I was on the verge of regaining consciousness as I slowly emerged from somewhere deep.

　
　...... Well, it was just a normal morning for me to wake up. I'm not used to being in someone's bed, but I slept better than I thought I would. It's a good thing I'm tired after all. Yesterday, after we were treated to dinner, we went right to bed.
　But yesterday's dinner was pretty wild: .......

　Shero said, "It's a feast today, you're lucky," and brought a wild boar liver, with potatoes as the staple, beans as the side dish, and a wild boar steak that Shero grilled by himself.

　Naturally, the liver was raw and seasoned only with rock salt. Well, it was wild, but it was unexpectedly delicious. It was fresh.
　However, the wild boar steak was a bit too spicy for me, as I grew up in the city: ....... The taste is strong, but the smell is also rather strong ....... It's not so bad that you can't eat it, but I thought it would be better if you could at least disguise it with some spices ......, but I heard that spices are very expensive.
　It's a good thing that you have a good idea of what you're looking for, but you can't complain when you're served at someone else's house. As the youngest son who's pretty straightforward, I'd say, "This is very delicious! And then I ate it. It was pretty upsetting to my stomach, though!

　However, this was my first meal in a different world. I was a little worried about what I would do if there was a big difference in taste, but I was relieved to see that there didn't seem to be any difference in the basics, albeit a little wild.
　Next time I'll offer you some miso. I don't know if it'll be to the taste of the otherworldly people, though.


　---- Okay, so I've spent the night in another world, getting caught up in a slightly different development than I had in mind, but what should I do now? .... I gave it some thought yesterday before I went to bed: ----

　
　First of all, as the first.
　My original plan was to sell the "right to travel to another world" once I got some information about this one, but to be honest ...... it turned out to be quite impossible with the situation in this country.
　At any rate, if people think I'm from the interior, I'm a tycoon to the military police. As expected, you can't sell that kind of otherworldly life.

　
　As the second thing.
　The dagger 《Dagger》 that you're talking about.
　I can assure you that I would never be able to obtain that many items, even if I were to play internet auctions in Japan. Well, it's not something that can be easily obtained even in this world (they say it was given to them by the emperor), but it's enough to give to a mercenary as a reward, so it's not something that can never be obtained.
　Even though it's a rarely seen treasure, I'm still a bit surprised and enthralled by it, and I'm pulling myself away from it. ...... (I was allowed to look at it yesterday for an hour or so after that one, too).

　
　Thirdly.
　The third thing I've learned is that you can make a lot of money by bringing otherworldly goods into Japan and auctioning them off on the internet, but you can make a lot more money by bringing things from Japan into our country. Not to mention the spices from yesterday's dinner, there are an endless number of things that could be sold.
　Also, yesterday I was vaguely informed by Shero that the currency here is copper, silver, and gold coins. They are gold coins. If we bring them back to Japan, we might be able to convert them into gold coins!　I think it's about 4,000 yen for a gram, right now.　
　Honestly, it's obvious that finding treasures at the flea market is going to hit a ridiculous level of efficiency, so it's getting pretty commercial.

　
　As for the fourth.
　Well, this is a derivative of the third one, but the fact that you can make money efficiently means that you can get rich and buy this or that, or start a store, or more specifically, start up a company and become the president!　Or something!　I guess that's what I mean.
　But it's not exactly what I want to work at all: ....... I'm thinking that if I work, I'll lose.
　Oh, or if you're bold enough to own a store with a full range of hobbies, that would be great ....... If I made enough money trading with other worlds to do business without making a profit, I might be able to do it. Duh.

　
　As a fifth thing.
　It's a very exciting time to have a girlfriend in another world. ......
　It's just that in this other world, it's possible for me to be popular even though I'm a NEET!　But I don't want a woman of modest means who is going to make a pass at me!　Don't lick the child emperor with no girlfriend calendar = age!
　...... I think I got off track a bit. But it's a rather salient issue.

　
　As a sixth.
　I'm curious, blessings.
　I'm simply soooo worried about what my calling is. Because in reality, I'm a neo-NEET!　
　I'll take it!　Blessings of another world!

I'll take it!　Blessings of another world, I say!
Hmm?　What did Jiro say?


　Wow, I was talking out of my mouth.




