Volume 1 Chapter 2 (1/2)

Chapter 2: I started a consulting business for adventurer parties.

“Well, how are you?”, I said to myself while on the first floor of an inn, gnawing at cold bread while stroking my unshaven chin.

I am Kenji an adventurer that retired before 30. This has caused me to lose my means of providing for myself.

When I was in j.a.pan, I was a consultant.

At first, I thought of making a living through consulting, but the guild was already firmly established in that market with little room for anyone else, combined with the fact that I had no start-up capital, so I gave up on it.

“Hey, what are you doing?”, called out Sarah the Archer.

This redheaded woman joined our party two years ago.

I think she is past 20, but it is difficult to determine due to her being part foreigner.

Even if I ask her she only says that it is a secret.

She seems quite worried about her age.

How should I say it, is it the difference between our cultures or is she being sophisticated? I think that we have the same words but different meaning (TN: Need to redo this one.)

“You shouldn’t buy that arrowhead it is expensive.”

“Could you not be so nosy about how I spend my money?”

Adventurers are quite careless when it comes to money.

Because all they know is how to fight they are unfamiliar with the concepts of economics

Therefore, they tend to get ripped off.

Take Sarah as an example. She had a terrible sense of money and as  a result was always penniless. Being unable to just stand by and watch them waste their money I taught them that buying in bulk could save them money.

If you buy the arrowheads, shaft and feathers separate you can build them yourselves.

Even if an archer were to buy an arrow they would end up adjusting it themselves to suit their preference.