Chapter 13: Even the Kuma-chan

By the way, how far is not that far?

Within five minutes?

Within ten minutes?

At the very least, there are no modern people who would say ‘it’s two hours away’.

People’s perceptions change depending on their needs.

I was caught off guard.

I learned about the differences between men and people living in this world where there are no cars or trains.

Aah, the soles of my feet hurt.

Walking shoes that look like leather shoes that I bought because job hunting will start soon. If this breaks, my legs will surely break.

The car can’t be driven around the city.

Should I train my legs, or learn to ride a horse?

I don’t like to walk, but horses cost a lot of money.

In the end, all I need is money.

It’s a hard world.

Jeanne led me to the agricultural center that I wanted to visit.

Agricultural centers, apparently, are a place that is absolutely necessary if the agricultural profession wants to live up to its calling.

It’s a place where the collected resources can be dismantled for a fee, and the dismantled resources can be purchased as material items.

If there is a material item you need, you can take it home with you.

Today’s goal is to exchange my kuma-chan for money.

When the large, double doors open, I see wooden benches lined up like the waiting room of a train station.

A counter in front of me looks like a bank’s reception desk.

The rest is just a room with a door next to the reception desk.

Above the door was a sign that said Demolition Room.

Something scary.

I went to the reception counter as Jeanne told me to.

Perhaps the receptionist knew her, as she looked at Jeanne with a slight puzzled look, and then she asked me as if she remembered her job.

“Welcome. What can I do for you today?”

The standard phrase.

By the way, there was no such thing as a receptionist vocation listed in the book, but I wondered what her vocation was.

I heard that it doesn’t mean that one has to get a job as specified in one’ s vocation.

“Dismantle and sell materials.”

I say the line that Jeanne taught me beforehand.

“Then, please take this and wait. We will call you by your number, 034, as soon as we are ready.”

Amazing numbered ticket system.

It’s a wooden ticket though.

“I understand.”

I answered as I looked at the empty benches… they were pretty empty.

There are about fifty seats in the room, and thirteen people including us.

I wondered if this is considered a lot of customers or not.

“Today there’ s a lot of people. Was there something wrong?”

“Is that so?”

“It gets crowded only when the fishing fleet comes back with a big catch and waits here to dismantle it, or when a subjugation team is dispatched. Basically, the Knights kill monsters that are valuable materials and bring them back to this place, so it’s filled with people who want to sell and buy the materials.”

“Hee.”.

It is likely that hunters won’t be invited.

A man came out of the door next to the reception desk.

A very handsome man with long blue hair.

“Then, those with tickets 021 to 033, please enter.”

Thirteen customers went to the counter, which was labeled with a purchase window.

Suddenly the waiting room was devoid of people.

“They were probably after what the person earlier sold. Hmm.”

Jeanne cocked her head, trying to remember something.

“No, the other maidservant who likes to gossip told me that there is a lone fisherman who specializes in catching dangerous fish, so I thought it was him, but… I forgot the details.”

“Is he famous, that guy from earlier?”

“Probably. The fact that there was a crowd of people who wanted to buy it means that either he told everyone that he had caught such a great fish, or he was a well-known person who had finished his work and people who had seen him gathered in anticipation.”

“I see. Well, certainly he look like the type who like to brag to other people.”

“Yes, despite his reserved demeanor, he’s rumored to be fearless when facing dangerous prey, skilled at getting results, and good-looking. I’m not sure if it’s him or not.”

“Well, that guy looks handsome, at least.”

Good-looking people have lot of benefits, don’t they?

“His looks are not that great for me… pardon me for saying rude. No, anyway, the more people you can attract, the more money the agricultural center will make. They’ll remember you better and give you some preferential treatment.”

“So you’re saying I have to become famous to make money efficiently?”

“I mean, eventually you will. You’re not going to keep that thing, are you?”

Which ones?

I hear they’re all bad.

“Well.”

“The more famous you are, the more people will expect more from you.”

“That’s… I don’t like it.”

While we were making small talk, the door was opened and people came out.

Some were happy, some were disappointed.

Business is also a battle.

“Number 034~, please come in~”

We entered the door after hearing the prolonged voice of the receptionist.

“Um, nice to meet you?”

Inside the room, a man with a square haircut and an apron is in the lead, with several young people behind him.

Isn’t my old man encounter rate high?

No, this is what reality looks like.

“And…”

I looked at Jeanne, puzzled.

“It’s been a long time, Mr. Romulus.”

“What kind of business brings a duke’s maid to a place like this?”

Even though she is a slave, it seems that the maidservants of the duke’s family are highly regarded in the community.

It’s hard to treat someone who is working under the duke’s orders unkindly.

“Here is Manauta-sama, today I will be his guide and escort. He has requested to dismantle and sell the materials he has caught. He is a guest of the dukes, but rest assured that the dukes are not involved in this matter itself.”

“Oh, I see…”

Does it make him feel at ease to be told I’ m a guest of the duke’s family?

“So, where’ the prey?”

The old man finally turned to me.

“Well…”

What’s it’s name again?

“Why don’t you show it to him first?”

Jeanne said, so I took out the Kuma-chan.

“H-huuuuh!?”

An old man jumps up and down.

“This is … Archaeopteryx!? isn’t it?”

TLN: Hmm I found Archaeopteryx is a bird dino… maybe only MC thinking it’s a bear.

The old man shouted.

“Oi oi.”

“Big …”

“I saw it for the first time.”

“Me too.”

Young people making noise.

“What’s this… Did you kill it with a single blow to the head? There’s no other wounds other than the head.”

“It’ s what he took down alone.”

“Yes?”

The old man’s eyes widened at Jeanne’s words, and he froze.

The young men who had been buzzing quieted down.

Awkward.

“So, can you dismantle it please?”

I didn’t want to leave them frozen, so I asked the old man.

“Oh, I can do it. Eh? Alone?”

Don’t repeat that.

“Well, that’s good. I’ve something to do after this. Please do it quickly as possible.”

“No, but wait!!!”

The commotion in the dismantling room continued for a while.

“Even Archaeopteryx is like this. Do you understand?”

I wondered what would happen if I took out a dragon.

While waiting for the dismantling work, Jeanne advised me to keep my voice down.

“That Archaeopteryx is the master of the Intuher grasslands beyond the barrier, at the very beginning of the Demon Zone. It’s the kind of monster we should send the Knights to defeat as soon as it’s discovered.”

“You really left me in such a place.”

“I…”

Well, now that I’m alive, I can be sarcastic.

“It’s done.”

Dismantling time, about five minutes, so fast!

Something even more unusual and mysterious happened in front of me than the speed.

Normally, individual parts of the body would have different bones and different flesh.

The old man and the young men hung the bear on a hook hanging from the ceiling.

It took two minutes so far.

An old man holds a machete or a knife in both hands and slashes the hanging bear with a “hmph” and a cross slash.

As the bear’s body seemed to disperse, countless objects fell to the ground.

What can I say, there are many bone-shaped objects that I often see in comic books.

A lot of steak meat that looks identical.

Red masses in the shape of drops… blood? Lots of it.

A lot of squares of fur.

The young men put them together by type, as if they were item icons.

This process takes three minutes.

What is this?

Why only this one? Including the fangs, claws, and eyes that were left in such a realistic shape that it appeared.

I don’t get it.

I was in another world, not in a game world, right?


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