Extra 31: Asora’s currency was born in this way (1/2)

Extra 31: Asora’s currency was born in this way

“…This truly is an interesting arrangement through and through.”

Asora, the mansion of Misumi Makoto.

The demon girl that had experienced a drastic change in social standing not long ago, Sari, was groaning at the personal room she was given.

She is a direct relative of the Demon Lord, but without any of that connection affecting the result, she had shown talent and obtained the right of being one of the Demon Lord candidates.

At the same time, she is also the girl that was in close proximity to being the next in the throne and was instantly thrown right down to being the slave of a hyuman.

The room she is in is around 12 tatamis in size. It is a lot smaller than the room she was in the past.

In Asora, or more like, in the house of Makoto specifically, the personal rooms are not very big.

Maybe because of his taste as a japanese, he thinks that even the twelve tatami rooms are too big as well.

Thinking about the standing of Makoto and his assets in this world as a standard, his personal room should be more than twice bigger than what it currently is, and it is normal for the private room size to be sixty tatamis or more.

But Makoto only has one place in Asora that can be called his room. There’s a big bookshelf that reaches the ceiling which was one of the secret dreams of Makoto, and the thing that bothers him the most is the bed that is steadily being changed to be bigger and bigger.

The whole room doesn’t have any artistic articles and luxurious furnitures. It is a simple room to the core.

It would be normal for Makoto’s personality, but it isn’t fitting for Makoto’s standing.

It is a room that one tell how sudden his change in environment was.

In a sense, Sari lived a more jet coaster life than Makoto, but she actually wasn’t too pessimistic.

Maybe she has high adaptability, or it might be that she simply gave up and accepted it.

At any rate, Sari, rather than worrying about her pointless future (or so she thinks herself), she was more interested in the four types of currency that were lined up on the desk in front of her.

“This is one mon, this is one shu, this is one bu…and the last one is one ryo. In basis, four of each would be equal to one of the higher rank, but the only exception is the mon that needs 250 mons to be worth one shu…… This is truly complicated. Not only do they use the secret writing that Lorel uses, they also use calculations that I can’t get and it is an incredible pain. On top of that, what’s surprising is that almost all the residents understand how to use these. In other words, this means that the people that live here are able to perform such calculations in a daily basis. That would also set the standard of knowledge in this place at that bar, so… No good, my head hurts.” (Sari)

Sari was groaning in regards to the currency of Asora.

Demons and hyumans used a different currency before, but in the present, they mostly use the same one.

It was the result of the demons matching the hyuman currency, and the reason for it was by no means a peaceful one.

And so, Sari learned of the past currency of the demons, the hyuman currency, and the system behind it as well as understood it.

But in the place that Misumi Makoto had brought her didn’t use either of those and had a complicated and bizarre currency.

Even the position of the stars is completely different. It is a different world that no one knows where is located, so it could be said that this is a matter of course though.

But even now that she has properly learned the way of using the currency, the worth, and the prices of commodities, she was thoroughly surprised by the true shape of the Kuzunoha Company.

“The mon to the bu are used in daily life. The ryo is a special unit, so I can exclude it. Thinking of it in that way, the bu being the one who sees the most regular use makes it easier in a sense. But why are there four types? And it is not as if the sizes get steadily bigger… The most mysterious thing is that the more I use them, the more I simply get used to it.” (Sari)

The word ‘used’ made her face loosen into a smile.

At first, this was a land where she didn’t know a single person, but in this Asora, she has gotten involved with the society, and has begun to make acquaintances and friends.

It was a smile brought by her memories of that.

It couldn’t be helped that Sari would get flustered by everything.

The currency of Asora was something that wasn’t established by Makoto, but Tomoe who begged on her knees to Makoto because of her edo period influence.

It is obvious that a parallel world wouldn’t be familiar with it, and even in Asora which is mostly composed of residents of the wasteland, it could be said to be something terrifyingly different.

In the first place, Asora is a place that could suffice with trading goods to fill almost all their needs.

