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8. Mysterious Secret Merchant (4)

“What’s going on there?”

It was strange to see a suspicious man wearing a hooded shirt with a young girl who seemed to be a student, but since the girl was jumping and screaming, I couldn’t help but pay attention, as long as she was a sane person.

“No!!! Nothing happened!!!”

Shine reacted violently, fearing that somehow I would be harmed.

I let out a small sigh and lifted the hood slightly to greet the man who was looking at me suspiciously.

By showing his face, he appeals that he is a good person who has no intention of committing a crime.

If you show your face now, you will be caught right away the next time you commit a crime.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but I think you’re a student, so be careful.”

“Yes, yes! It’s really no big deal. It’s because I’m so happy, so don’t worry.”

Shine smiled brightly, so the man couldn’t interfere anymore and stepped back.

Freed from people’s suspicions, I reached out to Shine.

“yes?”

“I have to return it. You haven’t signed the contract yet.”

“Ahhh…”

Despair flashes on Shine’s face.

The weapon that was tightly held in her arms was reluctantly enjoying herself.

‘Damn, that’s a bit envious.’

The outward appearance was that of an adult, so I felt like a criminal without even realizing it.

I shook my head and let go of bad thoughts.

Shine, who was crying, said, as if it seemed like a gesture to quickly hand down his weapon.

“I gave that as collateral. Can’t I rent it right away?”

“…so you like it?”

“Yes!! Really trust me. I will never eat and run. Ah! I’ll give you my student ID as collateral.”

If it is a student ID, it is used quite important in the academy.

That’s why it was possible enough to build trust by entrusting your student ID.

“Okay. You’ll need time to check your weapon’s performance, too. Next week…wouldn’t it be better to meet a little earlier?”

“Yes yes yes!”

“Then I’ll meet you here at 10 in the morning.”

“Thank you!! Bless you, mister!”

I am not uncle…

Of course, compared to Shine, who is now 18, it is true that the 30-year-old me is a man.

I am sad to hear you.

As if I was worried that my weapon would be taken away, Shine suddenly said hello and quickly disappeared.

You probably won’t be distracted by checking the weapon’s performance.

‘Wouldn’t that be nice?’

I thought I would like it because it was a character-specific equipment, but I didn’t expect it to show such a radical reaction.

I was happy that there would be no problem selling unique equipment in the future, but I was also a little worried about the overreaction.

‘If you’re trying to take me away even by killing me…?’

Is it because he rolled while living as a mercenary?

I keep getting suspicious about the bad side.

I can’t help this.

Because it’s a personality created by the experience he’s accumulated while serving as a mercenary.

Besides, aren’t there only cases where the characters I pick have good personalities like Shine?

Each character has a different disposition and personality, and the way they treat me will be different.

Shine treated me as a suspicious man, but I didn’t think to report him because of his greed for equipment.

However, other characters may be interested in the route I got this equipment from.

‘Because Shine even asked me where I got this, as if passing by. After all, selling equipment like this is all you can do once or twice. I need to get the qualifications to sell things formally.’

Trading equipment on the street is too risky.

It was necessary to formally obtain a merchant license.

And in order to get a merchant’s license…

“money.”

Eventually you will need money again.

Aristocrats differed from commoners in the unit of money they used.

So, it was a no-brainer that I would earn a merchant license with the money I had saved while working as a mercenary.

Fortunately, I had something that could be properly ‘money’ in my hands now.

The money you earned while serving as a mercenary?

‘With that said, if I stay here for a few months, it will run out.’

Prices are incredibly brutal.

To be honest, they were scarier than monsters.

they give me money

Living here, eating, sleeping, and packing all required a huge amount of money.

I smiled heartily at the shiny leather fur.

“How much do you want this to cost?”

To be honest, I was surprised when Shine talked about renting equipment.

Renting is something I never thought of.

‘Because it’s equipment that no one else can use…’

I am in a position where I must sell unique equipment to Shine.

On the outside, he pretended to be ‘A’, but when he digs into the circumstances, he has no choice but to become ‘B’.

