TL Note: A slight reminder for those who’ve forgotten.
Wereanna – Dog Tribe
Miya – Cat Tribe
Syria – Rabbit Tribe
Mizelia – Tiger Tribe
Asagi – Dragon Newt
Jija = Ginger (in their world)
Also na change. Sorry about this, but when I looked at it again, I realized just how horrible it looked like in English.
Aro-ne to Araune. (For those wondering a long dash in between words in Japanese, ans a longer sound.)
Volu 2 Chapter 11
Ryouma brought everyone deep into the store.
“This area is specifically for employee use and custors are prohibited from entering. You can find the reception office, the office, the locker room, the employee lounge, and the toilet, here. There’s also the office kitchenette which will allow the workers to be able to prepare things like tea.” [Ryouma]
“Mind if we take a look?” [Wereanna]
“Please go ahead.” [Ryouma]
When Ryouma saw everyone looking around, he was reminded of the tourist bus tours in his previous life.
After a while, Ryouma brought everyone to the employee lounge. Then he went off to the kitchen to prepare the food while everyone else waited in the employee lounge.
Having been made to wait by Ryouma. The people chatted idly to pass ti while feeling a little nervous. However, after around 10 minutes had passed, all of the sudden Wereanna beca fidgety.
“Hey, Wereanna. What’s the matter?” [Jeff]
“Sorry, I’m just a bit bothered by sothing. Sothing from sowhere... slls really delicious. I think it’s probably Ryouma’s cooking.” [Wereanna]
When the people in the room heard that, they all tried to sll it. But the only ones who were able to sll it aside from Wereanna, were the 3 other beastn and the dragon newt, Asagi.
“Nya!? Now that you ntion it, it really does sll delicious, nya!” [Miya]
“It’s true...” [Syria]
“Really? I can’t tell though.” [Pioro]
“It’s probably too thin for human noses to sll. So unless you’re of a beastn tribe, you probably won’t be able to sll it.” [Mizelia]
“No, I can also sll it, de gozaru. Is this at? Or perhaps a fragrant bread? Well, whatever it is, it certainly slls delicious, de gozaru.” [Asagi]
“Speaking of which, Ryouma-kun’s cooking was really delicious.” [Rheinhart]
“Is that true, Rheinhart-sama?” [Serge]
“Yes, even though he only used a few ingredients, it was sothing to be rembered. That rabbit at sauté with the root of jija was so delicious.” [Rheinhart]
“Despite being at that age, Ryouma-sama is already in possession of level 10 dostic chores. Thanks to that, I believe we can expect sothing good.” [Sebasu]
“By that age, you an 10 years old, right? He’s really sothing. Regardless of how easy it is to level up that skill, there really aren’t many who can before the age of 40.” [Wereanna]
After that, five more minutes passed, then Ryouma ca back.
“Sorry for waiting. The al has been prepared.” [Ryouma]
“I’ve been waiting for this, nya!” [Miya]
“You’re slow! You made it sll good and then even made us wait, don’t you know how hard that is for us?” [Wereanna]
“Eh, you slled it? But I put up an anti-odor barrier... did it get cancelled half way through?” [Ryouma]
“Who cares about that stuff? Hurry, give us so food.” [Wereanna]
“Understood.” [Ryouma]
“We’ll help out.” [Sebasu, Lilian, Araune]
Ryouma gave his thanks, and then took Sebasu, Lilian, and Araune to the kitchenette to carry the als. As for the drinks, Ryouma ordered the slis to carry them.
Seeing the slis act like this, the five mbers of the rchant guild who didn’t know about Ryouma’s peculiar slis were shocked. The others, then explained to them to calm them down.
All the while, the food and the drinks were brought in one after another. And when the food had finally been distributed to everyone, Ryouma lead everyone to make a toast.
“Today I’ve called everyone here to celebrate the store’s completion. Thank you for being with here today. It’s nothing special, but I’ve prepared for you all a hearty al. Please, enjoy it to your heart’s content. Cheers!” [Ryouma]
“Cheers!” [Everyone]
As everyone said ‘cheers’ out loud, they drank the wine inside their respective glasses. When they did so, Gordon suddenly cheered out loud.
