The Man Picked up by the Gods – Volume 3 Chapter 75: Talking After Work (1/2)

One month after spreading the rumor.

“Good work out there, guys..” [Ryouma]

“You too, Boss.” [Everyone]

Work at the store concluded today too without any problems.

The employees left the break room in droves as they headed back to their dorm.

The only ones who stayed behind were me, Caulkin-san, Tony-san, and Robelia-san.

“It’s already been a month since you started working here… Well? How is it? Do you have any difficulties in work that you wish to address?” [Ryouma]

“Not at all, Boss! This is the best place I’ve ever worked at!” [Robelia]

“Not only do I not have any complaints with our treatment, the work is also fulfilling.” [Tony]

“More than anything, it’s such a joy to see the slimes bringing in so much profit.” [Caulkin]

The other two nodded to Caulkin-san’s words.

“That’s good to hear. I asked you to help with researching stuff on top of training you, so I was worried I might’ve been pushing you too much.” [Ryouma]

“Forget about us, Boss. What about you? The customers have been increasing lately, and… That man came today too, right?” [Tony]

Ever since publicizing my contract with the rimel birds, rumors attacking Guild Master Taylor have gone down. But in exchange, more and more people have been wanting to meet with me.

“He left quickly… but what was up with that man?” [Caulkin]

“Apparently, he’s a middleman for selling monsters. Rimel birds sell high because there are plenty who are willing to pay for them, alive or taxidermized. And there are also those who wish to use them to carry letters.

Anyway, it was all money talk, so after finding out that that’s all he wanted to talk about, I asked him to leave.” [Ryouma]

It was either selling the rimel birds or to hire me.

I’ve already decided not to sell the rimel birds, so that one’s out of the question. As for hiring, if he wants to hire me, then he needs a letter of reference.

“It wasn’t all that problematic for me since I did refuse his abrupt request for a meeting. Still, thank you for worrying for me.” [Ryouma]

“It would be troublesome if something happen to you, after all. Our situation now is really good. It’s even better than when we were researchers at the lab.” [Robelia]

“Yes. Much much better than when I was just a researcher in name.” [Caulkin]

“Back then the future held nothing but despair…” [Robelia]

“Was it really that bad?” [Ryouma]

“It’s because you don’t know how terrible the lab is, Boss. The work conditions there are so bad that people living in the slums are better off. They treat their researchers worse than slaves.” [Caulkin]

“Really!?” [Ryouma]

You’d think a lab would treat their employees right, but apparently, there are some pretty terrible labs. But then again… Even back at my world, despite all the labor laws, there were still companies that abused the hell out of their employees. Such employees even popularly came to be called ‘corporate slaves’…

It seems that even though the world has literally changed, people are still the same as ever.

“The only ones who stay after being sent to the slime department are those obsessed with research like me or those with nowhere else to go.” [Caulkin]

“It’s a position specifically meant for people the lab doesn’t like or outsiders, so it’s only natural that the people in the slime department would be treated poorly… Slave owners need to ensure the livelihood of their slaves, but the lab only needs to pay the wages of the researchers. Their livelihood be damned…” [Robelia]

“That being said, they do pay a big enough salary to live off of, but it’s just barely enough. Not luxurious by any means. Moreover, they will cut that wage over the pettiest of things, so you’ll be forced to cut on your living expenses… If you complain, they’ll just tell you to resign, so you have no negotiating power whatsoever.” [Tony]

Yep. That’s a corporate slave, alright.

“What do you mean by ‘pettiest of things’?” [Ryouma]

“Well, the most common reason is not being able to get results.” [Robelia]

“The main objectives of the slime research department is to explain the slime’s mode of life and to grasp the taming method of the big slime. Unfortunately, no one has a clue how to achieve those.” [Caulkin]

“And that’s why it’s used to demote people.” [Tony]

“So, why can’t you explain the slime’s mode of life?” [Ryouma]

I know even Earth, with all of its development in science, has animals they’ve yet to figure out, but…

“For starters, slimes can be found pretty much everywhere. They’re too varied, be it in environment or abilities, so even if you come up with a theory, there’s bound to be a slime somewhere out there that goes contrary to that theory.” [Caulkin]

“Moreover, there’s simply too little information. When researching other monsters, you start by dissecting the monster. From there you look at various stuff, like the shape of their teeth and use that to infer information, such as whether they’re carnivorous or herbivorous.

But when slimes die they just leave behind their nucleus while the rest of their body disappears, so you can’t even dissect them. Not that there would be any point in doing so, since their bodies are transparent and you can see everything. But with the nucleus they leave behind being nothing more than a brittle stone, we can’t even tell if they actually have any organs…” [Robelia]

Now that he mentions it, slimes do disappear when they die…

When I got to this world for the first time and I defeated a slime, it just disappeared and left behind a nucleus.

For a moment, I thought the world had a drop item system going on, but when I defeated other monsters, their body didn’t disappear, and I couldn’t loot them without gutting them first.

Because of that I also wondered why only slimes disappeared upon being killed.

Unfortunately, I never really got to answer that since my interested turned toward the evolution paths of the slimes.

