"So this is the young man then"
The new voice entering the room drew everyone's attentions away from the appraisal, into the room walked a man I would place in his 50's with Alfred trailing behind him, in a word his attire was exactly what I think one would expect a noble to wear, ruffles and jewels everywhere one could look.
On instinct I bowed forward.
"Good Morning Sir"
Remaining bowed over the entire room froze up.
"Satou no need to bow to my father, he's not that special"
Hearing the words from Raisa's mouth I still remained fixed still not choosing to move.
"Hah hah ha, not special huh how cold the words from my daughter's mouth are. Please raise your head young man."
Complying my head raised as he continued.
"I don't mean to interrupt for too long, I merely came to meet the young man my daughter has become to enamoured with"
Raisa's face went beet red in an instant.
"En.. Enamored?"
"Oh my yes, pretty much all of yesterday you wouldn't stop going on and on, about how amazing he is, not to mention we haven't been able to get to stop talking about how grateful she was for your gift of teaching her how to use magic to summon that kobold of hers"
As his speech continued this time I could feel my own ears start to burn, while Raisa's face looked like she might start pouring steam out of her ears.
"DADDY!!"
Finally breaking down from the situation she launched towards her father and Alfred, grabbing each by their collars and literally dragging them out of the room.
"Uh… what just happened?"
"Oh don't mind that, the master was just having some fun, it's been a while since she was last home and he's been trying to convince her lately to find a suitor since she already well past the marriageable age after all"
"Oh I see, so he was just teasing then?"
"Mmm Hmmm"
Having only received a neutral answer I decided it was best to continue on with the investigation into my potions.
Emire jotted down all the relevant information regarding my heal potion before moving on to perform the same appraisal and note taking.
Just as he put the final point down on the page the room's door opened once again, and in traipsed Raisa, coming to a stop before us and exhaling in one large huff.
"So Satou, judging from the first potion I'm sure the stamina one is just as good"
She glanced at Emire who nodded silently back.
"And without having to guess this is going to net us a big profit, so I'd like to make you my business partner with a contract"
"Uh you mentioned that before but what does that even mean?"
"Oh are you a new merchant sir, what the young miss is talking about is a written agreement between a merchant and a supplier that would detail what the rate would be, these are legally binding, but depending on the scale one could use a magical contract to force compliance to the agreement, this is to protect the parties themselves from exposing the means or secret recipes."
"Oh I see, but which type would be used here then?"
"Well if it's just potions you should be fine with a simple contract"
"We can draw up a quick one right away I just need to know how many potions you've got ready to let us sell for you"
"Hmm well I've only been making them for the past three days but right now I've got 647 of the stamina ones, and 1284 healing ones"
"…"
"…"
"Satou… I'm sorry how many did you just say?"
"I said I've got about 1800 total potions"
Emire's face froze up, while Raisa's once again become fully flushed.
"Do you have any idea what you just said!? EMIRE get me a magical contract on the double!"
[A magical contract, oh god I screwed up again, why didn't I saw it was a lower number of potions… great now I need to make sure I read this contract or I could end up a slave or something]
When he returned Emire placed a piece of parchment and a bottle filled with blue ink that sparkled.
Raisa quickly raised the quill and drafted up a contract in no time at all, before pushing it over to me to read and see if anything should be added.
[hmm the terms are decent, 15% of the selling price goes to Raisa, well that's fair I already agreed to that before, next the source and creator of these potions are confidential and no one can reveal it, and lastly that either party can choose to end this agreement at any time but clause 2 will remain in effect indefinitely]
"Seems good to me I think."
Upon my say so both Emire, and Raisa moved to quickly sign the document before taking a pin and pricking their fingers rubbing some blood on their thumbs and pressing it down on the paper, next to their signatures, before turning to look at me.
"Uh so last question what name do I sign?"
"Oh right, uh use the one that appeared when you used the oracle stone"
Upon her say so I signed my name but the characters came out in foreign characters rather than this worlds letters, so I didn't need to worry about emire leaking my real identity before applying my blood seal to the page.
As soon as my finger left the page, blue flames sprang up and the entire contract burned up in an instant, once the last vestige of flame disappeared a simple blue light emanated from all three of us present.
"And with that the contract is complete, congratulations on the successful negotiation"
"Now before we head to the storehouse, Emire I want you to forget about my little outburst before"
"Oh no worries at all Milady I'm sure if you hadn't I would've"
With that Raisa grabbed my hand and started leading me through a series of door leading to the back of this mansion, as we passed through a sitting room, Alfred and her father could be seen who both beamed big smiles as we passed by.
"See sir"
"hmm yes just as you said"
I barely caught those words as we were leaving the room.
[Seems they knew that Raisa would storm the storehouse pretty much no matter what value my potions had, she must be desperate to prove herself to her family and be worthy of the family name]
When we finally arrived in the storehouse Raisa's face went red once again before she quickly withdrew her hand from holding my own.
And so my Partnership with Raisa of the Salide merchant family began, we spent the rest of the day packaging up my potion bottles into wooden containers with some sort of straw or hay and a lattice grid big enough for the bottles without allowing for movement.
24 bottles per box with a lid sealing them off.
More containers were brought in as we continued to package, part way through Ruby and Kurama returned though Kurama was now sporting a white bandana around his neck bearing the sigil of the Salide family, the pair of new arrivals quickly joined their masters in placing the bottles and moving the filled crates.
When the work finally finished Raisa called in a servant and requested food to be brought for the four of us.
The day at the mansion finished after dinner when Raisa shook my hand vigorously before sending us off with a shout.
"We're really gonna score some big coin Satou!"
[And to think she called me crazy before, perhaps I should call her Miss Money-Mania]
""Arooooo!""