Chapter 38 – The Season When It Blooms Part 2 (1/2)

Well, well, well, the secret just keeps on piling up. Oh, I would like to ask someone to make Epubs and PDF’s for the past 2 volumes of MnD. They are just 2 volumes, so please! It’s not much work.

Chapter 38 – The Season When It Blooms Part 2

And some minutes later, we both visited the origin of that『Client』.

「Glad you came here. Minato, even Elk-chan」

To the origin of my sister, who was shaking her cream-colored fox ears up and down happily.

No, still for the client to be Noel-nee-san

「Ah, Elk-chan raised up to Rank C, right? Congratulations. I will prepare a celebration this time」

「Just how fast are your ears. This just happened some minutes before」

「Fufu, never underestimate the Trader’s intelligence network」

Holy Frigging Scary!

From the time after the case about『Naga』ended, we had been accompanying nee-san and receiving favors, it’s already been 2 months since then. In this time I have come to understand just what type of person my sister is.

She’s a really good person, but also, though not to the point of black bellied, but she is really strict, she does things mercilessly, her mercantile mind-set keeps on appearing and disappearing in her smile. In conversations she would use sharp painful words, or sometimes glare with her severely sharp eyes.

Maybe she might even be trying to find information even in this casual talk, or trying to start at psychological warfare, well now-a-days I think this stuff quite always.

Maybe because she has that sort of mind-set that she is able to reign over a big trade company.

Well, setting that aside, today we both are here to hear about the request by the client, my sister, so while telling our intentions we sit on the sofa.

At that time, I had a hunch that nee-san’s eyes squinted……maybe my imagination?

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The request of nee-san was, in simple words, the escort of a Trader Group.

I had heard from Elk just before, in this season, there are a lot of Traders who replenish their stock from the commodities in『Flower Valley』, and then sell those here.

The types are various, like for admiration purposes or for flower arrangements, flowers for medicine or for eating, dry flowers and saplings of flowers and even seeds.

Furthermore, using the nectar of flowers or the materials used in food or doses, various types of processed goods like sweets and perfumes are made……In short, in this season just too damn hell of things can be bought.

As expected the Traders get proactive in replenishing the stock with stuff which is popular and has direct relation with making profits, at the same time the Guild is flooded with escort requests.

Well no wonder. That so-called『Flower Valley』is a region which is across several danger areas, if route taken from this『Volka』City.

If they go to restock by themselves, then they would certainly need escorts with good ability, or else the journey won’t be safe. Hence restocking personally is impossible for people barely scraping by peddling. The people who can do it are Traders or Brokers.

People other than that would restock their stocks by buying the stuff restocked by big companies, via their broker upon giving them commission while the stuff has already turned expensive, and so including the maintenance cost, the stuff becomes ridiculously pricey, therefore not many people do this.

Sister’s『Malras Association』is the personally restocking side. And for that, as expected, they recruit escorts, in that regards I was hired by her this time.

Of course there are other than us who are recruited, but she wanted to recruit me too after all she knows my ability and my temper.

「Minato is A, and Elk-chan has raised her Rank to C, I can trust you both enough. Reward is 1 Gold coin, the reward can be increased based on conditions. Time limit is making a round trip between the valley and city, and also staying in the valley, so it would be a little bit over 2 weeks. So, how is it? Not bad, right?」

「I see, you’re quite generous. What about the meals en route?」

「Will give it. Well if you find that not sufficient, then just hunt some animal nearby and make a food of it」

「Approximately a half-moon time. Isn’t this too long?」

「It between the medium-term and long-term. It’s neither short nor too long」

Like that, Elk checks the minute details of request details. Noel-nee-san kept on answering Elk’s question rush without showing even a bit of disagreeable expression, meanwhile Elk kept on asking questions without any reserve, through-and-through. Maybe sister is already used to being probe for the true intentions during business negotiations.

Elk being Elk, was closely investigating with her cautious attitude, after all she has had hard time because of a contract.