chapter 34

Of course, there were definitely students on 1F .

The south building 1F had the staff room and the principal’s office and so on, so there weren’t many students, but the red cross club should have been having activities at the infirmary and the broadcast club should have been in the broadcast room .

The home economics room and art room were in the north building, so the home economics club, art club and also the photography club should be there .

Furthermore furthermore, since 1F is the ground floor, the gym and club room building would also be on 1F .

Furthermore furthermore furthermore, if the ground floor was also considered 1F then the number of students is impossible to estimate .

……so, among them, how many maids are there?

For now, I have not seen a maid other than me .

Neither have I heard of one .

I won’t even be surprised anymore if everyone else is a combat profession .

And if there were maids, it wold be nice if that made the hierarchy clear, but if not, if all the students are treated equally .

……there is the concern that they, have been forced into slavery . Particularly the girls .

And as for whether we can save the countless number of students forced into slavery one by one……thinking realistically, that would be extre—mely tough .

We don’t have a game-breaking amount of money . We don’t have contacts, connections nor authority .

There is no way we can start a motion to free slaves like this .

At worst, we will also reach the slave ending . It does feel like we might be able to overthrow them with skills, but even that can’t be counted on if we are outnumbered .

self first

And so, with that in mind, we need to think of what we should do when we find them, classmates or juniors or seniors that have been forced into slavery .

Winging it is too dangerous .

“Personally, I want to save as many as possible . But, not if that puts us in danger . So, while avoiding getting involved with authority or interests, I don’t think there’s much we can do . ”

“Yeah, I think it’s better for us to go with saving those within our reach if we can . ”

How far is within our reach……well, it’s that, it depends on how things turn out……how much money we can get, what kind of status we can gain, those kind of things?

“And so we need money…… It’s not confirmed that there are students who have become slaves, but there’s no harm in preparing it . Right now the thing that is probably worth most is

“Me?”

……eh, why is everyone making faces like ( ﾟдﾟ )?

No, it’s me right? No matter how you think about it . I don’t think slaves are that cheap .

“Hey! We all! Went through some strange high to make a collar so you don’t become a slave! Don’t you get that!?”

And not only did he make a funny face, Hagasaki-kun was extremely mad . Incomprehensible .

“No, come on . If you sell me, then I escape with [Teleport], sell, escape, rinse and repeat, we can earn infinite money right?”

See, isn’t it quite common, when stealing from a store in a certain strange dungeon, you sell everything you have then steal it all again and run, like that…… That kind of idea, how is it?

……hm? Everyone is making the ( ﾟдﾟ ) face again .

“Tha—t was a blind spot . ”

“Yeah, Maito-san, could just run……”

That’s so .

“I think this is the fastest! How is it!”

“Even so, why do you keep trying to cross such dangerous bridges…… Even with [Teleport], that’s out the window the instant your equipment is confiscated .

Ah, oh yeah, that .

Since [Teleport] is a skill I have to depend on the hair clip for, it won’t activate without the hair clip .

“Anyway, selling Maito is definitely a no . Even if we were to do it, it is when we really have no other choice and is to be done with extreme caution . I can only pray that doesn’t happen . At the very least, selling and running and selling and running is not something to be repeated, no matter how you think about it . ”

I see—, I thought it was a good plan though .

…morally…

“……what were we talking about……”

“Raising money . ”

“Ah, yeah . About raising money . Yes, raising money……right now, the most realistic is selling clothes maid by Maito, selling things made by Katori and Toriumi through metalwork, and……I’m not really sure about selling President’s poisons . Ah, Kariya’s stonework should be fine . ……err, anything else?”

“Yes Ye—s . Have me, Ketorami and Hanter in this kind of exhibition pen”

“Rejected . ”

Harsh .

“Anyone else with sane ideas?”

“Yes . How about we just find employment? We can use skills after all . ’

“Nn—, if we do that, we’ll probably get tied down by interests . ”

After deliberation, we decided on not finding employment .

There’s more demerits than merits .

Either way, we want to make it a short decisive battle . We just want to go back to our original world quickly . It’s not like we want to permanently stay in this world .

“How about monster subjugation?”

“A—h, sounds doable . ”

“It would depend on how much we can earn from that, but that might be the best . ”

This world is certainly fantasy-ish enough, it wouldn’t be strange for there to be something like an adventurer’s guild .

“Then I just make and sell things during that time?”

“No, don’t get separated from us . You’ll get stolen . ”

O, oh . Yeah .

Nn—, that’s getting more and more troublesome in so various ways .

Since I’m not part of the fighting force, it’s a problem in itself to just leave me alone .

