We asked Rebecca to provide us with food for the horses and straw for our beds, and we would continue to get them from there. We also got some vegetables and other foodstuffs from her contacts.
　The price is not exactly the same as our friend's price, but it was really cheap and very helpful. Strictly speaking, it's the level that it costs a little over a silver coin a month to maintain 3 horses. In Japan, it's about the same as having a dog or a cat.
　In fact, if you think about getting a horse in Japan, you'll be asked "Which would you rather have, a cruiser or a horse? It's not a cheap level because it's so reckless. If you're in a place where there's a lot of land like Hokkaido, though, it might be different.

　I hired Orica, who was blind and couldn't work, and the villagers seemed to like him a lot more. They talk to me all the time.
　It was mostly just a greeting, talking about the mansion, business and Diana (because she's an elf, after all), so I cleared the air appropriately.
　I had the impression that 99% of the villagers were agricultural workers, but since the village is just a stone's throw away from Elishe - simply because they don't live in Elishe - there are many people working in Elishe! It was like. I was a villager commuting to the city. The word "commute" in this kind of fantasy world doesn't fit, though.

　I've decided to leave it entirely up to Orica to purchase supplies from the village from the beginning. I'm going to have Marina learn how to buy things after a while to spread the load, but for the time being I'll let Orica do it. All she has to do is go shopping in her own village, and she should be able to handle it without any problems.
　But if we buy a lot of straw and fodder for the horses, will it be too much to carry alone?
　When I was thinking about that, he said he would carry the fodder and straw to the house. What a great service.


　I bought enough food for the horses and straw for the bed, and went back to the house.
　I also got some vegetables and a bag of rice. There were simple cooking utensils and dishes already in the house that Hetty had prepared for us. We can get as much water as we want from the well.
　As for eating, I guess that's no longer a problem.

　Orica has been hired to start tomorrow. I'm not prepared for them to work in the house. As for the bed, I couldn't just let Orica sleep in the same bed as Deanna and Marina, so I'd have to get a new one for her.
　Well, we can make do with a new bed. The bedding will be fine, too. The problem is the maid's clothes, but I can get some used ones from the market.
　...... I'd really like to get some pretty ones custom made, though!　Tailoring!　But I'm about to start being financially dubious, so not for a while!

　The employment contract with Orica was a verbal agreement. I didn't sign a genie contract with him every time.
　So even if I lost a whole genie stone when I was able to run away after fixing my eye, I would still be able to cry myself to sleep. But I didn't want to bind them with something as strong as a spirit contract, so I decided not to.
　I was told I was naive after all, but "It's better to believe and be deceived than to doubt and be skeptical," said the protagonist of one of my favorite comics. ......


　Mr. Hetty carried the luggage in the carriage to the mansion and then left, saying, "I'll be back!

　Later, before it got dark, we all learned from Rebecca about basic horse care.
　It's this feeling that arises when you feed the horses.
　It's so cute - horses are cute! Horses in another world are huge, but they're so cute.
　Marina and Deanna seem to feel the same way, and they've been happily feeding their carrots to their hands so much that Rebecca warned them not to eat too many vegetables.
　Tomorrow, we should practice riding horses. It's embarrassing that I can't ride a horse even though I have one.
　...... When I master horse riding, I'm going to write "horse riding" in the special skills section of my resume. ......

　Afterwards, we all tried to cook together.

　Deanna, as I expected, was someone who couldn't cook at all. That's the level at which she had never even held a knife.
　...... but the cheat performance high elf-sama was so high performance that it didn't matter at all.
　Lighting firewood or transferring water from a bottle was a single shot with "simple spirit magic". Moreover, even the lighting was one shot with "I'm calling the spirit of light".
　What's this, what a cheat?
　I thought you couldn't use spirit magic while under special guidance?　I asked him, "I can use the simple ones. This mansion has a strong spirit power, so we can afford it. I don't know what the scope of "simple spirit magic" is: .......

　It's not as easy as Rebecca's, but she seems to be able to cook and humming and boiling some potatoes, which is unexpected. I was expecting her to be more of a clumsy kid, like mistaking salt for sugar, so I was surprised.

　I cooked the rice.
　Technically, I went back to my parents' house and cooked it in the rice cooker. You can cook it in a pot, but with a ............ rice cooker, you see, you can't go wrong with .......

　The food was all normal and delicious. Marina's stewed mushrooms were a bit dry, though.
　The rice cooked in the rice cooker was also a hit.

　After dinner, I had to get ready for bed before it got too late, so I went back to Japan.


　I went back to my room and started up my computer to check the status of the auction that I put up at the end of the year. It hasn't been a day since I put them up, so I haven't finished any of them, but the bids are coming in one by one.
　Well, I'm listing it for $1.00 again, so it's no surprise. As for the rest, I don't know what else to do if the bidding reaches a high price, but I'll have to open the lid to find out.

　I also checked out the thread on the side. Maybe it's because of the winter break, but it seems to be a bit rough, but this is often the case.
　I just responded to a couple of random posts and muddled through because I was busy. It seems that some kind of summary site has been created and new residents are flowing in.

　So from now on, will we be asked to be a little more careful when playing with threads?　But there's no way that anyone would seriously believe that they've slipped through the mirror and actually gone to another world.
　Every time I come back to this world, I wonder if it was all a dream or an illusion.
　Well, as long as we continue to say "It's CG" as before, we'll be fine.


　The bed was in the storage room, the one my sister used. I pulled the futon out of the closet in the guest room.
　Now Orica's bed is OK.





