I'm the kind of person that if I had to go out in a fight, I had to get something out of it, and this is what I just done. It isn't a stretch to say, that the deal with Station Ail and Wail, is basically screwed for this one, the Chamber of Commerce had objected me, and the town council were behind them. I do not hold any grudge against them at all, this is just a business deal, there is no need to attach to many importance to it. Getting offended in time like this is just a waste of time, as long as I got what I want, it was enough for me.
"BAAAM!! …Here! 6040 Coins… you can count them yourself… and then… Get out of this town! …". (Luke)
Luke the Water shop owner, and perhaps the leader of Chamber of Commerce gang, smugly and roughly throw a heavy sack on top of the table, placing in right in front of me.
"Alright… I count it all here… if even a single coin is missing, I would never leave you guys alone…".
I opened the sack, and true enough it was filled to the brim with coins.
"Wait… are you really going to count all that coins… right now?". (Philips)
"Of course I would… I already got screwed once by you all… I would never get screwed again… safe and secure business place, my ass…".
Intentionally, I acted as if I was sulking and annoyed, just recklessly voicing my dissatisfaction to the entire room, which everyone in the room just awkwardly decided to ignore the last scathing remark that I just uttered.
"Ahem!! You can count them all… if that's what you want…". (Philips)
There is nothing that they can do to stop me right now, all that they can do is wait for me to finish counting the coins on my own. To be honest, I already used the Deep Analysis skill, on the sack earlier, and already know that inside the sack, there is 6042 coins, 2 coins over the amount that they had to pay me. The counting part, is just to annoy these Chamber of Commerce gangs, after all, this is all their coins, they have volunteered to pay the penalty fee that the Station Ail and Wail town council had to pay me.
They were paying the penalty fee for the town, just so that I can get lost as fast I could, and perhaps it was a deal that they already come up with the Town Council when they strong armed the Council. The act of counting the coin before all of them were just a light jab from me, making their eyes turned in envy and anger that they had to give up their own money to pay me just to get lost. I feel quite giddy, as the coins that I counted just slowly stacks up higher and higher, the faces that they made just made all this coin counting farce even sweeter.
"TING!! TING!! …you paid me 2 coins over the amount… you folks can have it back…".
Using my thumb, I flick the 2 coins, arching them in the air, before falling straight onto Luke and Peter forehead, startled the 2 guys. I put the 6040 coins back in the sack and stood up.
"With the Penalty fee paid, I believed we had concluded this ill-fated meeting of ours… and as per our agreement before hand, Azra Family Co. will not be opening any business inside Station Ail and Wail ground….".
"Oh! you better be…". (Darel)
"That's right! ...get out of our town!". (Peter)
The 2-shop owner that got the most beating from me, just cowardly speaks up behind the rest of their members. Right now, even if they hurled all sort of insult at me, I don't even feel offended, after all I already go my 'get out' money. With the heavy sack in hand, and my walking cane on the other, I walked out of the town with Robert escorting me.
"When this kind of things happened… it is always makes me feel shitty…". (Robert)
As we walked silently, Robert opened up to me.
"I supposed this sort of thing happened all the time…right?".
"Yep, those idiots would always do stuff like this whenever some small merchants got something better than what they have they will mess with them… they just can't see anyone else doing better than they do…but surprisingly when any Merchants comes from any big cities, not a single one of them dared to make a sound…". (Robert)
I figured as much, the town council folded way too fast, they were not even trying to object or even wanted to do anything about it. All they wanted to do is to just get the issue dealt with as fast it could and kept the words under the rug. Naturally, the merchants that comes from the cities got strong backing so, even if the Chamber of Commerce were fussing about, the town council won't humor them at all, as the town also cannot afford to offend the cities powerful and perhaps even deadlier respond.
"But seriously… among all the mess that I have seen cause by those Chamber of Commerce… you were the only person that got away from them… with a lot of coins and also beat them up that bad…. Hahaha". (Robert)
"Well… if I'm going out, I gonna go out swinging…Hahaha".
The 2 of us laughs out loud, Robert too were enjoying seeing the Chamber of Commerce got what they deserved from me. I can see that he didn't like all of this fiasco, not even one bit, but what can he do, although he was the town guard leader and a council member, at the end of the day, he also worked for the town and ultimately those Chamber of Commerce is one of the town major funders. Robert said goodbye to me, once we arrived at the town gate, so the rest of the walk from the gate to my stall, I walked alone on my own.
"Boss Azra!! …wait up!". (Ham)
"Oh, Ham…it's you, what's up…".
In the middle of my lonely stride, Ham holler at me, he is walking from outside the town direction, so I just waited for him to come to me, it seems that he just got back from his usual scavenging trip, as he was shouldering a big leather sack on him.
"Nothing much… I got a new stuff to sell… here it is… a Floating Eye Drone~ …neat isn't?". (Ham)
He put the sack on the ground and opened it, in the inside of the sack was a metal ball, as big as a football and it was even as round as a football. Ham gently took out the Floating Eye Drone from his sack and showed it to me. It was like a football made out of metals, the other half of it, which I presume the front side, got a massive curved screen, and the top side of it got a small satellite dish jutting out, clearly and intended features of this drone.
"Have you tried bartering them at my stall?".
"Well... I did just now… but the madam said…your stall already out of breads and mineral waters… and the coins were with you…so that is why I come running as soon as I saw you.". (Ham)
The stock ran out already, now that is certainly something. I got a shipping container worth of both bread and mineral waters, stored inside my inventory, Alfred was able to access my Inventory, and I told him, that since this is our last business here, he can just take everything from the Inventory, I supposed this means that we have truly have exhausted the stock inside the inventory, that's amazing.
"Alright….it is broken right?".
"Hahaha…. Ahem…. yes…". (Ham)
Shyly Ham scratches the back of his head like he always does, so I offered to take the drone off his hand for 50 coins, and happily he agreed. Although every single thing that he had sold to me, is all broken and dead, what made me buy them off his hand readily, is because every single thing that he brough to me, were al perfectly intact, none of them were missing a piece, sure there will be rust here and there, probably a hole or two, but none of them were at the point where I and Alfred cannot fix. So, whenever I come across these sorts of robotics product, I would always buy them, after all, these robotics would always bring a new addition to my family labor and army.