Discussion Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement

Episodes: 12 | Source: Light Novel | Genres: Fantasy, Isekai

Synopsis
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Mitsuha Yamano could not have had it worse. After failing to enter her university of choice and losing her entire family in an accident, she finds herself plummeting off a cliff due to an especially fragile guardrail. Through what seems to be the only bit of the fortune left in her life, Mitsuha's firm unwillingness to die allows her to be transported to another world, where she ends up surviving.

In this foreign land, Mitsuha wanders around for days before collapsing from exhaustion and being rescued by a little girl named Colette. Not long after, she finds herself in yet another life-threatening situation, and her indomitable will shines once more, granting her an audience with a divine cosmic being. The entity reveals to Mitsuha that she has acquired not only superhuman regeneration but also the ability to transport between worlds at will.

Armed with this new information, Mitsuha brainstorms ways to utilize her newfound power to its full potential. Realizing that she can take goods from Earth and resell them to the other world at a higher price, she resolves to save up eighty thousand gold coins to be able to retire comfortably.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

 

Episode 1 was good. Mitsuha lost her entire family in an accident, and failed her university of choice, and due to a fragile guardrail plummeted off a cliff which has her transported to another world and surviving. She wondered around for a bit before collapsing and was rescued by a younger girl Colette and taken back to her family. She doesn't understand the language which makes things difficult.

On an outing, some wolves come across the girls, and Mitsuha helped Colette get to safety, and finds herself transported back to her own world. Her continence which seems to be her brother in spirit, won't allow her to abandon Colette and so she gathered some things and a knife and returned again killing the wolf. She then has an audience with some divine cosmic being where she is revealed to now have superhuman regeneration and the ability to transport between worlds. She also asked for the gift to understand languages.

When she woke up, she could naturally understand Colette's language and converse with her. Colette killed the other smaller wolves, and Mitsuha received payment for her "work". Mitsuha now has the goal of saving 2 billion yen for a comfy retirement in both/either world(s).

 

Episode 2 was good. Mitsuha plans to get friendly with the Count to use that to her advantage in her schemes to make money to retire. Colette was sad when she overheard her plans to leave, but in the end it was ok. Mitsuha departed on a carriage before realizing she hadn't bathed/showered in a long while, so stunk. She hopped off and teleported home to remedy this. While there, she planned out a lot to make her adventure better, so got gun training, and some guns, along with some nice clothes made. She also teleported a scooter back and forward to ride around on. She made it presumably to the town that was 7 days travel away now.

 

Episode 3 was good. Mitsuha was denied entry into the count's estate which makes sense. While waiting around, she noticed some noble looking kids going out in a carriage, and turns out they were the count's kids, so she hatched a plot to fake being struck by the carriage and ended up taken back to their estate.

Naturally, the family of the count are all very kind, and helped her earnestly. She crafted the backstory of haling from a distant land and being nobility and she wanted to thank Count von Bozes for his people taking care of her after she "was separated from her retainers". Her backstory is that her mother died a few years ago, then her father the king died recently, and some wanted her to take the thrown to marry into it, while she wanted her younger brother to rule so left. They bought the backstory easily.

The Count's wife Iris is an interesting character, how much she got worked up over the pearl necklace Mitsuha was wearing, indicating it was priceless. She was quick to take Mitsuha as a daughter Mitsuha traded it for some money to start a business. She also sold a pocket knife to the younger brother Theodore. The older brother Alexis seems to have a crush on her, and tried to buy her panties as she had nothing else. The sister is the youngest at 13, but seems older than Mitsuha. During the interactions, Mitsuha accidentally called them mother and father because they genuinely reminded her of her own family, and so now they kind of see her as a daughter. After staying the night, she's off to the capital in a carriage and has some attendants accompanying her.

 

Episode 4 was good. Mitsuha opened her shop, but had no customers for the first few days. She eventually got a trio of girls in, and there was some odd reaction to the descaler for fish she stocked. The girls were going to leave for lunch without buying anything, but Mitsuha roped them back in with the promise of lunch.
She made one of them try the 2 in 1 shampoo and body wash, and they got to enjoy the hot water too. This convinced the girls to buy each by splitting their money, and they got a broach each too. Mitsuha also feed them, although they were pre-prepared meals that she heated in water. The fish had the girls all questioning it too, and they concluded she was a witch. When they left, Mitsuha gifted them chocolates too, which they gave to the chef of the Count.

The Count's wife Amalia was interested in the shampoo and paid 16 silver to try it, double the purchase price. She was also interested in their broaches, even thinking the imitation stones were real. The real take away, was the fish. They believed it impossible to get fresh fish to the capital due to the travel time, which would usually be true, but Mitsuha's ability makes it trivial. The chef ended up going back to Mitsuha's shop the next day, and purchased some items. He also questioned her at the fish, and his reason was to wow guests at the daughter's important coming of age debutante ball due to turning 16, to reflect well on the family given they're new nobility. Mitsuha agreed to help provide the fish.