Labor Shortage

The season flew by and it became Summer.

I was in my room in the [Dancing Dolls Pavilion] I may be the one who made the inn, but it was a comparatively good room.

When I looked outside my rooms window, I could see the pleasant blue sky.

Its seriously hot. While thinking that it still had four seasons despite being another world, I stuck my feet into a wooden bucket filled with water.

Aaah, this cool water feels so good Well, it probably wont stay that cold for long though.

Its been several months since I came to this world. Somehow or another, Ive become a dungeon master and I think that Ive done a pretty good job working Think Im done working though. I made a toll fee mechanism for the tunnel I went through great pains to make through Tsuia Mountain. With that, even though Ive finally been able to get easy income now Im busy managing the inns operations and profits from the toll. Oh right, maybe its time to get some more people? More people to use for the inn that is.

As for the dungeons primary business, I decided that golems that sometimes carried knifes would wander around the second and third floors that were the labyrinth areas. Of course, the knifes were golem blades. The knife magic sword improved its sharpness by vibrating the magical power that filled it. People could get the knife magic sword if they managed to safely beat it. Theres still just five of them though.

Also, Ive added iron golem spawners. Though they cost 50,000 DP each, thanks to Haku-san coming over a few times to visit, there are now iron golems wandering around past the riddle area. Meaning, she gave me a huge payment in DP for them. Ah, theres also one in the labyrinth area that occasionally clashes with adventurers. Theyre hard to defeat so people usually run away when they encounter them though.

Thanks to finagling out such an outcome, today there are three parties (one is a beginner party that came to gain fighting experience against goblins) in the labyrinth.

For the riddle area on the fourth floor no ones solved it even though its been found. One party was just barely able to reach it by chance, but since they were exhausted, they turned back while wary of traps. After that, there have been people getting incredibly irritated after losing their way in the labyrinth, but no one else has been able to reach it again Looks like people still havent figured out that that correct route changes at fixed times yet.

The income weve gotten from people coming to the inn and tunnel is DP and money. Thanks to that, my current lifestyle has gotten pretty easy. I can even turn money into DP. Thats why Im just lazing in my room.

Therefore, I think Im going to just sleep in my room all day today and not do anything.

Maybe I should put an air conditioner in my room actually, maybe theres some kind of life magic thatd let me spend my time in Summer comfortably? Wait, come to think of it the only life magic Ive been using is [Cleanup] huh Even though I went to such great lengths to learn the magic skill, it feels like Ive just been using [Create Golem].

Thats somewhat sacrilegious right, lets replace the water in this wood bucket with water from the low class water-type magic [Water].

I threw the water from the wooden bucket out of the window.

While anxious, I input the chant as according to the scroll into my head.

Fumu fumu [Water, form a small sphere] huh? Lets mix it up a bit.

Cold water, form a smallish sphere. [Water].

I felt a little of my magical power drain away as a sphere of water appeared in front of me. Then, it fell into the wooden bucket with a splash as planned. Yep, its cold.

Its the first time Ive used a magic other than [Create Golem] in a while now. Though as expected, magic is convenient.

Kehma, mine too~

It was my partner who was also in my room for some reason, the dungeon core, Rokuko. Oi, this is my room. I have made it pretty wonderful though.

I exchanged the water in Rokukos bucket with cold water by chanting again.

Aah~, Kehmas magic really is strange~. It doesnt feel so nice and cool when me or Meat does it!

Its not changed normally after all.

It cant be you know? Normally.

I thought thered be a language analysis done on the languages patterns or something, but according to Rokuko theres no one other than me, who has the translation cheat, that can modify magic. Rokuko doesnt really know about many people since she doesnt leave far from her dungeon core though wait, me, my slaves Meat and Ichika isnt that just three people? Ah, theres Haku-san too. Dungeon Core No. 89s turned into our dungeons god of fortune. Imperial Capital Bigshot-san.

Well, with her relationship with the hotel recently, hey, Ive gotten to know the guilds Receptionist-san too! S-Siliana-san.

I probably wouldnt be that wrong to consider her as another.

Our relationship with the guild isnt bad. Although the guilds branch office was mostly built by now, Receptionist-san still eats here, as well as bathing here once a week. Looks like she likes it a lot.

