CH 90.2

「It’s a little pricey but……we’ve been told that Paddle-shi, owner of the public bathhouse in the central city, is willing to sell his bathhouse to the Schenkers. 」

「Eh? Really? He’s going to sell his bathhouse?」

「I heard Vice Chief Roast is a close friend of that bathhouse. When he asked her for advice because he is already old and his only son and heir has left for the royal capital, he is having trouble with the inheritance.」

「Roast really has a wide face.」

Chicken chuckled and said, “She’s a caring person so all kinds of people like her.” while poking the brim of the ivory hat she was wearing with her fingertips and looked up at the sky.

I looked up at the sky too and saw a cloud floating in the sky moving westward.

Come to think of it, the sirens that used to be common at one time, the warning sirens of an attack of a behemoth, I haven’t heard much of it these days.

I guess it was thanks to the hard work of the adventurers like Roast in the dungeon.

「The public bathhouse is close to the baseball stadium so we want it to have various functions in addition to being a bathhouse.」

「Functions? What kind?」

「For example, we could put a barbershop, hire a masseur, or create a place where people can get refreshments……」

「I see. So, you’re planning to turn it to a super public bathhouse.」

「Supa……? Is it?」

Ah, I guess she’s not going to get what a super public bathhouse is.

I waved my hand to Chicken with a wry smile on my face.

「Nothing, well, anyway, we’re going to make it a place with plenty of attractions to keep it busy all day, right?」

「That’s right. We are thinking of keeping bathing itself at the same price as before considering it is being used by the neighborhood.」

「That’s fine. A business like ours is only as good as the people in the city. We have to make sure they don’t say the old was better.」

「Of course」

A public bathhouse……finally, we have become the ultimate anything and everything.

Well, our main company is still the adventurer’s group, so I guess it’s totally acceptable from an organizational perspective to increase the number of baths available.

I looked toward the mole temple, which the adventurers seem to be diligently managing and saw some people laying out their wares on mats outside the temple.

I usually don’t pay much attention to them, but I wondered if it’s okay to leave that kind of black market where people were setting up stores without permission.

「Who’s managing the open market?」

「I’m sure our company’s Isuka makes her rounds everyday. It’s not like they do whatever they want there too. Also, we make sure that no one but our people can do business there.」

「Is that so? How do they pay for places and stuff?」

「We don’t charge them anything at the moment but, should we?」

「Hmmm」

It’s not that I’m looking to earn pennies but……if we are going to have our asses handed to use in the event something goes wrong, I’m inclined to at least pool the money for that purpose.

Thinking about this, I strolled toward the temple and looked at the goods.

There were pickles, old clothes, torn knives, nets with holes in them, and even a carved wooden doll that looked like me and Laura-san.

I was about to turn around thinking that there was no point in looking at anything else until I saw something golden reflecting the sunlight.

「What……?」

I was somewhat curious so I approached it and found it to be a shiny, polished gold watch.

Why is there a watch here?

Watches are not sold on the ground like this by mistake.

In a world where machine tools are scarce, such things are surprisingly expensive.

「Welc…….om……e!? Sawadi-sama!?」

「Ah, don’t mind me.」

「Y-yeahhh………」