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　As an "amnesiac" person, I asked Shero-san for advice on what I should do.
　I had a lot of ideas on what I wanted to do, but it wasn't natural for me, who was supposed to have amnesia, to suddenly start working energetically.

　At that time, I was told that I was doing something like a merchant. I think I was doing something like a merchant.　Maybe?
When I said this in a distant and vague way, he said he would first receive the blessing at the temple, and then depending on his vocation there, he would successfully introduce me to the corresponding guild.

　I'm afraid I'm too nice a person to be afraid of this, but Chéreau says that meeting someone in need is a sign of Le Baraka's guidance, and the ones who receive the blessing are just following that guidance.

　I guess that's the religious view, but I can't help but feel that Mr. Chéreau is just an exceptionally nice person.
　At first glance, he looks like a bandit-like old man - you can't judge a person by appearances, though!


　So, we're walking towards the city of Elishe with Mr. Shero, Rebecca and I, and one pack horse loaded with yesterday's wild boar meat and hides. We get to the city road before the village and arrive at the town of Elishe in about two hours from Mr. Shero's house.

　Elishe is a city surrounded by a fortified city of about two meters (easily climbed if you're so inclined), and besides the stone houses, you can also see some brick houses scattered around, with a beautiful row of red roofs.
　There is a gatekeeper at the entrance, but you can go in and out as much as you like.

　It was much more lax than I had imagined.




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　It is indeed a vibrant city.

　Rather than a city of another world, it gives me the feeling that I'm in Italy or some other foreign country. But if you look closely at the people on the street, you can see a wizard-like man in a robe, a beastly girl with cat ears and a tail (a bit hairy), a full plate mail carrying a spear, and a short, stubby, bearded dwarf father (a dwarf?). I was reminded every single time that we are in another world.　In terms of numbers, humans seemed to be the most numerous, but there are quite a few sub-humans, or otherworldly species, or non-human species as well.

　They're going to wholesale meat and furs before going to the temple, so I'm going to accompany them first. I watched as Shero carried the meat and furs into a building that looked like a wholesale store, and I asked Rebecca, who stayed with me, what was on her mind.


How much money do you get for all that meat and fur?

Hmm... At most, it would be enough for three silver coins. Even so, it's not a bad amount of money, since it's enough for half a month of our food expenses. The number of hunters has been decreasing lately, so the purchase price has gone up a little bit.

　...... 3 silver coins for half a month's worth of food for 3 silver coins = about $10,000 per silver coin?　No, that's too much in relation to the value of Japanese money or .......


'Wasn't a gold coin the equivalent of 10 silver coins?　Ten coppers is the equivalent of one silver coin?

That's true for the gold, but it's not the same for the coppers, where ten pieces makes one silver for a white copper. And a bronze, that's ten to a white copper.

　Rebecca said, showing me a white copper and a bronze coin. The white copper coin looked like a worn-out 500-yen coin, and the bronze coin was a small coin, similar to a one-cent coin.
　Hmmm, I was relieved with the decimal system for now. I'm still not quite sure though.
　I'm sorry Rebecca, but I have a lot of questions for you.


'Come to think of it, I didn't know the unit of money. If it's something like one silver coin, four white copper coins and seven bronze coins, it counts as 147 something, right?

Oh, Jirou, you can calculate money. I wonder if he was an apprentice merchant or something, because people don't usually use that kind of calculation.

Yeah, so how do you do it?

So stay tuned. I'm counting one silver coin, four pieces of white copper and seven pieces of bronze, okay?

　Hmm?　It's not that hard to calculate, is it?　I was taught that the unit of money is "El", but if you taught that 1 silver coin = 100 El, a kindergartner could understand that, right?
　I'm not very good at math, or maybe my math skills aren't developed at all. Are you alright, aliens? You're going to fall for that scam easily!


'But you understand, Rebecca, you know the math.

''I did a little bit of calculating bounties for members in the mercenary corps and so on. I can only do simple things, but I'm good at calculating the money -?

　I see, that makes sense.

　Well, I'm also a high school graduate with a high school diploma, so I'm not very good at arithmetic. Moreover, of the "reading and writing abacus", reading and writing are completely out of the other world's "Chikujin"!


　In the meantime, Shero-san, clutching three silver coins, came back from the purchase station. He said he would buy what I needed with the money, but before that, he would take me to the temple.

Then let's go to the temple and get blessed! And Mr. Shero.

　That's very light.