CH 36

"Unbeknownst to Me, I'm an Important Person."

Translated by Dawn

Edited by Dawn

“That’s what happened.”

“I had no idea it was that important…….”

The day after my encounter with the guildmaster, I went to the Adventurers’ Guild, where Nicole told me the story of what had happened to the Forest Wolf material I had delivered yesterday.

The forest wolf itself is regarded as a superior material compared to the Dashboa, and it is more difficult to kill than the Dashboa, which is why the price was so much higher.

The Dashboa, which I had originally delivered, was so popular that merchants who came to buy it were inundated with people, so they decided to take the option of selling it to the highest bidder, which is unusual for a commercial guild, and gave the right to sell it to the highest bidder.

Naturally, Forest Wolf’s materials were also auctioned off, but medium-sized merchants, who had not planned to participate, changed the color of their eyes and entered the auction, and the selling price swelled to many times the market price.

When I was told that things had gone that far, I suddenly had a question. I put it directly to Nicole.

“If I’m becoming that popular, I’m likely to get requests directly addressed to me, aren’t I?”

“Oh, we try not to take on those kinds of requests.”

“Why?”

“As a matter of fact…….”

Nicole explained that the Adventurers’ Guild and the Commercial Guild are cooperating to ensure mutual benefit.

There were some difficult words, such as “vested interests” and “profit and loss,” but in essence, I understood that they were building a system that would be mutually beneficial.

In the past, some powerful people tried to take over the guilds, but the guilds were forced to withdraw from that country, and the country was destroyed.

I was told that the surrounding countries learned from this and established a rule that they would not touch the adventurers’ guilds and commercial guilds.

“What an amazing story with so many twists and turns.”

“That’s right. And so, I’ll be asking for your help again today.”

“This is going to be tough when I stop delivering material, huh?”

“……please?”

I jokingly implied that I would not deliver the material, but she returned it with a sales smile.

But I could hear Nicole’s voice in my mind. ‘You do realize what would happen if you did that, don’t you?’

I responded with a shrug to the silent pressure of her smile and headed out to my usual hunting grounds.

I come to the meadow, which is only a few minutes away from the city at a sprint with physical enhancements.

Last time I didn’t hunt many Dashboas in the forest exploration, so this time I’ll hunt a good amount of them.

After listening to Nicole’s story, I realized that forest wolf materials are also in demand, so I will hunt a certain number of those as well.

“The capacity of the magic bag is already becoming insufficient. I may have to save up and buy another magic bag soon.”

I currently have two magic bags, one with a storage capacity of 50 kg and the other with a storage capacity of 100 kg.

For the moment, I have a 50 kg bag inside the 100 kg bag, so visually speaking, it looks like I am carrying one bag.

A total weight of one hundred and fifty kilograms sounds like quite a lot it can carry, but in reality, it’s not that much.

If the weight of each Dashboa I’m trying to hunt is around 10 kilograms, that means I can carry 14 Dashboas if I have enough room, and 15 Dashboas is the limit if I stuff it full of Dashboas.

As for the forest wolves I hunted last time, each one weighs about 15 kilograms, so nine or ten would be a good number.

Of course, this is the weight when handled as is without dismantling, but even if it were dismantled, it would only be enough for 20 animals.

On this hunt, I was able to store ten Dashboas and three forest wolves.

Ten Dashboas and three Forest Wolves were stored during this hunt.

If I dismantled and stored them, I would be able to add two more Dashboas and one more forest wolf.

“Well, I think this time I’ll just leave it at that.”

Then, after dismantling the stored prey, I returned to town and delivered it to the Adventurer’s Guild.

The reward was considerably higher, due in part to the recent price hikes, and came to about six medium silver coins in all. That was 60,000 Japanese yen.

“At this rate, one more day of hunting and I’ll be able to buy my next magic bag.”

