「Then, since we will return as soon as possible, until then I entrust her to Kazura-sama.」
So Lodurr said while entrusting her daughter to Kazura. Everyone decided that the rendezvous point will be in front of this clothing shop. Lodurr and Tana then went to sell the goods and vanished from sight among the crowd of people.
「Then, we will also go and sell the goods.」(other villagers)
「Yes, see you later.」
Following Lodurr, the other villagers also vanished from sight among the human swarm, leaving Valetta, Kazura and Myra in front of the shop.
The goods that they could sell are firewood and Arcadian Bugs, but they will sell the firewood first. Those 3 people then entered the neighboring store.
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One hour had passed.
After they exited the tenth store, Valetta made a small sigh.
To make sure Myra didn’t get lost, Kazura held her hand.
「Fuh, as expected it’s very hard to sell for more than 62 Ar.....」(Val)
「You’re right..... Although there are place that could buy it for 61 Ar, but it’s hard to surpass 62 Ar.」(Kaz)
Just like what she did at the first store, Valetta skillfully negotiate the cost, however there are no store who want to buy it over the market price of 60 Ar.
Although at first Myra had fun seeing the shops, she has now closed her mouth in silence. It seems that she was tired.
Eventually, since if they keep searching for a place that will buy the firewood at a higher price it will interfere with the time to sell Arcadian Bugs, so they returned to the first shop to sell their firewood at that place.
Since the distance to that shop was only several tenths meters, they quickly reached the first shop.
When those three enter the shop together, the shopkeeper came o meet and greet them with an expression as if saying: “What had I said?”[9]
「How is it? The other shop only buy it at most at 61 Ar, right?」
「Yes..... I’m sorry, but will you buy it at 62 Ar?」
To Valetta sorry request, the Shopkeeper replied
「A-aah. Since I had promised, I will buy it.」
He then took out 8 coins and gave them to Valetta.
「Six 10 Ar coins, and two 1 Ar coins.....It’s the correct price. Thank you very much.」
Kazura put down the rack and with Valetta help, unloaded the firewood from the rack and pile it on an open space inside the shop.
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「Now we will sell the Arcadian Bugs. The grocery shop is on that direction.」
The three people that had finished selling the firewood, without taking a break, went to the grocery store.
In the area where the grocery store was located there were a lot of shops and people in there.
In front of the shop there were wooden boards or stone slabs that described the price of the things that the shops sold.
Since Kazura had just arrived in Isteria, he learned only some of the character of this world from Valetta; more or less he could read the numbers and could only read a small amount of the worm-like letters.[10]
「Emmm, Summer Potato, one for 5 Ar...... Huh? One potato is 5 Ar? That much firewood is only 60 Ar, and yet this potato is expensive. Is this potato a high class food?」
「No, this potato is the ordinary potato that can be harvested in the villages even in this time...... How could it become this expensive....?」
It appears that there is a food shortage that caused the price of food to suddenly rise steeply.[11]
Kazura peeked at the inside of the store, the 5 Ar potato was displayed in the inside of a box, mingled with the other food.
The potato length was about 10 cm, had a shape like sweet potato[12], and the diameter was only as big as a circle made from an index and a thumb.
Even if you use all the money from selling firewood, you can only buy 12 potatoes, so it was a really steep price increase.
Didn’t this mean that Arcadian Bugs would be sold at even higher price? With this expectation, they entered the shop, but the result from negotiation with the proprietress was that she only will buy 8 of them for 12 Ar.
「I’m sorry, there is only a small demand for Arcadian Bugs, unlike potatoes or legumes. If you go toward the city center then I think you can sell it for higher price. Why don’t you try it?」
「Is that so?....... I understand, we will go and try it. Thank you very much.」
Because they had come to Isteria from a faraway distance that took 2 days of walking, it’s better for them if they could sell the Arcadian Bugs for a high price.
The three people went towards the closest Shopping Area in the City Center and left the plaza behind.