Monster Company Tycoon - Chapter 46

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Monster Company Tycoon
Chapter 46
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It had been a while since I’d visited the Reward Room.
The space, which had stood empty until now, was gradually filling with boxes of newly delivered goods stacked neatly upon one another.
“Please be careful not to break anything.”
“Coming through with cargo. Step aside, please. Clatter.”
At last, I’d received the items to fill the treasure chests.
Once the crafted items were complete, they were loaded onto carts and transported to a point halfway between the dungeon and the town.
It would’ve been awkward to ask for delivery all the way to the dungeon entrance.
Once the craftspeople left the boxes behind, our staff carried them into the dungeon directly.
“Careful now, careful! If anything breaks, I’m docking it from your pay!”
“Eek!”
Brownie cracked the whip with words, goading the staff along.
“Stop tormenting the employees and build a storage room over there instead.”
Brownie flew straight toward the spot I indicated and quickly built a storage chamber.
I couldn’t leave spare items and treasure chests scattered all over the Reward Room.
If a Challenger thought the stockpile was part of the reward and made off with it, that would be a disaster.
So I needed a separate space to store and manage inventory.
“Manager, going forward, our Facilities Team will handle restocking the Reward Room.”
“Ah, I’d appreciate that. It must be troublesome, though.”
“Not at all. We can simply include the Reward Room in our routine when we perform regular trap inspections.”
Once item organization was more or less complete, the staff began hauling wooden treasure chests, one by one, to their posts.
“Oh, these look quite presentable, don’t they? I figured you’d make them out of earth.”
“That would be too plain. The packaging has to look nice for the reward to seem impressive.”
Those treasure chests were items I’d specially ordered.
Once Luadis’s short-term monster training ended, the time I’d spent working at the dining hall freed up.
I’d used that extra time to visit the town’s one and only woodworking shop.
There, I’d placed a bulk order for twenty empty treasure chests and furniture for the office that I’d been putting off.
‘No more earth beds, no more earth desks!’
Though I was the sort who could sleep anywhere as long as there was something to rest my head on, spending nearly a month lying on bare earth with leaves as a blanket had been unbearable.
And hard earth chairs—I was sick of those too!
My backside and spine were practically screaming in protest.
‘This isn’t wasteful. Improving the work environment is important for employee welfare.’
Of course, I’d been willing to repair and repurpose discarded furniture.
But the town was small, and the residents didn’t throw things away easily—they preferred to repair and reuse—so secondhand furniture was hard to come by.
In the end, I had no choice but to order new pieces from the woodworking shop.
The empty treasure chests had simple specifications and required no special decoration, so they were finished quickly.
For the furniture, I’d prioritized finished pieces available at the shop and used them to furnish the office and break room.
Custom-made furniture to accommodate the different body sizes of each monster type was still in progress.
Because I’d been buying items in such bulk, it seemed the townspeople had begun to think I was someone involved in trade.
It seemed better to let them keep that misunderstanding rather than explain that I was stocking a dungeon.
“Twenty empty treasure chests should be enough—we can recycle them anyway. The adventurers will just take the rewards inside; they’re not going to haul off the boxes, right?”
“Sometimes you get excited ones who smash the treasure chests to pieces.”
“Tsk. Not like I can demand compensation either. And the boxes weren’t cheap….”
Sure enough, my expenditure this time was enormous.
Twenty empty treasure chests: 10,000 ren total.
Six office desks and six chairs including custom work: 60,000 ren total.
One bed for my room and two sofas for the break room: 70,000 ren total.
Remaining dungeon funds: 106,300 ren….
‘I really, truly need to be careful now!’
Even as I was feeling satisfied watching the dungeon finally look like a proper place to live, Alraune, as if the thought had just occurred to her, opened her mouth.
“Manager, while inspecting the dungeon interior, I noticed it’s quite dark overall. If things continue as they are, it could cause problems with work and facility inspections, so I was thinking of installing additional light sources. Would that be all right with you?”
