Chapter 59 – Moving to the New Home Part 2
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“Good morning, Alan-sama, everyone.”
“Good morning, Karina-san.”
There were thirteen new employees lined up in front of the building along with Karina-san. I already held a simple interview for these people a few days back, and I had a basic grasp of their personalities.
“Okay, Teo. You guys head over there as well and listen to Sally-san’s orders, okay?”
Sally-san was the head of our Home’s helpers and was a pretty dependable middle-aged widow. Her late husband was also an adventurer. I already told her and the others about Teo and Ella. The sibling hurriedly lined up with the rest of the employees.
“Well be in your care from now on, everyone.”
“Yes. Thank you very much, Alan-sama, everyone.”
First, we went around with Karina-san in order to check if there were no problems with the building and the new equipment. Of course, Karina-san handled everything perfectly, so we found absolutely nothing wrong with the building and equipment. The beds, tables, and chairs also looked practically brand new.
We looked around all the facilities and finished our tour at the office on the fourth floor.
“Well then, everyone. I will now formally hand the building over to you.”
“Yes. Thank you for all your help. By the way, Karina-san, what about the rent for this month?”
It was just the fourth day of the month after all.
“We won’t charge you for this month, Alan-sama. We’ll only start billing you next month.”
“I see. Thank you very much then.”
After handing over the building, Karina-san finally left.
The total rent for this place was 70,000 Guineas per month. I thought it was a bit too cheap since it was a pretty big building with complete facilities, but Silas-san insisted on the price. I hope it doesn’t cause trouble for the rest of the Commerce Guild though.
“We finally have our Home now.”
“Yes. We’ll all be living here starting today,” Cleria said with a smile.
“Oh, right! I made these for all of us. Try it on, everyone.”
I secretly made badges for all of us. It had a secure hook, so you could fasten it to your clothes or pocket.
“”This is–!?””
Selena and Sharon let out surprised gasps.
The badges had the insignia of the Red Fleet on them. It was also the insignia placed on the hulls of every ship included in the fleet. It was a stylized supernova, so it also fit our party and Clan, Shining Star, perfectly.
“This is… a badge for Shining Star!? This symbol represents a brilliant star, right?”
“Yep. It’s pretty cool huh?”
“Yes! It’s wonderful! Let’s put them on, everyone!”
The girls found the badges to their liking, so they became our Clan’s official badges. Of course, I had prepared a hundred more badges as well. These will help strengthen the sense of solidarity within our fledgling organization. I’ll give these to the rest of the Clan members as well.
“Okay then. Now that we’ve moved, what do you girls want to do for the rest of the day? I was thinking of setting out for a monster hunt.”
“I think that’s a good idea. We’ve used up quite a bit of our funds after all. We’ll have to start earning money again soon.”
The rest of the party also agreed to my suggestion.
“I see. Okay then. We’ll hunt monsters today and set out tomorrow for bandit hunting. How about it, everyone?”
The girls all nodded in agreement.
We prepared straight away and set out on horseback. We only had two horses when we first got to this city, but we purchased an additional three a few days back, so now we had five. The three of them were good horses like Tarth and Syrah as well. Oh, and it cost us a total of 100,000 Guineas for all three.
I reviewed the habitat info scouted by D-1 and decided to aim for easy ones for now. We’ll hunt some Gray Hounds and Orcs then. There weren’t really a lot of Orcs to take down, but it’s been a while since we dedicated a full day for monster hunting. It should work out.
The monster hunting went without any trouble, and we returned to Gantz by four in the afternoon. Our harvest for today was 85 Gray Hounds and 12 Orcs.
As a bonus, we managed to take down a Big Boar as well while on our way back to Gantz. I immediately drained its blood, removed the innards, and tied it to two of our horses to carry it back. This is a pretty nice bonus. I’ll process it with our employees back at our Home later.
Everyone’s magic has improved considerably after dedicating twenty days for training. I didn’t want to get left behind, so I participated in the training sessions as well and learned a new spell; Light Arrow. Its overall power was about half of a Flame Arrow, but it was really fast. It was a great anti-personnel spell.
We reached the main city gates and greeted the guards on duty.
“Oh, if it isn’t Shining Star. That’s a pretty huge Big Boar you bagged there.”
“Yes, we were quite lucky,” Cleria answered genially.
