The next day.
I again visited the first company.
When I told them the my business was the same as last time, Valef again came into a separate room.
“It’s you……I was completely deceived the other day.”
Valef smiles bitterly.
“I didn’t think you’d sell it to other businesses too. It’s a huge loss for us.”
“Lies. Since you bought at that price, you shouldn’t be disadvantaged at all.”
The place the old man sold to might have a huge loss though.
Ah, the place Jeko sold to is totally in the black though.
“Commerce is when you sell goods and make a profit. It’s not as easy as growing out your hair. You ruined a rare business opportunity.”
“Have you already sold it?”
“Yeah, the government bought it. Our government is prosperous right now.”
There’s no problems with that.
I don’t intend to have the merchant's be disadvantaged.
“By the way, what are you selling today? There’s no way it’s the same item as yesterday right?”
“No way, there’d be no point in selling the same thing on different days.”
I casually place the bracelet on the table.
“Let’s see……wha!? This is!?”
Valef is surprised, and *gatatu* stands up.
“Fif, 15% up……I can’t believe it.”
Valef looks at me with sharp eyes.
“Do have many of these as well?”
“No, I’m only holding onto one right now.”
“Is this one of a kind?”
Valef was completely doubting me.
Well, it might be something that can’t be helped.
“I don’t know about that. As I said last time, I found this in a dungeon.”
“What a shameless lie……”
It’s true that my words are lies, but since this will soon become the truth, there’s no problem.
No, the Dark Temple’s a dungeon too, so I guess I wasn’t lying.
“If this is really one of a kind, the Scottyard royal family will buy it for 100000000. No, they’ll buy it for even more.”
“They’re really prospering.”
That’s an amount the Briton Kingdom definitely can’t pay.
“Scottyard is just that rich.”
Valef puffs up with pride.
He looks at the streets visible from the window.
“The safest place for humanity is to the north. Well, at the top of the continent it’s too cold, which makes the Graggo humanity’s greatest city.”
The Maou appears at the southern tip of the continent.
Inevitably, the damage becomes larger the more south you go.
“The last time this land was greatly damaged was during the fourth demonic calamity, when humanity was dominated by the demons. During the fifth demonic calamity and the sixth demonic calamity, this land didn’t sustain any damage. That’s why only this city has developed this far. It’s situation is different from the other countries that are destroyed every time there’s a demonic calamity.”
After Valef finishes this, he says that the story is over.
“Let’s go back to our discussion. Just yesterday, when you came and sold to us, we bought the displeasure of the royal family, because what you sold yesterday caused the value of goods to collapse.”
The 12% strengthening accessory I sold yesterday had value that was higher than the previous highest class item.
That’s why it was bought for so much.
Of course, people’ll get mad if something even better appears the next day after you bought it.
It’s something like swindling the government.
“No way……your purpose is!?”
Valef strengthens his vigilance.
“I never heard who you are, did I?”
“Are you trying to investigate the identity of an adventurer? It’s pointless.”
“You’re a Briton, aren’t you?”
Unfortunately, he’s off, but I won’t deny it.
“Not to just normally sell it, but to cheat money away from the Scottyard royal family? That’s your objective, isn’t it?”
“If so?”
“Is this your modest revenge?”
Apparently the people over here already know of the incident occurring in Briton.
I wonder if serious cases from the news are transferred over here?
“This is a pointless struggle. Scottyard won’t shake with this amount of loss, and Briton won’t be saved with this amount of money.”
“That’s true. This is far from the total amount of Briton’s debt. It’s still not enough money to save Briton from its current crisis.”
I admitted that.
“In that case, what are you trying to do?”
“What, it’s just some small revenge. Are you going to buy this?”
“I refuse, as I can’t trust you.”
Valef swung his head to the side.
In the first place, adventurers are an existence close to thugs.
He shouldn’t have had any trust in me from the beginning.
Determining the value of a product is the job of a merchant.
And the performance of these items is obvious.
“Even if you can’t trust me, you can still trust the items.”
“I’d be troubled if you brought in a 20% up item next. As I just told you, I can’t immediately sell these to the royal family. I don’t feel like buying items whose value might crash at any time.”
If possible, I’d like to hurry up and sell these to the Scottyard government.
I want to see their faces turn red, but it seems they won’t dance as I please.
I give up, and stand up from my seat.
“I see, I’ve troubled you.”
“I’ll keep this matter locked up in my heart.”
“Hou.”
“It’d be better for me to not be involved with anybody like you ever again. My intuition as a merchant is telling me so. That’s why, I never met you today. It’s fine like this.”
Without answering, I silently walked away.