A Merchant With Zero Combat Power Who Was A Baggage Handler In A Hero Party (Me), Was Finally Banished And Wants To Be A Steady Merchant. - Chapter 95 – The future “Albus…let’s say you and Loloi sell relics while Clarice and I continue to sell herb-roasted kodris. How much sales do you expect to make from that?” Burgess asked the obvious question. As we head into the auction in the next two months, what will be even more important than what we currently have on hand is the amount of mana we can earn by then. “Alright. If we keep the store open until the auction, we can probably make 400,000 to 500,000 mana from the kodris barbecue. As for the relics, if they sell more and more and the selection of relics gets worse, the sales will also start to decline. So, I expect to earn about 1 to 1.5 million mana.” “That’s more than I thought we’d be able to do!” Clarice said, a little excitedly. Assuming that all business from here on out went well. With what we have now, we would have 5.25 million mana on hand at the start of the auction. If the amount of items to be auctioned is added to that, we will surely be able to reach 6 million mana. “Then the biggest problem will be the order of the auctions.” How much mana would be added to that 5.25 million mana and how much mana would be added to the auction of this mansion? was dependent on the order of the auction. I had gotten a lot of information from Gandra beforehand about the format of the central Kilket auction. According to Gandra, the auction would be roughly divided into “pre-registration” and “auction on the day”. The pre-registration process includes… (1) Register the items to be auctioned at the Auction Headquarters. (2) The Auction Headquarters will determine the order of auction. As for the auction order, it will be announced on the day of the auction to us. And as for the auction order on the day of the auction… (1) Deposit all the financial mana prepared for this auction at the auction headquarters. (2) Participants shall conduct the auction within the range of the deposited fund mana according to the order of the auction items decided, and the mana deposited at the auction headquarters shall be increased or decreased according to the results of the sales and purchases at the auction. (3) Withdrawal of the remaining balance and the auctioned items. This is how it looks like. For us to go into the auction of this mansion, which is our main goal, with more mana in our hands… We needed our relics to be sold earlier than this mansion. If the mansion was first in the auction order, we were out. We at that point would only have 5.25 million mana on hand, even if the business after this goes well. In order to be in the best position, we must sell off the relics first so that we can face the mansion with more mana on hand. “Let’s get Gandra to approach the auction headquarters. If we can bribe someone at headquarters with a few tens of thousands of mana, we will work on it. It’s not something we can rely on luck for.” Everyone nodded broadly. →→→→→ “By the way, how much do you estimate the total value of all the artifacts to be exhibited?” Clarice asked. Of course, that’s a pretty important part of it. “Well…” In fact, the registration of the items to be auctioned. It had already done so as of “3 months before the auction” when registration was to begin. I had been able to obtain three slots for the auction through Gandora. I decided to fully use those slots to sell a set of selected relics. The first was [The Ancient Duke Lord Garon’s Equipment Arms and Armaments.] The equipment of Sir Garon, who is famous in the history books, and a complete set of full-body armaments. Although it does not have any special skills. It is a coveted gem for the collection. This was estimated to be no less than 2 million mana for the set. The second was. [Holy Fist Aluminas (remote attack, wind/strike)] It has the highest level of “remote attack” and “wind attribute added” skills attached to a weapon for combat. Even for nobles who are not familiar with these skills. The fact that there are currently only a dozen or so such weapons in the world with the “remote attack” skill makes it easy to understand the value of this rare item. This one was estimated to cost no less than 2 million mana. And finally. [The letters of the great merchant Grill and the jewelry he gave to his wife, Sally.] A handwritten letter that proves that the great merchant “Grill” mentioned in the bard’s poem really existed. The jewelry that Grill is believed to have given to his wife has been restored to its original state by Gandra, and is now shining brightly. They are the best of the best, stimulating the collecting desires of aristocrats who love shiny objects and curiosities. This one was estimated to cost no less than 3.5 million mana for the set. If we could go into the auction of the mansion with everything sold out, we would have about 7.5 million additional mana. We currently have 3.25 million mana on hand. And 2 million mana that we will hopefully be able to earn from now until the auction. In addition, 7.5 million mana that will be earned from the sales of the auctioned items. Together, this amounts to 12.75 million mana. “We can do it, Albus!” Clarice was so excited that she was out of breath. “Now we can really buy this mansion! You did it, sis!” Clarice jumps for joy and clings to Mitra. Mitra’s mouth was twisted in a slightly troubled manner. “It’s still too early to be reassured.” I’m sorry to interrupt you, but we still have a long way to go. If we get carried away with this, we might lose your footing. “What?” Clarice looks doubtful. “It’s well over the market rate of six million mana, even double. This would definitely be enough now…” “That’s not even assuming that Jimmy Radiak is competing with us on price. Like the order of the auction, if the other side gets pissed off and raises the mana, the amount will be folded out of the blue.” Furthermore, everything else in the hand is a ‘hopefully’ amount. A little accident or misplacement would easily reduce it. “So…what should we do?” “I’m thinking about another bussines from here, whether it’s 100,000 mana or 500,000 mana, to make extra money. The key is after 6
I was visiting Mitra’s room.
