Living as an Unemployed in Another World

134 – 5. Witch Moon (10)

5. Witch’s Moon – Faded Memories (3)

Calia Marinez.

The owner of

Song of the Siren, a well-known luxury inn in the port city of Eastside.

She is still only in her twenties and runs several large businesses with dozens of gold coins in monthly sales.

Like any other eldest daughter from a merchant family, since she turned 15 years old, she has suffered from numerous marriage talks with lowly aristocrats seeking an arranged marriage with a wealthy family, and with the second son and third son of a baron…… Calia had no intention of spending the rest of her life in the shadow of an aristocratic and condescending man.

It must have been the same with the women of other families who were sold as tools for arranged marriages. However, the difference between them and Calia was in the ability to act as they thought. Her pocket money, which she had not spent a penny on since she was a child and had been steadily saving up to a gold coin, took it and ran away to her neighbor’s estate.

After she gathered information at the inn where fishermen stinking of fish stayed and started working on trade, she suffered numerous failures and setbacks over the past ten years. He was reborn as a big player in charge of the big axis in the Merchant Guild.

However, her ambitions did not stop there. Her goal was to create a business that would represent a country that had great influence on the East Side and the entire frontier in the future. For him, she had to get out of the position of just picking up goods and distributing money, and build relationships and establish her own position. What she has chosen for him is her lodging business.

The largest scale business ever built by purchasing the government building as it is by borrowing all of its funds and bills. The high-class inn Was the paving stone. Although it is in the form of an inn, it has an assortment of restaurants, where you can have solid exchanges with well-known adventurers who don’t waste a few fairy tales. I might be able to make a link with them in the future.

In fact, the inn where she boldly bet her life swept in silver coins immediately after opening due to the favorable news of the dungeon being opened in the west mine for a while…… Due to the ruse of an inn employee in a neighboring village, who was not even considered a rival in the first place, sales were cut in half before there was time to enjoy the effect of opening the store. Basically, we are still avoiding losses due to the high unit price of all menus and expenses, but due to the large number of employees we hired and the high initial investment cost, we still made a noticeable surplus while paying off the principal of the money we borrowed from the bank. The transition was remote.

Even in the midst of that, she gradually attracted her guests with her unique skills, trying to seduce long-term guests who would stay in the city during the cold winter, if not as much as before…… It happened again.

A few days ago, guests who stayed at the inn for a long time began to suffer from nightmares, such as being pressed by scissors or complaining of headaches and insomnia. Even if they went to the priest, the symptoms did not improve, and the number of patients increased for no good reason, so the guests naturally found the reason in the inn’s bed and turned their feet one by one, saying that the dream place was wild.

Though it was an incident that could only be seen as a bad thing for , Whose sales were rising little by little in the winter. Rumors about an epidemic causing bad dreams were about to spread, but Calia managed to cover it up by somehow covering her mouth with money, but the news that came from her mouth was the most frightening. Seeing the view of her hall, her noticeably fewer customers, Calia draped her voluptuous breasts on her counter and let out a big sigh.

As a boss, working in the same outfit as the other ladies without condescending indoors and looking at the atmosphere of the store proves her diligence. Even being at the counter is painful because I’m just staring at it.

However, her employees seemed to be enjoying her long-awaited leisure thanks to her being freer than usual, and the laughter of her waitresses excluding her chattered from the back of her kitchen. Calia narrowed her brows and she was overcome by her desire to run to the kitchen at once, but she shook her head.

In the first place, the reason why they laugh and talk is because there is nothing to do, and when there is nothing to do, it is because business is not working. Everyone knew that everyone worked hard normally, so there was nothing wrong with arguing, and it was impossible to cut people just because there were surplus workers. It was just resting over and over again.

“Here, pour me another glass of wine. With a red one.”

“Yes, sir.”

At the sound of her voice calling her name, Calia immediately rose from her seat, retrieved a bottle from her shelf, and poured wine into an empty glass. As her glass was refilled, she could see her guest, the dreadlocked adventurer, all staring at her sunken cleavage, but she did not lose her forced smile. She, Calia, knew very well that her off-white color was excellent, and she understood that this kind of outfit was also one of the factors that boosted her sales.

However, now that she has passed her age enough to be successful in the marriage market, she has often been skeptical of creatures called men. Not only did he survive by leaping out of the house among rough sailors and adventurers, he also met nobles and bureaucrats who claimed to have a place in other countries, but in the end, men are a people who are not interested in anything other than a woman’s face or body. It was no different.

