Abruptly our studying aboard in the capital was extended for two and a half years. At our adventurer début we came close to death on our first underground ruins exploration.
Safely managing to finish various matters influenced by politics and adults, we returned at last to my mansion in Breitburg.
As a matter of fact I had occasionally returned using teleportation magic, but I was busy due to training and studying the things necessary as an adventurer.
Since I also went on dates with Elise and such on my days off, there essentially wasn’t any time to visit the mansion.
It was slightly regrettable as it is a good mansion with precious facilities, but now it became finally possible to settle down in it.
We completed our first job of capturing that troublesome underground ruin and received the reward for the discovered items and facilities.
After bidding farewell from everybody, we were indebted to in the capital, such as Erich-nii-san’s group, everybody of the Brandt family and furthermore Armstrong-doushi as well as Warren-san, we returned to Breitburg by teleportation.
Actually, during that time, the three of Erw’s group caused an incident by returning the majority of the reward, they obtained, to me.
It seems they didn’t want the money as it would become the seed of troubles due to its sheer amount.
Furthermore, being courteous, they have used the adventurer’s guild’s system of filing a formal objection of dividends.
If they didn’t use this system and didn’t leave an official entry in the records behind, the news of the three of them possessing a large amount of money would end up gradually spreading.
Furthermore, Elise entrusted the majority of her share to me as well.
Though the payment is split throughout 20 years, the kingdom’s government, without increasing my platinum coins once again, issued it with 『Kingdom Token』 of which I have 5 pieces within my magic bag.
As for those kingdom tokens, those are wooden tokens built using a magic tool device.
It’s something you can exchange for the money written on it by bringing an application to the royal castle.
In the so-called olden days it might have been something like currency issued by a feudal clan.
I think it is a measure against counterfeiting to use the technique of a magic tool, but there are only few people possessing those tokens to begin with.
Since the person in charge easily remembers the faces of the owners, it doesn’t seem like there has been a case of counterfeiting until now.
With it being easy to expose a counterfeit of a kingdom token, there aren’t any people challenging the criminal law of death penalty by creating counterfeits, I guess.
For such things as gold and silver coins there were occasionally incidents of counterfeiting, but it looks like the criminals were executed once they were caught.
Naturally the kingdom token is something that is rarely seen at all.
It is only given if, for example, the payment with platinum coins proves to be difficult. Therefore it is something rarely circulating on the market.
By the way, this time’s value of the kingdom token is one billion cents.
Therefore I, who got those kingdom tokens, handed 100 platinum coins, I had at hand, to each of Erwin’s group, who had reserved a reward of 100 million cents for themselves.
Although Erwin’s group told me that there won’t even be a problem if the reward is another digit less, the split would have ended up with a too slanted ratio as expected.
Therefore I partly forced the 100 million cents on each of them.
『Take me along with you as well. Master is telling me to reduce the costs.』 (Burkhart)
Returning to the story, since I was asked to take Burkhart-san alongside us, it has become a situation of me leading him back to Breitburg as well.
My teleportation magic wasn’t able to transport more than up to 6 people including myself no matter how much I practiced it since then, but this time we barely managed to finish it with only one transfer.
『I have decided to ask the boy at the times I have business in the capital from now on.』 (Burkhart)
『At the times I don’t have to work as adventurer?』 (Wendelin)