The Novice Alchemist's Store

"The biggest problem is you don't get a lot of cash in this village."

"Because it's the collectors who have the cash in the first place. Unless you do business for that collector, it's going to be hard."

"Collector opponent commerce...... That sounds pretty difficult. The accommodation and meals are served by Mr. Dilal's place, and the grocery store is already there. I'm also saying we're going to open a competitor."

"Oh, your father's shop is crumbling!

I nod at Lorea, waving her hands patty as she panicked.

"Right. In the first place, it doesn't make sense that the totals don't change."

Unless there are more gatherers, not enough cafeterias, or grocery stores too crowded to use, it makes no sense to share one pie among villagers.

Even if that happens, it would be more reasonable to expand your current store and hire someone from the village.

It's a little impossible for someone who farmed until yesterday to start running a store all of a sudden.

"Then the manager will have to make a job."

"Me, sir?

Mr. Iris pointed me out and I tilted my neck.

"What can I say, who has the most money in this village?

"... for once, am I, going to say?

Aside from whether I'm free to spend money or not, it's not a mistake in the sense that I have cash.

I can't believe you were in extreme poverty until a while ago!

That's the Alchemy's License, the Alchemy's License, those difficult days weren't for nothing!

"Unless, of course, it could be an asset, including land and buildings - oh, no, considering the smelting drug Potion and all that, with a smash...? And I owe you..."

"Iris, it's off the record."

To Iris, who thought a little about it, Kate pointed it in and fixed the track.

"Oops. The manager can absorb the money from the collector. And maybe we can also create a job supplying the villagers with that money. Like Lorea. Well, that's why."

It does have muscles through it.

Hire Lorea to pay, ask Mr. Geberg or Mr. Zizd for a job, and pay the price.

Somewhat at the moment, but so I'm supplying the money.

"Is this your job… there's not much point in adding more employees, otherwise…"

It's different to hire people even though you don't have a job.

That's just an imposition.

You can't do that.

Other things to do... like grasshopping in the garden, managing herbs?

No, but grasshoppers anyway, it's pretty hard to manage medicinal herbs...

"Oh, yeah! Mr. Sarasa, you're asking Grandpa Geberg for the main part of the fridge, right? Like that, do you ever ask a villager to make some of the smelter artifacts?

I was hazy about what Lorea said with her bread and hands slapped.

"Ah! That might be a good idea. Uh, he said he's selling it now... the hat part of the cooling hat, there?

You don't have to be an alchemist to do it, a plain hassle task.

Isn't this good for outsourcing?

The problem is that the cooling hat is the only smelter that can be sold in the village.

If it can be sold, I can also think of having bedding and clothing made with an environmental conditioning cloth, but unfortunately no one buys it in this village.

I mean, he wasn't there. Just cloth.

"It's just that the cooling hats, it's time to hit them in the head... one at a time, no, a few in the family would suffice"

At an aunt network, now that information has spread across the village in an instant.

Anyone who needs it and can afford it has already bought it.

When that happens, we only have customers who don't have them yet...

"Why don't we just go out there and sell it?

"Is it a takeout?

To the suggestion from Kate, I twist my neck.

"Even as it stands, it's a little cheaper than the market, right? Then if Mr. D'Arna goes to sell it, we'll figure it out, won't we? At least, I think it's more efficient than selling dried meat."

"... right. That's not bad, it"

It is also large that the object is a cooling hat.

Light and take no place, instead the unit price is high.

And because the effect can be seen as soon as it is worn, even if it is sold by Darna, who is not an alchemist, he will not be suspected of being fake.

It's much easier to handle than the potion, a smelter that you don't use right away.

"That helps your father and the people in the village! Sarasa, if you can..."

Lorea turned me to a begging gaze, and instantly I nod.

Shall I say no to her?

"Yeah, I got it. I'll do it in that direction."

Mr. Iris shrugs his shoulder a little and laughs bitterly at me for answering that.

"Well, if you're selling outside the village, you should think about the design, not the hat or the practical side. What we're selling right now is for farmers and collectors, right?

"Right. Because I made it as a user-friendly priority."

And then to save me the trouble.

Because I put a lot of effort into it poorly and thought the focus on practicality was better for villagers than increasing the sales price.

"Exactly to the people in town, things don't seem popular right now, do they? Or the straw hat that farmers wear better... unless you're going to sell it to the countryside."

"After all, we'll have to make something stylish"

"Ugh. That seems difficult. Aunties of the village, they have no connection to being stylish..."

Speaking of which, did Lorea say 'urbanite' or something when you first saw me?

Not stylish at all. Look at me.

"Around there… shall we even make references? Draw an illustration of a hat or something. How about you and Kate? Don't you know, designing a hat?

"Ugh... I'm not much on that side..."

"Iris is not interested.... No painting, either."

"Kate." Well, Mr. Store Manager, I'm not really interested, but you know what's good and bad?

"Uh, yeah."

You're making excuses like you're in a bit of a hurry because you didn't put it out on my hat, Mr. Iris.

But it's okay.

Exactly, because I didn't make the hat that I'm selling right now because I thought it was stylish.

"I'll work with you. I'm not very good at special paintings, but I think I can tell you about the atmosphere."

"Yes, please"

If I had to, I wouldn't have hated relying on my master, but is this a little reassuring?

Although I live in the Wang capital, I didn't really walk outside, so I'm not familiar with fashion.

"Well, hey, I'll talk to the village chief."

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I remember, but it's an auspicious day.

As soon as I visited the village chief's house, the village chief seemed free and immediately invited me in.

"Hmm, a job request?"

When I briefly explained, the village chief nodded Hmm.

"Yes, what do you think?

"Not bad, huh? No, honestly, it helps as a village. I don't have enough cash, I rely on Dudley and Darna a lot..."

With that said, the village chief sighs loudly.

What comes in is the money that collectors spend in their lodgings and grocery stores against the cash that leaves with tax payments.

All you have to do is rent the house you're renting out when the number of people increases.

Much of the material gathered by the gatherers had been brought straight into South Strag, so there was no money going into the village.

As a result, the cash remaining in the village was fairly limited and seemed to remain something like borrowing cash from Mr. Dudley and Mr. Darna at the time of payment of taxes.

"But isn't it about a straw hat that the women of the village can make? You can sew, but you don't know how to make it."

"There, I plan to provide an illustration from mine that will serve as a reference for the design. I need you to look at that and think about how to make it... because if you need it, I can give you some guidance"

"Then we can work it out, huh? So, how much do you buy?

"That's it... what I'm thinking now is in the form of a commission"

"Commission? What do you mean?

Explain to the village chief, who twists his neck strangely, the way I was thinking.

First, a villager makes a hat at his own expense and puts a price on it of his choice.

I put that hat as a cooling hat, add the cost of making it a cooling hat to the price the villagers put on it, and arrange it in stores.

And if that hat sells, I'll pay the villagers.

"Because you can't make a simple hat with a pragmatic focus and a stylish hat with the hassle, for the same price"

"Hmm, that's not true."

"The cost of making it a cooling hat I'm thinking about right now is five thousand rare per piece. If the villagers make 500 rare hats, they'll line up in the store for 5500 rare."

"... if I can't sell my hat, won't I be paid? Isn't that what the villagers do?

"It's..."

"That's not true, Dad!

A sharp voice sounded in the room at the time I tried to explain.