It seems that Cleria and the girls became quite familiar with the guards after these last twenty days. They were a group of beautiful ladies, so I imagine the guards had the time of their lives trying to chat them up as well.
We were allowed passage and entered the city. I had the rest bring the Big Boar back to our Home while I headed to the Adventurer’s Guild to exchange today’s harvest of proofs and magic stones for cash.
Our total earnings for today amounted to 38,750 Guineas. Not bad for a day’s work.
I went back to the Home and took my horse to the stables. I found Teo there. He was being taught by one of the staff about how to take care of the horses.
“It looks like you’re working hard huh, Teo.”
“Oh! Br… Uh, Alan-sama.”
He now changed the way he addressed me. Honestly, I would have preferred being called ‘bro’ instead of ‘Alan-sama’, but this was also part of Teo’s training, so I have to get used to it.
“Do your best.”
I also tried to have Sally-san and the rest of the employees to stop calling me so formally, but I ended up getting lectured and told that as the leader of the Clan, I had to get used to being addressed in a way that fit my position, and that it would also be for the benefit of those under me. Sally-san was especially strict.
I entered the bath and heard the others call me for dinner after a while, so I dried myself up and went to the dining area.
It felt a bit lonely since there were only five of us sitting in the middle of a large dining room.
Tonight’s menu was rice, cream stew, and vegetable salad. I handed some recipes to our cook, Routal-san, and it looks like he made some of them for us tonight. By the way, Routal-san worked at a restaurant as a professional chef before, and the rest of his family ended up working for us as well.
“It’s good.”
“Yes. But it’s still a bit different from the food you cook, Alan.”
“That’s right. There’s definitely something different.”
“Really? It’d probably turn out much like this even if I was the one who cooked y’know. Oh, by the way, let’s have a meeting after the meal. Let’s gather at the Clan office later.”
After our dinner, we gathered at the Clan office on the fourth floor. After everybody found their seats around the large table inside the office, I spread out a map of the surrounding area and the highways. I made this map by copying sections of it on separate sheets of paper and then pasting them together.
“I managed to scout out a bandit hideout around this area. They have a fairly large number of members. There’s probably around thirty or so of them.”
“Just how…… Haah, fine. Thirty is quite a number indeed. We can probably capture them all, but we would have a hard time transporting them,” Elna pointed out.
“Yeah, that’s right. But this is where those chain handcuffs I bought a few days back come in handy. We’ll go around on our carriage in order to serve as bait for the bandits. The main road branches out at this point, and we’re gonna enter this section over here. Since there’s quite a bit of distance to cover, we may need to camp out for a night. Any questions?”
Everyone shook their heads.
It looks like they have no problems with my plan. Well, it just goes to show how confident they’ve all become.
“We’ll set off two hours after dawn tomorrow. So be sure to sleep early tonight guys.”
Everyone nodded and started heading out of the office to go to their respective rooms. But before Sharon managed to step out, she turned around and called out to me.
“Oh, Alan. I was thinking of adding a pocket on one side of our adventurer clothes, just below the shoulder, to clip our badges on. Would you like me to add one on your clothes as well?”
“I’ll help too,” Selena offered.
After hearing Sharon’s suggestion, everyone agreed to place pockets on the left side of their clothes for attaching the badges.
“That sounds good. I’ll leave it to you then.”
I then handed them some of my clothes. It looks like they were planning to finish some tonight.
After drinking a bit of wine, I turned in early for the night.
We headed out on schedule the next morning. The girls were pretty pumped for our first bandit hunting expedition. We exited Gantz and headed out to the highway.
We were attacked by Gray Hounds along the way, but the girls handled them swiftly without my help.
“It’s a bit early, but how about taking a break and having lunch here?”
“Yes, that sounds lovely,” Elna agreed.
We were near a resting spot along the highway. I researched the place in advance of course. The timing was spot on.
Everyone ate the sandwiches prepared by Routal-san this morning. By the time we finished eating, I finally spotted a certain group of people traveling along the highway.
“There’s quite a lot of them. Let’s stay on alert,” Elna warned.
The group was now less than 100 meters away from us. Someone broke out from the group on horseback and started approaching us. It looks like they finally noticed us.
“Hey, Cleria. How about you wave toward them? They’re probably people you know.”
Cleria looked confused at first, but she understood what I meant after a few moments, and frantically began waving at the group on the highway with both hands with a half-disbelieving expression on her pretty face.
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