Walking around from the festival, colorful towels were filled and tied to the houses, and even the houses themselves were creating a band of colorful arrays of color and structures. Looking around, every door was filled with the red paint of a blanket outside the sheets.
Yuruki just looked at them with a blank expression, but she was happy looking at it. The Knight had a nostalgic sense of it all, walking against many people to the side, with birds flapping around the sky staring at us.
Yuruki nudged me. "Hey! Let's explore the towns," she said, moving around against the tavern, buying anything she could get her hands on. I just smiled, grateful for having my power, though it felt like it was getting exhausting if I used it every time.
One house was literally an alchemist's house. We entered the old woman's house, which was literally moss against the other wooden and concrete houses. There was the fuss of many people, and a woman was on the counter against the side.
"Oh my, adventurer, what would you like to buy?" she asked, with Yuruki looking at different dissected animals and herbs in bottles. The lady pointed somewhere else. "Those are just decoration." And different bottles were in it: a health potion which restores your vitality, and a blue potion which heals your mana.
Adam just thought about it, thinking how cliché it really was—a typical medieval RPG game. It would be nice, too… he thought, to let Mai go on an adventure like this, remembering the Dragon Quest that he played with them. It would be an eye to see their expression as the game met life.
Then I saw Yuruki widen her eyes as she grabbed every single dish of spices and herbs, bottles, ten for each red and blue potion, and a few other colorful ones. I didn't even know what the orange and green potions were. I guessed the green was for speed?
"Is this alright, Adam?"
The woman laughed looking at us. "Oh my, there are really rich adventurers out here."
I was seriously happy that I had powers and could just get coins like the White King, thinking of his face and how he would really not like what I was doing right now. A few moments passed.
The old woman wanted us to buy everything for 100 gold! I promised myself never to dare enter that house again. Seriously… one gold was equal to one bread here.
After constant bickering, we finally made an agreement for 50 gold. I still felt like I was scammed. Yuruki, with a cat-like expression, tried not to intervene in what I was doing.
We went to the bookstore. Yuruki bought again—past events, wars, maps, books of many different things, yes, even architectural books and cooking books for different animals and spices. Some were about religions, textbooks, and dictionaries. I finally pulled her out and grabbed ten books she really liked, as she was very hyper trying to grab thousands of books and buy them. The Knight sighed beside us... Standing at the door reading one book.
After a couple of moments passed, Yuruki was happy and putting it all in her bag. Then the Knight poked me, embarrassed, as he pointed at the blacksmith shop. I sighed.
Kids, if you have the money to buy things like me… then just do it. But if not… I never recommend doing what these two people are doing. Inside, the Knight carefully inspected every sword, dagger, battleaxe, crossbow, rapier, greatsword, dual sword, and shield, and even many other things.
Yes, gears were more expensive than books. Yuruki crossed her arms, talking to someone and berating the blacksmith worker, who berated back. They had no soldering iron, tweezers for pulling tiny metal chips, or cutters, leaving the workers confused on what to do with very small things. Yuruki just nagged me about buying wrenches and making a blueprint for them. I sighed, with Rehan smirking and giving a thumbs up.
Paper blueprints started to come from my hand: soldering irons, tweezers, wire cutters, wrenches, welders, sockets, screwdrivers, and many different shaped parts of mechanical plates.
The Knight only presented a knife to us.
"Is that really what you want?" Adam ask...
"I only get what I need… and it's an exchange. I can't even buy it," He said, ashamed to be buying from Adam's pocket. I smirked, having been ordered to babysit him.
"You can buy what you want…"
We walked toward the foundry as Yuruki, for the third time, nagged me about minerals and ores, trying to buy them all. Yes, we did, and I didn't know how Yuruki managed to put it all in her small backpack.
The night was ever closer. The birds were just staring at us from the sky.
…
…
The same white stare from before.
Looking for a lotting space, a person finally agreed to give us a house—for freaking 3,000 gold. I sighed and extended my hand with a term paper, ensuring that I owned it.
The gruff man with a mustache looked confused. "Sir, it's usually the record and registry from the lord, and all witnesses, that show you own anything in this land…"
"Huh?"
"Never mind…"
Beside... That house is expensive...
"I'll just make a house from somewhere."
"No—no, sir…" the mustached man said, almost running after me. "The tax collector would have trouble taxing you if you're too far…"
Why would he?
Man… I really hate it when I'm not the one in control.