“This wine... isn’t this so high class stuff!?” [Gordon]
“It’s for a celebration after all, so I decided to splurge a bit.” [Ryouma]
“What kind of wine is this?” [Gordon]
“According to the shopkeeper of the wine store, it’s called the Spring of Jamis.” [Ryouma]
When Gordon heard that, he laughed as he looked at the glass in his hands.
“The Spring of Jamis!? I heard it was good, but I’ve never had the opportunity to drink it!” [Gordon]
“Really?” [Ryouma]
“You bought it without knowing? The spring of Jamis is well known amongst wine lovers.” [Gordon]
“Oh, I didn’t know that at all. I just bought it because the shopkeeper recomnded it.” [Ryouma]
“You’re luck’s really good. The Spring of Jamis may be cheap price-wise, but because a lot of aficionados want to get their hands on it, it gets sold out pretty quickly, making it hard to get one.” [Gordon]
“I see, my luck, huh? ...Ah!” [Ryouma]
“What’s the matter?” [Gordon]
“No, I just realized the reason why I was able to get that wine.” [Ryouma]
“The reason?” [Gordon]
“Yes. Most likely it’s because I have the divine protection of the God of Wine, Tekun, that I was able to buy this wine.” [Ryouma]
“What did you say!? Is that true!?” [Gordon]
“Boy, is that true!?” [Pioro]
When the people there heard that, Pioro and Gordon responded quite strongly.
“Y-yeah. It’s true, is there sothing...?” [Ryouma]
“I’m envious...” [Gordon]
“I’m envious~, I’m so, so, sooooo envious~” [Pioro]
“Tekun-sama’s divine protection is an enviable thing amongst dwarves. Especially the God of Wine’s protection.” [Gordon]
“Is it better to receive the God of Wine’s divine protection, rather than the God of Craft’s?” [Ryouma]
“Well that’s because I’m an adventurer. Being an adventurer it’s only natural for one’s smithing to improve. Moreover, a guy who relies on a divine protection to make things is a failure as a blacksmith. One should train their own abilities with their own strength.
But contrary to that, any dwarf would want to drink delicious wine. That’s why every dwarf wants Tekun-sama’s God of Wine protection. Having the opportunity to drink delicious wine isn’t sothing you can help with your own efforts, but Tekun-sama’s God of Wine divine protection can.” [Gordon]
Hearing that, Ryouma understood. Afterwards, he asked Pioro.
“Alright, I think I can understand Gordon-san, but Pioro-san? Do you also like wine?” [Ryouma]
“While I don’t hate wine, I’m more jealous as a rchant. I wasn’t able to tell this to you before, but as a rchant I deal mostly with food commodities. Because of that, I’m envious that you can get good wine easily.” [Pioro]
“So that’s how it is.” [Ryouma]
While we talked like that, Wereanna called out to .
“Ryouma.” [Wereanna]
“What is it?” [Ryouma]
“Seconds.” [Wereanna]
“That’s fast! You ate it all, already!?” [Ryouma]
“Ryouma, too.” [Jeff]
“ too.” [Hyuzu]
“ too.” [Wogan]
“Even Jeff-san, Hyuzu-san, and guild mas... Wogan-san? You all eat fast, huh?” [Ryouma]
“It’s because Ryouma’s cooking is so delicious. It’s my first ti eating sothing like this.” [Wereanna]
“Really? Being told that make sowhat happy for making it, but...” [Ryouma]
“I’m also of the sa opinion as that child’s. Ryouma, what do you call this pasta?” [Grisela]
“It’s called at Sauce Spaghetti.” [Ryouma]
“at Sauce Spaghetti, huh? It’s delicious. Because of my age, my jaws have gotten weaker and I’m no longer able to bite at well. So I’ve ended up unable to eat delicious food. But this spaghetti’s at is easy to eat as the at of this steak is so soft. To be able to eat at in a long while again, I’m really happy to have co here.” [Grisela]
“I’m happy that you like it. Please eat as much as you want.” [Ryouma]
As Ryouma said that, he prepared the second helping for three people. But just as he had co back with the three’s second helping, Mizelia, Miya, Rheinhart, and Asagi all finished up theirs and asked for seconds.
