Orc Harem Vol 2 Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Orc-san And Victory Celebration Party

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Applause were reverberating.

But, that meant the audiences had been liberated from their petrified state. Then soon other than applause, that should also come too.

「DON’T SCREW WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!」

「MY MONEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!」

「AA, LEVN-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, his face, is his face safe!?」

The bunch who bet a lot of money thinking that it was a safe bet and the fans of the mister white rose knight were letting out their screams and angry roars.

Hmmm, it feels good. Serves you right.

I avoided the beer mugs and trashes that also came flying amidst the boos and returned to the waiting room.

Well, in any case I was recognized as the hero with this.

I brazenly walked as the owner of the sword of oracle.

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After that, I went through a lot of procedures and finally obtained the big reward that I was promised.

Other than that I also filled the documents with my fake name Oruruk as the hero’s name. They also asked me a lot about my personal information, so I gave them bullshit answer for all the questions.

They also drew my face, but this was just a face for disguising myself as Oruruk anyway. It didn’t bother me at all for this face to be recorded.

I didn’t want to be worked like a slave as the hero, but the title of hero would be useful.

That was why I created this fictional existence of Oruruk and arranged so that I would be able to use that name when I needed it.

I was released after around two or three hours. It seemed I was also being followed.

And so, I finally returned to the inn.

I had already predicted that things would become like this and arranged with the others beforehand that we would meet again at the inn.

Midway I went to a place without anyone around, undid my disguise to return from Oruruk to Ork, and I also exchanged the sword of oracle’s sheath with a different sheath.

With this I said farewell to all troublesome matters.

「Ah, you are late Ork.」

「……So gold is extremely heavy when there is so many of it like this. I had never realized it.」

There wasn’t just Tita at the inn, but also Kururu.

The two of them were in the middle of diligently studying.

In Tita’s case, she had finally managed to learn letters, so she was reading a book that was filled with the common senses for living in human society, while Kururu was reading the aforementioned book Everything About Smithing And Alchemy (Intermediate Level).

「Gold coins take too much space. Most large companies are already switching to use promissory note. I thought that they would hand over promissory note when the winning is so big like this time.」

What was being used widely as currency was mainly coin. There was no paper money in this world.

But using coin was inconvenient.

For example, a single gold coin, its value was around 10000 yen when it was converted to Japanese yen.

And so, when doing a business with a value of ten million yen, you would need a hundred coins.

A single gold coin weighed around thirty gram in general, so a hundred would weigh thirty kilogram.

A deal at the scale of ten million yen was an everyday occurrence. That many gold coins were too bulky, heavy, and counting them was bothersome. Merchants hated making transaction with gold coins.

What appeared from there was promissory note. Bluntly speaking, it was writing an amount of money on paper.

There were banks at the big cities. Promissory note could be exchanged with money if it was brought to there. That way was convenient. ……Well, depending on the people, there could also be a case of empty promissory note. It was when someone didn’t have any money in bank but still wrote a promissory note, at that time the promissory note’s holder wouldn’t be able to exchange it into money.

But if someone dare to write an empty promissory note, their deal with bank would be abolished and they would never be able to publish a promissory note ever again. Their life as merchant would die.

「The receptionist asked me whether I want to receive the money in coins or with promissory note. But, I never really used promissory note before so I asked the money to be given to me physically.」

「I get it.」

This time I brought a hundred gold coins with me. The amount of money that I could use freely was much more than that, but when going on a trip, I didn’t really want to bring too bulky baggage.

Even so, because I bet them all on a bet with twelve times return ratio, they had multiplied to be more than a thousand gold coins. That much gold coins were a superb view. They weighed 36 kilogram in total.

「With this much money, you will be able to live without working for your whole life as long as you don’t live extravagantly.」

If the gold coins were converted to Japanese yen than they were worth around 120 million yen. If that amount was combined with 30 million yen asset that I left behind in the city, well, I could somehow live without working anymore for my whole life.

But, I wouldn’t be satisfied with that. In the end that amount of money could only last for your whole life with the condition of not enjoying any luxury.

I was a man who loved luxury. I would use this money as fund to earn even more.

「Human is really strange. I can’t believe they can live without working just by having this.」

This must be unbelievable for Tita who was living with self-sufficiency in the forest before this.

