Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Year 7445, Month 12, Day 21

In order to progress to the end of the year I decided to make from the 19th until the 27th, this 9 day period the last time we enter the dungeon this year, then from the 28th until January 6th of next year those 9 days would be the New Year holiday. And then, this time we entered the dungeon with the full members of the {Slaughterers} different from the past few months. I gave the {Butchers} and {Exterminators} a slightly early and long New Years holiday.

Of course, I said if they want to enter the dungeon during the holiday they're free to do so, I also said they have no need to pay a share to me for that time. However, I told them absolutely not to step foot past the 2nd floor and since they're entering the dungeon under my command they'll have to pay for the entry tax and food expenses on their own money. Also, it's only obvious but I don't intend to loan out my four combat slaves either. After saying that far and honestly speaking I don't think anyone will try to enter the dungeon during the holiday.

Though I say that, I thought someone would complain because their earnings were reduced and had thought up an excuse but no one said any complaints and rather raised cheers of joy. Since I found it a bit strange I tried asking Kamu about it and it seems including her everyone was a bit worn out.

Ever since the party changing test about two months ago, there's some members who have started running here and there so I was smiling over the delightful trend. However, not only does doing that consume quite a bit of stamina but there's also the consecutive battles on the 1st floor of the dungeon. They return to the surface completely exhausted, force the food down and are unable to dink any alcohol, then return to their inn to sleep like the dead. The next morning after waking up they do some running right away and then it's back to combat in the dungeon again.

In regards to income while they aren't obtaining any expensive magic items or precious gems or ores but from the roughly three times a month they entering the dungeon, their income is about 800,000 - 900,000 Z so they didn't have any complaints. Rather it's increased since their time in {Sun.Ray}.

The number of days they're entering the dungeon itself has increased but for the time being it's all day trips and counting in terms of months it's around 20 days. During their time in {Sun.Ray} they entered roughly twice, for a total of around 18 days so it's only increased by just a bit. In regards to the safety of it while they're experiencing consecutive battles where they have almost no time to let their guards down, since there's the reliable leaders dispatched from the {Slaughterers} their feelings are able to relax a bit knowing that there's no worry even if they get a bit injured.

That's the reason and everyone was just thinking about enjoying their own holiday and dedicating it to get some rest.

It seems they heard from the members of {Slaughterers} that were dispatched up until now that there's "always a long holiday at the end of the year" so they were secretly looking forward to it.

Both running and entering the dungeon during breaks aren't an obligation or anything else so if they don't want to do them there's no reason to do it. Though if you were to ask me, doing it increases our overall combat forces so I'm happier if they do it but as long as they do a proper job on the days that were for entering the dungeon then after that it's fine for everyone to do whatever they please.

In the first place I'm sure there was people who dedicated their days off to training and people who never did. Since people naturally lean towards the more comfortable direction, anyone who won't do it unless forced I'll just treat like that, and that's all there is to it. For example Rokko already knows he sucks at arithmetic(it's not particularly unusual. However, it's unusual for an adventurer who has a lot of occasions they need to calculate money) but it seems he has no intention of studying and no intention of changing I'm sure. It's the same for Jeru as well who can't read or write.

In comparison, recently it seems Zulu, Angela, and Giberuti are being taught to read and write by Basutoral and it seems starting with Catherine, John, Terry, and even Zulu's woman join in as well. I don't know who started it up but it's a good trend.

If it's necessary I taught Zulu and Angela numbers and some Kanji characters in Japanese as well as some Arabic numerals but that's it. I'm sure looking from their end they wanted to ask about more commonly used numbers and letters. I knew they were looking like they wanted to be taught but I guess they were showing restraint towards me, they never said anything so I didn't teach them either.

After learning that Okonneru and Garuhashu as well as Firenoto and Manzokki were being taught some basic addition and calculation as well. However, it seems that in addition to teaching them to read, write, and do arithmetic Basutoral is also teaching them some simple science and he was even teaching some basic agriculture as well. Since the four of them seemed to have some interest they'll probably join in as well eventually.

The start of the problem was that sometimes Zenom would join in there as well. Just it seems he was just joining in to listen (since Zenom was originally a commoner on top of the long period he was an adventurer it's only obvious Zenom can read, write, and do fundamental arithmetic) but he was having a hard struggle with division, fractions, and decimals.