Bab 21: 50,000

A few days after the emergency cabbage hunt quest. All the cabbage captured back then had been sold. And the adventurers got their bounties.

"Kanike, look. I earned a lot, so I tried enhancing the armor I sent in for repair… How is it?"

Inside the incredibly crowded adventurers guild filled with people collecting their bounties, Lighttress showed me the armor she got back from the repair shop happily. If I want to put it simply…

"This armor look like something an upstart son of nobility would wear."

"… Kanike is merciless no matter the time and place. Even I would want to hear an honest compliment some time."

Lighttress said with a dejected expression. How would I know? Anyway…

"There is someone even more problematic than you, so I don't have the time. Could you please take care of that pervert who is becoming worse than you?"

"Huff… huff… I can't, can't take it! The magic powers from this staff made from manatite, the color and glister… huff… huff…"

Meguma was hugging her pimped up staff and grinding her face against it. Manatite is a rare metal said to have special properties. Adding it in when making a staff would increase the power of spells. After strengthening her staff with her earnings, Megumin had been acting this way.

I heard the power of the explosion spell would increase by dozen or so percent. Why are you increasing the power of the explosion magic that was already over powered? Instead of doing that, shouldn't you learn magic that would be more convenient? I had plenty things like that which I wanted to say, but I don't really want to care about the current Meguma, so I decided to ignore her. I am already satisfied after collecting my rewards.

Lighttress who attracted the monsters who came because of the cabbage. Meguma who destroyed those monsters with a single spell. And Terly who chased the cabbage on her own without caring about these two. We decided not to split the earnings from the cabbage hunt and collect our own bounties. The one who suggested that was Terly whose harvest was only second to mine.And that person was waiting for her turn to collect the money, but…

"What did you say–? Wait, what is this?"

Terly's voice reverberated through the guild.

Hai… I hate this… As expected, Terly was arguing with the person manning the counter. She grabbed the collar of the counter lady and was protesting something.

"Why is there only 50,000 Eris! You know how many cabbage I caught? It's more than 20!"

"Erm, this is hard to say…"

"What!"

"… What Terly-san turned in was mostly lettuce…"

"… Why was lettuce mixed in there!"

"Even if you ask me that, I won't know!"

From their conversation, there seemed to be a problem with the bounty. Terly probably realized there was no use in arguing with the counter lady, Terly put her hands behind her and approached me with a smile.

"Ka~nike-san! How much did you get from this quest?"

"A bit more than a million."

"Million!" x3

Terly, Lighttress and Meguma was stunned beyond words. That's right, I earned my first bucket of gold from the sudden quest. The cabbages I caught were mostly high grade cabbage that yield plenty of experience points. This is the difference in the luck stat.

"Kanike-sama–! How should I put this, I always thought you are a great person!"

"Don't push yourself if you can't think about how to compliment me. Let me say this first, I already decided how to utilize the money, so I won't give you any."

After hearing me interrupt her, Terly's smile stiffened.

"Kanike-san–! I thought I would earn a lot from the quest, so I spent all the money on me in the past few days! I estimated I would make a killing, so I owed nearly a hundred thousand Eris in this bar! I can't pay it off with the bounty!"

I pulled Terly who was crying as she clinged on me off. I wondered why can't this girl think things through carefully as I pressed on my temples.

"I don't care, you are the one who wanted 'everyone to keep their own earnings'. Anyway, I should find a base for myself. It's uncomfortable to keep staying in the stables right?"

Normally, adventurers won't buy a house.

Because adventurers do not seek stability and traveled a lot. There were few successful adventurers, most of them make only enough to get by, which was one of the reason. To be honest, it is impossible to take down the demon king with these members, so I am on the verge of giving up.

The job of fighting the demon king army should be left to the people sent here before me who had gotten powerful abilities and equipment. After all, I had the basic job anyone could take, the weakest job, an adventurer. And unlike those who had trained to be adventurers from the beginning, all my stats are low, I am really a commoner you could find anywhere. After adventuring in a safe place to satisfy my curiosity, I would be satisfied spending my days leisurely.

Hence, I am planning to find a small house to rent, and buy if it was cheap enough. Terly looked like she was going to cry as she grabbed onto me tightly.

"Why did it turn out like this ahhhh! Please Kanike, lend me money! Just enough to pay off my debts! I know Kanike is a boy and you would do sneaky things in the stables some times, so I understand why you want a private room! 50,000! Just 50,000 is enough!Please–!"

"I get it, 50,000 is just chump change! I really get it so shut up!"