I’m a NEET but When I Went to Hello Work I Got Taken to Another World (LN)

"It's Masaru. What kind of thing do you think true strength is?

One time Kensei asked me.

Kensei won't say much about my training. Sure, he'll teach you right, and I'll keep an eye out for him not to skip, but for what he's getting into, I have the impression that he's taken a step back in mentoring me somewhere.

'Cause you're running all the way into moulding and shaking, right? I can learn enough about that at the dojo in town. Where is the point of becoming a Kensei disciple?

This was the answer to that question.

True strength? For me strength was always linked to survival. The power to deal with all enemies and survive in any situation. Even by the age of 100, like Kensei.

Kensei is an ideal model indeed. I want to work hard too and survive to the age of 100.

"Then I guess that's true strength for you."

That's what Kensei replied to me when I told him his thoughts.

"I can show you an example for that. Let's do something we can to help. But I can't do that all the time. In the end, people have to find out for themselves what strength is. Otherwise we don't want growth in the real sense."

Growth in the true sense? I'm pretty sure he got a lot stronger after coming over here. But it was just a matter of getting flushed into the situation.

"There's no rush. I still don't understand what true strength is, and such a weasel has taught you to fit into a mold, and all you can do is degrade."

I think a degraded sword saint would suffice.

"You must find your own strength."

My strength was the power of protection itself. So I just reset my enhancements a little bit, and this body probably even though my swordsmanship skills and stats still outweigh my regular people.

"I'm an ordinary person with no talent for asking for help. How strong can you be where you work out..."

Wouldn't coaching the Saties be more meaningful to the whole thing than sticking to me?

"That just hasn't used enough power yet. Let's just say I brought a superior sword to an elderly dude. Feel it disproportionate, or overconfident and grow with your power"

Saying so, Kensei pulled out his lower back sword. Light golden filled Orihalcon sword.

"But if the right person has it, it will be a great help."

Strength worthy of protection? Do I have something like that? Will I get it someday?

Yes, I kept quietly running in with the mould as I asked myself...

"Master. I'm off today and I'm going to go to Auga tomorrow"

After the battle between Satti and Luc, he caught Kensei, who, as usual, had come to the Dojo Mansion in Biels, and said:

"Let's be good."

Sometimes I felt anxious to see Sati beat Luc, but he also gained quite a bit of strength to wield his undone sword again freely.

It will fit when it is time to make sure of your strength.

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The training went well, but there were some other problems. After Sati's inauguration of Swordmaster, we rarely had a family, so it was also a dinner party at the celebration, and it was at that seat.

"So what happened to the example donation collection?

I expected my meal to settle down and asked Ann yes.

The story goes back to last week. Anne said she didn't have enough money on her serious face.

"Of course not right away, but at the current pace, even if the Hiragis recapture succeeds early, it won't get that far."

As the beast man can afford it and can never give way to maintaining the nursery, it is the food situation of the residence body that can't be helped. Anyway, there are a lot of people.

Aid from the Empire is as low as ever, and food prices are rising, he said. I knew it wouldn't be enough, but it seems like it's getting a lot tougher than expected.

"Then go hunting"

I guess we don't have to take care of everything, but it's the boat we boarded. It's easy to make money, and it'll be just the right bone break for your training. Plus I want to refill my personal allowance. I don't have time to spend it on training, and Lilia will give me money if I need anything, but I still want to make sure I have the money I can spend freely.

"You can't afford that to the Massals right now, can you? It's time to throw a party to solicit donations!

Unlike me, who has a scratch on helping people if you don't think about excuses every time, the Ellies don't seem to have that kind of grip.

Or because I decided to help him in the first place, he's been making a lot of thinking and proactive moves. Don't think of it as annoying, etc.

And I'm not going to get involved with that because I have training.

"You don't solicit a regular donation?

"Normal?

"The party only comes from nobles and big merchants anyway, right? We'll solicit donations from the public."

Speaking of which, I've never seen a street fundraiser or anything like that over here.

