「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.
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