The Adventure of the Boy With a Mind of a Middle-aged Man

As many as ten meters of walls and deep moats surrounding them. And a single bridge on that moat. We were on that bridge now.

- The labyrinth city of Straheim. It is a large city with a population of 100,000 and paradise for adventurers.

"Heh, that's something inside"

Since then, Gilles is told not to force the tone back. Anything makes a child's dialogue uncomfortable and disgusting. It's complicated, but my body is still a child. Wherever possible, I would like to continue my child's rhetoric.

"You know, there's so much stuff from all over the world, there's so much stuff out there, there's so little stuff out there."

Aaron, the Adventurer's Team Leader, explains so well.

Aaron was a small man with an insensitive mustache in his early thirties and has been liked by Yao since that one incident.

"It will be soaked"

"Don't worry, you could be a superior adventurer."

Smudge and squeak Aaron over his shoulder.

"As a qualification requirement, you need to be at least twelve years old. You won't have a choice. Besides, I don't want to stand out for the moment because of family circumstances."

"It was. But I expect it in four years."

"Yeah, I'll be sure to thank you for that."

Shake hands with Aaron again.

Inside Straheim, boulders were only found in large cities and, as far as I could see, full of people. Don't remind me of Tokyo for this trashy and unique feeling.

The building consists of two floors with a mix of blocks and wood. At the very least, it is not built in the same way as Mirage's digging shed (Hotaraya) and, rarely, the log house.

"First, I'd like to go to the Commercial Guild Hall and go through the process, okay?

"Oh, I don't mind. I wanted to get my commercial guild registered."

From what I've heard, commercial guild credentials don't exist unlike adventurers. Looks like you need to give me 100,000 G, but I can still give it to you.

"That'll help."

After breaking up with Aaron and the others, he was guided to a building with as many as elementary school buildings.

The red carpet (carpet), which was laid and stuffed, and decorated in a certain position, was a substitute for the amateur who could tell that it was worth a lot of money even when I saw it. Even if it's the headquarters that holds the Chamber of Commerce together. I guess the qualities don't show it.

You will be guided to the large hall of the room. Satella is nervous about the bees, and Judo's siblings are always looking around to see if they're uncomfortable.

"You kept me waiting, deputy curator of this Straheim Trading Museum - it's Icosse Jarmo"

As the fat man shakes his body and brings the two offerings into the room, he leads us to the designated seat at the white crossed table in the center of the room and asks us to sit down.

"I should have promised the Rhina Branch Manager?

Gilles' face had intense discomfort. Is that right? Someone different from the one you promised was squeaking out. It would be a natural reaction to look at the back.

Lord Rhina is busy, so I'll take it instead.

"If there is no Rhina Branch Manager, we will go straight out. Let's go, Mr. Gray."

"That's okay. I'm not in a hurry."

Truth is, I really want to see this farcical backdrop, but, well, it doesn't change the outcome.

"That's not gonna happen, so hey."

In front of the door, two men who look like caution sticks.

Satella grabbed my sleeve anxiously, and Jude's siblings stood to shelter us. Hmm, inside, you got a bodyguard on the board. Sounds good.

"Isn't that you, Mr. Icosse?!?"

"Sit down."

Ichose gives his right hand to the chair.

"Hmm, that's good."

It's just getting interesting. Of course it is.

"Mr. Gray! You should go home today."

Gilles will encourage you to translate.

(Please stand my face here. Don't worry)

If you squeal like that in your ear, you don't mind sitting in the front seat of the equine.

Jude brothers and sisters who don't break their guard and refrain behind me and Satella hugging me.

"This is the contract for the 'Hand Pump'. Now what do you say?

Ikose throws the paper rampantly on the table.

Gilles takes it in his hand. No, he turns bright red and shivers his body into small pieces.

Peek into the paper from the side...

"Am I 20%, Mr. Gilles 5%, Guild 75%..."

"Different story!! Does the Branch Manager know this!?"

To Gilles, who slaps her desk and stands up, Ichose distorts her face uncomfortably.

"Such a thing is only a promise. Where's the reason to protect him? Especially if you're not a nobleman.

"Are you..."

"Uh, well, speaking of which, you were noble-headed, too."

Apparently, the Lord is the only one to inherit the noble name. Therefore the abrasive shall be a nobleman without a title, and shall be called the upper people. I hear in the carriage that Gilles is a people above this.

"Though I think it has absolutely nothing to do with my identity and this deal?

Stick humiliation and anger to one side of your face, but get up.

Funny enough, but any more abandonment on the boulder would crack me and Gilles' relationship of trust. Besides, I figured out the bottom of these guys.

"Not at all. Thirty points."

……

A crack enters the face of Ichose, who has ever had an extra look on his face, rendering him faceless.

"First of all, you two there, you're too fatally bad at acting. I was desperate to laugh. First of all, you guys aren't caution sticks, are you?

"What makes you think that?

"First of all, I suck at being you. Do you have a luxurious gear baton with no scratches like that? At the very least, you should have worn clothes such as pomegranate.

Besides, unlike you, every adventurer who escorted our carriage had a sword octopus in his hand. They say mercenaries and adventurers can do everything. Regardless, you could mean a magician, but then there's no point in bothering to lower your back such a heavy sword. Daikon, aren't you too heavy to move around?

If you don't raise the end of your mouth to, both of you, remove your gear.

"How long have you noticed?

A little mustache caution stick Modki has asked me what's normal.

"It's from the edge. First, Vice Curator Ichose, if you're looking down at us, why did you let us sit in the upper seat? They unconsciously regard you as a comparable guest."

Sebastian told me about courtesy in this empire.

