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"I brought you some additional messenger beast eggs, but, well, I guess all the ones I gave you before have already hatched. ......"

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　After a while, a peddler came to the village again, spending his days training to ride a horse while I opened a forest and expanded the fields.

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　As per our previous agreement, he had brought me a new set of eggs for my beast of burden.

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　When I told him that all the eggs had already hatched, he was surprised.

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　The peddler had expected that only one or two eggs had hatched yet.

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　It seems that the eggs of the beast I raise grow quite fast.

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　Maybe it's the effect of the infusion.

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　Normally, the eggs grow by absorbing the person's magical power naturally, so it often takes more than a month to hatch one egg.

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　Moreover, even if a person has multiple eggs, they do not hatch at the same time, so it takes a long time.

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　This is why I was surprised to see the messenger animals that had already reached adulthood.

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"At any rate, you can sell them now," he said. What do you think?　I mean, do you have someplace to buy it from?"

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"Hmm?　Oh. Yeah. To tell you the truth, I don't intend to sell it at first."

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"What?　So you're going to try peddling it yourself?"

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That's one thing, but not this time. We're going to give them to people, for free."

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　Huh?

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　He was saying, "This messenger beast will definitely sell," but is he going to give it away as a free gift?

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　I couldn't understand what the peddler was up to.

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"H-h-h-h. Don't you understand?　Ars is still a little boy."

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"What? If you're going to give a present to a woman, I'll consider cutting a deal with you."

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No, no, no. It's not like that.

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Then what are you going to do about it?

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"We're offering it to you. To the nobleman who rules this land.

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"Dedicated to the nobility?"

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"Yes. Do you remember what I said before?"

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"...... what are you talking about?"

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"You know, the story about how a village peddler like me doesn't have the connections to handle expensive things."

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　I don't know if I heard that or not.

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　I wonder what it was.

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　I dredged up the memory of the peddler's words.

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　I remembered that I had once asked the vendor to sell me white porcelain and glassware at a higher price.

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　But he paid me several times as much as the usual commodity tableware, but he didn't regard them as luxury goods.

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　This is partly because the peddler did not have a way to sell the tableware at a higher price.

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　In a place where the nobility exists, it is necessary to have a certain level of credibility in order for the nobility to buy one's goods.

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　Normally, a large store is exclusively in charge of transactions with the nobility.

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　The nobles can get most of their goods by ordering from the exclusive store, and the risk of getting bad goods is reduced because of the trust relationship based on longtime transactions.

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　In exchange for monopoly of transactions with the nobles, the exclusive stores would be held responsible for any mishaps.

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　For this reason, they have to be serious in their business.

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　Because of such a strong connection between sellers and buyers, it is difficult for newcomers to enter the market.

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　Naturally, a peddler who comes to our village has no connections with the nobility.

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　No matter how much I insisted that my tableware could be sold at a high price, they would not buy it for the desired amount.

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　If they were that expensive, I could only sell them to the nobles, and even if I tried to sell them, I could not even meet them properly.

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　But not this time.

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　This time, the item I have come up with is not a piece of tableware I made myself, but a mountable beast that is recognized as valuable and useful even in this world.

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　There is definitely a demand for it.

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　They will sell wherever they are put out.

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　So why are we talking about offering them to the public instead of selling them?

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　It has something to do with the social situation.

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　Nowadays, wars are fought with a certain frequency in this region.

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　And a rideable beast can be a very important factor in winning a war.

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　In other words, it would be a strategic commodity.

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　What would happen if such strategic goods are sold to the opposing nobles, ignoring the nobles who rule this land?

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　First of all, it is certain that the lives of all the people involved will be lost.

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　If this is the case, it is impossible to do business without regard to the nobles.

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　Therefore, the peddler decided that it would be better to give it to them free of charge before the first transaction.

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　If they liked it, it would lead to future purchases, and above all, it would be a powerful connection with the nobles.

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　Perhaps, they could make connections with other nobles.

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　It seems that there is such calculation.

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"Well, that's why I'm going to visit the nobleman's house next time. Tell your father I'll be there.

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　Apparently, this peddler also sees this deal as a big opportunity.

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　He is not going to sell it by himself, but he is going to bring not only me, who is raising the beast, but also his father, who is his guardian, to greet the noble family.

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　Thus, for the first time, I was going out of the village.

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