"Your precious ingredients have all been loaded onto the vehicles.
Also, after learning that you two intended to head to the Gourmet Merchants Guild at the camp first for ingredient appraisal, I called ahead and had the person in charge there prepare to receive you."
Ever since realizing that Seiya and Minezaki were genuine big shots, the old butler's attitude toward them had made a complete one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
How Seiya and Minezaki felt about this was one thing, but Yusaburo's trio beside them immediately became displeased.
The old geezer was such a suck-up that he had done all the sucking up they were supposed to do. What were they supposed to suck up now?
"Scram, scram, scram. Even if you hadn't contacted the Gourmet Merchants Guild, with Big Brother Seiya bringing so many rare ingredients to their doorstep, they'd still have to come out and grovel."
"Exactly, exactly. Old Jin, don't shove that old face of yours over here. We're Gourmet Hunters. Why does a crass merchant reeking of money keep trying to squeeze in with us? Do you think you're some pretty young girl?"
Faced with the verbal jabs from Yusaburo's trio, the old butler did not take offense. He simply gave a gentlemanly bow and left.
He also knew that his earlier behavior had left Seiya and the others with a somewhat poor impression of him, which was why he had been trying to make amends.
Fortunately, they did not seem to care too much, and his young master appeared to have left them with a fairly good impression as well.
When the Koma Family convoy rolled into the camp in grand fashion, the Gourmet Hunters in the camp were no longer surprised.
The Koma Family was one of the leading enterprises in Japan's food industry, and their