Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Volume 8 by Schuld

Author:Schuld [SCHULD]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club

[Tips] In the countryside, where outlets for entertainment are few, it isn’t just the common folk who find enjoyment in any form of lively commotion.

“You look a bit calmer now.”

“I-I’m really sorry.”

While Erich and Siegfried were downstairs talking, Margit was tending to Kaya in her small room upstairs in the Buck’s Antlers, aware that Kaya would prefer another girl’s support. Margit loosened the snug bits of Kaya’s outfit, took off her boots, and laid a damp cloth on her forehead to bring her temperature down.

“Is it really such a big concern?”

“O-Of course, it’s two hundred whole drachmae! It’s an incredible amount even after you split it. Even one drachma would be a heavy weight in my purse.”

“It’s more than enough to kill for, that’s for sure.”

As Margit let out a cheeky snicker, Kaya wanted to point out that this wasn’t a laughing matter.

Kaya had been overcome with worry about what had taken Siegfried a whole conversation with Erich to realize. People’s lives were cheap; especially so if you were a poor soul who wasn’t listed in a family register. The authorities wouldn’t bother investigating a dead body lying in a pool of mud in a back alley; what was going to make it worth their time and effort? Only the smell of hard cash or clout could move them to meaningful action.

Why wouldn’t Kaya have nearly fainted with worry? Every fledgling adventurer dreamed of the day they would be a household name with a panoply of awesome gear to boot, but these dreams were often cut short by creeping avarice—whether it was your own or someone else’s hardly mattered.

Money management was a crucial but arduous job in itself—who should hold it, where to put it, how to store it safely.

Paper money got heavy when enough of it stacked up, but that was nothing compared to carrying a bag full of bronze coins. If word got out about what treasures lay within, unsavory clans could come knocking, hungry for your hard-earned windfall. Even a single grubby assarius was cause enough for its unprepared holder to take a dagger in the back; the world was hardly short of folk who’d trade a fellow’s lifeblood for a round of cheap swill. Such monsters far outnumbered any other kind.

However, there were many who went about their lives blissfully unaware of this reality. Even though Kaya hated the fact that her best friend slept alone in that group dorm, she sated herself with at least having his belongings here in this room with her. She did what she could to keep the creeping hands of evil away from Siegfried, whether that be giving him a ward to hold while he slept or sneaking antitoxin into his stimulant potions.

If Siegfried didn’t mind, Kaya would have been happy to sleep huddled together in this tiny room, like birds seeking shelter from the rain.

Margit chuckled.

“What is it?” Kaya asked.

“Nothing. I was just thinking that you, too, are very fond of your childhood friend.”

Kaya had thought that Margit’s chuckling was at her own timidity, so this response came like a left hook out of the blue.

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