บท 4: Chapter 3: I'm ready

"Alright– good work everyone–! That's it for today! Here, this is the salary for today."

"Thank you. Good job today boss-!"

"Good job-!"

After the boss announced the end of the work day, Terly and I received our salary, bowed and greeted him.

"Everyone, we will make a move first-!"

"Good bye-!"

"Oh- thanks for your hard work! I'm counting on you tomorrow too."

I bid farewell to my seniors while Terly followed my lead.

After hearing the reply from the seniors, Terly and I left the workplace.

Ah, I worked the whole of today too.

Even I am beginning to doubt that I was ever a hikikomori.

Terly and I took our salary for the day and head for the public bath. The public bath was no different from the ones in Japan.

Judging from the average salary, the entrance fee were higher than Japan. But I couldn't change the habit of taking a bath after finishing work.

"Ah~… I'm alive again~…"

I soaked my shoulders into the warm water, leisurely relieving my fatigue

from work.

This place seemed to be from the middle ages, so I thought it would be luxurious to take a bath here, but that was just me.

I am grateful, so grateful…!

After leaving the bath, I saw Terly waiting at the entrance for me.

Bathing longer than a girl was a bit off, but that was the nature of Japanese.

"What would you like to eat today? I want some smoke lizard hamburger steak. And the heart freezing crimson neroid!"

"I want to eat meat too. Let's go to the tavern and get two smoke lizard steak set meal."

"Agreed!"

After finishing our meal, Terly and I didn't have anything to do and went to the stables.

Picking hay that wasn't stained by horse manure to make a bed, we lay down immediately. Terly was sleeping besides me as usual.

"Well then, good night~"

"Good night. Phew… I worked hard today too…"

And so I drifted off into dream land…

"No, wait a minute."

I suddenly sat up.

"What is it? You forgot to go to the washroom? It's dark out there, need me to accompany you?"

"No way. Hold on, it's not that. I just realized we had been living the life of a manual laborer so far."

That's right. For the past 2 weeks, Terly and I had been working on the walls outside the city.

We were construction workers. That was too far off from the life of an adventurer I was aspiring to live in this world. Or rather, why did Terly get used to this lifestyle without any complaints.

Weren't you a goddess?

"You don't work, you don't eat, isn't that obvious? HikiNEETs are really picky. If you prefer to, you can work as a store clerk too!"

"No! It's not that. How should I put this? What I am after is an exciting battle against monsters! A life like that! And isn't this world in a crisis with the invasion of the demon king?

Isn't it amazingly peaceful here, there are no signs of demons at all, hey!"

I got excited as I spoke and my voice got louder, and was lectured by our neighbors.

"Hey, can it! Be quiet!"

"Ah, sorry!"

Adventurers who were just starting out were poor. It was normally impossible for us to rent a room in the tavern every night. Normally, they will share the rent with other

adventurers and sleep in the communal room. Or they could do what we were doing and sleep on the hay in the stables.

Yes, this was different from the adventurer lifestyle in the alternate way I was looking forward to. Staying in the tavern daily was the same as sleeping in a hotel every day in

Japan. It was impossible for adventurers with unstable income.

… That's right, our income wasn't stable.

There wasn't any simple herb picking or monster hunting 'missions' that appeared in games. Monsters don't burst into treats and money when you kill them. The monsters staying in the forest near town had long been exterminated.

The forest had turned safe after the monsters were gone, so no one would hire people to harvest material for them.

This was obvious.

The outdoors was so safe that the children were allowed to roam free.There were guards manning the gate, but instead of maintaining round the clock security, it was easier to exterminate all the dangerous monsters since the forest wasn't too large.It was the most logical method, but I would rather not know this.

An adventurer who was just slightly stronger than normal people could spend half a day harvesting herbs that were easy to spot, and earn enough for food and lodging.

There was no way such an easy job existed.

Japan was a prosperous nation on earth, but there wasn't any laborer who could live in a hotel with their daily income.

Minimum wage? Labor laws? What are those, can we eat it?

That's the world this was.

"It's useless even if you tell me these. This is the town furthest away from the demon king's castle after all! Who would come all the way to attack a novice town at the borders… Anyway, Kanike wants to live more like an

adventurer right? You don't even have the proper equipment!"

Terly went straight to the point, and I couldn't protest.

That's right, Terly and I don't even have the minimum equipment. We were hoping to buy them, that's why we were working so hard at he construction site.

"Im getting bored of construction too… I didn't come to this world to be a laborer. I came to this world with no computers and games in order to adventure. And didn't you send me here to challenge the demon king?"

After hearing what I said, Terly made a 'what are you talking about face', pondered for a moment and responded:

"Oh! There was such a thing! I was so immersed in the happiness of labor

that I forgot. I couldn't go back if Kanike don't defeat the demon king."

Listening to her dumb reply, I recalled the counter lady's words. Seems that this girl's intelligence was really below average.

"Alright, let's go challenge the demon king! Don't worry, it will be a breeze with me here! Look forward to my performance!"

"That made me uneasy… But you are a goddess after all. I'm counting on you! Okay, we will buy some basic weapons and armor with the money we saved and go grinding tomorrow!"

"Leave it to me!"

"Didn't I tell you to can it! You want me to beat you up?!"

"I am very sorry!" x2

As I apologized to the other adventurers, I got ready to sleep with an excited heart.