Finding a shortcut

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It's been exactly one week since then. There weren't any struggles during this time. Hopefully, I won't get any. Sigh* I shouldn't have said that I really need to shut my bloody mouth. It's the day where I finally can sell my items to all of those that have pre-ordered from me.

At least no one came last minute to cancel orders or wanted to customize something. Other than that, I just realize that there's a place to auction here in this Kingdom, but you need to have access. Why am I so stupid, I could just auction off a dagger and can quickly gain enough money to buy a slave. No…. Not a slave! I meant building an orphanage. Cough* Cough*

Ahem, in any case. What's with this man doing here?

"Please hire me!"

A man wearing ordinary clothing is bowing at me. He happened to know that I created all the items by myself and wanted me to hire him as his apprentice. I don't think he would have the ability to process it anyway and even if I wanted to have an apprentice, why would I take a guy?

I decline politely, but he kept coming knocking on my door. I ignored and gone to the exact location the previous time that I set up my stall. Miri was by my side, do her best to guard me. After knowing my status, she seems to change and worry more about my safety than hers.

She would usually blame it on the fact she would die if I get hurt but now after trying out the various weapons that I have created she became more obsessed about protecting me. I am not sure whether this is a good thing, but I know that the bad is seeing how close Miri is, even entering my personal space with an excuse of protecting me.

The rumor about Miri and me started to worsen.

"Miri later I need your help to judge which dagger is suitable for auctioning."

"You are going to auction it, Sire? I thought you told me you wouldn't want the nobles to get stronger?"

"The dagger has been embedded with multiple conditions to make it useful."

"You are genius sire!"

"I would love to make one in the future!"

"...…"

"...…"

I didn't expect this man to follow us and shamelessly join in with our conversation.

"Sire, can I hit this man?"

"N-No please don't hit me! Sir! Mercy!"

"Don't. He looks delicate enough. You might accidentally kill him, see even his voice is feminine enough."

Upon reaching, there was already a huge crowd queueing. The consequences you say? Guards were also present and looked around to see if there's any suspicious behavior around. I saw William and his guards at the side waiting for my arrival.

Being a celebrity is a nuisance, I didn't think I could become one. Much less because it is for the wrong reason.

"Greetings Sir Raul, do you happen to take pre-orders for today too?"

"Yes! Mr. William. Please do wait a moment while I set up my stall."

William nodded his head and turned around to talk to his guards. It seems the commoner around gave in to their status and let William be the first in the queue.

"Before I start, there are a couple of things I would like to tell everyone. For those that would like to pre-order! Please read and understand the conditions that are written on the board. I won't be responsible if you break any of them and cause trouble it will be your own fault. For those of you that can't read, Miri will be giving a shout out every ten minutes so listen up alright?"

A vast commotion started, some merchants were angry at the fact that they could not resell the items.

Some servants aren't sure whether to pre-order or not as their master would need to come personally to be able to buy it. They couldn't buy it and give it to their master. It was stated that the item would be destroyed if someone else touches it for a period of time.

In the meantime, using a small sharp surgical equipment that I've made, I told him to cut himself and drip a few drops of blood on an item in front of him. The scene looks like I am asking him to do something that a cult would do.

I hope this act won't give away a weird rumor. There might be a supernatural story though. The system told me that there would be times the weapon will move by itself. Hey, it's not dangerous alright? Yeah, it's not.

After collecting and finish analyzing the blood of William, the item gave out a bright light. There was even an indication of his name and the serial number at the bottom of the item. William was delighted, it was his first time getting something unique that nobody other than him.

The serial number is crucial for me to know when I created the item. It's according to the number of sequences when I first start my creation. I didn't manage to put a serial number on Jason and his member's items though. Hopefully, they wouldn't ruin or resell it.

They could become rich in one day if they were to do it. As it's the rarest item now. It took me a few hours to finish selling away the items. It came to a shock to me that the name that reflected on my list and the people that pre-ordered it matched entirely. It seems everyone remembered about Eliza figure huh.

At the same time, I noticed the man that wanted to be hired were also queuing up to pre-order items. William and his soldiers also pre-order a whopping of fifty people. I could already imagine what will happen the week after this. Fifty soldiers wearing Armor buying my items, I'm speechless, I'm hoping they would wear regular clothing, but I doubt these people would do it.

It is almost six in the afternoon by the time I finish selling and listing the names of the people that are interested in buying my items. I would have like to go to the auction straight away, but I heard the auction for today has ended and will only be open only after three days.

I told William about my intention to take part, and he told me that I should follow him tomorrow and describe how it usually is being held. Well, I never gone there before and having someone I know guiding me would help a lot.

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"Mr. Raul! Please hire me!"

I was awakened by the sound of pleading from this man. Can't he give up for once, it's impossible for him to learn about the craft.

"Bro, let me you straight, the reason why I can't hire you because you are not related to my family members or me."

"Eh? T-Then you only will be teaching your wife or son? That's not fair!"

"Not by my choice, I learn it from my ancestor, so I don't own it. Thus I must follow the tradition. If I were to break any one of them my talent and experience will be taken away. Also, I won't remember anything."

"That's cruel."

Shrugging my shoulder, I sigh to myself. Hoping that this guy will give up.

"Then will you marry me? I heard that you are gay."

"...… I'm taken."

"I-I could become your third wife…"

"Huh? Since when I had a second wife?"

"Isn't Miri your second wife?"

"Errr, where the hell did you hear this from? Anyway, don't waste my time I won't marry anyone else, I have an appointment with William today."

"William? You mean the baron, William?"

"Yeah, Why? Do you know him?"

"Some sort of a childhood friend. What is he helping you out with?"

"I was thinking of selling some of my rarest creation to the auction."

"...…"

This guy eyes are shining, what's wrong with him?

"When and where are you guys meeting?"

"Around noon, near the entrance of the noble gate, I was told it's near the center of the kingdom."

"Yup! Got it! I'll be there!"

"Eh….. What?"

Oh well, I don't have time to think about others. After I had my breakfast, I went back to my so-called hideout and started to choose which one is the perfect ones to be sold. It took me about an hour or so to decide.

Out of two hundred daggers, I manage to take out ten of them and show it to Miri to decide which ones are the worst to be sold away. Miri shook her head and told me that all of them is the same regarding quality, but the design is somewhat unfortunate.

[Don't underestimate me]

Well, now it's not the time to do so anyway. It's terrible that the quality is all equal, oh well I should just randomly choose one. The one that is inconspicuous enough but when its owner holds on it, it will give him a boost.

Not sure what though. I am not sure whether to let Miri become all these items owner. She might really cry for joy. It's almost time, I kept the rest of the item inside the inventory and slowly walk to meet up with William.

I can't wait to see how the auction works.