“I’ve also prepared so desert, so please do leave so room for that.” [Ryouma]
But even after saying that, they didn’t stop at all and everyone asked for more than one refill. Wereanna and Jeff has even asked for seconds 4 tis, causing Ryouma to tilt his head as he wondered where they put all that.
After the main al, Ryouma brought out sliced apple pie, with so black tea to complent it. When they saw that, the people were speechless.
It’s because this was sothing delicious made with the luxurious honey. This fact shocked everyone. And when they ate it, they were touched. Especially the won, who found themselves on cloud nine.
When the al ended, Ryouma brought out another serving of black tea. As they all took a short rest from the splendorous al they’d just eaten, Miya said this.
“Fuha... I ate to my fill, nya. I’m so happy I ca, nya.” [Miya]
“I’m happy to see that you’ve enjoyed yourselves. Still you all ate quite a lot, huh? Especially, Jeff-san. Exactly where do you put all that?” [Ryouma]
“Huh? As long as I want to eat, I can eat. Because I have the ‘Eat All You Can’ skill.” [Jeff]
“‘Eat All You Can’?” [Ryouma]
“You don’t know about it? Well it is an unusual skill. With the ‘Eat All You Can’ skill, the amount you can eat will increase greatly once. Because of that you’ll be fine even if you don’t eat anything for a few days after that. I have it because I used to be from the slums and when I beca an adventurer and began to make so money, I mostly spent my money on food. Because of that I ended up acquiring the skill.” [Jeff]
“Jeff used that ability along with the resistance skills he got from living in the slums, to take requests that would have been harsh to a normal adventurer, one after another. Because of that he ended famous, nya.” [Miya]
“Jeff-san, you’re amazing.” [Ryouma]
“I just chose a bunch of profitable jobs. There’s nothing amazing in particular about it. Besides, if you try, you can also do the things that I do, right? After all, you even have resistance skills that I don’t have. If you want we can try taking on a request together. Although it’s not really possible unless you raise your rank a little bit first.” [Jeff]
“Then when that ti cos, please take care of .” [Ryouma]
“I’d be grateful too, on behalf of the guild, if you were to take a job with Jeff. Jeff has resist skills, so while that’s a good thing, it also ans that he works at a different pace compared to others.
Which is why he always works solo. But amongst the requests, there are also requests that you can’t take alone. He hasn’t been able to take those requests at all.” [Wogan]
“Like what kind of request?” [Ryouma]
“For example, this may be a rank C mission, but in this request you have to dig out so fla crystals from a volcano. Unless you have the foul odor resistance skill, this mission is quite tough. You have to endure the long ti it takes to go to and fro the mine, and the long hours of work. And then on top of all that, you still have to be exposed to the rotting egg like sll of the volcano. Moreover, there’s also the light poison that’s present in the entire volcano. Depending on the place, there are people who have died.” [Wogan]
“By light poison... do you an the kind which causes your eyes to swell and tear up, while in places where the exposure is strong, it causes one to have a harder ti breathing?” [Ryouma]
“Yes, that, that. Seriously, you’re really well inford, huh?” [Wogan]
“I’ve heard a little about it.” [Ryouma]
“Well there’s no harm in knowing, in fact, having that knowledge is quite advantageous to an adventurer. Do you know of a way to cope with it? Like an antidote for it or sothing?” [Wogan]
Even if he tells Ryouma that, because this world doesn’t have any knowledge of such a dicine, and because it’s not possible to create the dicine from Earth here, Ryouma wasn’t able to give him anything.
