Chapter 52 – Citadel City Gantz Part 3
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Translator: SFBaka
Editor: Thor’s Stone
We left the Adventurer’s Guild and traveled on the streets for five minutes or so until we reached the inn in question.
“It’s a bit far from the guild, but it has nice, clean rooms, a spacious bath, and serves some of the finest cuisines here in Gantz.”
“That sounds really good. Okay then. We’ll book rooms here.”
I parked our carriage inside the inn’s courtyard and left the horses to the young stable boy who received us. We then entered the inn. The name of the inn was Spring Breeze.
“Welcome. Oh, if it isn’t Karina-san!”
A middle-aged woman who seemed to be the proprietress of the inn cheerfully greeted Karina-san. Karina-san sure is popular.
“It’s been a long time, Kira-san. I brought you some customers today. We’re introducing them on behalf of the Commerce Guild.”
“Oh my! They’re recommended by the Commerce Guild? Thank you so much, Karina-san!”
“I’ll introduce you, Alan-sama. This is the proprietress of this inn, Kira-san.”
“I am called Kira, sir. Pleased to make your acquaintance, Alan-sama.”
“Likewise. As you’ve heard, my name is Alan, ma’am. Pleased to meet you too. Oh, and by the way, please stop addressing me so formally, Karina-san. You too, Kira-san. I’m not someone so lofty to deserve being addressed with ‘sama’.”
“On the contrary, Alan-sama. The moment you rescued me, I decided to accord you with the highest respect for the rest of my life. I will not concede on this no matter what you say, Alan-sama,” Karina insisted.
It looks like her resolution is quite firm. It seems it’s impossible to change her mind.
“Alright. Then at least Kira-san will do. Please just address me normally.”
“I understand. If you say so, Alan-san. The customer is always right after all. Our inn provides breakfast and dinner, and our single rooms cost 800 Guineas per night. Our double rooms cost 1,100 Guineas. But since you’ve been introduced by the Commerce Guild, I’ll give you a discount and cut the price to 700 Guineas for single rooms and 1000 Guineas for double rooms. Taking care of the carriage and horses will be free of charge.”
“I see. Is there a discount if we book rooms long term?”
“If you pay in advance for a week’s stay, there will be a ten percent discount. Twenty percent for two weeks. Thirty percent for three. And forty percent for four weeks. However, we cannot offer any refunds once you pay the advance amount.”
“I see. Are you girls okay with having double rooms just like last time?”
I confirmed with my party members and everyone seemed to have no problem with it. I guess I’ll pay for two weeks first.
“Alright. We’ll have one single room and two double rooms, please. In the meantime, I’ll pay for a two-week stay.”
Since it’s for two weeks, it’ll be a total of 30,240 Guineas. It really was pretty pricey. We’ll have to work really hard starting tomorrow.
“Well then… that will be 30,240 Guineas please.”
I took out the leather bag I used as a wallet and paid the fees.
“Thank you. Welcome to the Spring Breeze inn.”
“I will be excusing myself then. We will get in touch with you at a later date.”
“Thank you for guiding us, Karina-san.”
After saying goodbye to everyone, Karina set off.
“Yosh. Let’s unload our belongings from the carriage first and then go for a nice, long bath.”
“”Yes!””
The bath here didn’t lose out at all to the one in Verse’s inn. It was pretty spacious and neat. We only encountered one other customer since coming to this inn, so it looks like there weren’t many guests who booked rooms yet. It looks like the rest haven’t come out from the bath yet. I guess I’ll just drink some tea while waiting for them.
The guest rooms are all located on the second floor. The first floor was the dining area. I went down and ordered some tea. It looks like the tea was free for guests. Kira-san brought me some piping hot tea before long.
“By the way, Kira-san, does being introduced by the Commerce Guild have any benefits?”
“Oh, yes, of course. It means you’re a valued partner of the guild and you will be given discounts by many of the establishments in this city. That will, in turn, allow us to earn favor from the Commerce Guild. We can rely on the Commerce Guild if we run into any trouble with our businesses, so it’s pretty beneficial for us too. It’s rumored that you’ll eventually be able to get loans from the guild as well.”
