ALL NOVEL chapter 23
23 – moving plan (2)
“welcome.”
I have a sudden thought.
No matter where you go, there are no decorations on the door.
So, where I was… Hey, now it feels like it’s fading little by little.
But it wasn’t surprising. Life here is so much fun.
She is next to me, and every day we hug each other and check each other’s smells and feelings.
Anyway, back to the main topic, isn’t there something like a bell hanging on the door of a shop?
When you open the door, it sounds like a jingling device that notifies you that a guest has arrived.
But there was nothing like that here.
Shall we ask about this later?
“I’m looking to get a house on the outskirts of town, is that possible?”
“Outside the city? Ah-ha. All right. Hang on…”
At the real estate she guided me to, a small old man with large half-moon ears was working.
“Toby, do you have a house on the outskirts of town?”
Putting the glasses he was wearing back around his neck, the old man waddled to the back room.
“…What kind of prisoner is that person?”
“The Rat-Beasts. They live in large families, and they have a strong sense of family and camaraderie, so they are very good at gathering information. Based on the size of the group, the Rat-Beasts are probably the best.”
being a rat man I really thought there were many different types of beasts.
Well, even if I just saw a beastman with a fox tail, a dog beastman or a wolf beastman with various colors of fur… I think there are probably all kinds of animals I can imagine, so I was a little afraid.
“Isn’t the house on the outskirts of town a bit vacant these days?”
“It’s not like everyone’s trying to get a house in the city center lately. It’s not easy to get a deal there these days – ah,”
Two rats, a bit taller than the old man, came out of the room together, chattering and carrying a stack of documents.
“You have guests? Hello!”
“Hey, you bastard! Didn’t I always say that the winged guys spread the word during the day and we scrape together the night talk!”
A clear sound of blows rang out.
“Oh, it hurts!”
“This stone-headed bastard is hard-headed anyway – Oh my gosh, I’m sorry for such disrespect in front of guests.”
“No, it’s okay. Rather, we may have heard useless stories…”
Watching them bend over with their bundle of documents hurriedly spilled on the table, I felt pity for some reason, so I waved my hands and lowered my head at the same time.
“If you don’t, I’ll find a nice house for you in exchange for turning a blind eye to your rudeness. Could you wait a little longer?”
“Do you have any special requirements, sir? We will find them according to your needs.”
condition?
Certainly, when I buy a house, I must have the conditions I want.
However, when I was asked to actually prepare my own house, I felt strange.
A person in his early 20s who is not old enough to find a house with the money he earned himself.
Surely monthly rent or charter… Sales? I know there is such a thing.
How to find a house, what conditions are good, and what to consider…
“Outside the city, the house is large enough for two people to live in. It’s better if it has a garden, but it’s okay if it doesn’t. The most important thing is to ask for a well-soundproofed place or a place where there are few people at all. I’ll try to match the price to the house that meets the conditions.”
As she recited the condition, the young mouse-man wearing glasses, who pulled out the pen at some point and heard it, wrote slowly on a small piece of paper.
After that, the three of them unfolded the scrolls, tick-tick-ticked the glasses that were dripping from the bridge of their noses, and pushed them up with their dainty hands, diligently sorting through the piles of paper.
“Excuse me ~ Do you have any special drinks you want?”
A thin, long tail that pats your hand.
Surprised by that, I looked under my feet and saw that there were very young rats whose heights did not even reach above my knees.
“Eh? Ah-uh… What drinks do you have?”
“There is also milk tea, omija cheong, and apple mint cheong!”
Schisandra chinensis, apple mint cheong?
I understand Schisandra chinensis, but what is Apple Mint Cheong?
However, I didn’t have too bad memories of apple mint, so I ordered it.
Ms. Ellie gave me a strange expression, and then she ordered the same thing.
“Why do you look like that?”
“No, I’m curious to know about apple mint greens.”
“Is the apple mint green special?”
“I know this from interacting with many prisoners, but ordinary people don’t have many opportunities to experience apple mint green. I was surprised to hear that they ordered it as if they were used to it. By any chance, do you know Schisandra chinensis?”
“Yeah… is it strange?”
“It’s interesting. ‘Before you lost your memory,’ you might have had a relationship with the rat beastman.”
Oops, maybe ‘Schisandra’ and ‘Apple Mint’ aren’t the kinds of things that are commonly found or popularly spread.
It’s weird… what can I say, cognitive abilities? There was a feeling that there was something strange about interpreting the language, but I couldn’t imagine putting people in trouble this way.
“The drink you ordered is here~”
The mug, which held lightly in my hand, seemed quite heavy to the girls who came out with the drinks, so I accepted them with a little smile.
“Thank you. Please give me this… Is this Ellie?”
“…also.”
