episode_0083

83. Next Schedule (3)

“Okay, let’s have dinner and then have a meeting.”

“””Yes-“””

After returning to the accommodation, we all had dinner together and called Claude and my colleagues to my room like during the day and talked about what happened that day.

“Yes, Cain!! I bought clothes with my sister and pretty underwear too, and I bought everything!!!”

“Really?”

“Shi…Shi?!”

“Yeah!! Sister Lauren’s panties are like this…..umm umm!!!”

Sia was having so much fun shopping with Lauren, who looked as young as her peers, that Lauren quickly covered Sia’s mouth as she tried to tell her about the underwear design Lauren had bought.

Soon Lauren wrote down something like a list of the items she had bought and handed it to me.

“Oh… It looks like you’ve organized the documents quite a bit?”

“Huh! If you can’t even do this, it won’t be good!”

Lauren’s ears perk up in delight at my compliments.

An easy guy to get to know.

“Okay. Lauren, from now on, we can share paperwork and stuff like that.”

“Well… If I’m not busy, I’ll help you.”

I gave her 5 silver for the budget, but she turned her head to look at Claude when she saw that she had bought not only clothes and underwear but also daily necessities at prices that were more outrageous than she had expected.

“Claude, did you help me?”

“Huh? What… hahaha!”

That guy who usually finds things annoying and just buys them carelessly must have been pestering the store clerks every time he went to the store.

“Lauren here.”

“Huh? What is this?”

“Do you know what herbs and plants the potion workshops buy themselves?”

“da…. Moonflower is this price? OMG!! And….”

Lauren’s voice began to tremble as she looked at the paper she had obtained from the potion workshop.

“Why? Are they too absurd or hard to find?”

“Ah…no!! Isn’t that the gathering area!”

“Uh.”

“More than half of the ingredients listed here are there!”

“Really?”

Alchemists hire explorers to go outside the city to collect materials once in a while, and they also occasionally give out requests, but more than half of them are in the gathering area?

“Good. When staying in the city, let’s have Lauren gather herbs or gather them for us. Looking at the unit price, it seems like we can make more money by dealing directly like this than by receiving gathering requests from the guild.”

“Ah..I understand! Just leave it to me!!!”

He continued talking while looking at Lauren, who answered with a triumphant expression.

“Ah, while we’re on the subject, let’s talk about our public funds and distributions again.”

“What..!”

“Yeah.”

“What is the distribution, Cain?”

My colleague is coming back and there’s also Claude’s troubles, so I’ll have to sort things out again this time.

“Everyone, look at this paper.”

He began to slowly explain to his colleagues, writing numbers on a piece of paper.

“The cost of accommodation has increased a bit since Lauren came in. Four people for ten days, 14 silver.”

The cost of two rooms for ten days + breakfast was 3 silver, and the cost of 20 meals for three people was 7 silver, for a total of 10 silver, but with Lauren added, the cost went up by about 4 silver.

“Claude equipment installment is 3 silver per month.”

Swish swish swish-

“Consumables… There is a way to reduce them further, but for now, let’s set them at 3 silver.”

Now that Carmela has decided to give us unlimited supplies, we won’t have to worry about running out of money, but let’s talk about saving up some extra money for now.

“Anyway, after deducting this and that, the remaining amount was divided into half as public funds and the rest was divided according to the number of people on a monthly basis.”

“Ugh…!”

“Claude had an accident recently, so Claude decided to take only a tenth of the money he was splitting up and put the rest into public funds.”

“Why?”

“Huh?”

Sia and Lauren looked at Claude and then tilted their heads at me.

“It’s a serious accident, so I have to compensate for it. Anyway, Lauren’s coming won’t change the way we divide the distribution.”

“Arasseo!!!”

“Yeah…”

“Hmm… Cain. Didn’t you say we were all going to the labyrinth together?”

“Ah, I should tell you this too. If you do commissions or side jobs alone in the city, it’s up to the person who earned the money. Even if you don’t put it into the public treasury, no one will say anything, and even if you do put it into the public treasury, don’t put more than half of it. As long as it doesn’t interfere with your exploration, you can use the money however you want.”

“Ah…”

“That’s why I put Lauren in charge of collecting.”

“Ahhh…!!!”

As an elf, she has a better eye for herbs and plants than we do, so she’ll probably make a lot of money from her side job.

Lauren was put in charge of gathering with the intention of sending him to a training school if he made no progress in swordsmanship while saving money through side jobs.

Lauren also seemed to sense my intentions and grabbed my hand, saying she liked it very much.

“Thank you!! Really thank you!!!! Kaiin!!”

“Sister hehe…”

“….”

“Ah….Ahhhh!! I’m sorry for my shameful behavior, Cain. Ahem!!!”

The meeting ended with everyone laughing and talking about this and that while watching Lauren’s character collapse to the point where even Sia laughed awkwardly.

Before going to bed, I sneak into Sia’s room and suck each other’s parts, draining water and cum. Then I go back to the room and try to sleep, but Claude mutters.

