Magical Girl Teriri: You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. I didn't do anything. Queen Marie is doing just fine with me.
Magical Girl Teriri: But then again, trades need to be fair. You can buy the items I have here, but first, you need money.
"If it's gold, there seems to be quite a lot in the city. Fafnir seemed pretty interested in gold..."
Magical Girl Teriri: No, I'm not interested in worldly wealth. What I want is something of high value, like Fafnir... But your Fafnir is gone now. I told you to sell it to me. Now look, Fafnir is gone, and I didn't get the merchandise either.
"...I remember we made a deal. I gave Marie to you, and while giving me bread, you were also supposed to give me a sixty-percent discount. Has that part stopped being valid already?" Black Jeanne d'Arc asked after a moment of silence.
Magical Girl Teriri: ...I almost forgot about that. But really, as long as everyone who knows about our deal dies, no one will know I broke the contract.
"...I still have the Holy Grail." Black Jeanne d'Arc fell silent for a moment.
Magical Girl Teriri: But I'm not that kind of crooked merchant. I'm an honest, principled traveling merchant. Since I said I'd give you a sixty-percent discount, I definitely will.
"Tch, crooked merchant." Black Jeanne d'Arc no longer believed a single word Chen Luo said.
Still, Chen Luo truly did offer enough sincerity when it came to business.
At the very least, none of Chen Luo's actual deals had ever been breached.
Money changed hands, goods were delivered—though sometimes the price was a little steep, and sometimes he simply did not want to do business again.
In short, he was