episode_0014

“Is it today?”

Suiben Roche, a teacher at the Adventurer Academy.

Short cut orange hair as beautiful as a sunset and green eyes full of spirit.

Her facial features are quite dark, and she looks like a woman of considerable beauty.

However, even though she is a woman, she boasts a huge physique that seems to be close to 180cm tall.

A former A-rank adventurer, he was an excellent vanguard tank.

“Ha.”

For some reason, she sighed, feeling a little regretful.

“Mr. Suiben. What’s going on?”

A female student wearing the academy uniform asked as she brought a healing potion to the counter.

“Huh? No… it’s nothing.”

She shook her head and calculated the healing potion the student had brought.

Yes.

This is a general store inside the academy.

It was a place that also provided guidance to students so that they could purchase and use the supplies they needed as adventurers.

And Suiben was temporarily in charge of running the store after his grandfather, the former owner of the general store, retired.

Since we can’t close it until we hire the next person, we are operating it with at least one teacher attached.

After all, if you are a veteran adventurer, you know how to use consumables and what precautions to take.

All you have to do is sell it to students for a reasonable price and teach them various things, so all you have to do is hire one of the teachers at the academy temporarily.

…Everyone thought so at first.

But… ordering insufficient items, dealing with alchemists, price wars, etc.

There were more things to consider in running a store than I thought.

If you make a mistake, it could be a waste of money and have a significant impact on the academy’s capital.

Under such circumstances, why was the general store entrusted to Suiben?

Nothing much.

Originally, she was an ‘aspiring merchant’ before realizing her talent and becoming an adventurer.

Wouldn’t it be better for someone who has learned something rather than other people who have only experience selling things like monster by-products or magic stones to the adventurer’s guild?

However, in the end, perhaps because he was an aspiring student who had studied briefly in the past, he was better than other teachers, but he was not that different.

“No, it wasn’t this price before…”

“Uh-huh, this person. You’re a beginner so you don’t know much. The price of raw materials has risen a lot. Labor costs also rose. Don’t you look at the empire’s economy these days?”

“……”

When I was dealing with alchemists who had experience dealing with countless merchants, I had no choice but to be pushed back.

Naturally, he ran the business at a greater loss than when the previous owner, his grandfather, took charge of it.

Because of this situation, Chairman Mureos chose an alchemist so that he could make the products himself.

And today is the day when the chosen successor comes.

After being informed of some of the rules to be followed at the academy, he said he would come here.

‘it’s a shame.’

Running a store was not easy.

I made a lot of mistakes, made mistakes in ordering, and got a lot of nagging from the staff who managed the funds.

But personally, Suiben was very fun and good.

Although she was a solid tank with the talent to become an A-rank adventurer, she always dreamed of becoming a merchant in her heart.

‘It was difficult but fun.’

So I had a lot of regret.

After handing over to the new person, it’s over.

It was time to go back to what I had been doing before, as a teacher teaching students in the vanguard position.

“Hello.”

Then, it finally came.

“Ah, hello.”

Suiben got up from the counter and greeted the person coming in.

He is not wearing an academy uniform and is someone I have never seen at the academy in the first place.

If you are a new teacher or a new security guard, there is no need to come here.

‘In other words, that person… is the successor.’

Although he is a bit shorter than her, standing around 180cm with a slim body.

The body itself does not look weak, perhaps because it has been trained in its own way.

‘But I guess this is because he was a C-rank adventurer.’

I have already received information about the successor, Edin, so I know to some extent.

Also, he was a C-rank adventurer.

Of course, even though her body is quite strong, she is close to 180cm tall even though she is a woman.

As she was a tank, she was similar to or slightly smaller than Suiben, who had a stocky body compared to a typical woman.

“My name is Edin, and I am the successor to the Academy General Store. Please take care of me.”

“Hmm…”

In fact, people who see Suiben for the first time are startled.

Aside from her pretty face, she is tall and bulky for a woman.

In addition, since he was an A-rank adventurer, his magical power and spirit were basically extraordinary.

This was especially true because of the oppressive force that was unique to top tanks.

However, Edin did not show any signs of surprise and greeted Suiben with a grin.

‘You’re not surprised to see me.’

Even if you heard information about Suiben in advance, seeing him in person makes you flinch a little, at least because of the tank’s spirit.

‘It’s not serious. I don’t think it’s an ordinary C rank.’

It’s familiar.

With this much spirit and magic.