“Looking forward to tomorrow.”

“What?”

“Training with Lauren.”

“You know you’re sparring with me, right?”

“Fuck…. Why are sparring with you getting harder and harder?”

Why, it’s because your patterns are so obvious with the swordsmanship protection I stole.

“I know? Is it because you’re an idiot?”

“Want to fall behind?”

“So, did you have a good time at the tail room yesterday?”

“Ugh….!”

‘Hitomi’

Claude

[Hannah] – 50%

[Lauren Sarsil] – 35%

[Sia] – 15%

Since I didn’t get any notifications after introducing Lauren, I guess it’s no use liking a guy since she’s already fallen.

It’s a shame that I got caught in one fucking fight.

“No, I’m just curious. What is it like?”

“Um… First of all….”

I closed my eyes with a hazy expression and saw Claude’s expression getting more and more fucked up as his philtrum grew wider. I got annoyed and just covered myself with the blanket and turned around.

“Okay. I hate seeing your expression getting so fucked up. Talk to me next time.”

“개새끼야!”

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From the next morning, the empty lot behind the inn was noisy.

After breakfast, we did a 30-minute intense workout with Claude and then did some weight training. At first, Claude was humming along because he liked the fact that he and Lauren were doing it together.

“Ugh! Gasp!! Lo…Loren…”

“No! Leader, your lower body is important. Get back to your posture!”

“That…stop…!”

“What? It’s only been two hours and you’re already tired? Huh..!”

150 years of Lauren’s vicious curriculum crumbled in less than an hour.

After about two hours, Lauren was looking down at Claude with the look of a disappointed platoon leader, and I approached them.

“Lauren.”

“Huh? What’s going on, Cain.”

“I feel like you may have trained too much based on your standards.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. It’s true that we became strong without any basics or training, so our basics are weak, but your training intensity is a bit harsh by human standards.”

“I didn’t think of that… Sorry.”

Lauren, who had been thinking deeply about my words, bowed and apologized to me.

“No, you don’t have to be sorry, just adjust well in the future.”

“Okay… Leader, let’s take a break and try again in the afternoon.”

Lauren, who was apologizing to me like that, turns her gaze to Claude and suggests that they train together in the afternoon.

“Huh…huh! Oh…even in the afternoon? Me…”

“Hmm? I heard from Cain that you train all day long.”

“Lauren, tell Claude to do whatever he wants in the afternoon, and Lauren, like we said yesterday, let’s go buy some gear together.”

“Okay…equipment!!”

She was excited when she heard about the equipment yesterday, and her ears are perking up again.

“Yes, and starting tomorrow afternoon, go back and forth to the gathering area with Sia and gather.”

“Ah…! I see.”

“Since Sia doesn’t have a good concentration, it won’t help you gather, but just going back and forth will help build up Sia’s stamina. And since Sia seems to like you too, you two can become closer.”

“Chi..close.. honey!! Okay, I got it!!!”

Lauren blushes at the mention of getting closer to Sia. Should we try Sia and Bobby later?

The reason I’m attaching Sia to Lauren like this and making them become close is to have Lauren notice the strange relationship between me and Sia through many conversations with Sia.

Lauren had a vague idea that Sia was bright, but here was a love triangle? If Lauren had said a word or two to Sia, who still hadn’t fully realized what love was, Sia’s currently sluggish Hitomi rating would have likely gone up.

There is a possibility that Sia will be swayed by Lauren’s nonsensical stories that have been brainwashed by picture books, but before that, I have to mentally educate Lauren.

As the person involved, I was still feeling entangled with Claude, so it was a bit difficult to convince her to say, “You like me!”, and I thought that if someone else pointed it out, Sia would probably fall for it too.

“Then, shall we go out with Sia and have lunch?”

“Okay, I got it. Sia!”

“Hehe…! Hehe… Sister…”

Lauren approached Sia, who was lightly running outside the open space, avoiding Claude who was sprawled on the floor.

“The posture is… amazing. Isn’t it really good?”

“Hehehe Cain told me to tell you…. Hehe…”

“Oh… As expected… Amazing…”

So Lauren helped Sia run a little more, and after the morning training was over, we had lunch and went our separate ways.

Claude said he was taking a break for the first time in a while, and Sia said she was just rolling around, so they both went into their rooms. After Lauren finished getting ready to go out, we met in front of the dorm.

“Oh, it’s pretty. Did you buy it yesterday?”

“Uh…yeah, that’s right.”

If the clothes she originally had were traditional elven costumes and had a plain feel, the clothes she was wearing now were a similar green one-piece dress that was more suitable for going out or going out.

It’s cute how you curl up like a shy girl when there’s just the two of you.

“What about underwear?”

“ in?”

Lauren’s face turns redder as I stare at her thighs and mention her underwear.

Lauren’s face turns red for a moment, but soon her face turns slightly pale and she stutters.

“If you’re curious…take it off and take a look… Huh!”

My head hurts. What kind of character is this?