Read 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.

113 - - 30 Dinner Party 1

Back

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I woke up a few minutes later.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"Gandra..."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"Sir, you're awake."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I'm sorry... it's pathetic that you fainted.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

It was as if all the fatigue of the past few months had hit me at once.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

My head was pounding and my body was already exhausted.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Even breathing felt painful.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

And the auction was still going on.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Sir Warren was still in high spirits, this time bidding on a magic sword or something.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

And I was in Gandora.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Over and over again, I made sure I had bought the house away from him.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

This can't be a dream!

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

It was real!

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Really, even now.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I'm starting to think I was dreaming.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Only one year ago.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I started as a merchant with the 50,000 mana Ryan handed me.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

And then, just a few days ago.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I participated in the Kirkett Central Auction and bid down the desired commodity for nearly 14 million mana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

To me at that time.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

If I told you that such a thing would happen in just one year's time, you probably would never believe me.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

→→→→→

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The auction of all the items was over.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The time was already past midnight.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The auctioneer reverently said, "Now we will have our annual dinner party.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The auctioneer bowed reverently and the hall began to buzz with excitement.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The hall was buzzing with excitement as the Auctioneer bowed reverently and stepped back.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

This banquet is like an extension of the auction, isn't it?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

What do you mean?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

According to Gandra, those who could not bid for what they wanted because they ran out of mana deposited at the auction headquarters would negotiate with each other separately.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

In this sense, some nobles and merchants are said to regard it as "an extension of the auction.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

As soon as the dinner party started, some merchants approached me.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I said, "You are Mister Albus, the relic merchant, aren't you?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I have no intention of selling that mansion, no matter what anyone says.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I would like to equip Loloi with the Holy Fist Aluminas and use it to strengthen the strength of the escort since this has happened.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Unfortunately, they have nothing to sell.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

With that in mind, I braced myself.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I asked, "Do you have any other relics with skills other than the three items you have listed?　Depending on what you have, we would be happy to buy them.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

But the merchants were not interested in those items.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I see, if that's the case..."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I was hoping for the best.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I set up a simple stall at the end of the hall, and several other merchants gathered there.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

They bought a number of my surplus relics on the spot.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I saw that the same scene was taking place all over the venue.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I was going to make a profit, though.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

But I was surprised that these merchants were so willing to participate in the Kirkett Auction.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

They were able to determine the market price for each skill type and negotiate a fair price.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Unlike the sales at the wagon peddling plaza, we were dealing with merchants, not adventurers.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Since they were not going to use the goods themselves, but rather purchase them from me and sell them elsewhere, they were negotiating at a price lower than the market price at the end of the day.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I, too, am now completely out of pocket.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The relics I have on hand now are leftovers that have never been sold, so I decided to sell them off, accepting some discounting.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The total price was 620,000 mana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Well, that's not bad.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

While I was doing business like this, a large man approached me.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

He was dressed in a very luxurious costume and, as I had seen before, he was accompanied by two companions on either side of him.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I couldn't help but stiffen at the appearance of the man.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"Sir Warren..."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

He is the elder brother of Mitra and Clarice. The man who started this whole thing by putting the villa on the auction block stood in front of me with a satisfied smile on his face.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

It wasn't a bad deal, Albus. I didn't expect you to come up with an initial capital of more than five million mana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I was so cornered I was nauseous the whole time..."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I responded.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Sir Warren's mouth twisted into a grin.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

...He's a disgusting guy.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

And what pisses me off the most is that the "offer for my product," which got a lot of bashing when I did it, was neatly passed over by everyone when the Grand Aristocrat did it.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

......"

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

But, well, that's how the world works.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

If you want to be like them, you have to get overwhelming money (mana) and power.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The amount of money and power that I have is incomparably different between me and Sir Warren, so I guess it is only natural that there is a difference in the way we respond to each other.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

By the way, how did you know what I had in my hand?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

And me. That's what I've been wondering all along.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

In the competition with Lord Warren.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I was down to a fraction of 7,000 mana. I was completely drained.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"How was I supposed to know?　So, Albus. Let me try to answer that question."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

What?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

How much were you left with at the end?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Zero.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

When I answered that. I answered, and Sir Warren burst out laughing, as if he were enjoying himself.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I see!　Zero!　It really was zero!　I just got a chill down my spine thinking if I had said one more word right there.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

'......'

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I thought you knew what you were doing, but apparently you didn't.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

If that's the case. How did you manage to go on the offensive so far?"

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

If he had made a mistake, he would have lost over ten million mana for nothing.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

If this was a hunch or a reading, he was a gambler too far gone.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

It's just a hunch."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Sir Warren replied.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Seriously, it's just a hunch...

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

'However, we have read each other at auctions many times before. Based on that experience..."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

'Even so, you wouldn't hunt them down to the last fraction, would you?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Those who take one mana lightly will eventually cry for one mana. I take what I can get until the very last minute. I knew for sure that you had a fraction of 7,000 mana in your hand, based on the proceeds from the three products that had been sold.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"Oh..."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Of the three items I sold, the Lord Gallon series sold for 930,000 mana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Ten percent of that went to the auction headquarters, so my earnings were 837,000 mana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

And there were no fractions in the sale of the other two items.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Furthermore, the mana that can be initially deposited at the auction headquarters is in units of 10,000 mana...

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

In other words, the fact that I had a fraction of 7,000 mana on hand was something I would have known if I had calculated the sales price of my goods.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

In that situation.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

In the middle of an auction with hundreds of participants, he had calculated the amount in my hand down to the fraction, and then he was trying to read each other....

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Then there was the tone of voice, breathing, and behavior. "I would use all the information I could find to determine their financial situation.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"So, he was beaten as if he had it all together."

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

He is a different caliber of merchant.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

For example, when I first declared that I had run out of mana. In contrast to my "13,240,000 mana," Sir Warren declared "13,245,000 mana.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

If I had covered "13,247,000 mana" at that point, it probably would have ended there.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

By declaring "13,280,000 mana" over the fraction, I was revealing my lie to Sir Warren.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

That was my reflection in the reading of the game.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

What's the matter, Albus? Are you having regrets?"

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

No, not at all.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

"Really?"

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Sir Warren snorted, a little surprised.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

'And why is that?

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I was able to buy what I wanted to buy with the amount of mana I had. I don't regret it. I regret that you beat me to it, but that's another story.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Yes.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Whatever the course of events, I've served my purpose.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

There's nothing better than that now.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I should examine my regrets about the readings, though.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

There is no point in having regrets, saying things like, 'I could have bought it for less.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

And...

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

In fact.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

That mansion is already more than just a rambling mansion.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

During the two months before the auction.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I had earned 700,000 mana from a theater performance using the garden of the mansion.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

And that was just for two evening performances.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

If I work on this seriously and increase the number of performances to six a day.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The mana earned by the theater in one month is estimated to be about 1 million mana. And if the performance schedule is moved to the daytime, it will naturally attract residents and vendors from outside of the West Quilkets area. We can expect to further expand the scale of the project.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

The 14 million mana I just spent to buy that mansion. I estimated that it would pay for itself in a little over a year.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

As an up-front investment, there was no problem.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I have no regrets.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I grinned at him.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

I grinned at him, and Sir Warren's mouth twisted a little more.

Read at https://w w w . m t l r e a d e r.com

Back

Table of Contents

Next

Back

Table of Contents

Next