Vol 4 Chapter 3 (1/2)

Volume 4 Chapter 3

Daily Life at the Inn 3

Author’s Pre-notes:

Although it was supposed to be daily life, there turned out to be a lot of narration.

However, if you don’t mind that, read on!

Also, there is a questionnaire after the story, if you so wish please do check it out and tell me what you think!

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The daily life of the inn started frighteningly early.

When I first arrived in this world, I hadn’t considered such a thing properly. I was only concerned with peacefully setting up that thing known as an ‘inn’.

Maybe I had considered things too simply, but I realised this afterwards.

Establis.h.i.+ng an inn itself is not something that’s really complicated.

After I was able to become a B-rank adventurer, I was also able to get the permission to set up my inn from the king surprisingly easily. (Explanation: the king didn’t have any interest in Carla and thus he wanted to end their meeting at that time as fast as possible).

Although it was a place that was slightly distanced from the commercial district as well as the main road, I was able to receive the inn as it was from an old couple who had run it before. We~ll , that couple recently hurt their backs and were planning to close down the inn.

However, on that occasion, they met me, and instead of shutting down that place that was full of  memories for them, they decided to give it to me.

【Opportunism】? ……. That’s right, eh? It’s come after a long time.

…. Well because of this and that, I, who was able to acquire a place to establish the inn easily, tried to start the inn as it was; however, it’s not like the customers would come as easy as that.

Since the old couple had run this inn, the『Delight Garden Pavilion』inn had already been famous. As such, not many customers would come easily.

……. It’s not like I hated『Delight Garden Pavilion』, or even blamed that inn.

The customers that could not get a room in 『Delight Garden Pavilion』flowed to other inns, and for those customers who were yet again unable to acquire a room, came to my newly-opened inn.

At that time, because I did not have many customers, I wasn’t really busy, and at the most would have friends from my adventuring days over and causing a ruckus.

However, after they (the customers and my friends) stayed at my inn, even once, they would understand the quality of service in my inn.

By chance, my first customer was a merchant.

It seemed that he really enjoyed the taste of my cooking, and also praised the calm atmosphere of the inn, saying that he would come and stay here the next time he came to the kingdom.

Those words were not a lie; every time the merchant came here, he would stay at my inn without a doubt.

From a certain point of view, that merchant was the one who saved this inn.

For example, there was that time where he brought his merchant friend and his family over to stay.

Whenever that merchant (the first one) came to peddle his goods in the kingdom, he would just pa.s.s by the 『Delight Garden Pavilion』and disappear elsewhere, appearing with a great mood the next morning. Thus, his friend would ask him about it each time they met.

When his friend pressed him for an answer, the merchant answered that he had been staying at an inn called the 『Dragon Emperor’s Mistletoe』, which his friend had never heard about before.

Is that a famous place? When his friend pressed even more for further detail, the merchant only answered with an ambiguous reply, making him irritated. As such, the friend asked the merchant to take him along to go the inn, apparently.

Of course, I didn’t reject them; rather, there was no reason to reject another customer.

I welcomed my customer, showing my utmost courtesy (expressionless).

The merchant, his friend and his friend’s family became the turning point of the inn.

There are a lot of cases where a merchant’s work will involve handling information. From information with high credibility, to information like baseless rumors, they hold a wide range of information. People often come and seek this information.

One day, in a certain area, there was a time when the hot topic amongst merchants was the 『Dragon Emperor’s Mistletoe』.

The merchant (ED: Still the first one) constantly said things like, the 『Inn where a G.o.ddess resides』, 『Inn where you can eat the meal of the heavens』and so on. However, no matter how one looked at it, it could not be taken seriously.