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The day after we reunited our party of four.

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I promptly bought a second wagon for Burgess and Clarice.

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I had a lot of trouble with the first one.

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I was able to afford the second one from what I currently had on hand.

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I guess that means I'm slowly but surely making my way as a merchant.

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However, I would have to quickly recover the investment of about 120,000 mana that I had put into the wagons by doing business using those wagons.

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The recovery of that investment would depend on the skill of Burgess, Clarice, and...

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It was up to Arcana's skill.

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What's this...something smells funny!

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And the day after that.

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At the wagon peddling square before it opened.

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I set up my second wagon next to the first "relic & herb vendor" wagon.

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My second wagon has a cooking stand.

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I chose to sell barbequed meat to Clarice, who said she didn't like to wait on customers.

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And I'm going to have Burgess help me with that, too.

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And it's not just grilled meat!

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I had come up with the idea for this business during my recent stay in Yak Village.

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I had asked Arkana for help and had been steadily making preparations behind the scenes.

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It seems that Arkana's side is just about ready, so I'm going to let Clarice and her team take care of it at the right time.

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If they get into it right, they should be reasonably busy.

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Ugh..."

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Clarice fainted in agony as she peered into the contents of the jar on top of the wagon.

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'Don't you smell it?

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'Medicinal herbs... I know they're medicinal herbs... What do you use these for?"

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At any rate, I thought it would be quicker to show them.

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I began to chop up the codfish meat I had taken out of storage.

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Not moo moo roast?　You're selling cod roast here?　You can't sell that in Kirkett..."

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Clarice and Burgess both look a little skeptical.

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'Well, wait a minute.'

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I dissolved a few spoonfuls of the herb powder in a jar with water, sprinkled it on the coddled meat, put it on the cooker, and began to grill it.

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Then, the distinctive smell of medicinal herbs began to spread around me.

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This herbal powder was a special blend that he had asked Arkana to blend.

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It was a mixture of dried and crushed stems of lomari, a numbing herb, and dried and crushed leaves of baril, a poisoning herb.

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Then a little dried and crushed kojau berries, a numbing herb, and a pinch of salt.

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Arcana's special blend of herbal powder is what is in the jar.

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The flavor of the codlice, which is baked after being sprinkled with the powder, has a unique herbal smell that adds to its flavor, giving it a deep and distinctive taste that bears no resemblance to its original light flavor.

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In other words, it's grilled codlice with medicinal herbs.

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No...

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The part of the herb that is normally discarded is used as a flavor enhancer...

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It might be more appropriate to call it a "herb roast" rather than a "medicinal herb roast.

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So...

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So this is "herb-roasted codlice.

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Because of the mysterious aroma of medicinal herbs that spreads around the area along with the smoke from the Codorus roast.

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Even though it was before the opening of the peddling square for wagons, the surrounding peddlers gathered around my wagon.

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They peeked in at me from a distance, wondering what was going on.

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It seemed that even before I started selling, I was already the talk of the town.

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This was quite a good trend.

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And then...

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Yum!　Albus!　This is delicious!"

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It's amazing!　Albas moo moo baked fish is good, but this codfish is also very good!　It is totally different from the usual Codolis!　It's a new, super-evolved form of Kodlis-yaki!

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The signboard girls repeatedly (unknowingly) advertise with smiles on their faces...

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Hearing this, the merchants around us cleared their throats and drooled.

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I grinned a little and took some more additional codlice meat out of storage.

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He then grilled several more additional skewers while briefly explaining to Clarice and Burgess the cooking time and the best amount of herb powder to sprinkle on them, as told by Arcana.

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They all settled in Loloi's belly.

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Then he said, "Herb-roasted codfish! It's the best!" echoed loudly through the wagon square.

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I turned to Burgess and Clarice.

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I'm sure things are going to get a lot busier when the square opens, so I'm counting on you two to be there for me.

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And just as I had planned.

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The first Kodlis herb-roasted store opened immediately after the opening, and the merchants were flooded with customers who were interested in the product. And then the general public joined the queue, and the line continued to grow throughout the day.

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Skewers priced at 20 mana each sold like hotcakes.

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During the process, it got to the point where I had to step in to help out, but we managed to get through to the end.

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It was a good start for the first day.

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Incidentally, the cost of one skewer of Codolis meat is about four to five mana.

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The amount of codlice meat sold for 5 mana at the butcher's over there, which is the same as the market price.

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If you put herb powder on it and cook it, you can sell it for four times the price.

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Incidentally, we requested Arcana to recycle the parts of the medicinal herbs that are not effective as original medicinal herbs as much as possible.

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In making medicinal herb pastes and the like, the parts of herbs that were originally discarded as unnecessary parts were reused. This time, Arcana was able to reuse them.

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Therefore, although it takes a lot of labor, the material cost is almost free of charge.

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That means that each skewer is worth 15 mana.

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That is 500 skewers sold today alone.

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That's a total of 7,500 mana.

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Incidentally, the codlice we used today was saved from before we left the ruins. The 10,000 mana that he has on hand is the entire increase in the amount of sales.

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Furthermore.

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We can purchase as much codlice as we want in this quirkette, and we still have plenty of medicinal herb powder in Arkana.

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I can ask for additional production, and this herb powder specially made in Arkana is not something that other merchants can easily imitate.

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So this is a long-term sustainable business using a product that only I can sell.

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With this, it was now only a matter of time before I could make back the 120,000 mana I invested in the second wagon and turn it into a pure positive profit.

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You're making a killing!"

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After closing the store, I couldn't stop grinning as I counted today's sales.

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I was grinning as I counted the day's sales after closing the shop.

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I thought to myself, "This...would have been a lot easier if we had just gone on a quest, wouldn't it?"

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'Albus...go easy on us for a minute. Burgess and I both. If we're this exhausted, we won't be able to fight when the time comes.

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We're making so much money, we're getting carried away and going a little overboard.

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From tomorrow, we will adjust our business hours and devise new methods so that we don't lose too much energy.

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Incidentally, the relic dealer also made sales of about 100,000 mana that day.

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Thus, our reserves continued to grow steadily.

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