This morning Sebasu-san informed me that the members of the Duke’s Family will be going to the office of the prefectural governor to meet him today. So like that I ended up by myself. The madam told me that it’s not good to walk around the town by myself and to stay in the lodging instead, but I can’t do that.
Since I’ve finally been registered to the guild, I figured I’d try to get a request. First off how about a generic herb collection quest?
I drag out of my item box, a basket attached to a wooden rack with shoulder straps that can be worn on my back, specifically made for the purpose of collecting things in the forest. I then put my slime inside that and go to the guild. As I look for the requests available for a G Rank, I find that there are requests to help out with Herb Collection, Sweeping, Moving Houses… etc.
At first I thought of accepting the request to help for collecting herbs but, it seems even if I don’t take it now and just take it once I get the herbs would also be fine. So I can just get a different mission and then get the herbs as I come back.
As I thought that I looked for missions other than herb collecting, and then by chance I found two sheets of written requests that stood out.
The contents were sweeping the house and cleaning the shared toilet.
The house aside, the shared toilet can be dealt with by the Scavenger Slime and the magic I came up with. Thinking that, I went to the reception and asked about these two requests.
“Excuse me, I have something I want to ask”
“Yes, may I know the specifics of these two requests?”
“Is it big?”
“Very much, actually. First off this thing about sweeping the house, well the thing is this person’s house is right next to a dump site. The client’s also unhappy about it but she got it cheap so she just endured it.”
But in these past few months, the wall of the basement separating the house from the dump site collapsed, and so the trash of the dump site ended up falling into the basement. And then because of the smell the family was troubled so they wanted someone to deal with it. But unless the wall is fixed the trash will just keep going in, but then in order to fix the wall, somehow someway you need to do something about the trash so it’s really just walking in circles.
And then there’s this shared toilet… originally the public office should have employed people with slimes but it seems no matter how much the public office tried to pay they got refused. So with no one to pump out the toilet, this request has been left here for 5 months already. There have also been complaints about the smell coming so… they probably won’t be able to keep it under the rug soon…”
“So there were concerns about catching diseases… because of the two cases…”
“Specifically, how big are these two cases?”
“Mainly food scraps for the garbage. And aside from that just the wastes from working with wood”
If it’s like that then I guess I can make the Scavenger Slime eat it…
“I see… then can I accept the request of the case regarding the house”
“Yes, since I have a magic for cleaning that’s convenient to use. Although because it takes up a lot of magic, there’s not lot of people that use it.”
“I understand”
As I said that I left the guild, and went to the house of the client. The house of the client was in the eastern part of the Town of Gimuru. Even inside the residential district there was an area where cheap house were lined up.
I knock on the door of the house… let’s knock one more time… no one’s still coming out… are they out? … I knock one more time but this time I call out as well.
“Hello anyone there! I’m someone from the Adventurer’s Guild who accepted your request to clean up!”
The moment I said that, I heard a sound that said dodododo! And the door was opened forcefully.
“Is it true you came here to clean nya!?”
The one who came out had cat ears on her head and a tail attached to her waist, a woman of the cat man tribe. I knew about them but this is my first time seeing one in the flesh. It’s unfortunate though that my first time meeting with a beast man had to be accompanied by the horrifying stench of food scraps. However as a former Japanese that had worked on the service industry, my smile won’t break!
“Yes, my name is Ryouma Takebayashi and I’ve been dispatched by the Adventurer’s Guild. Is it fine with the client?”
“Well then please confirm the request”
“Please do give me your thanks after the request has been fulfilled.”
“I’m sorry nya… I’m happy… because all the adventurers that had come here seemed really reluctant and kept complaining… and everyone stopped and went home midway nya… there were also people who couldn’t bear the smell as soon as they got to the front door and went home… even the people who said they’d do it until the end like you also left…”
All the adventurers until now, do try to endure it… there may be diseases, but it won't be at the entrance, right?
“Then, I want to start as soon as possible, the place I’m to work at is the basement, right?”
“I heard that the trash is made up food scraps and remnants of wood. In that case I have a convenient magic I can use.”
“Yes, the consumption of magic power is high so not a lot of people use it. And besides I also have my slave monster.”