"I can't believe we're squeezing it out of the common people. Massal's gonna think about that. But yeah. When it's finally over, I'll impose a temporary tax then, but I'd rather not do much because I buy objections."

"It's not like that, it's more autonomous, like we did."

"Isn't that when you donate to the temple?

"But if that's the case, you don't know if the donation will reach the Hilagis refugees, do you?

"Well, yeah."

Ann is also a bit bitter in response to Ellie. Most of them would go straight if they donated to the temple of the fort just now, but if they did, they would definitely take some for the operating expenses of the temple. There must have been a certain amount of payment.

"So what do you do?

"Donate in the streets... call for a fundraiser. Let the little one hold the box in the square or where there is a stream of people, where they call for donations. One copper coin, one silver coin."

"Is that why we get together?

Ellie raises a question.

"My country called it a red feather fundraiser, and there was a good amount of money collected."

I decided to give some more details as to whether I would imitate the whole thing anyway.

Ask them to wear red wings as a token of making a donation. Ann smiles and says thank you to the Virgin of Rishra.

A man flocked everywhere when Ann treated him. Now I even have a name value as a Virgin. Wouldn't you rather take this?

"The use of the money will be limited to food support to the place of residence, and all amounts and expenses of donations will be kept open for everyone to see. I guess I'll even put up a bill in front of the temple. I'm glad to see our own donations pile up to a million golts or something. Let's get a real officer to help us too. More trust."

Tirica nodded.

"Anne and Tirica will be sticking around because they don't have visibility at first, but if the activity spreads somewhat around, you can leave it to the kids later"

"If you want money, you need an escort."

"Let's ask the Knights of the Temple for that."

"Let the kids also properly understand the purpose of the fundraiser so that they can properly explain it to anyone who comes to the fundraiser. The fundraiser will aggregate the amount within that day and post it as soon as possible. Most importantly, trust. The common people donate money without them."

The good thing about this fundraiser is that it's easy and can be done by anyone, anywhere. I don't need a party at all.

"If this doesn't work, then let's hunt."

That was the red wings fundraiser I started right away, but I got a ton of red wings when I went to the elves to ask them if they were okay with harpy scum wings that wouldn't even be arrow wings. The dye cost a bit of money, so the only way to color it was at the tip of the feather, and the work was done by the kids at the nursery.

The actual fundraiser was also able to start immediately, and I didn't know it was going well. Reports had been up from Ellie over the past few days.

"You've got quite a few foreheads! You all have more money than I thought."

Says Ellie with a happy face.

"You've got change piling up."

"Soldiers and adventurers put in quite a few foreheads."

Yes, Ann said. Men. Well, let's take a good look at it this time.

"At this pace, the amount we donated is likely to exceed soon."

"That's amazing. That's the Virgin of Rishra."

"Stop it..."

"Ann, smile!

Ann's face, which was sinking in Ellie's words, made her smile pissy.

"Oh, that's a brilliant sales smile"

"Egg......?

"Making smiles for work done by merchants"

"I don't think the merchants have seen me yet. Anne is also the wife of the Viscount family, so we need to be able to smile more naturally. Here's the deal."

Ellie smiled more. It is a very natural smile that does not look like a sales smile at all.

"I can't."

"Isn't that impossible? If Anne's free, will you take time to learn manners?"

Is courtesy even like that?

"Of course not, Massal."

Seriously.

"When I left the village, I didn't talk about the Viscount, and I thought we were still good to go."

Normally it takes about five years to make a new village and become a nobleman, and that's a baron or associate baron start as well.

"So are the Saties."

The spearhead looks surprised at Satti, Tirica and Syrah for themselves. No, no, the two cat ears would definitely need Tirica anyway.

"Right. I have to study again, too. What about Lilia?

"E, the elves aren't politely loud."

Lilia doesn't seem to work either. Are you studying with everyone but Will?

"What about Will?

"I've been doing this since I was a little girl."

"That's good. Let Will teach you."

"I can teach you the basics, but not the manners of women again, okay? Besides, I'm not familiar with the situation in the kingdom, and I'd rather find a proper teacher."

