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With each of us eating the meat skewers held in our hands, we went to the adventurer guild.

"Hmm? I thought this way lead to the adventurer guild?"

"Yeah, I need to report about commission we finished earlier today."

"So Goshujin-sama is an adventurer? What rank? D? C? Or maybe B?"

"F-rank. I just became one the other day."

"Haah, F-rank? Yet you bought me with that much money… are you a Noble-sama or merchant or something?"

"Well, it's a long story."

She didn't deny me with something like 'No way!'. I already understood she was a flexible person, but Ichika really was a bargain.

"Ah, does Ichika also want to register as an adventurer? Having ID would be convenient."

"Ehh? Ah, I wonder… starting over from G… well it's okay. Then will you lend five silver for the registration fee? I'll pay it back with my body."

"That's… quite the bargain, without a doubt."

Receptionist-san sent me a dubious look. I-I didn't do anything shady alright? Really, really.

I did get the silver coins from DP though… It seems that money issued from DP is taken as regular currency in the Imperial Capital, so there's no problem… i-it's not forgery so it should be okay…!

At any rate, I paid the five silver coin registry fee and received Ichika's guild card.

I added Ichika to the party by her suggestion, so we headed for a place to rest with our new member.

As for today's inn, it's the one we stayed in before. The [Sleeping Songbird Pavilion]. To save money, we just got a single room. Ichika said she would prefer another meal than to rent a shed, so since she didn't particularly have any problems with a single room, it was decided that we would sleep together in the same room.

Ah, the three meals were naturally three normal ones, not the slave meals. Eating that slave meal the other day was enough.

Un, gettin' a real meal to eat~. Happiness~."

"So food's that important to Ichika? I also get how you feel. I wanted an employee that feels good about their job after all."

"Hooh, feels good? Meat-senpai's complexion is nice too, when I look at her I just wanna pick her up, yah. There's no complaints from me so long as you give me food."

Somehow or another it seems that I also struck a bargain in that she's also easy to handle.

Ichika was drinking up her vegetable soup, wiping the little bit of liquid left over in the dish with bread, eating everything.

Nothing left to waste. When she said, 'Let me eat first, might be poisoned', what she meant was that she would start even before me, her owner.

"Thanks for the food~, well, what now? Sleep?"

"Yeah. Ichika. You'll have the bed."

"Eh?"

Probably due to not being able to comprehend what I said, Ichika tilted her head to the side. Right, Ichika probably thought she'd be conceding the bed to me since there was only one in the room.

I took out my [Futon] from [Storage] and laid it onto the floor.

"Meat and I will sleep here."

"Wai—! The heck! You're usin' a substitute in such a high class inn. Wooow, so this is the difference between senpai and me… wait, you used [Storage], isn't that an expensive scroll?"

"… Just like Ichika won't yield when it comes to food, I also won't yield when it comes to this. Remember, never obstruct my sleep alright?"

"I definitely got it. I absolutely won' disturb you other than really bad situations… I pledge it on breakfast."

She pledged it on something really reliable huh. I nodded in satisfaction.