The Goddess Made A Mistake Again-Chapter 41 - Haggling

"I’ll take it."

The old man smiled with closed eyes, "Good, that’ll be 1500 pounds."

The grip on the sword almost slipped as I heard that.

This kingdom had a new way of money system than the one I was accustomed with. There were pennies, shillings and pounds, in that order.

10 pennies equal to 1 shilling and 10 shillings equal to 1 pound. So in other words, 1 pound = 100 pennies. Swords weren’t rare but actually quite common because of the era and some rare ones cost quite a pound.

Still a sword costing 1500 pounds was simply too much.

I look at the old man with suspicion, "You can’t be serious about that right?"

"Oh, but I am."

"Have you seen what the sword looks like? It looks like it’s made of some black or volcanic rock. Is it even durable?"

"Of course it is, didn’t you just try it out? What do you mean by its made off some rock? It’s nothing like that, its of a very special quality."

"What quality?"

"… Unfortunately I can’t tell you that without you buying it." Aloco said while looking away.

"…You serious?"

"…"

"Well then it means that I definitely need to lower the price now."

"What? How?"

"Because… you’re stopping me from my client confidentiality."

"Client Confidentiality… what’s that?"

Arthur looked at both of them and tried to help, "Guys, if we just be a little reasonable than I thin-"

His words stopped instantly as mine and Aloco’s eyes landed on him. He took two steps back and surrendered immediately.

Then began the art of Haggling.

Some Time Later.

Arthur leaned on the counter as his tired eyes gazed at the roof and through it, he could see the tiniest of sunshine’s.

’Freedom… when will I reach you?’

"Well then I believe we both have reached an understanding."

"Yes, I believe so."

Arthur lazily asked, "What happened now?"

"We’ve decided on the amount."

Arthur’s body immediately propelled straight up, "Finally! I was starting to think that I should write my final words to everyone. So what amount did you guys decide upon?"

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"1200 pounds."

"…"

"…"

"1200 pounds?" Arthur’s eyes wanted to bulge out as he screamed out, "Are you freaking kidding me? You guys haggled like a bunch of housewives for an hour and finally you only lower it by 300 pounds."

"I think that’s a reasonable amount, right?" Aloco nodded with me.

"But if you think that you can do any better, it’s all yours." I said to him with a smile that didn’t have any ulterior motives but he denied quickly.

"Oh no no no, I’m not falling back to that rabbit hole, no way. Just finish buying the sword and let’s get out of here… I am getting serious backlashes about life."

So with that, I paid the old man the amount for the sword and in return the old man fitted the scabbard into a back scabbard so that I could carry it around in style.

The moment we got out of the shop, Arthur seemed to fill full of life again, "Ahh… the sun… how sweet to feel your guiding light upon my skin again."

I deadpanned at the guy, "Don’t be so dramatic, we’ve only been there for an hour."

"Just an hour? That might have been just an hour for you but it was one of the longest time of my life… it’s much less boring to watch mothers trying to tell other mothers that their son is better."

I looked at the guy before smiling at him and patting his shoulder, "Thanks for showing me the place and helping me find the sword."

"Well, for the first one, You’re welcome and secondly… that was all you." He said before turning serious, "Seriously that’s all you bro, if that thing turns out to be just a large block of rock then I’m not responsible for it."

I laughed out loud hearing that and the surrounding people looked at both of us before looking at Arthur and understanding that it might be one of his weekly challenges. So they went back to their matters.

"I’ve held you for a long time so I guess this is goodbye then." I said and he asked me.

"Hey, what’s your name? By the way, mines Arthur… Arthur Reginold."

Hmm… he actually told me his real name. Seems like I’ve gained some form of trust.

"Henry Van Tax"

"Henry huh, okay." Arthur then had a thought as he looked at me with a strange look and asked, "Henry, are you free this night?"

I know what he was about to ask me but I very much wanted to do this.

"Sorry man, I don’t swing that way."

"What?" Then the look of recognition came to him, "No no no no… noooo… seriously no, I definitely did not mean that… Did I mean that?" He said confusedly before shaking his head, "Back to topic, Are you free tonight… without any of the aforementioned motives?"

"Why?"

"Do you know the viscount that governs this city, today’s his birthday. So in celebration of that, he has invited many people in it." Then he smiled smugly, "I’ve kind of got an in with his daughter so if you want, you can come with me."

I am already invited but I can’t just refuse when the protagonist invited me right… especially when it meant I get to meet the first beauty.

"Sure"

"Come at 8’O clock," Then pointed me to a faraway mansion, "It’s that mansion. If any guard stops you or anything just tell them you’re my friend."

Arthur heard the bell strike as sounds rang out, he looked up and he knew that he was late.

"Damn!"

"I can’t stay anymore Henry, so I’ll meet you at the party okay." He said that while already running away.

’Hmm… he seems quite accurate to the book.’

"Who was that?"

I hear Anna’s voice from the back but knowing that she was already there, I didn’t flinch. Still… she had quite the silent steps.

"Just someone that I think could be my friend… could be."

"Oh! Master, you’ve made a new friend." She smiled at me largely, "It’s so nice that you’ve finally got another one."

I don’t know if that was intentional or not but it hurt.

"Hmm… what’s that behind you’re back?"