Chapter 185: After Story III – Grown a Little? (2/2)
“Well, that’s true. Fortunately, laundry work is in season, so there’s more custors. The deodorizing liquid are also selling a lot better than expected.” [Ryouma]
“Oh, that stuff. Well, even the duke’s family is using it, so I guess it’s only natural that it would start gaining popularity even in other cities.” [Pioro]
And yet despite that I still haven’t heard of cheaper variants circulating the market.
Looks like the mysterious defect of the deodorizing liquid that makes it impossible for humans to dilute ended up as a boon to our store.
“To be honest, we make more nowadays from selling deodorizing liquid than we do from washing laundry.” [Ryouma]
“Oh, really?” [Pioro]
“With just our laundry service, the most we can make a day is a few small gold coins at most, but the deodorizing liquid easily makes twice that up to a two-digit figure. This trend is especially clearer for the second branch store.” [Ryouma]
“If that’s the case, then there’s no reason at all to rush securing the startup funds of your next store. Besides, just dipping your hand in a new field should be a big enough job by itself. That’s probably what that Carm kid was so concerned about. It’s no wonder that he’s not very receptive to your new ideas when you told him about them right after he told you that you were doing a good job.” [Pioro]
“I know the timing wasn’t the best, but ever since opening the store, I’ve been gradually getting a better understanding of how I should work. For example, just a few days ago, I spoke to the duke’s family about the various uses of the slis, as well as various other stuff.” [Ryouma]
“Right. You did talk about that.” [Pioro]
Just like the knowledge and uses of slis I shared then, I think one way for to work, is to think up new businesses and propose them.
It wouldn’t be much different from my laundromat now. I would be essentially relying on the slis to perform in various fields.
I think that this might be the best way for to work.
Before starting my laundromat, there were three things that concerned :
Free ti for my adventurer work.
The experience of the manager.
The ability to communicate with the custors and my subordinates.
The first of the three ntioned above is more of a desire thing, while for the second one, well, I had no experience whatsoever in being the manager of a laundromat. As for the third one, I did have experience communicating with custors and subordinates, but I was bad at it, and I still am.
…Fortunately, Carm-san is here to take care of the first store, while Carla-san is able to take care of the second store. Thanks to Serge-san introducing these two brilliant people to , the three problems ntioned earlier have all been dealt with.
This is proof that as long as I have a skilled manager, I can leave most of the work to them.
Even without around, the laundromat will operate just fine, and there won’t be any problems with the relationship between the employees either.
Serge-san did advise regarding this point, but experiencing it for myself allows a much deeper understanding.
But if that’s the case, then what’s left for to do?
It’s no waste of effort to try and do what Carm-san and the others are doing, but if it’s just doing the sa thing, then it would be much faster for to just look for another person who could do the sa jobs as efficiently as Carm-san and Carla-san instead of training myself.
Hence, the question remains.
As I thought about it to myself for awhile, eventually, the answer beca clear. ‘I’m going to propose new businesses’.
In the first place, my original job was that of a system engineer. In other words, I used to ‘design’ systems.
I could use my experience as a system engineer to propose work and improvents that incorporate slis.
Moreover, I could use my lack of this world’s common sense to my advantage, and provide an alternative point of view to the people of this world.
I could get everyone to help understand this world’s culture and customs, as well as the feelings of the people here, and then I can use their input to help design a more effect solution to any problem that needs solving. So to speak, I could propose a smoothly operating ‘sli workflow’.
Yeah, I think this might just be the best way for to make myself useful.
…When I told Pioro-san that – of course, without the system engineer part – he was able to understand.
“You have your own way of thinking, so I’ll support you. Just make sure not to push yourself.” [Pioro]
“Thank you very much. But everyone has already told that, so I think I’ll be fine. And besides, I will first be focusing on increasing my laundromat’s branch stores. I won’t rush securing the capital anymore, but depending on how things go, I might ‘ask for a loan’.” [Ryouma]
“Oh? You were strongly against it before. Did you change your mind?” [Pioro]
“A little.” [Ryouma]
I didn’t have any dealings with loans previously. And I also wasn’t sure if the laundromat would succeed or not, but looking back at it now, I think I might have been excessively averse to it due to fears of it becoming an ‘unpayable loan’.
But when I calmly think about it now, I think I can afford it. I’ll be in debt for awhile, but there will also be an increase inco from the new store. If I can comfortably pay the debt on ti, then expanding the store sooner will net the most profits.
“I know I’m being rather selfish given how I was the one who refused the offer previously…” [Ryouma]
“It’s fine. We just t back then. And I also think borrowing money from soone you just t is careless.
That aside, seeing how you now understand that defending all the ti isn’t always the best course of action, and that you sotis have to take a risk to net the most profit shows that you’ve grown as a rchant.” [Pioro]
“If you put it that way, I guess that ans I’ve grown a little. That puts a smile on my face.” [Ryouma]
While I was saying that, it suddenly occurred to .
“It’s a bit late to be realizing this, but it just occurred to that you ntioned sothing earlier about coming at a good ti? Did sothing happen?” [Ryouma]
“Oh! I forgot. You know ‘that’ thing I talked about before? I just managed to get so. And by ‘that’, I an that thing that’s normally used as food but can also be useful when you go to the Great Shurus Forest.” [Pioro]
“!! Could you be talking about ‘that’? Wasn’t it going to take so ti?” [Ryouma]
“That’s what I thought, but I don’t know if you can call this lucky or unlucky, but due to so circumstances, well… I think it would be faster if I just showed you.” [Pioro]
I was really excited by ‘that’, but before going to other matters, we decided to first conclude the reason I ca here, which was the contract of the slis.
Entrusting the three slis to the staff here is a priority.
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