Letâs Procure Some New Employees
Since Meat returned to being my hug pillow before I noticed it, she probably recovered from lying down all night. Looks like she slipped in while I was asleep, what a zealous worker. She even paid attention to changing the comforter out for a towel blanket so that it wouldnât be hot.
Though I said we had a labor shortage, this inn thatâs also a dungeon has a lot of secrets.
Like how we use the dungeon core to light up Rokukoâs room.
We canât hire standard employees. So then, what do we doâŠ? We get another one like Ichika. But we probably wonât find as good a bargain as Ichika again. But but! We need more employees that can stay and house-sit.
With the amount of people we have right now, I canât even take anyone out to the human village. Despite going to such great pains to open that tunnel, Ichika canât go visit her hometown, Pavuera. Iâve gotten a few goods from guests using the tunnel from Pavuera though.
⊠Even though theyâll hand us stuff like fish while saying, âPlease cook this!â ⊠Itâs not like I can cook.
And then thereâs the mysterious chef that cooks for the inn. Our setting has him named Ex Travagant-san. The setting has no use though since we donât even have that praiseworthy person called a chef thoughâŠ
Seems like Ichikaâs only interested in cooking to eat it⊠Ah, she made some grilled fish. Then I ate it myself.
Right, our next employee should really be someone that knows how to cook. If they can reproduce dishes that we serve using DP, the inn can continue running even if Rokuko and I arenât here so long as there are ingredients. Sooner or later Rokukoâs probably going to want to go and visit Haku-san.
âAnd so, this time Iâm going to summon an employee~â
âSummon an employee⊠ah. A human-type monster that can mimicry!â
A monster like a [Succubus], as in like Haku-sanâs butler, Chloe. In other words, an intelligent human-type, and if possible Iâd prefer a female-type monster thatâs good at cooking and has beautiful legs.
Furthermore, male-type ones are no good since this dungeonâs sponsor (Haku-san) said so and itâs not like I want to have a harem.
âItâs pricey though you know?â
âYeah⊠it might be cheaper than a slave once allâs said and done though. Even after subtracting the amount of DP itâd take to teach them [Storage], itâd be cheaper.â
Then maybe I should purposely try to make it an expensive human-type monster? That way if the monster is intelligent, it might be able to use DP. Eh, maybe human-type monsters are expensive because theyâre able to use DP?
âI see! If itâs a monster that can use DP I can go out as well huh!â
âThatâs right⊠And because of that, maybe a succubus is the best way to go? Their war potential is reassuring and they have good abilities too.â
âChloe set a good precedent for them, so thereâs a sense of security⊠but, what about like Redra? A red dragon. They can look like a human even though theyâre a dragon by using their human form technique.â
âI wonât argue their strength, but we donât have enough DP for a dragon that can use a human form. Even Redra still had her tail. And Iâd prefer to get two or three people if we couldâŠâ
âWe wouldnât have enough for succubi either then you know?â
Still, it was to the point that itâd use practically all of our DP savings. I donât really think itâs a problem since we have a steady income now though.
âOh right. Phoenixes can learn how to have a human form. Itâs still an egg though! Wait, didnât you promise to get it hatched by that dragon breath a long time ago?â
â⊠Craaap, completely forgot.â
I wouldnât be able to use the phoenix egg for raw materials anymore if it hatched, so letâs do it after I get a bit more from it⊠is what I decided to do. In other words, I completely forgot about it after setting it up with the automatic egg smashing golem.
â⊠Thereâs probably plenty of materials now so letâs go get it hatched?â
âKehma? You havenât perhaps been breaking the egg while itâs unhatched have you?â
âD-donât say something so scary.â
While I was trembling, I went back to the topic.
âThat aside, isnât it better for it to be cheap and convenient? Ah. Fighting strength isnât needed right?â
âYeah. Itâs more important that they can look after the inn than be able to fightâŠâ
âHow about this then?â
As for what Rokuko showed me, a [Vampire]⊠wait, isnât it both really strong and really expensive?
âI didnât know there were so many variations of vampires⊠see? This one at the bottom is so cheap!â
âItâs a lesser one so its intelligence might be a problem, how about the common one⊠ooh, itâs still cheap? 30,000 DP huh, with the DP we have now⊠itâs not that bad.â
It might be a little painful, but thereâd be no problem if we converted our cash earnings into DP. Recently weâve been getting more than 500 DP a day, so we wouldnât have any problems even if we used it all.
