To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 3 (eBook)

Itsuki Mizuho (Autor)

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2022
250 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-1-7183-8801-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Nao's party has agreed to temporarily settle down in Laffan, but that means they have to begin saving up money again in order to purchase a plot of land and pay for the construction of a house. In order to earn money, they start with the basics and take on some well-paying gathering quests for herbs, while also aiming for other options that would rake in a lot of money, like harvesting magical mushrooms and capturing giant salamanders. However, there's no such thing as easy money, so their goal of achieving a relaxing and peaceful life in this different world is still a distant dream. Money comes and goes; that's the harsh reality that Nao's party has to face.

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Prologue

“So yeah, we need to earn and save up a lot of money now!” Haruka exclaimed.

We had decided to rent a house in Laffan to use as our home base and had asked Diola-san to help us look for one, but there wasn’t anything that matched what we were looking for, sadly. It wasn’t her fault by any means, though, since it was a fact that she couldn’t show us something that didn’t exist. As a result, we had asked her to help us with the negotiations to purchase a plot of land instead so that we could pay for the construction of our own house. However, even though we had saved enough money to rent a house, we didn’t have enough money to pay for both land and a new house. All of this was what had led to Haruka’s declaration. Diola-san’s efforts would go to waste if we didn’t manage to save up enough money on our end. We would probably have to live a frugal life and continue to stay at an inn for a while to accomplish this.

“Well, with that said, the only thing we can really do to earn money is to take on more adventurer work. It’s not like we can take out a loan in this world.”

Yuki added, “What Haruka means is that it’s not a safe option. There’s a chance we might be scammed or even forced into slavery. Personal bankruptcy doesn’t exist here, so yeah.”

Oh, right, Yuki has the General Knowledge skill as well.

“Hmm? Didn’t you mention before that slavery is prohibited here, Haruka?” I asked.

“What Yuki means is conditions that are basically as bad as slavery. You know, situations like harsh penal servitude, for example. It seems like there are some measures in place to make sure you don’t die, but it’s definitely much harsher than anything back in Japan.”

Haruka told us that people who fell into that situation would be put under strict surveillance while being forced to work, and the money they earned would mostly go towards repaying their debt as well as towards management fees, so it was much more difficult to repay a debt in that way than it was working a normal job. Back in Japan, the amount of money you earned during penal servitude would be handed over to you once you had finished your sentence and were released from prison. The difference in this world was probably due to deductions for food expenses, prison maintenance fees, and the salaries of the people who worked at the prison. The kind of work you would be forced to do would probably be the shady type of work, and as for the work that women would be tasked with...

“Yeah, debt is absolutely bad,” I said.

“I don’t intend on allowing any of us to go into debt,” said Haruka. “It’s dangerous if you get scammed, so everyone needs to make sure to report and discuss with each other.”

“Mm, that’s the right way to go about it,” said Natsuki. “Calmly discuss things with someone else before making a decision. It’s best to have the mentality that every get-rich-quick scheme is a scam.”

“There are probably also special types of scams that target people who think they’re too smart to get scammed...” said Touya.

“Yep, and there might be scams unique to this world out there too, so we should all be on our guard,” said Yuki.

We all nodded. It would be hard for us to escape elaborate scams if any of us got ensnared in one, so we had to avoid them at all costs.

“On a sidenote, does Diola-san really like dried dindels?” Natsuki asked.

“Yeah. It seems she absolutely loves dindels, not just dried ones,” said Haruka.

The way Diola-san had taken a cut of our dindels seemed a bit like an abuse of her authority, but she had insisted it wasn’t a problem.

“Dindels are expensive seasonal fruits that aren’t readily available in the market, so they’re quite useful for negotiations,” I said.

“Oh, do dried dindels taste good?” Yuki asked.

“Oh right, neither of you have had dried dindels yet,” said Haruka. “Would you two like to try some?”

“Yeah!” Yuki exclaimed.

“Is it okay to have some?” Natsuki asked.

“Yeah. Give me a second.” Haruka took some dried dindels out of a bag and handed them to Yuki and Natsuki. “Okay, here you go.”

Both of them took some time to examine the fruits in front of them.

“Can we eat them right away like this?” Yuki asked.

“Yeah, you can bite right in,” said Haruka. “You can also slice them up first if you want.”

