Chapter 68: Learning Work from Marin-sensei
Chapter 68: Learning Work from Marin-sensei
In the very corner of the room sat Marin-sensei’s desk. So this is where she works! I thought, genuinely surprised. It was dark, and the desk itself was quite worn out. Marin-sensei is actually working in a place like this. In an environment like this, no wonder work doesn’t get done. And on top of that, now she’s stuck with me as extra baggage?"Please sit there."
The chair Marin-sensei pointed to looked quite dirty. Without thinking, I unconsciously cast:
"Purify."
I cleaned the chair and sat down. When I looked at Marin-sensei, her eyes were wide open.
"Marin-sensei, is something wrong?"
For some reason, voices rose around us: "Did he just say Marin-sensei!?" So noisy.
Ignoring them, Marin-sensei asked,
"Lord Robby—no, Lord Robin... w-what did you just do?"
"What do you mean? The chair looked dirty, so I just cleaned it."
"Eh!? Lord Robin, you could use magic?"
"Hm? Didn’t you know, Marin-sensei?"
"I-I didn’t know at all! Were you hiding it from me?"
"No, I wasn’t trying to hide it. I just never had a chance to use it in front of you before, right?"
"Y-Yes, that’s true... There’s no need for magic when teaching martial techniques..."
There was a slight hint of anger in her voice. Marin-sensei still seemed unconvinced, but she at least stopped asking questions for now.
"Then, Lord Robin, I’d like you to do some calculations. Do you think you can manage?"
Her tone was polite, but it clearly carried the nuance of "I’m sure it’s impossible~ Just say so from the start~"
"I won’t know until I try."
Because honestly, I really wouldn’t know until I tried.
"Here, please take a look at this."
What she handed me was a ledger. It was the income and expenditure ledger for a certain knight order, and surprisingly, it used single-entry bookkeeping. Well, I guess that’s normal here, I thought, but it was neatly organized in table form. For this world, it was pretty well done. I was impressed.
Marin-sensei proudly said,
"Have you never seen bookkeeping before, Lord Robin? It’s amazing, isn’t it? About 150 years ago, the person known as the God of Calculation, Lord Kalk, invented it. Lord Kalk also established the decimal system and applied it to the monetary system. He was truly a great man."