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.

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And this is a side note...

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After leaving me.

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I heard that the brave Ryan and his friends had quite a rough time of it.

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For starters, they had to lose a large portion of their prized collection that could not fit into Miriri the Dancer's normal-sized "warehouse.

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My 'warehouse' won't hold this much! The second to fifth ladies started a big fight over whose collection should be carried first.

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Ryan saw this and rushed to the adventurers' guild in the next town to look for me.

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With zero fighting skills, he thought I would first hire an escort to help me get back home.

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Unfortunately, I had gone to a herb farmer in Yak Village, so I didn't go to the guild in the next town until the next day.

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I guess I passed Ryan and his friends just like that.

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Also, my hometown is too far from here.

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The 50,000 mana severance package Ryan gave me would never be enough to hire an escort that far.

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Besides, I was planning to start a business with the 50,000 mana, so going back to my hometown was not an option at all.

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Back to Ryan and the others.

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When Ryan and his friends stopped by the guild, there were five adventurers with the "Warehouse" skill.

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Ryan, the brave one, took advantage of the opportunity and asked them for advice.

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All five of them joined Ryan's party as temporary members. They all joined Ryan's party as temporary members, but...

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They were all members of the "Black Wings" band of thieves.

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The five thieves put the heroes' collections into their own "warehouses," in order of value, and then, as a matter of course, they ran off to the mountains.

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In no time at all, most of the collection was stolen from them, leaving the heroes in a daze.

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Then, the brave men angrily chase the bandits into the mountains.

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All night long, they continue to chase the bandits while engaging in battles with the mountain monsters. When they realize it, they are exhausted.

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Here they are.

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They realized that, more than their collections, their grimoires, recovery potions, and other support items were indispensable to their adventures.

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As usual, they used magic all over the place, and the three sorcerers' magic power ran out in an instant.

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The warrior's physical assault tactics were also made possible by recovery items and recovery magic.

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And the beastmen's beasts would not work without a large amount of food.

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Also, Ryan's tactics and skills were quite fuel-inefficient.

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And since high-end magic and strength restoration medicines sell for a good price, they too had been stolen by the bandits. Most of the remaining support items had also been left behind in the Yak village because they were "too bulky.

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Ryan and his friends, who had run out of energy, magic, and items, were almost lost in the mountains around Yak Village.

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But they had spent half their lives.

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They could not give up on their collection, which they had spent half of their lives collecting.

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The brave men continue their pursuit with a desperate spirit.

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Finally, they ran out of food.

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Milili, who was too young to be a part of the group, ran away.

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Then, the heroes gave up the pursuit of the bandits in tears.

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Once they returned to the village of Yak, they said, "If we get to the capital, we can manage anything!

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and returned to the village of Yak once, bought a wagon, and began to carry the remaining collections.

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Incidentally, I was accompanying another party on a multi-day quest as a baggage handler.

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So it seemed that we had crossed paths with Ryan and the others again.

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Ryan and his party departed for the capital.

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However, the wagons were piled high with collections, so that they could not carry that many support items and food.

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The recovery and support items that they buy in the towns along the way, not that much quantity. The consumptive and brave fighters ran out of them before reaching the next town.

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Then, they were instructed to conserve, and the battle was always just barely barely enough.

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The heroes who had accomplished the defeat of the Demon King were in an unexpectedly unusual situation, struggling against monsters on the continent's normal land routes.

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However, they could not say such ugly things.

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They will now return triumphantly to the capital as "the heroes who defeated the Demon King.

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Before they knew it, they had run out of mana, the common currency, but they were determined not to give up their remaining collection, so they continued on their way with no money.

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In the end, they planned to hold a large-scale triumphal parade with the money from the sale of the collection.

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However, in the royal capital, preparations were underway for an extraordinarily grand triumphal parade by the sixth queen, Fina's mother.

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Actually, the right thing to do would have been to quickly give away the collection, use the money to buy all the supporting items, and quickly reach the royal capital.

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Everything was backfiring on the brave men.

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Moreover, in order not to be seen in tatters, the brave men proceeded to avoid the streets and towns as much as possible.

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And then, they would go off in more and more outrageous directions.

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"Hey, are we lost?

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Do you have a map?

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We don't have a map.

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Usually Albus memorized all the maps and directions.

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Where the hell are we?

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What are we going to do now?

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Will the battered heroes make it to the capital safely?

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What is the fate of the heroes?

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I heard that there was a standard, lame-ass development of the "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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But, well, that's another story for me.

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I'm me, and for the time being, I'll be making a living from my humble and miserable business in the village of Yak and the neighboring town of Malt.

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Well, that's what it's all about.

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So it was a thorny issue for both of us.

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