「I see, so you are a noble-sama」


  「It makes me feel uncomfortable hearing you speaking like that old man, stop it. It’s fine if you talk like before」


  「……okay」


  When I tell him that, his shoulder relaxed, and his manner of talking returned to just like before.

  It’s clear that the middle-aged man seems to be bad at speaking politely. Though I’m actually also the type that is bad with speaking politely.

  「So, I won’t set up a stall here, and I won’t thoughtlessly tell others about it so your sales won’t be affected」


  After I said that, the man groaned and folded his arms as if he’s thinking about it.

  「……how much are you going to offer me actually?」


  「How about 20 silver coins?」


  If it were this much money, then a family of four can use it for three months.

  I think this much should be appropriate information about the spices and herbs.

  However, the man has a serious look on his face.

  I thought to lower the price at first and make the other party grumble about it, then gradually increase the amount but, I guess it’s too low?

  「……right now, my wife is pregnant so I want to let her eat delicious food for the baby. So could you increase it a bit more?」


  I thought that the middle-aged man will try to bargain by mixing it with some other reason but, what he said sounded decent to me.

  So that’s the reason why you need more money, even to the extent of selling the information, huh?

  Wanting to let his important wife - and the baby that has yet to be born-, eat delicious food.

  ……what is this I wonder. The bargaining this time is really an honest one, compared with the previous ones.

  Compared with this, what about the discussion I’ve had recently?

  The collusion with Torr to win over Sheila-san so she won’t tell on us for badmouthing our neechan, the one where I’m trying to make Sylvio-niisan fall for the charm of slime cushion……


  Considering our mental age, I feel the middle-aged man and I have the same age - if not older-, and have been living honestly.

  But if the man’s bargaining technique was to appeal to my feelings, and his serious expression and words are all lies, then it would be too incredible. Or rather, it might be better if I stop thinking along these lines.

  「……then, how about double of that, forty silver coins?」


  「That’s a great help! Well then, I’ll tell you about the herbs right now! This herb is――」


  「Wait. I haven’t paid you the money yet. I have to pay it first before you say it, if it were some bad person then he will just run away, you know?」


  「……o,ooh. I see」


  He was probably so eager because he was overwhelmed by his feelings toward his important wife. But even that looked heartwarming.

  After calming the middle-aged man, I take out a leather bag from my breast pocket.

  「Ah, sure enough, I don’t have forty silver coins with me but I got gold coins, do you have any change for them?」


  「……this is a stall you know, I don’t even have sixty silver coins」


  Right. It would be strange to take out silver coins at a stall.

  I guess it’s because I used my purse before in Kagura, there are only Kagura coins and some other big coins. I should probably exchange these.

  Though I’ve stored a lot of silver coins inside the subspace of my Space magic, but I can’t cast it here now.

  「Just a moment, I’m gonna exchange it and came back, wait here okayー」


  「Ou, okay!」


  I left the place after informing him.

  Then I turn around at a suitable alley, head to the shadow of a building, and cast Space magic secretly.

  I took out a wooden box from the subspace, then I take out forty silver coins from that and put it into the wooden box.

  Yosh, now it’s done. It contains exactly forty silver coins.

  I walk slowly to the middle-aged man’s stall while carrying the wooden box.

  「Ohh? Have you exchanged your money? There should be quite a distance to the money exchanger though」


  「I have a servant nearby. It’s times like this when a lot of money comes in handy」


  「I see, as expected from noble-sama!」


  Though it was a complete lie, there’s no need to worry about it as long as I got the money.

  「Here, there are forty silver coins inside this wooden box」


  「Ooh! Wait a sec. I’ll count now」


  After giving him the wooden box, he opens the wooden box’s lid and carefully counts the coins inside.

  「Ooh, it’s exactly forty silver coins! How should I put it, you, are you alright giving me this much money all at once? Shouldn’t you pay me after checking whether the information you got from me is right or not?」


  「That’s cause I’m confident with you, old man. People who planned on doing something bad won’t be that careful」


  「Well, that might be so」


  The middle-aged man scratches his head, maybe it’s because I said something that made him embarrassed.

  For people who planned on doing something bad, they are basically people who won’t say something that will put them at a disadvantage.

  The really bad people will still show you the thing, though the quality will be worse since they still kept it a secret.

  「And if, by chance, you were giving me the wrong information, then I will use my authority as a noble to hunt you down」


  I have the authority, and I also have Teleport.

  If, this guy deceives me and runs away after this, then I will chase him to the bitter end.

  「O, oohh, that part of you is really like a noble……」


  I wonder, I feel that his remark is not a compliment to me.

