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The Otherworld, Goddess, and Anchor 06
🕑 Added 2020-10-16 12:26:09 +0000 UTCFirst time with Anchor
Translated by: SummerPeanut
Edited by: 書梅
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Japan. Within a certain mansion’s room---
As if standing in a line, a girl and a cat were sitting side by side.
“---Hello everyone, good afternoon! My favourite drink is cute boys’ tears and their bodily fluid! With just those, I could easily eat three bowls of rice! I am Fiona Lulu, the gentle Goddess of Fruit Trees!”
“---Do you know? That if you bombed your first introduction, it’s pretty much impossible to salvage it later…? Ah, I am this useless goddess’s support, Navi”
Carried by the high tension of the goddess, the overseer (cat version) also introduced its name and role.
“You need to properly introduce yourself, alright? What’s your favourite drink? What kind of bodily fluid?”
“Why are the options limited to only bodily fluid!? It’s too specific!!
And I’ll be troubled if you put me in the same group as you, please stop it”
“I see, you are pretending to be clean now! It’s basically setting a flag!”
“No. That’s enough, the main story will start now”
|■Fraul Kingdom. Granola’s Mansion|
“...I understand your point now. Forgive---please allow me to apologize for my rudeness, Fiona-sama”
“Fiona-sama...Granola was also worried for Alp and his parents that was why she acted so”
(There is nothing to apologize for. Alp, looks like you are blessed with kind people around you)
“Fiona-sama...”
“Did Fiona-sama say something about Granola?”
“She said that I’m blessed with kind people around me...”
“Those kind words are wasted on this humble believer...For the time being, I will relay whatever information I have gathered...But how should we move from now onwards?”
|■Japan. Fiona’s room|
“What do you think, Operation Strategy Officer? Do you have any good plans?”
“Please do not throw all your responsibility to me, you have to help too. Do you even understand the current situation?”
After organizing and basically copy-pasting Margot’s information to the internet, various countermeasures were discussed.
- The currency exchange rate is one gold coin for five silver coins. With one silver coin, you could buy wheat enough for 10 days.
- Monthly income of an ordinary worker is roughly around 4 silver coins to 2 gold coins. The average is roughly one gold coin.
- The tax amount was 3 months worth of one’s annual income. It’s based on the head of the family and thus income of the wife and child don’t matter.
- The reason why the number of indentured workers increased so much was due to Baxia Kingdom suddenly increasing the tax amount by additional 2 months worth, saying it’s for management fees.
- Furthermore with the reimplementation of the poll tax policy, babies to elderlies would also need to pay the tax.
- The amount for tax policy is 3 gold coins per person.
- That and plus the ‘preferential rights’ being auctioned.
- ‘Preferential rights’ is ultimately only traded amongst the wealthy. The rights will not be returned to the service workers because conflict will happen otherwise.
“So the conditions to reach our goal are---”
- The main goal is the liberation of indentured workers in Baxia Kingdom.
- The domestic indentured workers are treated well because they are mainly hired by sympathetic people from the same country. I believe it’s okay to leave them for the last.
- It’s estimated that there are around two thousands workers that flowed to Baxia Kingdom due to unable to pay their normal tax + poll tax. All in all, we need 6000 to 10000 gold coins.
“My answer to the question is---”
- We can tell if the worker is a believer or not through either [apostle or Fiona].
- However, it is not realistic to look and identify the believers from every single indentured worker before buying them back.
- In general, Fiona can only affect the fertility of fruit trees. However, in order to do so, Fiona must have a certain number of believers first.
- Creation of golden fruit basically consumes 100% of Fiona’s power.
[Isn’t this goddess basically checkmated?]
“I know that already!! I know but I pretended not to. I tried my hardest up until here, okay!!”
The overseer tried to rein in the growling goddess standing with one leg on top of the table in front of the PC.
“Let’s look at it positively, at least there are still cooperators.
---But about 10k gold, just how much value is it worth? ”
|■Fraul Kingdom. Granola’s Mansion|
(Alp, 10000 gold coins is---
Nevermind, I recall Margot brought back some of the indentured workers on her own, at what kind of pace is she doing it?)
“Granola-sama, erm, Fiona-sama asked---”
“Just call me Margot. There’s no need for you to be polite at all. Isn’t that right, Bart-san?”
