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Encounter With The Merchant Emilio
「Kusha was crying to me, I guess I’ll leave it at this today……」
After sending the last adventurers to the guild, I decided to finish my work early.
The guild's employees will collapse due to overwork if I keep getting adventurers taking on more requests. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Are you Kureto, the transporter?」1
As I left the guild’s building and was about to head back, someone called out to me.
Looking toward the source of the voice, I saw a handsome-looking blond-haired young man and a brown-haired boy.
The young man has long hair and fair skin like a woman. With slender limbs and build.
He had a great style and was so handsome it made him look like a foreign actor.
He doesn’t look like an adventurer, giving out a good upbringing and refinement.
The boy has dull brown hair and lacks the refinement of the young man.
He looks like a boy you can find anywhere.
「……yes I am, and you are?」
「My name is Emilio (エミリオ). A merchant who is doing business in the royal capital. This is my employee Rodney (ロドニー)」
The young man named Emilio self introduced himself with a beautiful smile on his face while the boy named Rodney silently nodded at me. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
A merchant. He’s the type of person from the place I was thinking of contacting somehow.
「Is there something Emilio-san wants with me?」
「Will you please be my partner?」
「……I’m sorry. I don’t have that kind of hobby so please find someone else」
「It’s not ‘that’ kind of partner!」
What the, so it’s not? Please don’t say it misleadingly.
After strongly objecting to that, Emilio clears his throat and collects himself.
「I will phrase it differently. Would you like to be employed by my company?」
「Being affiliated with your company, does it mean I will do the transporting work?」
「Yeah, that’s right. I’ve been keeping an eye on your power of late. I was surprised you can go to the Aubu forest in an instant, which usually takes around one and half a week by carriage」
Apparently, he’s been watching me sending the adventurers using Teleport.
I guess he was also inquiring about which were the adventurers I sent and where did they go when they returned in an instant.
He seems to have quite a careful and prudent personality. As expected from someone who introduced himself as a merchant.
「If we were to stock up on goods and sell them on a large scale with that power, we would be able to get profits easily. You understand that much, right? 」
「Right. I was also planning on making money that way eventually」
Earning money by teleporting adventurers will be less profitable than buying goods cheaply and selling them high in a faraway place. Especially when you’re dealing with expensive items you would probably be able to earn hundreds of gold with a single trade. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Then the conversation will be quick. Will you accept my invitation?」
「Could you please tell me which company Emilio-san belongs to?」
「It’s Emilio company. Also, I’m the company’s president」
「Forgive me for being rude, but I have never heard of that company before?」
「Oya, do you know about the royal capital’s companies?」
「Yes. I was also thinking of providing my service to the companies in the royal capital eventually」
For someone like me who came from another world, the hurdle of starting a company is high.
Especially if I want to set up a shop in the royal capital, it requires a certain financial power and reputation.
Since I lack personal connection and knowledge, I was thinking of joining a company that will buy my ability at a high price.
In order to do that, I was checking the shops in the royal capital while completing delivery requests at the guild.
「You’re quite shrewd despite your vacant looks, huh」
「That ‘despite your vacant looks’ was unnecessary」
He does look impressed but I don’t feel like being praised at all.
People have been telling me that my face looks lackluster or absent-minded since long ago.
「Setting that aside, it’s natural for Kureto to not know about my company. You see, the company just opened a shop the other day」
「……in other words, the company just starting out then?」
「Yeah, it is」
Emilio answered my question without being embarrassed.
It’s a bold attitude as if that kind of thing didn’t matter at all. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「You must feel disappointed when you hear it’s a company that just started, right?」
Emilio asked, perhaps he noticed my subtle expression when he said that to me.
「Yeah, well. I was thinking of selling my service to a large company....」
I was thinking that if I’m going to join a company then it has to be a large company at any rate. Their market will already be large enough and able to handle more goods, there are also their routes to obtain rare items.
「Honestly, I don’t recommend Kureto to sell your service to a large company」
I thought he was going to attract my attention because I didn’t accept his invitation, but he’s still a merchant who can open up a shop in the royal capital even though he’s just started his business.
So even if he has other intentions I thought it was worth it to try to listen first.
「Why is that?」
「When it comes to such a large company, Kureto will definitely get tied to them. And most of all, the amount of sales made by Kureto will be taken by a lot of people, you know?」
Certainly, the more people involved in the business the more dispersed the profits tend to be. And besides, I have already experienced the many constraints when there were a lot of people involved in my previous world.
It’s easy to work because it’s a large company but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the pay will be good. If anything, because it’s a large company you can say that it’s not possible for them to respond flexibly.
So there would be a lot of trouble if I - an irregular person - were to get involved in such a place.
「On that point, my company is a safe place! After all the members are just me and Rodney! I won’t force you to stay or tie you down against your will and you can take the job whenever you like! Furthermore, I’m going to pay Kureto well!」
As I was listening to his advice and got worried, Emilio started to promote his company as if seizing the opportunity.
A nice voice uselessly resounds outside the guild.
Several female passersby looked at Emilio with a blush on their faces. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「That might be true but do you have the market?」
「You don’t have to worry about that. I have made connections so I can move quickly」
「Do you have the capital to purchase the goods?」
It seems like he has a certain amount of reputation and connections in the royal capital since he was able to set up a shop, but you can’t start without the capital.
Emilio handed me a leather bag he took out from his bag when I threw that question to him.
「There are 50 gold coins in there」
When I tried opening the leather bag, it was indeed packed with a large amount of gold coins.
50 gold coins are quite a large amount of money. It depends on the location but you can build a small house in the royal capital with this much. It is certainly not an amount of money a merchant who just started you can afford to take out.
「Indeed, with these as the first capital……」
「No, that’s the payment for when Kureto does the transfer job for me」
「50 gold coins a month!?」
「No, it’s just for a day’s business. The scale of my company is still small now so forgive me I can only pay you that much, but when our revenue increases in the future, I intend to pay you more」
I was surprised that it was not a monthly salary, but a daily salary.
「Is that okay with you?」
「No problem. I will be able to earn more than that if I can receive Kureto’s help」
Despite paying me this much money, Emilio still smiled at me full of confidence.
Since he’s talking big then he must have considerable confidence about it.
「Once again I ask, how about it Kureto? Would you like to team up with me?」
……hm, either way, there are risks in doing it and Emilio is the one providing the capital.
Even if it’s just an empty talk, there are no risks for me if we fail.
Just as Emilio said, it would be better to start from a small small and get the maximum profit by ourselves.
Above all, I find myself a little interested in the young man named Emilio.
「Sure. Please take care of me, Emilio-san」
「No need for honorifics」
「Pleased to meet you. Emilio」
Thus, a company consisting of just three people - me, Emilio, and the young Rodney - started to move forward. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
TL Note :
- The kanji used is actually more for a transporter or transeferer, but I changed it to Teleporter
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