New Employees

Sleepsword Siesta wound up being added to the dungeons named monster list.

I was careless. Looks like the magic sword was a monster.

Because of that, I headed back to the dungeon, [Cave of Desires].

I was just going through it all day-by-day, but that really did take a while. Lets check over the situation again. After sleeping for a day, I called for Rei.

Let me check over whats going on, yeah?

Yes, master.

First of all was the dungeon.

Even though there were D-Rank adventurers and below training in the upper floors as ever, there were adventurers at the C-Rank level diving into the dungeon to target the Iron Golems. At the moment, it was a bit unreasonable for them to hope for magic sword blade golems.

Even if the riddle areas gone, making it down the spiral staircase just beyond that is a spectacular way to risk your life Nn? There are more traps there now. Why are there places that have spears popping out from the walls?

Ah, there were quite a few adventurers making it to the warehouse area, so I added them.

Hmm. Good decision. Itd be troublesome if too many of them got blade golems from the warehouse.

So Reis the one that added them? She did a great job with that.

How many people have made it to the warehouse area?

Eight parties. One party was annihilated at the spiral staircase, four parties just examined the Irregular Golems, and for the magic swords that the final three parties took away, three swords were stone, with the other three being iron, six swords in total. No parties made it beyond the warehouse.

So one party was annihilated? My condolences, and thanks for the treat. [1]

So six blade golems shipped in a month that might be a good pace? Lets replenish them later.

The inn?

We now have five people after gaining two new people, but there nothing is particularly different. There wouldnt be much fluctuation in customers within a month, after all.

Well, thats how itd be even with getting new staff. Two new people are working at the inn now. It looks like theyre staying at the inn, but maybe I should expand the employee dormitory? The Dungeon Battles over, so it should be peaceful for a little while.

Come to think of it, what sort of monsters are those newcomers? They both had cat ears, so are they a were beast-type like Misha?

Umm, they arent monsters. Theyre beastkin.

Beastkin? Could those be summoned with DP?

Exceptions like me could be summoned through the gacha, but there shouldnt be any things that are non-monster people (What Rokuko calls humans) or beastkin. [2]

At the very least, its not in my catalog. I dont think that Rei would be able to summon something that I, the Dungeon Master, cant though

How did you summon them with DP?

Ah, I did not use DP. I fed and employed the passing beastkin adventurers. I went with masters beloved policy of getting the maximum result at the lowest cost.

Rei spoke with a smile filling her face.

Umm. In other words, theyre not under the dungeons control?

They arent, but is that a problem?

How could it not be a problem!?

No, wait, wait. I havent heard anything though?

Eh, but I received permission from Rokuko-sama?

Seriously? Ill talk to her later well, umm. Isnt them not being under the dungeons control a problem?

They are only doing the things in the inn, so they are temporarily employed through the Adventurer Guild acting as an intermediary. There havent been any problems in the last two weeks.

Its alright then I guess?

We can simply report to the guild if they cause any sort of problem, so we only need to deal with them if our secret is exposed. There are no problems.

Oh, so clear-cut

Able to think about things so unexpectedly severe, Rei is a precious existence for our dungeon. Ive usually been making those kinds of decisions, but Ive gotten a bit more easy-going.

I sat up and started over.

What did you do with the 50,000 DP I gave you?

Eh? That other than the additional traps, everything went into my enhancements.

Huh? Reis enhancements?

Yes. My enhancements. It was to increase the dungeons fighting capability.

Hold up. That was meant to be used to summon newcomers

But we have newcomersthough theyre working here as a jobso I guess Rei using the rest how she wanted isnt a problem?

Hmm, Im a bit bothered that she used it to strengthen herself, but its Rei. Lets just go with it being alright.

That so? How are Kinue-san and Nerune doing?

Kinue has been working on increasing her cooking repertoire. Nerune has been absorbed in studying magic formations. She is still excited over the magic tools you gave her.

Kinue-sans buying cooking recipes with her salary, while Nerunes been excitedly talking to Kantra about magic formations. Looks like theyre both living their lives to the fullest.

As for Rei, it looks like she was happy that I had left my work to her. Its great that shes so loyal.

I heard enough, so I decided to go see Rokuko.

Naturally, it was to talk about the newcomers.

Oi Rokuko! Lets talk for a bit.

What is it? You want to use the Godly Comforter?

Thats that and this is this. Its about the new people we hired.

Eh, even though its been so long?

It mightve been so long to Rokuko, but I just heard about it for the first time.

They were just hired through the Adventurer Guild. Rei suggested it and I thought about it.

But itd be bad if our inns secret was exposed though?

Its not like wed tell the part-time employees something like that. Its also not like our inns shady. Right?

What about the golems?

Theyre just ordinary Clay Golems that Kehma summoned. Were going with the pretense that youre resupplying their magical power, its not weird at all.

What about the cooking?

Kinues doing the cooking. We barely use DP to get food nowadays, and although we use DP for the ingredients, it just looks like were getting it from the storehouse and [Storage].

The onsen

The part-timers are entrusted with the inns reception and serving customers in the dining area. Cleaning is taken care of through [Cleanup] and Kinues hobbies, while the hot water is just seen as [Some sort of magic tool]. Ah, the receptions register is like that too.

Huh? Somehow did Rokuko just defeat me in logic? I cant argue at all.

It looks like the part-timers arent a problem at all. Rather, isnt it a good idea to hire part-timers and concentrate wholly on the dungeon?

By the way, were offering meals and rooms to the part-timers for free for their payment. Were paying a bit to the guild for the handling charges, but considering the inns profits, its tiny.

Rokukos seriously grown up recently.

By the way, were they interviewed?

Un, by me, Rei, and Ichika. Rather, I called for you too, but you were asleep.

Come to think of it, there was a time when Rokuko came back here during the stuff with the Dungeon Battle huh.

It also feels like I was told about something

Hmm, maybe I should have a talk with them too?

Could you call them over now?

Eh? Hmm, well, it should be alright if its right now. Its about time they got off work.

In that case, please call them in for an interview.

Got it. Ill tell Rei. Dont fall asleep waiting alright?

Rokuko got in touch with Rei.

All things considered, those part-timers what kind of people are they? Im basically on their employers side, so I have to be stern Aah, Im getting nervous.

Footnotes:

This is sort of a joke. He said Goshuushousama (My condolences), soshite (and) gochisousama (thanks for the treat). Just one difference in the phonetics. ^^ Return

Note that Rokuko only ever refers to humans with ningen (human) in katakana, rather than in kanji. It hasnt been important to the story so far, so I havent mentioned it, though Return

Author Note:

Were finally at 200 thinking back, its already been one and a half years since I started this series hasnt it? As always, thank you so much.