12 Greed is universal (2/2)

'I probably got shafted but I don't care.', Harrison thought as he saw his demenor.

Even though he got a good deal out of it he was watching Harrison like a hawk and was walking near him and breathing down his neck until he picked up two books and was leaving the shop. He followed him to the door as if he was a security guard watching his every move.

Harrison walked to the same spot between the houses and took out another dagger and put the two fresh new books in his inventory. He still had five almost intact daggers from his corpse looting and a ruined one.

Just as he was about to leave a window opened on the second story and someone poured something from it which splattered in the middle of the small dark alley.

'Well that explains the prevailing stench of urine.', he thought as he shook his head.

As he returned to the shop the shopkeeper gave him a look that basically spelled out why are you back but did not make any aggressive actions towards him.

Showing him the dagger he held by the blade and pointing towards the bookshelf with two fingers raised the bussines was quickly concluded and he left the shop immeditly after while the shopkeeper watched him for a long time trying to determine the direction where he was going from the stalls in the front of the shop's entrance.

Harrison felt this was enough excitement for today and was leaving the small town the same way he came from.

After a couple of aka shas he almost left the slum area of the town when three of kids surrounded him. The two taller kids stood in front of him and one circled around him from the back.

”Aka sha!”, he said to the two in front and tried to move past them.

They were wearing ragged dirty clothes which smelled of sweat and urine and even with him purposly dirtying his clothes there was a stark difference between them. They were barefoot and he was wearing leather boots which was probably also the main reason they decided to ambush him.

One of the tall boys said something and tried to grab him by his shoulder. Harrison twisted away and looked at him viciously which gave him a bit of pause. The other one jumped on him insted trying to grab him by the waist to tackle him but was greeted by a knee instead and was knocked out cold.

The one who came from behind picked up fistful of sand from the ground and threw it towards Harrison's face and it flew towards his eyes but he closed them fast enough. Still the other tall boy used this opening to try and tackle him but instead of succeding he found himself being raised from the ground and body slammed like a raggdoll.

The smaller one wanted to rush into the fray but when he saw the taller ones laying in front of Harrison one knoecked out and the other moaning and out of breath crawling on the ground with his head in the sand he hesitated. He just stood there and could not decided if he wanted to run away or attack Harrison.

Harrison just shook his head and pretended to step on the tall boys head and pointed at the small one showing a vicious smile. He repeatedly wiggled his finger as if to ask him to come closer to get a pummeling also. The small boy finally lost all semblance of bravery and ran as fast as his dirty feet could take him.

'Heh. I guess greed is universal.', Harrison thought as he walked away leaving the other two laying in the middle of the road.

After a good while of walking he finally came to the dirty underwear which was still prominently displayed on the bushes by the road. He stopped and looked around to check if someone folowed him and then rushed into the woods as he saw the coast was clear. Following the markings ws easy and he soon found himself in front of the pond.

Some inventory cleaning and washing time later he was in his cave looking at his spoils of the day.

They were four books for children with vivid covers and a lot of illustrations on the inside. They were not printed but made by hand and he didn't feel he overpayed as he looked at the level of craftmanship and time that went into making them.

'I guess weapons are more appreciated than art in this world.', he thought.

He analyzed all four while eating diner of roasted ratbit with some water. All he needed to do was open the books in inventory and click on the analyze button and wait so he could multitask easily.

As he was munching on the ratbit it he suddenly had an intense feeling of regret.

”Damn it. I forgot to buy SAAAALT.”, he yelled in frustration.