CH 253

“I’ll be going now! Tonight! Hamburger!”

“She’s so energetic in the morning ……”

“Have a good day, Basleigh-sensei.”

After finishing her breakfast, Basleigh-sensei left her seat and headed for the door. I sip my coffee in astonishment, while Makina smiles as she cleans up the dishes.

Fath-san, who is still eating her bread, also calls out to Basleigh-sensei.

“Stay healthy.”

“I’ll be back, okay?”

“Ho-ho, I’m just kidding.”

As soon as she left, we finished our meal, cleaned up and went out into the garden. Makina is hugging her mini-treant, as if she likes it.

“Now let’s continue our training. What are you going to do, Lars?”

“It seems that I need to become a tamer to get him to live in here, so I’m going to go to a place where I can get my certification.”

“I see. You’re right, it wouldn’t look good for Basleigh to just leave a Treant in the garden.”

Well, he’s a minister, so maybe that’s the way it is, and Fath-san nodded. Then Makina opened her mouth as she handed me the mini-treant.

“By the way, is our finances going to be okay if we don’t do any requests? We bought a house, build Master’s cabin, and some money for remodeling the garden, so it must have gone down, right?”

“It was a bit unexpected, but Fath-san also paid some of it, so we’re still okay. Rather than that, are you okay with that, Fath-san?”

“Of course, it’s okay. I have been earning money by participating in martial arts tournaments. Of course, I also took requests from the guild. Only the old man would have ruined his retirement savings by going on a trip.”

“Saving is important, isn’t it? I’ve been saving money since I was a kid. But you have to spend it all at once.”

“Umu. That’s why I’m going to remodel the garden today.”

“…… You’re moving so fast. Ok, Makina, take care of the house for me. I think I’ll just grab some random lunch and go home.”

“Yeah, have a good day! ……I feel like we’re a newlywed …… Ehehe.”

“Ho-ho, you’re so young. That’s a nice thing to say in the morning–.”

In the morning, after slapping Makina’s red-faced, wiggling butt, Fath-san began her training, and I pulled the horses, Johnny and Mora to the livestock area.

“Can you look at the bag later when I get back?”

“!”

The mini-treant, placed in a handy cage, held its right branch high and its head bloomed in a flash. Apparently, that’s okay apparently.

“Maybe it’s because I’ve been talking too much, but this is really irritating in itself. Oh, well.”

“♪”

The mini-treant was shaking its body from side to side in the cage, wondering what was so fun about it. When we arrived at the livestock area, Fath-san lent the horse to the uncle who had asked for the job yesterday.

“Neigh♪”

“Brrrr.”

“Ohhhh, I’ll be in your care today too. Then, I’ll borrow it until after lunch.”

“Oh. I’m going to this place in the back to get my tamer’s license, so I’ll stop by on my way back.”

“Eh, you’re going there?”

“? Is there a problem?”

“Ahhhh, no …… just go and you’ll see. I don’t think it’s anybody’s fault, but it’s the times.”

“?”

The uncle laughed with a troubled face and went back to his work. I looked at the mini-treant and tilted my head. I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m going to go anyway, so there’s no point in worrying about it, I thought as I left the place and headed towards the back.

I made sure that the tree branches that Chelle and the mini-treant had escaped from had been removed and were no longer climbable.

“When I looked from the sky, I saw that this area was open, but ……”

“!”

I looked beyond where the mini-treant was rustling and waving its branches to the right, and saw a wooden fence, and as I got closer, I saw what looked like a pasture.

“‘Is this where the big one was? The entrance is …… over there, I see. It’s kind of like a zoo, but I hope it’s okay.”

The entrance was double-doors, and as soon as I passed through two iron fences, I saw a cabin on my right. I knocked on the door and called out.

“Excuse me! I heard about a place where you can get your tamer’s certification, but is this the right place?” 

…… I waited for a while, but there was no answer.

“Let’s open it.”

“!”

I didn’t know what to do, so I decided to go in. When I opened the door and peeked inside, I saw an eight-mat room with a counter and a sofa and table on the right. I’d like to have one of those in my living room …… Oh, no, that’s not what I should be thinking right now.

“Excuse me!.”

“!”

I opened the door and called out once more, and the mini-treant also waved its branches in an appealing manner.

Then–　

“Wha- …… what are you …… a debt collector? We don’t have any money, as you can see, we don’t have any trainees, and the money the government is giving us is only enough to feed the monsters! Hahahaha!”

A man in his late thirties with stubble comes out of a door behind the reception desk and says something like that. It’s true that the place is empty, and the outside doesn’t seem to be crowded either.

Even so, Basleigh-sensei told me to get my certification here, so I guess this is the only place I can get it.

“No, I’m not a debt collector. I heard you need to get certified here so that I can keep this guy at home.”

“What did you say! So you want to be a tamer!”

“That’s what I will be, I suppose?”

If you think about it, I’m an adventurer, but I don’t have any particular profession like a swordsman or a wizard. It might be fun to call myself a tamer? Besides, I just realized, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to master other professions as well with Super Jack-of-all-Trades.

Regardless, the man at the reception desk was amused by my words and continued talking.

“is that so! As you can see, there are no people here at all, but the facilities are clean, so don’t worry! We also have a variety of monsters for training. The training fee is 50,000 Beryl per month for small size, 60,000 for medium size. The large size requires 70,000. How about it, do you want to train?”

“So there are three levels ……. That’s what I plan to do. Can I ask how long it takes to get certified? And what’s the large size?”

When I raised my hand to ask a question, the man rolled up his arms and showed me a paper document.

“Oh! The earliest you can get certified for a small monster is about a year. If it’s a medium-sized monster like a rampaging boar or a large monster like a deadly bear, you’ll need a certain amount of training. But even those with no animal-related skills can become a full-fledged tamer in a couple of years. If you have a large certification, you don’t need to get a small or medium certification. If you want to make it as a tamer, you have to get the large one.”

I thought to myself, “This is like a car license system,” as I listened to him, looking at the materials.

I don’t have a lot of spare money, but if I want the certification, it’s much more economical to get the large monster certification.

“Okay, then I’ll take the large size training. Make sure you have exactly 70,000 beryl.”

“Oh, Ohhhh …… that was a quick decision …… even I was a little surprised. –Yes, it’s definitely the exact number. Thank you, now I can eat good food today …… and pay off my debt ……”

“Are you in that much trouble?”

The man stiffens and looks at me with an embarrassed look.

“…… Well, you know. Tamer used to be a popular profession, but not so much anymore. There are a lot of reasons for this, but one of them is that even if it’s a monster, you still have to feed it, and that costs money. But the worst thing is that at one time there were people who took monsters around for the purpose of abusing them. That’s why they made it a qualification system. And made the training cost money. So it’s hard to take them around, right? We also made it mandatory for them to go to a tamer’s facility every few years to have their aptitude checked. It’s probably because of the hassle of this that there are no people to train and the place is deserted.”

Even though they’re monsters, even I can’t overlook abuse…… I’d be furious if this guy or Sarge were mistreated. In other words, the people who are left now, such as those who came to the class competition, are decent people.

“Haha, you’re making a difficult face. Well then, sign this form and I’ll take you to the facility.”

I wondered what the training for tamers would be like. It sounds interesting, but I think I’ll do my best for the mini-treant for now.

Lars going down an increasingly dubious path …… Well, for the Super Jack-of-all-Trades!

Thank you for reading!

[Afterword Theater]

The trap is that we’re not even halfway through the scenario.

“It’s going to be the longest one ever ……”

Well, I hope it turns out to be interesting!