Living in Another World by Commissioning 〜Healing Mage's Relaxing and Fluffy Manpower Agency〜

「She deserves it desu ne! I will support and push for Merida-chan’s love as much as I can! That’s what I’m thinking……」

「Manager, bring me the papers on that cat.」

「Ah, yes! Anyway, she is described by the customers as the moon queen…」

Pretoga continued talking while making theatrical gestures and disappeared to the back of the store to look for the report.

She’s really a noisy woman.

I look around the store, patting the back of the brown tabby cat that somehow came to my table.

I think I came here once before it opened but I don’t know when. Also, this building has become much more rundown.

The brown flooring is worn and in some places, discolored to dark brown as if something had spilled on it.

I looked up and saw that the wooden walls were also marked with claw marks and dents, making the place look shabby.

The chair and table on which I’m sitting are not rattled but they are covered with fine scratches and the state of disrepair reminds me of the wooden desks in elementary and junior high school of my previous life.

I heard a yawn and looked to see the brown tabby cat that I have been petting is stretching and clawing at the table.

Is this what happens where there are lots of animals around?

I can’t just tell the cat to stop scratching……

I looked over at the brown tabby cat’s back, who had gone away, while sipping my coffee, which wasn’t very tasty.

A while after my coffee and snacks hand ran out, the manager appeared from the back of the store with a big stack of papers in her arms.

「Oi, I only need the most recent ones.」

「They are from last year to this year!」

As always, the amount of information about a year of a magic construct’s life is as disgusting as ever.

The amount of magic crystals consumed in a day, the race, age, and gender of the people involved as customers and the details of the behavior during the opening and after closing.

So far, so good.

However, dozens of drawings by dozens of different artists, tens of cute gestures, the manager’s personal story, details of what the customers praised Merida for, letters from the customers……

The contents, which were not scrutinized at all, were added as much as they liked, which made me feel weak.

I’ve been thinking for a while that this isn’t a report at all but rather a club journal of a cat circle.

「I may have said this before but, can you…..report a little more……brief?」

「I think everyone needs this information. As master ordered me, I didn’t leave even the smallest details unnoticed……」

Yes……I think I said that.

I’m sure it’s better to have information than not have it but this is a bad report.

You’ve obviously turned this into a hobby since I last read it.

Next time, I’ll ask a knowledge slave to do some kind of report writing course for the Schenker manager class.

「Maa, I did say anything but do you really have to prepare a separate volume for poetry or something? Who wrote them anyway?」

「Ah, those are from the poetry contest for Merida-chan which is a store event. We do it every month but Merida-chan is particularly well received so a separate volume is…… 」

「No, no, the separate volume is a good idea. However, this isn’t something you’ll add in the report. I think it is better to display them in the store for everyone to see.」

「Eh? Right!?」

「I guess you better start doing it.」

「Then, should I also display the Merida-chan sketches from the competition instead of a separate volume!?」

Were these pictures from the sketch contest? You’re doing a lot of things…..

Pretoga is noisy but she’s not incompetent.

She is just overly enthusiastic.

Enthusiasm for your work is something precious that can’t be replaced by anything else.

We just need to let her do what she can and teach her what she can’t. Everything else will fall in place after.

For now, let’s take a long look at this report.

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I read the reports on Merida, which was as thick as a dictionary, from the bottom up, while moistening my mouth with the coffee that Pretoga had refilled for me.

「When did Merida’s behavior change?」

「Around last month!」

「Last month……what’s the name of the person Merida likes?」

「Karon-san desu, 26 years old, single, lives with her parents and little sister. She’s working as a clerk at Afant Footwear which is owned by her uncle!」