The Man Picked Up By The Gods
/ The Man Picked up by the Gods Volume 1 Chapter 14
Changed Ability to eat bad food -> Eat Filth
Volume 1 Chapter 14
~Side Ryouma~
I put the things I bought into my item box, went back to our lodging and started working.
First off, I rubbed the Sticky Liquid of the Sticky Slime on the surface of the cloth, and then through a combination of the basic Wind Magic, Breeze, and the basic fire magic, Fire, used the magic, Dryer, to dry a large number of waterproof cloths.
Like this the afternoon passed. When it comes to managing the magic power, it’s easy if it’s just the same attribute, but it becomes difficult when different magic attributes are being combined.
In the past when I made a mistake controlling Dryer, the wind of Breeze mixed with Fire and created an amazing blaze. In that way I was somehow able to fire off an attack magic, Flame Thrower but, if I do something like that here, it won’t be funny.
Next, I had the Sticky Slime spit me some threads, and then wound it on that unwound spool of thread I bought. The strength of the Sticky Slime’s thread depends on the ratio of the Sticky Liquid to the Hardening Liquid. So it’s quite easy to change the strength of the thread to match one’s goal.
If one sets the ratio of Sticky Liquid to Hardening Liquid as 7:3, then the thread will become a pretty and soft sewing thread. At 6:4 it becomes a robust thread. At 5:5 it becomes a kind of thread that can be used in traps because of its elasticity, and possesses strength that will break when animals and people were to pull on it. At 4:6 it becomes a lethal string that can be used to strangle animals and people.
In this past when I went to check the strength of the 4:6 thread. I set up several strands of it between two trees and lured the Black Bear there. The Black Bear was only able to endure once and small incisions could be seen on the Black Bear’s body.
At that time I thought that depending on the usage, this thread could become a horrifying trap, so I agitatedly put it in the back of my head. I mostly haven’t used it since encountering the goblins.
“Is everything ok?”
“According to the servants, Ryouma-sama went out in the morning, came back in the afternoon, and without having lunch, have isolated himself here all this time”
Ah… now that I think about it, I didn’t have lunch, huh?
“I’m sorry, I was a bit overzealous with my work and forgot about lunch… did I make you guys worry?”
“Ryouma-kun! Are you alright? You’re not hurt?”
“Ryouma-kun won’t be able to talk if you press him like that you know?”
Interjected Rheinbach-sama and Rheinhart-san as they stopped and separated the two.
The madam heaved a sigh of relief,
“And I thought something had happened”, pouted the Ojousama.
“What work are you talking about?”
Rheinbach-sama looked at it scrutinizingly and said.
“Fumu… by the looks of things you also applied the waterproofing treatment on these, huh?”
“Why did you suddenly start making those things?” inquired Rheinbach-sama.
Hearing that, I explained what happened today while sewing.
“… and so I ended up accepting that janitorial request. Since It’d also be troublesome if diseases were to start spreading around, so I want to get started as soon as possible”
“I understand your reason, and I’m also grateful to know this. The public office of this town didn’t mention anything like this… we may have almost been tricked. Sebasu” said Rheinhart-san as he called Sebasu-sean.
“Go out into the town and gather some information on whether the public office really did what was mentioned just now. If it’s true then the administrative expenses should have gone down this year. However, according to the report today, it hasn’t been changed. So there’s a possibility that someone’s taking advantage of the decrease in the mining rate of the mine and is embezzling funds”
“Umu. I could forgive simply embezzling, but embezzling the money that should be used for the townspeople and harming them is not something I can forgive. In the first place we have already decided on how much to pay the people living in the slums decades ago. That they would actually try to bargain it down, unforgivable! Wasting my efforts…”
“Rheinbach-sama’s efforts?”
