Talk:Satou Pendragon/@comment-46688909-20200821204048/@comment-10330822-20200821235154

Well, that is about being fair. The haggling is because often people are trying to charge him higher than market value for their goods. So it isn't really about the money, its about the principle. He doesn't like being taken advantage of.

For example, when it came to buying the ratkin slaves to save them, the slaver tried to increase their asking price because the labor camps will pay more for beastmen laborers. So the slaver was trying to get Satou to pay that even though that isn't the normal market value for ratkin slaves. Satou didn't appreciate it and used coercion and his haggling skill to keep it at market value and the slaver, who was scared, agreed to it.

And on the flip side. Satou once paid dozens of copper coins over market price for tomatoes and vegetables because he saw how desperately the villagers needed the money. And that ended up working out too because the villagers in turn gave more tomatoes to Satou as an offering later for free.

So as you can see, the confusion you are having is because you think his focus is the money, when it really isn't, its the situation and the principle. If you consider that, his actions become more consistent.