The female rakshasas in that group looked at each other , their eyes at first shining with a flicker of romanticism which soon turned into flares of jealousy and unhindered ambition . Each female in that group now saw each other as an opponent .
Before anyone could say anything, Kei immediately left the group and headed downstairs waving his hand and signaling a goodbye . Kei reached the ground floor and luckily ,finding the counter empty, bought the two female combat apparels worth 8000 droqdo and kept them in his apparel bead.
He now had only 2000 droqdo left in his currency bead . He had spent 4 sigloi last night at the Lustrum baiting Kervyn and his friends. Although 2000 droqdo was much in the Redweed Village , it only amounted to a one night stay at an inn in the royal city of Vitium.
Kei left the shop and waited outside . A mere twenty or so minutes had passed when he saw one old male rakshasa , the head merchant coming out of the door panting and puffing. The merchant came outside and ran towards their warehouse which was in the far eastern corner of the city.
Seeing the opportunity, Kei again entered the shop .
This time the cacophony inside the shop had turned into a loud commotion and ruckus as groups and groups of females rakshasas were seen shouting incessantly hovering around the shop counter .
The same situation was also on the upper two floors where female rakshasa's had surrounded the salesgirls and merchants and were constantly shouting and cursing . It looked like a bloody warzone . The total female rakshasa in the shop were over hundred counting the awakened adolescent females along with their other female family members ,sisters ,cousins and such.
Kei somehow made his way through the crowd of female nobles and reached up to a salesgirl standing aloof and told her in a hushed tone " Take me to the second master (assistant of the head merchant) of this shop ."
The salesgirl ,who was quite unnerved at the whole commotion taking place in front of her, got surprised and panicked when she was suddenly addressed by Kei .
" Young master , we are trying, please give us time , our master (head merchant) has already gone to our warehouse , please don't hurt us . " The salesgirl , a female rakshasa commoner, begged Kei .
"Don't worry , I am coming from the merchant guild's headquarters, your master …uhh..Kev…" Kei made a face as if he was trying hard to remember the name of the salesgirl's master." Master Oleg " the salesgirl said .
"Yes, yes, Oleg requested me to come and handle the situation here , bring me quickly to your second master before things get out of hand " Kei said . Hearing that Kei was from the merchants guild headquarters, the salesgirl felt a little relieved and immediately took her to a small chamber behind the shop counter.
A pale looking male rakshasa with brown colored skin and white hair was seated there in a facepalmed position. Kei gestured the salesgirl to leave .
After she left , he said in a confident tone " Get up !"
The facepalmed rakshasa immediately sprang up and went down on his knees and started bickering "Please don't hurt me, please, our master has gone to get the apparels from our warehouse , it will take some time since its far, please have patience please " . Tears and snob flowed through his face .
Kei mentally laughing at this scene , said " Get up, I am not here to hurt you , Oleg send me to handle the problem and left in a hurry , now tell me what's the problem in detail." The rakshasa male got up washing his tears and snob and looked at Kei and said, " Oh, Master Oleg send you ! Who are you young master ?"
Kei made an irritated face and said " I will tell you who I am , where I live, what I like to eat and other things in detail when the store is burnt down by the raging female nobles outside .We will then have ample time then to gossip about me . Are you nuts ? Just tell me what the problem is and if you must know just know that I am from the merchant guild headquarters ".
" Oh, young master , I apologize, forgive my foolery , yes I will tell you . It was all going well half an hour ago when suddenly a fight broke out on the second floor among a group of female nobles over some green colored apparels. All the other female customers went to see the fight among the group on the second floor, they were shouting about some duke or prince who likes green appareled women or something like that.
All, the females then started to fight among themselves for the green apparels . There were only a handful of them and in their fighting the apparels torn apart. Now, these enraged young ladies are demanding that we bring them more green apparels, or they would break and burn the shop.
All of them belong to powerful noble houses, we can't call the council guards to help in this matter . If things get public we would face the retaliation of those noble houses as well be berated by merchant guild and our house Ziglai elders. " The male rakshasa's voice started getting hoarse at the end .
" Ok, I see that's the problem . don't worry since Oleg asked for my help I will handle the situation. Tell me you sell combat apparels for 4000 droqdo and domestic apparels for 3000 droqdo right ?" Kei asked .
"Yes young master , that's the rate set by the…your merchant guild." The male rakshasa answered sniffing snot coming out of his nose due to his earlier crying .
" Good you will now sell them at double price to these ladies outside " Kei said .
" But young master , that's way too much and will be against the guild rules besides we don't have anything to sell until Master Oleg returns from our warehouse with whatever old stock of green apparels he can find." The male assistant answered .
"Don't worry , I will talk to the guild members and convince them , I know just the way to do that , besides Oleg will praise you for making such a good deal out of this situation. He is old now and lost his shrewdness. I will also recommend your business sense to the guild, and everybody knows what happens to a merchant who is favored by the guild ." Kei said luring the male rakshasa with his silver tongue .
The rakshasa assistant ,with greed now dripping from his face, replied " Yes master, you are right , I will double the rates and earn more profit than other houses . Oleg and others would praise me. Yes, I will surpass in profit more than Lady Amilja of the main family of our house and will be made a lord. I will then turn her to be my mistress and make...ohh " . He was already halfway building castles in the air .
Kei interrupted the male assistant from his daydream and said "Ahemm… yes ,yes you will do all this, but you need green apparels for that , did you forget ?"
"Oh, yes master , yes , master, please help me , I don't know when master Oleg will come , that old fool thinks he is still young ,running off to our warehouse at the corner of the city thinking he will come back before the shop is burnt down , what a fool " the male rakshasa said irritated that his dream castles will not see reality because of Oleg.
" Don't worry , I have a huge stock of green apparels , 1000 green combat apparels and 800 domestic apparels , enough to sell to all the female nobles outside . But I will take 9000 droqdo per combat apparel and 7000 droqdo per domestic apparel " Kei said .
"But , but.... master that's 1000 droqdo above the doubled sale price we decided . I will face a loss by buying these apparels from you at this price " the male rakshasa said.
" Ah, don't worry, these droqdo I will give to convince the other head members of the guild headquarters , they will be most pleased with this gift of yours. Who knows that maybe tomorrow this shop's head merchant may change overnight . And Lady Amilja , don't you want to..hehe ? " Kei made a nasty laugh titillating the psychological weakness of the rakshasa assistant.
The male rakshasa succumbed to his vices and said " Yes, master , wait here I will bring the currency beads from the counter ". And ran off from the chamber and returned in an instant .
"Ok , master lets make the transaction and please say good words about me to the other heads of the guild headquarters ".
"Of course , don't you worry , this droqdo will make them sing your praises like a chant " Kei said as he took out Madam Butterfly's bracelet and her apparel storage bead from it .
After two minutes later , Kei again swam through the crowded females and exited the shop , meeting the old male merchant Oleg, huffing and puffing at the door .
Smiling while looking at him, he left the shop area and went towards another corner of the marketplace with a total of 1460 sigloi(1 sigloi =10,000 droqdo) and 2000 droqdo in his currency bead .
Kei had also sold back the two combat female apparels he had earlier bought .