“In order to help out the people living in the slums, in the past my father-in-law went through great pains to establish those people living in the slums as the ones in charge of cleaning the community toilet”
Hearing the madam’s words, Rheinbach-sama continued,
“Dad was once famous for being a good feudal lord. There were many nobles who came to study the management of territory. That’s why, if this really is true, then it won’t be forgiven. Even if other’s forgive it, the Jamil Household will not forgive it”
Rheinbart-sama looked at me and spoke again with a hint of gratefulness on his face.
“Umu, let’s have the maids help you out with making those clothes. Aro-ne, Lilian, please help him out.”
“Understood”
With the maids about to help me out, I explained to them what we will be doing. The gloves were assigned to Lilian-san, and the jumpsuit, to Aro-ne-san. I started to knit the cord that will be used for a variety of things but as soon as Aro-ne-san and Lilian-san saw the threads they asked me.
“Ryouma-sama, what kind of thread is this? I’ve never seen such a thin, robust, smoth, and pretty thread”
“Do Slimes spit out threads!?”
The Next Day
Having with me the set of worker clothes I made yesterday and with the Slimes with me, I let everyone know that I’ll be going out.
“I’ll be going”
“Please take care, Ryouma-san”
“We’ll also do our part here and there”
Having been sent off by everyone, I went to the guild.
“Good morning”
“Yes, I want to accept a request…”
“Yes, ye~s… alright this is ok. Take this request document, and go to the people from the West District, ok? And also, this is the key for the Latrine pits, don’t lose it alright?”
“Take care”
I left the guild and arrived at the western most part of the town where the entrance to the latrine pit is. I wear the jumpsuit and the pseudo-waders, and try to go through the entrance but instead I immediately close the door without entering. You understand the reason, right? A Latrine pit that has been left for 5 months, it’s bound to have a horrifying smell.
The moment that smell wafted to my nose, I cried a bit. But, the Scavengers looked ok, so I had them go in first, had them split, and ordered them to deal with it.
I also asked for help from the Cleaner Slimes and had them soak a hand towel I had with me with deodorization liquid, which I put on my mouth, to deal with the smell.
It also gets to my eyes so I had the Cleaner Slime go on top of my head, and have him cover my eyes like a goggle. The Cleaner Slimes’ body has high transparency so I was able to go forward without any problems. Cleaner Slime’s are quite useful.
Having gone inside completely, there were some stairs inside. Going down that was a huge subterranean tunnel. In the center of that tunnel were a huge amount of filth accumulating on both sides. The Scavenger Slimes crowded together and did their best to deal with it. As for me I washed off the filth sticking to the roof and the walls with the magic, Mist Wash, and then heated the sticking water to disinfect it with my original Electric Magic, Range.
It was a bit too dirty so I wanted to make it cleaner somehow, but from the looks of things I succeeded. I check it out with the skill, “Identify” and,
From
Unclean Ceiling
Old Skills:
Current Skills
“Ara, Ryouma-kun… wh-what’s up with that? That strange outfit”
“Certainly, that’s true…”
The people around me nodded as they thought “certainly”, looks like there were also people that were quite interested.
“By the way, after completing the job today, I want to report to the Guild Master but, is that ok?”
“Could you please ask the Guild Master? I have something I want to talk to him about.”
“I understand, thank you”
As the receptionist lady said that, she went inside. After a while the receptionist lady came back and said this,
“Ryouma-kun, he said it’s OK. Go in.”
Looks like I’ll be able to meet him immediately, I have good luck. However there’s a warning from the receptionist lady before I went in.
“Right now, there’s some really amazing people inside the Guild Master’s room so don’t be rude, ok? There probably won’t be a problem with the way Ryouma-kun talks, but just in case.”
“Enter”
Following the instruction of the Guild Master’s voice, I entered the room. When I entered the people in there were the Guild Master, the 4 members of the Household of Jamil, the 2 maids and Sebasu-san.
“Ryouma-kun, thank you for your hard work today”
“Well we wanted to hear what we heard from Ryouma yesterday from the Gulid Master”
“There’s something I want to talk about that needs to be kept secret”
“Ah, I talked about that with you yesterday, so I know. And what’s up?”
