A sasumata bought from savings
When Chiikawa turns up with a new sasumata, Hachiware is surprised and asks whether they bought it. After cheering that they match, Hachiware says saving up must have been hard.
The tools for an extermination job seem to be bought with your own money. The price isn't drawn, but from the way saving up is called hard, it doesn't sound like something a day's pay covers easily.
The purse that comes out on a sick day
Lying under the covers, Shisa asks them to buy cooling patches and a chest rub. Then, holding out their own purse, they say to use this.
Chiikawa goes from shop to shop looking for the chest rub. A shop person takes out the box, puts it in a bag and hands it over with a thank-you. No one is shown paying. When Chiikawa gets back, Hachiware says it must have been hard to find.
The friends do the running, but the money comes out of the sick one's own purse. What the friends gave was the time spent searching.
On the days it failed
On the day they got wrapped in caul fat, and on the day they lost at rock-paper-scissors and got thrown, Hachiware says the extermination job failed. In that panel it's Chiikawa beside them holding a bag, and Hachiware's hands are empty.
Failing doesn't make the tools disappear. Still, a day when a tool breaks, or a scene of being treated for an injury, is something I didn't find in what I read. So how much a failed day costs you isn't clear.
What the counter hands over
The Armor-san at the counter says dangerous weeds had been mixed in, so the pay goes up this time, and sets down a big bag. On another day Hachiware says the qualification raised the pay a little.
What comes over the counter was always pay. A scene where money for tools, or something for a sick day, comes across it isn't there in what I checked. It may simply not be drawn, so I can't say it's out of pocket, and I can't say the counter covers it.
Between paying out and being helped
Looking only at what comes in, life seems to be decided by the size of the pay. But buying tools and buying medicine both came out of their own money. What stays in hand shrinks by that much.
Even so, on a sick day nobody has to go round the shops alone. The money came from the person, the time came from friends. Next time you read a shopping scene, try watching whose purse comes out.
Related notes
- What changes when Chiikawa passes the weeding exam?Chiikawa weeded even before earning Level 5. The change we can confirm after passing is that the bag of pay grows a little heavier. The manga does not show who decided how much that little increase would be.
- What do you do when only your friend passes?Even if you can't feel the same way right away, there's still something you can do. Thinking it through from the walk home after the weeding certification exam and a celebration scene.
- Why was the invitation to the island so tempting?Everyday work turns into a special trip. The island story begins with the words of an invitation and the faces reading it.
- How did Chiikawa get their house?Chiikawa's house was won in a prize drawing. From the story of the house, I think about a kind of life that effort alone can't explain.