“yes?”
“No, no.”
He looked at me gently, then took the mug in my hand and sipped it little by little.
I also took a little bit of the drink in my mouth.
It was natural that the fresh sweetness of the apple flowed in at the same time as the refreshing scent.
This is Apple Mint.
“How about the drink, do you like it?”
“Yes, it’s delicious. Thank you.”
“thank you!”
The two rats, smiling brightly, soon ran out to a certain room, and before they knew it, the many paper bundles were well organized and gathered into two groups.
“Let’s see… Let’s see… Come on, the houses that the guest will probably like, like this. There are five types. Would you like to take a seat?”
The two chairs spontaneously said – No, I looked down and saw two people holding each chair leg and dragging it.
“thank you.”
He bowed his head once and sat down, stroking his beard and pointing out each house one by one.
“All out of town. Here, the leftmost house is on the block west of here. Are your guests adventurous?”
“Oh, yes… that’s right.”
“Yes. It takes about 30 minutes to walk to the guild buildings and dungeons in the center of the city. There is a shopping street along the way, and there is also a city guard building, so security is pretty good. Most people like these western sections.”
Certainly, from what he had to say, the house looked good. It would definitely be nice if it was safe and easy to shop.
“Isn’t the west block crowded?”
Her ears fluttered, and she tapped the desk with her fingers.
“That’s right. Being safe also means that there are a lot of people. But it’s soundproofed, so it’s worth considering.”
“Do you think the price might not be so kind?”
“Yes, it’s the most expensive of the houses here. Besides, it’s only available for rent. Five gold coins a year.”
Five gold coins in a year.
Ah, damn it, I forgot about that sword again.
What kind of sword would cost a year’s rent for a house?
Thinking like that made me even more angry.
It angered me intolerably that almost half of the eleven gold coins I had earned had been blown away by a single shiny sword.
But that’s it, aren’t we talking about the house now?
“Five gold coins a year… It’s definitely expensive. But the conditions are also very attractive…”
She glanced at me and raised the corners of her mouth.
Soundproofing… Soundproofing… Yes. When I remembered the reason I was looking for soundproofing, I immediately felt very ominous.
Doesn’t it mean that I endured the noise in the inn room?
My God, now I was like asking the cat to guard the fish.
But she was the only one to entrust it to. She was the only person I could trust, and she was the only one I could have known here.
“I thought you’d like it, so I introduced it first. Would you like to see other houses?”
The old man pushed up his glasses with his thumbs, rubbed his hands, and moved his hands to another document.
She closed her eyes for a moment, shook her ears, then nodded.
“please.”
***
“Five gold coins a year is a bit expensive to be honest. Right now the three silver coins I asked for are going out every month, which is a fixed amount of 53,600 decats a year.”
Tak, Tak, tapping her palms, she rolled her eyes eagerly.
“Of course, the chance to earn eleven gold coins has come to me by luck, but I honestly don’t believe that will happen many times.”
Clapping, she clapped once, then stopped and looked at me.
“It is said that there were quite a few people who died in the dungeon that day. Some people died from exhaustion right away, and some died while doing strange experiments. Many were seriously injured or even died.
I shouldn’t be pushing you into such a place because of my greed, so I think it would be better to think carefully until we become stronger or have a steady income. It might be something to see how much income comes out for at least a year… I don’t know.”
But it was at that moment that her worries were shattered.
Just as we passed the guild building, a guild staff member burst through the door, let us in, and after being ushered to his private room, we heard the surprising news.
The four insignias she acquired were used as important evidence to indicate the affiliation and status of ancient warriors, and they were said to have been of great value as a means of proving the link between the dungeon and ancient history.
“Can you believe it? This is important proof that dungeons aren’t just releasing monsters, they’re something connected to great events in the ancient world! It’s not just spewing out antiques or materials. This is a rare discovery. The entire academic world is excited. !”
Also, since the meteorite dagger was not just a weapon, but included special craftsmanship and was the only weapon that was stored without being destroyed in the case at the time, the price jumped up as expected, the employee continued talking excitedly.
“We only thought some of the items we had acquired at the time were stolen. But it wasn’t. The staff, including myself, went through a fairly intensive investigation… but there was no sign of theft, except that dagger. I don’t know what’s special about the dagger, but of all the weapons we kept, this was the only one left in storage.
Its rarity was acknowledged because it had a different shape from the letters engraved on the dagger and meteorite weapons that had been acquired so far. So… the guild has decided to give appropriate compensation for this, and we would like to pay the corresponding compensation accordingly.”
Tak, a note was put in front of me.
“890000 dicats, the amount of 89 gold coins. It’s 40% of the value from the meteorite dagger and badges I gave you last time… You brought really valuable things.”
It was unrealistic.