Meikyuu Toshi no Antique Shop Vol 1 Chapter 3

“Fufufu…”

Since customers can’t come due to the rain, Anemone did the closing job. Clearly, Black Apron was bored. All of the other seekers had already dispersed.

“Ahn, glasses…”

“…”

Fujiwara coughed, stopping his caress, and strived to return to his smiling ‘operating mode’.

“Yes, of course.”

From the unrefined look, you could guess a mid-teen. Sora has no real friends, and with little bruises he’s reluctant to get new ones over his antique, ready to bolt at any moment. While everything seems nice at first, it’s easy to stumble into trouble while inexperienced in the Seeker occupation. You can suffer many hardships.

Since they were very important to Fujiwara, Sora lifted the small mountain of glasses with only the middle and index finger. (tl: this entire segment was confusing as hell)

“How will you get a Discrimination Card?”

Sora had no idea what that was. Fujiwara, to explain, brought over a container of pills and showed the card enclosed by string to the bottle lid.

“An ingredient list is also written on it.”
“For pills such as these, there’s dosage, usage, caution, and so on as well.”

This was because in the first place all items from the dungeon are unidentified goods.

However, it’s not possible to use it until it’s brought to the surface.

Until it’s appraised, it’s impossible to determine what type of drug it is. Most remain unlabeled, and there’s a high possibility of it not being a health potion. The containers vary too, from a vial to a test tube to a thermos, a wide variety. The color and smell vary greatly too. You can’t carelessly drink it without risking it being a poison mix.

So, back in Labyrinth City, professional knowledge, technology, and an ‘expert’ with professional tools are needed to appraise it.

“After the appraisal, I need this Discrimination Card for when you sell the item.  Even if you buy it at the store that way you don’t need to re-appraise it, and you can get the assessment very easily.

“It also prevents people from haggling the price.”
“Well, thank you.”

“Certainly, you must be humbled.”

“-Excuse me?”
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If you look behind the person Sora is talking to, you will see a figure approaching from the back. She, while wrapped in heavy equipment, was gracefully walking in a beautiful posture, carrying three to two, with a thermos cup as a bonus, holding it carefully.

Since she had been soaked in rain, Sora hoped he could see her true face, but the armor and apron are the very same as earlier, though the color changed from gray to a reddened purple, with cute flowers on the apron.

“Hey, it’s a nice copper full armor.”

“It was dusty at the depot so I felt like taking it out.”

“Please don’t put on stock so selfishly, yes?”

After pouring a thermos of contents into the mug, tossing in three sugars, mixing in a teaspoon, she gently put it on the counter near Sora. It’s a mug covered in small illustrations of cats, glancing up at the steam coming out of the mug.

“Wow, thank you”
“I only have my coffee black.”

“Of course, the store manager is a fucking bitter black… Please.”

Even just sniffing the mugs, everyone was ‘Healed’, or felt ‘If I don’t have this I wouldn’t be able to work’. Anemone has no response, so only Sora showed any reaction.

“Thank you for the meal!”

“…Fu”

Sigh. Sora realized that his body was becoming loose as the cold stiffness faded. Almost like magic, the mug was emptied to about half.

“I’m sure it’s good, I like this coffee by far the most. It’s an original blend in the pub as ‘Mole Bowel’, and it’s in the neighborhood.
“I can also prepare a second helping, so please have more without reserve.”

“Thank you very much…”

Seeing the regretful Sora, Anemone poured a shower fall more into the mug right away.

“What kind of appraisal do you want, Mr. Sora?”

Sora thought that the appraisal would be a different type, since the normal ‘verification’, wouldn’t capture the abilities of the sword properly.
The appraisal needed would probably have to be in-depth. Authenticity, survey of materials, and so forth to determine the producer if possible.

Which will you take, you’re itching to try, right? Fujiwara was waiting expectantly.

“I want to know how to use this sword.”

It had already become old, having been created at least 1500 year prior, but it must be understood that it is a Granting Tool.

“This was the sword I’ve used for three months or more, but I cannot master it.”

“Have not mastered it?”
“There have been cases where I haven’t even been able to put out a spark.”

The Fire Sword strengthens its attack with fire. It can give damage by burning in addition to slashing, and it’s effective against things that burn like zombies. If not even a spark comes out, it’s as good as useless.

“Hmm. Do you understand basic handling?”

Fujiwara nodded.

In order to start a Granting Tool, the user must have a magic supply. It is possible to release this magic in the blood simply by touching it if one is a mage, but for untrained people they must cut themselves to apply it directly.

“Hmm.”

“What floor have you progressed to?”

Anemone asked with interest. She was with a Fighter faction and originally a seeker. Despite working for the Good Old now, she had the nickname the ‘Footsteps of Death’ until a little while ago.
“To the third underground floor, and never further.”

“That place has Metalmordos, a slime monster with the hardness of metal and elasticity of a slime, which eat scrap iron as a staple food.”

To beat these hard monsters you require magic attacks, so it’s a natural enemy of the thief, swordsman, and hunter.

“I see, so you came here.”
“Yes. I absolutely cannot ignore how important the power of the flame sword is.”

Sora dropped his line of site. Its hands that held a sword were covered in bandages on both, meaning he ‘tried hard’ earlier with them. For the magic power supply, Sora must have had to make deep gauges with a knife, trying to Customize the sword desperately.

“Conditions, ha?”

Fujiwara finished his coffee, replacing the cup.

“Let’s start the Appraisal.”

(TL: New readers, it’s only to this point that I’ve replaced ‘Soarer’ with the intended ‘Sora’. Beware.)

Chapter end