Chapter 68: Why Are You Still Here? (2/2)

He didn't expect that Arion would kick a chair all of a sudden and lost his balance for just a moment as he tried to balance himself again after dodging the chair.

Arion was impressed that Shun managed to even dodge the chair by a hair's breadth, but all he needed was a single moment of distraction as he leaped towards Shun like a wolf.

However, Shun's brows raised as he inhumanly dodged Arion by stepping back. But because he couldn't see what was behind him, he tripped his leg over a chair and fell while the sound of coins tumbling out resounded.

Arion's mouth fell open upon noticing dozens of pranars falling out, which were basically precious money since a pranar was basically a coin made out of pranic materials and also the most used currency among the people.

Shun's pockets became papery as all the dark red colored pranars slipped out of his pocket and fell on the floor.

Arion counted at least more than fifty pranars lying around and couldn't help but imagine how generous those people were to gift him pranars.

He kicked away Shun and began to collect all the pranars that fell on the floor. Shun clicked his tongue, seeing that all his hard work had gone to waste, especially when he took the effort to open all the gifts.

Arion knew how precious of a currency pranar was since even a single pranar could buy a three-course meal for a family easily.

And with more than fifty of them, he was sure he could buy himself enough herbs to last another month at least.

But after that, he would have to find a way to earn some money on his own since he wasn't comfortable with asking Mei to buy him costly herbs.

As an able man, he felt that he should take up matters in his own hand rather than relying on others.

He was no longer a disabled person or somebody who was forced to steal to survive but a healthy young man with enough options to support himself.

He took out a pouch lying nearby and meticulously put all the pranars he collected into the pouch and took a good look at it, feeling happy to have his own money.

”Pfft, are you seeing money for the first time?” Shun asked with a bitter expression, feeling bad that he tripped like an amateur.

Arion snorted, ”That's what I want to ask you. If you had filled any more in your pockets, you would have ended up falling on the floor anyways, haha.”

He then squinted his eyes as he asked, ”Are you by chance hiding more of these somewhere else?”

Arion was experienced in stealing items, so at times he would have to hide whatever he stole in absurd places to avoid detection. So, he couldn't help but think that Shun might have also done the same.

Shun got up and dusted his pants as he said with a smirk, ”Come find out if you want.”

Seeing his smirk, Arion wrinkled his nose thinking that he was asking him to search his underwear or something since otherwise, Shun wouldn't confidently say something like this.

He knew Shun might be hiding some more in weird places but decided to let go since it was not worth it to touch any pranars that had been in places he didn't dare to imagine.

Anyways, he was confident that Shun would only have a few at best while the rest had fallen off of him.

However, his eyes narrowed when he noticed that Shun was no longer holding a crutch. Before, he didn't realize it since he was distracted by him stealing his gifts.

So, he skeptically asked as he got up, ”Don't tell me you are not injured anymore?”

Shun waved his hands as he sat down on a chair and said with a leaned back posture, ”Of course. I was only this close to recovering anyway. No biggie.”

Arion crossed his arms, ”Then why are you still here? Didn't you tell me that you would get lost after your injuries are healed?”

Shun's expression became thoughtful as he said, ”That's because I changed my mind after yesterday night, especially after talking with the people here. Since you are lucky enough to get trained by Old Zi and even brave enough to take the Ironheart test, I felt that I should also take the test and find out some answers myself till my memories return. Otherwise, how will a weak guy like me survive with all those Dreadlings looming around?”

Veins popped up in Arion's temple seeing his annoying smug face while talking like a pitiful kid who has no one to look after him.