How should I put it, isnât this another world? An adventurers guild in another world? A life-threatening job? Why are all of the requests so plain and boring? Isnât it a super stable and steady job? Where are all the dreams, and hopes, and money? Isnât this just a job search billboard? Ah, itâs the mortal enemy of NEETs!!
Construction work, I donât mind it, but the pay is low and itâs under the sun.
Transportation work, the same as above.
Escort mission, it takes many days and⊠Itâs cheap?
Extermination of harmful animals, gobs, wolves. Pay per head is low, so I guess itâs about numbers?
Wouldnât it normally be likeăEeeh?! There are dragons in this world!!ăor ăTHERE IS SUCH A MONSTER!ă, requests that can instantly make you rich. There is no romance to this. They even have working hours written. What is this, an office job?
ăHaruka-san, is there something you are looking for among requests?ă
Ah, itâs the most proper receptionist lady even among the other receptionist ladies. Not the one to get scolded, but the one to give scoldings. A president of receptionist ladies?
ăWell, I donât have money, so I thought Iâd quietly kill some monsters and sneakily get the reward for them through the girls? ă
Wha-what! This lady is also a flat gaze user! So she indeed was president of receptionist ladies!
The presidentâs scornful gaze in the morning.
And the receptionist ladyâs scornful gaze in the afternoon.
What about the night? Where should I head at night? Maybe some suspicious store that opens only after dark? Will I be able to find a wonderful flat gaze there that a high school boy will be able to appreciate? I really want to go.
ăPlease, donât just say that, and actually try to be stealthy about this. You are openly checking the billeting board without care for who might see you.ă
ăNo? I mean, no one is looking my way in this guild, so there is no chance that anyone would see me?ă
Yup, looking around, there is not a single person looking at me. No one met my gaze. The conclusion â there is no problem.
ăAnd, didnât you receive 8 million ere yesterdayâŠâŠ You donât have that?ă
ăAh, that? Well, after that the spear old man told me that he knew a good place, so I went with him and stayed at that suspicious store until late at night, and all 8 million disappeared? Kind of?ă
For some reason, the spear old man that had just entered the guild was apprehended by the receptionists and dragged to the second floor? Just what did he do? Such a troublesome old man.
To leave the town Iâd need identification papers, without them, Iâd have to pay an entry fee once again. But, since I couldnât become an adventurer, I donât have a guild card, and since Iâm not living here, I donât have a citizen card. Since Iâm not engaged in commerce, I obviously canât enter the merchants guild. And whatâs a NEET supposed to do?
Since I have no ID, I need money, but to go hunting to earn that money, I have to pay money, which I donât have, so I canât go out to hunt to earn the money which I have to pay to go to hunt. NEET spiral.
Since I canât leave the town, I canât hunt, and I donât have money, and the allowance is too small. What a bind, as I thought, the city life is tough.
Okay. Letâs sneak out and then sneak back in.
The town is surrounded by a 2 meters tall wall. I can easily get over it with Air Walk.
The problem is that I will be scolded if I get caught. First by the gatekeepers and then by the president. I donât have any dried fruits left.
The Cloak? that Iâm wearing at the moment has in ităInvisibility Cloak â Makes one harder to detectă, that I bought the other day. Or rather, they are already combined.
I donât quite get how this effect is supposed to work. Itâs not like it makes the user invisible, just harder to notice.
I wonât be seen if Iâm sneaky, I wonât be caught if Iâm tricky. Iâll just go out and get back immediately, itâs fine. 3 seconds rule, long version.
Activating Erase Presence and Stealth, putting on the hood and ăBlack Hat â Defense + 30, Erase Presence, Stealth Upă, and thenâŠâŠ
ăHakura-kun? Are you a suspicious person? Should we report you? Why are you sneaking out of town instead of sneaking in?ă
ăUwwa! Ah, itâs just Febreze Girl, mind not jumpscaring me like that?ă
I was wondering who it could be, but turns out itâs just the rhythmic gymnastics girl, and volleyball girl A and B. Eh? What about the Nudist Girl? Even though she is the part of the Big Four of muscle brains? Is it because she was the weakest? Did she get taken out in the early episodes? But I saw her last evening, asking for an additional serving?
ăForget about Febreze! And if you say a thing about light poles, I will turn you into cinders.ă
Volleyball Girl A and B are glaring at me super hard. Looks like they are disgruntled at being called Twin Light poles on TV.
Good grief, donât give weird nicknames to schoolgirls, they are at a sensitive age, what a pityâŠâŠ Eh? Iâm the one getting glared at?
ăWhere is Nudist Girl? Did she finally got arrested for indecent exposure?ă
ăNo, we are looking for her as well⊠And she wouldnât strip in the middle of the town, so I donât think she got caught?ă
Learning Detect Presence the girls became able to locate people to some extentâŠâŠ But as one would expect, they still canât tell who is who from the presence alone.
What do we have nearbyâŠâŠ Is that it?
ăNot yet nude, but there is someone very eager to strip.ă
Running around the clothes store with clothes in hands. A bargain? Outlet? So she has enough sense to not start changing clothes in front of the store? I wish she had the same amount of common sense around me.
