CH 218

The next morning, I woke up with the feeling of a blanket wrapped around my shoulder.

“Good morning, dear.”

“Ah, Yurina-san. Good morning.”

Apparently I had fallen asleep with my head flopped down on the table and Yurina-san had quietly took her turn nursing Tanya without waking me up. Tanya-san was also already awake. She was drinking a glass of water that Yurina-san had given to her. 

It seems she’s already fine now.

As soon as I woke up, Ash was quick to jump near my feet. He immediately began begging me for food, acting so noisy so early in the morning. 

It can’t be helped. I guess it’s time for me to start making our breakfast. 

Then, I prepared some lightly toasted bread, fried eggs and some salad. The three of us, including one animal (Ash), ate our breakfast together. Tanya’s fever seemed to be down already but just to be safe, I gave her another potion to drink. 

In the meantime, Chatra and Maya, who had officially become our employees since yesterday, arrived for work. 

“Well then, Yurina-san. I’ll be heading to the shop so please take care of Tanya-san for me.”

“Leave it to me.”

Afterward, I entrusted the shop-front to Maya and went to the workshop with Chatra in order to teach him how to make the product we sold in our shop. Right now, our most popular products were recovery cookies and thermal bottles with elemental attributes on them. 

However, it turned out  that without any alchemy skill, it would be impossible to add any attribute to things. So first thing first, I needed to make Chatra gain an alchemy skill and in order to do so, I taught him how to make HP potion made from irene herbs. HP potion made from irene herbs was the first potion I had ever made that gave me the alchemy skill after all. 

“Oh! Chatra! You’ve acquired Alchemy level 1.”

“Yes!”

After he finished making the potion, Alchemy level 1 skill was added into Chatra’s list of skills. 

“Alright. Just keep on making potions at the same rate you’ve been doing. Don’t forget to chew on some berzin herbs to restore your MP and vitality.”

“Understood, Master!”

Chatra ended up calling me ‘Master’.

Well,we could sell stuff like potions to Sarasa or just sell it ourselves at our shop so there wouldn’t be any loss in having Chatra making more potions. Sarasa’s shop was quite a distance away from our place so there shouldn’t be any issue if I sold my potions at the same price as Sarasa’s. Although we needed to discuss this with Sarasa first to make sure we could sell the potion at our own shop.

Since Chatra had gotten the grasp of making potion, I went to the shop-front to help Maya with assisting the customers at our shop. I also taught her some tips and tricks in negotiating. Like the cost price of our product, how much discount we could offer based on the ~% of the cost price and the amount of discount we could give to our regular customer or customer who was planning to buy our product in bulk. Maya already knew the basic arithmetic operations and she used this some sort of abacus-like device to help her with calculations. 

She’s a pretty good merchant. I’m really thankful she’s here.

Also, Maya was wearing our shop uniform that Yurina-san personally made (it looked like the classic maid costume) and together with Ash in tow, she looked really great as the shopgirl of our place to the point that Yurina-san, who had came down to the shop-front to check on the shop, let out a strange exclamation that sounded like,”Hauuu!!” 

The cuteness of Maya in uniform together with Ash was too overwhelmingly amazing. It was clear to see that Yurina-san was going to create more costumes in the future. The sudden burst of creative energy in the air was simply palpable. 

And so, just like that, the second day for our new employee passed by in the blink of an eye. 

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T/N: I didn’t expect our MC to like the soft, pastel type but I’m here for it! Or maybe the country girl aesthetic is more accurate? Yeah, I think the house+shop is more like a country girl aesthetic type.