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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That day.

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I was wandering around the peddler's square for wagon owners.

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Not as a merchant.

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As a customer.

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(Though I may not have been a customer exactly, since I was just chilling out with no intention of buying anything.

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In other words, it was a hostile inspection.

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What kind of things are being sold and what kind of things are being sold?

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That's what I'm trying to find out.

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The past few days.

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The herb sellers made their rounds only in the morning and evening hours, when there is a lot of pedestrian traffic near the outer gate, but during the daytime they made their rounds every day.

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There were meat, vegetable, fruit, and other food merchants.

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I pretended to be a customer and talked to him under the guise of small talk.

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He was from this area. He said that he went to nearby farmers every morning to buy foodstuffs and sold them here.

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He has been doing this business for five years. He seems to have built a very close relationship with the farmers and ranchers in the area.

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Instead of buying from them when prices are collapsing due to a good harvest, he would buy from them when prices were going up due to a bad harvest. When prices are going up due to a bad harvest, they let me buy their products at a lower price than others.

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It's like me dealing in medicinal herbs made by my wife (Arcana).

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It is not a business that can be easily imitated and earned.

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Other stores sell accessories. Stores that deal in armor for adventurers. Stores that deal in monster materials. Stores that deal in tools such as ropes and stakes for treasure hunters. Stores that deal in jewelry. Stores that deal in books.

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And, although lacking a sense of uniformity in terms of the items they handle, "I purchased these items in Poppo Village at the far northern end of the country. There were also stores selling a wide range of items such as clothing, jewelry, and even weapons, under the slogan, "Items made with the traditional techniques of the northernmost village.

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All of them dealt in products of their own unique colors. They all seemed to have their own unique products, and they all seemed to have their own ingenious routes for purchasing goods.

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I wandered around the wagon peddler's square for a while.

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I walked around the wagon peddling plaza for a while and thought, "After all, it is difficult to do business with only medicinal herbs.

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I felt the need to find new business opportunities.

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I suddenly had an idea.

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(1) I sent a request to the guild for a quest to collect materials.

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(2) Take the materials to a processing shop.

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(3) Sell the finished products.

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I have not done any of these businesses myself.

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I have not done any of these myself.

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Even if I made a rough estimate, it was not going to be a profitable business.

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It might be different if I could design a good design by myself. I don't have that kind of skill.

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At the very least, if I could gather monster materials on my own.

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I would be able to see a different world.

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What else?

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I thought about an orthodox business like buying things from far away and selling them as a peddler.

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But the cost was too high for me, who could not travel without hiring an escort.

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It was a situation where I was at a loss.

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Leaving the wagon square.

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As I was walking down the street thinking about this.

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With a thump, I bumped into someone.

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"Oh?　Where the hell do you think you're going?

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And then, unluckily.

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And unfortunately, the people who bumped into me were very scary-looking men.

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→→→→→

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Are you a merchant?

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Looks like you got a lot of mana?"

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Tall, burly men.

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They were tall, big guys, and they were shouting at me from above.

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"No, sir."

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"No, sir.　I've seen you doing business near the outer gate before.

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"......"

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Three scary-looking adventurers had driven me to the wall at the end of the road.

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Apparently. The three are apparently well-known thugs in the area.

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People on the street tried to stay out of their way.

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They were passing by with their eyes downcast.

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Seriously?

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That can't be true.

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If they were merchants. "If you're a merchant, you must have a certain amount of mana, right?"

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I just broke my arm running into you.

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'This guy is going to be treated by a white magician now, so give me 10,000 mana to pay for that treatment!

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Give me a break.

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The treatment won't cost that much, doofus!

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I can't say.

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If it were a normal cheat-type hero, here...

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"What the hell!" I would have done some kind of special move and turned the tables on them all.

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Unfortunately, I can't do that.

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Because...I'm weak!

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If I try to resist, I'll just end up getting a backhanded blowback.

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But that doesn't mean I can't do it. It's so ridiculous that I feel nauseous to be deprived of 10,000 mana for a misstep like this.

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Do these guys have any idea how hard I had to work to earn that much?

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I'm getting angry, but I can't help it.

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Because...I'm weak.

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The only thing I can do is to see an opening and run away.

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I couldn't think of any way to get out of this situation.

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Then, I saw one of the passersby.

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I saw a passerby.

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A short girl with a familiar face.

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She noticed me.

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She noticed me and approached me.

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She said, "Hey. I knew it was the herbalist. What are you doing in a place like that?"

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The girl was Loloi, a self-proclaimed "martial arts treasure hunter.

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