Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 132

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Chapter 132 – Outer Moat

Starting in June, my father will be transferred overseas.

It’s also a promotion to the American branch as a manager.

There was no event in the skill world timeline for my father to be transferred overseas.

His company was in the midst of a structural recession, so there was no way they could afford to expand into North America.

To begin with, my father was just an ordinary office worker who didn’t speak English very well and had no experience in international business.

In other words, he was the very epitome of a typical Japanese salaryman.

So, what was it that distinguished my father’s career in the skill world from the job world?

It was the dungeon, of course.

In the job world, dungeons appeared several years earlier than in the skill world.

The mana coins that explorers take from dungeons are exchanged for yen, and Japan experiences mild inflation.

In the skill world, the Bank of Japan repeatedly set inflation targets that it failed to meet, losing credibility in the process.

The central bank had been powerless to combat deflation and sluggish wage growth for many years, but in the job world, it was the dungeons that did the job.

As a result, the company where my father works has made unprecedented profits.

Having made enough money in the domestic market, the company began to look to the North American market.

So even my father, who had complained for years about the lack of opportunities for advancement in the seniority-based personnel system of the Showa era, finally had a chance to move up.

My mother also beamed with joy at my father’s promotion and pay rise (I don’t know exactly how much it was).

My mother also went abroad with my father, and I ended up living alone in my parents’ house.

There was the possibility of taking me with them, but for three reasons, I stayed at home.

One of them, of course, is that I’m still in high school.

If I went abroad before the summer of my second year of high school, there would be the problem of what to do about going on to higher education or finding a job after high school.

Unless I had lived abroad since I was a child, there was no way I could speak English because I was born and raised in Japan.

I’ve also made friends at my high school.

The second reason is my responsibility as the leader of Saber Saber.

At the moment, ‘Saber Saber’ consists of four people: myself, Haruhara, Honoka-chan and Sayuki.

It’s a comfortable group with only close friends.

It’s the smallest number of people for a group of explorers, but none of us want to add anyone or lose anyone.

Besides… I’m sorry to put a damper on my father’s promotion, but I make a lot more money than he does.

I have no psychological or financial reason to break up my current best party and follow my parents.

Finally, there’s a third reason, but this is not a personal problem for me.

There is a growing trend in the world today to keep high-level explorers at home.

From both an economic and security point of view, the loss of talented explorers is a serious problem.

In this world, Kurashiki Yuto is a super-high-level explorer with a domestic level ranking of 4th in Japan at level 9999.

I know it sounds like I’m tooting my own horn, but from the government’s point of view, I’m probably someone they can’t afford to let go.

Of course, they can’t openly say ‘don’t leave the country’ because of human rights issues.

But there are a lot of cumbersome procedures for high-level explorers to leave the country.

What’s most annoying is that the procedures are designed to make the applicant give up.

These procedures make it clear that the government wants to find a way to prevent the explorer from leaving the country.

Complaining about the methods used is pointless.

For most citizens, it doesn’t matter how much trouble the high-level, extremely wealthy explorers get into.

They will squeeze as much tax out of you as possible and try to keep you in the country as long as possible.

This is not only the intention of the government but of the entire nation.

Anyway, I’ve been living alone since June for a variety of reasons.

Apart from the financial problems, what about leaving your high school-age son alone? About that,

“Haruka-san will take care of him, so there’s no problem,”

was my mother’s reply.

By the way, when I started dating Honoka-chan, we had already introduced ourselves to both sets of parents.

My parents were so amazed at how cute Honoka-chan was that my father’s eyes wandered when he looked at Haruka-san’s beauty and elven-like figure.

Of course, Haruka-san would never say things like “I won’t give you my daughter!” and my relationship with Honoka-chan was approved by both sets of parents in a very friendly way.

Well, my parents kept saying, “Are you sure you want our son?” but they were very apologetic.

What do they think of their own son?

Well, never mind.

When Haruka-san heard about my parents’ overseas transfer, she said, “In that case, I’ll make sure to check on Yuto-san from time to time.

My mother’s earlier comment was in response to that.

Also,

“There’s no way a cute girl like that would fall for you. Just make it happen.”

And so on.

“Is that what a mother would say?”

I protested at the dinner table, but…

“That’s right. Yuto has no more financial worries, and even if he has a child, it won’t be a problem. Don’t let such a good girl go.”

Even my father started saying things like that.

And so, without much thought, a convenient plot was created that would make even an erotic game blush: “the image of a high school boy living alone in his parents’ house without parental supervision.”

Needless to say, I, the me of the skill world, made my usual sarcastic comment in my head, but even from the perspective of the me of the job world, it was a bit too convenient a development.

Even though the summer holidays are just around the corner, I’ll be able to bring my girlfriend to my parents’ house whenever I want.

Even if my parents are joking, Haruka-san seems to be quite serious about getting Honoka-chan and me married as soon as possible.

Whether or not marriage is the grave of life is something that is unknown to the high school magic swordsman in the job world, as well as the former shut-in in the skill world.

Well, I’ve gone on and on about my parents’ house, but right now, we’re sitting in a booth in a well-known coffee shop not far from the local train station.

We were on our way back from a flood in the Sekigahara Ancient Battlefield Dungeon, a relatively nearby A-ranked dungeon, at the urgent request of the Explorers’ Association.

“It’s time to make our summer plans!”

As usual, it was Haruhara who suggested it.

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