Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 488: Let’s do a widespread search

At Sebastians advice, I told Sophia that I decided to hire clerical workers, and she supported the idea.

Maybe because she wasnt good with paperwork, Sophia was always with me as my guard and doesnt leave my side even in the Sanctuary mansion where its safe, but somehow when Im working on the documents, she doesnt come into the room.

I once tried asking her about it, she said that just looking at the mountain of documents was already giving her a headache.

Maria and Akane were eagerly discussing the proposed designs and sales of clothing with Papeck-san, so they declared that they will hands off with the hiring process for clerical work.

I believe we should talk to the Great Spirits once weve decided to some extent.

Indeed. Its probably better to not burden the Great Spirits too much.

To hire new personnel, Maribelle and Sebastian who oversee the maids and butlers must agree.

Right. Then how about we decide on the general things?

Lets do just that. Shall we start by setting the prerequisites?

I am not concerned whether they are male or female, though I wouldnt want them to be too old.

You have a point. It would be nice if they could work for a very long time.

Maribelle first brought up the age criteria. I think this an obvious choice because its hard to change in a short period of time.

Its obvious that they must be able to do their job, but hiring young, capable people would be more difficult than I thought.

Such people would be working important jobs for the nobles and the country.

If they are only capable of doing the job but have a problem with their character, they arent a fit for our family.

They could work in Volton instead of the Sanctuary, but I wouldnt want someone untrustworthy even in the Volton mansion.

Were all women, after all.

I understand Maribelles concern. The maids of our family, apart from the veteran Maribelle, were all still young women, so she must dislike the idea of a questionable person, especially a man, being there.

How about we summarize a little bit.

Not too old.

Obviously, excellent at work.

They have to have a good character that can pass the Great Spirits screening.

At this time, it may be difficult if you dont take into consideration educating them from the beginning as well.

That is the case. The people who are already capable of doing the job are very likely have some sort of string attached already.

If we recruit clerical workers in Valkyra Kingdom, they would be influenced by nobles and merchants to come here.

Theres no need to harrow it down to Valkyra Kingdom.

Because a large amount of money is involved in the job, we must be prudent about hiring clerical work.

Theres also the option of buying slaves and liberating them, but criminal slaves were out of the question while there were very limited options among the debt slaves because of the nature of their debts. Theres no one stupid enough to hire people who ruined themselves by gambling or the like. Theres no problem with those sold to pay for their parents debts though.

Just in case, lets consider slaves as an option. There are those whose fell into slavery by no fault of their own like Laeva, after all.

Then couldnt we try talking to the Moulin Slavery Company? I believe that Madam Moulin is credible.

Even Sophia thinks that Moulin-san is trustworthy. This is understandable considering how they treated Sophia and Maria.

Its rare for slaves to be trained thoroughly.

Master, we also have other choices such as the Demon Continent.

The Demon Continent? But many of the Mazoku are muscle brains. I only know one single civil official in the Oni Tribe.

Of course, Im talking about the aide of Queen Fraal of Accuros.

Is that so?

Ah of course you wouldnt know, Maribelle, but the even the Beastkin living in the Demon Continent are complete muscle-brains. The only exception being the Succubus Clan. It might turn into a problem.

Ah, I see

Many of the Succubi would be suitable as civil officials, but I dont think theyre a great fit for the Sanctuary where the population ratio of men were small. It could lead to all sorts of trouble.

The consensus here was that the Demon Continent would be excluded.

Then are we also excluding the Aligerous Tribe?

Lets see. Since they lived too isolated from a monetary economy for the longest time, training them would also be difficult.

Many of the Aligerous Tribe were honest people, but because they lived self sufficiently for a very long time that they were people who had never seen money. Naturally, they didnt require any math, so teaching them from the very beginning would be a huge endeavor.

If we want to avoid those with connections to nobles and companies, perhaps it would be a good idea to consult with the Madam Moulin for the time being.

Right. If its Moulin-sans place where Maria was educated, it might work.

As a result of our discussion, we decided we would first check with the Moulin Slavery Company.

So, Master, please settle the remaining documents.

I tried to not think about it, but the papers wont go away by themselves.

I couldnt get away from the paperwork, it seems.

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