Volume 8 Chapter 6: How About A Bakery As Well?
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 8 Chapter 6: How About A Bakery As Well?
<span style="font-weight:400">"These guys would have to start in another city." Actually, they could never start a store anywhere that had affiliations with the Rustchil Duchy. What they did was probably known by every supporter of the duchy. No one would want to make a deal with them unless they want to feel the wrath of the grand duke.
<span style="font-weight:400">These merchants understood it as well. They were begging left and right to gain the grand duke''s mercy. However, Keith could tell Edmund would never reply.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Do they think my father is a fool?" Krystal frowned. These merchants were running into a brick wall. If Edmund epted, it would only ask for more people to betray him!
<span style="font-weight:400">"What are you doing?" Krystal noticed how he was staring at the merchants.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Nothing much. Just remembering some faces."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Young Miss, Sir Keith." The maids greeted them. The two nodded as they headed inside, but he was met with Cedric.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hello, Grandpa."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Little Gem, how was it outside?" Cedric grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s better with Father returning."
<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s nice." Cedric then turned to Keith, "You cooking for dinner?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"...You know I''m a guest, right?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"So?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"...Grandfather." Krystal''s cheeks turned red.
<span style="font-weight:400">"...Fine." Keith shook his head. He couldn''t believe the shamelessness of this man.
<span style="font-weight:400">Cedric grinned. I may ask him for that as well. He was already shameless enough.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"That dinner was amazing, Keith." Violet wiped her mouth as she stared at the child. He had made steak and potatoes.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Indeed. Delicious thing ever." Cedric felt like his stomach was about to explode.
<span style="font-weight:400">"..." It was delicious and messed up. Edmund couldn''t deny it, but to ask a guest to do this? It was really embarrassing. However, there was another thought in his mind. Should I ask him for more coffee? He had three cups today.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Thank you." Keith took a sip of his tea.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What kind of meat did you use?" Cedric was quite curious about the meat.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, that''s meat from a dragator."
<span style="font-weight:400">"What?!" Edmund and Violet''s expressions froze, "You fed us dragator meat?!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Keith, do you know how expensive that is?" Dragator meat was a delicacy! A piece would have cost a couple of gold coins!
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m fine. I have a lot left." Keith grinned. He had like 8.5 left, "I also used dragon honey as well."
<span style="font-weight:400">"..." Edmund and Violet had no words to say about this. Just one cost a few gold coins. The honey was even more so than the dragator! Plus, the way he cooked it, a tinum coin was the least amount.
<span style="font-weight:400">"By the way, Kid. I was thinking about it. How about you opening a bakery here as well?" Cedric had been meaning to ask him about this.
<span style="font-weight:400">"You want me to open a bakery in the duchy?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm. You have so many in the northern region! There''s one in the royal capital and academy as well. Why can''t you have one here?!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Uh,"
<span style="font-weight:400">"And it doesn''t help that the one in the royal capital is loaded with so many people!" The bakery in the Royal capital always had a long line. It didn''t matter who the person was; they would have to wait.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Wait a moment, you''re not living in the city?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"No,"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Then why do I see you every day?!" Hold on a second. That kinda didn''t make any sense. Cedric was a residential customer at his cart. So how could hee every day if he wasn''t living there?
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, I just take the gate."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Holy, that''s expensive!" To and from the city was just crazy enough; the number of coins spent was enormous.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"For my granddaughter, I can do it!" Cedric grinned, "Also, I have a yearly pass, and I''m good."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…There''s a yearly pass?" What? When was this?! Keith turned to Krystal, who looked away, not wanting to meet his gaze. Where is a hole I can hide?!
<span style="font-weight:400">"So, how about it? Make a bakery in my duchy!"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Ahh, I think it would be too expensive."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"How?!"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Father, calm down." Edmund felt his father was going to explode in a moment.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Using teleportation gates like that isn''t cost-effective." Most of the materials the bakeries used were from his farms. Getting those materials over to the royal capital and then to the city required a teleportation gate, which cost coins.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was why he never considered making more than one, as each carriage would cost a lot. Of course, he would probably pull a Cedric and buy a pass.
<span style="font-weight:400">"We would need to take a trip to the royal capital and then to the duchy." That was what John did.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Just tell your father to set it to duchy as well." Teleportation gates could be set. The one in the Freed territory was set only to the royal capital.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Yeah, then you need to discuss this with my father." This was not his ce to say.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Kid, are you really going to y coy with me? You''re just like your grandfather."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Thank you, I''m d I take after him." Lionel was pretty cool.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Scratch that, you''re more cheekier."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Heh." Keith grinned. That only caused Cedric to re more so. He was too calm about everything. They kept talking about it for some time before Keith walked away. However,
<span style="font-weight:400">"That kid is too tight-lipped about everything!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"You can''t me him, Father."
<span style="font-weight:400">"What''s the matter, Little Gem?" Cedric noticed how Krystal had kept silent throughout the conversation.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Umm, he''s nning to put a trading shop here." That was Keith''s n.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm." Edmund agreed with it.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Then wouldn''t he use the same teleportation gate?" It really didn''t matter that much since he would be getting goods over here. Plus, it might be even cheaper because it''s in bulk.
<span style="font-weight:400">"?!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Brat!!!!!!!" Cedric didn''t even wait as he stormed in Keith''s direction!
<span style="font-weight:400">Violetughed, "How much do you expect Keith said all of that to make father inw get off his back?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Is that even a question?" Edmund chuckled.