If I hadn’t run out of the house that day and had been sold as a baron’s wife, I would have managed to live comfortably without giving up all of my youth. However, Calia did not regret the past. Marriage was only a hindrance to her grand life plan to become the owner of the company and control the flow of her money without relying on the power of her surname, Marinez.

Before she turned 20 years old, there was a time when she gave up her business and ran away in order to ostracize her attendants sent from her house in order to somehow use her as a tool for her arranged marriage…… There was no sign of regret from them anymore, so she had nothing to distance her from. Calia thought she would never have a man in her life, and she smashed the bottle into her glass.

“hehehe, thank you. By the way, what time does work end today? Maid of honor.”

“…… It doesn’t seem like it will ever end.”

Calia didn’t lose her smile until she lifted the bottle, and she ignoring the man who was pushing her, went back to the back of her counter. The eyeballs of adventurers roll around her swaying pelvis and slender back. It’s still cold outside, but the day has cleared up enough to get some fresh air. Pressing her palms against her stuffy chest, she stepped out through the back door leading to the back of her building.

Calia was lost in her thoughts as she gazed down the alley full of noise. This inn is the paving stone of her dreams. She can’t just let her slowly perish like this. Fortunately, adventurers are the best at solving mysterious problems like this, and I had some connections with the guild. Thanks to this, I got in touch with the most famous adventurer party on the East Side.

Just…… The problem is that the adventurer’s party leader and her don’t get along very well. What can I say, the man working at the inn in the neighboring village was the blue adventurer . At first, Calia listened to the guild staff and almost hit her back.

After hearing his true identity, Calia couldn’t help but panic. That would be the case, isn’t it tantamount to openly advertising one’s origins starting with this name? It was only because of his extraordinary origins that he was so intimate with the now lord Count Louver.

In the first place, the relationship was entangled in evil, and Calia had never had a crush on a cunning man like a snake like him, but there is a way to distinguish between public and private life. As a close friend of the count and the leader of a popular adventurer’s party, there should be no going against his heart.

Besides, putting aside her personal feelings, her brain seemed so extraordinary that it was not like an adventurer, so it would definitely be of great help if you accepted her request. He bent his attitude somewhat excessively and even sent a messenger, so he would definitely move if it was for the sake of gain.

When her exposed skin turned red, she went back into her room after organizing her thoughts. Then, the hall with few guests was filled with sounds. What’s going on? Just as she was questioning her, one of her maids came out of her kitchen and approached her, whispering to her:

“Boss, where have you been! I’ve been looking for it for a while.”

“Why, what happened?”

“Hey, sir. A guest.”

Who are you? Calia followed her gaze with her gaze in the direction she pointed with her finger, and before long her gaze was captured by a knight in full plate armor standing in front of her swinging door.

Silver armor with a rather rough appearance. However, appearance is not important. Full plate armor that covers the whole body is an expensive item that starts at least ten gold coins. It means that it is a piece of equipment that even the most successful adventurers cannot easily obtain. That wealth represents the knight’s status. Calia hurriedly approached him, bypassing her staff.

“Welcome! Welcome to the siren’s song.”

She greeted her knight with a bright smile, not forced to smile. Then, even though she was indoors, her knight in her helmet stared at her. Calia assumed that he was her man, and she firmly believed that his striking white color would surely appeal to her. Because of her, she deliberately approached and asked in a friendly manner.

“Do you want to eat? Or are you staying overnight? You don’t seem to have any luggage, but if you made a reservation…….”

“Oh, no, that’s it.”

A knight opening his mouth in bewilderment. The voice that came from inside the helmet was clear and beautiful, as if listening to a hymn, unlike its appearance. Eventually, a young man hiding behind her appears with a grinning expression.

“Long time no see. Calia.”

“Ugh…… !”

Calia finally found him and her mouth twitched. Jin laughed bitterly as he looked around the empty hall.

“It seems that business isn’t going well these days.”

“Yes, yes.”

“You said it was very urgent, so I hurriedly came here. Well, I’ve been skipping meals, so I’m thinking of eating first before we talk, okay?”

“Yes, of course.”

Calia desperately kept her smile. She had already prepared for the fact that this man would scratch her insides. It is the virtue of a merchant to bow his head even to his enemies if necessary. Calia smiled broadly and she struck back.

“Don’t worry about money. I will treat you well, so be prepared.”

“Oh really?”

He smiled for the first time. And beyond her swinging door, she sees a beauty with hanging pink hair who seems to be his colleague…… Half-orcs twice the size of humans appeared one after another.

“I’m fine, but my colleague will eat a lot.”

“… ….”

She finally broke down.