However, Shine took care of it first and suggested a new way of renting it, and even paid a lot for the rental price.

‘I was just going to take this and pass it on…’

Comparing the value of things, from Shine’s point of view, it would be a structure where I lose infinitely.

In Shine’s hands, the value of the unique equipment I gave her would rise infinitely.

But that equipment is equipment that hides its owner.

‘It’s only worth it when it’s in the owner’s hand, and when it’s not, you can’t even get 0 won.’

So when I brought the werewolf hide, I tried to hand over the equipment.

Of course, now it is a transaction that can continue to earn additional profits in the future as well as obtaining the silver werewolf hide fur.

“Isn’t it a waste?”

Before turning this guy into money, I first opened a shop with this ability and checked how much it was worth in Korean won.

KRW 2,350,000

It had a value of up to 2.35 million won in won.

It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a monster worth more than 1 million units.

‘Maybe if I sell this here for money…’

Wouldn’t a house be worth it?

The billing amount of 2.35 million won tempts me.

I thought about how many times I could play gacha with this.

If I’m lucky, I might be able to sell about 1/3, if not all, of the SSR characters’ business cards.

‘If you change the priority of work because of the greed in front of your eyes, it will be a big deal. Right now, the priority is to prepare a safe place to sell things.’

If you create a place to sell goods, the rest of the plan will come naturally.

Of course, there remains the important task of picking out SSR characters, but it’s less of a burden than showing suspicious behavior around the academy.

‘If you do something wrong, you’ll be kicked out.’

I think I mentioned it once, but I spent 14 years trying to get in here.

As long as I am a commoner, I must never do anything that offends the nobles.

“Hmm…you want to sell this?”

“To be exact, I want to exchange it for a merchant license and a shop.”

“It will depend on the location of the store. Where is the minimum line for the location of the store?”

“It’s okay to be in an off-the-beaten-path location, as long as it’s near the academy. The things I’m selling are for students only.”

“Students won’t go often if there are few people, so what are you going to sell there?”

“It’s a general store that sells miscellaneous goods.”

I went to a merchant who arranged a fair trade.

It’s an NPC that appears in the game, but it really exists.

be curious

“Hmm… not everything near the academy is expensive. If what you’re saying is true, there will be quite a few people willing to sell it.”

I am a commoner.

Just because you got a monster by-product didn’t mean you could sell it right away.

However, there is a trick, it is possible to exchange these monster by-products for things other than money.

I was thinking of exchanging this for a merchant license and a store.

and after a few days.

The NPC did not disappoint my expectations and arranged for me to exchange a merchant license with an expiration date of 10 years and a store that was very old but fairly close to the academy.

The other party was good, and it was a transaction that I was satisfied with.

Ki-Ik-

“Cool! Cool!”

…the location wasn’t as remote as I thought.

I was surprised that the academy was much closer than I had planned.

However, I could clearly see why the owner handed it over to me without regret.

The alley itself leading into this building gives a feeling of being too dark and dangerous.

In addition, the building is too old and even small.

The inside of the old building was full of dust and bugs.

It seemed like it would take a lot of hard work to make this a decent store.

‘But isn’t this kind of atmosphere better for me?’

I cannot tell you the source of the items I will be selling.

In addition, the target to sell is set to a small number.

Of course, other items will be sold so that ordinary people can think that it is a general store.

But the real thing is the unique equipment of the ‘character’ that I will pick out and release into this world.

And you have to sell them to get real ‘money’.

‘Because I need monster by-products to draw a character.’

Is it all if you just pick a character?

You also need to pick out equipment that is unique to that character.

There was a lot of unique equipment that hadn’t been prepared yet.

And the more money, the better, and there was no loss of money.

“First of all… I’ll have to at least clear it up so that it can be seen as a store.”

Making this place a grocery store.

That was the first thing I had to do.

The strict nobles will tolerate old things, but will not tolerate dirt and bugs.

It had to be clean to make nobles even step foot in it.

In my position, where I have to eat, sleep, and work in this store in the future, cleanliness was also an essential thing.