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"I have the results of my prediction. The current price of magic tools will eventually fall.

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Well, I guess so. I think Theon is right. I think it's more important to ask why Zion, the head of the Thracian clan, is here in this town.

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"No problem. I have permission from my brother. We, the Thracians, were born in the forest and live in the forest, but it is important for us to broaden our horizons. I have never been out of the forest much, so this is my way of getting out."

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"No, but that doesn't mean you have to follow me.　Well, I don't mind if you stay."

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　My home in the Orient.

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　There, for some reason, is one half of the head of a clan of assassins called the Shadow Men.

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　Theon.

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　She and some of her followers live in this house.

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　This house is newly purchased and I use it as my home, but it has become like a stronghold of the Thracian clan.

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　It is used as a resting place for the shadows who have been active in the city.

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　I wonder if the craftsmen who visit the workshop have any idea that the place is filled with assassins.

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　Theon says that although there have been activity bases in the Orient before, they were not in this area, which is located in the center of the city, as here, and that is a good thing.

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　Well, it would certainly be more helpful to have the shadows by my side than to have them in the hands of others.

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　So I don't mind living here, and I don't ask them to leave.

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　It seems that Zion, who lives in this house, has been telling fortunes.

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　I don't know how he uses them, but he has a number of long sticks which he jigsgles and scatters on his desk to divine the future.

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　I have no idea what is going on, but Zion seems to be able to read the future.

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　Then, when he had finished telling the fortune, Zion said to me.

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　The price of magic tools will plummet.

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　I think so too.

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　Those who are in this frenzy may feel that this situation should continue for a long time to come.

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　But I think the price has gone up too much.

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　Now is the time of year when winter is almost over and spring is about to arrive.

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　It has been a considerable period of time since Ai started teaching magic at the workshop, and during that time, the price has been going up.

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　Around the beginning of the year, they were being sold for more than ten gold coins, and now the first sale items are being bought for more than that amount.

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　The first sale was made for more than ten gold coins, but nowadays the first sale is bought for even more than that amount.

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　There are even rumors that the final price of some of them exceeded 1,000 gold coins.

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　It doesn't make any sense, does it?

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　To an ordinary person, even a single gold coin is a lot of money.

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　A highly skilled craftsman or a merchant in a big store in this country may be able to pay ten or twenty coins, but a thousand coins is still too much.

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　It is obviously an unusual situation to spend that much money on a single magical tool, which, if it is not very good, does not even work.

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　However, there is a reason as to why such a thing has actually been done and is still going on.

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　It has to do with the big storm of the previous year.

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　It was an even stronger storm than the previous ones and caused damage in many places.

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　I made some good money in futures trading, but not for many others.

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　Some of us lost a lot of money.

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　It is the same for craftsmen, merchants, and villagers.

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　The loss must have been powerful enough to destroy their lives.

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　Those who managed to survive the damage and lived just barely.

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　They were suddenly faced with a new lucrative business opportunity, this time, the popularity of magical tools.

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　As people around them began to make good profits and acquire large sums of money, those who had lost money in the previous year jumped at the chance for a quick turnaround.

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　And so far it is working.

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　In fact, most of the people who got into the magical tools market have succeeded in increasing their assets.

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　Because the price of magic tools keeps going up.

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　If you buy a magical tool, even if you have to borrow money to buy it, its value will continue to increase as time goes by.

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　Just by having it, the price goes up.

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　This is the reason why it is a loss if you don't buy it.

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　And the further improvement in the way of transactions seems to be the cause of the heating up.

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　In addition to debt, there seems to have been a new method of purchasing magic tools, in which all you need is a deed as long as you can provide collateral of less than one-tenth of the purchase price, and it seems to have further developed from there.

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　It seems that there is also a method called "split ownership purchase".

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　This is a method in which the price of each magic tool has risen too high, so instead of buying it alone, one buys it by dividing it among several people.

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　However, this method is quite tricky, and it does not mean that people who know each other invest in the purchase.

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　The purchase is made by dividing the purchase with a stranger, and you only have a part of the ownership of the magical equipment, but you do not receive the actual magical equipment in your hand.

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　Craftsmen do not buy such things because they are not useful for research, but for those whose only goal is to make money, they do not need the real thing any more.

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　It seems that they only want limited ownership as long as they can get a price for it and trade it.

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　Other than such installment purchases, there are other purchase methods being introduced these days that I don't understand.

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　I am impressed by the fact that there are people who think of all kinds of things to make money.

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"When do you think the crash will happen, Zion?"

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"I don't think it will be right now. I could see this frenzy continuing for a while longer."

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"I knew it. Since the development of various different purchase methods, it seems that money from outside of the Orient has been flowing in. Zion is right. It may continue for a while longer. Well, this will end sooner or later.

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"What do you think will happen when this extraordinary frenzy is over?"

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"......", you know. If it crashes as predicted, it means that a thousand gold coins or more may suddenly become less than a single copper coin at a time. All hell could break loose, don't you think?"

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　Well, it will still be OK, though.

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　Some other small countries are jumping on the bandwagon.

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　If there are those who come in later, I think this trend will continue for a while longer.

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　However, I don't know what will happen when those newcomers are gone.

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　Well, I myself don't buy magic tools for such a ridiculous amount of money, so I doubt that I will lose a lot of money.

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　I decided to wait and see for a while, asking Zion to read my fortune from time to time.

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