Asuna Was Very Oblivious

Lisbeth cocked her head. "What opportunity?"

Akasaka said, "I'm sure you know Asuna's and my identities. We stand on equal footing with the current Knights of the Blood. Though there are only three of us, the resources we've obtained are far beyond what ordinary players can compare to."

Akasaka opened his system panel and took out all the rare ores from his inventory, forming a small mountain of ore.

Akasaka also gestured with his eyes for Asuna to take hers out.

Asuna opened her system panel as well and dumped out all the rare ores she had no use for.

These ores had all dropped when they fought bosses.

But they had never had any use for them.

After all, they weren't blacksmiths and had no way to forge weapons. Keeping these things on them was practically useless; they could only be saved as rather pretty rocks.

Asuna had even considered finding a blacksmith to sell them to in exchange for some Col.

Lisbeth stared at the two piles of rare ore before her, her eyes going wide.

Akasaka continued laying out his terms.

"These things are useless in our hands. Only a blacksmith can put them to use. How about this? We split the Col earned from selling weapons forged with these rare ore materials sixty-forty. I get sixty, you get forty."

Lisbeth swallowed first, then gave her opinion.

"No! I want fifty percent! Fifty percent at minimum! I'm the one forging the weapons!"

"Fine! Deal." Akasaka agreed without hesitation. He shook Lisbeth's hand, and their partnership was established.

Asuna sat obediently at the side, staring in a daze.

"Weren't we here to buy weapons? How did we suddenly end up making a business deal?"

Only after Asuna and Akasaka had left Lisbeth's weapon shop did Asuna come back