NOVEL ONLINE FREE Volume 1 Chapter 33 - Again and Again
“Look, look, Kaede-chan! I made an aluminum flask from an empty can while making a recovery potion!”
I show the aluminum flask potion to Kaede-chan, who’s engrossed in her smartphone next to me.
“That’s great… so? What shall we do with it?”
Kaede-chan asked with a straight face.
“Um, yeah. What should we do?”
After staying overnight in Hokkaido, Kaede-chan and I took a plane in the morning and returned to Tokyo.
And by the afternoon, we were at my house.
Actually, today we were supposed to look for a room to live together in my house.
So naturally, we were supposed to be looking for a room together… but we weren’t.
Why? Because the show I was on yesterday is buzzing all over the place.
The reason…
I put down the aluminum flask potion for escaping reality and look at my smartphone.
“Witch speaks mysterious language!”
“A language that communicates with everyone!?”
“Is the Golden Witch human or demon!?”
Hmm, failure, failure.
Teehee!
When we returned home and were joyfully looking for a room, Kaede-chan suddenly became serious.
“This is because of that translation potion, right?”
“Yeah, I drank it.”
“Idiot! You idiot senior! What have you done!?”
Kaede-chan starts to choke me.
She’s not really putting any force into it, though.
“Well, they were using difficult English words and stuff. It would be bad if Mysterious looked stupid, so I took it.”
I don’t know words like “ambassador.”
“You were too mysterious! Your words were understood not only by Japanese but also by Americans and Chinese, so it’s become incomprehensible!”
Well, that’s what a translation potion does.
“What’s done is done. Let’s quickly announce the translation potion. We’ll say it dropped from a slime.”
“Is everything from slimes… won’t there be a slime hunt?”
Poor slime-kun.
“It’s fine, it’s fine, no one will believe it anymore. I said the 1000-kilo item bag dropped from a slime. They said I’m an idiot.”
And two of them, at that.
No one will believe it.
There’s no reason to believe it.
“Elenora-san is now completely treated as non-human. There’s even a theory that she’s a Frontier person.”
I’ve never even seen a Frontier person.
“The mysterious route was successful. Too mysterious, though.”
“Well, sooner or later it would come to this. Shall we go with indifference?”
In the end, that’s where it leads.
It was understood that whatever we do, we’ll attract attention.
“Yeah. I’ll go to the guild as Elenora tomorrow, so let’s talk to Satsuki-san.”
“Understood. Please come early.”
“Roger.”
“Haah… I hope the Guild Master isn’t too upset.”
Kaede-chan sighs and slumps her shoulders.
“It’ll be fine. That person only has eyes for money. More importantly, let’s look for a room. I really want to move.”
The hotel we stayed at yesterday had a pretty nice room.
Coming back home after staying there really brought me down.
I want to graduate from that cracker futon before winter.
“Well, yeah. I’m tired of this quaint room.”
I’d get tired of this room after just one time.
And yet, I’ve been living here for four years.
“Right? Let’s look, let’s look.”
Kaede-chan and I put aside the matter of Elenora Ocean and start looking for a room on our smartphones.
Frankly, Elenora Ocean can go missing at any time.
It’s just a matter of how much money we can make before that.
At least, we already have 160 million yen.
With the sale of the 1000-kilo item bag this time, there will be no problem for Kaede-chan and me to live on.
“Senior, I think 2LDK is good. What do you think?”
A room for me and Kaede-chan, living, dining, kitchen.
Well, that’s about right.
“Don’t you think it’s fine? It’s hard to clean if it’s too big, and we have the item bag if we have too much luggage.”
“That’s right. And with the item bag, moving will be easy and nice.”
Really, really.
“Yeah. So, let’s look for that. Do you have any preferences?”
“Preferences?”
“Like location or wanting a new building.”
Not really…
Anywhere would be better than here.
“You can choose whatever you like, Kaede-chan. I’m freelance, and it’ll be better if fashionable Kaede-chan decides. Don’t worry about the money.”
“Is that so… well, men are like that, aren’t they?”
Huh?
“Was Kaede-chan’s ex-boyfriend like that?”
Did she have a boyfriend in college?
Oh, but maybe she got one after I graduated.
There’s also the time when she was working.
“I didn’t have an ex-boyfriend. I was all about club activities in high school, and I played around in college. As a working adult… I didn’t have the time or opportunity.”
Well, yeah.
Becoming a working adult is tough.
Me too.
“I see.”
“Ah… I have a younger brother in college. He was like that, leaving everything to our parents.”
Like that?
Are you my mom?
“You have a younger brother?”
I didn’t know that.
“What about you, Senior?”
“I’m an only child.”
“That figures.”
Does it?
“Uhm, anyway, there are quite a few 2LDKs.”
“Right? I understand what you said before. If money isn’t an issue, it’s hard to decide which one is good.”
Usually, when renting a house, you decide based on the rent first.
But if there’s no upper limit to that rent, there are too many options, and it’s hard to choose.
“Yeah. Shall we leave it to a professional?”
“Professional? Oh, you mean ask a real estate agent… shall we?”
It might be better to see actual recommendations.
“Then, shall we go? It’s a weekday, so it should be fine.”
“That sounds good. Ah, I’ll tell you in advance, Senior, the name on the lease will be mine.”
“Huh? Why? I’ll pay all the money, you know?”
You’re not thinking about after we break up, are you? (We’re not dating)
“You might have a hard time. You’re an F-rank adventurer. At least D would be…”
Ah, the screening won’t go through…
“I see. Then, let’s do that. I don’t mind either way.”
“I’m sorry, even though you’re paying for everything.”
“Don’t worry about it. I just want to be with Kaede-chan.”
“Senior… I’ll mooch off you for the rest of my life.”
Choose your words!
“Do it, do it. Become a stick insect. More importantly, when will I stop being F-rank?”
“You can apply to be E.”
I can, huh?
“Really?”
“The rank is determined by the discretion of the guild staff and the Guild Master’s permission. From my personal point of view, you are E, Senior. I can’t approve D because your experience is still shallow, regardless of your abilities.”