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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You're the one who was initially going to bid 2.52 million mana for the grill set, which ended up going up to 10 million mana... and you're okay with that?"

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I'm looking at Gilbert Warren, the great nobleman.

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If I say such a thing. I was afraid that the nobleman might get angry with me for saying this, but...

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I couldn't resist the urge to say it, so I did.

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"The value of the thing is..."

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Hmm?

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The value of things fluctuates. It's better to buy a valuable item at a low price, but it's not just about that.

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What do you mean?

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Don't you see?　At that moment, the rainbow singer Amaranthia's song transformed the goods into even more luminous and precious items.

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For the participants in the hall, the initial value was estimated to be less than 2.52 million mana.

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And I myself was expecting to pay 3.5 million mana.

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Because it was an item related to a lesser-known chapter of Grill's peddling expedition, everyone estimated it to be worth that much at first.

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It was...

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The bard Amaranthia's song...

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The nobles all raised their prices.

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And then it was transformed into such an exquisite item that Gilbert Warren was willing to pay 10 million mana for it.

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If that's what you're talking about, I understand .......

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Yes, I do.

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I've done that same thing many times in my own business.

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The wooden dolls of Mithras that never sold at all in the wagon square. By selling them at the theater right after Amaranthia's song, I sold them all at once at the same price.

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Even at the theater, wooden dolls sell better after a performance than before.

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If people's hearts are moved, the value of the object moves along with it.

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Wooden dolls that would have been worth 200 mana each are transformed into something that people would want even if they had to pay 800 mana for a set of four.

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And that mansion.

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At first I thought there was no way I could afford even 6 million...

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But after receiving the expectations of Burgess and his friends, and after transforming the mansion itself into a "theater," a means of earning money, it became something I would want even if I had to pay nearly 14 million mana for it.

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So I bought the relic of the grill for 10 million mana. That's why I bought the relic of the grill for 10 million mana, because I found it worth it to me. I don't regret it in the slightest.

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I see.

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This man, Gilbert Warren, seemed to be that kind of man.

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And the mansion and Mitra, too.

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What?

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I thought that things that produce nothing should be quickly disposed of and turned into manna.... But then I saw it become a theater, and the wooden dolls that Mitra produced were sold one after another and turned into mana. And the food and drink stores were selling quite well."

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I visited there once. It seems that Sir Warren had seen that much properly.

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Perhaps he had seen the whole thing, including the first performance where the audience bought the wooden dolls, along with the admission.

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What I thought was worthless had turned into something interesting when I took my eyes off it for a moment. So...I was actually a little reluctant to let it go. If I were to lose 12 million mana by buying it back, if I were serious about running the business, I could make that back in a year or so, right?"

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That was pretty much in line with my projections.

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So he had seen that much in that split-second visit...

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No way.... You competed with me until the very last minute..."

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I was playing the game of reading your hand. I was playing the game of reading your handhelds. I was thinking that it might be a good idea to keep the mansion and Mitra in my possession and under my control.

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Are you serious?

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A chill ran down my spine.

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The Lord Warren estimated the value of that theater to be that much. The actual a lot of the time, the actual a lot of the time, the actual a lot of the time, the actual a lot of the time, the actual a lot of the time, the actual a lot of the time.

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And the reason why he did not take the measure of canceling the sale of the mansion in the first place was because he did not want to go through the trouble of running his own business and was not willing to sell the property. The reason why he did not take the measure of canceling the mansion was because he saw the value in being able to obtain a large amount of mana in one lump sum without the hassle of running the business himself.

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If Lord Warren cancels the exhibition of the mansion and declares that he will manage the theater as it is his own, I will no longer have any leverage over him. I would no longer be able to do anything about it.

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At best, I would be a subcontractor, a hired caretaker.

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In that case, Mitra and Clarice might have been able to obtain the protection of the Warren family. I'm going to have all my theaters (businesses) taken away from me.

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Twelve million manas.

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What?

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If it was bought for less than the 12 million mana I estimated the theater would earn in a year, I would offer to buy it back and let my own hands run it.

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That was why Sir Warren had intervened to raise the price when the deal was about to be settled at 10.2 million.

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The mansion...

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"Oh, I sold it to you in the end," he said. I got my fair share of mana. I played around with it a little bit in the end, but I'm happy with the way it turned out.

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And as for after he had raised the price to his target of 12 million mana...

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Sir Warren was just playing the game of 'read off my (Albus's) mana and squeeze every last bit of mana out of me (Albus).

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If I could read it right, they could squeeze a lot of money out of me, including the price increase of the Grill Series.

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And if I got the reading wrong, I expected to make that loss back in a year or so through theater management. And from the second year, it would be a tree of gold (manna) that would continue to produce revenue.

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The drawback was that it would be a waste of the Warren family's limited human resources.　Perhaps they must be engaged in a number of more efficient businesses.

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After all, even at that moment when I was on the edge. Lord Warren was just enjoying the game of reading my hand under the rule that no matter how it turned out, he would not lose money in the end.

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......"

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...What a guy.

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But..." "But. Originally, you breathed new life (value) into it. You took a house that I was about to discard as worthless and turned it into a theater that I would have been sorry to part with, even for a moment. ...It is unmistakably yours, by your hand. As a result, this is good. You got your theater, and I got over 12 million mana in one lump sum, as originally planned. This wasn't a bad deal for either of us, was it?"

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A man named Gilberto.

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A man without blood or tears, who would cut off even his own flesh and blood if he thought it was worthless and pointless.

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But he seemed to treat people and businesses that create value with a certain amount of respect.

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At the time of the game, the goal set by Sir Warren himself was "to read off my (Albus') hand. The goal set by Sir Warren was that if he won the reading game with me, the result would be that the house would be sold to me.

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It was. It was the least Lord Warren could have paid me for creating something as valuable as a theater.

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I had thought he was just a good-for-nothing aristocrat who was just basking in his privilege, but...

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I was beginning to dislike this Gilbert Warren a little less.

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"Oh, that means you too, Albus.

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What is it?"

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"A man's worth also changes."

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What do you mean?

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Well, I think I know what you mean.

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It means that you're no longer a stone by the side of the road for me.

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I felt a little bad that I was being noticed in a strange way.

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I'll see you soon. I'll send a messenger to your mansion (・・・・・)."

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Finally, he said something like that.

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Gilbert Warren walked away from me.

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