The Man Picked up by the Gods

~ Side Dragon Horse ~

After a tongue drum on the delicious bread and charcoal BBQ, Mr. Carla called me off.

"Store manager, I need to ask you something about store number two."

"Yes, what is it?

"I'll be frank with you. With sales and treatment costs, the funds are in luxury, so it's time to branch out?

"Already? Shouldn't running a store take longer to study?

"Sure, you're right, but Mr. Cokin and the others were originally just researchers and had no problems with reading, writing or arithmetic. In addition to that, I usually spend a lot of time learning about purchasing and rushing with other stores and customers, but this store has no competing industries or negotiating with customers. So me and Callum are giving priority to what to do if something goes wrong. I've learned every other way to keep track of the books I need, and I think it's a fast way to get some experience in practice."

"... he wants to use that branch as a training center for those in charge, as well as creating branches to increase income"

"Exactly. Of course at first it will be up to me or Callum to work temporarily at the branch, while giving guidance and deciding whether I can still be entrusted with the branch. Add one more point"

They handed me the papers. If you look through it, it looks like a document summarizing your previous revenue and expenditure reports.

... We have revenue and expenses from the first day of opening to yesterday... Hmm? The page is still going on.

Below the revenue and expenditure report is a table that says… revenue and expenditure forecasts. As it has been rewritten over and over again, it is bound many times. Besides, they seem to have been written a long time ago from the feel of ink and paper.

... I suppose it was because I was advertising and demonstrating in various places on hand at the beginning of the store. There is a significant error between the expected and actual figures.... No, the number of visitors to calculate the expected figures before then, which also assumes variations are based on the case of different industries (...)?

"... possibly gathering information for future management plans?

"You know. As it stands, we are the only ones whose main business is laundry. It is an extremely rare job title. There is therefore little information to be used as an indicator, and we decide to deal with it each time in a variety of ways, starting with revenue and expenditure… we have continued to operate in a state of manual exploration. Specifically, a response that doesn't miss sales with more customers than expected.

Now I'm taking my predictions off with good results. but even if the results are good, it doesn't change that “we haven't been able to correctly anticipate future changes”. So we want to help you get more stores around here, gather more information, and develop more accurate predictions and management plans. "

I managed to get around to work even before Mr. Cokin and the others came... and now the others are getting used to the job and getting better hands on it. And I don't leave it to you all of a sudden, but it's like a training period, so if that's the case, why not? The raids are calming down, and the stores have all the escorts. I wouldn't have a problem walking out on my own, and if I'm going to continue this store in the future, it's good to have an increasing number of cleaner slimes to accept somewhere.

I'll take the extra slime. I'd say, I honestly don't know how far I can go to sign with Slime. I don't see any limits at all, but I don't know how long that will last. Considering that, more shops and magicians have advantages other than money.

I personally think it's okay to develop a franchise on this. At least too many cleaners have been killed to keep the store confidential! What a story than that. I know it's still a matter of time before it happens, but does it also require visibility?

I mean... maybe I'm still more conscious as one of my employees than as a manager after all. Difficulties that come even in silence. Even unscrupulous demands push through impossibilities and do something by the deadline. That was our job... and I'm really glad Carla and Callum were here.

"Okay, let's move toward opening Store 2. What I need to do is decide which city to open Store 2, get the land in that city, and prepare the store?

"Are you sure?

It is also the result of my own thoughts on the advice of Carla, who is a leader as a manager.

She laughed relieved when she told her along with the process leading to that conclusion.

"Thank you for understanding. Best regards,"

"Well, if you're an employee working at the branch, thank you. I'll go to the guild and ask about the store."

That's why I left the store and headed to the commercial guild.

"Nice to meet you."

"I always take care of you. Quick, but I asked about store number two today."

"Have you finally decided to open a branch? I've got recommendations for the city that leaves the store. Delma, Asur, Sikum, Zillman, Rufest, and so much more."

Looks like you were ready, and I'd appreciate it very much. This is my first branch, and it's good to be close to Giml so I can get there as soon as something happens...

"Wouldn't it be better to be close to here? I've got that too."

You've only gotten used to it a little... with all this mind reading.

"Thank you"

"In the meantime, there are three recommended cities close to here: Styro, Harken and Lenav. But the closest you can find is the city of Lenav."

"Can I buy land in that city?

The Alliance Master laughs and says:

"I have it ready. It's not as big as it is now."

