Kujonin Chapter 55

“O~kay, now, while we’re eating, let’s introduce the new employees.”
While we’re eating dinner in the inn’s cafeteria, we introduce the two newcomers.
“Um! Before that, what does this company do?”
Seth asked.
Just a little bit ago, he was all ‘There are people scarier than monsters…’ and full of wounds, but after smearing recovery potion on him and putting food down in front of him, he became energetic.
“Ayl, you didn’t explain?”
“I didn’t. Or like, I don’t even know well myself. Basically, it’s supposed to be a cleaning and pest extermination company, but fundamentally it’s a company where Naoki makes money with recovery potions.”
“N~ you’re not exactly mistaken though.”
I hadn’t told them my reason for making the company, so it can’t be helped, huh?
“Then, what kind of fish does that boat fish up?”
“No, that s.h.i.+p is for movement only.”
“Movement only…? There are boats that aren’t for fis.h.i.+ng?”
Seth came from a lake town, so it seems he thinks all boats are fis.h.i.+ng boats.
“There are sightseeing s.h.i.+ps and battles.h.i.+ps and the like, right?”
“Sightseeing s.h.i.+ps? Battles.h.i.+ps?”
“No, nothing… I’ll explain another day.”
“Okay.”
“And so, Captain Seth. Introduce yourself.”
Seth stood, a bit embarra.s.sed, and told us things like his hometown, age, and race.

“Okay, next is Merumo…. Merumo!”
With her mouth stuffed full of fish, Merumo realized and turned her head.
“Ngungu, haa, okay! I’m Merumocchi Jefferson! I’m a sheepman from the northern province. My favorite things are bug monsters and blood spurts!”
“E….? Blood spurts?”
Seth, who was watching Merumo’s chest, froze and looked at me.
“You’re free to pursue love within the company here.”
So saying, I slapped his back.
“Then, Ayl and Velsa too, just because.”
“I’m Ayl. I was an instructor in the Adventurers Guild of Kubenia in the Kingdom of Alicefey. Recently I got the t.i.tles, [Sword King] and [Protector of Dragons].”
“I’m Velsa. A monster researcher and [Protector of Dragons].”
Seth was way too surprised at Ayl’s [Sword King], turning white and freezing.
“The two of

you have t.i.tles.”
Merumo also seems to be surprised.
“Are t.i.tles that amazing?”
“They are! I think there are no more than 10 people in this country who have t.i.tles!”
Merumo explained.
“Next, it’s Naoki.”
Velsa told me.
“Aa, me? I’m Naoki Komuro. I’m the president. I don’t have a t.i.tle…. a, I’m also an otherworlder.”
“ “E-!!??” “
Seth and Merumo’s eyes turned into dots.
“Well that’s the normal reaction, na.”
“I might not have believed it at the beginning, but after seeing your actions, there are a lot of points I can understand with that.”
Ayl and Velsa told the newcomers.
“How did you become an otherworlder?”
Merumo asked.
“In my former world I was in the middle of cleaning and died, so this world’s G.o.d picked me up, basically. Since this goes along with it, next is that this company was made because the G.o.d that picked me up made a request to ‘exterminate heroes.’ Everyone, let’s defeat the heroes!”
I said, raising my fist in the style of ‘hip hip hooray.’
“ “ “ “ Haa!!!!!!???”””
“Wait a second! You just slid something important in there!”
“Why did you say something like that in a cafeteria with all these people!?”
Ayl and Velsa listed their objections.
The two newcomers, with white faces and open mouths, were frozen.
“It’s fine. n.o.body can hear us.”
In truth, even when the 4 people yelled, no one turned to look.
“Oi, come back!”
“Regain your consciousness!”
Ayl and Velsa talked to the newcomers next to them, but the whites of the eyes of the two newcomers were still visible.
“As I thought, it’s a bit too soon to tell them, huh?”
I smiled bitterly as I scratched the back of my head.

After that, supporting the two unconscious newcomers and returning to our rooms, Ayl and Velsa scolded me.

I was scolded a lot.
I was scolded more than I thought I would be.
Although I brought the food when we left the cafeteria, I was scolded a lot.
While we ate, I

I was scolded.
I was scolded to where you start thinking, isn’t this about enough?
When the newcomers awoke, when Seth saw the level column on my Adventurer’s Card, he foamed at the mouth and collapsed, and Merumo said, “Only the Demon Lord will defeat heroes,” and was startled when I stood up and collapsed.
“What are you going to do by defeating the newcomers?” they said, and I was scolded again.
They just collapsed on their own, I had nothing to do with it! I though that, but I didn’t say it and waited out Ayl and Velsa’s scolding.