“Eh, light sources?”
“Yes. While not directly related to trap installations, we can actually craft simple facilities and accessories the dungeon needs ourselves. Lighting equipment like torches or lamps falls under that category.”
“Ooh!”
“However, since we’d be using the budget for work outside of trap equipment, I thought it best to get your approval first.”
So craftspeople really could whip up all sorts of things on a whim!?
“Of course, yes! The dungeon’s been too dark anyway, and I’ve been uncomfortable with it myself.”
Currently, the dungeon’s only light source was the torches installed on the walls.
But it wasn’t an ordinary torch that actually burned to produce light.
It was the kind of thing that glowed perpetually without any separate fuel, like magic—the problem was that there weren’t many installed, and they were spaced so far apart that the interior of the dungeon remained quite dark.
It wasn’t a major obstacle for getting around, but it was unsettling enough.
Working in such darkness for long would only damage eyesight further.
“Then I’ll design and install wall-mounted light sources powered by Magic Stones in the main corridors and work areas. Ah, if there’s a specific design or form you’d prefer, please let me know separately.”
“No particular design preference! I’d just like it to be brighter.”
Bringing in the Facilities Team had been the right call.
“Manager, we’ve moved everything!”
The staff members who had finished hauling the supplies waved toward us.
“My bones feel like they’re about to snap. Ow.”
“You’re whining over this little bit of work? Without that old woman around, everyone’s gotten lazy! Tighten up, now!”
Not even a word of thanks to the exhausted employees.
Brownie really was a spiteful sprite.
“Wow, thank you all for your hard work! Brownie, that’s enough. Sabira’s been leading training diligently even without Luadis here.”
“Then the Field Team will return to our posts. Ow.”
“Director, we’re heading out!”
The Field Team departed, and only the Facilities Team—those involved in managing the Reward Room—remained.
“I’ll explain the composition of the Treasure Chests for you. From now on, just fill them according to this arrangement.”
With all the Facilities Team watching, I brought over an empty Treasure Chest first.
I opened the chest, placed the Sacred Stone Compass in the center, pressed two bottles of Low-Grade Recovery Potion flush against the side walls to keep them from shifting, and filled the remaining space with six Purification Stones.
“You’ll need to remember the quantities carefully.”
“Yes, understood.”
‘Hmm… the more I look at it, the more it feels like a beginner adventurer’s travel kit than an actual treasure chest.’
“Oh, one more thing!”
I pulled out a bundle of letters I’d set aside separately.
They were handwritten notes Luadis had written personally for the graduates.
They contained heartfelt congratulations for conquering the dungeon and achieving graduation, along with words of support and encouragement for the adventures that lay ahead.
[I am so very proud of you.]
The phrase was carefully pressed onto the envelope itself.
Imagine a student who has struggled through conquering the dungeon, opens the Treasure Chest, and finds…!
A warm, affectionate letter left by the teacher who has guided them all this time. How moving would that be?
Of course, this was something I’d quietly suggested to Luadis, inspired by watching her regret not being able to say a proper farewell to Sabira.
She could have easily refused, but she accepted the suggestion without hesitation. And within a day, she’d written more than twenty handwritten letters.
Most of the Training Facility’s graduates leave for the Demon Realm immediately upon graduation, as if they’d been waiting for that moment.
So this letter would serve as Luadis’s heart accompanying her students on their journey, in place of a personal farewell.
“If a Challenger is a graduating student from the Training Facility, please include one of these letters in their reward. Don’t include it for regular Challengers.”
“Yes, confirmed. I’ll distinguish between recipients and distribute accordingly.”
Since I’d shown them the process first, the Facilities Team would handle the rest without issue.
“Ah, and please let me know if the Treasure Chest inventory runs low. I can place a reorder whenever needed.”
“Yes, we’ll manage it meticulously.”
It was modest, but at last, proper Treasure Chests had been prepared.
With this, the Reward Room was finally secure.
‘At last, the dungeon is complete!’

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