“Honestly speaking though, it was originally 5 platinum coins. But since I wouldn’t be able to sell it like this, I had no choice but to reduce the price.” (Shopkeeper)
Even though the shopkeeper had a tone like being mortified by the decision to lower the price, there wasn’t any merchant, neither in this world nor in any other, who would do business transactions while recklessly incurring something like a loss.
At most he only gets a little profit, huh? He probably planned to recover the money to the extent of what he spent for keeping it in stock.
“If I charged it with mana in advance, would someone who has no mana themselves still be able to use magic?” (Wendelin)