"Um, what are you selling here?"
"We are a bookstore. The prices are a little high, but the selection is as good as the bookstores in town."
a bookstore? It's sealed tightly, so it doesn't seem possible to browse, but if it's really a different world, reading the book might help you understand the culture.
When I look at the spine while thinking about such things, I can't read it. Kanji, hiragana, the alphabet, and other foreign languages. ……Well, it’s also possible that I just don’t know.
"Um, what is this written on?"
"That? It's 'Beginner's martial arts', but Onii-san. Can't you read?"
"Yes"
"Then how about this book? It's a book on 'Language Comprehension', but it won't sell very well, so I'll keep it cheap."
Hmm. I can talk, but I can't read. I'm starting to feel like I'm in another world. For the time being, a beginner's language would mean a book with letters that you learn in the lower grades of elementary school. It's inconvenient not to understand the characters, so why not buy one?
"Well, I want to buy it, but money is..."
"If this is the case, 1 min is fine."
"Umm, this...isn't it okay?"
"... this piece of paper?"
"Right"
I took out a 10,000 yen bill from my wallet, but it didn't work as expected. I don't know the value of 1 min, but I wonder if it's about 1,000 yen for one book.
“Umm, this is the only thing I have right now, is it possible to barter?”
“A sword and a shield with a spirit stone huh……Hmm, if I remember correctly, Onii-chan said he wanted to make a new shield.
"I'm sorry. Thank you."
One of the things I got in exchange for the beer earlier was a round shield and a book called Basic Language Understanding. I read it for the time being, and if there was anything I didn't understand, I decided to ask for help. Was fooled! ? The moment I thought that, the book began to shine!
――I learned basic language comprehension skills from the skill book――
「――Huh!?
"Hmm? It's a skill acquisition. Onii-san, is this your first time acquiring a skill!?"
"Huh? No, no. It's been a while, so I just forgot."
The woman in the shop was too surprised, so I lied on the spur of the moment... No, I had acquired the skill of a beginner merchant before that. Then, if you turn your eyes to the bookstore just now... you can read it! For some reason, I can understand the characters that were meaningless until just now! Now that I can read the back cover of the book, I take a look at it.
"Beginner Swordsmanship"
"Beginner's Cuisine"
"Elementary Water Magic"
I see. There are a wide variety of books available here, but all of them are beginner-level, huh, beginner-level water magic! ? If you read that book, will you be able to use magic!? ?
"Excuse me. How much is the book called Elementary Water Magic?"
"This is 30 minutes, isn't it?"
"Eh!? Expensive!"
“No, judging from the price of the book, this one is also on the cheap side, isn’t it? The beginner’s language comprehension I mentioned earlier was a bargain because most of the people have acquired the skills on their own in the first place.”
Thank you.
"We can't reserve it, so please come as soon as possible."
For the time being, I got a can of beer in exchange for a one-man book, so why don't I go back and bring something from Japan? There should still be beer in the fridge, so let's bring some. What kind of shops are there after that? Shops... or rather, looking around the open-air street, I thought I'd never seen anything like this before, and came to the very end of Biane village. I could go back down the same street and go back to my parents' house, but anyway, I decided to walk down a different street.
"I wonder what's going on here... the atmosphere suddenly changed from just now."
How should I put it, the back of the shopping district was a dubious street……as if to say that, unlike earlier, there were no shopkeepers standing, and only suspicious sign boards were lined up.
"Is this... a brothel? I'm curious about the customs of another world. Well, I don't have the courage to go to a brothel in Japan."
"Next is... a buyer of anything? Will you also buy this sword and strange stones? Well, let's stop now."
"Next is... slave trade!? Huh! Can you buy slaves in this world!?
I stopped involuntarily and stared at the sign that said slave trade. Could it be that you can buy a sex slave or something like that? I let out a throaty sound and decided to enter the slave trader's shop.