By the way, thereâs one over 1,000,000 DP. It says something like true ancestorâŠ
â⊠But donât vampires turn into ash if theyâre hit by sunlight?â
âThereâs a lot of customization options you know? Look at this! It even says sunlight immune!â
âOi oi, isnât that expensive?â
âThatâs why itâs optional!â
The offensive capability option⊠100 was the upper limit, with 0 being the worst. The DP cost was practically synchronized with it.
âShouldnât we try out the offensive capability option at 0?â
⊠Taking the sunlight immunity option with it⊠it became 1 DP.
As for all of its other weak point immunity options, they were all 1 DP. Cheap.
Things like bat transformation and blood weapons that were the core ability options for vampires were still expensive though.
Well, as a result of fiddling with the customization optionsâ
â⊠It doesnât have any kind of ability, it canât fly, even though it has fangs they have no offensive power, but it has no weak points⊠a blood sucking⊠oni?â
It doesnât really need to suck blood either. It wasnât even a vampire at this point, it was fine just eating normal meat.
Moreover, its cost was around 15,000 DP even though it started out at 30,000 DP. About the same as a lesser vampire, oi. Well, it canât fight at all⊠itâd be completely useless if it werenât smart.
Though it was doubtful if it could still be called a vampire, letâs put this one on hold as a candidate.
âWhat about this silky thing? It looks like a house fairy!â
A silky. It would help with household things, a house fairy that you could say looked like a beautiful woman.
A beautiful woman, sounds good. Since they also werenât that strong, they were at the reasonable price of 10,000 DP each.
âThen this one might also be good. Itâs a [Zashiki Warashi]. 5,000 DP though.â [1]
âHmm? Heeh. A luck fairy huh⊠ah, it says that only people with pure hearts or children can see it.â
Ah, unfortunate. Guests not being able to see it would be bad. Rejected.
âThereâs also this witch thing. How about that one?â
âFumu, a witch huhâŠ? Maybe thatâd be good? Itâs probably a human-type⊠or rather, whatâs the difference between it and a human?â
âEh? Isnât it because it has a magic stone?â
âCome to think of it, itâs a monster if it has a magic stone huh. Thatâs the basics of this world.â
There was an option for the witch to be an apprentice, when it grew up itâd be a sorcerer or something. 15,000 if itâs an apprentice huh⊠apprentices are expensive. Rather, canât the monsters sort themselves by intelligence?
Ah, but they know magic from the start. Apprentices almost know two low class ones though.
Rather, come to think of it, how exactly does the system of using DP to summon monsters work? Maybe it takes them from another world like it did with me? Or maybe it just generates the monstersâŠ
âIgnoring special cases like with Kehma, theyâre generally created by DP you know? ⊠And theyâll also normally obey if you order them.â
âEh, so then what should I summon?â
â⊠How about using the gacha?â
For now, I decided to summon the monsters.
The [Vampire (Customized)], the [Silky], and the [Witch (Apprentice)].
In order to investigate which weâll get more of in the future, for now Iâm going to just summon one bodyâerr, one personâof each. [2]
⊠Well⊠Iâll just have faith that at worst at least one of them will be smart enough to serve customersâŠ
âVampire, silky, witch, summon!â
The magic formation expanded towards the edges of the room with a low hum, stopping at around one meter in diameter.
Then, there were three girls. They appeared from the magic formation.
The easiest one to figure out was the freckled girl with brown hair that held a staff and wore a robe. Sheâs probably the witch. She looked like a normal girl. If she isnât intelligent, sheâs a lie.
Then next was one with green hair wearing thin maid clothes⊠sheâs probably the silky. Maid clothes, itâs the silky. Thereâs no way thatâs a vampire. At least she wasnât transparent or anything.
The last one was a silver-haired girl in black bondage clothes. By elimination, sheâs the vampire. I donât know if she has wings or fangs though.
The three girls that were floating in the magic formation slowly stepped onto the ground.
The vampire, with her silvery hair that extended to her lower back fluttering, opened her eyes.
She looked at Rokuko and me with her bright red pupils that looked like rubies.
âHow do you do, masterâŠâ
âShe talked! She can talk!â
âWe did it Kehma! Sheâs smart!â
âEh, ummââ
Ooh, the vampire is puzzled! Evidence that she can think properly!
âHow about you other two? Can you talk?â
âEh? Ah, yes. Pleased to meet you, master.â
âI will serve you from here on. I am humbled to make your acquaintance, master.â
It looks like both the witch and the silky can talk as well. All of them. Theyâre all able to talk.
⊠I have no problem with their looks either, itâs a total win. We did it!
Footnotes:
Wiki-sensei giving a link to save the day!
Doesnât translate well to EnglishâKeima used counter for bodies instead of people here. He then corrected himself.













