning from the sea, you get Ichika. That work?”
As for why it turns into Ichika when you mix it with salt(shio), well, that’s probably a bug with the translation function. Am I getting used to it?
“Well, Ichika is good. I’ll be relying on you from now on.”
“Hehehe, take care of ?”
Ichika, forrly known as miss naless. We shook hands again.
However, I saw Ichika looking sowhere when we were shaking hands.
… When I followed her line of sight, it was the grilled at skewers stall.
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With each of us eating the at skewers held in our hands, we went to the adventurer guild.
“Hmm? I thought this way lead to the adventurer guild?”
“Yeah, I need to report about commission we finished earlier today.”
“So Goshujin-sama is an adventurer? What rank? D? C? Or maybe B?”
“F-rank. I just beca one the other day.”
“Haah, F-rank? Yet you bought with that much money… are you a Noble-sama or rchant or sothing?”
“Well, it’s a long story.”
She didn’t deny with sothing like ‘No way!’. I already understood she was a flexible person, but Ichika really was a bargain.
“Ah, does Ichika also want to register as an adventurer? Having ID would be convenient.”
“Ehh? Ah, I wonder… starting over from G… well it’s okay. Then will you lend five silver for the registration fee? I’ll pay it back with my body.”
“It’s repaynt. Ichika’s price was originally sixty, but it went down thanks to you… half the difference is reasonable compensation.”
“Pu–, ahaha! Reasonable compensation he says! It’s common sense that slaves don’ get compensated y’know? Well, it’s okay. I’ll take it out of principle, thanks.”
Ichika’s laugh showed her teeth. It was a pretty good smile, she’ll probably be popular as the inn’s receptionist like that.
So then, we arrived back at the adventurer guild.
The usual Receptionist-san was at the counter when we went there.
“… Oh, you sure didn’t take your ti buying one. Moreover, a human, and big…”
Receptionist-san spoke as she looked at a certain area. Though so people felt the bigger the better, I think anything is fine. Legs are more essential.
“Along with reporting that we completed the commission, this one… Ichika, please register her to the guild.”
“Yes, here are your twenty copper coins for the two commissions… another na with no sense to it. Well then, I’ll interview her for now… co this way.”
I also went with Ichika as her owner.
… Ichika huh, so that was a na with no sense to it either…? Maybe I should get soone else to do the naming?
Entering the area that at and I had also been interviewed in before, she asked similar questions.
I understood her personal history as follows.
Birthplace: Pavuera (This seems to be a port city on the other side of Tsuia Mountain)
Strong Points: Tasting, poison tasting, eating. Also scouting on occasion. [1]
Motives: Eating delicious food
Notes: Forr C-rank adventurer
“Eh, you’re a forr adventurer? Moreover, C-rank?”
“Yah. I don’t have any skills though. Skill scrolls are expensive yah? I’d rather buy stuff to eat than stuff like that y’know?”
“If that’s how it is, can’t be helped.”
It was an easy reason to understand. At least, for soone like who similarly aid to bury myself in sleep.
… Eh? Why not cut into food expenses to buy a better scroll you’ve set your sights on you ask?
That’s the reasoning of soone who wants to increase their rank. We have nothing to do with that.
Her general questioning finished, Receptionist-san wrote sothing down and spoke.
“I understand, I’ll issue you a guild card. However, since you have given up your previous na, you cannot be C-rank. Well, we’ll exempt you from G-rank and make you F-rank.”
“It’ll be easier if it’s that rank, thank you very much.”
“… By the way, how much was she?”
“I drove the price down nicely. Fifty silver coins.”
“That’s… quite the bargain, without a doubt.”
Receptionist-san sent a dubious look. I-I didn’t do anything shady alright? Really, really.
I did get the silver coins from DP though… It seems that money issued from DP is taken as regular currency in the Imperial Capital, so there’s no problem… i-it’s not forgery so it should be okay…!
At any rate, I paid the five silver coin registry fee and received Ichika’s guild card.
I added Ichika to the party by her suggestion, so we headed for a place to rest with our new mber.
As for today’s inn, it’s the one we stayed in before. The [Sleeping Songbird Pavilion]. To save money, we just got a single room. Ichika said she would prefer another al than to rent a shed, so since she didn’t particularly have any problems with a single room, it was decided that we would sleep together in the sa room.
Ah, the three als were naturally three normal ones, not the slave als. Eating that slave al the other day was enough.
“Un, gettin’ a real al to eat~. Happiness~.”
“So food’s that important to Ichika? I also get how you feel. I wanted an employee that feels good about their job after all.”
“Hooh, feels good? at-senpai’s complexion is nice too, when I look at her I just wanna pick her up, yah. There’s no complaints from so long as you give food.”
Sohow or another it seems that I also struck a bargain in that she’s also easy to handle.
Ichika was drinking up her vegetable soup, wiping the little bit of liquid left over in the dish with bread, eating everything.
Nothing left to waste. When she said, ‘Let eat first, might be poisoned’, what she ant was that she would start even before , her owner.
“Thanks for the food~, well, what now? Sleep?”
“Yeah. Ichika. You’ll have the bed.”
“Eh?”
Probably due to not being able to comprehend what I said, Ichika tilted her head to the side. Right, Ichika probably thought she’d be conceding the bed to since there was only one in the room.
I took out my [Futon] from [Storage] and laid it onto the floor.
“at and I will sleep here.”
“Wai—! The heck! You’re usin’ a substitute in such a high class inn. Wooow, so this is the difference between senpai and … wait, you used [Storage], isn’t that an expensive scroll?”
“… Just like Ichika won’t yield when it cos to food, I also won’t yield when it cos to this. Rember, never obstruct my sleep alright?”
“I definitely got it. I absolutely won’ disturb you other than really bad situations… I pledge it on breakfast.”
She pledged it on sothing really reliable huh. I nodded in satisfaction.
Footnotes:
The sa kanji used for ‘Poison Tasting’ also effectively ans ‘Eating Before’. Return
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