Among the goods worth 1,463 pounds, the most valuable item was a supposedly rare ancient Kasonlik coin, appraised at 700 pounds. The rest combined were worth only a little over 700, but Shade was quite satisfied anyway. After all, it had come for free, so he did not even try to raise the price.
Seeing that Iluna was still looking through the relic catalog, Shade took out the brass-colored shield-shaped badge he had received after the horse race that afternoon.
"I'm not selling this. I'd just like you to take a look and tell me roughly how much it's worth."
He handed over the badge, and the old man casually accepted it.
"Given the big deal we just made, I won't charge you for the appraisal. Let me see."
After examining both sides of the badge, he frowned slightly and looked up at Shade.
"Where did this come from?"
He was already quite familiar with Shade, so there was no need to avoid asking such questions.
"I raced horses with a very strange person. This was the stake. The other party was an ordinary person, or at least I think he was. Why, is there something wrong with it?"
"No problem. I just didn't expect to see one of these. Between roughly 421 and 583 of the Sixth Epoch, in what is now the southwest of the Kassenric United Kingdom, there was a very small kingdom. You know that before Kasonlik was unified, there were many such small kingdoms in the south. The Stoneville Kingdom—yes, this is a medal from that little kingdom's era. Very rare, extremely rare. If you find a collector who likes this sort of thing, selling it for a hundred pounds would be no problem."
Mr. Olsenford really was generous.
Shade thought to himself as Iluna