CH 68.2

At the headquarters of the Magical Schenker Group in the central city, the boss slave, Chicken, was making notice and arranging the personnel.

I’ve brought this on myself and it looks like I’ve come at a difficult time.

「Sorry to keep you waiting, master」

「No, sorry for bothering you even though you’re very busy.」

I was a little afraid of mentioning that there would be more work to Chicken, who was completely buried with work these days, but I have to speak with her to get things started, right?

「So about our manpower……we don’t have enough, don’t we?」

「We don’t! We’ve got all the girls who want to earn money on their days off but it’s still not enough. There’s already a big hole in our regular operations.」

She’s like……a gunpowder on the verge of exploding.

Chicken has dark circles under her eyes and she is definitely the one who has suffered the worst this time.

「Actually, I’m thinking of hiring some housewives from the neighborhood around the factory on a temporary basis.」

「Ah, do what you want.」

「Thanks. It seem that there are a surprising number of women looking for job so I’ve already received a number of inquiries.」

「Don’t cheap out.」

「I will pay them a fair price.」

Chicken, who seemed to have regained some of her energy because of that, asked “Ah, why did you come here?” while stirring up her coffee with a spoon.

I’d been giving her a hard time so I’ll make it as brief as possible.

「I’m going to need manpower for my research soon so I’m thinking of buying a large number of slaves.」

「Please do! But….we don’t have enough accommodation. Even if we turn the two-person per room to four-person per room, we will only be able to accommodate around 50 more.」

The fact that she knows this kind of information without looking at any documents shows that it is Chicken who made this organization.

I casted a healing spell on her with gratitude.

「Actually, I’ve been talking to the councilor about something for a while. I’m thinking of buying houses along Schenker Street. I have money and connection now after all.」

「That sounds great. How many houses are you planning to buy?」

Perhaps the economic boom and the healing magic worked, Chicken’s expression softened considerably.

Good good, this is it.

「Everything」

「Eh?」

「It will be a gradually buy out but I plan to buy them all.」

Chicken froze after saying “Eh?”.

But even if she’s frozen, her left hand moved to get a piece of paper while her right hand held the pen firmly.

Her instinctive actions are pretty good.

「We will buy up all the land around here and build tall buildings. We will tear down one-story buildings and replace them with five-story condominiums.」

「Condom….what’s that?」

「A condominium is a row of houses that is made bigger and taller than the ones we have now. It is a way of making use of most of the land and increasing the number of people we can accommodate per land area.」

「That sounds like a lot of work and money.」

She’s still calculating while writing something.

「We’ll probably build ten of them.」

「Ten buildings」

「One floor should have ten rooms. And I want the rooms to be big enough to accommodate a family of four.」

「fuuhn fuuhn, ten buildings that can hold two hundred people each……」

Chicken’s hand stopped.

She put down her pen, scrunched up her face, which had frozen in astonishment, and scratched her head.

「Ano, that’s….」

「Yeah」

「The scale is completely different from what we have done so far, isn’t it?」

「Yeah.」

「It’s more like a town.」

「It is」

「Ahahaha, it will be Schenker Town.」

「Well, perhaps you can put it that way.」

「….no no no no! Please don’t put it that way!?」

「It can’t be helped, if people gather, a town will be born. In any case, we are totally understaffed so from now on, we will buy as many male slaves as we can so please take care of it! 」

I said what I needed to say and stood up.

Our time is limited.

I must go to the slaver to make an urgent purchase.

「No, please wait! We don’t have enough managers!」

We’re going to be busy.

Both the Schenker Family and Torquiva will change a lot after this dungeon meat incident.

「Let’s do it in stages! At least wait until Jiren comes back!」

Yes, as the number of people increases, new entertainment is needed.

I was going to build a big theater for a big crowd but it would be nice to build a building with a small theater for the commoners’ use, just like a stand-up comedy stage.

Is Torquiva Comedy a good name?

「Please, I’m begging you, buy a lot of knowledge slaves! I don’t mind even if they can just do basic arithmetic!」

「Uwaaa! Chicken-san! Why are you clinging to master’s waist?」

「Bold」

「This is the third night. That’s normal.」

「I’m the goat, papers are my food.」

「Why are there butterflies flying around?」

I walk through the front door of the Schenker headquarters, which is full of corpses from overworked, all-nighter, girls. I casted healing magic on them and make my way to Schenker Street, where a strong spring breeze is blowing.

Young people were running around everywhere and weapon-wielding adventurers were praying fervently to the statue of the mole god.

In the distance, I can see Schenker slaves pushing carts piled with crates of sausages.

The city seemed to be shaken by the commotion that started from my unplanned move.

However, there’s nothing I can do about it.

Since I’m the one responsible for it, I’ll just do my best to do something about it.

I look up at the sky and see the clouds moving as if they were being blown away.

The dust from the wind zaps the head of Chicken, who was clinging to my leg.

The wind was blowing strong in Torquiva.