I sat on the throne in the Dark Temple, and aimlessly started thinking deeply.
Soon after, the old man and Jeko came back.
"How was it?"
"They didn't want to take too many risks, so they ended at the 6th floor today."
To my inquiry, the old man answered gently.
"They'll probably train for a while on the 6~7th floor. Then, once they judge they've gotten stronger, they'll go to a higher floor."
Jeko makes a bored face.
He must be tired of just watching humans fight.
"If so, there isn't a need to supervise with 3 people is there?"
"Yeah, it'd be fine with just me and Serena-dono."
When the old man nodded, Jeko spoke as if he'd been waiting for this.
"Well then, I'll stay by your side."
"There isn't much to do here though."
"What are planning on doing?"
Without answering Jeko's question, I look to the old man.
"So, does it look like they'll be on time?"
The old man wrinkles his eyebrows, and thinks.
"Honestly, I don't know much about humans' growth speeds, but I think they'll just barely make it."
"I see. As I thought, we might need to move."
I get up from my throne.
"What are you planning on doing?"
Jeko asks.
"What's Yufilia and the others' objective?"
"It's to earn enough money to return their debt."
"How?"
"They're planning on stealing from the Dark Temple's treasury."
"Well, if you look at it from our perspective, that's right."
I smile bitterly at Jeko's answer.
"What's inside the treasury?"
"That would be gold and silver treasures."
"What do they plan on doing with them?"
"It'd be fine if they just paid with those."
"That's only if Scottyard accepts those treasures as payment."
Scottyard wants Briton to succumb to them.
If we tried to pay them with treasure, and they said they wouldn't accept it, we'd lose.
In the first place, the values of those treasures isn't their market price.
No matter how much we believe it's worth, we should first think they won't take it.
"If so, they should just convert it."
"Where?"
"In Scottyard. They're going to pay in Scottyard pounds anyways."
It seems he knew that.
However, there's one problem.
The treasure is too vast.
It'd be impossible to sell this much treasure at once.
If you tried to, it be bought pretty cheaply.
Prices are determined by supply and demand.
If the supply temporarily increases, naturally the price will fall.
It's like getting 99 gold in a game.
If you bring it all to a shop, you won't sell it all at a fixed price.
You have to break it up, and distribute it in small amounts.
"That will take some time."
Listening to my explanation, the old man makes a grim face.
"If that's so, then they're already stuck. Even if they defeat the golem before the time limit, they still won't have enough time to convert the treasure."
Jeko reaches this conclusion.
"Ah, so you were thinking of converting it beforehand."
"You're going to change the gold and silver treasures in the treasury into Scottyard pounds?"
"Are you stupid?"
Nobody has come for 1000 years, this is the highest difficulty dungeon.
The treasury of the Dark Temple.
It'd be strange if there was Scottyard gold coins and white gold coins in there.
"I guess that's true. What should we do now though?"
"There are more treasures in other places, so I'm going to exchange those."
I stuffed some treasure into a leather bag, and flew to Scottyard's capital, Graggo.
The business I came to was the place where I sold the accessories before.
When I entered the shop, I was promptly brought to another room without having to tell them of my business.
"……I should’ve told you I never wanted to see you again though?"
While sighing, Valef entered the room.
"Unfortunately, I'm a customer, so."
"Merchants have the right to choose their customers."
Although Valef said that, he doesn't seem to intend to kick me out immediately.
"There's something I want you to buy."
I *panpan* grab the filled leather bags.
"If that happens to be a magic item, I'm sorry but I can't buy it."
Valef takes out a sheet of paper.
"What you did has been spreading around even in Scottyard."
The paper was a cut-out of a newspaper.
With a picture of me during my speech, the story from then was written.
"I somehow didn't let them know you came here, but since there was a stupid company, the government already knows that you sold those magic items."
"Even though I wouldn't have done anything to you even if you had talked."
"They must've thought they'd gain their gratitude. However, the government seems to have gotten enraged, and restrained them from going outside."
Valef laughed.
"I'd like to sell this today."
I open the leather bag.
"Hoou. Where did you find this much treasure?"
After Valef asked, he scratches his head.
"I guess it's useless even if I ask. Hmmm……"
He takes out a magnifying glass, and examines each and every one.
"They seem to be items from the period of the ancient Ulugu Empire."
"Looks like it."
The treasures in the Dark Temple's treasury are from the period of the ancient Ulugu Empire.
Why are things from the ancient empire in the Dark Temple?
Well, there's no point in thinking about it.
Even when he spoke, Valef didn't stop working.
He immersed himself in work for a bit.
He took notes on each and every one of them.
When he finished working, he showed me the paper he wrote.
"Fuu……the total would be something like this."
The amount he presented was about 3 million pounds.
Well, I guess that's fair.
"Will you buy it?"
"I'm struggling with that. We've already told you we won't be buying magic items, but these are treasures."
Valef spoke brazenly.
"You're commercial spirit is strong."
"It's because I'm a Scottyard merchant."
Valef stuck his chest out in pride.
"I want to confirm one thing, naturally, there are more treasures, right?"
"Yeah."
That would be expected. Thus, I honestly nodded.
"Are you going to sell them to various shops again?"
"No, there's no point in doing that this time."
Restricted to here, there wasn't any point last time either.
It's a pain in the ass to trade with Scottyard merchants.
"Then what are you planning on doing this time?"
"If possible, I'd like to steadily sell more here."
At my request, Valef wrinkles his eyebrows.
"You say difficult things. I remember telling you I never want to get involved with you again though?"
"I'll just bring the treasures to another person next time."
"About how much do you need?"
When he asked that, I think for a bit.
I wonder how much is necessary?
Well, a rough estimate is fine.
I told him the amount of money.
"Th,that much?"
Nn? Was it too much?
"Even just with what you sold me this time, I can't pay you immediately."
"The limit is in about a month. It might be about a month and a half though."
"I see……it's the Briton Kingdom's X day."
Just by this exchange alone, Valef recognized it.
My objective.
"If that's the case, I might be able to get it done. Of course, don't get mad at me if I can't though."
"I won't get angry."
In the first place, I'm not assuming this will work out.
"Why is a person such as you supporting the Briton Kingdom? Even if the Briton Kingdom collapses, you can still do whatever you want to."
Asked that, I think.
Why am I going so far?
For a moment, Yufilia's face comes to mind.
I shook my head.
"I don't know. I'm just doing what I want to."
Saying that, I left the store behind.