The Successful Business of a Slave Career Planner Vol 2 Chapter 4

“… Am I in your way?”

 Until a while ago, Mina and I had a good atmosphere, but it seemed that cold water was thrown to that feeling.

 However, Hetty didn’t do anything bad.

 As I thought about it and turned back to Mina next me, she looked puzzled for an instant and murmured “Speech.”

 “Ms. Hetty. It is expected for you to exist as a slave to Master Toshiki. Therefore, you shouldn’t speak so formally towards Master Toshiki.”

 I noticed that she was enjoying the situation.

 “Ah, I won’t force the issue of using formal language. As long as you don’t tell the other slaves to do so, I have no problems leaving things as they are.”

 She murmured, “Master Toshiki is too soft”, in a low voice.

 “With that situation, the other slaves might get excited.”

 True, Mina was a very serious servant.

 Personally, I think that if I get used to being spoken too formally, there would be a possibility that I would get arrogant.

 It seems Hetty didn’t realized my intention, and asked me “What will I do with it?”

 “The client log book. You should be familiar with the customers listed there.”

 “What kind of a person was the customer? Are they polite or impatient? I want you to write down every detail that you remember.”

 I saw Hetty stopped smiling, and I thought Ah, she can actually show an unpleasant face like that.

 “……”

 That means that there are only 2 people left in the shopkeeper’s tent.

 “Hmm, ah, It’s alright if it’s Hetty.”

 I would probably need to start a conversation with her because she hasn’t calmed down yet. As for her, her eyes were not steady since a while ago.

 “Hetty is a high-class slave, actually, she was made to help some work for Mark.”

 “Yeah, she is used to serving customers, so I think that there are only a few things I can teach her.”

 I soaked a cloth in the bucket with water while replying.

 Just a few days ago I was always doing this thing to her, but the moment our relationship became that of a master and slave, it became an awkward situation.

 “Uhm, Master Toshiki. If it’s all right you, I am perfectly capable of wiping myself.”

 I uttered you don’t need to make a fuss about it. That expression was strange.

 Under normal circumstances, I would have replied “Is that so? Well then, why don’t you wipe by yourself?”

 That is, If I don’t use the result of the Appraisal Skill.

 Actually, to tell the truth, I don’t dislike Mina.

 “… Well then, thank you very much.”

 She kept glancing over here and looked like she was waiting for something.

 “What is it?”

 While wiping her body, I started a rambling conversation with her.

 “Mina is the shrine maiden of the beastkins right?”

 With a twitch, Mina’s body stiffened momentarily.

 It was a nostalgic expression, it was an expression when she heard “So you’re Shrine Maiden, huh?” when I first met her.

 “… That is.”

 Somehow I could sympathize with her current frame of mind as she stumbles her words.

 “. . . I foretell fortunes and cast curses.”

 She doesn’t seem to play dumb or told a lie.

 “Yes. Each and every beastkin tribe has a Shrine maiden, it was our job to foretell the future of our own tribe.”

 She said so and explained it trivially.

 Shrine maidens seem to have two main job, divination and casting curses.

 For example, In Mina’s tribe, by dancing using the spear, the God will descend upon her body.

 That’s the reason why she excels in spearmanship and dancing.

 While thinking of such, I urged her to continue her story.

 “Well then, what about casting a curse.”

 Curse.

 For a long time, the people of the grassland passed on their technique to curse enemies of their tribes.

 If someone attacks their tribe, they will curse all of them for generations, it was easy to understand that was deterrence.

 “We partially believed in this curse. Some people say it is not true, and even though it is not true it is our implicit rule that we must believe on it.”

 So, it didn’t matter if the curse was the real deal.

 “About what?”

 I somewhat expect how Mina will react.

 “……”

 I thought it was just fine responding like that.

 I had steadily acted upon the reforms that I had set.

 It was not that large of a scale, it was not sufficiently sensational, and I don’t expect that it will be effective in the long run. It was just simple actions.

 However, it is still essential.

 I believe that my actions will bear fruit someday.

 I believe that it will bear fruit simply because those are standard practices.

 Standard practices.

 Advertising by performing spear training, it’s standard advertising practice to instill impression by creating a buzz continuously.

 However, I have probably understood these standard practices from experience. In fact, I was in a position to fully experience management.

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