The Blacksmith started turning around and the man shook his head, almost like he was disappointed in that last part. Draco quickly spoke out. "It's not what you think, please if you let me explain there was a good reason I had to kill them." the girl whipped around and pulled Draco up and halfway over the counter by the throat as she yelled into his face, sending spit into his eyes.
"We sure as hell don't sell to people killers, so what do you think would be a good reason for me not to kill you right here and right now? Hmm?!?" her voice had risen and she was now shouting so loud the glass in the shop was visibly shaking. Draco was terrified and his vision was going blurry. Draco tried talking but it was coming out broken. "The-y de-filed and ki-kill-ed a girl." The blacksmith's anger faltered for a second. Her stone mask cracking, she held him down for another second before she eased up, only enough for Draco to breathe.
Draco gasped, sucking in huge gulps of breath. "Explain." The lady's face was deathly calm, however, Draco understood the unspoken words. 'Before I kill you.' Draco gulped down another breath before he started talking. "I technically only killed one, and even then it wasn't me. It was three creatures. I just got him stuck long enough to be eaten. As for the other 13, I didn't kill them, however, they… defiled and killed an F-rank healer and chopped off the head of a guy. Then they came after me, I found it fair that I took their Gear when I found them all dead."
Draco had left out a bunch of details, however, all of it was true. The girl looked down at the older man and he nodded up at her. "You took the women's clothes?" Draco flashed back to her body when he had found her before coming back and saying. "Not off her no, the 12 others took the clothes with them, I ended up picking it up after finding the men dead." again he nodded up at her and she stared at Draco for a while before nodding.
She let Draco get off the Desk she had thrown him on top of, watching every moment like she expected him to bolt. "Very well, however, know I'm not going to buy Striker gear at the normal price." "I understand." "Very well, come with me." she started walking when Draco also said before she could get any further. "I also know all the enchantments on all the gear." This stopped the blacksmith, making her turn to the old man. He looked impressed and nodded up at her.
"And how could you know that? From what you just told us you have over 500 items, and you are telling us you know EVERYONE of the enchantments?" The way she said 'everyone' was almost like a challenge. "I just know." the man's eyes narrowed slightly while he leaned in. this time he spoke instead of her. "Show us." The man reached over and picked up one of the tunics Draco had set on the table for her to look at, all the while staring directly at him. "Tell me what enchantment is on this tunic." Draco noticed that even the girl was looking interested, however, she was more focused on the man than on him.
'Should I tell him? Left yes, right no.' He got three on the left so he looked at it and read its information. Draco thought of something and pulled out a notebook, looking at it before speaking. "That one has a weight reduction buff. When wearing the tunic, anything touching the tunic besides living things will have a reduction of 2% the weight." The man's lips rose in the corners before settling down. "Interesting."
The girl looked between Draco and the old man with a raised eyebrow before sighing and waving her arm for them both to follow her. "Let us go check out all this gear then." They walked to a back room that was rather large and Draco dropped all of the gear onto the floor, separating them by what they were. Both of them were impressed that he had acquired these all. And although they normally didn't buy in bulk, especially leather equipment. However they were coincidently low in the leather inline department and if there were any more of those weight reduction enchantments, it would be amazingly good to inlay large heavy armor with it.
So they were willing to buy this one time. "All rogue stuff, wow kid, did you massacre a whole race.'' The old man had been quite impressed and knew this kid would have needed to hunt every day for quite a while to collect all these. And from what he was presenting it was almost like he had only hunted one type of monster the entire time. Draco's voice dropped a little, however, both picked up on it. "Someone I met was protecting me, he died while doing so. And he ended up taking these with him."
The room went silent for a couple of minutes before the man cleared his throat. "Ahem, so we will go through these all and you will tell me what enchantments are on all these and I will write them down on tags. Once that is done we will tally up the total price and go from there. Does that sound good to you?" Draco nodded and they started the process of going through each item and tagging it. All through the process, the old man had been switching up the items when Draco would "look" at the list of enchantments on the paper.
Draco would always double-check the enchantment on the item before telling them so he noticed when the enchantment would change. After the fifth time, he noticed it kept happening, and just when he was getting suspicious it stopped happening and they continued. What he didn't know was the older man knew he was reading the enchantment of the item, not the paper.
The old man's Title was (Mana Watcher), meaning he could see mana when he focused on something. And given everything had mana in it he was able to see the mana in the blood, and he could also see the very minuscule amount of mana Draco sent out that connected to every piece of armor before he said which enchantment was on it. However, he didn't voice this as the kid obviously had some reason not to want his ability to be known.
Seeing how rare the appraisal ability was, it was very sought after, meaning the kid could be officially signed up as an appraiser and make a lot of money doing it. The fact he so obviously hadn't was making him curious as to why he was hiding the skill behind this absurd lie that the enchantments were written down on this one piece of paper, the paper in which he hadn't even flipped in the last 2 hours.