I am the Entertainment Tycoon - Chapter 520: Kaori’s Counter-Offer

Antique Market, Ancestral Town, Sakura City.

After seeing the Yamato Clan ancestry records, Ayia couldn’t hold off her excitement as she asked the old man taking care of the stall about it.

“Excuse me, sir.” Ayia said with a polite smile, “Can I ask about this article?”

“Of course, you can.” The old man replied with a happy smile, “I received this article last week from my nephew. After I inspected the piece, I noticed that although this is only a copy of the ancestry, the information is still truthful according to some books I referenced about that time. Plus, although it is only a copy, this copy was made at the same time that the original was made. I guess that this copy was made to distribute among some of the peripheral members of the Yamato Clan.”

Ayia’s enthusiasm didn’t wane even after hearing that it was only a copy. What she cared about was the information contained in this registry.

“Can I see for myself?” Ayia asked eagerly.

“Sure.” The old man replied.

Getting his green light, Ayia carefully picked up the book in her hands and slowly examined the registry.

Although the registry was written in ancient Yamatese, Ayia still could understand around 70% of it.

That was an incredible feat as most people wouldn’t be able to understand the book written in an ancient language. That was because a language was something that evolved over time, the Yamatese that was spoken in the Sakura Abode Country today was completely different from the one that was spoken centuries ago.

Ayia was only able to read and comprehend some of it because of her mother.

Her mother always brought ancient antiques and relics with her after coming back from her travels and as Ayia’s extremely intelligent, she was able to understand some of these ancient texts because of it.

As Ayia searched throughout the book, from what she understood, most of the book was about the ancestry registry of the main clan. But when she arrived at the part related to the branch clans, her eyes lit up.

She was about to start searching for mentions of the Yamada Family when she heard Kaori’s voice.

“What did you find, Ay-chan?” Kaori asked while Shizuka also looked at her with curious eyes.

The two girls had noticed Ayia’s seriousness with touches of excitement, so they wanted to know what she had found.

“Ka-nee-chan! Shizu-chan! Look at here!” Ayia immediately replied as she showed the cover of the book.

The two girls were intrigued, but they looked at the book cover nonetheless. And when they read and realized what it was, they let out gasps just like Ayia did before.

“No way!” Even Shizuka couldn’t believe such a book existed.

“Are the contents reliable?” Kaori asked with shining eyes.

“From what I read so far, it is the real deal. But the old man said that this is only a copy of the original registry. Now I’m looking for information about the side families.” Ayia said with a wide smile.

Kaori and Shizuka let out excited smiles when they heard that. Just like Ayia, they didn’t care if the registry was a copy, they only cared about the information.

After the main family of the Yamato Clan disappeared, the registries and other documents also disappeared.

Over the centuries, the side families managed to find some documents about that period, but the ancestry registries that they managed to find couldn’t even fill the fingers in one hand.

And because the side families were governed by the main clan during those times, they register or record anything about the family themselves. They left these things to the main family as only the main family could put order and govern the whole clan.

That’s why the three girls were extremely excited to find an ancestry registry from those times, with this document they would be able to fill the blank spots on their own family registry.

The girls knew that the elders would go crazy when they saw this document.

“Excuse me, sir!” Kaori said out loud, “How much is this article?”

The three girls stared intently at the old man as they waited for his answer.

They had to buy this document no matter what!

Even if they had to fork an enormous amount of money.

“This is only a copy, so I won’t put too much strain on you, young girls.” The old man smiled, “How about 100 dollars for it?”

He was used to selling much more important and relevant items, so he didn’t think anyone would care too much about this ancestry registry copy. After all, who would care about the old recordings of a dead clan?

If this was the ancestral registry of the time that the Yamato Clan signed the peace treaty with the Pendragon Clan, he would price the item much more expensively. But this was the ancestral registry of 50 years after the peace treaty, so he didn’t think anyone would care too much about it.

But what he didn’t know was that the side families of the Yamato Clan still lived until this day, and they would go over the sky to acquire this book.

But that wasn’t his fault as this was a secret that very few people knew about it.

“No.” Kaori shook her head.

“That’s the lowest I can price it.” The old man said with a firm tone of voice.

“Oh, you misunderstood.” Kaori chuckled, “I meant that it’s too cheap. This book means a lot to my sisters and me. I’ll pay 5 thousand dollars for it.”

Kaori declared as if she was saying the most normal thing.

The old man took a few seconds to understand what was happening, but when he did, he exclaimed, “Costumer! I can’t accept this much money!”

He was a little flustered to receive a counter proposition that increased more than 100 times the initial price of an article.

But Kaori replied with a voice that left no room for discussion, “It is decided. There is no room for discussion. Please accept our payment.” She said that as she pulled her phone from her purse to transfer the money.

The old man saw how decisive and irreducible she was, so he wasn’t even able to express his opposition before Kaori sent the money.

When the old man saw the message on his phone saying that he had received 5000 dollars, he became even more confused about everything that was happening.

He could only bag the book carefully and thank the girls for buying it with him.

But even after they left, he still didn’t understand what happened, but he had to admit that he was happy to receive so much money.

‘Maybe I can buy some presents for my granddaughter with this money.’ He thought as he continued to oversee his stall.

While the old man thought about what to do with the money, the three sisters eagerly examined the book.

Would they be able to find a register about their ancestors?