51 Episode 51: The scent of being ready when you rent a place.txt (2/2)

So from now on, will we be asked to be a little more careful when playing with threads?　But there's no way that anyone would seriously believe that they've slipped through the mirror and actually gone to another world.

Every time I come back to this world, I wonder if it was all a dream or an illusion.

Well, as long as we continue to say ”It's CG” as before, we'll be fine.

The bed was in the storage room, the one my sister used. I pulled the futon out of the closet in the guest room.

Now Orica's bed is OK.

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The next day we all headed to the temple (with Orica in tow). Of course, it was to cure Orica's eyes with the spirit stone.

I heard that one Spirit Stone would be enough, but I heard that there are certain types of Spirit Stones that you can use, so I brought both of them at least. Genie said it would be good to keep the first Spirit Stone as a souvenir, so I'm going to save Lapis Lazuli and use Opal for the first one. Well, if someone says you can't cure your eyes with opal, I'll use lapis lazuli. I'm not that fond of them.

Priestess was lovely today. I was sneaking around taking pictures, and Deanna almost gave me the camera.

Maybe I was too quick to tell Deanna about the camera: .......

The spirit power of the spirit stone was released, the priestess chanted the spirit magic for restoring sight, and the treatment itself was completed in an instant.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work for you. In fact, they were surprised that I had such a good stone.

The more solid-colored a spirit stone is, the better it is, the clearer it is, the better it is (the quartz I used as a present for the mayor's enchantment before was of a good quality), and opal-like stones with various colors are not so highly prized. ...... apparently.

What about diamonds and such?　I asked, ”What's that?　I was told. Deanna looked kind of surprised, ”You know that, Deanna! I asked him about it, but he was distracted.

As for the spirit stone, it's too rare an item, there's not much information about it.

Orica, whose eyesight was successfully restored by the Spirit Stone's special power, said, ”I can see!　I can see a long way!　Great, great!　Thank you, sir~” and he was excited to be a stupid kid.

The glasses-wearing child project was aborted, but it's good to know that he's happy with it. ......

I've decided to start a new plan for a maid with glasses for Date. It's a boy's way of dreaming of being a glasses maid. I'm not wrong.

I'll buy another pair of glasses for you next time.

We left the temple and headed straight for the Chamber of Commerce. We went straight to the chamber of commerce to sign a contract to rent a section of the market.

We've made a stall, bought a horse, and even a maid is OK, but we're in need of money if we don't get our business up and running.

The place to rent is in the corner of the ”livingware and miscellaneous goods zone”. The ”Used Clothing and Tools Zone” is intriguing, but I only sell new items, so of course I'll have to set up shop in the new zone. A shop is a food stall, though.

I asked a staff member about it, and it seems that there is a little more space available than the last time I was here, which was the day before yesterday. It's the first day of the month, so there's a lot of turnover in the market.

According to Hetty, it's a ...... that ”starts out in the middle of the island and ranks up to the nativity seat and then to the outer perimeter” (I didn't really understand what that meant), so there's no need to be too picky about the first location.

However, we wanted to check what the neighboring shops were selling, so we decided to go to the market after setting our sights on a few places in the open space.

The ”livingware and miscellaneous goods zone” seemed to be more subdued than the ”second-hand clothing and tools zone” because it sold new goods (if we looked closely, there were some used ones mixed in).

In the knife shop, a young man who looks like a blacksmith's apprentice is busily working at the shop. He sells iron knives. They seem to be ordinary household knives. They sell various sizes of knives, but the large ones, with a blade length of about 80 cm, are almost like weapons. There was also a large chopper.

The tableware shop sells hollowed-out wooden bowls, ceramic bowls, glass cups and bowls. They don't sell porcelain.

The kitchenware store sells iron frying pans, cane stoppers, turner, seasoning jars, tongs, light-weight squares, ladles, bowls (made of wood), colanders (made of bamboo-like material), and a large quantity of both familiar and unfamiliar items. They seem to be using about two sections of the sales floor.

There are also general merchandise stores - wall decorations, ornaments, sewing tools, rug shops, clothing, bags, woodwork, farming tools, hair ornaments, hats, parchment, paintings, etc. --. Well, in short, they sell everything. I haven't checked all of them, because there are half a dozen stores, but if you run a store here, you'll eventually figure it out. And if you find a good one, you can import it into Japan.

The seasoning reminded me of this. The value of salt in this world, it's not unexpected, or rather, it's not a precious commodity, it's just something that is, frankly, free.

The reason for this is that there are many salt lakes in this world. Among them, the remains of salt lakes (...), which were created by repeating the process of ”seawater accumulation → evaporation drying → seawater flowing in from above → evaporation drying → seawater flowing in → evaporation drying” over a long period of time, are truly salt pools, and it seems that just having one of these lakes is enough to make it virtually impossible to get rid of salt.

That's why everyone cooks with a lot of salt. Whether it's meat or fish, salt and herbs are commonly used in cooking. Even processed food stores have a lot of salted food.

I think it would be a good idea to bring salt to Japan and make it rich in unknown minerals.　I thought about selling ”salt of the other world” or something like that, but I gave up on it because it's really dangerous to sell foodstuffs.

Well, in the first place, it is not likely to sell such an unintelligible thing. Even if it's NetOkku.

I looked around at the place I had set my sights on, and since the corner between the tool maintenance shop and the shoe store looked good, I decided to go there. I didn't want to bump into the shop next door, so it was just right.

In addition, if the shop is next to the maintenance shop, I can have my items maintained by them as well.

Return to the Chamber of Commerce and sign the contract. The contract fee is one silver coin for one month. I didn't need to rent it in a week, so I signed a contract for one month.

The place is ”Black No. 21”. It seems that each island has a different color name.

Tomorrow we'll have a flea market and we'll advertise the place while selling our wares. The day after tomorrow, we'll be able to open our shop at the market. I'll need to stock up on goods for the market.

Anyway, this is where my life as a merchant begins!　Hang in there!