Volume 5 - Chapter 17 – Commoners’ District (2/2)
“Just quit it. Next time you’ll really get hurt.”,
Jin said to the man who glared at him.
“I- I’ll remember this!”,
The hoodlum left with a parting threat.
“Well, because things like this can happen, the old man and nanny Mine didn’t want to bring Elsa to a place like this.”
Jin explained to Elsa.
“You can find people like that anywhere. So, let’s head back.”
Thinking about Elsa, Jin suggested going back to the marquis’s estate for now. But she replied,
“I’ll be alright because I’ve got the ring Jin gave me. So I want to look around for a bit longer.”
Jin was fine with it as long is was just a bit longer. He looked at the surrounds, and there was nobody around because of the quarrel just now.
Let’s find a better place to walk about, Jin decided, and brought Reiko and Elsa with him back to the main street.
There were a lot of small shops on both sides of the main street.
Stores selling ready-made clothes, tools, and foodstuffs.
Jin was in a foodstore, looking at something he found.
“Isn’t this… a potato?”
He held it in one hand and looked. The color, the shape, no matter how you looked it it was a potato. He even stealthily used [Analyse] on it and it was unmistakably identical to a potato.
“Lad, are you going to buy it?”
The old man at the store asked, and Jin bought a pile of potatoes.
“Alright, 50 Torr for the pile of topopoes.”
It was unexpectedly cheap.
The total price was 70 Torr after also buying a sack to put them in.
“Jin, those… are you going to eat them?”
Elsa asked the delighted Jin with concern.
“Mm, that’s right. I’ll need to borrow the kitchen for a while this evening.”
“If I’m not wrong… aren’t those Devil Bulbs?”
“They’ve got a name like that? They’re genuinely edible though.”
“I’ll definitely not eat them.”
Afraid for some reason, Elsa took some distance to Jin. Seeing that, Jin handed the sack over to Reiko.
Only then did Elsa inch back closer to Jin.
Afterwards, they visited a store that sold cheap accessories, and a store that sold weapons for self-defense.
Elsa expressed some interest in a narrow dagger, but Jin stealthily used [Analyse] and found out that aside from its appearance it was a shoddy product.
Jin had to drag Elsa out of the store to explain.
“Is that so? Mother had a dagger like that, so I was a little curious.”
After hearing that Jin decided to craft a similar one himself when he got the chance.
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“I’m a little tired.”
About midway on the main street there was a plaza, and Elsa sat down on a bench. It’s no wonder, since they walked a lot.
After finishing the Citran juice bought from a nearby stall, Jin turned to Elsa and asked,
“Then, isn’t it about time to go back?”
Elsa agreed. The sun was setting and the wind was getting colder, so it was a good time to return.
“Elsa, aren’t you cold?”
“Mm, I’m okay.”
“But the wind’s only going to get colder, so I’m going to have to ask you to drape this over your shoulders.”
Jin said and put his overcoat on Elsa’s shoulders.
“Thanks. …It’s warm.”
“If you catch a cold, the old man and Mine will kill me.”
Elsa smiled at Jin’s remark, while Reiko replied with “I will protect father.”
The expected quarrel with a hoodlum didn’t occur, and the group headed towards the nobles’ district.