Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

"You are a good chocolate maker from what I know. Your chocolates... even our house has difficulties getting them.

Though we weren't here for that at first, if we have the chance of getting the famous chocolates of the mage of the light pillar, how can we miss this chance?

So... how much can you sell? I would have taken as much as you could give, but I know it's different, even with the great money we both have.

I don't know about this 'friend' of mine, but I want the ones with roasted almonds.

So… I am looking for around ten pouches of six.

It's a lot from a general perspective and I know that much.

And as you don't sell these to even nobles, I know it might be difficult to have more than this much.

If you are alright with this small amount... how much discount can I have as an aspiring adventurer?"

She took her sweet time saying that much, not that it mattered much.

And she was, at the end of the day... Rein.

Ten pouches? Like... really?

That's it?

I know it is a lot from any normal point of view as we were talking about some of the best ones in the empire, maybe the world but, ten pouches of six?

That was only around two or three Kg. Not that much, even from his point of view.

If he could just give away a pouch of six like that to his favorite person, his child-like Stella, then we were talking about the sole heir of a duchy who was his friend's granddaughter, wanting to buy it from him.

He knew we both had enough money. Naturally, we would have some dumb money that we didn't even care about but, that wasn't the interesting thing here.

She was asking if we could have a 'discount' even after having far more money to buy three times, she asked at this moment.

And I was definitely talking about her own hard-earned money.

She was the same as me when it came to this stupid money thing. Using her own first if it is not an emergency.

It was still quite something that she was asking for a discount even after we just rejected his invitation to be a part of the association on his face.

More than that, it wasn't even about the association.

The chocolates were his personal thing, and he was the one to make them and had the sole monopoly over those things.

He can ask for whatever amount he wanted and compared to the demand and high society's desire for his delicious chocolates, his price was just a constant ten gold per small piece.

And only this place sold it every weekend, so there was no 'easy' way to even get it from some other source.

And if it does appear on the market on the outside, the seller wouldn't hesitate to even ask for five times the original.

This thing was that famous and… only lucky people could directly have a meeting with him in his own office like this.

We were lucky to have this talk, not with the association branch manager, that talk was over already but, with the creator of some of the most famous chocolates of this empire.

And even after getting this chance... she was asking for a discount.

'She's amazing...'

But, well, I didn't believe he would lower the price than it already was and I would say he was just generous to ask just that much.

It wasn't something normal folks could afford but, ten coins for a simple piece of chocolate was something adventurers could aim for.

The adventurer parties can make a target to earn that much in a certain time and then, as a reward for achieving that goal, they can try buying these blissfully awesome chocolates.

They were for adventurers like himself to begin with, and not for outsiders or high-ranking people.

Yes, he did sell some to some special acquaintances of his but, the price when 'buying' has never gone down from what I knew.

Not that I knew much about this person on a personal level just yet, but, at the very least, according to statistics, he wouldn't lower the price... is what I believed.

But, as she asked him for the price and was looking at him with the now half-serious and half-hopeful gaze of a little child she definitely was, he couldn't help his amusement.

I was here, glaring at him seriously, perfectly in my character for the moment but, she couldn't hold the seriousness when it wasn't even needed.

She judged this person before us as 'good' and was now not much on guard or even cared about being cautious of him.

She was Rein, she can do whatever she wanted, and asking for a discount was one of her things.

And, for some reason, this branch manager liked this hopeful look on her face.

He knew she wasn't just showing off or anything, and even after being from a noble family, she was just far more different from any noble lady.

She was more like any regular girl from the town who would try to get the best thing with however low she had to pay.

She knew what 'money' was, unlike most of the ladies from a noble household, and this intrigued him even more.

And she wasn't even asking for an abnormal amount of these chocolates…

From what I heard, some of the capital's active <S> and higher-ranking adventurers, especially a certain group of them, loved these chocolates and bought just around that much every month.

She definitely won't be coming here every week and fighting to get a small amount every time and waste money so, that much would be more than enough for her for more than some months… maybe?

He understood this too, and still, the look on her face was just precious.

He looked at her with his old smile, in her eyes, deep within, and found no trace of act or lie.

She was true to whatever she said, and that was enough for him.

Then he looked at me and, well, everything was blown away, so even my eyes weren't stern anymore.

I shook my head with a helpless smile as he looked at me, and he smiled deeper after this one.

I knew the one asking for a discount in this kind of scenario would be this friend of mine. And this intrigued him even more.

Then, looking back at my dear Rein, at her currently innocent eyes, he sighed happily.

"Hoho, young lady. Didn't expect the one that had that amazing casting method and spells, as well as is from the grand house of Atraxia, would be this... normal.

Reinelle, was it? For me, it is Uriel. A good name, I must say.

I can sell you that much, but sadly, there might not be more than twenty chocolate almonds in the small size.

And you can't have more than twelve of them, so I must apologize.

As for the discount... you definitely will be amazing adventurers in the future, that is inevitable.

So, just for you adorable Uriel.

How about ten percent? Can't go lower than that, you know.

Instead, you can choose the rest of the ones yourself in that room and even pack in the pouches yourself. How about it?"