Chapter 907: Puppets
In Navia City, most shops clustered around the marketplace, though the occasional specialty shop could be found in the Rich District or Noble District.
Although Old Vinnie's Shop was a specialty shop, it was not in the Rich District or Noble District.
Instead, it stood on the outskirts of the Commoners' District, in the Cemetery District.
For a coffin shop, Old Vinnie's Shop could hardly have chosen a more fitting location.
As for business?
Old Vinnie never worried about that.
No one in all of Navia City competed with him for customers.
But that did not mean Old Vinnie took things easy.
In fact, Old Vinnie, who also served as the Cemetery District's gravekeeper and had eight apprentices, was already well past retirement age.
Yet he still handled everything himself.
Today, for instance, Old Vinnie had put on his cleanest, most presentable clothes and gathered all his apprentices outside the shop to respectfully welcome the important personage due to arrive.
Even here in the Cemetery District, Old Vinnie had heard about the battle in the Temple District that day.
Besides, that important personage had already sent a servant to notify him.
The battle in the Temple District did not surprise Old Vinnie at all.
Back when he was young, a major battle broke out in the Temple District every month.
Those had also been his busiest days. His miserly master had practically wanted to whip his apprentices into working twenty-four hours a day without rest.
His master had never been as merciful as he was. Old Vinnie merely made his apprentices take turns patrolling the cemetery at night after finishing their regular work, and even gave them half a day off every week.
Whenever he thought about how this cost him a meal a day, plus ten