Chapter 172.1
“Sorry to keep you waiting . ” [Orset]
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After waiting at the waiting room for a while, Mr . Moulton came back with Mr . Ox Lord, whom he recommended, and the rest of the 9 slave candidates I picked out . For the sake of the customers’ safety, all the slaves were dressed in thin clothes, where no weapons could be hidden, and were unarmed .
The 9 slaves were made up of humans and beast tribe members . Although there was only one man from the minotaur tribe, he also had an aura about him that made him stand out from the rest . It was obvious in one glance that he was the man Mr . Moulton was talking about .
His well trained body had countless scars on it and there was a kind of pressure that emanated from his sharp eyes . The person himself probably didn’t intend to, but a weak-minded person would surely shrivel up before him .
The horns coming out of his head were smaller than I expected . They protruded out only a little despite his shortly cut hair, which was probably kept that way to avoid getting in the way of battle . Coupled with the intimidating aura from his muscular body, he looks more like an ‘oni’ than a ‘bull’ .
I’m sorry for the rest of the slaves, but… As expected, they’re not in the same league .
The interview would have five of them sat in front of us at a time . So, a group interview, basically . He’s 10th on the list, so he’s in the second group .
He sat at the back of the first five . The chair he sat on that was close to the wall actually looked a little small .
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“Please talk to them as you wish . ”
I did as Mr . Moulton said and started by asking them their names .
When I did, a fierce battle of appeal started . They did remember to talk in order, though .
To them, being purchased here is one step to freedom .
But considering how that handsome man is looking at us so happily, he might have done something else .
…But whatever . For the meantime, I’ll just talk to these guys .
This is the second time I’m interviewing people, but technically, this is the first time .
When I hired Fei-san and the others, for some reason, everyone else left .
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Since then I’ve been hiring people introduced to me, so I’ve never had to interview a lot of people officially .
I’ve interviewed a lot of people in my past life, but things are a bit different there .
There’s the continuing appeal battle too, but…
“At the age of ten, I entered the dojo of the famous adventurer, Belbios, and acquired a 3rd Dan diploma of the Belbios School of Sword . ” [Candidate 1]
“Umm… As for me, I only have my status board to prove my abilities, but I’ve trained my skills on the field as an adventurer, and I’ve lived until now without dying . So…” [Candidate 2]
“I absolutely won’t allow you to make a loss! Please buy me!” [Candidate 3]
The difference in their speech skills was evident .
In my past life, about 70 to 80 percent memorized the ideal answers in interviews . The other 10 percent tried to appeal their individuality, but that was a fruitless effort . That or they had the wrong idea about individuality . There was only about 10% that really felt different from the rest .
Makes sense since most of the new graduates and midway-through college are throughly studying the key points to pay attention to during interviews and the different techniques, so they more or less learned the same techniques . And probably because people poor at talking were more reliant on those techniques… And they all practiced them throughly, the claims made were pretty much the same thing .
There aren’t any jobs you can’t do unless you’re in the company I worked at at the time and I highly doubt anyone would actually make it their first choice . It was an impersonal company, but I never really felt like asking why the people wanted to apply anyway .
I doubt these people have much of a reason to apply on their own volition either .
For people like them who don’t have a choice what work they do, the only reason they’re here is because they were told that someone was thinking of buying them .
Whatever reason they’re here for it’s purely because they want to be hired . That’s it . It’s not because it’s specifically my store that they’re trying to appeal so much .
But this world doesn’t have the internet .
There’s no way to study interview techniques here like a person can back on Earth, although there might still be places that teach them .
Maybe that’s the reason why they’re not relying on any technique and are just using their words to talk about their enthusiasm .
…Because of that there’s a clear difference between people good at talking and those that are bad at talking, but… I personally like it .
This way makes it a lot easier to understand them rather than if they were keeping up appearances .
“Thank you very much . ” [Ryouma]
After talking to the first five to some extent, I moved on to the next five .
The appeal battle started again .
The Ox Lord that Mr . Moulton and I were talking about was a man of few words . Moreover, he was looking at us directly .
He’s enthusiastic too, but the direction of that enthusiasm seemed to be different compared to the others .
“Do you have any questions?” [Ryouma]