Saving 80,000 Gold in an Another World for Retirement

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Princess of the Cavern 1

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“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.

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“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)

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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.

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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.

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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!