It wasn’t for the purpose of night crawling or anything like that.
I was simply invited.
Since we received a visit from Jimmy Radiak.
Mitra, who had not spoken a single decent word during the nightly strategy sessions…
For some reason, she visited my room late at night, and led me to her room.
Mitra strolls down the dimly lit corridor without turning on any lights.
To Mitra, day and night are no different.
“Please come in.”
Mitra’s room, where I was invited in with these words, was a strange sight.
“This is…”
The room, lit by a small lamp, was filled with dollwork sitting as far as the eye could see.
On shelves and desks in the reasonably large room, and even on the floor. The room was filled with dolls made of wood, plaster, and other materials.
“Oh…please don’t mind these things. I don’t have much else to do when I’m alone in my room all the time…”
“I see…”
Upon closer inspection, the doll’s construction is quite elaborate.
If you say that this was carved out by a blind girl, that is a divine skill.
“So, what happens?”
To Mitra, standing by the window.
I asked her straightforwardly about her intentions.
I thought it was a better way to deal with Mitra, whose emotions and mind are difficult to read, than to confirm them in a strange way.
“Why does Master Albus want to buy this mansion?”
“Is that what you called me here to ask?”
I returned the question with a question.
Mitra fell silent just like that.
“I’m sorry… The only reason I decided to earn mana to buy this mansion was because Burgess begged me, coaxed me into it. He said, ‘You can do it! So please do me a favor’…. So if you want to say thank tou, it’s not me, it’s Burgess.”
Also, because I have no idea if I can compete with Jimmy Radiak at the auction.
If she wants to say thank you or something, it’ll be after it’s all over.
“Are you suggesting that you spend six million mana for such a reason?”
“Is that strange?”
Yes, while asking Mitra…
At least I thought it was strange.
No one who can properly calculate the loss or gain of mana would make that choice.
“No…. It’s just that none of the merchants I’ve talked to were like that.”
It was as if I was being told that I was an uncommonly bad merchant, and her words struck a chord with me.
“Well, it’s not a viable business. Even if I buy this mansion. I’m not going to get any new business out of it, so I’m probably going to miss out on the mana.”
“Then why?”
“I told you before, didn’t I? Because Burgess begged me. No reason beyond that. Well, if you want me to give you any other reason, I’d say that I’m doing Clarice and you a favor, and I think it would be beneficial if I could get close to Gilbert Warren, the great nobleman of Kilket. That’s about it.”
And the rest, well.
Can I really do that? I’m starting to get rather excited about trying it out myself.
“I have nothing to repay you for your kindness. The Warren family connection is almost nonexistent for me and my sister now.”
It would be so.
If they had a decent interaction, they would not be auctioning off the mansion they live in.
“I have only one thing at my disposal right now: my body.”
“Then let me borrow it.”
Mitra’s body tensed up.
I mispronounced it a bit, but I didn’t mean it in a weird way.
“No, I mean… I didn’t mean it in a weird way. This doll is quite well made. If you don’t mind, I’d like to sell it to you. I’ll pay you mana for the purchase.”
“In that case…”
Saying this, Mitra breathed a sigh of relief.
“I don’t need any mana, so please take whatever you have. I was just starting to have trouble finding a place to put it.”
“Can you manufacture additional items?”
“I can make as many as you want, although it may take some time. However, the other two rooms are filled with dolls as well, so I don’t think we will run out of dolls.”
“I understand. I will ask for more dolls after I see how well they sell.”
“Alright.”
With that, Mitra sat down in her chair.
Come to think of it, we’ve been standing around talking for a long time.
“By the way, does this doll have any motifs, etc.?”
“Yes. Once a long time ago, my father, mother, and I listened to a song sung by a minstrel who had been invited to this mansion. This is a character from that song. I believe the title of the song was [The Princess of the Cliff.]”
“I see. I have heard that story too.”
The story is not that famous, but those who live in this region should be reasonably familiar with the name of the place and its contents.
On the western edge of this western continent is a large fissure called the Great Villiola Escarpment.
This story concerns the origin of that fissure.
Roughly, it should have been about the war between elves and humans.
So ‘The Elven King,’ ‘The Elven Princess,’ and ‘The Human Knight…’”
“And there’s also a human Witch in that story.”
Upon closer inspection, every doll in the room was one of those four types.
They varied in deformation, elaborateness, size, and material, but they were all the same.
“Are there any dolls based on anything other than ‘Princess of the Cliff’?”
“No, I have not heard any other songs. I have never heard of it.”
“……”
She listened this song when she was a child and thought back to it over and over again…
She continued to make dolls with the same motifs over and over again.
Imagining such a figure of Mitra, I thought I caught a glimpse of the darkness of her heart.
Although there was one more product I could handle…
I was even less sure who Mitra was.