Uh, if you distort your face and put the equine covering your face with the palm of your right hand in your sight, Gilles finally understands what this farce means, looking grumpy, finds the door in the back.

"Rhina Branch Manager!!"

"No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just want to know how much bottom of the kid you're obsessed with."

With a smile on his face that he didn't even think was sorry, he came out the back door and sat next to Ichose.

"I don't mind. I enjoyed that a lot. Mostly in terms of laughter."

"The two of them are executives of my Chamber of Commerce. After all, was it deliberate?

"Yeah, it's too cruel. Especially that“ hey, that's not what I'm talking about. "

"Ah! Don't tell me, my whole body itches!

A bearded man scratching his whole body with boldness while turning bright red.

Couldn't you talk about it, Jude? The brothers and sisters and Satella, with their poker faces, were watching what was going on.

"Well, let's get into business."

"Chief Rhina, I'd like to ask for an apology before I do."

"Oh, yeah"

After Gilles' sermon to Rhina, incarnated by anger, and the apologies of the Icoses, he enters into business talks.

"First, I want our commercial guild to recognize exclusive rights."

For me, such as the 'hand pressing pump', it's just a means to avoid my mother-in-law's frustration with Satella. It's this kind of bubble money, and I don't have that kind of obsession. I really want to like it, but the idea I'm going to have in the future (like this) is not the same digit as this one. It will be necessary to build a proper relationship with them.

"Specifically?

"As a result of various attempts, the cost of materials for one of those" hand pumps "is 2000-2500G, plus labor costs per manufacturing, sales, and installation, which add up to a total of about 400-6000G."

"Hmm, seems cheaper than I thought, I'm surprised"

"Well, since our major chambers of commerce have long been manufacturing and selling weapons and magic props, we are proud to have enough iron and steel technology to manufacture these kinds of products."

"That's what they do."

If so, my success rate of mastery will continue to rise to each step.

"Reversal of profits led to the conclusion that they should be sold at 40,000 to 50,000 G per"

Based on previous experience, prices in this world are about a quarter of those on Earth. So from 160,000 yen to 200,000 yen per piece? Isn't that reasonable? Even Japan will take that degree.

"A profit margin of 30,000 G or more, or quite a bit. So?"

"The patent fee is 40% of the profits of the standards of the Chamber of Commerce. In time, the breakdown of the patent fee is, what about Gray Millard, 50% of the patent fee, Gilles, 5% of our commercial guild?

In short, major chambers of commerce belonging to commercial guilds with exclusive rights sell everywhere. In doing so, I'll give you 30,000 Gs of profit. Each store submits 40% from its profits to the Alliance as a patent fee. The rest will be in the interest of the Chamber of Commerce that sold it.

And the breakdown as a patent fee is paid to me 50%, to Gilles 5% and to the organization Commercial Guild 45%.

Perhaps, based on this enormous sum of money, the Alliance makes its way into various parts of the world and each Chamber of Commerce installs branches and factories everywhere for further benefit. I see, it's an organization that makes sense in this world.

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm not dissatisfied."

Sigh leaks from Ichose and two of Rhina's men.

Originally, the patent fee should only be obtained by me and Gilles. The guild also added would be Gilles' wisdom to prevent the Millard family and other forces from intervening by including third parties as co-interests as well.

That is why I am where I want to be, and they should also be aware of that, but the profits are too enormous to be certain until the contract is signed. I think that's the place.

"Already, this archival imperial center alone had ordered 5500 pieces. It's already in the manufacturing process. I want you to take care of it. I'll sell it."

"Yeah, I hope so"

"Then it's a quick contract. Sign and thumbprint here, please."

Then, sign the contract and thumbprint it with ink to get the contract done.

"What shall we do with the name of the Chamber of Commerce?

Icosse was also a polite man to me, who was a flip from his earlier high-pressure attitude, low on the hips and only seemed like a child.

"Please do it at the Sagami Chamber of Commerce. of the registration fee, 100,000 G."

"I'll take care of it"

When Ichose counts the gold coins, he leaves the room, rocking the giant. It's not the job that the deputy curator would do. Probably because of your disrespect for me earlier. Really, you're a man with divergent images and insides. Maybe that's all I'm good at as a merchant.

"So, Mr. Gray, what are you going to do now?

"We've got just the right people, and we're going to start doing business in this Straheim"

"Heh. Like what?

"I'm going to change it with the progress of my education, but at first, I guess the restaurant"

The employees are Judes and ten amateurs. If you don't even have the high desire to be an Earth-level cook or something like that, you are relatively quick to acquire skills than any other technical job. As long as there are seasonings, it would be enough in this world if we could have the degree of home cooking on Earth.

Instead of being rude earlier, let me help you too.

If you say no poorly, don't make me look stubborn in my earlier farce. I see, was this what you were after? It's a man who can't eat inside. When I look sideways at Gilles, I clap my shoulders.

"Sweet for your words. Then I would like to ask you to secure a store (Tenpo) that is likely to be a restaurant. The money..."

"But why not spend it from your share of the 5,000 you ordered?

Sure, now I'm in need of food for the Toto Village thing and the new restaurant. I don't really want to sell it.

"So please."

Of course, there is a desire to move the needle of civilization forward, but I still have a addition: the Millards. Until then, we should concentrate on materials, securing human resources and education.

Ikose brings an iron card, wiping sweat with a cloth.

"This will be the membership card of the commercial guild. We would like you to present this card for future transactions."

"Got it. Thank you. Let's go, Mr. Gilles."

"Right."

Stand up your seat,

"Now if you'll excuse me."

To thank him, he left the Guild Hall of Commercial Alliance behind.