'No, I can't haggle with him. That guy might not have been planning to hand John's body to me at all and only gave me such a huge price to deter me. If we don't accept, he'll use that perfectly legitimate reason to hang John's corpse at the entrance of Neverwinter City.
'He will let the reputation of the Gilded Rose deter those bandits and other forces.
'That must be it, he definitely doesn't want to give us the corpse… But we can't let him take it away!'
With these thoughts rapidly surging in his head, Pass made a decision.
With an embarrassed expression, he said, "Sir Mafa Merlin, this is a huge quantity and I don't have the right to make a decision on it, nor can I take them out of storage. After all, these are high-quality materials.
"Please wait a bit, I'll report to the family to hear their decision. It won't take too long."
