LBADDWSB Chapter 6 - Let's stay well forever! (Part 1)

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Hi everyone,

After I have translate several chapters, and found the number of chapters that could be translated stably was half a chapter per 2 days.
So I apologize because I will change the release schedule accordingly.

In addition, there are some changes to this translated chapter that must be recorded.
I will use:
" " for normal talk,
' ' for thinking, and
[ ] for the old conversation.
I will change the previous chapters as soon as possible.

That's all from me, enjoy the chapter.

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Translator : LN&WN Warrior
Editor : Starfinder

"Thank you very much!"

Said Yutsuki Akane, the red-haired clerk, while sending off an adventurer, who left the store shedding tears, with a big smile.

'Indeed, he is an easily deceived person.'
He got excited only because Akane made a slight impression.

'I could even sell a leftover mysterious item along with the armour.'

The mysterious item perhaps was a magical tool; it was like a shaman's mask.

It seemed like it would invite bad luck just by having it.
As the user might be cursed, the mask couldn't be worn for analysis.
Analysis by using machines has become a normal procedure.

It was a product of a dungeon which was sold at the lowest bid price as a substitute item in the auction.

'I thought it would be better to sell it for 500 yen, but no one bought it even if the price was cut.'

Well, of course.
The appearance was really like a cursed mask.
It was too creepy.

Everyone thought that was an item produced by a dungeon.
It was really cursed, wasn't it?

'I put it in the shop for 500 yen, but no one has ever tried to buy it until now.'

'This time it was sold for 500 yen as an armour purchase benefit!'

Despite the item being not popular, it was sold without cutting the price.
'Oh, what a wonderful ability.'

"As expected of me!"

Akane chuckled while praising herself.

'Our shop's rating for this term will rise as well.'

Since she was in her twenties, Akane has been in charge as the branch manager of Sapporo armour dealer.

All the shops she was in charge experienced an increase in sales.

It was easy for her to increase the sales to 150% compared to the previous year.
Some shops have an increased up to 300%.

A moment ago, Akane seized money from a customer, no, sold her items politely to a depressed adventurer who had left the shop.

Of course, she didn't swindle him.
Everything sold were good items; she only offered something that suits him.

In the beginning, the adventurers were discouraged about being squeezed out, but they realized her choices were no mistake immediately when they were inside the dungeon.
Those who have noticed it became regulars and spent even more money.

Akane called it "planting seeds".
She laughed loudly at harvest time.
Giggle.

Of course, Akane didn't have an intuition to serve customers.

First, she carefully read the blog of "Let's be an adventurer" and understood the needs of current adventurers.
Moreover, by conducting a personal investigation in a dungeon, she will experience where which weapons are needed.

Akane was able to improve the shop's performance because of her hard work behind the scenes.

How does Akane choose a weapon to satisfy adventurers need?
There were two standard criteria.

First, what kind of weapons they can equip.

Weapons made from monster materials were a good instrument to measure an adventurer's ability.
Adventurer's capabilities could almost be understood by only looking at the weapons which they can equip.

And the second one was the adventurer's IC card.

No matter how strong was an adventurer, you can't sell expensive items to solo adventurers.
It was professionalism to only offer armour in the price range that the adventurer could afford.

Adventurers could be assessed by using an IC card.

In accordance with the income for a year, its colours change in order according to the lowest income from bronze, silver, gold, platinum, to black.

Originally it seemed that the government wanted to use it as an adventurers' ability indicator, but it was hard to say that worked as well as a driver's license.

The card issued by that man was bronze.
It was the colour of a beginner whose total income was less than 2 million yen.

Therefore, Akane recommended a house centipede's crust leather armour that he could afford.

Originally, she wanted to offer higher rank equipment.

"Why was he a bronze adventurer...?"

The dagger he bought was made from the fang of Silver Wolf which appears between the 6th and 8th floors of the "Chika-ho".

Silver Wolf's fang was a relatively easy-to-obtain material.
If it was processed well, it would be a high-quality weapon that could be used in the middle tier.
It could be said to have high performance per cost.

However, bronze adventurers should not be able to use a weapon in that level.
Unless he was able to defeat Silver Wolf, it should be impossible to equip it.
But if he has reached that level, he would have an income of a silver card.

Did he reach that level after receiving the bronze card?

Since the beginning of the year until now, only about 2 months have passed.
He must have had an extraordinary growth rate if he started to become an adventurer since the beginning of this year.
He was supposed to have been an adventurer for 2 years because he nearly reached the Silver Card.