“The method I use to clean is through Water Magic and my Slave Monster, the Scavenger Slime. The Scavenger Slime is a slime that likes to eat the dung and rotten flesh of animals and possesses the Cleaning Skill. Because of this I am able to get rid of the filth.”
“That’s the first I’ve heard of that kind of slime… well, in any case, I understand that you were able to clean it with that method”
“What!?”
“I see, good job. But for a plague to spread out from inside that…”
“Guild Master. Fortunately, my Slimes can deal with the infectious disease with its Cleaning Skill. And so, I will continue this job, but I want no one else to enter the pits until I finish cleaning. And just to be safe, could I ask for someone to keep watch to make sure that no one will go in?”
Hearing that, even the Madam added on.
“It’s dangerous to deal with infectious diseases!”
Disease Resist Lv7 Sleep Resist Lv7 Stronger Vitality Lv3 Super Healing Lv3 Stronger Endurance Lv6
“Disease Resist Level 7, with this it should be confirmed that the chance of me being in danger is far lower than anyone else
Furthermore, even if I were to fall to the virus, with the Stronger Vitality Lv3, and the Super Healing Lv3, it will be harder for me to die compared to the normal person and will be able to recover easily. The Stronger Endurance will also help me out. And with the Sleep Resist Lv7 I will be able to stay awake for a few days.
Because of that I will be able to work quite fast. I believe there is no one else who has a Disease Resist Level higher than me, and at the same time someone who, even if he or she gets sick, will be able to recover. So, what do you think?”
It’s because I’m a cheat, if I don’t use my cheat here, then when will I use my cheat?
At my words, everyone in the room was silent. Looks like they can’t object. But it looks they want to reject it not because of reason but because of their feelings, everyone’s making a face that looks like they swallowed a bug.
The silence continued for a while until Rheinbach-sama spoke up.
“True… there’s no else aside from you that’s more appropriate. We’ll have to you push you into danger but, best regards”
Rheinbach-sama stood up from his chair, and bowed deeply to me.
“Of course”
“Yes. Fortunately, because the community toilets have been well built, the townspeople haven’t been infected yet. It’s good that we were able to notice it ahead of time”
“If the disease were to spread, it wouldn’t be funny”
“What is that airborne thing?”
Oh, they don’t have that word? Is it possible their knowledge regarding infectious diseases is lesser than the one on Earth?
“Infectious diseases spread to a large number of people, right? That spread is what you call contagious. And within that contagiousness, there are several ways to which it transports itself from one person to another. One way is through water and food, acting similar to a poison, and spreading this way. Another way is through the air, where upon a person sniffing that air will be infected, that’s what you call air-born infection. In this case, the spread of virus because extremely dangerous as it spreads easily, and eliminating it becomes very difficult.
However in this case, a huge number of Cleaner Slimes that weren’t tasked with removing the filth, did not increase the level of their Resist Disease skill. And as such, it is not an air-born infection and can only spread to a person on direct contact. In this case if someone were to touch the source of infection, and then eat with that hand, then and only then, will the disease spread. With this in mind, as long as the filth is dealt with, then for the meantime there will be no problem.
Thanks to the community toilet, the filth immediately fell into the latrine pits, and so no was able to touch it. After that as long as I take care when going out, it will be possible to deal with it. As I am not a specialist in this matter, the knowledge is half-baked but...”
Well that’s really the case… I’m not a doctor you know? It’s the basic knowledge of someone from Earth…
Still, I’m glad that it’s not air-borne! Even if it’s only my conjecture! I’m really glad that the Scavenger Slimes are here! If the Slimes weren’t here I wouldn’t know how to deal with this, since even if you set it on fire, the smoke might spread the virus, and one needs to prepare a huge amount of disinfectants. To begin with, I haven’t even seen a place that sells disinfectants.
“What do you mean half-baked, after saying that much? I’ve never heard of something like that”
Chapter end
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