The next morning.
After finishing breakfast inside the camper van, we visited Annette City.
Annette City is the second most prosperous city after the capital.
The population is about 15,000.
Quite a city.
Wearing masks, Aristy and I head straight to material shops.
We carry three item bags on our shoulders.
One item bag stores the camper van.
—First we visit the nearest mineral shop.
Currently, I possess 20,000 gold coins.
In Japanese yen, that's 200 million.
With this much, I can buy as many materials as I want.
So I decided to buy up materials.
"I'll take all the iron. Iron sand or pyrite is fine."
The mineral shop operates by ordering at the counter for merchandise.
So I list what I want verbally.
"Also copper, lead, tin, mercury, sulfur, and saltpeter. Oh, you have mithril too? Then that also—"
As I order one after another, the shopkeeper asks anxiously:
"H-hey. You sure you can afford all that? Especially mithril—it's pretty expensive."
"Yes, it's fine. Actually, I plan to order even more."
There are many other things I want.
I keep placing orders rapidly, finishing a massive number of requests.
The mineral shop owner was surprised but eventually smiled softly.
"To think you'd buy so much, masked young lady? This is on the house. Take it."
The owner tosses over some kind of stone.
When I catch it... it was corundum.
"Corundum... is it?"
"Yeah, you know it well. Process that and it becomes a gemstone."
Corundum is the raw stone that becomes ruby or sapphire.
Called emery, it can also be used as an abrasive.
"If you take it to a jewel craftsman, they'll turn it into a proper gem. It's thanks for buying so much—it's yours."
"Thank you! I'm truly happy!"
This was appreciated.
Corundum yields various materials.
Well, business concluded, we leave the mineral shop.
We go to the next store to continue shopping.
Building materials like lumber, bricks, clay.
Materials for clothes like wool, cotton, linen, hemp, fabric, thread.
Originally, buying up inventory isn't good... but I thought just one day would be fine and bought up things.