Continuing, I asked him regarding the status of the store.
The other stores don’t have any problems either. If there’s anything to take note of it’s that the adventurers frequently request for branches of the laundromat to be put up in the other towns as well. Because of that, Caulkins-san and his group proposed to use lure away the other researchers that are still researching slimes.
Slime researchers are mostly ignored, so there are very few amongst them that have confidential information. Because of that, there shouldn’t be any problems in luring them away to work for my store.
Moreover, because of the poorness of communication technology in this word, there are many people in the towns that we don’t have a branch in that don’t know about our store. And even those that do know about store don’t know about the usefulness of slimes. Although there are many people as well who think that there are some slimes can be used, the image of slimes being weak and useless is just too deeply ingrained into the minds of the masses.
But that also goes to say that this is an opportunity to lure away those poor slime researchers that are still being given the cold shoulder. And by luring them away, we’ll gain new manpower for the new branch stores. After teaching the promising ones amongst the new employees, we’ll be able to raise some new demon slave practitioners.
There’s no reason for me to refuse, so I agreed and approved of the plan of luring away slime researchers in order to prepare the new store branches.
“…It’s almost time to close the store.” [Carm]
I hadn’t realized it until Carm-san mentioned it, but apparently we had spent a long time talking about the store’s welfare programs and other matters.
After closing the store, and after finishing the work that needed to be done after closing the store, I went to the merchant guild.
I’m heading to the guild to deposit the income of the store.
The guild also works as a bank and as a money-exchanger. It’s also possible to create an account under one’s personal name as a merchant or the name of one’s store.
My store has its own account. Because of that Carm-san goes along with Fei-san and Li Ling-san to deposit the money at least three times a week.
The only money in the store are the copper coins used as change and the employees’ salaries. As well as the funds stored in the store’s treasury to be used to replenish the miscellaneous goods of the store when necessary.
There’s no other way to deposit the money, but to carry a large, heavy bag filled with copper coins. But when I’m around, I can simply tuck away the money in my ‘Item Box’, making transport a walk in the park. And more than anything, with the money hidden in my ‘Item Box’, there’s no danger of dropping the money or being stolen from. Because of that it’s usually best for me to carry the money myself.
“Every time I do this, I feel like the security guard of a bank’s armored transport car… There’s no danger in dropping the money, but I should hurry up and deposit this.” [Ryouma]
I hurried my pace as I muttered that. When I got to the merchant’s guild, I deposited the money. And then I went back to the house that I haven’t been in for about a month now.
I had made a wall out of a steel plate and boulder to block the entrance and prevent magical beasts from settling inside the abandoned mine. It’s a bit of a hassle that I can’t go rest immediately whenever I get back, but… well….
As I thought to myself the things I would normally think of whenever I got back home from a trip, I finally arrived to my house.