196 Episode 196: Shopping until dusk.txt




 Garnett nodded as if he was satisfied with my response and lightly turned on his heel.

'Alright then! There's still some time before dinner, and we'll have to look around King's Landing a bit more!
The next place you want to go is ...... Yes, is there a place nearby where I can buy souvenirs?
'You're going to buy it for the guys in the store and go home. If that's the case, go to ...... in the market, no, that place is more for everyday shopping. When it comes to souvenirs, it's .......

 He folds his arms and thinks for a while, then looks back at me and nods his head.

It's just not a very good idea to get a random food item, is it?
That's why I want to be able to pick the right people to be around.
Are they from the store?
And Sylvia and Sakura and ......

 I counted the number of people who came to mind.

There's not enough time to pick out a souvenir for each and every person I know, but for the people I've known for a long time and the folks at the White Wolf Store, I'd like to give each of them something that suits them.

I know. So, let's go to the shops.

 Therefore, the next destination was a commercial area with various specialty shops.

Although there is some distance from the Temple of Ten Thousand, there are many shops for various professions, including weapon shops, armor shops and various tool shops, as well as wizards.

 There are also other shops that deal in rare and exclusive items collected from all over the continent, and just looking around wasn't going to be boring.

 However, it seems that the shops that deal in food and miscellaneous goods that the residents of King's Landing purchase on a daily basis are almost non-existent in this area.

 Such goods are said to be sold in a different area, the main street generally called the market (market).

 Since this area is closer to the Temple of All, Garnett first remembered the market when he was asked about a place to shop.

Well, I'll get it before the sun goes down.

 We started looking for souvenirs for everyone in Green Hollow.

 --I'm sure you'll be able to find some of the best tea at ......, but I'm sure Sylvia is more concerned about the tea as a commodity to be served in the dining room, but the amount of tea we can buy is too expensive for us to buy back. I know.

 After all, here, I'll leave it around the King's Capital brand cooking utensils and give you some tea leaves as well, in the guise of wanting everyone in the Spring Wakaba Tei to drink them.

 --It's a little bit troubling to wonder what Sakura would want, but Garnett, a fellow warrior temperament friend, knew the answer.

 Apparently, he misses foodstuffs that are common in the east (over there) but hard to find in the west (here).

 They also carry those foreign products here.
 Considering that they are not sold in Green Hollow, they might be best suited as souvenirs.

 --Noir had decided to buy them from a shop specializing in wizardry, but unfortunately neither me nor Garnett knew much about this area.

 At any rate, I think back to the supplies Noir said he needed for the manufacture of his goods and ordered from the Sun Dial Trading Company, and I decide to choose the items that are not included in the order that seem to have a lot of use.

 As a result, what came up as a candidate was a pen used for filling in spell crests and magic letters.

 The owner of the specialty store also explained that the pen is a consumable item and needs to be replaced frequently, so I decided to buy a set of spare nibs and the main body in a reasonable price range.

 I thought I would buy some ink, but the owner stopped me from doing so.

 The owner said that the ink is supposed to be changed according to the content you want to inscribe, so even if a layman buys it at random, he doesn't know if there's any use for it.

 --that's how the shopping goes on in good shape.

 Erica, Alexia, Leila and the branch staff.
 Nagi and Melissa and Travis and the other adventurers who are well taken care of, Marida and Malcolm from the guild house, and the branch manager, Florence and her daughter Lisa.

 It was surprisingly fun to be with Garnett, mending souvenirs like this and that, and in the end they laughed at each other as they got their items together.

...... and. You're right, we bought too much.

 We both walked leisurely through the commercial district at dusk with the goods in our hands.

''Let me put them in the Argentean's villa for now, and the rest is going to be hard just to bring them back to ...... Green Hollow.
In that case, we'll deliver it to you first. It's a lot of money, but it's a hell of a lot less than the cost of transporting it.
'Oh yeah, well, the fact that we're getting stuff from all over the continent means that we can carry stuff to every corner of the continent, on the contrary.

 The logistics network brings together goods and people from all over the Westland.
 The carriages and ships that support it cannot possibly end in a one-way trip, but always take the form of a round trip between the capital and the regions.

 It's an extremely efficient and realistic idea that the carriage that brings something from the provinces and earns an income will load up what it wants to carry to the provinces and leave the King's Capital to earn even more money.

 It's a waste to return home empty-handed without a single copper coin.
 Even I am a novice in the field, so it's even better if it's my day job.

Then you can send the luggage to Green Hollow first. Then you can have your luggage sent to Green Hollow first, maybe they'll get a souvenir before us.
It's good, isn't it? Well, I can specify that it should be delivered later than this date. I can't do it the other way around.

 Once you've decided to talk, all you have to do is act.
 I visit the carrier's office, which has been set up in a corner of the commercial district, and finish accepting the delivery of a package addressed to Green Hollow.

 I was told to wait until they finished loading the package into the warehouse, so I was taking a break in the chair next to the entrance when a familiar boy came into the office with a package in hand.

'Excuse me, delivery of this, please! Oh, be careful with those accessories that use mithril, really!
...... Is that a...

 If I'm not mistaken, the boy was the son of Craig, the mithril processor.

 The boy finished the procedure, turned around, and then rolled his eyes at me.

'Huh? Not you, not you, ...... you, the white wolf merchant!
I think it was Colin, right? Mr. Craig's son.
'Yes! Great, you remembered me?
He's very proud of his memory.

 Garnett, sitting next to me, points at me with his thumb.

 It's actually true, but it makes me feel somewhat itchy when Garnett says it.

'Are those packages over there Luke's by any chance? That's a lot of stuff: ......
'It's a souvenir for the local area. I bought a little too much, so I asked them to send it to me.
Souvenirs? Yes, if you shopped around here, did you stop at an armorer or something?

 The answer is no (no).
 I hadn't stopped at that kind of shop, thinking that I would indeed not buy a weapon as a souvenir and leave, even though my shop was also a weapons shop.

 When I shook my head to tell him that, Colin kept his voice low, as if he were talking in private.

It's a good thing that you're not going to be able to find out what's going on," he said. It's a good idea to go on a hostile inspection.