4-4. Flea Marke (1/2)
4-4. Flea Market
Satou's here. Doing trial and error is the most fun time I ever have.
Although it's depressing when there are too many errors...
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”You could die before you could raise your level.”
”It's alright, I have plenty of safety margins prepared.”
I ignore Arisa who keeps talking in high spirit, and ask for Liza's thought.
”Liza, do you want to go to the labyrinth city too?”
”I will go to wherever master go to.”
”I'm grateful for your deep loyalty, but I'd like to hear Liza's opinion. Since I will still be the one who make the final decision, please tell me your honest feeling without refraining.”
Listen to subordinate's opinion and implement them as it is ⇒ If it fail, blame the subordinate, I won't be like that. I've decided not to be like that when I was in subordinate's position on my work. Don't impose absurd assignments!
”I would like to go to the labyrinth city if permitted.”
”Hey~ I'm having a good speech here, listen~”
”I'll listen to you later.”
”Che~, you're treating me differently than Liza-san~”
I ignore Arisa who becomes a bit sulky.
If we go to the labyrinth city, the advantages are as follow, Liza and the girls could go around freely, the discrimination would be minimized (it probably won't disappear), and Arisa and the girls could raise their levels.
The disadvantages are... None? Nono, I'll be parting with people I'm acquainted in this town, like Zena-san and Nadi-san. She worried about me so much, while here I'm thinking such cold-hearted thing.
”Well, I have no intention of settling down in the labyrinth city, but it could be nice to go on a tour there.”
”Tour... This isn't like our original world.”
Isn't it fine? Different world tour.
”Rather than that, where is this labyrinth city located?”
”I don't know?”
Oy, princess.
”Wait, don't look at me with those eyes. I do know that it is on Shiga Kingdom, but I don't know the exact location.”
Should I buy some simple map from the bookstore? My map only display the wilderness from back then and Seryuu city, so it's unusable for this case. I'm not entirely sure of this but it probably could display the whole area only if I've been there first.
”Master you don't have horses or a carriage right?”
”Nope.”
”I wonder where they're selling it?”
Since the square near the gate has an area full of big stables, I'll ask there. Usually I would ask Nadi-san, but I've just tasked her with a request earlier, so she's probably not available now.
”Since you can afford a house then you must be able to afford horse and carriage, but for the sake better journey, let's look for hidden treasures for traveling expenses!”
Arisa points at a flea market. This girl sure has an iron heart. Even after she was thoroughly ignored, she's not discouraged.
”Master, I have a request before we charge ahead.”
”I'll listen for once, what is it?”
”I want permission to use two magics. They're <> and <>.”
After she explained the effect of those magics, I give her permission. The former is a magic to ”Somehow” able to discern magic tools and the latter is to recognize someone who is approaching with malicious intent.
Since there doesn't seem to be any particular harm, I allow her. Of course I could do it myself even if I don't let her, but I'm not the kind of a person who like to prohibit anything and everything.
”This! This is surely a find!”
The tool that Arisa proudly proclaim is a magic tool for sure, a broken one according to appraisal. The name of tool is [The Invitation of the Dream Flies in the Moonlight Night], that questionable name come up, and the appraisal result is [▲▲▲ but ●●● in order to □□ did ●▲ playing ● namagu]. As usual, description of this world's magic tools feels like harassments. The shape itself looks like a musical instrument or a music box, but the decorations are obscene so it's probably a lewd tool.
”It looks like it's broken, so no.”
I go out of the stall while the shopkeeper promote the tool as a work of art, and we look around other stalls. It's fun to go around stalls in this kind of flea market.
Because I see the same short wand I bought back then for less than half the price, I bought two of them. After I bought it, I realized that it was a waste of money... but it could eventually be useful for something.
Other things are ornamental strings to tie Pochi's and Tama's short sword sheath to their belts, I also buy tassel decoration for Liza spear. Each of them only cost several copper coins.
In typical RPG, leather products are usually expensive, strangely, from what I've heard from the nii-chan shopkeeper, in this season they kill a lot of goats who don't hibernate, so they stock up a lot of leather products making it cheaper.
Because prices are considerably cheaper on flea market, it's harder to shop than on normal stalls.
I didn't forget to buy a ribbon as a souvenir for Lulu. It's a pink colored ribbon about 50cm long. The color is lighter than the stole Zena-san bought this morning. I wonder if the dye come from this neighborhood?
A lot of suspicious medicines are being displayed, but according to appraisal skill, they are just fake energy drinks with no effect. I'm interested with the energy drink part, but since the skill doesn't tell me the ingredients, I refrain.
They're also selling soap and pomade among other hair products. I'm not buying the pomade because the smell is too strong, but even though the soap is an expensive item for this market and as much as one big copper coin, I buy it without hesitation since it has nostalgic scents of milk soaps. I only want to buy one but Arisa desperately pleas, ”This is good stuff!”, I ended up buying all seven of the stocks.
”Master~ this! Buy this~.”
The thing that Arisa offered are... glasses. Since these don't have lens, it's just a frame.