Chapter Sixteen : Appearance Of Botacyl the healing director In Meratoni
"Who are you? I do not know any barbarians who not only comes over without any appointment but even tries to intimidate me."
I hate it with all my heart when my precious time is wasted. Because Instructor and the surrounding adventurers had started gathering, I decided to give a bullish response.
"What a cheeky boy. What ignorance to not know who I am. Listen well, I am the head of this Meratoni city's largest clinic, Botacyl."
"Rip-off?" (TL: He misheard ボタクーリ(Botacyl) as ボッタクリ(Rip-off). Or maybe he said it intentionally XD. )
"It's Botacyl. Cheeky boy … I command you, stop your treatment in the Adventurer's Guild. If you do so then I will hire you in my clinic. I came to say this."
"That is impossible. I cannot refuse the dispatch request from the Healer's Guild. Well even if I could refuse it I would not."
"Oi you b.a.s.t.a.r.d. To spurn Botacyl-sama's kindness … "
As he said that, the mercenary couldn't continue his words under the blood thirst emitted from the adventurers.
"I'd say it's intimidation instead of kindness. I will not fulfill the condition of losing my workplace. You'd better restudy the meaning of those words?"
I was stared at with an amazing glare.
The request to have an escort when I go out looks good.
"Ever since you came to the Adventurer's Guild, our clinic's customers have been decreasing daily."
"Are you putting in effort? Although the clinics are a place to save people, I think patients wouldn't want to go to a place with a bad reputation?"
"Brat, you dare to claim that my clinic has bad reputation!!"
"n.o.body said such a thing. But, I am empathetic to patients, provide quick treatments and clearly set my price. I think they would obviously come to my place?"
"Hah, are you trying to lecture me?"
"Huh? Why can't I preach to a person whose name I didn't know until today? Do you even have any idea?"
"This s.h.i.+tty kid, I can destroy a novice healer like you anytime."
Botacyl's blood vessel was popping out of his forehead. Did I fan the flames too much?
"If that's the case, at this great senior's clinic, how much do you charge for what kind of wounds? And what magic do you use?"
"Listen and be astonished. Including me, my clinic uses the upper-cla.s.s healing magic 「High Heal」. That is at an unprecedented price of 30 gold coins."
30 million yen was unprecedented?
"Then what magic do you use for patients with fractures?"
"Of course it's 「High Heal」."
"Even though 「Middle Heal」 can treat it?"
"What's the point of using such a low level healing magic."
"I think that it can be used by many people to save many patients though."
"Wrong. Have you heard what would happen if you do unprofitable businesses."
"Hah~ To be able to chant 「High Heal」, you definitely are skilled right? If patients don't come to you even so, don't you think there is a problem with you management?"
"Kukuku. This kid's talking like he understands everything. I'm angry now. Oi you guys, kill this d.a.m.n thing."
Even though he said so, they didn't move, no they couldn't move.
It was easy to understand from the intimidating aura by the surrounding adventurers what would happen if they became hostile with me.
It was intimidating enough to even be felt by me when it was not even directed at me.
However, tremendous blood thirst was coming from Instructor Broad standing beside me.
"This is Broad from the Adventurer's Guild. Botacyl-dono, from how your clinic conducts business, to what kind of evil you're doing, should I examine every single detail?"
Botacyl trembled under the threat from Instructor Broad.
"Hiiiii"
He screamed and ran away at full speed towards the exit.
"Oo~ Amazing. To chase him away with just blood thirst, Instructor Broad is really amazing. Ah everyone this time I troubled you all."
I lowered my head.
"Anyway, was that the mastermind?"
"No. That's just a money-loving villain who charges exorbitant prices for treatment and conducts debt slavery."
"Why does something like that go unchallenged? Ah I guess it's useless because there's no law."
"Indeed. Moreover similar to people like him, some people do not pay even after treatment has been done."
So inversely there are many cases like that too.
"In addition to conducting such a fraudulent act to get treatment, they might even sue you for conducting treatment without charging money." (TL: I forgot. Did they say in previous chapters that it was illegal to not charge money?)
"This problem seems very deeply rooted."
"It was lucky that you who had no common sense came here."
"I'm having trouble deciding whether to accept that as a compliment or as criticism."
"Really? It's a good thing that you were not bound to the healer's common sense."
"Well I'm pleased to be told that I'm needed here. But I guess in the future I will have to be alert?"
"Please leave the support to the Adventurer's Guild. We'll gather a few excellent fellows to have a lookout."
"Thank you. Then let us continue with the training."
"Okay."
Thus I met with Botacyl from Meratoni's largest clinic, and could now properly think about the Healer's Guild, clinics and healers.
On the other hand at that moment, Botacyl who ran away from the Adventurer's Guild was currently in his private room with the 2 mercenaries and slave leader scattered about in the room.
"Ahh~ That was infuriating. That brat made a fool of me, I won't let him off easily. Oi, thoroughly dig up any information regarding that kid, regardless of how trivial the information is."
"That is all good but Botecyl-danna. Isn't it a bit tough to threaten or restrict that guy? After all he is completely protected by the Adventurer's Guild. If it's like that we can't make a move." (TL: Danna = Usually used to call young masters.)
"I know that even without you saying it. Just shut up and follow my instructions."
"Yes yes. But I must tell you first, even if we kill him, the first person to be suspected would be you young master. In this matter, even if young master is not at fault the adventurers will still doubt you."
"I thought I already told you that I know that."
"Okay okay. It's not necessarily good news but the dispatch from the Healer's Guild should only be at most for one year. That is why I think we should make a situation such that that brat has to leave the city next year."
"You idiot. Like I'll wait until then. Even so, I wonder why is that boy working for that stingy Adventurer's Guild? Oi, you will investigate that brat from both the Adventurer's Guild and Healer's Guild."
"Yes master." The men left Botacyl's private room.
"I'll try to ask the Healer Guild's head if we can skip that brat's term of office. However, that would be impossible if the Adventurer's Guild cannot be convinced no matter how much money is offered. Are there any other methods."
Botacyl continued to ponder.