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　The next day we all headed to the temple (with Orica in tow). Of course, it was to cure Orica's eyes with the spirit stone.
　I heard that one Spirit Stone would be enough, but I heard that there are certain types of Spirit Stones that you can use, so I brought both of them at least. Genie said it would be good to keep the first Spirit Stone as a souvenir, so I'm going to save Lapis Lazuli and use Opal for the first one. Well, if someone says you can't cure your eyes with opal, I'll use lapis lazuli. I'm not that fond of them.

　Priestess was lovely today. I was sneaking around taking pictures, and Deanna almost gave me the camera.
　Maybe I was too quick to tell Deanna about the camera: .......

　The spirit power of the spirit stone was released, the priestess chanted the spirit magic for restoring sight, and the treatment itself was completed in an instant.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work for you. In fact, they were surprised that I had such a good stone.
　The more solid-colored a spirit stone is, the better it is, the clearer it is, the better it is (the quartz I used as a present for the mayor's enchantment before was of a good quality), and opal-like stones with various colors are not so highly prized. ...... apparently.
　What about diamonds and such?　I asked, "What's that?　I was told. Deanna looked kind of surprised, "You know that, Deanna! I asked him about it, but he was distracted.
　As for the spirit stone, it's too rare an item, there's not much information about it.

　Orica, whose eyesight was successfully restored by the Spirit Stone's special power, said, "I can see!　I can see a long way!　Great, great!　Thank you, sir~" and he was excited to be a stupid kid.
　The glasses-wearing child project was aborted, but it's good to know that he's happy with it. ......

　I've decided to start a new plan for a maid with glasses for Date. It's a boy's way of dreaming of being a glasses maid. I'm not wrong.
　I'll buy another pair of glasses for you next time.

　We left the temple and headed straight for the Chamber of Commerce. We went straight to the chamber of commerce to sign a contract to rent a section of the market.
　We've made a stall, bought a horse, and even a maid is OK, but we're in need of money if we don't get our business up and running.

　The place to rent is in the corner of the "livingware and miscellaneous goods zone". The "Used Clothing and Tools Zone" is intriguing, but I only sell new items, so of course I'll have to set up shop in the new zone. A shop is a food stall, though.
　I asked a staff member about it, and it seems that there is a little more space available than the last time I was here, which was the day before yesterday. It's the first day of the month, so there's a lot of turnover in the market.
　According to Hetty, it's a ...... that "starts out in the middle of the island and ranks up to the nativity seat and then to the outer perimeter" (I didn't really understand what that meant), so there's no need to be too picky about the first location.
　However, we wanted to check what the neighboring shops were selling, so we decided to go to the market after setting our sights on a few places in the open space.

The "livingware and miscellaneous goods zone" seemed to be more subdued than the "second-hand clothing and tools zone" because it sold new goods (if we looked closely, there were some used ones mixed in).

　In the knife shop, a young man who looks like a blacksmith's apprentice is busily working at the shop. He sells iron knives. They seem to be ordinary household knives. They sell various sizes of knives, but the large ones, with a blade length of about 80 cm, are almost like weapons. There was also a large chopper.
　The tableware shop sells hollowed-out wooden bowls, ceramic bowls, glass cups and bowls. They don't sell porcelain.
　The kitchenware store sells iron frying pans, cane stoppers, turner, seasoning jars, tongs, light-weight squares, ladles, bowls (made of wood), colanders (made of bamboo-like material), and a large quantity of both familiar and unfamiliar items. They seem to be using about two sections of the sales floor.
　There are also general merchandise stores - wall decorations, ornaments, sewing tools, rug shops, clothing, bags, woodwork, farming tools, hair ornaments, hats, parchment, paintings, etc. --. Well, in short, they sell everything. I haven't checked all of them, because there are half a dozen stores, but if you run a store here, you'll eventually figure it out. And if you find a good one, you can import it into Japan.

　The seasoning reminded me of this. The value of salt in this world, it's not unexpected, or rather, it's not a precious commodity, it's just something that is, frankly, free.

　The reason for this is that there are many salt lakes in this world. Among them, the remains of salt lakes (...), which were created by repeating the process of "seawater accumulation → evaporation drying → seawater flowing in from above → evaporation drying → seawater flowing in → evaporation drying" over a long period of time, are truly salt pools, and it seems that just having one of these lakes is enough to make it virtually impossible to get rid of salt.
　That's why everyone cooks with a lot of salt. Whether it's meat or fish, salt and herbs are commonly used in cooking. Even processed food stores have a lot of salted food.
　I think it would be a good idea to bring salt to Japan and make it rich in unknown minerals.　I thought about selling "salt of the other world" or something like that, but I gave up on it because it's really dangerous to sell foodstuffs.
　Well, in the first place, it is not likely to sell such an unintelligible thing. Even if it's NetOkku.

　I looked around at the place I had set my sights on, and since the corner between the tool maintenance shop and the shoe store looked good, I decided to go there. I didn't want to bump into the shop next door, so it was just right.
　In addition, if the shop is next to the maintenance shop, I can have my items maintained by them as well.

　Return to the Chamber of Commerce and sign the contract. The contract fee is one silver coin for one month. I didn't need to rent it in a week, so I signed a contract for one month.
　The place is "Black No. 21". It seems that each island has a different color name.

　Tomorrow we'll have a flea market and we'll advertise the place while selling our wares. The day after tomorrow, we'll be able to open our shop at the market. I'll need to stock up on goods for the market.

　Anyway, this is where my life as a merchant begins!　Hang in there!