Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi

d to buy from me, and in such cases I understood the Merchants Guild might be permitted to buy excess items from me directly.

“That's correct,” Ugor-san said, “Adventurers are normally only allowed to sell materials and items to the Adventurers Guild but that's to protect the Adventurers in most cases.
Adventurers are skilled with weapons and magic but they're no match for a seasoned Merchant when it comes to selling their goods, sadly.
It's far too easy for those sly old foxes to trick and brow-beat our Guild members into receiving a much lower price than they should for what they're selling.” He shrugged.
“We don't care that much about small transactions, a monster skin or a magic stone here or there, that sort of thing we can usually overlook.” I remembered Lambert-san's desire for a Black Serpent skin and his successful efforts to get me to supply him with one through the back door and looked away guiltily, but Ugor-san didn't seem to notice.
“When the Adventurers Guild just can't afford to buy in such items, that's a much rarer situation where we don't enforce the rule, for obvious reasons.” Ugor-san finished.

 I see.
Lambert-san had said the same sort of thing to me back in Carerina, about small transactions involving one or two minor items being overlooked.
It seemed the two Guilds had an understanding on this.

“The Guild Master here was in a party that once nearly conquered the dungeon here in Doran before you arrived.” Ugor-san went on.
I had heard that before, of course.
“They collected a lot of jewellery which the Guild didn't want to purchase and so the Merchants Guild were invited to make offers on the items.”

Is that so? We had amassed a lot of jewellery in our dungeon exploration too and frankly I wasn't interested in keeping any of it.
If I could find someone to buy it that would be great.

“In fact,” Ugor-san said, looking at another pile of papers on the desk, “if you have the time we'd like you to go to the Merchants Guild soon, tomorrow maybe or even earlier? I'm sorry to push you but we've recieved a lot of requests from them to meet with you, to discuss purchasing items you brought back from the dungeon.”

That sounded fine to me, the sooner I sold off those sorts of things the better.
“Yes, I'll be happy to go there.
In fact I can go later today, after we've been to the warehouse?”

“Really? Excellent, thank you for this.
I'll take you over to the Merchants Guild after we've visited the warehouse.” Ugor-san said with some satisfaction.

Elland-san broke his cowed silence.
“W- wait a minute.” he said.
“I'll guide you over to the Merchants Guild, Mukouda-san.
I really should go with him, Deputy Guild Master since I'm the Guild Master after all-“

Ugor-san interrupted.
“What are you talking about? You have a lot of work to get through today to process the items Mukouda-sam is delivering to us.
And how are your preparations to travel to the Royal capital tomorrow proceeding?” he asked acidly.
Elland-san looked away guiltily.
Ah, so he hasn't made any preparations at all.
Ugor-san sighed.
“I did tell you to start getting ready, but…
Anyway, I'll take Mukouda-sama over to the Merchants Guild myself since you're going to be too busy here.
Right?”

“No, no …
I didn't really want to go all that way in the first place and…” Elland-san muttered.
“It's a pain…” but Ugor-san ignored his superior's whining.
Mention of Elland-san's forthcoming trip to the capital reminded me of something I had decided.

“Elland-san, when you go to the capital, you will meet with the King, right?”

“Yes, I will.
He wants a direct report on the dungeon's conquest.” Elland-san confirmed.

“In that case…” I took something I had collected from a dungeon treasure chest out of my Item Box and passed it to him.

“Please give this to the King for me.” As he studied it I went on to explain.
“The King made it very clear to the nobles and others that me and my contracted monsters were to be left alone and not bothered or interfered with.
That proclamation has made our time here in this country a lot more pleasant than we had expected and this is a gift to show that we appreciate his efforts on our behalf.”

I wanted our freedom to travel around without being hassled to continue and I reckoned this would be an investment, cheap enough.

“Yes, I can give this to the King for you but…
what is it?” Elland-san lacked the Appraisal skill so he couldn't figure out what it was at a glance.

“Ah,  that's a 'detoxification necklace' I found in a treasure chest in the dungeon.
It nullifies all poisons.” I explained.
Both Elland-san and Ugor-san looked shocked.

“That's a magic item, surely?” Ugor-san said, staring at the necklace in Elland-san's hands.
“Are you really just going to give it away?”

“I think it's better for the King to have this.” I said.
After all kings faced the constant threat of assassination and poison was one of the favourite methods used if the stories I had read were accurate.

“True, it's the sort of thing a Royal family would really like to own but…” Ugor-san went on.
“You could sell it easily, I think, such an item is eagerly sought after.
You could name your own price.”

“No, please give it to the king on my behalf.” Thanks to Fer and the others, I wasn't at all troubled for money and maintaining a thoughtful and considerate King on his throne was worth a lot more to me personally.
If he got poisoned who would replace him? As for using the necklace myself, my contracted monsters and me all had blessings of the Deplorable-samas that prevented poisons from having any effect on us so we didn't actually need it.
“You can deliver it personally, Guild Master, when you go to report to the King about the dungeon's conquest.”

“Work hard and get ready for your journey, Guild Master.” Ugor-san said.
“And don't lose that necklace, please.” Ugor-san looked at me and smiled.
“The Adventurers Guild will benefit from being associated with your gift too, of course and for that I thank you Mukouda-sama.
Now let's go down to the warehouse and get today's purchases dealt with.”

I woke up Fer and Dora-chan who were sleeping behind my chair and we all went down to the warehouse with Ugor-san, leaving Elland-san sitting at his desk and staring at the piles of paper on it.
Sui was in her leather bag as usual.

“What do you want me to get out first?” I asked once we were in the warehouse.
There were so many items to deal with I really needed to produce things in the order Ugor-san preferred.
Piling it all up in a heap would be counter-productive and messy.

“Right.” Ugor-san said, consulting his list again.
“First of all, can we get the Orc skins? Then the Lizardman skins, the Ogre skins, Troll skins and …
(omitted) …
and fifteen vials of Paralyse Butterfly paralysis powder.” Ugor-san stopped for a moment, scratching his bald head as I got the vials out of my Item Box and put them on a workbench nearby.
“There's something else, something else…” he flipped the paper over.
“Oh, here they are.
Twenty Wild Ape furs and a small magic bag.”

Right, right.
I pulled the final items he requested from my Item Box and put them down on the bench too.

“I think that's all.” I said, ransacking my memory, but it sounded about right.
“Please confirm that you've received these items.” Marcel-san and his co-workers were standing around, staring open-mouthed at the immense piles of skins laying on the warehouse floor.
They would be the ones to check the quality and number of the items the Guild was buying and it looked like they had a lot of work ahead of them.
Ganbatte, Marcel-san.

“I think that's all too.” Ugor-san agreed, giving his list one final check before he nodded.
“Mukouda-san, we have received the items as agreed.
We will assess them immediately,” he nodded to Marcel-san who waved his subordinates towards the piles of skins and other items, “and we will make the payment for all of them to you tomorrow.”

I sighed quietly, glad to see a large number of the dungeon item drops sold and no longer cluttering up my Item Box.
There were still a lot left, of course.
However…

“Now I'll escort you to the Merchants Guild.” Ugor-san said, gesturing towards the warehouse door.
We followed Ugor-san and left the Adventurers Guild, heading for the Merchants Guild where, I hoped, I'd be able to sell off a lot more of the drops we had collected.