V3C65 (1/2)

(065) Border Town

Translator: Tseirp

Today, I will have to pay 2 types of taxes for a total of four times.

The town entry tax for the border town at Arundel Kingdom’s side.

Then, the cross-border tax paid to Arundel for crossing the border.

Furthermore, I have to pay for the cross-border tax to enter the country Dakyat.

Lastly, it would be the town entry tax for the border town at Dakyat’s side.

“So there’s a need to pay taxes 4 times … that sure is tough.”

“Ichino-sama, you’re grinning though.”

“That isn’t true.”

It was true.

Well then, I’ll have to remember to change to Commoner.

Of course, gold is important so I will make use of Carol’s Peddler’s privilege.

Discount for the town entry tax.

Apparently, the amount differs between towns and the discount here was 30%.

It seems like the cross-border tax would be half-priced.

Even though it’s half-priced, it is still a substantial 10 times for me.

So naturally I couldn’t help but grin.

Of course, I’ve leveled up my Commoner job quite a bit so it won’t level up so easily now.

But, I want to reach level 99 and get the Peak of Commoner title.

We could enter the town smoothly without the need to wait in line.

We were able to enter but … hnn ‒ .

Carol called out to me when I was troubled.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s painful how my level didn’t rise even by paying 105 sense.”

I didn’t gain a single level.

105 sense, 400 times of that would equal to about 40 thousand sense worth of experience points.

In Japanese yen, it would be a tax of roughly 4 million yen.

“400 times of that would be … master, what is your Commoner level?”

“72.”

Carol asked with her head tilted.

“Wha wha … just how much tax has Ichino-sama paid??”

“About 1.2 million sense.”

“Hya … isn’t that an amazingly large sum …”

“Haru earned it in a day though.”

It wasn’t a memory that was old enough for me to have to recall but I still muttered that while feeling a sense of nostalgia.

Haru who was on the coachman’s seat was wagging her tail and she said in a slightly excited voice.

“That was really fun. I want to go again.”

“It’s better to be moderate in gambling. As expected, it would be bad for Gorsa-san if Haru seriously went for it.”

But then, the current Haru also can’t beat Gorsa-san when he’s serious.

If Haru has superhuman dynamic vision, Gorsa has superhuman technique.

They’re incompatible.

Although I also want to enjoy playing the slots slightly more too.

“Now that I think about it, there were those slot machines right? Do you know who made those?”

“Carol doesn’t know. Carol heard that they’ve been around since about 20 years ago but Carol has not been in a gambling parlour before.”

There were patterns on the slot machines.

Watermelons, melon, the word ‘BAR’ and the character ‘7’.

It’s a bit of trivia but the fruit patterns on the slot machines in Earth originally came from the patterns drawn on chewing gum vending machines.

It’s not that I particularly like gambling, I just recalled the knowledge my part-time era friend boasted about, however, if that really is true, then why do the slot machines in this world have fruit patterns as well?

If the slot machines were created in this world first before they were created on Earth, it could be explained by the subconscious intervention mentioned by Koshmar-sama but this time, the order is reversed.