The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage's Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 2 [Complete] by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 9: The Old Guy Lucks into Finding Rice

It had been three days since Celestina and Zweit had gone back to the Istol Academy of Magic. The house that the duke had granted Zelos was now complete, and he’d finished moving in.

There was a faint smell of soil in the air, and the worms that emerged as Zelos tilled the field showed how rich it was. Good soil was full of creatures like that, all eating up foreign matter in the fields and fertilizing the ground. You could even eat them directly—but considering the work required to get rid of all the dirt inside them first, Zelos decided not to bother. For now, he just wanted to create some ridges in the field. He sank his hoe into the recently flattened ground, and a smile came to his face as he thought about the sorts of things he’d end up growing there.

“Well, then... I guess this is my new home. But what should I do with myself?”

Up until just a few days ago, Zelos had been working as a private tutor, teaching magic to a son and daughter of the duke. But now, he was unemployed.

“I’ve got enough money, but having no job just looks kinda bad... I mean, between the rights to the spell book I improved and my income from the private tutor stuff, I’ve got plenty of money. Enough that I’d struggle to use it all up. Still, doing nothing but farming would be kind of boring, so...” Zelos paused for a second, thinking. “Should I go and do some part-time work with Nagri and the others? I don’t know...”

Farming was just one of Zelos’s many hobbies; he didn’t see it as a full-time occupation. It was a similar case for other farmers in this world as well, each of them making a living by doing some other job in addition to their farmwork.

The problem, however, was that Zelos saw things differently from those people. He didn’t even consider his farming to be a part-time job, but rather just a hobby of sorts, so he was reluctant to simply “be a farmer.”

While he had his incredible powers as a mage, those ultimately weren’t something he’d earned, so he didn’t really feel like he could be proud of them. Similarly, he still knew everything he’d learned from going to an engineering college on Earth, but he wasn’t interested in using that knowledge to cheat his way through life here.

Zelos had built up a considerable sum of money in his two months here, and he didn’t feel the need to spend it on anything. He just wanted to earn a meager sum with his own abilities, and use that to get by in life.

He had a—quite frankly—meaningless obsession with that particular nuance, and a warped, tiresome personality to go with it. What was more, he was a timid person at heart. Combined, this meant that while his considerable talents let him stand well above others, he had a strong aversion to taking the initiative in anything.

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