LGHTNOVELBOOK Volume 1 Chapter 22 - We're Already Dating! (This is just my personal opinion)
I was still troubled, looking at my smartphone in my shabby room.
“Hmmm, I have to start looking again…”
I had decided to move, but every time I thought I found a room that matched my income, my income would increase.
The grade of the room I was thinking of renting was gradually going up.
“But managing a room that’s too big…”
Honestly, I’m neither neat nor tidy.
I cleaned up and cleaned when Kaede-chan came over, but I haven’t cleaned at all since then.
“There’s no housekeeper either…”
There are services that can do the cleaning, but I can’t trust them.
There’s a possibility that things about Elenora Ocean and alchemy will be exposed, and that it may leak out.
“If only Kaede-chan would really marry me…”
Her cooking might be dubious, but she seems to be able to clean.
She said she was good at it.
“Hmmm, no good…”
I put my smartphone on the table and lie down on the floor.
I can’t find a good room.
“Should I wait for the auction results…”
The auction is already underway.
The results will apparently be known tomorrow evening.
So Kaede-chan is supposed to come to this room tomorrow evening.
We’ll have a big victory party.
“Ah, I have to clean up…”
I’d rather do it at Kaede-chan’s house.
It’s definitely cleaner there.
Or more precisely, I want to go to a girl’s house.
I apparently went to Kaede-chan’s house during my university days, but I don’t remember.
I seem to have tried to slash a table with a knife while drunk, but I don’t remember it at all.
I must have drunk quite a bit.
Ah, that’s why she doesn’t invite me…
Reluctantly, I got up and started tidying the room.
“If Kaede-chan comes over, I want to buy various things, but it’ll be double work considering the move…”
For example, having a sofa or something would be comfortable.
If there’s a bed, it would make things smoother… but never mind.
But if I’m moving, those things will be wasted.
The room sizes are different, and there are factors like the atmosphere of the furniture and the room.
“Sigh… bothersome.”
I cleaned begrudgingly and went shopping in the afternoon.
Then, the next day at 6 in the evening, Kaede-chan came to visit.
“Hello. Excuse my intrusion!”
Kaede-chan looked cute as usual.
“Please, come in.”
I invited Kaede-chan in and showed her to the room.
There’s only the kitchen and room, though…
“Senpai, have you been watching the auction?”
Kaede-chan, who had just sat down, asked.
“Nah, I haven’t. I thought I’d save it for a surprise.”
I thought about watching it but didn’t, due to looking for a room and other things.
“It’s getting pretty crazy.”
“Crazy? Like the price skyrocketing?”
“Yes. The most expensive one, the 100-kilo one, has surpassed 20 million even though there’s still 6 hours left.”
Not 10 million but already twice the market price?
“Huh? Seriously?”
“Seriously.”
The auction closes tonight at 11:59.
It seems like it’s going to go up further…
“Why is it going up so much? Isn’t it 100,000 per kilo?”
“There are really few 100-kilo item bags. And then there’s the novelty, maybe?”
“Novelty?”
“Do an ego search on the internet. It’s a festival about the mysterious witch.”
I searched on my smartphone as Kaede-chan told me, and many sites came up.
“Elenora Ocean, a mysterious woman, puts a 100-kilo item bag up for auction!?”
“The Golden Witch Descends on Japan!”
“Corporations scrambling for a 100-kilo item bag!?”
“Isn’t it unfair that foreigners can’t participate in the auction?”
Hmm, there’s plenty more.
“I’ve become a witch…”
“But, no matter how you look at it, she’s a witch, isn’t she?”
Hmm, I was aiming for mysterious but ended up a witch.
Well, witches are mysterious too.
“But why golden?”
“Photos are circulating on the internet. Isn’t it because she has long blonde hair?”
I searched for “Elenora Ocean” images as she said that.
There were pictures of me riding a train or reading at a convenience store.
“Yuck! That’s candid photography!”
Or rather, my face got revealed so fast!
“That’s the world we live in. Personally, I think this picture of you going to a luxury hotel’s cake buffet alone is a high point.”
Kaede-chan said that, showing her own smartphone.
The picture on the smartphone screen was of a blonde woman enjoying a strawberry tart.
“Yeah… well, it’s hard to go as a man. I wanted to try it once.”
“Hee. That sounds nice. I wanted to go too.”
But you have a job, right?
“Won’t you come with me next time? I can’t do it alone, but if it’s with you, I can.”
In reality, there were some women who brought men with them when I went alone; whether they were couples or married, I don’t know.
“I’ll go. There’s a place I’ve wanted to go.”
“Let’s go, let’s go. Oh, want something to drink? I bought various things today besides beer, like your favorite cassis.”
“I’ll take it. Oh, senpai, this is a gift for you.”
Kaede-chan said that while taking out a side dish that was obviously bigger than her beloved pochette.
“You’re cleverly using that item bag, aren’t you?”
It’s the 100-kilo item bag I made for her as a trial before.
“I thought about selling it, but it’s something you gave me, so…”
“You might be saying something nice, but I’m not too pleased. It’s just filled with rubber bands.”
“Then, please contribute something more touching.”
How about a ring?
“Sometime later.”
I said that and went to the refrigerator, taking out cassis soda and beer.
Then, I went back to the room.
“More importantly, let’s go eat crab.”
I handed Kaede-chan the cassis and invited her while opening the beer.
“Ah, that sounds nice. Hokkaido, huh? Can I get a break?”
“You don’t have to stay many nights. Let’s eat crab and go back.”
Worst case, it can be a day trip.
“If it’s one night, I might be able to…”
“You don’t have clients, so you can take a break whenever.”
“Didn’t I tell you? I’m an appraiser. Since there are only three of us, I need to arrange time off.”
Oh right, that’s true.
“Then, here you go.”
I took out glasses from my bag.
“Glasses? Senpai, do you like girls with glasses?”
“No, I’m anti-glasses. Contact lens supremacy.”
“… I can guess from the context, but what is this?”
“Appraisal glasses! An item that will take your job!”
Sorry!
Name: Hajime Okita
Level 5
Job: Swordsman
Skills:
≪Swordsmanship lv5≫
☆≪Alchemy≫
☆≪Alchemy≫
Consumes materials and can create new things.
Recipes increase as the skill holder’s level rises.
Level 5
Healing Potion lv1, Gender-Change Potion
Sleeping Pill, Pure Water
Translation Potion, Item Bag
Invisibility Potion, Appraisal Glasses, Appraisal Contact
I can also make contacts.
Ingredients are glasses or contacts and blueberries!
I even made Elenora’s colored contacts into appraisal contacts!
“Ah, if this circulates, my salary might drop significantly… Senpai, you’ve made the worst item that could make your junior unhappy.”
It’s fine!
I’ll take care of you then!
“Maybe I shouldn’t sell it?”
“Hmm, it would reduce the workload… but, my salary… Senpai, please give this to our guild master. Let’s make him work.”
Referring to her former party leader’s boss like ‘that.’
“Then, I’ll give you this one. It doesn’t have any prescription.”
“Thank you. Now I can take a break! Let’s go to Hokkaido!”
Yay!
“Cheers!”
“Cheers! Senpai, I love you!”
We toasted and began the feast.