A mid-level (middle-aged) office worker's laid-back industrial revolution in another world - Chapter 70

Translator: Darling | Editor: Coming soon…

The clerk of the magic gods store placed a large piece of paper on the table.

A 4 directional view of the gun was drawn in that.

“I drew this after the two of you left.”

It was wonderful. It didn’t have all the details but it was detailed enough to determine the specifications and modifications.

“You’re good at your work aren’t you? I felt this when I saw the lapels as well.”

Takeo praised him as he took out a pouch with 30 gold coins from his backpack.

“Hn? 30 gold?”

The clerk checked the pouch.

“Yes. I put in a lot.

Please take this as the cost of modification and as the fee for collecting bullets.”

“………Collect……? Not order?”

“Yes……that’s right. Shall I tell you about the evolution of the guns and the consideration of the developers?”

Takeo told the clerk the same story that he had told the members of the Elvis household the previous night.

“So you’re thinking about the evolution of this rifle.”

The clerk was cheerfully listening at the beginning of Takeo’s story but he was completely serious now.

“……..The evolution is not something surprising and it isn’t something that seems impossible either.

Incidentally, we don’t know how far that idiot developer understands.

“Yes. He may have just come up with an idea for this rifle and decided to sell it…….

I’m just concerned if he possesses the same knowledge like me.”

“That’ll be bad.”

“…….I would like to deny it……..”

“I think it better to accept it.

Though I did get together with my employer’s daughter. That’s not common sense.”

“Um……..that’s for sure……”

Takeo smiled at the clerk.

“The reason I want to collect bullets is for my practice.”

“Yes. In order to not let them know that we’re interested in the rifle………right?”

“As expected of an elite. You understand quickly.”

“Originally so.”

The clerk didn’t deny the fact that he was an elite.

It was as Takeo expected.

“At the same place that you purchased them………..no.

I think it may not work if you target the same merchant that you got these from.

It might be fine if you probably tell him something like, ‘A traveler staying in the town had requested for them’.”

“That’s right. The negotiations can move forward with the purchase price + some more.

I don’t think that he will believe that we want it by all means.

Ah……….maybe we should also write that we only want bullets.”

Takeo said.

“Eh? Do you intend to request that?”

The clerk was curious.

“I want to emphasize on the bullets.

By the way, one wouldn’t really want to keep something that doesn’t sell right?”

“Yes, I believe so.”

“Once we request for the bullets, it would be fine to add to it a little right?”

“Yes. Finally, I think he will steadily give them away.”

“But once we ask for the bullets, the value of the rifle is just like a showpiece right?”

“Certainly…..Nnn…….”

The clerk was thinking.

“Then wouldn’t they like to negotiate it? As a set with the bullets?”

“That would work well.”

“At that time, just tell them clearly that you just want the bullets. That you don’t want the rifle that doesn’t even sell.”

“Now………how will that man react?”

The clerk asked.

“He has 3 options.

1. Don’t sell.
2. Sell only the bullets.
3.  Give the rifles away for free with the bullets.

Right?”

Takeo told him the probable options that the merchant would have.

“That’s right.”

“I think that the 3rd one is the best. It will probably be the choice that he chooses right?”

“…………The question is how far he is willing to go…….

Should I appeal to him when telling him?”

“That’s what it’ll come to I guess……

‘I understand the feeling of having unsold inventory. It may be below the cost but I would like to take the bullets and the rifle for 6 silvers’

What if you were to say that?”

“Isn’t it a little too little?”

“But you only need the bullets so you’re actually increasing your unsold inventory by taking the rifles as well, shouldn’t that be appealing enough?”

“It’s not that it doesn’t make sense……nn…….it may not work out though?”

“It’ll be fine if you can just get the bullets through some intermediaries somehow so it won’t be a problem if it fails.”

“Then let me try it out.”

“Yes, please do.”

Thus Takeo asked the clerk to collect the bullets.