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Chapter 433: A New Spearman

"Ah, there it is! It showed up! Hina, look, look!"

Today's a holiday, so no university.

I brought the now-university-student vampire girl Nishino Miki and the delinquent girl Higashi Hina to the Chiba branch's Floor 10.

"Where where? I can't see anything. A 【Chef】? Congrats!"

Status screens are invisible to other people, after all.

"Alright, then Miki takes 【Chef】. And what about you, Hina?"

Mia-san, tagging along as chaperone, moves things along.

Kasumi-san and Aikawa are at headquarters for an interview, so they're not in Chiba today.

Soushi's gone to help out over there too.

Kasumi-san has apparently even gotten an offer for a cosmetics commercial—she's turned down all of that, I hear.

This one was a request from a sponsor she simply couldn't refuse; Ao-san asked her, and she accepted with the caveat that it was unavoidable.

Seeing me lazing around, Mia-san proposed we go get these two their jobs.

It being a holiday, the shop should be insanely busy, mind you.

She dumped all of that on Mia-papa-san.

He works an ordinary office job on weekdays and minds Mia-san's shop on weekends.

Talk about a black company.

"I'm going 【Spearman】."

"Huh? Not 【Swordsman】?"

She did say she wanted to be a 【Swordsman】.

"The people I owe keep telling me to take the spear, and it suits how I fight. Besides, I know now that spear users are seriously strong. Miki—ready, set—and we take our jobs together, got it?"

The delinquent girl who'd been talking with Mia-san glances over at me for a second.

I mean—what's the point of taking your jobs at the same time?

Well, they look like they're enjoying it, so I won't say anything......

The delinquent girl had apparently been properly practicing 【Digging】 in between exam studying; she can now tear open a one-meter-square hole exactly where she points, in an instant.

Spearing the goblins that fall in is what she calls "my fighting style," I suppose.

If you're thrusting downward, a spear has better reach than a sword, so it's probably a good call.

Although—we walked here today, and she kept digging holes under my feet to prank me the whole way.

I used my spear as a pole-vault and never fell, but Mia-san, who got the same treatment, went down like a sack of rice.

"Miki, I've got a favor to ask. Next time I'll take you to Floor 20 too, so—how about becoming a 【Pharmacist】?"

Ever since 'Blue Ocean' announced they'd challenge Floor 50, apparently people from all sorts of places have been approaching Ao-san.

Among them are overseas pharmaceutical companies; there was apparently an offer to become their main sponsor in exchange for supplying MP recovery potions.

Taking foreign backing was obviously a bad look, so they declined—but the recent new-dungeon survey had an incident where Soushi's MP ran dry and the conquest got called off, so Ao-san is apparently hunting for somewhere to source MP recovery potions.

Buying from an individual would run about a million euros—call it 150 million yen......

No telling how much that would even recover, and that's not a price you can pay pop-pop-pop.

But if they could make them themselves......

"Whoa, whoa. These two only just took their first job...... No, wait, level-wise they could be Double-Ranks already, couldn't they. Hanging around you always screws up my sense of scale."

Right—thanks to the daily routine, there are more and more chances to haul golems home, so the two of them are already Level 20.

Well, lately the 'Left Hand Gate' is parked in the desert dungeon, so the daily routine hasn't been happening.

Even worrywart Kasumi-san won't complain if their levels meet the requirement.

The vampire girl's 【Chef】 acquisition—the one Kasumi-san called a MUST—got cleared too.

"Huh? 【Pharmacist】? You said that before too, didn't you. You actually want me to be one? Eh, fine, whatever."

Feels kind of like I'm tricking her. Sorry.

If she's willing, I can probably tell her a bit about our circumstances too.

"Then take me along too, okay? I'm becoming a 【Chef】. You can't make Miki do all the meal prep by herself."

If she wants to be an adventurer, she really ought to take a proper combat job as her sub too......

I look at Mia-san; she shrugs.

"Alright, that's it for today. Let's head home. I'm counting on you for dinner."

Mia-papa-san will be waiting, after all.

Either way—this should have lightened the load on Soushi and Shiraishi-san.