“Unfortunately, I don’t know of any dicine to deal with the poison in the volcano. What I do know is that the poison is from the volcano’s smoke and from the air jetted out from underground. It may be possible to defend oneself from the poison as long as one covers his surrounding with wind magic.” [Ryouma]
“Just knowing that is more than enough. Still, your grandma who taught you dicine and poison must have been an expert, huh? Even though I’ve been a guild master for a long ti, you’ve been surprising one after another when it cos to poison and diseases.” [Wogan]
When Wogan said that, Ryouma was a little surprised. But he just laughed and agreed, as he let it pass.
After that, Ryouma rembered sothing and went to talk to Karma and Karla.
“Right, Karma-san, Karla-san.” [Ryouma]
“What is it?” [Karma & Karla]
“I’m grateful that you’ve worked for so much, but is it really ok? I’ve ntioned it before, but you won’t be able to show your abilities in a work place like this.” [Ryouma]
“Please allow us to work for you.” [Karma]
“It’s true that we won’t be able to put to use our haggling skills, and the accounting is also taken care of easily by the tool Ryouma-sama made. But even then we would still like to work here and learn from Ryouma-sama’s innovative business practices.” [Karla]
When they said that, Ryouma thought that they were really similar to Serge-san.
“I understand. It’s reassuring to have soone with plenty of experience work for , so I have no problems with it. It’ll be a pleasure to work with you from now on.” [Ryouma]
“Please take care of us!” [Karla & Karma]
Replied the two with a smile that covered their entire face. And paying attention to that, was Serge who seed to be fully satisfied. While all that was taking place though, Wogan secretly asked Grisela sothing.
“Hey, shitty old hag.” [Wogan]
“What? Scatterbrain.” [Grisela]
“Is Ryouma’s store that profitable? I know it’s a strange store, but...” [Wogan]
“It is. Only, I don’t know to what extent.” [Grisela]
When Wogan heard that, he knit his eyebrows.
“Did the shitty old hag, give him advice?” [Wogan]
“I didn’t give him anything. That kid thought it all up by himself. Besides it’s not sothing a normal rchant could co up with, and it’s also not sothing realistic.
That kid is smart, but he doesn’t have that certain inclination to money that every rchant should have. It’s probably because he’s a kid like that, that he was able to think this up. There’s no way a normal rchant would think up a thod where he’d give a discount every day and go through all the trouble to reduce his own inco himself.
But even if soone were to think of it. Because of the expenses in hiring employees and the results required of a shop like that, it wouldn’t go well. But that kid has those cleaner slis of his. With that, there’s no reason for his store not to flourish. Really, that kid is quite sothing.
But that aside, you too need to be careful. While I can provide protection for that kid as a rchant, I can’t protect him from greedy rchants who are indiscriminate in their ways and choose to use violence.” [Grisela]
“I know. Though I do think that if it’s him, it won’t be needed.” [Wogan]
“What?” [Grisela]
“That guy, just a while ago, had a dispute with the mbers of the Fang of Orbtem.” [Wogan]
“If I’m not mistaken, that’s the adventurer group with 40 hoodlums.” [Grisela]
“Yeah, and during a request, they had a little dispute. What do you think happened?” [Wogan]
“It would have been great if he was able to beat them, but his opponents weren’t limited to just 2 or 3 people, you know? You wouldn’t actually say he beat up all 40 of them, would you?” [Grisela]
“Bingo.” [Wogan]
“... Are you serious?” [Grisela]
“Yeah, Ryouma took on 6 mbers plus the head, Sacchi, all by himself. While his slis took on 34 of the mbers. It was completely one sided. There’s no problem with Ryouma’s abilities. But on top of that, his slis are nurous. And speaking of which, that guy’s slis are quite dangerous, you know?” [Wogan]
“... But even then, be careful.” [Grisela]
“... I know that.” [Wogan]
Those two talked like that in a corner of the room without Ryouma noticing. During that ti Ryouma fully enjoyed himself with the friends he didn’t have in his previous life.
When everyone was about to leave as the celebration ca to a close, Ryouma was told not to push himself too hard.
After that, Ryouma cleaned up after the banquet, left the store, and then took one good look at the store he had just made. Then as he tasted an unspeakable sense of fulfillnt that he didn’t have in his previous life, he went back to his lodging.
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