The land introduced is about half of the store, in terms of site area. But it's close to the center of the city and seems to have a building in decent condition for use. Looking at the schematics and listening to the conversation, it seems that it was originally a grocery store, some warehouses, etc., so just a few hands on it seems to be enough for the store. If not, but you can demolish it once and rebuild it.

"This is across the street from Piolo's shop, I made sure, but the building is solid. There's nothing wrong with that. I need you to do the process on the other guild."

"Really? Thank you. Then I'll go buy this land."

Thus stood the prospect of a new store. Trusted collaborators, that's also quick to talk about when you have experts.

Return to the store immediately and report to Karla and Karm for an exchange at the guild. Afterwards, Mr. Cokin and the others will also talk about the branch and promise not to give the cleaner slime to anyone else, etc. This is what I signed up for when I hired you in the guild, just in case. The three of them didn't hesitate to understand.

And evening.

"Excuse me."

I leave the store early today and stop by Mr. Serge's before I get home.

I told him that I was going to the city of Lenaf for a while to pick up a lot of cloth and go home to prepare for Store 2. Tomorrow we will be preparing for the journey, but in the meantime we will build and store as many waterproof cloths as we can. Don't let this one run out of stock.

Mr Serge has told me that products made of waterproof cloth are spreading and that they are selling well. The main customers are adventurers and pedestrians. Adventurers want to make their belongings a little lighter because many people make their belongings the minimum they need so they can move quickly.

Most pedestrians who buy waterproof cloths are pedestrians who use a carriage without a roof or front, and they use it as rain for their products. For once, there has been a leather carrier cover before, but when it is enough to cover the carrier, it is quite heavy and easy to pick up the carrier's location, which also increases the burden on the horse slightly. Then the load will be reduced.

Impossible riding and weighing the carriage makes it harder to escape if a warcraft or bandit chases you. I will buy the next horse if I crush it for a short period of time, and if I do anything, my profits will be greatly reduced. The downside is not only that, but people who don't care about horses, which are business partners as an implicit understanding of pedestrians, are said to disqualify pedestrians, so when other pedestrians find out about them, they see them with white eyes, etc... In that regard, I was told that the waterproof cloth carrier cover doesn't take a place, it's light, and the effect is remarkably 3 beats all, so many pedestrians buy it again.

Give Sticky Slime more food and get more early. There will be a need to increase the production of waterproof cloths in the future, and we need to reduce the burden on each and every one of them......

With that in mind, I'm going home.

And four days later.

I asked all of you to help me out with what happened while I was away, or I used my time to get ready. Also, with that, we changed the way some stores operate.

The first change is to put a bamboo and slime painting and a Bamboo Forest logo in the bag on the occasion of leaving the branch. A craftsman who deals with Serge's shop is supposed to make a baking mark for our shop, push it, and make a new bag. From the beginning of the new store, the bags were exchanged at the Gimru City store when previous customers arrived.

The second is that a holiday is to be created in the store. Previously, you all took turns taking a few breaks from one person to another, but then the store people go out with each other only to a limited extent. So I decided to change the way I took the day off.

In about a month's time, I will change these - I will leave a sign or something in the store and make it known. In the course of that month, I'll have the bag replaced with something new.

The third is the management system of cleaner slime. There will be no temporary subordinate magicians at Gimru's headquarters because Mr. Cokin and the others will all go to the branch office. So if I can't go away in the future... then I won't.

In fact, Maria, one of the three daughters who has made money in the last two months, has mastered obedient magic. From what I've heard, her grandmother was a wizard, and she had lost an opportunity to learn magic by losing her grandmother at an early age, but she only had enough magic.

So one day I started talking a lot lately, and I recommended that I try obedient magic. Furthermore, after that, she is able to practice on holidays and contract with Slime under the guidance of Ms. Robelia, who has become close.

Therefore, in the future, I will leave the management of the slime to Maria and Cokin, and I will only collect the slime that I can no longer contract with them.

... Still, do I really have contractual limitations? Looks like the metastasizer of the beginnings of obedient sorcery I heard about before had no limits... she seems to be your specialty... why don't you ask Guys next time?

And is it time?

When I get out of the store, the employees drop me off.

"Okay, I'll be there"

"" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "You're not coming" "" "" "" "" "

This is how I start walking.

Eventually when you leave the gate, morning sunshine and a refreshing blue sky. And I run down a straight stretch of maintained streets. Come to think of it, this is my first solo trip since I came to this world!