The Novice Alchemist’s Store

"Well, let's talk about the merchant."

At the end of the meal, Mr. Filione made his way to the store number, where Mr. Leonora cut out so.

"Yes, please"

"Yeah. But it's going to be a long story, so can I get you something to drink... Sarasa, can I make you a cup of tea? I'll leave that to Phee."

When I nodded to Mr. Leonora, who would call me now, it was a cold cup of tea that came out.

Unlike the Suya tea I have been drinking a lot lately, light brown fragrant tea.

It was tea I had never had, but this is good.

"Phew, it's delicious. - I knew there was a refrigerator."

"It's Phee who brewed it, though. The refrigerator is mostly at the alchemist's, right? If you're an alchemist looking up there, you must make it."

"So is Sarasa, right? 'They say otherwise, and I nod.

"Right. If it's a good time, I can make it to sell, but if I can't, I'll have to use it myself. You couldn't even sell Sarasa, could you? That village..."

"Yes. You can't sell it. So I gave up from the start and made it to fit our kitchen. And the freezer with me."

"Oh, I'll make it on a set, right, that one? I don't use it much except in the summer."

"Right. And our freezer -- oh, now you have ice tooth bat fruit in it."

"Did you collect it!? Uh, but is it just right sometimes? If Sarasa went there herself, she'd be able to bring it back with no problem."

"That cave over there wasn't hunted all the time, so the group was pretty big. The recovered fruit also amounted to a good number. - Shall I share it?

"Is it good? Pretty valuable substitute, though."

"I'm not very interested in it myself, and I'm having trouble selling it to someone, so I was going to ask my master to do it."

So far, I've left it in the freezer, left it alone, haven't I?

I think I'll taste it for once, too, but Andre and the others I took home and ate rated it as' delicious... and I think ',' good with normal liquor 'and' tasted fancy '.

It wasn't like I was rushing to try it, and they didn't try to eat any more, and they're asking me to sell it.

"Then can you split it a little? I'd love to try it in the tale."

"I understand. Then you'll bring it next time you come. It's hard to keep with people, so I think we're a little ahead of them."

"Yeah, I don't mind. At the next purchase or something."

If you carry it as it is, it will melt, so I'll have to carry it.

Discuss the required number and buyout price, re-compartmentalize, and get to the point.

"First of all, his name is Yoku Bahr. He was a merchant on a fairly large scale with a shop here in South Strag."

Not even a big merchant, but a pretty big one.

Therefore, Mr. Leonora seems to have narrowed down his opponent relatively easily.

"The products I'm dealing with are like alchemy related materials, smelter artifacts, smelter potions..."

"Not only the ingredients, but also the smelting drug Potion?

"Yes, that's the problem."

With regard to materials, some do not have to be processed to deteriorate much, and merchants sometimes handle items that have been processed so that the alchemist can store them.

If the smelter "Artifact" is also an easy object to understand the effect, it may be handled.

Just like I'm unloading my cooling hat to Mr. Gretz and the others.

But a little different when it comes to the smelting drug Potion.

There are also expiration dates, etc. which vary depending on the storage state, even though the effects are not known from just looking at them.

Besides, I generally use the smelting drug Potion some time after I bought it.

It's hard to complain if they say, 'Your way of preserving it was bad,' even if it didn't work or had a strange effect.

Therefore, purchasing the smelting drug Potion from outside the alchemist is quite risky and it is quite difficult for ordinary merchants to treat it as a commodity.

"I'm also curious about the seller, where are you purchasing it from? Even an alchemist holds it?

"That's close. I owe money from York - no, it's like I'm using an alchemist owed money by York. in a rather irrational state."

"Were you carried?

When asked back to the way she was concerned, Ms. Leonora nodded with anger seeping into her bitter expression.

"Yes, I've looked into it, and it all feels like it's fallen into place."

"Does that mean you won't get caught?

"From what I've looked into, it's hard because it's malicious, but it's not clarity and illegal."

Mmm...... that's for sure.

What we're doing in our village is close to that, and it's probably futile where we complained to the lord.

