Episode 11:  The smell of a new start in life in the other world

The next day, I woke up at 5am in the morning, put on the other world clothing that has dried up after washing yesterday and packed all the things that I wanted to bring to the other side inside the bag.

First, knife. Since I have given the Bowie knife to Sh.e.l.lo-san, the ones I have left here are only medium or small knives. Previously I had made a Kukri knife once as a joke but that one is still unfinished…..
Therefore, I brought only a medium sized ordinary sheath knife.

Then, leaving only a single gold coin here, I brought the rest of the 8 coins in my bag. After that, the spirit stone and guild card, digital camera, emergency kit and toilet paper, handkerchief, towel, overnight set (toothbrush and change of underwear), emergency rations and a few handheld jewellery.

Well, this should do it.

The overnight stay set prepared were those listed. I wasn’t sure how much it cost for one room but I am planning to stay in an inn in the other world.

The jewellery that I brought are cheap imitations and also slightly expensive ones so roughly about 20 of them. I brought them along in a jewellery case.

These jewelleries are samples that I have obtained when I was working in the black company. Ah, come to think of it I haven’t explain what I was previously working as.

The company that I entered after I was lured by the pleasant job vacancies by h.e.l.lo Work was, to put it simply, a jewellery trade business. What we did was quite wide, ranging from jewellery and painting to export and import of fur. However, painting and jewellery’s business sales and all sorts of event planning and operations are the main business.

Meanwhile although I was a.s.signed as a jewellery salesman, the quota was 2 mil yen per month with no overtime pay, no holiday pay, long pep talk, compulsion of drinking meeting and I often got bellowed at. Furthermore, the president’s face is importunate making me feel fed up with black company immediately.

The content of the job was hypnotic selling of imitations jewellery and selling of home-party’s imitation produces……..The only sales method pulled out were mainly scams.

In extremity, bonus was paid as compensation.
[You can feel free to choose from jewellery to painting to fur trading!] When I was told that, I seriously vowed to quit……. As I thought it is bad to recklessly join a company that offers bonus 4 times a year……

Well, although it might be due to entering that company that I obtained the vocation as Jewellery Scholar….. but I don’t want to work at that place for the second time anymore…… After I quit, there were rumours of them getting caught due to tax evasion but I wonder how they have become…..

That aside, it’s another world. Let’s leave quickly!

Thus, I went over to the other world.

From now on I should be going towards Erishe city but the distance is toilsome. When I tried thinking of a method of transportation, a horse came to mind but I haven’t ride a horse before. I can’t go by bicycle either……

I don’t need swordsman and swindler as my vocations so it would’ve been a lot better if I obtained jockey as my vocation. Or rather, will my vocation increase in future? I wonder if I should ask priestess-chan about it.

As I think about unimportant things like that, I reached Erishe, making sure that I don’t come across Sh.e.l.lo-san on the way as well.

It took about 1 and a half hours to travel by foot from the mirror residence to here. So my walking speed is roughly 6km to 9km per hour? In truth it might actually be shorter so it should be about 5km or more? I might want to secure a means of transport soon.

Erishe city was just as vibrant as the day before.

I went straight to the temple. My aim is priestess-chan! It’s the elf priestess-chan! (Come to think of it, I’ve not heard her name)

“Today is the priestess-sama’s day off.”

While clutching a digital camera in hand, I leaped into the temple in high spirits but I was halted by Pumpkin-san who threw merciless words at me. (Pseudonym. 58 year old woman. Hairstyle similar to a pumpkin)

“Then I would like to see Priestess-sama.”  [Ayase]

“I’ve already told you. Today is that day for Priestess-sama so she is having a day off. Come back tomorrow.”  [Pumpkin-san]

Ga-n~ (sfx: disappointment). My spirit was dampened.

……anyway, did she say it was that day? That obasan, she said that day right? That day means it’s that day right? I wonder if elves experience it once a month too. No, hold on…… I’ve heard that elf is a race with low s.e.xual desire…..Based on the reaction, it should be once every half year, that……..I’ve read it in a novel before that it’s the time when they are in mating season! That’s it! I shouldn’t miss this flag!
(TL: just in case, that day refers to woman’s menstruation xD)

“…….It’s really an urgent matter…..Will you be able to relay it?”  [Ayase]

“Even if you say that. If someone were to bring an elf race somewhere when it’s that day for them, it will usually be someone who is in intimate relationship with them so I don’t know about the others. Of course she’s not here anyhow.”  [Pumpkin-san]

Alright! Let’s search for her! The one who can help the priestess-chan who is suffering from oestrus once a year can only be me! I have no choice but to collect the flag!

……However, when I think about it, there are no leads on where I should start searching. Without any kind of starting point, it would be impossible for me to find elf-chan at all. Just as I was wondering what I should do, I suddenly hit on an idea. Perhaps I have one of the skills that can be used.

I should try it since I am out of option!

I put out the vocation board.

《Trip to another world》, 《Principle of universe》and 《The mirror of truth》. Once I use the skill 《The mirror of truth》, I might be able to clear the quest right away so I had thought that I should use this as soon as I can.

By the way, how do you use one of this skill? As an experiment, I tried clicking on it using my finger but it kept slipping through without any resistance.
I wonder if I should do the same thing as how I first pulled out the vocation board last time.

First I will try 《Trip to another world》. But even if I were to say that, I don’t know what it means.

“Trip to another world, Trip to another world, Trip to another world…..” I started praying.

………And. Nothing happened.

So, next next. “Principle of universe, Principle of universe, Principle of universe……” I prayed silently again.

………And. Nothing happened.

Is this alright? Is my a.s.sumption wrong? I want an instruction manual-nya.

I’ll redo this again, next. “The mirror of truth, The mirror of truth, The mirror of truth…….”  I prayed in vain.

Upon praying, the content of the vocation board instantly changed. The page was turned over.

New texts were being engraved on the vocation board that was switched.