**Chapter 21: Day 21 – Morning – Inn "White Pervert"**
**Chapter Title: Just Eating Breakfast Alone Sounds Way Worse Than It Should.**
Today was my first solo breakfast in a while.
N-No, I'm not being excluded or anything! There's just no one here! They just left me behind! There's a chance I'm being bullied… right?
The girls are adventurers, so they're out working from morning.
I'm a NEET, so I'm eating breakfast alone.
See? No problem at all. This is perfectly appropriate behavior based on occupation. No—say it! Come on, read the room for the guy eating alone!
The girls are adventurers, so they form parties and head out.
I'm a loner, so I eat breakfast alone.
See? This is the optimal action perfectly suited to each person's aptitude. Say it! I'm telling you to say it!
The girls are adventurers, so they go out to complete requests.
I'm a hikikomori, so I eat breakfast alone.
Yep. This proves there's absolutely no issue. It also reaffirms that my titles are the problem. Just eating breakfast, yet my reputation is tanking because of them. The neighbors in this other world are probably whispering about me right now.
Here it comes—
Breakfast: eggs! Fried eggs!
They were pretty expensive—apparently they're rare.
Should I catch some chickens?
Build a cave chicken farm—get chicken meat too.
The class rep group and everyone else left early for work.
Today they're partying up with the four beauties from the old guys' group for training.
Full six-person parties (5 + 1 instructor), split into four groups, doing proper expeditions.
The class rep group is actually stronger, but they lack experience, so there's a lot of waste—relying on brute force and cheats.
Today they're learning proper fighting techniques—not just overpowering with stats and cheats.
They'll pick up skills and knowledge essential for future adventurer work. I wanted personal lessons too… they're beauties…
So finally, the class rep group's adventurer career begins. Combat freelance (contract work). Battle business.
Target: take jobs 5 days a week, aim for 250,000 Ele per month. About 500,000 yen?
Sounds like a lot, but lodging, meals, baths—basic costs around 150,000 Ele/month.
Remaining 100,000 Ele for optional weapon/gear maintenance, upgrades, injury downtime savings, medicine/portable food consumables, clothes they'll want.
Pretty tight. If they earn around 500,000 Ele/month, they'd have breathing room, but around this town it's only trash mobs. Not profitable.
So they're trying hard.
Trying to earn.
Trying to figure out money somehow.
They really seem to want to slap "kept man" onto my title… yeah, non-zero bullying probability.
They've probably realized it already.
To earn money, go to the forest. There's tons of it. Goblin unlimited. Goblin festival with pihyarara.
Actually, straight line from town through forest to cave—hunting along the way, two days max.
Or rather—they came.
Town → cave, hunt, sell in town, back to cave…
With this rotation: base camping, cave lodging = no lodging cost.
Girls now four teams—two teams rotate, monthly income 500,000 Ele, expenses halved.
For that, someone needs to be stationed at the cave.
Living in the forest isn't something girls should do.
Forest girl maybe—but forest dweller? Wild person? Hikikomori? And NEET…
And there's the loner's comfort. I'm used to it. Too used to it…
Someone comes to swap twice a week, can ask for shopping, occasionally swap to come to town.
I can't join the guild anyway—no need to stay in town.
Most efficient, most productive. Mushroom collection rate, survival probability—everything.
But…
The reason they're holding me back… probably the level wall talk.
So…
Someday I might die alone in the forest.
That's probably why.
Even in town, humans could kill me—so same thing, right?
But when no one's around, no one knows, no one can help, I'll just be dying alone.
That's what scares them.
That's what worries them.
That's what makes them anxious.
And that's why… my money got confiscated.
Ah~ I wanna do some adult shopping…
**Day 21 End**