While Killing Slimes for 300 Years, I Became the MAX Level Unknowingly - Chapter 53

Chapter 53

Ghost Extermination

Harukara managed to purchase some land in the outskirts of town, after negotiations with the realtor, and built a workshop there .

It was a workshop, just not in the sense like back in Japan with exhaust pipings and assembly line robots . It looked no different than a regular store . I did feel like it was an upgraded version of the cottage industry however, although the jars and the labels are done manually .  [1]

The workshop was made quickly, thanks to Leica who called a dragon acquaintance to help . In five days, the building itself was near perfection .

Actually, according to Harukara: “The cost for construction was substantially decreased, so I’ll go and by some expensive alcohol . ” I didn’t particularly mind about those things . However, if the profits go up, please treat me to something, ok?

Still, the workshop won’t start up just by making the building . Harukara was busy from dawn to midnight working out the system to transport the necessary materials and equipment preparations .

Leica even pitched in by transforming to her dragon form, making round trips to see the other dragons off . It is after all especially dangerous for Harukara’s willful body to travel at night, walking several kilometers after all .

“Umm, aren’t you working a bit too much? Don’t die from overwork now… . ”
“No, no, master . Even if I am tired, if I drink one bottle of ‘Nutritious Alcohol’, I can carry on for a while . Recently though, I seemed to have been drinking slightly more ‘Nutritional Alcohol’ each day compared to before… . ”

“Th-that’s obviously bad for you! From now on, make sure you absolutely come back home at eight in the evening!”
“U-umm…… In that case, the work will be delayed……”




“Then hire people and make them do something one way or another! You’ll really collapse into a heap if you keep doing the unreasonable and do everything by yourself! It’s fine if you just collapsed, but it’ll be all over if you died because of it!”

“Master… . You really are not going to give up on this… . ”
“Okay . You might become the president of a workshop in the future, but you are first and foremost my disciple in this house . Because of that, I will thoroughly be your supervisor . Overworking yourself is not acceptable, so with that being said, let’s go with this . ”

And so I somewhat forcibly improved the labor practices and avoided the workshop becoming a black company . I thought there would be no problems later on with the operations, but… .  [2]

“I can’t get employees… . ”
Harukara had an all-nighter kind of face since the morning .

“Why? Are you being that stingy with wages?”
“It’s not that master! Actually, I’m offering better pay compared to the town’s general job salary . It’s also not that I’m looking for people with technical knowledge . I’m thinking of having them work one one part of the process and then pass it on, like an assembly line . Anyone can do that if they properly learned . ”

Then, there probably is another reason .
Something like keeping a distance from an unique occupation? If I had to say, the people around this people are conservative .

“They come out . It seems to be like a famous place . . … . ”
“Come out? The spring water?”
“N-no master . Rather, if that doesn’t come out, I’d be troubled . It’s ghosts . ”




Harukara said it with an eerie kind of voice .

“Ghosts… Are there really such things?”
Strictly speaking, I am skeptical about this .
“I also didn’t think they exist . However, I saw it yesterday . While I was working there, a 15 year old girl with short-bobbed hair… . ”

According to Harukara――
Several hundred years ago, it seemed a trader that failed in their business lived on that land . It seems like they sold their 15 year old daughter to a brothel for gold . She apparently was told a like that she was to be married off to a noble . On the day that she realized she was going to be sold to a brothel, she despaired and hung herself .
As a result, it seems like if a building was built there, the spirit of the dead girl will haunt the building, and that was a hindrance .

It sounded like there were a lot of ‘it seems’, but this kind of story doesn’t contain much accurate information, so it can’t be helped there .
It was just that it was a famous story in Nasukute Town, so because of it everyone doesn’t want to work at that building .

“I did think that land was a bit strange because of how strangely cheap it was… . ”
“You got your hands on property that has a variety of troubles . ”

“In other words…if that ghost disappears, then everything would turn out fine!”
“It would come down to that in theory . ”
“So, master? Can you help me?”

“Eh?”

I said with a reluctant kind of voice .

“I’m not good with that sort of thing…… Those cursed ones……”
“You’ll be fine master since you’re a witch! Besides, with master’s strength, even ghosts would run away! Please exorcise it master!”

Easy for you to say… .

I don’t have any spells related to exorcism . Isn’t that the job of a clergyman?

Let’s ask someone more informed about this .
Thus, I asked Sharusha about what a ghost is .

“The technical term of a ghost is called ‘isolation spirit’ . It can be said the generic name for a soul that had come out of the body . ”
“It’s too technical for me; I couldn’t understand . Explain it more plainly . ”

“There are two types of these isolation spirits . One can move, confined in approximately the place where they died themselves . ”
This is some sort of ghost bound to a specific location .
“Then, the other one has relatively free movement, and can fly about various place according to their own will . This case was only witnessed in the place it died, so I think it is the former one . ”
“In other words, this is the type that is bound to a specific location, right? Is there any method to deal with those?”

“Although it’s not impossible to forcibly exorcise them with a clerical item, since it doesn’t hold clear hostility towards the living, the clergymen won’t carry out these kinds of things . This can also be said to be a blasphemous deed to spirits . ”

If that’s the case, only we can do something one way or another .

I turned around towards Harukara, and spoke .
“I understand . Let’s go see it at night . ”
“Thank you very much, master!”
“However…… restricted to situations that a helper comes . ”
“Helper?”
“Call Beelzebub . ”

If you’re with a high level demon, a spirit probably wouldn’t be scary at all .

Footnotes:
1 . Initially, we used the term ‘workshop’ in the initial chapters to suit the setting of the story, which is a medieval era world . The term “Koujyou” also can be used for refering to factories . Therefore, Azusa is comparing it to modern day factories .  
2 . ED: The infamous term that sprung up in Japan at the early 2000s, mainly in the IT business . It those companies that hire a lot of young employees to work overtime for peanuts . Expect demoralizing conditions and power-tripping from your superiors . Oh you can quit, but they’ll exploit your reputation and dig up enough dirt to goad you to stay .