Saving 80,000 Gold in an Another World for Retirement
chapter-128

128 . Princess of the Cavern 1

“I want to open an account …” (Mitsuha)

“Ah, Yes, Then, please follow me” (Receptionist lady)

I was guided to a private room by the receptionist lady at the bank .

Unlike modern Japan, there aren’t enough customers to form a line on the counter, and writing a name and address on a piece of paper doesn’t make it enough to create a passbook . Also, there’s no way for a commoner child casually opening an account . But if you were a bank receptionist, you wouldn’t think it was a child’s mischief if you looked at me, so she did it very well .

By the way, carrying two shoulder bags like this is too heavy for me…

When I was in the private room, I put my shoulder bags on the table . How heavy…

“For the time being, I want to open an account and deposit these right away…” (Mitsuha)

With that said, I opened the fastener on my string bag .

98 percent pure gold ingots, 15kg on each bag, making a total of 30 kg .

Given the gold exchange rate in this world, it is equivalent to around 400 million yen in Japan . But if you try to sell it in Japan, it only worth 100 million yen .

“I only brought these gold ingots for the time being, I don’t have the currency of this country, so I’d like to ask for cash and deposit for immediate living expenses” (Mitsuha)

There’s a receptionist lady who sit still frozen .

After more than 10 seconds, the receptionist lady restarted .

“P-p-p-p-please wait for a moment!” (Receptionist lady)

And she flew somewhere with a dash .

Yeah, well, I guess she’ll call her superior, maybe .

When I said to the King [don’t ask anything, it’s for the sake of the whole country, no, the whole continent], he really lent me the gold without asking anything . Of course, with no interest . How generous…

Oh, the reception lady is back, Bringing two middle-aged men . Then I returned to her original job, leaving me and two middle-aged men in a small private room . Well, both of them aren’t too grim looking…

“It is a pleasure to meet you, my name is Morray, President of this Bank, and this is the vice president, Agres” (President-san)

Oh, the top two here . Then, let’s proceed right away…

And, I explained that I am a noble from another country that will stay in this country for a while and due to various reasons, I only brought gold ingots that could be easily exchanged, rather than the currency from my own country . I also explained that I wanted to open a small shop to promote my country’s products .

“Can I convert this gold to the local currency?” (Mitsuha)

“With pleasure!” (President-san)

Well, of course they’ll be happy to receive a plenty of commissions .

“Then, could you introduce me to a trusted real estate agent?” (Mitsuha)

“Please leave it to me!” (President-san)

I’m sure it’ll leave some impact if I did this much at the biggest bank in royal capital .

Of course, 400 million yen or so amount of money would not be a big deal for the head of a large bank . But what if there was [a child of a foreign aristocracy that casually held that amount of money as “Immediate Allowance”]?

The parents gave such gold ingots as a child’s allowance without any escort . In other words, that amount of gold is [even if it’s stolen, it won’t matter much] .

How much wealth do they have? And for the daughter to have a title means that the parent is a high noble, has multiple titles, and they are doting on their daughter too much that they gave her one of their titles .

Surely, that’s what the heads of the bank were thinking .

In other words, the gold ingots worth 400 million yen indicates that there are hundreds of thousands of times more of it . And, in President-san point of view, I’m not [a little girl with 400 million yen] but [a daughter of an aristocrat with hundreds of billions of properties] .

However, I haven’t said something like that . I just talked about my own title .

Well, If I were to lose my parent and take over their title, I don’t think I’ll have the time to travel leisurely to other country for a long period of time . so, it’s reasonable to think so .

But I’m only talked about the truth, so it’s not my fault if they think too far and misunderstand something .

The next day, I went to the bank once more .

Of course, this time is to get myself introduced with a real estate agent .

Let’s quickly secure a store with a residential area as my base of operation so that I can easily transfer whenever I want .

This time, I’m not planning to purchase, but to lease . My headquarters in this world is the [general store Mitsuha] and the territory of Viscount Yamano . I won’t purchase a base here so that I can throw it away when the time comes . In addition, without backing, I have a foreboding feeling of the paperwork and identity assurance .

On the other hand, if you’re just leasing, you won’t be asked much detail if you pay in advance . Maybe the bank would implicitly be my backing . Well, it’ll work somehow or another .

As soon as arrived at the bank, President-san came flying . Maybe they’ve been waiting since the opening hour .

“The real estate agents …” (Mitsuha)

“Of course, we have prepared everything . We’ll be with you from now on” (President-san)

Umu, somehow, I recalled Lutz who had introduced me to the property of [general store Mitsuha] last time .

“It’s a pleasure to meet you . I’m the real estate agent . Please call me Zaunal . I’m had listened the story from the president, so we have prepared several properties of your preference” (Realtor-san)

Un, As expected of big bank, they can prepare a real estate agent this quick . The condition I had told president-san yesterday is [to lease a small shop with living quarter] .

I’m not going to do much with the shop this time . Or rather, I can only do so much because I’m just leasing it . We’ll I won’t stay here that much though . I can always return home to use bath and toilet .

After screening the documents and confirming the location, I decided to lease a small two-story building .

The first floor is a store and office, a small warehouse, and a toilet that I rather hesitant to use . The second floor is a residential area where I will not even use . Yeah, it is so that I can make an alibi that I’m [living here] and use it as a transfer point so that I can always transfer with confidence . Still, I rented a decent building because I couldn’t make it appeared poor because of the [Rich] appeal .

One of the main reasons for choosing this building is that is the center of the nobility district and next to the guard post .

…Yeah, no matter how expensive the merchandises are, the store wouldn’t have a robber breaking in if it’s next to the guard post . Even If I tend to be away, I can rest reassured because of the free guard .

Maybe president-san and Zaunal-san the real estate agent were considering this as the first choice . Certainly, I’m grateful for their consideration .

There is no need for interior work this time . It was originally a store, and the windows already has iron grills installed for security .

Unlike [general shop Mitsuha], this shop is built to be stands out in purpose . Therefore, I have to show off my technical capability to the extent that they don’t have any distrust . Yes, it’s to lure those who smelled the scent of money making .

The goods would be something that looks expensive and terrific, but not something new . Maybe, something like unusual thing from foreign countries . However, I still need to be very careful to avoid giving any hints .

The purpose of this store is not to make money .

It’s just a tool, a steppingstone to sell my name and build connections .

And then, I will be able to penetrate the upper classes, gather information and, at best, exercise my influence .

In addition, I will purchase sample of tools and machinery and use them as a source of technical improvement in our kingdom .

…if it’s the items from Earth then it’s too obscure it can’t be any reference . And it’s expensive because of the exchange rate .

Ah, this country’s gold coins were less pure than ours .

The size is just a little bigger than ours, but the weight isn’t that much different . In other words, it has low gold composition, which is slightly lower than the value of the gold ingots .

I didn’t know much by just looking at it, but I checked it properly just to make sure .

However, the monetary value of one gold coin here is slightly more than 100K yen in Japan . It’s a little more valuable than gold coins of our kingdom . Is the value of the gold itself is high here, or is it because [The credibility of a country that guarantees the value of the currency]?

On the other side, the credibility of our country is low, so the gold is only worth as a gold .

Well, it seems better to collect them in the form of ingots or other commodities instead of gold coins in this country . Only after that, I can sell them in our country . The money earned in this country should be spent in this country . So that I don’t leak the currency of our kingdom to enemy country . The 30 kilograms of gold as the initial investment will eventually be recovered and then I can return it to the King .

Alright, [Yamano trading company] is ready!