บท 53: Problems

As the first customers came in Daedalus made his way into a room upstairs that he could watch from. Most customers just walked around complaining about the prices and occasionally buying things they took an interest in.

A few hours in Daedalus was about to leave, when he heard a loud bang. Daedalus looked down and saw that a rich looking man had slammed his hand into the counter, the man then said "These potions are sub standard in quality and you dare sell them for this exorbitant amount!"

Daedalus heard this and frowned. Not long later the man was still going on about it. One of the workers walked into the back for a moment, a few moments later Celeste came out following the employee.

The man then shouted "Are you the manager, you should be ashamed of the quality of your potions!"

Celeste frowned and said "I can guarantee that the potions quality is the highest you can find in the entire empire!"

The man frowned before saying "This is false advertising it is clearly ineffective for what you are saying!"

As the two continued talking one of what seemed to be the man's guards had walked up and started glaring at Celeste intimidatingly. When Daedalus saw this he immediately walked down the stairs and said to the man who was clearly trying to intimidate Celeste "I would like to ask that you stop trying to intimidate my manager."

The man with the bodyguard turned and said "Oh so you are the owner of this establishment, I could have you arrested for falsely advertising!"

However as the man finished speaking a royal guard came up and said "You are under arrest for threatening the crown prince and also false accusations of false advertising, as well as public misconduct."

The man's guard then walked over and said "Please stand away from my master before I am forced to make you move."

The royal guard, Daedalus and Celeste were left dumbfounded. Not long later Daedalus got back to himself and said to his guards "I want these men arrested and questioned on why they would try to slander my business."

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A week later, the shop was running fine. Daedalus was on his way to the prison at the moment as the man who tried to slander 'The Craftsman' shop.

As Daedalus reached the prison and made his way to the cell the man and his guard were in, he was given a report that detailed the whys of the incident. It turns out that the man was a part of the crafter's union that as the named entailed was for crafters to sell their items. Due to the information obtaining ability they had found out about 'The Craftsman' but not about who ran it, but decided that it was a threat and sent one of their alchemists in order to slander the shop. Of course this did not work as the owner is Daedalus.

Daedalus had a quick chat with the alchemist and his guard before quickly coming to a decision, to go to the Crafter's union headquarters and have a chat with their leader.