“Haa… geez, I’m tired!”
“I’m also tired, haa haa.”
Ayl and Velsa fell onto the beds, kicking up their feet.
“Anyway. If there’s something important, I just have to tell you two, right?”
“ “That’s right!” “
“Then I’ll talk about it now, so listen.”
I got out of my seiza, crossed my legs, and faced the two.
“There are quite a lot of things to do. First is finding heroes. From there we investigate to find which spirit the hero’s a hero of, and then investigate that spirit.”
“Why?”
Ayl asked.
“For G.o.d, it seems like it’s fine as long as he can fire the spirits who don’t do their work. So we need to find the spirit’s weaknesses and evidence that they’re skipping out on work, and report it so G.o.d can fire the spirit, I think. At that point, the hero will lose the spirit’s blessing and no longer be a hero. And then the work will be finished.”
“A, I see. So, even if you call it hero extermination, it’s fine even if we don’t kill heroes.”
“Right. At any rate, if we kill the heroes we’ll just be wanted again.”
“ “That’s true.” “
Looks like they remember the matter a Marina Port.
“But then, wouldn’t it be better if we looked for the spirits right from the start?”
“Well of course, but with the heroes increasing, all sorts of things are going to be in major trouble,

major trouble, it seems. And besides, doesn’t it seem easier to look for heroes rather than look for spirits?”
“It seems that spirits pretty much don’t show themselves to anyone other than heroes.”
Velsa agreed.
“And so, I made this company to be able to get all the information on heroes that we can. And anyone can find the evidence even if it’s not me, right?”
“And that evidence, what would it be?”
“I won’t know until I see it, but for example, if a spirit isn’t doing its job, the forest will die out, or it won’t be thinned out as necessary, or the herbivore monsters would increase too much, right?”
“Thinned out?”
Velsa had face like, ‘What’s that? Never heard of it.’
“U-m, that feels like it will be hard to make that judgement.”
Ayl said, crossing her arms.
“Well, I was thinking that, by making the communication bags, everyone can give their input to make the judgement.”
“Well, anyway, in the end it’s Naoki that reports to G.o.d.”
“That’s right. A, there’s also that thing about the Southern Hemisphere.”
I continued talking.
“Another important thing!?”
“The Southern Hemisphere!?”
Like they were fed up, Ayl and Velsa glared at me.
“Ah, no, this is for the Evil G.o.d. He said he was tired of destroying so much. Right now, he wants to diffuse the mana spots.”
“Wait wait wait, Evil G.o.d!?”
“You also met the Evil G.o.d?”
“I met G.o.d and Evil G.o.d. The ones backing our company are G.o.d and Evil G.o.d, so I was thinking we should be versatile.”
“This isn’t a problem of versatility, right? Is there a point to making money?”
“That’s right. If you’re talking about G.o.d, he can give you money at least, right?”
“Un, that’s right. That said, right now I’m not troubled with money, so I can’t say I need it. Maa, we can at least earn our own operating fees, right?”
“Well, that’s true.”
“I got it, I got it. Anyway, tell us everything to the end.”
Ayl and Velsa, like they Velsa, like they were tired from the depths of their souls, let out a sigh.
“The Evil G.o.d should be making a giant slime out of the mana spots, then breaking it up. And then, when the Southern Hemisphere becomes a slime haven, people will go exterminate them. That’s why we’ll have to research drying agents at some point.”
“When will that be?”
Velsa asked.
“I don’t know, but the Southern Hemisphere will be connected to the Northern Hemisphere.”
“Connected?”
Ayl leaned forward to listen.
“It seems, at least, a dungeon will be made, and tunnel will be made. If we can get the s.p.a.ce spirit fired before that, we can charge in all at once, though.”
“No, if we do that, chaos is inevitable.”
“That’s right. It’s fine if it’s just this town, but there are also other countries. Just because there’s land, even slaves will desert and rush in.”
“Then we’ll leave the s.p.a.ce spirit alone for now.”
“Yeah.”
“To prepare for the people of the Northern Hemisphere, we should put together the Southern Hemisphere’s environment.”
“Well, before that we should put together the Northern Hemisphere’s environment. The spirits are basically doing whatever they want.”
I said, making a serious face and crossing my arms.

“U,um! Is this about saving the world?”
Merumo, who woke up at some point, asked.
“I, I’m going to be the captain of the s.h.i.+p of that kind of company?”
Seth had also woken up at some point.
The two of their eyes, with the magic stone lamp s.h.i.+ning on them, sparkled.
“That’s right. Our country is cleaning up the Northern Hemisphere that has become unbalanced.”
“Please let me help!”
“I’m also going to help! Train me well! Please!”
Merumo and Seth bowed their heads.
“Alright, then, first, we’re going to exterminate the heroes-!”
Standing, I raised my fist in the air.
“”””Oo!””””
My employees, do they not know about ‘hip hip hooray’? they hit my fist with their own.
Even while rubbing my first, I thought it was becoming more like a company, and I was delighted.