  ◆


  After hearing the herb’s information and their whereabouts from the middle-aged man, I decided to find the herbs by myself at a later date.

  He tried to offer me to lead the way to the herbs after he carefully closes his stall, but I politely refused. I’m already so tired after walking around from the morning after all. Why would I have more things to do and go out again despite originally coming to Kikka to take a break?

  I’m going to take a break at a cafe here somewhere, recharge myself, and then went out again to catch some slimes.

  So, unfortunately, I have to collect the herbs at some other time. However, in the end, I almost forgot to ask for some herbs from him, so I ask for some herbs from the middle-aged man and put them into my pocket. This way I will remember to take them out when I take off my pants.

  I parted with him while waving to him, and I quickly push my way through the stalls street this time.

  Immediately after, there are no more stalls lined up on both sides of the street, and stores with a calm atmosphere gradually began to appear.

  I continue walking, looking for a cafe that gives me a good feeling while staring at the signboard of the stores and the signboards on the street

  Clothing shops, flower shops, vegetable shops, and there are even shops offering impressive monster meat.

  I wonder if there are places that only served something like the herb-grilled Slash Hawk meat on the menu like the one I had just now?

  I don’t hate walking around while searching for shops in an unfamiliar city like this. Being able to discover and realize that there is certain kind of shops in this kind of place, the thought makes me excited.

  Even when I don’t feel like entering the shop that I’m curious about that day, then I can just remember the place and check it in my mind, and I could visit them again when I suddenly think about it later.

  After all, for someone who can use Teleport like me, there’s no harm in remembering various shops.

  I check the signboards all over the place while wandering.

  As I’m doing that, I found a cafe-like shop at the edge of the street selling grape-based food.

  When I try to check on the signboard, there is stewed chicken with white grapes, grape cheese salad, grape sandwich, grape cookies, and grape bread written on it, all of the menus are food that uses grapes.

  After all, Kikka is a city famous for its grapes. The grape juice was so rich in flavor and tasty, and I’m sure that they will be delicious even if they were used as part of cooking.

  Occasionally I eat grapes as it is, but I rarely ate them as a dish.

  After checking and getting my interest piqued by the signboard, next is check-ing the inside of the shop.

  Looking at my own state of mind, I really want to enter the place immediately, but a shop that serves such stylish food is often frequented by a lot of women.

  I have to properly make sure about the people inside so that their women’s talk won’t make me uncomfortable when I’m inside and I won’t be stared at by them. And if it’s a couples-only shop, then it would be unbearable.

  Putting my past life’s experience to use, I cautiously look at the situation inside the shop.

  Perhaps it’s thanks to the large window of the shop but it looks surprisingly wide from outside, though the interior itself is not that large.

  There are two women as a group, and there’s one woman and one man as customers inside I guess……


  If it’s like this, then even a kid like me will be able to enter by myself.

  Encouraged by the surprisingly calm atmosphere inside the shop, I open the door just, and entered the shop.

  「Welcomeー, how many people will it be?」


  The door opens with the sound of the bell attached to it rings *karankaran*, and the voice of a female employee welcomes me with the usual phrase.

  「Just me」


  「Please have a seat wherever you likeー」


  The employee encouraged me with an amiable smile on her face, so I look around the shop to look for a comfortable seat for me to sit.

  Suddenly, I can hear the sounds of lively, female laughter coming from the second floor.

  There’s probably a group of young women upstairs.

  Maybe, they let them stay upstairs in consideration for male customers like me or lone female so they wouldn’t hesitate to enter the shop.

  If there were a lot of young women on the first floor, then people will definitely turn around and not enter the shop. The only people who could enter are probably only those ikemen and couples.

  For now, I will absolutely avoid the second floor.

  「Manager! Do you think that the kid is lost?」


  「Idiot. There’s no way the kid is lost with that kind of brazen look on his face as he enters. You need to train your eyes more to judge others」


  「Ahh! Indeed, that makes sense!」


  I’m glad that you guys allowed me to enter the shop with no difficulties but, how did you arrive at that kind of conclusion?

  Being treated as a kid feels annoying but, I have a mixed feeling as if I’m not satisfied when I’m not treated like one.

  Just when my gaze was wandering all over the interior of the shop while thinking like that, I saw a male customer who is sitting by the window looking at me asking for help.

  ……that person, it’s fine for you to be enthusiastic about entering such a stylish shop, but his gaze looks anxious as the male guest inside the shop was not as many as he expected.

  Guessing from my past experience, from the bottom of my heart, I sighed deeply and moved toward the table next to the man and sit down.

  Immediately after that, the man nodded to me and smiled as though feeling relieved by my decision.

  I lightly nodded back as if to show my sympathy to a fellow warrior.