“I see. So that’s the case.”
“Our inn isn’t located in an advantageous spot you see. My only employees here are my two daughters and my son, so this inn is basically run entirely by the family. We aren’t that distinguished as an inn, so a recommendation from Karina-san is more than welcome.”
“I believe that’s not true. Karina-san herself said your inn was one of the best around.”
I chatted some more with Kira-san until the others went down to the dining area. It was already near dinner time, so we proceeded to order our meals. Just like with Verse’s inn, you’re free to ask for seconds, and alcohol is free of charge.
The meals we were served with were Big Boar steaks, chicken and vegetable soup, some assorted vegetable salad, and some fluffy bread. I also ordered some wine, which I haven’t tasted since we went on the road.
The steak had plenty of garlic and pepper for flavoring and was cooked to perfection. The soup was also quite delicious. It fully brought out the umami and sweetness of the chicken meat and veggies. The salad had a sweet and sour dressing put on top of it and was pretty tasty as well. It looks like this was a great inn after all.
Everyone was very satisfied with the meal.
“Come to think of it, I still haven’t told you all how much money we got from the bandit hideout right? We confiscated a total of 115,825 Guineas from them. The money we got from selling off those twelve surviving bandits is 5,000 Guineas per head, so that’s a total of 60,000 Guineas for all twelve. That makes our total earnings 175,825 Guineas.”
“”Oooh!””
Bandits really are very profitable prey.
“Now then, how do you guys propose we divide the money? We also have to send money to Roberto and the others, right? But we can’t send all of it to them, or we’ll be lacking in funds ourselves. Any suggestions?”
“Should we just keep the minimum amount we need for our activities?” Cleria suggested.
“If we want to send money through the Commerce Guild, we’ll need to pay a convenience fee of 50,000 Guineas. So we can’t send money frequently because the costs will add up. So if we take efficiency into account, we probably should send them money only once we save up at least more than a million Guineas.”
“I see. That’s true,” Elna agreed.
“Why don’t we come up with a set salary system, Alan? You said you’ll be paying us salaries Alan, but we don’t really need much money anyway. We’ll probably just donate it all to the party,” Sharon added. Selena nodded in agreement.
“What do you mean by a salary system?” Elna asked.
“It’s a system where you’ll get paid a certain fixed amount every month.”
“Oh, so it’s a set monthly payment. It does sound good.”
“I think it’s fine as well.”
“Well, if everyone says so, then I suppose we can work things out.”
Everyone nodded.
“Okay then. Let’s do that. Let’s see… How about 10,000 Guineas per month?”
“Ten thousand per month!?” Elna exclaimed in surprise.
“We’ll have to make it at least that much so there will be more motivation, right? Let’s go with that. Okay then. I’ll give everyone’s share for this month now.”
I made five portions of nine large and ten small silver coins. I then gave one portion to each of the girls. I also took my share as well. With this, the leather bag with the money we got from the bandits got considerably lighter.
“Alan also gets the same salary amount as us?” Selena asked.
“Of course. I’m also planning on donating most of my money to the party funds and don’t need that much either. By the way, we have a total of 798,365 Guineas as party funds, and I plan on adding the 60,000 Guineas we got from selling off those bandits to the pool as well.”
“We only need to earn just a little bit more in order to send some money to the troops,” Sharon observed.
“Yes, that’s right. But since we need to keep some as our personal funds as well. I’ll reserve 120,000 Guineas for that.”
“That’s reasonable,” Elna agreed.
“If you all have no problem with it, I was planning on taking some quests tomorrow to start earning funds. Would that be fine?”
“Of course. We’re not all that tired from traveling anyway. And we need to earn plenty of money for our future plans,” Cleria agreed.
It looks like everyone has no problem with starting right away, so I guess we’ll start doing adventurer work by tomorrow. After agreeing to go to the guild early tomorrow morning, we turned in for the night.
(D-1, there’s no need to monitor us while we’re inside Gantz city. I want you to investigate the monster distribution in the areas surrounding the city instead.)
『Acknowledged.』
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