ăNudist girl, arenât you going to strip anyway, why bother buying clothes? Even though you are a nudist?ă
ăStop saying such things! Iâm not a nudist! IâM WEARING CLOTHESâŠâŠ IâM WEARING THEM!ă
Aah, yeah, I recall her having some kind of a trauma over this? What was it? Getting caught with public indecency?
ăOh, these are cute clothes, they will surely suit you, I guess?ă
Her eyes looked dead, so I tried to change the topic. Well, for clothes of this world they are sure cute. She seems to be having a hard time choosing, having two outfits in her hands, but both of them look good.
ăRe-re-re-really? You think so? Theyâll look good on me?ă
I see, she found nice clothes and took a bit of detour, but was panicking since the dressing room was occupied. Thatâs a close one, we found her just in time. She probably was on the verge of stripping.
ăI think both suit you, you donât know which one to pick?ă
ăBuying both will be over my budget, but I canât pick one, and both are of just the right size, and I just donât know what to do anymore, so I thought Iâll try them on, but there is no open dressing room.ă
Not checking the size, but trying to find out which one will suit her better, as expected of a girl.
ăWhy donât you buy both of them? Iâll lend you money. But you will have to return them tenfold plus interest.ă
ăIsnât this worse than illegal? The type of loan you absolutely shouldnât take? N-no way? In case I wonât be able to pay, are you to tell me to pay with my body?! So that is your goal!!ă
ăNevermind, forget it.ă
ăThatâs trueâŠâŠThatâs to be expectedâŠâŠI not worth enough even to coverâŠâŠinterestâŠâŠă
For some reason, she looks like she is about to die. For now, I give her one silver coin, making her buy the clothes. The other three also charged into the bargain sale, so I lent them money as well.
ăThen, letâs put you to work to pay off the debt.ă
ăăăăWe knew it! You were after our bodies! Are you going to sell us to some suspicious shop?ăăăă
ăItâs going to be okay. And Nudist Girl is suspicious enough even without being sold to suspicious shops.ă
ăIâve been thinking for a while, but your ăOkayăusually isnât okay at all. And Iâm not a nudist, I bought clothes.ă
She makes it sound like she was buying clothes naked. She is really going to get arrested one of those days.
After that, I make the four of them leave the town. Of course, since they have guild cards, there is no problem with that. I sneak out behind their backs. Since Iâm sneaking, there is also no problem.
ăăăăWhy didnât they notice you?ăăăă
ăWell, thatâs because I snuck out so they wouldnât notice me?ă
ăăăăYou just openly walked out? Absolutely casually?! ăăăă
And after going some distance from the town we look for pocket money. If possible Iâd like a pack of pocket money. A big one. Pocket money massacre.
Found them. ăGoblin Lv 2ătch.
No good. This one is 500 ere at best. And itâs alone on top of that. *Whack!*
More valuable pocket money. It has to be a large group of them. *Whack! Thud!*
I also wanted to test the new weapon, but I have no target for that. *Bam! Thud! Crack!*
The Big Four of muscle brains must be troubled as well since they wonât be able to pay back their debts at this rate. ă*Thudadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada!*
Along the road, there are levels 1 to 3? Nothing but goblins and green wolves. *Thud! Guh! Gigya! Gaah!*
If we split this among the five of us it wonât amount even to pocket change. *GYA! GUGI! GI! GYA! GIi! GUUh!*
Last night, *GYA! GUGI! GI! GYA! GIi! GUUh!*
I tried to combine the new staff with the Staff?, *GUba! GIi! Guuh! GYA! GIi! Guuuguguu!*
And as I pulled things out the Item Bag, *Begya! Gii! Uuuuh! Guue!! Gouah! Gii! Gigya!*
I accidentally combined ăMagic Katanaă, which I bought because it looks cool, despite being unable to use, withă*GYA! GUGI! GI! GYA! GIi! GUUh!*
ăStaff?ăthat I had in my hand. Even though itâs a katana? *GYA! GUGI! GI! GYA! Guuuguguu!*
It requires level 30, will I be able to use it? *Begya! Gii! Uuuuh! GI! GYA! GIi! GUUh!*
Hm, looks like I can. The more mana I pour in the better it cuts. ă*Begya! Gii! Uuuuh! Guue!! Gouah! Gii! Gigya!*
Even though itâs a wooden staff? It cuts nicely. *GYA! GUGI! GI! GYA! GIi! GUUh!*
Did the required level from katana disappear because the staff has no level requirements? ă*GYARAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH*
Aaah, how noisy, people are trying to think here, canât you be massacred more quietly?
ăHmm, Iâd like to give it a proper testâŠâŠ But a targetâŠâŠ If there was something more likeâŠâŠâŠ Tougher? More likeâŠâŠă
ăăăăStop annihilating monsters on your own while mumbling under your breath! We canât keep up with the collection of magic stones!!ăăăă
They got mad. Is it because I lack affection points with the opposite sex? Looks like I have to purchase it⊠ăPheromone Ringă, but itâs 2,600,000 ereâŠâŠ Well, time to haggle then?!
In the end, we didnât earn even 20,000 per personâŠâŠ Will I be able to haggle it down enough?
And since itâs nothing but small fries, the level doesnât go up as well.
Well, the girls repaid their debts on day one, so they were able to avoid going to a suspicious store, no, not like I had any intentions to sell them to begin with. But one of them is going to strip even without being sold offâŠâŠ How suspicious.