Perhaps, among the people around me, there was Suiben… or someone who was giving off more pressure.

‘He is an entity that exudes more pressure than an A-rank tank.’

“Over there…”

Edin tilts his head and speaks to Suiben, who was evaluating Edin.

He thought it was strange that he was just looking at himself without answering.

‘Oops. Without realizing it, I have developed adventurer habits…’

Observing and understanding the other person.

A must for adventurers.

Is this person suitable as my colleague, can I win in a fight with that opponent, and is it possible that the client has set a trap?

When I was an adventurer, I always got into the habit of examining and evaluating people because of such things.

Not only that, but most people who have been adventurers for a long time will be like that.

However, in everyday situations, staring at people is rude.

Suiben immediately bowed his head and apologized.

“Oh, I’m sorry. Come this way. We will hand it over to you.”

“Yes, thank you.”

A regret is a regret, and Suiben is basically a person with a strong sense of responsibility.

That’s why I handed over the handover to Edin as hard as I could.

“You can write it like this. Oh, and because Edin was coming, the chairman created a separate manufacturing room. Would you like to come this way?”

How to use the counter, display method, location and organization of the warehouse, etc.

After telling him various things about the store, Suiben led him to the manufacturing room in the basement.

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Follow the instructions and head to the general store.

The Adventurer Academy has a site comparable to that of a small city.

Therefore, the education building, dormitory, and shopping center are all separated.

Naturally, miscellaneous stores are located in shopping districts.

It was adjacent to various restaurants, clothing stores, and prop shops.

Where students spend their money.

Basically, academy students are given a temporary registration certificate, and sometimes go outside and take classes to directly carry out requests.

So, if you are a fairly successful student, it means you will make some money.

Additionally, the shopping center within the academy offers students products at very low prices.

It is a structure that allows you to spend money at a level that you can enjoy.

Well, I didn’t use it that much when I was in school.

Anyway, we arrived at the general store.

“Oh…”

It is quite large compared to other stores.

It is a two-story structure, and the area itself is very spacious.

It was as big as two stores put together.

From the outside, it appears to be a two-story structure, but I heard that the second floor is where the general store owner lives.

I heard that the entire first floor is a general store, and the basement is being used as a warehouse.

Are you going to be staying here from now on?

I feel nervous about something.

I like it─

I sat down with a nervous mind and went inside.

“Ah, hello.”

A fairly tall woman walked out of the counter.

That person is a temporary teacher.

She is a woman and she is very tall.

Considering that he has a pretty sturdy body… he’s probably a tank.

However, her appearance is dark and pretty, and she is wearing tight-fitting clothes, perhaps to show off her toned body, so there is nothing to look at.

…Well, at least put on some outerwear or something.

I feel a little embarrassed.

He looked at me as if he was observing me, but it was probably a habit of veteran adventurers.

I just skip over it and receive her guidance.

“From here like this… Oh, and the warehouse was moved this way.”

While I was telling the story, my concentration was distracted as I could see the body line emphasized by the tight-fitting sportswear-like clothes right next to me.

She’s sturdy for a woman, but she’s not as bulky as male tanks; she’s just a muscular, sexy woman.

Well, I tried to listen hard… but I think I missed it a little bit because I couldn’t concentrate.

…Well, if you do it, you’ll memorize it all.

Anyway, after receiving that guidance.

Lastly, I headed to the manufacturing room that the chairman had prepared for me.

The warehouse, which was originally unnecessarily large, was moved to the first floor and part of the basement, and the remaining space was turned into a manufacturing room.

“They say they have all the facilities and equipment they think they will need, but they ask me to tell them if there is anything missing.”

“…Wow.”

Although that was said, there were a lot of things placed in the fairly large underground space.

A completely different level of equipment than the simple equipment I used.

When I took the test at the Adventurer’s Guild before, they used simple equipment similar to mine, so I thought it might be that much.

Glass flasks arranged by type… Huh?! It’s from the Principality of Mailu, which is said to be the best in the world when it comes to glassmaking, right?

In addition, semi-permanent lamps that are enchanted and do not require fuel, extractors imprinted with cooling magic to shorten the extraction process, etc.

There were a lot of devices that could only be found at the Alchemist’s Guild.

Are you saying you gave this to me so I could use it all?

It must have been very expensive…

At the same time, gratitude to Chairman Mureos poured in.

Suddenly, an even bigger burden began to come to me.

…How much do you expect from me?