- Job Details:
- Job Name: A Salesman’s Story
Job Rank: D-Tier
Job Location: Reim
Job Rewards: 50xp / 3,000 Huang
Job Overview: You are walking around at the cities and met a merchant who needs help to sell his goods. Help him sells all his goods and he will give you a reward.
Yawn escaped the swordsman mouth as he walked around the city, wondering if there was any interesting event happened in the city. He decided to go to a restaurant so he could get something to eat, but the scenery in front of him was a little sad, the black haired man could even feel sorry to the scenery. He saw a man shouting his goods and maybe trying to sell it, but no one wanted to approach him or even buying something from him. Tenma observed the man silently and noticed the goods were much kind of foods, maybe he was the restaurant owner but why he was outside selling a food? Tenma observed the restaurant from the window but he couldn’t find anyone to serve, the restaurant itself is empty. Even though the economy boom was making many side getting much fortune, turned out this man was not getting some of the fortune.
Feeling that he couldn’t do anything, he wanted to leave and search another restaurant. But he was very hungry and curious about that restaurant until he finally gave in to approach the man. “Excuse me Sir, is the restaurant open?”
The man surprised and his eyes sparkled when Tenma approached him, possibly happy because finally someone wanted to approach him. “Oh, yes, yes, we are open.” The man quickly took Tenma inside and asked him what he wanted to order, after that he headed to the kitchen, leaving the swordsman who sat alone in the restaurant. It had been quite a while since the owner left him and the weird thing was, Tenma didn’t event heard any sound inside the kitchen, just when he wanted to check just in case if something happened, the owner showed up and brought his order. “Your potato and meat stew set. Enjoy.”
The black haired man couldn’t believe about what was served in front of his eyes, the meat was all black and the potato couldn’t be seen. He began to imagine the owner did something inside the kitchen, but since his hungry stomach keep begging to be feed, Tenma encouraged himself to take a bite. “What the heck…” The swordsman put his spoon on the table and began to feel the taste; it was very good and well cooked. But the appearance of the stew was just unbearable; it was really awful and could make someone lost his appetite. He began to peer from the window to look at the man who was still working hard to sell his food and assumed many people refuse to eat here because the appearance of the food was not appealing.
“Sir, I believe you are struggling to keep the restaurant open?” Tenma quickly approached the man, “Is it not good? The food?” The man looked sad and he even said that he would close down the restaurant since it was not going well. “I know why people refuse to come, let me help you.”
First, he looked at the goods that the owner tried to sell, he said it was a cookie and brownie but the appearance was not…very good to see as it reminded you to something disgusting. So he asked the owner to make it again while Tenma helping the man to make it look good to eat, well, he saw no trouble in the taste so the only thing that keeping the customer to come was only the appearance. “You see, your cooking was very delicious. But just let me to be honest with you, it look awful, not appetizing at all. So I’ll help you to make it look good enough to be eaten.”
After the now appetizing looking cookies and brownies were done, Tenma and the owner brought it to outside and placed it on the table. The swordsman decorated the table to become as eye catching as he could, then explained the manager that he would be using some business strategy to save him, which was quickly accepted by the owner himself. Tenma borrowed a unique uniform that the owner had and made it so he looked like a butler by wearing it, then he drew ‘50% delicious home-made cookies and brownies starting from 4 P.M’ on a big paper and planning to put it in front of the table later. He took several cookies and brownies, then break it into pieces and put it into a small container. Tenma was so ready to sell something, he spent his youth only to learn about business and now he had to implement it to save someone’s business. As a young lady walking in front of the table, Tenma quickly approached her, giving her the best smile that he ever gave and offered her a free small piece of cookie while explaining about the product. He thanked heaven as the lady was willing to buy several cookies and brownies, but when she was ready to pay, Tenma said, “Thank you beautiful Lady, please spread the word and I’ll give you a pleasant reward.” .She put the money on Tenma’s hand and giving another paper before leaving with blush on her cheek. When Tenma saw the paper, he noticed that an address was written there but quickly put it aside and continue to sell.
The time had finally come and Tenma put the earlier discount paper in front of the table, it made many people gathered around the table and emptied it in the blink of eyes, leaving Tenma and the owner after paying for the goods. Mouth to mouth marketing was really effective and Tenma glad that he was able to try the strategy, but then he saw many address written paper that he got from many female customer who came to buy and wondering what he should do with that. Finally, Tenma saved the owner by successfully selling his goods and also teaching him some business strategy that should keep his business alive for a long time.
Word Count : 990