Chapter 5: Uesugi Yotsuba
Although Rokuhara Ren was an orphan, he never faced financial difficulties. In fact, his income was higher than that of most salarymen who worked from morning till night.
How did he do it? Flea markets.
With Insight Gaze, Ren had an advantage that others didn't—the ability to know the true value of an object just by staring at it long enough.
At flea markets, many vendors didn't know the true worth of the items they were selling. Most of them acquired their goods from cheap auctions, abandoned houses, or unwanted inheritances. To them, these items were just old trinkets with no real value.
But for true collectors and appraisers, every item had a history and a price.
A classic painting that looked like meaningless scribbles? It could be the work of a forgotten master.
An antique tea cup sold for cheap? It might be Ming Dynasty porcelain worth hundreds of millions of yen.
And Ren? He was the bridge between ignorance and wealth.
Every week, he visited flea markets and searched for valuable items overlooked by vendors. Once he found them, he bought them at a low price and then resold them to wealthy collectors willing to pay a fortune for their hobbies.
That was Ren's source of income without relying too much on his parents' life insurance money.
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