Comments for chapter "Chapter 95 – The future “Albus…let’s say you and Loloi sell relics while Clarice and I continue to sell herb-roasted kodris. How much sales do you expect to make from that?” Burgess asked the obvious question. As we head into the auction in the next two months, what will be even more important than what we currently have on hand is the amount of mana we can earn by then. “Alright. If we keep the store open until the auction, we can probably make 400,000 to 500,000 mana from the kodris barbecue. As for the relics, if they sell more and more and the selection of relics gets worse, the sales will also start to decline. So, I expect to earn about 1 to 1.5 million mana.” “That’s more than I thought we’d be able to do!” Clarice said, a little excitedly. Assuming that all business from here on out went well. With what we have now, we would have 5.25 million mana on hand at the start of the auction. If the amount of items to be auctioned is added to that, we will surely be able to reach 6 million mana. “Then the biggest problem will be the order of the auctions.” How much mana would be added to that 5.25 million mana and how much mana would be added to the auction of this mansion? was dependent on the order of the auction. I had gotten a lot of information from Gandra beforehand about the format of the central Kilket auction. According to Gandra, the auction would be roughly divided into “pre-registration” and “auction on the day”. The pre-registration process includes… (1) Register the items to be auctioned at the Auction Headquarters. (2) The Auction Headquarters will determine the order of auction. As for the auction order, it will be announced on the day of the auction to us. And as for the auction order on the day of the auction… (1) Deposit all the financial mana prepared for this auction at the auction headquarters. (2) Participants shall conduct the auction within the range of the deposited fund mana according to the order of the auction items decided, and the mana deposited at the auction headquarters shall be increased or decreased according to the results of the sales and purchases at the auction. (3) Withdrawal of the remaining balance and the auctioned items. This is how it looks like. For us to go into the auction of this mansion, which is our main goal, with more mana in our hands… We needed our relics to be sold earlier than this mansion. If the mansion was first in the auction order, we were out. We at that point would only have 5.25 million mana on hand, even if the business after this goes well. In order to be in the best position, we must sell off the relics first so that we can face the mansion with more mana on hand. “Let’s get Gandra to approach the auction headquarters. If we can bribe someone at headquarters with a few tens of thousands of mana, we will work on it. It’s not something we can rely on luck for.” Everyone nodded broadly. →→→→→ “By the way, how much do you estimate the total value of all the artifacts to be exhibited?” Clarice asked. Of course, that’s a pretty important part of it. “Well…” In fact, the registration of the items to be auctioned. It had already done so as of “3 months before the auction” when registration was to begin. I had been able to obtain three slots for the auction through Gandora. I decided to fully use those slots to sell a set of selected relics. The first was [The Ancient Duke Lord Garon’s Equipment Arms and Armaments.] The equipment of Sir Garon, who is famous in the history books, and a complete set of full-body armaments. Although it does not have any special skills. It is a coveted gem for the collection. This was estimated to be no less than 2 million mana for the set. The second was. [Holy Fist Aluminas (remote attack, wind/strike)] It has the highest level of “remote attack” and “wind attribute added” skills attached to a weapon for combat. Even for nobles who are not familiar with these skills. The fact that there are currently only a dozen or so such weapons in the world with the “remote attack” skill makes it easy to understand the value of this rare item. This one was estimated to cost no less than 2 million mana. And finally. [The letters of the great merchant Grill and the jewelry he gave to his wife, Sally.] A handwritten letter that proves that the great merchant “Grill” mentioned in the bard’s poem really existed. The jewelry that Grill is believed to have given to his wife has been restored to its original state by Gandra, and is now shining brightly. They are the best of the best, stimulating the collecting desires of aristocrats who love shiny objects and curiosities. This one was estimated to cost no less than 3.5 million mana for the set. If we could go into the auction of the mansion with everything sold out, we would have about 7.5 million additional mana. We currently have 3.25 million mana on hand. And 2 million mana that we will hopefully be able to earn from now until the auction. In addition, 7.5 million mana that will be earned from the sales of the auctioned items. Together, this amounts to 12.75 million mana. “We can do it, Albus!” Clarice was so excited that she was out of breath. “Now we can really buy this mansion! You did it, sis!” Clarice jumps for joy and clings to Mitra. Mitra’s mouth was twisted in a slightly troubled manner. “It’s still too early to be reassured.” I’m sorry to interrupt you, but we still have a long way to go. If we get carried away with this, we might lose your footing. “What?” Clarice looks doubtful. “It’s well over the market rate of six million mana, even double. This would definitely be enough now…” “That’s not even assuming that Jimmy Radiak is competing with us on price. Like the order of the auction, if the other side gets pissed off and raises the mana, the amount will be folded out of the blue.” Furthermore, everything else in the hand is a ‘hopefully’ amount. A little accident or misplacement would easily reduce it. “So…what should we do?” “I’m thinking about another bussines from here, whether it’s 100,000 mana or 500,000 mana, to make extra money. The key is after 6"
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