"It's just that they're all targeting young kids."

"Being poked at for lack of experience, deceived," he said?

"That's what I think. You just set up a shop, you don't have any money, do you? Alchemy costs money, so even a few mistakes can run out of money at once..."

"Oh, you have that"

For example, if the smelter Artifact is requested to be made.

I wish it was an easy one, but if you stretch your back a bit and get a request for a difficult one...... once you fail to make it, it's very bad.

If you have money, you can buy the material again and make it.

At that point, you're almost out of profits, but you can take orders, and with the exception of your own efforts, you don't even lose money.

But what if I don't have the money?

After ruining the material, turn down the order and make a loss, or where do you borrow money from and manage to zero the loss?

And in case you fail again, only debt will remain.

"If it's my mistake, I don't think I can help it to some extent, but when it's set up..."

What if, for example, there was a merchant who came to sell the right materials at a slightly lower price when he didn't have the money?

I would normally buy it.

But what if that material was meticulously crafted and made it easier to fail?

Of course, there are immature alchemists who can't pinpoint the quality of the material...

"You don't like it, do you?

"I don't like it."

Not knowledgeable people, but the same alchemist, and as for me of my age.

"... Oh, could it be me, I'm the target?

It was a slightly dazed gaze from Mr. Leonora who said that to me.

"Did you just notice? You are, for sure. If you do a little research on Sarasa, you're a duck no matter what."

Freshly graduated New American Alchemist.

In a rural village, get a cheap shop and open it.

I definitely don't have much experience.

Well! What a gullible opponent!

- It's about me.

"But they're totally bad this time, aren't they? Wrong opponent."

"Yep...? And I'm kind of like a bad person..."

"Not bad, but not the one who can't be alarmed"

"Really? I'm a new America with little experience, aren't I? It's a chick."

Totally out of heart.

But what Mr. Leonora is pointing at me is the jitsu eye.

"Chicks don't come to me to root for me. Up to the village where I live at best. By contrast, Sarasa, don't you think our shop is reaching out to the surrounding towns?

"No way, no way. … I wondered if it would turn out that way if it flowed to Mr. Leonora in large quantities."

All you have to do is give Mr. Gretz some ice tooth bat fangs, too, right?

I went to the dealership and redeemed the money.

"It's all around the prep... yeah, naturally, I'm flushing it too. Thanks to you, the ice tooth bat fang market is crashing around here"

"It is. It's pathetic who's collecting them."

Yeah, not at all.

When I laugh nicely, Mr. Leonora shakes his head and smiles bitterly.

"I'll put it well. I feel a little scared of Sarasa's smile.... but the fang market was up until a while ago, it seems like it's Yorke's fault, and I'm not at all sympathetic."

"Oh, you were involved from around there."

He said we came to our village because we had a lot of teeth there - or because we flushed the fang-based smelter Artifact.

"Honestly, it's hard for a merchant without a code of conduct to manipulate the market for alchemy materials."

"Right. If you get hit by profit alone, you're in trouble."

Alchemists shouldn't sell cheap on their own, because of all the restrictions.

It's a national policy, so if you break this big, scary people will come.

"Right? So if you can, you want to crush it, you Yoke Barr. Sarasa, can you help me?

"Yeah, I don't mind. If I can do it."

Bad merchants, don't perish.

No mercy.

Me and Mr. Leonora then set up a strategy together to ensure that Yorke was damaged, assuming several patterns.

Follow each pattern, determine each role, and also hold detailed meetings.

"But that's great, Mr. Leonora. Follow me closely where I don't realize it."

"No, Sarasa's pretty good, too, huh? I don't think I'm that old."

"Really? But this is going to work."

Even at this stage, our win is almost certain.

On top of that, it depends on his greed how far the yoke will crumble to.

That's very good.

"Looking forward to it?

"Yeah, right."

I smile cuter at Mr. Leonora with a nickel and a very bad grin.

Filione, who just came in, muttered, 'You're similar to each other...' I decided I didn't hear you...