Helping with Adventurer Party Management - Chapter 2

“Well, what should I do now?” murmured Kenji, nibbling on stale bread and absentmindedly stroking his unkempt beard on the first floor of the inn that served as his base.

I’m Kenji, a thirty-something transmigrant who got fired from his adventurer team.

If I stopped working, I would starve.

Back in Japan, I worked as a consultant.

Initially, I thought I could make a living here with that skill, but as a stranger without local connections in this tightly-knit guild world, and with no capital, I had given up.

“So, what are you going to do?” Archer Sarah poked her head in, her voice sounding like she was peering into my thoughts.

This redhead had joined our party two years ago and had been tagging along without much ado. I think she’s over twenty years old, but it seems her bloodline is mixed with different races, so her age is hard to determine. Even when I ask her, she says, “It’s a secret,” so I leave it alone.

I think her concern seems more like curiosity than worry.

It’s like she’s not worldly-wise, or maybe our cultures are just different. She has the tendency to say exactly what she thinks.

“Arrows and arrowheads will be expensive if you’re not the one buying it for them,” she continued.

“Shut up, I can’t be worried about other people’s money right now,” Kenji replied.

Adventurers like them had a loose sense of money. Maybe because their lifestyle itself is like a gamble, they tend to be careless with their spending. They’re also unfamiliar with market prices, so they often get ripped off.

Sarah, the archer, was no exception. She was always broke and whining about it, so I took pity and taught her to buy arrowheads in bulk.

If she buys just the arrowheads, she can craft the arrow shafts and fletching herself. Anyway, archers are particular about their arrows, so they adjust their arrows themselves. It’s not like it would make much difference in the effort it takes to make them.

How many arrowheads are consumed in one request? What percentage of those can be reused? What is the current market price, and how much do you save by buying in bulk?

I calculated those sorts of things based on past experience and reduced the expenses for arrows to one-sixth.

They were grateful for my help and treated me to drinks. It’s not the right way to spend money, but I understand their intentions. Most adventurers, especially novices, are poor and uneducated. Although novices need money to upgrade their equipment, they waste it and can’t save up.

As a result, their ranks don’t rise.

It’s a negative loop that keeps repeating.

The reason I was able to do so well after being teleported in my mid-twenties was because I was good at managing money. My party members also benefited from it.

While my financial planning helped the party, some members (besides Sarah) didn’t grasp the finer points.

I can help people like Archer Sarah, I guess.

I’m not particularly keen on consulting for poor adventurers, but I have no choice if I want to earn some money.

With that in mind, I decided to start an “Adventurer Party Management Consultation” business.