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"Well, I can't help you."

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　Take what you can get.

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　It is natural to think so.

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　I started to act on the advice that Father Paul had given me, the most important one for me being that "there is no limit to the area of land.

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　In other words, I started to cultivate the land.

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　Riding on the back of the Valkyrie, I felled trees in the forest one after another, breaking them down to their roots.

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　The trees are then pulled down by the "hornless" and the vacant ground is cleared and leveled.

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　In this way, the area of the land was expanded rapidly.

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　However, the income does not increase as the land is expanded.

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　In order to earn money, you have to create products.

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　Now I have the following cards.

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　Selling Valkyries.

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　Selling bricks mass-produced by my original magic "Brick Generation".

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　Selling magic mushrooms I cultivated by using the magic power infusion spell.

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　Harvests from the fields, including HATSUKA.

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　We have to do all these things.

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　I think it will be fine if we just sell the beasts of burden, but we never know what will happen at any given moment.

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　Maybe the horned beast will die prematurely, and there is no guarantee that there will always be a steady supply of eggs for the beast.

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　But it is very likely that the special demand for bricks will end in the not-too-distant future.

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　The demand for magic mushrooms will never stop, but we have to prepare the logs.

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　Trees that have fallen in the forest can be used, but they have to be cut down and preserved as logs.

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　A further problem is the harvest of the fields.

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　Tilling the soil can be done by magic at once, but planting and harvesting are done by hand.

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　This takes much longer than expected.

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"Okay, I'll get someone to do it for me."

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　Anyway, I want to expand my land area as soon as possible.

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　I have decided to limit my work to pioneering.

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　But I don't want to neglect anything else, even if it means securing an insurance policy so that I can have a stable income.

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　The conclusion I came up with was to get someone else to do it.

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　I guess the point to keep in mind is not to leave the money to others.

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　Embezzlement, kickbacks, fraud, and the like.

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　Of course, such things may be a problem, but in this village, most of the people can't even count properly before that.

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　Apparently, if you are doing business and counting money on a regular basis, but if you are living by barter, you do not even care about the concept of number.

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　As long as they are satisfied with each other's equivalent exchange at the time, it is all right.

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　It would be unwise to entrust one's wallet to people in such a state.

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　If that is the case, we have no choice but to ask them to do some simple work.

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　We can look for someone who can do a day job for us.

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　Maybe they can cut branches from trees, plant and harvest crops, and store them in a regulated warehouse.

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　And so, I was on my way to becoming a land owner.

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　I was the owner of the land.

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"Hey, hey, hey, hey, you smell like water. Don't forget about me, Ars."

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　It was at dinner when I told him about my business plan.

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　I was going to ask if there was anyone in the village willing to do it.

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　But someone jumped at the mention of it.

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　A part-timer.

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　Not part-time, but a guy named Bite.

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　He was my older brother, the second male child in our family.

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"Byte, your brother works for you?　It's a lot of work, you know?"

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"What are you talking about? What are you talking about? You can't take your business to someone else. I'll take care of it, Ars.

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"Mom, my part-time brother says so. Do you mind?"

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"Well, I don't know. But during the wheat harvest season, both Bite and Als will be helping us.

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"Okay."

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　Apparently, my parents approve of the idea of my brother working for me.

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　Well, I have no complaints if you are serious about it.

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　...... will you do it?

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　As someone who sees my part-time brother usually skipping his home work to go out and play, I am concerned.

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　Worst case scenario, I'll fire him if he doesn't do it or causes problems.

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"So, what are you trying to accomplish, Mr. Byte?"

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"Of course. Give me one of those Valkyries. It's cheeky of you to ride the Valkyrie all the time.

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"Well, I remember you riding on my back when I wasn't riding. Do you like Valkyrie so much?"

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"Of course. Every man who's called a hero rides a beast of prey to save a princess. That's what every man wants to be."

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　I see.

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　I can see why.

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　And what better deal could there be?

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　It's not every day you get a beast of burden in the form of a cavalryman.

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　And with the chance to get one just by helping his family with their business, it's understandable why he jumped at the chance.

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　But don't be so naive, Mr. Byte.

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　I've learned to keep my deadlines tight.

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　Let's just use him as a messenger beast.

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　And so I began to hire him as an employee.

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