The second item he'd made was similar to his notice-me-not bracelet except it was more of a notice-my-age-not. Basically, it made people who saw him completely discard the relevance of his age to any activities he performed. He had thought of it while wondering how to get himself adult-only stuff, like a larger propane tank. You had to be an adult to buy crap like that and he couldn't steal them with his notice-me-not on since they were usually locked up in various ways. However, with his new bracelet, his age was dismissed as irrelevant.
Sadly, it couldn't be used to get himself a bank account. All the paperwork they required along with their electronic systems would notice something was up pretty quickly. Even if the person opening the account for him didn't think his age of thirteen was relevant, the computer systems likely would. Even if he managed to lie about his age, or somehow get an account regardless, he still didn't actually have the proper paperwork and had no idea what it looked like to forge any. He'd spent a few hours going down the rabbit hole of hoops he would have to jump through to get it to possibly work and it was just beyond his skills, for now.
He was quickly brought out of his musing when a middle aged man stopped in front of his little crate and appraised the knives sitting on top of it. Junichiro smiled brightly at him, "Good morning sir! I see you're admiring my hand made knives. If you have any questions, or would like to test one, feel free to let me know."
The man nodded, "Thanks young man. You say you made these yourself?"
Junichiro wasn't bothered by the 'young man' comment, despite the magic item to make his age irrelevant, he was still seen as young it just didn't matter that he was young, "That's right, sir. I forged them by hand myself. They're well hardened and maintain an excellent edge."
Junichiro opened a bag of groceries containing fruits and vegetables he'd bought just for use as testing subjects. He selected a carrot and set it on top of a small cutting board on his crate, "Feel free to give them a try."
The man, who judging by his outfit was most likely a chef, selected the gyuto first. With hardly any effort the chefs knife cleanly sliced through the thickest end of the carrot. The man hummed in interest and set the knife down to pick up the nakiri knife. With a practiced hand he began to slice the carrot in a circle, essentially skinning the carrot like one might a daikon radish. The razor sharp nakiri knife easily shaved the exterior of the carrot into one long thin sheet.
After setting the knife down, the man looked at Junichiro, "They're rather impressive knives." He glanced at the sign that listed the prices for individual knives and a full set, "I'll take a full set, young man."
Junichiro smiled brightly and pulled out an eight piece set, each blade carefully wrapped to prevent accidental cuts, while the man counted out the seventy thousand yen. Once the exchange was made, Junichiro brightly smiled at the man, "Thank you for your patronage!"
With that his first ever sale was complete. It looked like today just might be a great day!
Junichiro looked down at his latest project and smiled brightly. A glittering golden ring rested on the top of his worktable. It was somewhat large, at least twice as wide and thick as a wedding band, but that was necessary for the rune work that anchored the enchantment on it. The interior circumference of the ring was absolutely coated in tiny runes that he'd painstakingly inscribed. It had taken him almost twenty hours of work to carefully inscribe the runes while looking through a magnifying glass. Yet, it was completely worth it to have his first true magical item!
He hopped off of his comfortable work chair and slipped the ring on his finger. It gave off a soft glow and quickly re-sized itself to fit perfectly onto his finger. He continued to admire his work even if the exterior of the ring just looked like a normal golden ring, if a bit large. Until he sent some mana through his hand and into it.
The moment his mana touched the ring a transparent blue magical shield sprang to life and completely surrounded him. Junichiro started laughing happily as he looked all around at the shield surrounding him. It was perfect! No cracks, no signs of static or random shifts in the surface. It was as smooth as glass! Unfortunately, it was also currently about as strong as glass. He stopped channeling his mana and looked proudly at his accomplishment, the Ring of Shielding.
It was a rather simple magical item. Wear it, channel mana into it, the mana becomes a shield to protect the wearer. It wasn't perfect though. First, its strength was determined by the amount of mana that was channeled into it. Second, it could only handle so much mana before it failed. So, someone like Sirzechs pumping his magical power through the ring would burn it out in seconds even if he never got hit. Meanwhile, Junichiro could pump all of his mana into it and it would only produce a weak shield.
Weak to magical attacks anyway. Even with minimal power the shield was completely impervious to mundane attacks. Knives, guns, rocket launchers, tanks shells, anything short of a massive explosion would just harmlessly bounce off of a shield powered by him. Yet the weakest magical attack would shatter it due to his still pretty low reserves.
He'd been working non-stop for the last two months, ever since he sold his first set of knives to that nice middle-aged man. Yet, his mana was only about double what it had initially been. That might seem impressive but doubling ten was only twenty and that was essentially what he had done. Now if he doubled it a dozen more times, he would have something to be proud of. If he was a D&D wizard, he'd just now have enough magical power to qualify as a level one. So, not much.