Doll Dungeon - Chapter 58

Chapter 58

On the next day, Enwork (Aristo’s branch store) and the guild are now completed .

Supposedly, I was told that the guild members will be coming here today .

Well, since they haven’t arrived yet, I’ll let them be for now .

I ask a question to Rista who is currently standing in front of the Enwork .

When I was in the mansion yesterday, I couldn’t find anyone else besides him who seems to be the employee .

“It will only be like this for a while . Our company has a saying that ‘every branch should hire their own employee’ . Basically, they don’t encourage the lending of the employee to the other branch . ”

That would be hard .

“Tell me if you need anything . I’ll do my best to help you . ”

“Thank you very much . ”

I have no choice since most my income will be coming from the auction .

Based on my plan, I will need to charge tax on the auction sales so that this country can be a duty-free area .

I will make it happen by any means .

“It would be a lot better to have more employee working here as soon as possible . ”

“That’s absolutely true . ”

Around noon, after I parted with Rista, I went to the mansion to meet up with the now waiting guild members .

“My name is Irene . As of today, I and the other nine will be acting as the guild members of the new guild . ”

I think I’ve seen her somewhere…

But where is it…?

“Let me bring you to the guild . ”

When I try to get up from the chair, Irene stop me in a hurry .

“Please don’t! Letting the king himself to guide people like us is such a terrible thing!”

“Please understand, I have nothing to do right now . ”

I would love to see how they will react .

Keeping it to myself, I persuade Irene to go there together .

After walking in the town for a while, we arrived at the centre of the main street .

“We have arrived . ”

In front of Enwork, across the road, there’s a building which is slightly smaller than the mansion .

That building is the guild .

“No way, it’s actually true . ”

“It really is big…”

“How do you explore this place with only ten people?”

“I thought it will be smaller…”

Such voices rise one after another .

“You should enter and see whether the furniture has been properly placed or not . If there’s anything missing, you can find it in this town furniture shop . Just take right from here and you will find it . ”

I opened the door and be the first one to enter .

I’m glad they like it .

If not, guess I will never know how to make a good big building .

“King Null . ”

“Hm?”

As I was about to return to the mansion, I heard someone calling me from behind .

When I turned around, Irene was standing there .

“Thank you for building this such splendid place . I truly appreciate it . ”

“If this building can get the job done, I might consider building two of it . ”

The guild is what makes the town prosperous .

People won’t come here if it looks too plain .

“Now then, looking at the time, the guild will start operating soon . ”

“Please do your best . ”

With this, everything is done, isn’t it?

“Ah-, Lord Null!”

“Hm?”

When I was walking in the town, I was stopped by the grocery store clerk .

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s hard for me to say this but…”

As I’m about to turn around, he blurts it out .

“Actually, our goods have become less over the days and we don’t know how long we could stay like this…”

What?

This is only the third day .

“What about the other store?”

“It seems the store in the West and the East is also having the same problem . ”

He’s saying sorry while telling me all of this .

Did someone buy the goods in large quantities?

“Who bought more than necessary?”

“It’s not about the purchase amount . Our inventory was actually small from the very beginning . ”

Is he saying there are little goods from the start?

“As a war victory celebration, my village has opened a feast …”

“And you use up all the ingredients available there?”

He only muttered ‘yes’ with apologetic looks on his face before sinking to the ground .

In other words, we only have stocks for one village .

“Eins . ”

“By your side . ”

The clerk seems to be surprised when Eins suddenly appeared behind me .

He was so surprised there’s not even a voice coming out from his mouth .

“Are there any vegetables in the mansion?”

“We have pumpkin and eggplant ready to be harvested . But I think it’s not enough to cover the whole food situation in this town right now . ”

Is it impossible…?

“It really is impossible after all…”

This guy is the citizen of my country which means that he is my responsibility .

It can’t be helped then…

“I will somehow prepare the vegetables . Will you buy them? Is it okay with that?”

“Well, of course I will!”

It doesn’t hurt to spend some of the DP since I received more than 3000 DP every day .

I immediately return to the mansion and have Eins’ subordinates to harvest all of the vegetables .

After that, I consume some of the DP to get a few of seasonal vegetables . Then, I have them send to the grocery store by No . 1, No . 2 and No . 3 .

I spend about 2000 DP to get all of those vegetables .

Even though I still have a profit of 1000 DP, it still hurt me since it will remain like this until everything went back to normal .

Besides, I’m lucky enough to spend only 2000 DP since there are still vegetables left at the mansion .

The DP consumption will be higher from now on .

If I called for the peddler, then the people in the town will only buy and sell directly to them .

That means the grocery store will be in the red .

… Since I can’t think of anything else, I’m left with consuming my DP for now .