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Having said that, the goblin was a companion we'd spent time together with for the past half month.

As for memories… yeah, but they're just memories of eating bread together.

I wonder what kind of relationship Rokuko had with him while I was sleeping?

"Leave after giving back my portion of the [Bean Paste Roll]…"

Apparently it looks like Rokuko did the same as me.

"Gobsuke… repaid his debt splendidly. If he didn't stop them, we'd be dead."

"Uu, my [Bean Paste Roll]…"

No, she was probably meaning to say [Don't leave me and die… idiot…].

I selected an assortment of six sweetened buns, presenting them to Rokuko.

"Here, [Bean Paste Rolls] to cheer you up."

"Eh-really!? I'm cheered up, cheered up! Super cheered up!"

Rokuko was so lively it was to the point that I seriously almost saw an aura around her.

possible to send and collect living things. In fact, couldn't you collect the moldy bread? Isn't mold a living thing? If that's the case, you could probably collect a box with a mouse in it for example. So you should be able to collect living things like humans. It's no good since there's magical power? Even magic tools have magical power. Didn't you collect the light magic tool? Therefore, there's no reason you can't collect THAT-!!"

"Uoh-!?"

–and it let out a cute sound.

…Oh, I remembered. Right, I collected a dog eared slave girl.

Phew, I almost didn't come back after my self-suggestion…

"G-good, I'm back. Right, somehow, I collected her…"

"Ah, you're bad? Then I demand an explanation!"

"Ah, that's easy… It's because I could."

I thought I couldn't do it so I convinced myself. Magic is a free and irresponsible thing… though now I'm tired.

"You saw it right? You can collect slaves."

"That's right… I can collect slaves…"

Yeah, it's better to have Rokuko think that.

… Well, what do I do with this dog eared girl? For now, should I really make her a hug pillow…?

"By the way, what's this one's name? It'd be hard to refer to her without one."

"Ah, that's right… Your name? Or maybe your nickname? What is it?"

"Eh…. ah… … Meat… is what I'm called, Goshujin-sama."

Though her reaction was a little dull, she answered properly.

For the time being, I laid down for the day, taking out sweet rolls and a futon and pillow combo with DP, having her rest.

Though she didn't move at first, she obediently ate the sweet rolls when ordered and laid down, sleeping on the futon.

For information on how to treat Meat it might be good if the group of knights returned.

Above that, it's better that the knights don't meddle.

*

In the end, the group of knights confirmed that the bandits' corpses burned sufficiently before returning.

As expected, I slept through the whole thing.

After that, they returned to their camp without doing anything in particular. Yeah, I think it would have been amazing if they'd just slaughtered the bandits to eat their roasted meat. Truly.

Turning the corpses into DP wasn't a problem, it also became a significant influx.

With this, our savings are totaled at—14504 DP.

"Amazing… this is the first time I've seen so much DP."

Right now, when compared with our DP savings so far it was a small fortune.

However, the bandits aren't here anymore, so our income decreased.

Gobsuke isn't here anymore… but in exchange I have a dog eared slave and have to support it.

With three meals a day, assuming that sweet roll assortments and beverages are served… that's a consumption of 15 DP per day.

And the income from the core was just 10 DP. It seemed that the dog eared slave earned 0 DP even when left alone since it was collected as an item. Or maybe it isn't strong enough to collect DP from to start with…

Well, that being the case, I'll cut her meals to two a day to make it stabilize… no, in order for adventurers to not expect anything when they come, I need to take out a goblin. There would be a deficit. Could I sleep soundly in a situation like this? No, I couldn't sleep. I'm a coward, so I can't endure my savings being gradually decreased.

So, I who cannot endure a deficit management style, will have to fundamentally change the [Ordinary Cave]'s nature.

… Haah, I don't want to work.