“You were a Slave Magic User nya? Well to be honest as long as it ends up being clean, anything is fine nya. Then please take care of it quickly nya”
“None nya, to begin with the basement wasn’t even used as a storage room nya. And even if there was, considering it’s buried inside that trash, might as well throw it away nya.”
“Then in that case I’ll finish this quickly, and completely dispose of everything in the basement. This will be fine, yes?”
“Then please allow me to enter. Where’s the entrance to the basement?”
“Nya!? Wh–what’s wrong nya? Are you leaving…?”
“…nya? Eh, what do you mean?”
I brought Miya-san with a question mark floating over her head to the basement. When Miya-san saw the clean basement her mouth opened wide to the point it looked like her jaw was about to fall off.
“Nya… what did you do nya!?”
“Amazing nya! It really became clean nya! The trash kept going in so until now no one has managed to clean it nya! Come to think of it the hole’s being filled up too!?”
“Well since trash would go back in, I used Earth Magic and filled it up with the stone I made. There’s some different stones around that might be conspicuous, if it’s ugly I can remove it.”
“No need nya! I don’t mind and, once it’s been cleaned it up I’d been intending to block it. So, rather than saying it’s ugly I’m grateful nya.”
“Of course nya. Since you’ve managed to clean it up this fast, and even fixed the wall I’ll increase the payment nya!”
“Ara, it’s this morning’s”
“Eh? Completion? You didn’t abandon?”
“It’s because I had a really convenient magic”
“Well the client, Miya-san, was quite troubled since people kept refusing this request, so she kept increasing the price. Plus she also instructed to increase your remuneration”
“Also, the Guild Master said to call you when you came back”
“What do you mean? Ah… I am Ryouma Takebayashi by the way.”
“Is that how it is, thank you very much?”
“Ah, Guild Master”
“And who looks like a bandit you bastard!”
“Shaddap! I can’t help my face! But I’m not making a crooked face like a bandit!”
“Gu… if it’s the people of this town then there’s no problem…”
“Gufuu! … Enough… Ryouma, come”
The Guild Master who was hurt by Jeff’s words put his heart under control, and went back inside while calling me. I gave my greetings to the receptionist lady and Jeff-san and go after the Guild Master.
And then I got to the place where I went to yesterday, the room of the Guild Master.
“Sit somewhere appropriate… or wait, that thing you’re carrying on your back is that a basket? It stands out a lot”
“You were a Slave Magic User? I thought you were surely a hunter”
“You think? It’s a Slime after all.”
“From the times I’ve met that guy, I’d say it’s just because that bastard’s pride is too big”
“I see… Right, that talk about work. I heard that you already took a job today, it looks like it went well?”
“Ho–, that’s pretty good for a first job. I didn’t hear anything except for cleaning, but what kind of job did you take?”
“Did you know about it?”
“Is that so?”
“Yes”
“I had a magic that was good for the situation. It’s something that can be used when one has a lot of magic so it’s a rather hard to use magic, and so not a lot of people know about it. “
“Oh so you knew about it?”
“Then in that case the talk will be quick. The public office has brought out a cleaning request, and I don’t want the townsmen to say that the reason it wasn’t cleaned was because of the guild. The complaints have been coming in. Speaking of which, originally the cause was because the public office was stingy with bringing out money for the sake of the slum.”
“The receptionist lady also mentioned that, is that true?”
“If I’m correct it’s because of the decreasing production rate of the mine, right?”
“You’re a big help, thanks. The rewards will be plentiful.”
“Of course, even just knowing them, I think they’ll help”
“Well I don’t really have much to base it on but… I’m an orphan without anywhere to go and lived in the forest. There, I recently met everyone by chance. After that I’ve bothered them quite a bit here and there. They did that much for someone like me whom they barely knew.
Just me aside though, there’s no way they’ll be able to treat everyone in the slums just as they’ve treated me, right? But, I don’t think they’re the kind of people who wouldn’t feel anything knowing the current situation.”
“Yes. Well then, I should be going soon, since I want to finish my preparations for tomorrow.”
“You said it.”
Saying that, I left the room of the Guild Master as I laughed and then went back home. On the way I went to look for some cloths for western clothes and sewing tools. I found some cheap ones and bought a set, then I also bought an empty spool of thread.