“---Well, I suppose so. Anyway, what did Fiona-sama say?”
-Alp explaining time-
“Currently, while searching the rest at the same time...we are buying back around 10 people back per month. Also, with all Granola’s House financial strength, the current limit is only 2000 gold coins. I’m really sorry that I can’t be of more help...”
(hmm...seems like it’ll cost 30 gold coins monthly.
---mn? Navi, did something happen on the internet?)
|■Japan. Fiona’s room|
“There is a post that’s worrying me...”
[This 10000 gold coins, is it really enough? Won’t the demand increase it?]
[This isn’t good. Especially if they found out that there are movements buying back the indentured workers...]
“?? Are they saying that the amount needed will increase more than 10000 gold coins?”
[Can’t deny the possibility of the price increasing along with the buyback’s ‘process’]
[If you keep buying in a small amount, I think the price would also increase gradually]
|■ Fraul Kingdom. Granola’s Mansion|
“---so Fiona-sama was worried about this possibility”
“I see....but in this case, I believe there’s no cause for concern. In the case of products, price will certainly rise and fall according to supply and demand...Meanwhile indentured workers are [contract]. The moment the amount written inside the contract is paid, they must be released no matter what”
“What about the penalties? Since we are technically going to cancel the few years left on the contract after all.”
Veur also asked his doubts to resolve his anxieties.
“In the first place, they became indentured workers because they were unable to pay their taxes. If the debt they shouldered due to the unpaid tax disappears, the right to detain them would also disappear together. If they want to continue, they would need to extend or renew the contract between the employer and the worker”
|■Japan. Fiona’s room|
“And apparently that’s the case. What does everyone on the internet think about this?”
[So it’s basically a fixed exchange rate. Doesn’t seem like it’s possible to use insiders to solve the issue then]
[It won’t be possible to use rumors and fake information to lower the price as well]
[What do we do now? I can’t see any hint to the solution at all]
“What’s with you all! One says one thing and the rest could only follow his opinion!!”
Navi stopped the goddess who again stood in front of her PC with one leg on the table while swinging a chair in rage with her hands.
“Calm down. Don’t expect everyone to give useful answers. Take a deep breath~. Breath in through your nose~”
“Breath out from my ears~♪”
“Are you a monster”
“I’m a goddess!”
“If you are a goddess, please act like one. I don’t even want to support a goddess that breathes through her ears...mn?”
[Why don’t we let Mar-chan handle the slave liberation while we think of ways to earn money?]
[Isn’t it possible to bring in knowledge from our side? We could just teach them something]
“T,that’s right...as long as it’s verbally”
[Hah? Verbally? You can do that?]
[Is it not possible to do it with image or drawing?]
[This god-for-nothing is totally useless...]
After looking through the posts by [Anchor], Fiona reached out to her terminal with one hand and with the other pointed towards her monitor.
[---Okay, you bastards don’t move from there, alright? I’m calling God of War(Papa) to burn down this country to ash right now♪
Papa-]
“Don’t call Unisis-sama!! However, we won’t make any progress if we continue like this. We couldn’t come up with any effective method too…
---Isn’t it about time for us to use that? That.”
“That…? Aah, I suppose so. Using [Anchor]’s service...!”
|■Fraul Kingdom. Granola’s Mansion|
“...Alp. Fiona-sama...did she not send an oracle today?”
“Sometimes I can hear conversation-like voices but...it wasn’t very clear, I’m really sorry…I heard weird jargons like ’ear breathing’ and whatnot”
“Ear-breathing?!”
“Ear-breathing?!”
|■Japan. Fiona’s room|
“Oops, I forgot to close the oracle(line call). But their side would be anxious if we keep them waiting for the next oracle. Well then, Fiona-sama---
Please ask for the first instruction from [Anchor]”
“If I recall correctly, I can’t refuse and must follow through any given instructions, right… But, I have to do it. Otherwise the title of the novel will become a scam. Current post number is around 88…[Anchor]’s number is 100! The [Enquiry] is [Money-making methods]! Well then, please show me the wayyyyyy!!”
>>100
[That apostle boy? I think he’s called Alp. Why don’t you get him to work?]
“---eh”
“hm?”
[Get him to work (deep meaning)]
[His body is the capital♪ (bang)]
Click☆
-Goddess Fiona's believer count: 253-
-Number left until revocation: 53-
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