Lazy Dungeon Master - Chapter 318

Chapter 318: 318
The Blacksmithing Town of Corky (5)



​ I wound up hearing something I definitely didn’t think I would by just walking into some atelier .

​ A black-haired, red-eyed woman . An alchemist, at that . The possibility of it being Leona was high .

​ Assuming that to be the case, staying in this town at all was dangerous .

​ … Which reminds me, didn’t I drop her off somewhere near the capital with [White Beach]…? Wouldn’t that be on the other side of the capital from here? Well, I guess if we take the amount of time that’s passed since then, it wouldn’t be too strange to think she’d made it here .

​ “Well, that alchemist-ish person said she believed in the Chaos God as well as Beddhism . Something about how Beddhism was a sub-religion and you could follow both . ”

​ Where’d she hear about Beddhism from? This town’s pretty far away .

​ … I guess there have been a good number of merchants becoming Beddhists…
​ “Oh, the woman also sold me some Chaos God drugs . I can’t really leave them out in the open, but here—check these out . [Futanaru] and [TA]! I even have [Hole B-Gone] and [Pole B-Gone]! Their effects range from the lowest purity of one night to the maximum purity of permanency, so I asked how the heck she’d gotten them and ya know what? She tried telling me she made them herself… I might’ve believed her if she told me she stole them from some rich aristocrat’s vaults, but I haven’t heard anything like that recently either . ”

​ The shopkeeper was taking out various drugs from his box as he spoke . He arranged them by color, from slightly transparent to mostly opaque .

​ The reason he didn’t feel like they were suitable to put on display here was probably due to their scarcity . Like the whole it needs to be special since it’s so rare thing .
​ … Though more importantly, it’s definitely Leona . Absolutely positively… Leona .

​ Heck, I pray there’s no one else that’d make those dubious drugs in this world . I could probably even figure out what crazy things they do from their names .



​ And what’s with her using A instead of S for [TA]!? TS means transsexual, so it’s a sex change drug . There’s definitely no one else in this world that would put such a stupid name on the drug… Wait, was that her goal?

​ “She said they were suuuper expensive and would fetch a high price at auction so I should show it off to people bit by bit… but! As a special one-time-offer for you, Founder-sama…! I will sell it to you at cost price!”

​ “Oh, then could I have the year-long [Pole B-Gone] one… no, the half-year one should be fine! And could I have it wrapped?”

​ “Certainly! That will be ten gold coins!”

​ So expensive!? —Wait, the f*ck are you buying, Rokuko!?

​ Rokuko took ten gold out of her [Safe] and paid for the item .

​ “This could be able to counteract Shikina’s issue right? It’d be a good idea to have one around this effective just in case . ”

​ “Oh, yeah… Ten gold, huh . ”

​ It was an amount that we could cover with Shikina’s monthly tuition, but it was still basically ten million yen .
​ How to put it… it’s like she’s some frivolous hot-shot . Oh, but I guess even I’d used a hundred gold to fund the village . It’s Wataru’s fault that my sense for money’s gotten so weird . Freaking Wataru .

​ Oh, come to think of it, our inn’s suite is twenty-five gold a night .
​ But huh, I doubt we’ll even see that drug that got dumped being sold from here on . The possibility’s tremendously high . By the way, that one was procured for a hundred and fifty gold . When I asked about the one-year duration one… he said it was twenty gold .



​ “… Still though, if it’s twenty gold for the one-year duration one… how much is the permanent one? You must have a lot of money stored to buy all these . ”

​ “I sold everything I had in stock at the auction, theeeeen using those profits, I repeated the process until I was finally able to buy one each . They were a thousand gold each . Man, I’m happy I could buy them while that person was here . ”

​ A thousand gold… wouldn’t just four of them be more than Wataru’s debt?
​ And that’s just the cost-price . I have no clue how much it could rack up to at auction . If twenty gold coins’ worth could go for a hundred fifty at auction, just one could outweigh Wataru’s debt… Yeah, an ordinary person would have to work their whole life for one…

​ “… Huh? You said you purchased the pillow three days ago?”
​ “It’s a hot item, so I restock on them regularly . Let’s see, she comes by every week, so I guess she’ll be here again in three or four days?”

​ “I see . ”

​ Yep, gotta hightail it out of town by then . Mmhmm .

​ My intuition was screaming warnings at me to get out of town ASAP . I’ll have to convince Gozoh and everyone to leave, today even—if possible .

​ Or maybe even just us ourselves . Fortunately, the imperial capital’s a short two or three day walk from here!

​ “Alright, you can keep using Beddhism’s name for the pillow, but that holy water’s no good . Sell it under some other name . ”

​ “O-Okay . My apologies for the trouble . ”

​ “… Also, I have some very troubling memories of that alchemist, so don’t tell her about me . And for the holy water’s name, tell her someone who didn’t know about Beddhism at all came by and made you think you were better off with some other name . ”

​ “Alright, I understand! Oh, could you please bless these pillows?”

​ With that, the shopkeeper pulled many, many pillows out of his stockpile . How many was he keeping? It was enough to just call this a pillow shop!

​ … I placed the holy symbol on the pillows, held my hand over them and recited [Good Night] .

*

​ I contacted Wataru and Gozoh as soon as we got back to the inn and managed to convince them into us leaving Corky the following day .

​ Thinking about the possibility that the shopkeeper would tell her I was here, I wanted to leave as quickly as possible .

​ Tuck my tail in and run! He who runs from a fight may live to fight another day! Never, preferably!

​ “… Seriously, and here I was wantin’ to stay a while, why’re ye wanting us to leave so quick and all?”

​ “Sorry, I just got a very bad hunch…”

​ “Eh, don’t worry yerself none . I figure ye got a reason fer not telllin’ us . ”

​ Gozoh spoke while scratching his head . His posture was saying that he disliked it, but he didn’t actually seem to care .

​ “Right, I believe in you, Kehma-san . To be honest, I’m actually more worried about Corky’s safety now . Did you see something really bad? Like symptoms of black lung disease or something?”

​ “It’d be great if that was all . ”

​ “Wait, there really was something?”

​ I put a hand on Wataru’s shoulder and spoke with a gentle smile .

​ “Let sleeping dogs lie . It’s better if you don’t know . Seriously . ”

​ “… Sounds like it’s a SAN value crisis, don’t tell me!”

​ Good choice, man .

​ We left Corky’s gate in our covered coach… and didn’t look back . I don’t want to risk carelessly seeing that red-eyed ponytailed girl .

​ … Oh, but we’ll have to come back here on the way back, huh . Maybe I could have Haku-san teleport back… or no, maybe I could find some reason to break off from Gozoh and the others and return through [White Beach]?

​ Alright, let’s go . To the capital!

​ The road was well-maintained, so we should be able to arrive by tomorrow night if we put the figurative pedal to the metal… yeah .