For her, diligence wasn’t simply a virtue, it was more like a necessity that was needed in order to survive.

She got a culture shock that food, clothes, and living space could all be taken care of as long as one had money.

「As I thought, you are pointlessly resourceful. To earn more than a thousand gold coins like this in one day, you are a monster. ……It looks like you will really be able to fully support a harem.」

「Are you falling in love with me?」

「No, not at all. More importantly, I have a question. About calculating the sword’s hardness and the contact point’s size so that the slash can be more efficient」

「Ah, that huh. For that……」

I answered Kururu’s question and produced the additional materials.

She was already at the second half of the materials that I gave her. She would completely understand everything tomorrow.

As I thought, her brain’s intellect was just absurd.

To explain it in an easy to understand way, someone who had never gone to school before was reading the textbook of physics for third year high school student that was used in prep-school to get into university. Not only reading it, that person could understand and memorize everything in the book. Kururu was doing something at that level right now.

Being able to do something like that in three days wasn’t something that could be achieved just because one was motivated or had good teacher. One needed an overwhelmingly smart head to accomplish that.

……As I thought, I wanted to cram the knowledge of alchemy into her head too, not just blacksmithing. Right now I was only cramming parts of knowledge that were necessary to forge a sword, but I wanted to increase the efficiency a bit more.

Because if this talent could be used, there would be no need to be fixated with sword, we would be able to make many kind of inventions together.

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We moved to the bar at the first floor when the sun set.

It was to eat the famous local specialty here, the duck cooking.

「Then, choose some duck cooking for five people at your own discretion. Reduce the amount for each plate so we can eat with a lot more variety. After that, pick some side dishes with taste that suit the duck cooking so that we won’t get sick of it, something that won’t really fill the stomach. I’ll leave the alcohol choice to you too.」

I made a very rough order like that.

Fundamentally I would leave it to the restaurant’s discretion of what menu to choose when I visited the place for the first time. In the end the best foods would be the restaurant’s recommendation.

「P-please wait a second. This restaurant is really expensive. If you order like that the price will be-」

Kururu moved her fox ears restlessly while checking the content of her wallet.

It was just as she said, this restaurant was expensive.

「Don’t mind it. Obviously I’ll be the one paying.」

「There is no reason for you to treat me. Because, I’m the one who should be doing that instead as the one being taught so much knowledge like this.」

「I’ll be able to taste the happiness of eating together with a cute girl. That’s enough reason for me to treat you.」

「Ah, there is no need for something like that.」

What’s with that cold reception. Even though it was quite embarrassing for me to say that line with a serious face.

「……Then, it’s for your part-time job payment. As expected it would be impossible for me to bet on myself, and Tita is still in the middle of studying to calculate money. I could earn a lot from gambling because Kururu was there. You also refused to take some of the winning right? Then let me treat you with some food at least.」

「If it’s like that then with pleasure. I’m looking forward to the foods. I haven’t had money for a long time that I couldn’t do anything luxurious.」

Her fox tail swayed as soon as she said that.

How warming.

The alcohol and appetizer arrived. The restaurant brought out mead and cold salad that used smoked duck.

Even though the restaurant also had wine and the like, they brought out mead for this order. That meant it must have good compatibility with duck meat.

「Then eat as much as you want. Even though it’s expensive, it will only cost two gold coins at least for the total bill. You know just how deep my wallet is right?」

「You have earned more than a thousand gold coins after all. It looks like I don’t need to hold back at all!」

「Then, let’s have a toast first. For Ork’s victory, and for our meeting.」

「「「Cheers」」」

We bumped our mug with each other’s.

First was the mead. It was sweet and smooth in the mouth. It seemed a sour fruit juice was mixed into it, so the result was a fruity sensation. ……No, this taste might be from some kind of ingenuity done to the nectar that the bee was sucking. Because the bees were made to suck nectar from the flower of citrus fruits, the honey could have this natural faint sourness in it.

This was a good alcohol.

And then the duck meat……. This was great. It was smoked, but the duck meat had wonderful texture because it was cooked rare. The umami of duck was extremely strong. It wasn’t possible to taste this from chicken meat.

