Wild JK Kashino Yukiko Opens a Bar in Another World

Episode 11: Incompetent Grandson

Translated by AmaLynne
Edited by AmaLynne

「That’s… Mirko, my incompetent grandson…」

After the frivolous-looking young man Mirko left, I told the grandpa, who had strongly asked me about the situation, about what had just happened, and he sighed again and told me about him.

「I rebuilt a trading company that was on the verge of collapse. I thought it would not be good for the business to go under after only one generation, so I did not neglect to educate my successor, my only son.」

If the business collapsed soon after the founder’s death, it would be a story of why he had to work so hard to rebuild the business association.

The grandpa also strictly trained his son, the current owner of the company.

「As a result, he has grown up to be a second-generation head of the family. Therefore, I can retire with peace of mind. My son also strictly educated his grandchildren…」

Of the four grandchildren, the oldest to the third son has grown up to be promising young merchants, setting up new businesses on their own.

「However, the fourth son, Mirko… that frivolous-looking young man… was not good at anything, and even when I gave him some money to try his hand at a small business, he failed.」

「I guess he wants to make a big hit in some business to the other son and other grandchildren look on him. But he’s not keeping his feet on the ground.」

By all accounts, he doesn’t look like that type.

He seems like the type who always tries to turn the tables and ends his life without getting it right.

「But your grandson has taken notice of our landlady. Doesn’t he have the ability to sniff out what might be profitable?」

「That may be so, but in business, besides being wise, one must also put in the right amount of effort and hard work, more than is humanly possible, to be successful. Does anyone think that the landlady is cutting corners in this store?」

「Right. I haven’t cut corners.」

「He’s always like that. He puts on the eyes, but after that, he’s no good.」

No matter how talented you are at sniffing out a potentially profitable business ahead of time, you can’t spare the effort and think that you can easily succeed by becoming someone else’s son-in-law.

Maybe it’s because he has a proper education that he comes up with such an easy way out.

「My grandchildren are difficult. I can’t be as strict with them as I can with my children.」

Grandparents who are lenient to their grandchildren can be found everywhere.

Grandfathers want their grandchildren to somehow become independent.

However, the grandson is only thinking about making money by having fun.

He is trying to compete with his talented older brothers, and is making even more mistakes by trying to make a big move that will turn the tables.

「Even if he is incompetent, I wish he can be mature…」

If you are incompetent but harmless, there is no problem if you are placed in an appropriate position in the Starblood Trading Company.

But since he has been trying to start a business with an idea like that, or actually starting a business and failing all the time, that person may become an ant hole in the Starblood Trading Company in the future.

The grandpa is worried about that.

「How about the landlady, the landlady’s grandfather?」

「He passed away about two years ago. He was almost ninety years old…」

Right up until his death, Grandpa remained an active hunter.

My father was the youngest child, and he and my uncle, the oldest, were about the same age as parent and child. As the youngest grandchild, Grandpa took good care of me.

He often took me hunting as a child and taught me exactly what I was interested in.

So I was very good at handling and dismantling my prey.

The magical beasts were a bit big, but they didn’t look or taste much different from the animals we have in Japan, such as boars, cows, horses, rabbits, and so on.

I was also taught camping or encampment skills, as hunters are required to spend the night in the mountains to wait for their prey.

So it was thanks to my grandpa that I was able to survive for half a year even though I was transported to another world.

Grandpa was out hunting until the day before he passed away, and when he didn’t wake up the next day, there was a big commotion.

I didn’t think he was going to die, so I was sad and cried all the way to the funeral, but now I think of him this way.

He had a wonderful, grand life that was typical of him, and he was an amazing man who had fulfilled his life as a hunter.

And Grandpa’s teachings live on in me.

「He was a good grandpa.」

「Yes.」

「I can’t… the stupid grandson who mentions my name whenever something goes wrong, but he’s still a sweet grandson, and I can’t help but be lenient with him.」

I know how you feel… I’m not married yet, and my feelings about my grandchildren are only limited to my imagination.

「I hope he doesn’t care about the Starblood Trading Company name and can stand on his own two feet in his own way…」

「Isn’t that difficult?」

One cannot choose one’s birth.

Young Mirko will be treated as a member of the Starblood family no matter where he is or what he does.

That’s probably why he behaves the way he does.

「Landlady, would you do me one favor?」

「If I can.」

「There will be one more employee for a while. Please train him hard. Just feed him and have him work for free.」

「Okay.」

I don’t know if young Mirko will be useful, and he may underestimate me as a woman and try to act weird, but I will not be beaten by him.

Besides, even though Grandpa is retired, he is the former head of the Starblood Trading Company, the richest man in Royal Capital.

I decided to take care of young Mirko at his request, thinking that it would not be a bad idea to lend him a favor.