Chapter 187: Occasionally Went To A Stylish Shop
「I see, so you are a noble-sama」
「It makes feel uncomfortable hearing you speaking like that old man, stop it. It’s fine if you talk like before」
「……okay」
When I tell him that, his shoulder relaxed, and his manner of talking returned to just like before.
It’s clear that the middle-aged man seems to be bad at speaking politely. Though I’m actually also the type that is bad with speaking politely.
「So, I won’t set up a stall here, and I won’t thoughtlessly tell others about it so your sales won’t be affected」
After I said that, the man groaned and folded his arms as if he’s thinking about it.
「……how much are you going to offer actually?」
「How about 20 silver coins?」
If it were this much money, then a family of four can use it for three months.
I think this much should be appropriate information about the spices and herbs.
However, the man has a serious look on his face.
I thought to lower the price at first and make the other party grumble about it, then gradually increase the amount but, I guess it’s too low?
「……right now, my wife is pregnant so I want to let her eat delicious food for the baby. So could you increase it a bit more?」
I thought that the middle-aged man will try to bargain by mixing it with so other reason but, what he said sounded decent to .
So that’s the reason why you need more money, even to the extent of selling the information, huh?
Wanting to let his important wife - and the baby that has yet to be born-, eat delicious food.
……what is this I wonder. The bargaining this ti is really an honest one, compared with the previous ones.
Compared with this, what about the discussion I’ve had recently?
The collusion with Torr to win over Sheila-san so she won’t tell on us for badmouthing our neechan, the one where I’m trying to make Sylvio-niisan fall for the charm of sli cushion……
Considering our ntal age, I feel the middle-aged man and I have the sa age - if not older-, and have been living honestly.
But if the man’s bargaining technique was to appeal to my feelings, and his serious expression and words are all lies, then it would be too incredible. Or rather, it might be better if I stop thinking along these lines.
「……then, how about double of that, forty silver coins?」
「That’s a great help! Well then, I’ll tell you about the herbs right now! This herb is――」
「Wait. I haven’t paid you the money yet. I have to pay it first before you say it, if it were so bad person then he will just run away, you know?」
「……o,ooh. I see」
He was probably so eager because he was overwheld by his feelings toward his important wife. But even that looked heartwarming.
After calming the middle-aged man, I take out a leather bag from my breast pocket.
「Ah, sure enough, I don’t have forty silver coins with but I got gold coins, do you have any change for them?」
「……this is a stall you know, I don’t even have sixty silver coins」
Right. It would be strange to take out silver coins at a stall.
I guess it’s because I used my purse before in Kagura, there are only Kagura coins and so other big coins. I should probably exchange these.
Though I’ve stored a lot of silver coins inside the subspace of my Space magic, but I can’t cast it here now.
「Just a mont, I’m gonna exchange it and ca back, wait here okayー」
「Ou, okay!」
I left the place after informing him.
Then I turn around at a suitable alley, head to the shadow of a building, and cast Space magic secretly.
I took out a wooden box from the subspace, then I take out forty silver coins from that and put it into the wooden box.
Yosh, now it’s done. It contains exactly forty silver coins.
I walk slowly to the middle-aged man’s stall while carrying the wooden box.
「Ohh? Have you exchanged your money? There should be quite a distance to the money exchanger though」
「I have a servant nearby. It’s tis like this when a lot of money cos in handy」
「I see, as expected from noble-sama!」
Though it was a complete lie, there’s no need to worry about it as long as I got the money.
「Here, there are forty silver coins inside this wooden box」
「Ooh! Wait a sec. I’ll count now」
After giving him the wooden box, he opens the wooden box’s lid and carefully counts the coins inside.
「Ooh, it’s exactly forty silver coins! How should I put it, you, are you alright giving this much money all at once? Shouldn’t you pay after checking whether the information you got from is right or not?」
「That’s cause I’m confident with you, old man. People who planned on doing sothing bad won’t be that careful」
「Well, that might be so」
The middle-aged man scratches his head, maybe it’s because I said sothing that made him embarrassed.
For people who planned on doing sothing bad, they are basically people who won’t say sothing that will put them at a disadvantage.
The really bad people will still show you the thing, though the quality will be worse since they still kept it a secret.
「And if, by chance, you were giving the wrong information, then I will use my authority as a noble to hunt you down」
I have the authority, and I also have Teleport.
If, this guy deceives and runs away after this, then I will chase him to the bitter end.
「O, oohh, that part of you is really like a noble……」
I wonder, I feel that his remark is not a complint to .