The main difference between regular dried fruits and dried dindels was their size. Most dried fruits would end up similar in size to an apricot or persimmon, and anything larger than that would normally be sliced up first before consumption. That probably meant that the large, plump dried dindels looked quite strange to Yuki and Natsuki, but it didn’t change the fact that they were delicious. The rest of us stared intently at them, silently urging them to try out the dried dindels.

At last the two of them tentatively bit into the dindels. Their faces lit up with looks of surprise, and they both voiced their thoughts.

“D-Delicious! It’s very sweet, but it still has a sour edge to it!” Yuki exclaimed. “Whoa, even the skin tastes good!”

“Mm!” Natsuki chimed in. “I’ve never had dried fruits that tasted this good before!”

Yep. Dindels become sweeter when dried, and you can even eat the skin, which you would normally throw away, so it kind of feels like you’re getting the best value out of dindels this way. However, fresh dindels have a stronger sour flavor than dried ones, and that’s something I enjoy, so it’s hard for me to say which I prefer.

“Okay, I understand why they’re a delicacy now,” said Natsuki. “By the way, how much does each one go for in the market?”

“Hmm. Well, dried dindels probably go for at least one thousand Rea each.”

“At least one gold coin per dindel?! That’s really expensive!” Yuki exclaimed.

“Oh yeah, we could probably pay for a plot of land if we sold our entire stock of dindels.”

Yuki objected right away. “I’m against that idea, Haruka! It’s better to have some valuable sweet food in stock!”

Natsuki gently shook her head. “The two of us weren’t the ones who made these dried dindels, so I feel a bit bad about saying this, but I kind of agree with Yuki...”

“If I had to pick a side, then I guess I’m of the same opinion,” said Haruka. “Nao, Touya, what about you two?”

“Well, I wouldn’t mind selling about half of our stock,” I said.

Yuki and Natsuki expressed their disappointment together when they heard my words. “Really...?”

I changed my opinion as soon as I saw how sad they looked. “Oh, actually, never mind, we should keep our stock of dindels.”

“Yeah, I agree with Nao,” said Touya. “They’re delicious, after all!”

Even if we had enough money to purchase the land, we would still have to earn more to pay for a house, so there wasn’t any reason to make Yuki and Natsuki sad when they had been suffering from bad food for so long. There was nothing wrong with taking our time to save up money.

“We can use dried fruits as rations when we have to go out on long trips, so I actually am in favor of saving them for practical reasons too,” said Haruka. “I plan on stocking up on other cheap dried fruits, though.”

The value of one dried dindel would be enough to purchase a couple of other dried fruits, so it would be somewhat extravagant to eat only dindels even though they were delicious. We had a lot of dried dindels stocked up, but we would run out before the next spring if each of us ate one or two per day.

“Can we actually earn four hundred gold coins in a short amount of time, though, Haruka?” Yuki asked.

“Well, it might sound like a lot of money, but the amount we spent on the chain mail for you and Natsuki was only one and a half times that amount, so it’s not that bad.”

“Uh, that just makes me scared to wear the chain mail...” said Yuki.

“It technically is clothing that’s worth the equivalent of at least one million yen, so yeah,” said Touya.

“When you put it like that, chain mail is actually quite expensive,” I said. The amount we had paid for Touya’s chain mail would have been enough to buy a car back in Japan.

Yuki tilted her head in thought. “Actually, now that I think about it, the value of heavy armor in the past back in Japan would’ve been somewhere between twenty and thirty million yen, so I guess it kind of makes sense.”

Touya looked quite surprised. “Wait, for real?! It was that expensive?!”

“Yeah. Life for samurai in the past seems to have been quite hard, since they had to gather up money to build large estates and also for their armor.”

“Yikes. The labor costs were high due to the fact that it was handmade instead of mass-produced, right? Our chain mail looks like it took a lot of work to make as well,” I said.

I always got a headache just thinking about how much delicate craftsmanship had gone into the fine wires that held my chain mail together. That thought would come to mind any time I wore it.

“It’s true that a lot of work went into our chain mail, but they’re also made of white iron, and that seems to be...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2022
• Reihe/Serie: To Another World... with Land Mines!
• Reihe/Serie: To Another World... with Land Mines!
• Illustrationen: Itsuki Mizuho
• Übersetzer: Itsuki Mizuho
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: childhood friend • Game elements • Isekai • Light Novel • Magic • Reincarnation • Survival
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-8801-2 / 1718388012
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-8801-7 / 9781718388017