“We also have countless incidences where the slimes evolved into a higher variant, but we have no idea how to make the evolutions happen.” [Tony]

Hmm? They don’t know the evolution conditions?

“What kind of slimes did the slimes evolve into?” [Ryouma]

“All sorts. That’s about all I can really say. I mean each time they would evolve into something different…” [Robelia]


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25 responses to “The Man Picked up by the Gods – Volume 3 Chapter 75: Talking After Work (1/2)”

  1. Revilo7B Avatar

    Thanks for the chapter!

  2. Cerlancelo Avatar
    Cerlancelo

    Thanks for the chapter.

  3. Francis "The Douche" Avatar

    Just in case nobody knows, there is a fb user that posts LN illustrations for various LNs (yes I mean for this one). Just search for “Zafkiel C.Rejectors Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko Light Novel Illustrations”. It should have the illustrations for up to volume 5 so spoiler warning

    1. Ruwi Avatar
      Ruwi

      Click bait, type bait tehepero~

    2. Saiyidah Rahman Avatar

      Thanks. I liked the illustrations

  4. Daiz71 Avatar

    Thanks

  5. Cake Avatar
    Cake

    Is he going to open up a Slime Research Society or something like that?

    Because that would be badass.

  6. Zax Avatar
    Zax

    Researchers despair as he exposes all the secrets of slimes. Thanks for the chapter

  7. Slothy Avatar
    Slothy

    Wouldn’t you usually lose your job if you didn’t have anything to show for it?

  8. Sunflowers Avatar
    Sunflowers

    huh…flesh and trees anyone?

    Thanks for the chapter 🙂

  9. twinnnn100 Avatar

    thanks for the chapter

  10. Creative Boundaries Avatar
    Creative Boundaries

    So did Ryouma have definitive proof or not?
    Thanks for the chapter

    1. caudyr Avatar

      Of what? The evolution conditions? Cause if that’s what you’re talking about, then yeah…he’s figured it out for the ones he has at least.

      As for others, he can probably infer many of them…and the larger variant slime’s contracting conditions have most definitely been confirmed, as well. ^^

  11. hb98rml Avatar
    hb98rml

    Thank you for the slimy update ❤️

  12. KuroHaruto Avatar

    Thanks for the chapter!!!

  13. sfcipher Avatar

    Thank you for the treat. 🙂

  14. pokeperson1000 Avatar

    Tree slime and meat slime. XD

  15. Slime waifu when Avatar
    Slime waifu when

    Slimes again. Good. Anything is better than katanas or cooking.

    1. DRAGO Avatar
      DRAGO

      Yeah, I’ve noticed a lot of eastern (specifically Japanese, but some Chinese as well) novels fixate on the perceived superiority of their own worldly contributions. It’s kind of half patriotism, half egotism.

      1. Sonny A Widayanto (@_RealSony) Avatar

        Well, we easterners do tend to have a lot of pride in our culture, that includes Japanese, Chinese, and Korean as well. Please be tolerant on that. In the first place, the main targeted readers is probably Japanese so if writers don’t include things like katanas and Japanese food it will be hard to familiarize with the novel and the novel won’t sell well, right? But still, knowing all the transmigator/reincarnator are Japanese is a bit too much. The door too another world only open to Japan, there is no other country on Earth~

        1. DRAGO Avatar
          DRAGO

          Oh I know. It’s just, like you said, a good portion of them are “only our nation contributes to otherworld transfer” stuff. Even when it’s not that, the majority of the transferred/reincarnated/etc. characters you meet are from there, with a few cameos from other countries. It’s kind of the same weird feeling I get when every (or at least the vast majority) of the ones with powers (specifically Chinese martial arts novels) swap the words “ancient” with “almighty”. Seriously, the older the technique in them, the more powerful it seems to be, the past always had more powerful people than the present, etc etc. Maybe it’s just me that thinks that’s weird?

  16. kariageweb Avatar

    Thanks for the chapter! 🙂

  17. Prothvar781 Avatar
    Prothvar781

    Starter antagonist is being handled much, much better in this run of the story. Matthew still hasn’t been introduced and I’m beginning to wonder if he ever will be. Also monster trader showing up repeatedly enough for the employees to name him as “that man” hints at possible problem. Thinking high pressure realty buyers that go just shy of a yakuza. Probably why his home defense seems to be getting more air time this run of the story, at least earlier. Last time home security got described after the time slip. Plus home security was explained in passing. “It got annoying having people try to break in so I made a fake house with traps made from the slimes.” Or something similar. Lot more development and I’m loving it.

  18. darkLoki Avatar
    darkLoki

    Thanks for the chapter, now he can try open a research institution

  19. Graboid_42 Avatar
    Graboid_42

    It seems completely unbelievable that all of the researchers of all time for forever in this world never managed to connect dietary habits to evolution requirements in slimes. It is one of the absolute basic needs of life so it would undoubtedly been looked at no matter how low brow this world’s research methods are. Especially considering they are able to examine the teeth of corpses to determine such things as dietary requirements etc… as stated by said researcher relegated to slime research. Lame. Lame. Lame. Lame. Lame. Pathetically inept writing.

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