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"Hey, Ai. Can you think of a way to help us run the mutual aid association more efficiently?"

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　Through Banerji, we received a request from the Congress for a mutual aid association.

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　When I checked the contents of the requests, I found that all of them were quite bland.

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　I don't know if they have the idea of not allowing people outside of the Orient to be recognized as believers and engage in combat, which was my original purpose, but basically they were all about solving small problems in the Orient.

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　Some of them are cleaning up the streets or cleaning up the canals.

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　Or delivering letters in the city, or helping to carry cargo, and so on.

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　On the other hand, they also seem to be [laying out roads] for the city plots, and maintaining the roads in the Orient.

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　Normally, a road leading outside the city would be a rather difficult decision to make, but they have decided to do it.

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　It seems that the council's request to the Mutual Aid Society is not only aimed at checking the movements of the Barka mercenaries.

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　It seems that the grading system in the Mutual Aid Society is being evaluated in a certain way.

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　Aside from the chores such as cleaning and sweeping the streets, delivering letters is actually an important job.

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　It is impossible to entrust a letter to someone you don't know well, who might read it without your permission.

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　However, those who performed the rituals at Barca Church could not make excuses if they were later questioned, and many of them worked diligently because their work was directly reflected in their grades.

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　This may have been because they were regarded as having a certain degree of credibility.

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　Other jobs included escorting people from the town to the village or to other places.

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　I am not in charge of every single one of them.

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　But it is true that this is still an important time.

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　It was necessary to keep a certain degree of watchfulness to see if anyone would misuse the work and do something wrong, even if it was just a case of the request going unfulfilled.

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　So, although it was very tedious, we had to check the details of each job to make sure that it was being done successfully, or if the job was completed late, we had to check why it was late.

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　Now that such work was being done in two places, Orient and New Barca, he was completely busy.

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　The mutual aid association is trying to function properly as an organization.

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　We have people for that purpose in both cities, so eventually I will no longer have to check on them directly.

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　But I don't know when that will be.

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　I would like to get out of this job as soon as possible.

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　So, I decided to ask Ai to help me out.

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"The efficient operation of the organization requires ample funds.

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"Money?　I've got money. I asked for the right amount of money when I accepted your request, and I'm sure you had some gold or silver from the Purge Street as initial funding."

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"That's not enough. They were basically of limited use. At the beginning, we needed money for cheap commissions, and also for the construction of buildings in each town. Therefore, the surplus funds in the mutual aid society are not as much as Mr. Alphonse would like.

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"......Well, maybe you're right. Well, maybe so, but what can we do about it?　I have some money that I am earning in the new Barca town, but I plan to manage it with Kristina and others for the town and for the Barca mercenaries. We don't have enough to put a lot of it towards the mutual aid society."

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"Yes. So we need to raise more funds.

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"Easy for you to say, but what are you going to do?　Are you planning to increase sales again by making the same products you make in Vulcania here?"

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"No. That would be difficult. Many of the people in the new Barca Town are already engaged in some kind of work, and it would be difficult to get them to work more than they do now. Even if we develop new products, I don't think we will be able to get much money for them.

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"...... Then what can we do about it?　Maybe I have to move around like I'm doing now until I can save up the money, or something like that?"

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　I don't doubt what Ai is trying to say.

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　If I had the money, I might be able to do it more efficiently.

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　If it was a stable job, rather than a day job with no guarantees, more people would be willing to do it.

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　I have thought so many times.

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　But what's not there is there.

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　I myself was surprised when I saw how quickly the gold and silver I brought back from the Purge Street was used to pay the bills.

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　It seems that the size of the mutual aid associations is growing too fast.

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　Thanks to this, the organization was running out of money with only the fees brought in.

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　Originally, my home town, New Barca Street, had been operating at a rather tight budget without the mutual aid association.

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　The mutual aid association itself has become a big burden.

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　However, if we had more money, the burden would surely be reduced a little more.

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　It would give us more time to run the mercenaries who are an important source of funding by making various products with Galius in the new Barca Town.

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　However, at the moment, they are forced to make expensive items such as magic tools, which they cannot afford to do.

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　It doesn't sound like they are going to make new items that will make a lot of money instead of magic tools, but what does Ai have in mind?

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"Making things is not the only way to earn money. There are other ways.

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"By other means, do you mean go raid some other place and bring back some treasure?"

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No, sir. That may be possible, but it is not sustainable. Instead, we should take efficient means to make money in the future.

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"...... What are you going to do?"

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"Trade futures. While you are at it, I recommend that you buy rice from the Orient, its villages, or purge towns, or even from other lands."

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　Futures trading?

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　What's that?

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　I wasn't sure what Ai was talking about, so I asked him to tell me about it.

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