Lets Procure Some New Employees

Since Meat returned to being my hug pillow before I noticed it, she probably recovered from lying down all night. Looks like she slipped in while I was asleep, what a zealous worker. She even paid attention to changing the comforter out for a towel blanket so that it wouldnt be hot.

Though I said we had a labor shortage, this inn thats also a dungeon has a lot of secrets.

Like how we use the dungeon core to light up Rokukos room.

We cant hire standard employees. So then, what do we do? We get another one like Ichika. But we probably wont find as good a bargain as Ichika again. But but! We need more employees that can stay and house-sit.

With the amount of people we have right now, I cant even take anyone out to the human village. Despite going to such great pains to open that tunnel, Ichika cant go visit her hometown, Pavuera. Ive gotten a few goods from guests using the tunnel from Pavuera though.

Even though theyll hand us stuff like fish while saying, Please cook this! Its not like I can cook.

And then theres the mysterious chef that cooks for the inn. Our setting has him named Ex Travagant-san. The setting has no use though since we dont even have that praiseworthy person called a chef though

Seems like Ichikas only interested in cooking to eat it Ah, she made some grilled fish. Then I ate it myself.

Right, our next employee should really be someone that knows how to cook. If they can reproduce dishes that we serve using DP, the inn can continue running even if Rokuko and I arent here so long as there are ingredients. Sooner or later Rokukos probably going to want to go and visit Haku-san.

And so, this time Im going to summon an employee~

Summon an employee ah. A human-type monster that can mimicry!

A monster like a [Succubus], as in like Haku-sans butler, Chloe. In other words, an intelligent human-type, and if possible Id prefer a female-type monster thats good at cooking and has beautiful legs.

Furthermore, male-type ones are no good since this dungeons sponsor (Haku-san) said so and its not like I want to have a harem.

Its pricey though you know?

Yeah it might be cheaper than a slave once alls said and done though. Even after subtracting the amount of DP itd take to teach them [Storage], itd be cheaper.

Then maybe I should purposely try to make it an expensive human-type monster? That way if the monster is intelligent, it might be able to use DP. Eh, maybe human-type monsters are expensive because theyre able to use DP?

I see! If its a monster that can use DP I can go out as well huh!

Thats right And because of that, maybe a succubus is the best way to go? Their war potential is reassuring and they have good abilities too.

Chloe set a good precedent for them, so theres a sense of security but, what about like Redra? A red dragon. They can look like a human even though theyre a dragon by using their human form technique.

I wont argue their strength, but we dont have enough DP for a dragon that can use a human form. Even Redra still had her tail. And Id prefer to get two or three people if we could

We wouldnt have enough for succubi either then you know?

Still, it was to the point that itd use practically all of our DP savings. I dont really think its a problem since we have a steady income now though.

Oh right. Phoenixes can learn how to have a human form. Its still an egg though! Wait, didnt you promise to get it hatched by that dragon breath a long time ago?

Craaap, completely forgot.

I wouldnt be able to use the phoenix egg for raw materials anymore if it hatched, so lets do it after I get a bit more from it is what I decided to do. In other words, I completely forgot about it after setting it up with the automatic egg smashing golem.

Theres probably plenty of materials now so lets go get it hatched?

Kehma? You havent perhaps been breaking the egg while its unhatched have you?

D-dont say something so scary.

While I was trembling, I went back to the topic.

That aside, isnt it better for it to be cheap and convenient? Ah. Fighting strength isnt needed right?

Yeah. Its more important that they can look after the inn than be able to fight

How about this then?

As for what Rokuko showed me, a [Vampire] wait, isnt it both really strong and really expensive?

I didnt know there were so many variations of vampires see? This one at the bottom is so cheap!

Its a lesser one so its intelligence might be a problem, how about the common one ooh, its still cheap? 30,000 DP huh, with the DP we have now its not that bad.

It might be a little painful, but thered be no problem if we converted our cash earnings into DP. Recently weve been getting more than 500 DP a day, so we wouldnt have any problems even if we used it all.

By the way, theres one over 1,000,000 DP. It says something like true ancestor

But dont vampires turn into ash if theyre hit by sunlight?

