I'm probably going to take my time around here to get ready for the opening.
You should at least take a nap when you get back to your quarters.

　After sending Hild off to do his business, I decided to start preparing for the opening of the White Wolf Store.

　Since it's been a long time since I've been here, I was a little worried that I'd forgotten the procedure, but as expected, my body seemed to remember it, so I was able to proceed without getting stuck.

　In the meantime, all the employees came to work, and preparations for welcoming our guests were progressing smoothly.

'Good morning, Luke-kun. Whew. ......
Yeah, good morning. Alexia not getting enough sleep either?
It's a bit of a job for a mechanical engineer. Once you start drawing, it's hard to find a way to stop.

　Biting down on a yawn, Alexia began to transfer the coins for change to the counter.

　Alexia's day job wasn't as an employee of this shop, nor was she an adventurer registered with the guild, but rather a crafty engineer who had been trained since she was young.

　She became an adventurer because she wanted the opportunity to acquire rare materials and test prototypes in the field.

　She met me when she was still a novice, and she became an employee of this store, which was short on staff, and she continues to work as a technician at .......

　In fact, one of the main reasons for coming to Green Hollow was to rescue my childhood friend Julia the Swordsman, who was a prisoner of the Demon King's army - the lover of the brave Falcon, but even after that was fulfilled, he volunteered to remain in town.

　The devices and goods made with Alexia's elaborate technology were highly valued not only by Green Hollow Town, but also by the Guild chapter and other Knights' chapters, contributing greatly to the town's development.

　On the contrary, thanks to bringing an acquaintance of his crafty engineer to such a mountainous area, the town's residents and adventurers alike had been able to live a more comfortable life.

''Don't be too reckless. The drowsy herbal tea that Erica concocted for me is still in the kitchen: ......
Well, I'll just get a drink before I go to work.
But it's so disgusting.

　Erika, the person who brought up the subject, joins in the conversation while wiping down the counter.

　The deliberate frown on her face is exactly what I felt when I drank the herbal tea.

It works perfectly, but I can't seem to get the taste right. It's probably more like a pill than a luxury item.
Yeah, I wish I'd explained that to you first.
I gave it to Garnett, telling him, 'It's not good,' right?
...... There's an insurmountable wall between 'unpalatable tea' and 'bad medicine'.

　In hindsight, I should probably have realized that the criterion for taste was "medicine" at the point that Erica, not Sylvia, was the one who mixed it.

　Erica is a girl born into a family of medicine masters, or apothecaries, and has studied to follow that path herself.

　However, Erica's dream of owning her own shop in the future caused a rift between her parents, who didn't like the idea.

　At the time, I had just opened a weapons store and was thinking about hiring more people to staff it.

　Erica heard about it from her friend Sylvia, who lived in a neighboring town, and came up with the idea to move to Green Hollow and save up some money for her own business, so she decided to work at the shop.

　It was at this time that I suggested that Erica sell the medicines she made in the store, and they were now a staple product that the town couldn't do without.

'Well, I'm pretty sure Leila is off today.

　As we get ready to open, I'll double-check the employee's schedule for the day.

　Beatrix Leila Hyndman.

　The girl who came to work in the main store of the White Wolf Store, or the most peculiar circumstances among the faces working in this store.

　It was at the time when the war with the Demon King Gandalf was about to end, and an unsuitable dispute was about to break out, such as me being anointed as a knight, and the Silverwing Knights and the Golden Fang Knights asking for membership.

　The palace was wary that the relationship between the Silverwing and the Golden Fang had been at odds with each other for a long time, so they came up with an alternative plan to entrust my custody to the Knights of the Dragon King, the Kingsguard, which is at the top of the twelve knightly corps.

　However, the Order of the Dragon King has a rule that they can only recruit members from their relatives.

　They can't accept me normally, so they thrust upon me the condition that if I would marry someone from the family and become a groom.

　The candidate who came in as a candidate was Leila, but the meeting was on the premise that if we didn't agree with each other, the proposal would be dismissed as unacceptable, and as expected, neither I nor Leila had any intention of making this plan work.

　Originally, this was where the conversation should have ended.

　After finishing her business, Leila was supposed to return to King's Landing and return to the state she was in before the proposal was made, but ...... and a certain reason, Leila chose to remain in Green Hollow and continue working here as a job in the meantime.

"Because ...... Luke, and Garnett, are ...... there, na ......

　Noir mumbled to me as he sat down in a chair behind the accounting counter.

'Yeah, that's true too. We were less staffed while we were gone, so it was hard to get a break.'
It's the Order's ...... official business, so it's no use.
I'm going to focus on my own work for the time being, so you should take the time off that you've been having trouble taking off. You don't want to get sick, do you?

　Noir nods a small nod with a chuckle.

　I went to the neutral city (Asropolis) on the second level of the dungeon, and as the leader of the knight's group that oversees the adventurers - although it's a small organization with a very small number of people - I'm going to have various conversations with the administrator, Fraxinus.

　In order to fulfill such a role, me and Garnett left the shop in the hands of everyone else for a while.

　So we have to fill in for a while.

''By the way, does the outside (...) pouring out of the magic tool parts seem to be going well?''
"Umm, yeah ...... quality and pace ...... no problem ......
'Then I'm glad. The demand for magic tool products is only going up, but the burden has been unevenly distributed to you. I hope this makes things a little easier for you.

　Noir smiled a smile that was either happy or awkward, laden with mixed emotions that cannot be expressed in one word.

　There would be no reason to dare to bring it up here ...... as to why.

The first thing to do is to open up the store. It's been a long time since I've been here, so let's get into it.