Hmm. It sounds like a lot of trouble, but it would be quite a while away, and now it's right in front of me.

"So we're talking about fundraising, shall we go to the next stage?"

"Next? Wouldn't this be enough to get together?

"The next step is to expand the organization to other towns. The fort alone has its limits."

There will be many disasters like this one, and you better accumulate your know-how.

"Of course. That's all that works."

"I need Ann to work hard again, though."

"I'll do my best."

Ann nodded with a sad look. Even though I am quite busy just treating the temple to run the nursery, I am still collecting donations in other towns.

"I'll make a good plan for this and take the time to do it carefully. I don't want to fail in a hurry, considering the future."

Perhaps the temple will cooperate, but the details around it are left entirely to mankind.

"Right. These hands are pretty good."

"Keep the organization only temporary, okay? If we don't leave it only in times of truly severe disaster, there are limits to the money and goodwill of ordinary people."

"Yes, it is."

"So, if that's going to work, it's the next step."

"Expanding the organization to the rest of the world?

"That's a last resort. If we do that, we won't be able to control it, and given the time we have to get to Hiragis, we can't do it."

"So what do you do?

"We're having a party. You can't just let the common people donate and nobles don't have it, can you? The pace of fundraising will slowly slow down, and let's see when it's time to throw a party and let them donate. They say the common people donated all this, and there's no way nobles and rich people won't?

"Oh."

Ellie seems impressed with my plan.

"This is going to be busy!

Ellie's fine. Ellie also does things about her brother's territory in addition to helping Ann, and she's definitely got to be busy.

Ellie's home is a good thing. She seemed to have been able to get residents from her Hilagis residence, and she needs to build a second village by the time they usually arrive on the route, and she's building new streets to make it easier to reach the surrounding area.

Regardless of the training group, Ellie and I thought we'd be free by now, but we really can't afford to live...

"You're taking it slow today, aren't you?

"I'm staying. Ann needs to take some time off, too. Leave me alone, I won't rest at all."

Ellie was coming to Biels as much as possible the day she could come, and when she got tired, she was on vacation as if her battery was dead, but isn't it the first time Anne has taken a vacation-like vacation since she arrived at the fort?

Tirica's in a basic escort state, so she doesn't seem to have as much work to do as Ellie.

"Things will have calmed down, and it's time to slow down"

Everyone seemed to agree with that and were snorting at it uniformly.

Is Anne staying today? Nothing. I don't have to wait till night, and after this, my room... will this be a densely populated village mansion? So let's just say we dive into bed and talk slowly. I couldn't get any time to get along with Ann here, and I'd be under a lot of stress. We have to dissipate him!

"People die working too hard. He said he died of overwork. I know you'll be fine for a month or so because of your strength, but if it lasts too long, it's dangerous."

"Heh."

"I took the day off, too, and Anne's gonna let me get some rest."

"Uh, yes, yes. I'll leave it to Massal."

Eccentricity. I hope you don't have to say a lot about it.

"Then let's rest in an uninterrupted village"

Capture Ann without telling me whether or not to. Gate activated! Abduction.

"Fine, fine. Let's go to bed, fall asleep, and talk slowly."

It shows a little bit of resistance, but only the shape. Anne just doesn't like daylight, she doesn't hate fun.

"It's okay, it's okay. Because we just talk. Hmm? Take a bath first? Shall we come in together, then?"

Of course I don't do anything weird. This is a natural act as a couple, a business.

Yeah, yeah. Let's add a later conversation about the red feather fundraiser.

Donations from nobles and big merchants came from the neighborhood, where money was collected well and charity parties were ready.

"There's no way we won't do it because the common people are making all those donations..."

I guess it was good to have published the amount of the fundraiser so that anyone could see it. They are aristocrats whose face matters. The flow of donations accelerates in no time when one begins.

Then the merchants who do business around the fort don't donate either. Bad outside hearings, combined with a fair amount of money, naturally eliminated the need to hold the charity party Ellie was looking forward to.

And wearing red wings became a bit of a boom, he said, for ordinary aristocrats.