The basis of Tomoe was that there would be guys in Asora that will be going outside in the near future and they would need knowledge in how to use money. Makoto then said that if that’s the case, then why not just use the hyuman currency in Asora as well which was a rare decent rebuttal of him, and yet, faced a crushing defeat.

The initial introduction of the currency was despairing.

The reason that the mon currency of the edo period is still used as the main currency in Asora is because of the tenacity of Tomoe.

In the end, Makoto, who is soft with his friends, was pushed by Tomoe even when he knew that having a different currency in Asora held no merit.

But in reality, there’s meaning in having a currency unique to them.

There are many cases where people would grow dependant on the currency of foreign countries.

The demons may have the same currency as hyumans externally, but a part of them continue holding their own currency which dampens the problem a bit.

But these various problems that Makoto couldn’t think of didn’t have much meaning in this case.

Asora won’t grow dependant on the outside, and the currency movement is only when Makoto and the others bring it into Asora which is a one-sided thing.

At the very least, there’s no demerit in using the same currency as the outside.

Rather, it would be just as Makoto says. It would be less troublesome to introduce an already existing system. The merits in it are more.

In the first place, for Makoto who knows about the mon to the ryo, and the silver units used in the Kansei prefecture, and also a rough knowledge on the money order of that era, it wasn’t that much of a problem for him, so that may have been of help to Tomoe.

It was a strange situation where Makoto’s liking to edo came to use.

The next plausible argument Makoto gave out was to use the modern era currency that’s paper money which is easier to carry around, but was brushed away with the flawless reason of ‘it lacks taste’.

Those were the details behind the currency of Asora. It was truly logic losing and pushing winning.

“One ryo is 4,000 mon, but the truly mysterious part of this place’s money is the ryo. Because ryo is not money used to buy things.” (Sari)

Of course, in the edo period, one ryo and two ryo were a normal unit of money.

It would be slightly troubling to do shopping with ryo, but it was still possible.

But in Asora, it is different.

The highest value that is the ryo can’t be used to buy goods.

What the ryo does is special exchanges.

With ryo, you can make requests to people in standings that are lower than Makoto and his followers -in other words, practically everyone in Asora.

With one ryo, you can enter the archive of Makoto’s memories where the lowest ranked ones are located; this comprises things like flora and fauna. With five ryo, instead of doing the job assigned to you based on your specialty and race, you can choose a job you would like to experience for a limited time, and depending on your results in that time, you could even change the job you have; because of this, the restriction of jobs and standings can be slightly bend.

Of course, even when one obtains knowledge that is not open publicly, spreading it has its restrictions, and putting it to practice also requires another permission to use.

If the person doesn’t manage to get suitable results in the job that they wanted, they are returned to their previous job, so it isn’t as if money can bend all rules.

By the way, with 20 ryo, you can have a mock battle with whichever follower you want, and have them train you. With a hundred ryo, you can have a mock battle with Makoto.

Something that one wouldn’t even be able to wish for unless you are in the high parts of the Asora ranking -or the highest- it is made possible as long as you save the money.

But well, there hasn’t been a single soul who has challenged Makoto.

There has been precedent of the race amassing the money they have to have a mock battle and training with the followers though.

“The act of amassing the wealth of many people was seen as a foolish thing in the society I lived in before, and how to say it, it simply wasn’t realistic.” (Sari)

Sari is gaining pay for the work she is given.

It is still a minuscule amount, but there’s enough to put in her savings.

She doesn’t have a reason or has decided on a way to use it, but she isn’t able to use all the money she is given within seven days of work, which is mostly due to Sari’s own nature.

Sari has the habit of preparing for if anything happens.

In her current situation where her meals are basically free of charge, moreover, she is enslaved to Makoto, if he were to ask her for her money, she would have no choice but to comply, so it could be said that it is pointless to save money.

Even with that, the amount in her savings was increasing every week.

It really must be her nature.

For now, she was lightly thinking about inspecting the memories Tomoe and Mio were enjoying so much when she manages to save two ryos.

“This is my personal opinion. It is easier to carry mons by tying them with a string, and regarding the place where exchange of the currency can be done…” (Sari)