In A Parallel World With Random Skills, I Reluctantly Become A Mafia Boss?

Chapter 19: Store

This room was a bit cramped though.

It seems he noticed us, and is coming this way.

"Welcome, this is my store, and the name's Lode. How may I help ya?"

The store owner looked like a seasoned warrior. He had a darker tan of skin, some scars here and there. His height was one head taller than me, and he had large muscles bulging out from his store uniform. It was a little intimidating.

"Ah, yes, Nice to meet you Lode-san. I'm Kyouya and this is Elle-chan, were here to buy some clothes. Is there any in stock?"

"Ah, so it's little Elle's acquaintance. Hmm, now that I look at it, you are wearing some strange clothes, they're dirty too. I'll go see what we got for you. Wait here."

He didn't even let me reply before going towards the room in the back.

"Elle-chan, do you guys know each other?"

"Un, Lode-ojichan is mommy's friend. He gives mommy and me 'Wild Boar' meat sometimes, when the hunters bring back one from the forest!"

I see. So he's like a friendly neighborhood uncle. Even though he looks like that, and his voice sounds like a warrior, he's got a soft side eh.

While me and Elle-chan were talking about this and that while looking around the store, which was filled with various items used for travel, daily living, and a few weapons and armors displayed here and there, Lode-san came out from the back room.

He seemed to have been carrying a few sets of clothes.They seemed to have been made out of leather, and plant fibers. When I inspected them using <<Dragon Eyes>>, there was nothing out of the ordinary like a hidden 'Magic Equipment' or something like that.

It was perfectly normal. It was finally time to change out of these clothes that I had been wearing from the first time I came to this world. I got slightly excited.

"Come, and choose what you like."

The total number of sets that he brought were 5 sets of 'Ordinary Villager Clothing'. Or so it says on the description window of my <<Dragon Eyes>>.

Even if I didn't use my skill, I couldn't tell the difference between all of them, so Lode-san must have been talking about the shade and coloring of the leather instead.

"I'll take all of them, how much will it be."

".....All in all, that will be 1 Silver Coin, including the leather bag to put the clothes in. If you don't want it, I can deduct the price for you."

He get's surprised for a second, but immediately calculates the price and gives a service to the me who didn't think of bringing something to carry the clothes in until now.

As expected of a store owner. He knows how to take the opportunity.

But really, wasn't this too cheap? Those were 5 sets of clothes for 1,000 Yen you know?

It seems I'll never understand the value of money here at this rate.

"Ah, no, I'll buy the bag as well, thank you."

"Alright, just wait a bit."

He says that, but he's already halfway done folding the clothes and putting them inside the average-sized leather bag one by one. How efficient.

As I waited for him to finish, I looked around the store once more, but my eyes landed on a certain item on sale. The next thing I knew, I was picking it up and holding it in my hands.

The dull shine of iron alloyed with steel, or maybe metal, greeted my eyes. The slightly long blade had a slight sharpness of a cutting edge, and the hilt was nothing special.