New dampers installed, check. Armor upgraded, check. The reworked mecha was looking good. There was some scrap metal left over, as usual, and they pipes had been bent enough that their stiffness had reduced. Engineers everyone would recognize that this could not be used in important applications. Like giant robots of death.

As before, Ales had taken the scrap to design several puzzles consisting of looping metal parts. The objective of these were to take all the pieces apart without the use of brute force. He hired a local human to help carry the Teensie-sized booth to the commercial district, where he set up a display with all the gadgets lines up in rows.

"Hiring?" He had expected Nanami to buy one of his cheap trinkets, not ask if he wanted to start a business. "That wouldn't be a bad idea. This is more of a side project of mine, but if I had more help, I could turn it into a lucrative venture..."

He could be a merchant again. Like old times.