Theres a lot of customization options you know? Look at this! It even says sunlight immune!

Oi oi, isnt that expensive?

Thats why its optional!

The offensive capability option 100 was the upper limit, with 0 being the worst. The DP cost was practically synchronized with it.

Shouldnt we try out the offensive capability option at 0?

Taking the sunlight immunity option with it it became 1 DP.

As for all of its other weak point immunity options, they were all 1 DP. Cheap.

Things like bat transformation and blood weapons that were the core ability options for vampires were still expensive though.

Well, as a result of fiddling with the customization options

It doesnt have any kind of ability, it cant fly, even though it has fangs they have no offensive power, but it has no weak points a blood sucking oni?

It doesnt really need to suck blood either. It wasnt even a vampire at this point, it was fine just eating normal meat.

Moreover, its cost was around 15,000 DP even though it started out at 30,000 DP. About the same as a lesser vampire, oi. Well, it cant fight at all itd be completely useless if it werent smart.

Though it was doubtful if it could still be called a vampire, lets put this one on hold as a candidate.

What about this silky thing? It looks like a house fairy!

A silky. It would help with household things, a house fairy that you could say looked like a beautiful woman.

A beautiful woman, sounds good. Since they also werent that strong, they were at the reasonable price of 10,000 DP each.

Then this one might also be good. Its a [Zashiki Warashi]. 5,000 DP though. [1]

Hmm? Heeh. A luck fairy huh ah, it says that only people with pure hearts or children can see it.

Ah, unfortunate. Guests not being able to see it would be bad. Rejected.

Theres also this witch thing. How about that one?

Fumu, a witch huh? Maybe thatd be good? Its probably a human-type or rather, whats the difference between it and a human?

Eh? Isnt it because it has a magic stone?

Come to think of it, its a monster if it has a magic stone huh. Thats the basics of this world.

There was an option for the witch to be an apprentice, when it grew up itd be a sorcerer or something. 15,000 if its an apprentice huh apprentices are expensive. Rather, cant the monsters sort themselves by intelligence?

Ah, but they know magic from the start. Apprentices almost know two low class ones though.

Rather, come to think of it, how exactly does the system of using DP to summon monsters work? Maybe it takes them from another world like it did with me? Or maybe it just generates the monsters

Ignoring special cases like with Kehma, theyre generally created by DP you know? And theyll also normally obey if you order them.

Eh, so then what should I summon?

How about using the gacha?

For now, I decided to summon the monsters.

The [Vampire (Customized)], the [Silky], and the [Witch (Apprentice)].

In order to investigate which well get more of in the future, for now Im going to just summon one bodyerr, one personof each. [2]

Well Ill just have faith that at worst at least one of them will be smart enough to serve customers

Vampire, silky, witch, summon!

The magic formation expanded towards the edges of the room with a low hum, stopping at around one meter in diameter.

Then, there were three girls. They appeared from the magic formation.

The easiest one to figure out was the freckled girl with brown hair that held a staff and wore a robe. Shes probably the witch. She looked like a normal girl. If she isnt intelligent, shes a lie.

Then next was one with green hair wearing thin maid clothes shes probably the silky. Maid clothes, its the silky. Theres no way thats a vampire. At least she wasnt transparent or anything.

The last one was a silver-haired girl in black bondage clothes. By elimination, shes the vampire. I dont know if she has wings or fangs though.

The three girls that were floating in the magic formation slowly stepped onto the ground.

The vampire, with her silvery hair that extended to her lower back fluttering, opened her eyes.

She looked at Rokuko and me with her bright red pupils that looked like rubies.

How do you do, master

She talked! She can talk!

We did it Kehma! Shes smart!

Eh, umm

Ooh, the vampire is puzzled! Evidence that she can think properly!

How about you other two? Can you talk?

Eh? Ah, yes. Pleased to meet you, master.

I will serve you from here on. I am humbled to make your acquaintance, master.

It looks like both the witch and the silky can talk as well. All of them. Theyre all able to talk.

I have no problem with their looks either, its a total win. We did it!

Footnotes:

Wiki-sensei giving a link to save the day!

Doesnt translate well to EnglishKeima used counter for bodies instead of people here. He then corrected himself.