The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 12 [Parts 1 to 8] by Yu Okano

Author:Yu Okano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 4: Meanwhile, the Apprentices... Part 3

At the third village along their journey, they followed a similar routine as they had in the previous two, with Dorothea purchasing various plants and ores from the children. Her negotiations with the mayor went smoothly—unlike the first village—with the only problem being an inconsistency in the final sale price because of a lack of information on the mayor’s part. He was actually quite grateful when Dorothea pointed it out, because the price he had initially given was cheaper than her suggested offer.

While Rina’s frugal side had surfaced upon hearing the mayor propose such a low price and she had seen no reason not to make the best of the opportunity, Dorothea had explained that doing so would be shortsighted. Although it would have resulted in a larger profit for that single transaction, Dorothea’s dishonesty could have been exposed when other traveling merchants stopped by later on, or if any of the villagers saw the price of goods in a larger town, which would have left them feeling resentful toward her.

According to Dorothea, it was best to deal in good faith as much as possible and build relationships based on mutual trust in order to avoid any of that.

Rina found herself agreeing, recalling that although Rentt wasn’t a merchant himself, the adventuring knowledge he’d shared with her had contained similar advice: “When traveling to remote areas, you shouldn’t take advantage of the locals’ ignorance for onetime gain—like trying to cheat them out of a gold coin just for hunting a few goblins, for example.”

That advice applied to merchants and villages too—in fact, when it came to personal relationships, the foundations were the same no matter what, Rina thought. She had learned a lot from helping Dorothea with her sales.

As for the merchant herself, she had spotted a particular plant among the materials she’d purchased from the children, and that had sparked an idea—one that she began putting serious thought into. Upon asking the children where they’d harvested that plant, they had happily agreed to show her and began leading the way into the forest.

“This way!”

The forests in this region were relatively free of monsters, and most of the creatures that could be found there were of the slow variety. Nevertheless, the woods were still no place for children to be wandering around alone. Since the villagers had been uncomfortable with the idea of Rina being the children’s only guard, they had needed to ask one of the village’s hunters to tag along in order to be allowed to go at all.

To a regular person, an adventurer’s strength might as well have made them a monster, even if that adventurer was only an Iron-class like Rina. Generally speaking, even if a village was confident in its ability to put up a fight against any threats, no amount of effort put in by even their strongest residents would ever put them above roughly the level of an experienced Iron-class adventurer. So while having such an individual

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