「……It’s delicious.」

「Yep, it’s amnazing. This is my first time eating something this delicious.」

「Yeah. There is the image that something cultivated is inferior than something natural, but this duck was raised with effort and money. It’s superior than natural duck meat because of all the efforts spent to make it tasty like this.」

This could be done only because the tourist business in this city was profitable.

It was a pastime of the rich.

「Give me a second! Is what I want to say, but there will still be more dishes coming. I’ll hold back for now.」(Kururu)

「Yeah. The next one is already coming.」

The waitresses came with plates on their hands.

Vegetables with boiled duck on top, stew of duck’s offal, then duck that was fried with vegetables.

All of them looked delicious.

It seemed that this restaurant was really the real deal.

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The dessert was a tart with a lot of fresh fruits on it. We enjoyed it.

This was also delicious. They intentionally stayed moderate with the fresh cream. It was gentle to our full stomach.

「Fuu, it’s the best.」

「All of the dishes were tasty. But, the best one was the roast duck with blood sauce. That dish was really superb.」(Tita)

「I asked for second, three times.」(Kururu)

The duck was roasted completely rare. Its deliciousness was stimulated by the heat. That was an exquisite seasoning for red meat.

And then it was served with blood sauce that was extracted from the spinal cord and adjusted with seasoning and spices.

It was a prejudice that blood would be stinky on food. To be more accurate, it was very easy for germs to multiply in blood, so blood would immediately go bad unless it was gotten handled thoroughly. That was why if you wanted to eat something delicious easily, the blood should be taken out first from the meat.

If someone could process meat without letting germ getting in, they could purposely take the method of not letting out the blood. With that a dish that didn’t let the deliciousness of blood escaped would be completed.

「Aa, it feels like I’ll become repeater here.」

「Yep, let’s come here again later. The alcohol was also delicious.」

The mead at the beginning was also great, but we also drank various other unusual alcohols.

The price of one gold coin and a half was really expensive just for three people’s meals, but I thought that price was worth it.

「I’m jealous. Perhaps I won’t be able to come to a shop this expensive anymore.」

Kururu sighed in dejection.

「You will be able to come here anytime if you become my woman.」

「Err, do you want to be together with a woman who approach you because she is attracted to money like that?」

「That’s a misunderstanding. I’m already in love with Kururu, so that’s why I’m trying to lure you even with this kind of way.」

「I’m amazed you can say something so embarrassing with a straight face like that.」

「I was taught that it was important to keep telling the woman how I love her.」

Rather than some passionate words or poetic words that you only said sometimes, it was more important to keep telling the woman that you loved her. These were the words of the Fighter King Rowland. ……That person, he was crazy popular. When we went to a bar together, he would suddenly vanish before coming back with a woman who he hit on. He was a gigolo.

「……Uu, certainly. It’s scary that a little part of myself doesn’t feel bad to be told that.」

「But, it’s unexpected that you are troubled for money. You said that your skill is bad Kururu, but that’s only in comparison to your predecessor. You are already firmly in the level of first class blacksmith. If you create swords normally, there must be those who will buy them with high price right? In the first place, you are the sword priestess. Isn’t there any support from the country for you?」

In my objective evaluation, she was just a step shy from entering the realm of super first class. It wasn’t like Kururu could only forge a sword that was made from orichalcum. That was clear from how she was able to understand the materials that I gave her and how she didn’t ask anything about the materials in that field.

「……You are asking me that? I believe that I have shown enough from my attitude that I don’t want to be questioned about that.」

「Yeah. That’s why I never asked about it until now. But now is different. It looks like you want to be asked about that, right? It’s different if you say it before the meal, but you won’t say anything about not having any money at this timing if you really don’t want me asking about it.」

She must have some kind of change in her heart.

I wouldn’t overlook this kind of thing.

Always be on the lookout for a change in a woman with all your power of observation. Kaa-san told me, that a woman would be happy when their change was praised.

It could be a change in perfume, hairstyle, accessory, new clothes, cosmetic, body shape, etc.

「I, guess so. It has been a long time since I have a fun dinner, and being together with friends. Perhaps that makes me wanted to let out my complains. ……Then, please listen to me. Actually, I’m in a really great trouble.」

Kururu opened her mouth while smiling.

That smile was filled with resignation somewhere in it. Her expression made me wanted to hug her.

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