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After hearing the herb’s information and their whereabouts from the middle-aged man, I decided to find the herbs by myself at a later date.
He tried to offer to lead the way to the herbs after he carefully closes his stall, but I politely refused. I’m already so tired after walking around from the morning after all. Why would I have more things to do and go out again despite originally coming to Kikka to take a break?
I’m going to take a break at a cafe here sowhere, recharge myself, and then went out again to catch so slis.
So, unfortunately, I have to collect the herbs at so other ti. However, in the end, I almost forgot to ask for so herbs from him, so I ask for so herbs from the middle-aged man and put them into my pocket. This way I will rember to take them out when I take off my pants.
I parted with him while waving to him, and I quickly push my way through the stalls street this ti.
Imdiately after, there are no more stalls lined up on both sides of the street, and stores with a calm atmosphere gradually began to appear.
I continue walking, looking for a cafe that gives a good feeling while staring at the signboard of the stores and the signboards on the street
Clothing shops, flower shops, vegetable shops, and there are even shops offering impressive monster at.
I wonder if there are places that only served sothing like the herb-grilled Slash Hawk at on the nu like the one I had just now?
I don’t hate walking around while searching for shops in an unfamiliar city like this. Being able to discover and realize that there is certain kind of shops in this kind of place, the thought makes excited.
Even when I don’t feel like entering the shop that I’m curious about that day, then I can just rember the place and check it in my mind, and I could visit them again when I suddenly think about it later.
After all, for soone who can use Teleport like , there’s no harm in rembering various shops.
I check the signboards all over the place while wandering.
As I’m doing that, I found a cafe-like shop at the edge of the street selling grape-based food.
When I try to check on the signboard, there is stewed chicken with white grapes, grape cheese salad, grape sandwich, grape cookies, and grape bread written on it, all of the nus are food that uses grapes.
After all, Kikka is a city famous for its grapes. The grape juice was so rich in flavor and tasty, and I’m sure that they will be delicious even if they were used as part of cooking.
Occasionally I eat grapes as it is, but I rarely ate them as a dish.
After checking and getting my interest piqued by the signboard, next is check-ing the inside of the shop.
Looking at my own state of mind, I really want to enter the place imdiately, but a shop that serves such stylish food is often frequented by a lot of won.
I have to properly make sure about the people inside so that their won’s talk won’t make uncomfortable when I’m inside and I won’t be stared at by them. And if it’s a couples-only shop, then it would be unbearable.
Putting my past life’s experience to use, I cautiously look at the situation inside the shop.
Perhaps it’s thanks to the large window of the shop but it looks surprisingly wide from outside, though the interior itself is not that large.
There are two won as a group, and there’s one woman and one man as custors inside I guess……
If it’s like this, then even a kid like will be able to enter by myself.
Encouraged by the surprisingly calm atmosphere inside the shop, I open the door just, and entered the shop.
「Welcoー, how many people will it be?」
The door opens with the sound of the bell attached to it rings *karankaran*, and the voice of a female employee welcos with the usual phrase.
「Just 」
「Please have a seat wherever you likeー」
The employee encouraged with an amiable smile on her face, so I look around the shop to look for a comfortable seat for to sit.
Suddenly, I can hear the sounds of lively, female laughter coming from the second floor.
There’s probably a group of young won upstairs.
Maybe, they let them stay upstairs in consideration for male custors like or lone female so they wouldn’t hesitate to enter the shop.
If there were a lot of young won on the first floor, then people will definitely turn around and not enter the shop. The only people who could enter are probably only those iken and couples.
For now, I will absolutely avoid the second floor.
「Manager! Do you think that the kid is lost?」
「Idiot. There’s no way the kid is lost with that kind of brazen look on his face as he enters. You need to train your eyes more to judge others」
「Ahh! Indeed, that makes sense!」
I’m glad that you guys allowed to enter the shop with no difficulties but, how did you arrive at that kind of conclusion?
Being treated as a kid feels annoying but, I have a mixed feeling as if I’m not satisfied when I’m not treated like one.
Just when my gaze was wandering all over the interior of the shop while thinking like that, I saw a male custor who is sitting by the window looking at asking for help.
……that person, it’s fine for you to be enthusiastic about entering such a stylish shop, but his gaze looks anxious as the male guest inside the shop was not as many as he expected.
Guessing from my past experience, from the bottom of my heart, I sighed deeply and moved toward the table next to the man and sit down.
Imdiately after that, the man nodded to and smiled as though feeling relieved by my decision.
I lightly nodded back as if to show my sympathy to a fellow warrior.
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