I really am sorry for being a burden .

valuable goods

“Then if there are students who became slaves, we save them if we can . Don’t force ourselves . As for earning money, we’ll go with mainly monster subjugation if doable . If the efficiency is low or if that kind of thing doesn’t exist in the first place, we will make things and sell them . And Maito, make sure not to get separated from us . ……are we fine with that?”

Since there was no objections, the future plan became that for now .

……okay, I need to start preparing things to sell .

monies

Now then, I used the remaining of the afternoon to finish studying English (to obtain the [Translation] skill), then I worked on sewing after making preparations for dinner .

It will be troublesome if after we sell something that is too good to the locals, it ends up going to something that is hostile to us, so I tried dyeing with some random grass .

I tried, but .

……for some reason, even though I used some random grass that showed [Weeds] when [appraised] .

There was an effect . [Earth Resistance (Weak)] .

……hmm? That’s strange . Could it be, could it be……I might have been mistaken in my understanding of [Dyeing] until now .

I had arbitrarily assumed that……it had to be plants with effects even on their own……like mint or bay laurels, for [Dyeing] to show effects .

But, but but, [Dyeing]……seems like, regardless of those things, just adds various effects .

dye with water~

I tried [Dyeing] with a random strange sky-blue lily thing and a rose the size of my face as a test, and things got out of hand .

We—ll, on top of being dyed sky-blue or rose, the effects added were [Flight] and [Seduction] .

……skills, were added . Oi .

Then again, it quickly became clear that these skills are quite bad .

The [Flight] from the sky-blue lily can’t achieve something like Suzumoto or Hariu’s flight where they jump on air, at most it can only slow your falling speed when dropping from a high place like a certain flying stone, as for the [Seduction], clear effects could not be confirmed .

……I don’t know what’ll happen if I embroider them .

But, anyway, these are for sale, so……that’s, a bit dangerous .

I want to keep the blessing of skills as our, the otherworld people’s trump card .

If the other side also has the greatest card that we have, then we won’t stand a chance .

just students after all

And so, I ended up repeating the truly unproductive experiment of [Finding a dye with no effect] .

I found out that when 3 or 4 dyes are mixed together, they somehow cancel out each other’s effects and the effects completely disappear .

Oka—y, with this, I can make goods that are safe to hand over .

……and at that point, well, it became time to make dinner .

And so, to secure a large amount of dyes, I sent 5 maid-san puppets out with baskets . If I let them move independently, they will go and collect flowers and twigs and grass on their own, so I’ve actually been doing that for a while . Or rather, if I don’t do that, I wouldn’t be able to do the dye experiments .

convenient

And dinner .

Today is deer . Kadomi-kun carried it back after suddenly going out just now .

Seem he got sick of bear since we’ve been eating it continuously .

The deers around hear have very, very beautiful bright amber horns . They look like they will become gems with some processing . But these deer, their hooves are spikes . Getting kicked would hurt .

And so the menu is white rice, salad, deer and slow-simmer stew .

It’s a brown stew with brown sauce and tomato base . Actually, there’s a severe lack of dairy products to make white stew .

……seriously, isn’t there milk lying somewhere?

monster cows?

After the meal, I conscripted the guys without production skills to gather lumber and focused on making it into fiber .

I mobilised the maid-san puppets and had them spin the fiber as it was done (behold, Hariu and Katori speedily made spinning wheels! And at proper maid-san puppet size . Yay!), after making all the lumber into fiber, I started weaving the thread .

Since I could, I tried making absolutely impractical satin-weave cupra . If I made it too strong, then defense would be raised .

And just as the maid-san puppets finished spinning, I had finished most of the weaving, so I started dyeing .

The part to be careful of here is to make sure to always mix at least 4 dyes .

Otherwise, that would lead to putting uselessly good things on the local market, it’s dangerous .

Just that, if I mix them haphazardly, they all become a muddy greyish colour, so I roughly separated the colours and mixed dyes with similar colours . Like this, the colour won’t be that bad .

Leaving the sorting to the maid-san puppets, I focused on recovering MP and kept [Dyeing] cloth .

All the cloth made are of beautiful colours and it is fun work . But even if I am recovering MP as I do it, it doesn’t change the fact that I’m continuously activating skills at an amazing speed, so my mind getting more and more blurry is a downside .

It’s like that . It’s like running intervals with MP……

brain power

By the time the mountain of flowers in the corner of the lab disappeared and a mountain of colourful cloth replaced it, it’s time to sleep for today . Anymore is impossible . I don’t want to expend anymore MP .

After [Cleaning] Ketorami-san and Hanter as per usual, I buried myself into Ketorami-san’s belly with Hanter wrapped around my neck and slept in that paradise .

gn~

But, tomorrow onwards will be tense days .

I’ll do my best .