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After successfully completing the checkout at the cash register, I joined up with Shirou, who had also finished shopping, and moved to Rasheni.
"Whoa, this is a world far from me."
All the stores lined up in Rasheni have a luxurious feel, and we somehow feel out of place in our current clothes.
If a guy wearing a worn-out cheap T-shirt gets mixed in with a group of celebrities armed from head to toe with brands, it's obviously out of place, right? That's how it feels.
At least the people who come to Rasheni are well-dressed.
On the other hand, we're here after school, so our shirts are wrinkled from practical training, and we somehow look dingy.
"My hometown is in the mountains, so I can't enter such expensive stores...!!"
"Hey... Aren't we too out of place?"
Even Artur is shrinking back.
"Well, even if you say that, I'm going to drag you along!"
I grabbed both of their arms firmly, and here we go to the brand store!!
However, I have no intention of buying anything at all, so I go window shopping at several stores and look at the price settings.
As far as I can see from several stores, I pick up several items in my head that I think could be a little cheaper considering that they are used in our store.
"Um, do you do buybacks here?"
"Buybacks, is it? I'm sorry. We only sell at our store."
I asked the clerks at each store, but they all said they only sell.
Isn't there a store somewhere that buys precious metals?
After entering several stores and being told that there were no buybacks at all the stores, I excluded famous brand stores from the candidates.
If I look for stores that do buybacks, it seems that there are several stores that specialize in buybacks.
At the stores that take the form of second-hand shops, I actually go in and check the selling price there.
"Hey, Rai. Are you still looking?"
Shirou, who was probably getting bored or couldn't stand it anymore, leaned over me and said that.
"Segaachidimu. Kyaa, Artur-san, help me."
"Stop it, Shirou."
Shirou, who had his back pulled by Artur, was peeled off me.
As I turned my face towards Artur to thank him, Artur said one word.
"You're already small."
"You've angered me."
I will never forgive fish.
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The day after I did the market research with Shirou and Artur, I actually took a tea cup to a buyback store in Rasheni.
It's a set of tea cups that is worth at least a few low-quality magic stones, or dozens of cores if you estimate it cheaply.
But.
"Huh? Can you say that one more time?"
"Yes, so. For this tea cup set, it's about this much."
The price that was presented was not a sum of money that was suitable for this tea cup at all.
A price that makes it questionable whether I can buy magic stones, let alone cores.
It's a price that's no different from mass-produced items in the area, and it's at a level where I feel a headache.
"Then, never mind."
I can't sell it at that price, so I left the first store and went to the second store.
"How about this much?"
Even so, no matter how many stores I visited, they presented me with the same thing.
Am I the one who's strange? No, that can't be true.
I have first-class aesthetic sense cultivated in the royal palace.
There's no point in selling it for such a cheap price.
In that case, it's better to display it in the store and wait for a buyer, even if it doesn't sell easily.
The tea cup incident was just the beginning, and they tried to buy all the other antiques cheaply.
If it was just one or two items, I would think that they just didn't have knowledge about it, but the same thing is said at all the stores, and with all the products I brought in.
"What is this, bullying?"
Isn't someone intentionally trying to destroy this store?
When I had Oliver go to sell the tea cup that I first went to sell, he was able to get a proper price for it.
However, I can't rely on Oliver or someone else forever.
"W-what should we do?"
I can see that my mood is getting worse day by day. At the same time, Julia is also getting depressed.
Of course, I'm not taking it out on Julia, so don't misunderstand that.
But, well. Since I came, the management has recovered a little, or rather, it has gotten better.
We can now earn income from the magic stones that we used to sell for almost nothing.
However, even if magic stones sell, the current store doesn't have enough funds to purchase those magic stones and stabilize the inventory.
We can't create funds, no matter what we do.
As a result, the customers who used to come for magic stones have also drifted away.
"Even if I hired you, nothing has changed after all."
"Grandma............"
Zinebra-san, who came to the store for the first time in a while, said that about the recent management situation.
"When Dino was here."
That word that Zinebra-san muttered with resignation caught my attention a little.
"Dino-san is Julia's father?"
"Yeah. That's Dad's name, but what's wrong?"
Dino, Dino............? I've heard that somewhere.
"This store, you know, it's taken from Dad and Uncle's name. Giuno."
I remembered that name that I had heard somewhere to Julia's words, who was trying to put on a bright expression, even though it was probably fake cheerfulness.
"It's Fradino!"
That store in Merchium.
"What, do you know Giuseppe's store too? Well, I guess so. That child is a different type than Dino, but he was good at business."
"That store is my uncle's store."
Can you imagine how I felt when I was told that?
"Why haven't you been relying on them?"
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