"Well, let's forget it"

'Let's keep his evaluation on hold.'
'As long as he continues to work in the trial ground, he would inevitably return to this shop.'

'I have time.'
'I could spend my time to figure out what kind of talent he is.'

"Nice! I achieved today's quota just before noon! Oh my, it's so difficult. It was hard to raise my ability so high..."

'I've worked hard; let's brag to the neighbouring shop, Mitsubishi Material Purchase Station.'
'While bragging my sales, I would laugh at the resentment of that big plain well-like branch manager.'

'Oh, what a wonderful day!'

Akane smiled oddly while watching the amount of money shown on the register screen.

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'Ah, that's right.
I never told her what I want from the beginning!'

Haruki was enticed by the red-haired woman to buy a protector made of monster skin for 50,000 yen.
In addition, she forcibly sold a mysterious mask for an additional 500 yen.

Besides when he held the IC card over and a "ding" sound began to ring, her calm atmosphere was drying like the sky in autumn.

As her tone become lighter, the contents of the wallet also dried out.

"I was scammed……"

'Or more precisely, I was deceived.'

Usually, Haruki who can't look away, would realize the difference when raising his voice, but "Could this be a fated meeting?" this thought was the cause of his defeat.

'Oh, I hate my past myself.'

"But what is this mask?"

[I think you need an item to protect your face.]
[And this is the item!]
[If you purchase this armour, I will add a big discount!]
[Only for 500 yen, you can purchase this magic tool which came from a dungeon!] said Akane.

Haruki also realized his need for an item that could protect his face.
'But this is.......'

"Is it not cursed?"

'Well everyone touched it, so it should be okay.'
'Why I don't you look for the previously mentioned opportunity to try my equipment.'

While having those thoughts, Haruki looked at the appearance of adventurers heading to the "Chika-ho".

"Oh, he is equipped with a Kawashima series' item!! Amazing......"
"What an unusual person, he is using a serialized equipment."

Or something.
Those who wear high-class equipment were admired.

That was what I believe, adventurers equipped with the same entry model would have their mysterious comradeship consciousness sprout.

"Let's do our best together!"

Beginner adventurers will always run out of money, but not for their equipment.

It was a pretty rare category to have an entry model for weapons and protective gears.

More people finally have a set of entry model armour when their weapons become middle-class.

"Could it be that I, who uses an entry model weapon and protective gears, am slightly standing out?"

[Is this a way out of the title of Air?]
He headed to the ticket gate with such expectation in mind.

To stand out a little more, he tried to swing his weapon.

However,

"............"

As usual, no one looked at him.

Well, I knew.
I knew it!

...ugh!

While shedding tears, Haruki went through the ticket gate of "Chika-ho".

"Chika-ho"'s progress has now reached thirtieth floors.
Naturally, the thirtieth floor is a lower tier - an exclusive place for senior adventurers, but the first and second floors in the upper tier could be easily captured even by beginner adventurers.

As evidence, as usual, countless adventurers gathered on the 1st floor of the dungeon.

If a monster appeared, adventurers would swarm and beat it like amateur soccer players.
The monster appearing would be killed in less than one minute.

You can't think of fighting properly here.
The most important was how quickly you could discover a monster and finish it in one move.
(That's why there were few beginner adventurers who have exclusive armour)

Furthermore, in the upper tier of "Chika-ho"

"2nd Floor. Straight ahead 100 m ↑"
"Hall. Turn right 50 m →"
"Three Way Fork Road. Turn left 90 m ←"

Those written signboards were installed on the ceiling.
It was like a visit to the sightseeing facility, but a dungeon should not be such a nice place.......

If ordinary signboards were installed, it would be absorbed by the dungeon.
But without those signboards, adventurers may get lost!

The official of town hall thought so, finally made a signboard using monsters material so as it not being absorbed by the dungeon.

When Haruki visited "Chika-ho" for the first time, 'what is all of this over here?' he was perplexed.
'Is this really a dungeon?'

Now he was already used to the signboards and adventurers who were fighting like a swarm of ants...

Anyway, this was such a place.

On the first floor where beginner adventurers gather, he would not be able to try it.
While glancing backward to adventurers who were swarmed and beat a monster, Haruki quickly advanced past them.

The other day, Haruki's magic tool - the skill board gained an additional point.
Which could be because he went to the second floor
or probably because he harvested nearly 100 onion monsters.
But until that day, hunting nearly 200 house centipedes didn't increase the points.
The possibility of level-ups giving points may be excluded.

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