New Employee Training

By the way, regarding the expansion using [Create Golem], normally you wouldn't be able to use [Create Golem] this conveniently unless your magical power permeated throughout all the materials. However, this inn was originally built by combining materials with [Create Golem], making it essentially an "Inn Golem." Remaking a golem already saturated with my own magical power is incredibly easy.

With that said, the three girls hadn't responded for a while now.

When I turned around, there stood the apprentice witch with sparkling eyes.

The other two looked like their jaws were stuck open. Their mouths had literally gone slack from shock. I'd probably react the same way if I saw a building get expanded in three minutes without knowing anything.

I watched them while waiting for a response. As expected, the apprentice witch was the first of the three to react.

"That was amazing, Master! I'll do anything, so please become my teacher!"

Hm? Did she just say anything…? A girl shouldn't go around saying things like that so carelessly.

"I'll offer my body or anything else! … Ah, though we're already Master's property to begin with."

"… Um, for now, could you just learn to work the reception desk?"

"Thank you so much, Master!"

… Somehow I ended up becoming her teacher.

Her sheer intensity caught me a bit off guard, but maybe I should have assigned her to rotating body pillow duty with Niku. It's probably a burden on Niku to always be my hug pillow.

No, but even if I say teacher, I only know one Low-tier spell from each attribute and two Mid-tier spells. I leave all the chanting to Translation Function-san without really understanding it myself, so I don't feel like I could teach her anything. Assigning body pillow duty in exchange for that would be like deceiving someone with a stack of bills where only the top one is real. That's not my style.

So it's not a waste that I couldn't order body pillow duty. Not wasteful at all. I didn't summon her for that purpose anyway, so it's fine.

I am burdening Niku though… I need to be careful not to let her collapse again.

While I was thinking about such things, it looked like the other two had finally rebooted.

"So Master wasn't just an ordinary human… You were a monster that used to be a brilliant mage?"

"There's going to be so much more to clean. More rooms, please…"

Hey, vampire. I am an ordinary human. Though I'm also a Dungeon Master.

As for the silky, her entire existence revolves around housework, and her hobby is cleaning without using Life magic, so that comment tracks. Those maid clothes she was born wearing aren't just for show.

Anyway, while adding more rooms, I've accomplished my goal of showing the newbies my power as a Dungeon Master. I can leave the rest to Ichika and sleep now. My turn should only come "if something abnormal happens," if you please.

 

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So, working at reception isn't that difficult.

The hardest part is probably calculating the lodging fees. But even that can be done if you can count numbers.

It's content that even a Japanese elementary schooler could handle.

… Or so I thought.

By this world's standards, there are people who can't read and people who can't do elementary-level calculations. In fact, more people can't do calculations than can.

"Two times two, two times two…"

"What's two times two?"

"… Eight?"

"That's probably correct! With this, Master will teach me magic!"

"It's six, you two."

All three of them were idiots.

The answer is four, you know. This vampire is completely treating the multiplication table like an incantation without understanding the actual content.

"So that's how it is, Goshujin-sama. Whatcha think we should do?"

"… Yeah… so the multiplication tables don't work here…"

Right, if the language is different, the rhythm is off too. Rather, it's impressive that Niku and Ichika managed to memorize them. Did I push them a bit too hard, maybe?

"… Well, part of it was that I could already do some calculations to begin with, but the collar would gradually tighten if I didn't memorize 'em, so I learned 'em perfectly."

"Ugh, that's… sorry… You can eat as much curry bread as you want today, seconds included."

"Ooh! That makes me happy!"

I need to give Niku unlimited hamburgers too.

Now then, that's why I need to make sure these girls can work at reception.

Fortunately, they can read, so they can read out the menu and confirm prices. The problem is calculation.

"… Then I'll just make a calculator."

There's the option of exchanging DP for a calculator or cash register, but it'd be a stretch to pass those off as magic tools. In that case, I'll just have to make a calculator that doesn't look out of place.

So I made one. Production time: five hours and ten minutes.

"This is an 'Abacus.'"

"How do you use it?"

Unlike the standard abacus used in Japan, I prioritized visual comprehensibility for this world, making it with nine beads per column. I made eight columns total. As long as it doesn't exceed ten thousand gold coins, it can calculate.

Moreover, I made full use of the fact that it's a golem to turn it into a magic tool.

"What's the price for five guests lodging, four D Lunches, and one C Lunch?"

"T-the beads moved on their own?! … Six, five, zero… 650 copper coins!"

"This is impressive… It can also be read as six silver coins and fifty copper coins."

"Master is amazing!"

Like this, it automatically calculates with voice commands.

The breakdown of production time: ten minutes for the exterior, five hours to teach it things like lodging and lunch prices along with calculations.

While the three girls were absorbed with the abacus, Ichika came to talk to me.

"Hey, Goshujin-sama. Instead of countin' beads, can't ya make it show the numbers directly?"

"Hm? Do you have an idea for how?"

"How 'bout somethin' like this?"

Summarizing Ichika's idea, it was a form where you rotate cylinders with numbers written on them, like the drum reels on a mechanical slot machine… As expected of Ichika, she went bankrupt from gambling and has something to show for it, I was thinking, but then…

"…'Slots'? What's that?"

"Eh? Wait, you don't know about slots?"

It seems slots don't exist in this world… In that case, where did this idea come from? Is she a genius? Actually a genius?

"Slots are… it's a gambling game where you press buttons to line up pictures. If the pictures don't match, you get nothing; if you line them up right, you win."

"Heeeh! I wanna try that…"

Ichika smiled dreamily. If you didn't know that smile was about slots, you might think it was the wistful face of a maiden in love. Does she like gambling that much?

…

Should I try making one? It might unexpectedly become a draw for the inn… but let's sleep first. I ended up working five whole hours because I went overboard making the golem auto-calculate things.

"For now, it looks like you can use this 'Abacus,' so try working the reception desk with it. I'll make a numeric display version if I feel like it."

"""Yes!"""

All three gave good responses. Looks like our labor shortage is resolved for now.