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Well, it's good that I boasted to Julia, but in reality, I'm not that confident.
Regarding whether something is good or bad, the quality is based on the elite education of someone raised in the royal palace. I think it'll be alright.
The point is, if it's similar to something I've seen around the rooms of me and my brothers in the royal palace, the quality is good.
I'm a prince of a country, so I've been educated about that, so it'll be alright.
The problem is pricing and identifying things from the lower to middle class.
What kind of things are worth what price?
Also, consumer demand and supply.
I can ask Oliver about the market price for magic stones and magical tools.
For accessories to wear, if they're just accessories, I can judge the high-end ones and Julia can judge the others.
If they're accessories with some kind of buff, I can ask the members of the Knight Department.
"Well, it's best to ask the experts about things I don't know."
I wish I knew someone in the Commerce Department.
And the Technology Department, too.
Even if the accessories are outdated now, the jewels used in them are first-class.
If I just remake the surroundings and make them modern, they'll sell well enough.
Anyway, it's the pricing.
I'll re-paste the prices within the range I know.
"There were so many things with strange prices..."
"Well, the higher the price, the less familiar you are with it, so you don't know."
"Yes... I thought that no one would buy accessories like these nowadays, so I put them down carelessly. Are they really worth this much?"
"The design is old-fashioned, but the stones are real. The surrounding pedestal is also quite oxidized, but it's silver."
I changed the things that I knew, left the prices for the obviously commoner-oriented things as they were, trusting Julia's sensibilities, and for the subtle things from the middle to upper class, I put a small dot on the edge of the price tag so that it would be easy to understand.
"Yeah. I guess that's about it."
It took a long time to look at them one by one.
Evening was approaching, and the sun began to set.
I realized that I had missed lunch, and at that moment, my stomach growled as if I had remembered my hunger.
As I inadvertently stopped moving, I knew that Julia had also stopped moving.
Julia's gaze was piercing my stomach.
Then, the final blow. My stomach growled again.
"............Hehe!"
Julia, who couldn't hold back her laughter, began to chuckle.
"If you're going to laugh, just laugh out loud...!"
"I, I'm sorry. But it's funny."
After laughing for a while, Julia took a deep breath, as if trying to calm down, satisfied.
"I'm sorry. As an apology, why don't we go to an early dinner? I'll introduce you to a delicious restaurant."
"......If that's the case, I'd be happy to."
"The shop is already closed for today! Come on, let's close the shop quickly and go to dinner."
Saying that, Julia began to close the shop.
I'll have her teach me how to close the shop one by one.
"Grandma was saying crazy things, but in reality, Rai-san's work is from the time school ends until closing. The contents of the work are to check whether the prices of the things I've stocked are wrong, to watch the shop, things like that, I guess."
Julia, who had finished closing the shop, said that as she went out to the main street.
I followed her and walked next to her.
"It's the first time I've hired an employee, so I don't know what to do about the salary... What's the going rate?"
I don't know about that either.
"Well, you can think about it based on how much the income has increased since I came."
"Um, how do you judge that?"
My thoughts stopped for a moment at Julia's question.
Um, what does that mean...?
"What about the books?"
"W, we were keeping them when Papa was here, so I'm writing them, but what do you know from that?"
"You don't know how to read the books??"
My bad premonition came true, and when I asked, she said that she had been writing the books by imitation, but she didn't know how to read them or what the meaning of writing them was.
In other words, the purchase price is an approximate price. The selling price is also just writing the price on the price tag, so if there's a haggle, the expenses and income will become unreliable.
Moreover, I don't know if it's the shop's money or the money that went into the house as salary.
Shop money = house money.
What are operating funds??
What about taxes?
How are you calculating them?
My head hurts.
"How have you been able to live until now?"
I can see how important the Commerce Department is at the academy.
This scale, and the fact that it has been operating properly until recently, is why it hasn't gone bankrupt yet, but it's only a matter of time before it goes bankrupt.
This isn't a problem that I can solve by getting involved.
"I, is that so strange...?"
Julia starts to get flustered at my reaction.
No, it's seriously dangerous. How have you been able to live until now??
"Let's study that too."
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