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Over the Infinite – Chapter 1 (5)

 

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Translator: mii

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「Err, what is a video?」

Philos asked a question for the first time.

It seemed like that was the area that they wouldn’t have caught in by investigating this place for one month in advance.

「During the labyrinth capture, the entire adventure will be recorded.

You can choose whether you want to make it public or you want to sell it just like that, but you can also edit it up to around two hours and then sell it.」

It sounded the same as video editing that I knew.

Were there surveillance cameras attached in the dungeon?

「Both of your video should’ve been taken during your trial, though. Haven’t you heard about that from your companion?」

「Ahh, now that I think of it… I felt like I heard something about this before.」

It seemed like Philos and Gowen already had their videos. I felt like I would feel conscious being seen like this.

Should I try to make a serious face in the important scenes?

「The guild determines the price and the number of shipments of the videos, but it can be more flexible if you have a certain track record.

Plus, a few percent of the sales go the performing adventurer’s pocket. If there’s a track record, there are cases where the guild will buy the video instead of relying on the sales.」

「Is it fine if I don’t sell it?」

「Yes, the video itself will remain as a record in the guild, but you don’t have to sell it. In fact, it’s not interesting to watch practise exploration, so most of those records are not sold and are stored.

Also, it’s also possible to request changing some scenes in the video, but there aren’t many requests like that.」

Well, of course there were a lot of videos, and it wouldn’t be interesting to watch videos that are the same as others. That’s why we have to put together the interesting parts in two hours, huh.

「By the way, this can be sold not only to fans, but also to another adventurers.

For example, the videos of the foremost line capture group are very popular because you can see how the unexplored area is, what monsters appear there, and watch the area that you are going to teach someday.

The capture of the boss that appear at certain layers are also selling well. There are requests from many people, and when the special conditions are cleared, the guild may request for the sales.

Recently, some people also upload their videos to free video sites for promotional purposes. 」

Oh, so it could be used as a preparation for capturing the dungeon?

They were strategy videos, not strategy books, and if it would affect our future from now on, we couldn’t afford it to not sell well.

「Err, what kind of goods are there?」

Yuki asked the question.

He had a tired expression, but it wasn’t like I didn’t know how he felt.

「There’s no particular definition for that. Even the videos that I just talked can be called as goods, and everything that you can basically sell unless the guild rejects the application can also be called as goods.

What you can actually sell are videos, capturing information such as hand-written books, armaments that was used in the past, figures, dolls, manjuus, bromides, photo collections, tapestries, body pillows, and also voice-only recording. This includes dics that contain songs and radio compilation.

Especially since armament is only an item, they are goods that fans drooled for. It’ll be perfect if the adventurer can put their sign there. A long time ago, there was a person who tried to sell underwear, but it was rejected.」

Yuki was greatly perplexed.

I also wanted to retort a lot, but the main point was this was the same as the multi talent in my previous life, except that we had to capture dungeons.

Anyway, what the heck was the manjuu? Why was it limited to manjuu?

「Uhh, are there stage appearances for erotic books and erotic videos?」

「Stu-, wha-, what are you saying!」

「There are.」

「Ehhhh!?」

Yuki was noisy. If there was video media here, then of course there would be these kind of things.

Eroticism was great. When the new technology came out, it was a miracle content that displayed strong pulling power.

「There are adventurers who perform in those kind of things because they can’t make money with the methods we’ve talked about, can’t get decent job, or have a huge debt.

Performing is voluntary, and the adventurers themselves usually earn quite well, so those kind of circumstances are pretty rare, but the guild is also in the midst of working with the services and the marketing.

These kinds of things are certainly going to sell well, but the popularity of the performers tends to decrease. It’s not like you have to be an adventurer to act in those kind of videos anyway.

Well, in a rare occasion, there are people who love to appear in those kind of videos, so those people publish the videos regardless of the performance fee.

…I’ll tell you this because there are only men here, but there are female adventurers who sell these videos as a hobby. I have some recommendations on my blog, so if you have the chance, feel free to take a look.」

Hoo. It’s a life-and-death problem for me who lacked imagination. Although brothel also seemed high-leveled, I was happy being able to have access to something that was feasible to dispose easily.

Also, having a blog meant that there was internet here. He also talked about video site just a while ago, but just how modern was this city anyway?

「By the way, a clan that is called as is making their own promotional video enthusiastically to show off their muscles, but it’s not selling at all. They have debts due to the dead stock, so I think they are also considering to appear in adult videos recently, but… I think it won’t sell as well.」

I didn’t care about that information.

Was he talking about the muscles guy that we met at the entrance before? So they did that kind of thing?

「Other than that is… ah, that’s right. Tsuna-san looks like the type that will get request to appear in homosexual things, but since it’s a deep world, you better decline it if you continue being an adventurer.」

「It’s not a joke.」

Ignoring what happened at the inspection, why did he suddenly drop in a homo joke here? Please give me a break. Yuki was more beautiful than me, and Philos was more manly than me.

Did I ooze out that kind of aura? Including my previous life, I didn’t… have experience at that, though.

No way, that brute glasses guy that was inspecting me before when we entered the city wasn’t a guild staff, right? …Right?

「Should we stop the questions for now? Then, I’ll continue.

If you are registered as an adventurer and you receive jobs from the guild, the fees will be deducted from guild fee and tax.

Unlike the capital city, there is no municipal tax, so tax-related applications aren’t required if you only work as adventurer.

It depends on the amount of purchase and remuneration, but roughly, the standard charge of the amount deducted by fees and taxes for low rank is 3% to 5%, the middle rank is 7% to 12%, and the high rank is maximum 15%.

I won’t explain how much tax will be charged for each remuneration. If you are interested, please check it separately.」

How amazing. Outside, seventy percent tax was normal, and depending on the territory… for example, my hometown village’s tax was around ninety percent, it was a crazy rate.

I didn’t investigate it since it was complicated and I wasn’t interested, but now I was wondering how much it was in my previous life in Japan.

「When you buy something, or buy real estate such as plot of land, house, and things similar to that, you will also get separate tax. Even so, mostly of the merchants will do the processing, so it’s enough as long as you are aware that tax will be generated.」

「Is it like consumption tax?」

Yuki said that. Let’s leave this difficult matter to him.

「That’s right. It depends on the item, but around a few percent of the price of the commercial items is set as the consumption tax.

However, most of the cheap food and daily necessities are free of tax, and conversely, luxury goods will cost more. Consumption tax is also high for precious metals.

Items that are essential depending on the occupation, for example weapons and potions used in the labyrinth if you’re an adventurer, will have reduced consumption tax.

Most of the time, you will understand when you see the price tag, so you don’t have to worry so much about that.」

In modern Japan, we didn’t have tax for food and clothes, and luxury cars, houses, entertainment products that were not related to livelihood.

If each occupations had their own discounts, was it something like art supplies were cheaper for illustrator, or building materials or tools were cheaper for carpenter?

There was surely no place better to live than this place in this world.

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