Maou-sama no Machizukuri! ~Saikyou no Dungeon wa Kindai Toshi~ - Vol. 3 Ch. 15

[Serkket]

@GrimGriefer
In the novel it really wasn't like this.

Spoiler

It actually went the opposite of what was shown here, the merchant was suspicious at first but with all the benefits offered he jump head first without bullying.
Turns out he's a really good guy that even offers to get other big merchants into his town to help their economy.

 

[Chaos_Knight]

I don't remember this chapter in the WN he was calm & collected wtf happened in LN.

 

[chuiboy]

@GrimGriefer
I agree. This shit don't make sense. I was also hoping the MC wouldn't be another beta, but unfortunately he is. Smh

 

[Garnt69]

Why would you cave to those two? They are there with you alone, wiped them off the face of the earth!

 

[Wolvenworks]

@Serkket you know...i'd actually prefer if it actually went that way

 

[Kaarme]

@Chaos_Knight The MC has exactly zero poker face. Let's hope he will never need to negotiate with anyone again.

@GrimGriefer Actually the chapters only talked about duties and tariffs, which means something collected at the gates when stuff moves in and/or out of the city. It says nothing about taxes. He could still collect some of those. Although it would certainly make sense to mention such a thing now, not only afterwards. He also can't treat later merchants any different because they wouldn't be able to compete with these two otherwise. He's not primarily interested in money, but in fact it's suspicious if he doesn't collect it, plus when more and more people move in, he will need to also spend money to keep the town running.

For such a noob MC with no poker face, he was pretty unlucky to get so hard-boiled merchants as the first ones to negotiate with. Obviously the merchants would be greedy and try to get massive benefits on top of the already huge opportunity they were immediately offered. That's what being a true merchant is. However, if he had kicked these two out to try again with other merchants, these two would have definitely caused him problems, maybe even to the point of turning the town into a regular dungeon by having adventurers loot it. In the end the merchants wouldn't care even if they knew the place is in fact a monster dungeon in a peaceful disguise, they only want to make money. All that talk about suspicious was just talk to pressure the gullible MC. But if they can't make profit, things are different.

 

[Beregorn]

@flannan there is an extremely easy solution to that problem: ask a price accordingly to the demand in that place, and not based on some abstract "fair prices" from a totally different world, with a totally different production process and a totally different economy.
If you ask the same prices of other cities, everyone would come there, because he is closer to the dungeon, but no one would export his goods, since there would be no profit (especially if you consider taxes and transport expenses)

Oh well, it looks like it is time again to drop out the trash

 

[Dezaki]

i guess he didn't really read those negotiation books ah he's nervous and shaky as hell

 

[wankerLin]

Tsk just destroy that stupid city.
Long term profit ? Fuck that

 

[flannan]

@Beregorn - you may have noticed MC can't really enter human towns to scout out the prices.
He could have done better if he had summoned a merchant monster and some spy monsters, but at the moment, he doesn't have that, and he has limited ability to choose which monsters he'll get.

By the way, I'm one of those people who liked how the novel handled it more.

 

[Kayriel]

...

Regular ass human: YOU'RE A DEMON LORD, RULER OF DEMONS AND MONSTERS WITH UNTOLD POWERS WHO HATES HUMANS, RIGHT?
Demon Lord: ;-;
Regular ass human: GIVE US EVERYTHING OR WE'LL TELL EVERYONE OUTSIDE OF THIS HIDDEN MEETING THAT NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT THAT YOU'RE A DEMON LORD.

... I mean. Why would you poke the bear? It's sleeping nicely, it even left a nice meal for you if you visited and wished you to have a happy life. Now you go into its cave and start beating it with a stick? What the fuck happens if it wakes up? Did you think that far ahead?

 

[lightsaber43]

Yup... I'm dropping this shit.

I can't stand a powerful being ( at least he's a demon lord ) scared of the inferior one ( human ).

Meh...

 

[Kisato]

Yeah, what the hell was this chapter? Having read the WN I can wholeheartedly say I don't approve, what with MC acting like a sniveling little child.

I have no recollection of such a scene and I don't think I would have liked it as much if there were.

 

[hypernova911]

Honestly the only thing I care about in this manga is the busty fox girl

 

[BloodySorcerer]

@wankerLin as infuriating as it is to admit, that's how real life merchants do business nowadays, they ignore long term superior profits in favor of short term guaranteed leftovers. That's why we get so many inferior products.

 

[babyroxasman]

@Dezaki Tbh its like when you actually have to take that test. Your mind just goes to mush

 

[Mangon]

Kill both the merchants, problem solved

 

[Kronous]

@Mangon right? it's feels not real, like, is he really a demon lord? even i will kill one or two people i hate in that world, after all there is no law for demon killing human/other race there.

 

[b0n3t0u3]

Our boy got molested by a fat ugly bastard.

The lines between genres are blurring together

 

[flannan]

@Kronous - you might have noticed that MC isn't particularly evil. He even made a friendly dungeon where people can be happy.