Since the place where the guild is located is part of the dungeons territory, we get a bit over 80 DP per day from Receptionist-san. Its really delicious. Wed get twice as much if she stayed in a locked room though

Goshujin-sama, please replenish the food.

Meat, who was in charge of taking food to the dining room, entered its troublesome, but theres no choice but to do it. I took out some side dish breads and low quality dishes and passed them to Meat.

Meat stowed the dishes I handed her away into her space-time magic, [Storage]. Shed take them out in the kitchen to give to guests. Meals you could get in convenience stores and family restaurants in Japan were very popular in this world. Theres even been adventurers these days that purposely came for the food.

Rather, its fine even if Rokuko bought them with DP, but for some reason its a higher quality when I do it. I wonder if its because of a difference in knowledge?

Oh? Meat dropped one of them while I was handing them to her. Fortunately, since the side dish breads came wrapped in plastic, it wasnt much of a deal even if they dropped on the floor.

Your complexion doesnt look that good. Are you okay?

I finally noticed that Meats complexion looked off. I didnt notice sooner because she normally has beautiful tanned skin, like she went suntanning. It wouldve been easier to tell if she was fair-skinned like Rokuko though.

Eh, ah Im fine, I think.

Meat was a dog eared beastkin, so her body was strong compared to normal humans. However, she was still a child that might not even be in the double digits age-wise. I put my hand to Meats forehead. Sweat was sticking to her skin and she was terribly hot.

Go rest!

Hya eh, y-yes

I laid Meat down on the futon and went out to the dining room for her.

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Meat is fatigued, huh. Its probably from overworking along with the heat. Ill have her rest properly.

Well, I realized something.

We have a labor shortage!

Well yeah, I mean Ive vaguely noticed it already. The number of guests weve been getting has gradually increased lately.

First, theres one person at the reception. Then, theres another person in the dining area. Those two people are absolutely necessary to keep the inn running. We only have four people, me included, to manage the dungeon and inn.

That isnt enough people. Moreover, wed need two more at the least.

Since physical labor can be taken care of by the golems, we basically just need humans to take care of our visitors.

Since theres things like the life magics [Cleanup], washing and cleaning in this world is overwhelmingly easy, but serving customers still uses up stamina and willpower.

I was serving tables today instead of Meat, but even though its different from town restaurants and we only had a few customers, Meat was amazing at managing the dining room by herself. Seriously.

I mean, theres practically been no complaints about the dining room. Though Ichika was the one running the reception desk where complaints were received, and Meats a child, a slave, and a child, you could count the number of complaints on a single hand. Additionally, it hasnt even happened again after the first time.

I was just serving tables today but the number of complaints has already risen a level. Come on, what the heck? It settled down when I asked Rokuko to lend a hand, but maybe its that. These guys are just lolicons.

I keep forgetting about it and am not really conscious of it, but when magic is used, magical powerI guess something like mental staminagets used as well.

Meat uses [Storage] to take the dishes out, so its probably a big burden on her.

I carelessly overlooked it since shes been working with a healthy face, but she must have been incredibly tired every day. Even with that Ive been using Meat as my hug pillow when I sleep. Even then she wouldnt show off an unpleasant expression and would just smile its fine to say something even if youre my slave, you super girl.

Goshujin-sama?

Oh, did I wake you up? How are you doing?

I gently stroked Meats head. Her dog tail wagged happily under the towel blanket she was laying under. She was obviously happy. [1]

Im fine already.

Keep sleeping. You dont have to be my hug pillow today.

Ugu b-but, this is Goshujin-samas sleeping spot

Dont worry, there are other rooms open. Thankfully, this is an inn.

Like that, I tucked Meat in.

Lonely since she cant work, she really is just like a big faithful dog.

I mean, right. I still havent set up proper vacation days yet. Ive just been sleeping when I feel like it, and though Ive told Ichika and Meat to do whatever they wanted when therere no guests, the number of days like that have decreased recently rather, its more like we have guests every day now.

To add to that, Meats been working as my hug pillow.

She has no holidays and though Ive offered the daily necessities, since they dont really have salaries either, theyve basically been working nonstop with no pay.

Due to all of that, we have an overwhelming labor shortage.

For Meat and Ichikas sleep, as well as mine, I need to do something

Footnotes:

-> Towelket -> Towel Blanket. Made-up English word that Japanese use for something we dont have (kind of like a snuggie). Gave a link before, but here it is again.