Aiming for the next step, I returned to the inn and went to sleep for the day.

~~~~~

Two mornings later, I finally saved up enough money to buy my next magic bag, so I visited the tool shop where I bought my last magic bag.

The shop was still dimly lit and had a suspicious atmosphere, but I had been here before, so I talked to the female clerk normally.

“Can I talk to you for a minute?”

“Oh, you’re that little boy from back then. I heard you’ve been making a lot of money lately. There are a lot of rumors about you.”

“Well, that’s the thing. I need a new magic bag. Can you show me?”

“I’ll be right back. Just give me a minute.”

After a while, as before, she withdrew to the back of the house and brought me a magic bag.

She brought me two magic bags that were a little more luxurious than the 200-kilogram magic bag she had brought me the last time.

When I gave her a quizzical look, the robed female clerk gave me a supplementary explanation.

“This magic bag is the same 200 kilograms bag I had before. These two are new magic bags I bought from the Royal Capital. This one can hold up to 500 kilograms, and this one has a space-time attribute that prevents deterioration of the contents.”

“Wow, that’s another great bag. By the way, what is the maximum storage capacity of a space-time magic bag?”

“300 kilograms.”

The weight of the bag is quite high, and if it does not deteriorate even when food or other items are placed in it, it must be a very good magic bag. However, it is natural that the better the product is, the higher the price will be…….

“For now, can I ask you the price of these two?”

“Two large silver coins for the 500 kilograms and seven large silver coins for the space-time attribute.”

“That’s a lot of money indeed…….”

It seems that good things are expensive even in another world, and the two magic bags are very expensive. Two magic bags cost 200,000 and 700,000 yen.

However, the performance of the product is commensurate with the price, so although it is expensive, it is not a rip-off. In fact, it could be said that the price is reasonable for such functionality.

I now have about one large silver coin and two medium silver coins thanks to selling the dashboa and forest wolf materials.

With this amount of money, I can afford to buy a magic bag weighing 200 kilograms, but if there is a magic bag with better performance than that, I would like to buy that bag. So I decided to make her a proposal.

“Can I make a proposal?”

“No matter how little you are, I won’t accept a discount.”

“Please wait until you hear my proposal before you say no. Here’s what I’m proposing.”

I offered her a proposal to make up the eight medium silver coins that were missing to purchase the 500 kg magic bag.

The proposal I made was, simply put….a trade-in.

In other words, I would make up the missing eight medium silver coins for the 50kg magic bag and the 100kg magic bag that I currently have, and in exchange, I could get the 500kg magic bag.

“My entire fortune right now is one large silver coin and two medium silver coins. I need eight medium silver coins to buy that 500 kg magic bag. So, in exchange for making up the shortfall with the 50kg and 100kg magic bags I currently have, I propose that you sell me the 500kg magic bag for one large silver coin and two medium silver coins. How’s that not a bad deal?”

“I don’t want to talk about it. Even if you add up those two magic bags, it’s still only six medium-sized silver coins. Even if the boy offers me those two magic bags, I’ll still be short by two medium-sized silver coins.”

“That was at the old market rate, wasn’t it?”

“….”

The clerk, who responds negatively to my suggestion, follows up with more. She choked on her words at my unexpected counterattack. To push her further, I continue to explain.

“Surely you are right. In the old days, the price for a fifty-kilogram and a hundred-kilogram magic bag was six medium silver coins. But recently, with the commercial guilds becoming more active, the demand for magic bags has increased, and the price of the bags themselves seems to have risen. Thanks to someone.”

“……you knew.”

“At the current market price, a fifty-kilogram magic bag should cost three medium silver coins, and a hundred-kilogram magic bag should cost about six medium silver coins. The total is nine medium silver coins. That’s should be enough to buy a magic bag weighing 500 kilograms.”

“Haa…… little boy wins. Fine, let’s just call it square.”

It seems that I looked like a child and I looked like a naive person, and apparently, she was planning on finding her footing on these. It was a shame.

Accepting my proposal, I exchanged the two magic bags I have been using, one with 50 kilos and the other with 100 kilos, for a magic bag with 500 kilos. Of course, I also paid her one large silver coin and two medium silver coins out of my entire fortune.

When the transaction was completed, the female clerk suddenly took off the robe she had been wearing, and there she was, an oddly aged woman with a seductive scent.

She was impeccably beautiful, with long hair, well-defined eyes, and the kind of body that men like, and most of all, she was glamorous.

As I was wide-eyed in surprise at the sudden beauty, the woman spoke to me in a cat-like voice while making a supple gesture.

“Hey, little boy, will you do something nice with me?”

“You’d be better off finding a nice, more eligible man instead of a kid like me, wouldn’t you? Especially a nice girl like you.”

I had no idea that what was inside the robe was such a beautiful woman, but I declined her invitation and left the store.

As I left the store, I heard a distressed “Ahhh,” but I barely succeeded in stifling the urge to turn around.

At any rate, this was a good purchase this time, as it increased my supply considerably by the amount I could now store.

On the heels of buying a new magic bag, I went to the Adventurers’ Guild and found the guild crowded, which was unusual at this time of the day. However, it was not adventurers who were there.

“Why won’t you accept my request!?”

“Because that’s the rule.”

“They could have at least taken a little bit of it!”

“I’m sorry, sir, but that’s the rule.”

Inside the Adventurers’ Guild were people dressed as merchants and craftsmen.

Apparently, they wanted to submit some kind of request but were frustrated that their requests were not being accepted.

Some other merchants and craftsmen were also being turned down, but the details of their requests were revealed when one of the merchants shouted out.

“Why can’t you send a request for an appointment to a single novice adventurer? We just need the adventurer in question to fetch materials for Forest Wolf!”

“As I have explained to you many times, that is the rule, so I cannot accept that request.”

(Eh, there’s a huge commotion going on.)

I had been told that the material I was delivering was popular, but I had no idea it would cause such a stir.

It was more important than I had thought. While I was thinking about this in my mind, some of the merchants who spotted me came up to me.

“Oh, you must be the adventurer who delivers that quality material. Please do me a favor. I’d like to submit a designation request to you. And I’ll pay you well.”

“Um…”

“Hey, that’s not fair. I’ll make a request too. How about five medium-sized silver coins?”

“Then we’ll double it to one large silver coin!”

“We’ll give you one large silver coin and three medium silver coins!”

Merchants began to fight over the amount of money they were to be paid for the requests they were to give me.

It was like soldiers on the battlefield, a war among merchants.

As I began to wonder what to do, a loud sound echoed through the air as if to offer a helping hand.