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The boy felt guided by Frank and his words, and smiled a bit.
"You're right… Thanks… Blackie, I will show you I am pretty strong too!" said Arthurious, the boy that seed to be on his early teens seed to be filled with conviction.
"eee~"
Blackie sohow understood what Arthurious said, and licked his face while rubbing his face over Arthurious face.
"Hehe… You make sure to rest and recover!" said Arthurious, petting his goat one last ti.
"I-I will go now, I will co early tomorrow!" said Arthurious.
"Okay then, take care." Said Frank.
The boy quickly moved away and ran back ho.
Frank squinted his eyes, worried that a young boy might get attacked in the night, even more as he was wearing quite the expensive clothes.
"Onyx, can you go protect him until he gets back ho? Go into his shadow." Said Frank.
"Groar! (Okay!)"
The Dragon of Darkness quickly grew smaller in size, and suddenly jumped over the shadows of the night, swimming through them and following the boy from behind without the boy realizing.
Frank sighed in relief as he looked at them go.
He moved back to his shop as he decided that he should close now that it got pretty late, however, another person entered the shop, a brow-haired girl with braids, and erald eyes.
"Hello…" she said. The girl began to inspect the entire place nervously…
A girl had suddenly arrived at the shop this late at night, Frank seed willing to attend her if it was sothing quick.
"Oh, we are about to close… is there sothing you need?" asked Frank.
"I-I want a monster pet! D-Do you sell any cheap…? I-I only got… a hundred coins…" she said.
"O-Only a hundred?" sighed Frank.
That wouldn't even be worth half the price of any of the eggs!
Frank sighed internally.
"There isn't any egg that cheap…" said Frank.
Frank inspected his Monster Pet Market Shop, finding out that the cheapest egg was worth at least 300 coins.
Even if he could get 12% of the money back, it wouldn't be near as enough.
He sighed internally once more, he really didn't wanted to disappoint the young girl that seed to be near the age of Arthurious, but really, she couldn't afford it, and this was a business, not a place where she could adopt monster pets for free because they needed shelter…
"B-But… I really need one… there is a Tournant coming up soon and I really need the money…" she sighed.
Frank sighed, as he looked at the girl shiny eyes.
"For what do you need the money?" wondered Frank.
"T-This…"
The girl began to look rather sorrowful; she began to tightly grab her long village-girl-dress, and seed rather frustrated.
"Hm?" Frank was expecting an answer, but the girl was not giving any…
"I-It's complicated…" she said.
"Sorry… I cannot really do much, you have to make the money and then co buy the egg." Said Frank.
"But I need it!" cried the girl, suddenly she kneeled before Frank and asked for it.
"Girl… don't low yourself like this…" he sighed.
"Please, sell an egg! Sniff…" she cried.
"I could sell you a way to catch a wild monster pet… I think that should be affordable, but you would be risking your life doing so if you don't already have a starter…" sighed Frank.
"I need the tournant prize… A-Any prize actually… M-My mother is sick… She caught the Yellow Pest and she's growing sicker every day… the dicine is very expensive, it costs four thousand coins… The prize money for the tournant is thirty thousand!" said the girl.
"T-Thirty thousand coins?!" sked Frank.
One coin was 100 App Points… 30000 Coins were… 3 million App Points!
That was certainly a lot!
"And that's only the bronze prize… the most realistic I could get…" she said.
"T-There are higher prizes?!" asked Frank.
"Yeah! There are the silver prize which is sixty thousand, and then the gold prize, a hundred thousand!" said the girl.
"…"
Frank was left speechless, that was a lot of money! These tournants seed to make a lot of money if they were so costly!
"And that's not all, they're offering other prizes too accompanied by it, the first gold prize even includes the egg of a Pseudo-Legendary Monster Pet! If they grow big and with care, they have the potential to beco Legendary…" said the girl.
"Huh…"
Frank rubbed his chin as he realized this tournant looked pretty good, couldn't he participate with his powerful monster pets and totally wreck everyone? And then get all the prizes for himself!
He was barely containing a malicious smirk…
However, there was the current problem with the girl in front of him… Could he give her the coins so she can buy the dicine herself? But what if she was just lying and this wasn't actually the truth, but just a fabrication? What if she was just lying?
"Is your mother really that sick? Can she survive until you manage to hatch an egg, raise the pet, and all that process?" asked Frank.
"Eeeehhh… W-Well…" she muttered.
Frank squinted his eyes, he knew sothing was up with this girl.
"You're lying…" said Frank.
"Geh…!"
The girl quickly realized she couldn't fool Frank so easily.
"So you were trying to make pity you so I could sell you off an egg for cheap?" asked Frank.
"N-No! I swear, my mother is very sick! And my grandmother too! My father died half a year ago and we don't got money… we are starving to death!" she said.
Frank used his abilities, detecting lies wasn't hard to do when he had so many magical elents to play around with, lies were easy to detect using the power of his eyes, that could discern the emotions of people.
When soone lied, the purity of their emotions around them blackened, and this was exactly happening with the girl.
"Why were you trying to lie to so desperately? What's your true goal? Just buying dicine to your mother was a lie, you just want the money?" asked Frank.
"I-I just want to make money for my future…" sighed the girl.
Frank noticed she wasn't lying anymore.
"That simple?" I asked.
"Without a monster pet you're less than a serf, you know? They're all in the world! Since the governnt changed that they had stopped giving starter monster pets for free to young and promising trainers…" she sighed.
"What's your na?" asked Frank.
"Miriam…" she said.
"Hm, co tomorrow morning, I think I could hire you." Said Frank.
"H-Hire ?! Eeeeh?! Really?" asked the girl.
Frank looked at the girl, he pitied her.
"Yeah, if you work hard and show you're good enough for the job, I will give you a contract, if not… well, that's it and we'll cut ties." Said Frank.
"I-I will work my hardest to show you!" said the girl, she seed very motivated to work hard to show Frank she was deserving of the job.
"Do you live alone?" wondered Frank.
"I live in an orphanage…" said Miriam.
"Orphanage?" asked Frank.
"Yeah… People is awful there, but I am the eldest of my little siblings…" said Miriam.
She wasn't lying either.
"You're dumb? Why didn't you said the truth? It would had also made pity you." Sighed Frank.
"Eh? But isn't it more dramatic if my mother is dying? That's what my siblings always do when they beg for money in the streets!" said Miriam.
Miriam told Frank the truth, which ended being just as pitiable as the sick mother story.
"But isn't it more dramatic if my mother is dying? That's what my siblings always do when they beg for money in the streets!" said Miriam.
"They beg for money…?! What kind of poverty is in here…?" wondered Frank.
"Well, you might had never experienced poverty because you're clearly rich, sir… but that's how it is for most of the population…" said Miriam.
"I see… (I'm not actually rich!)" sighed Frank.
"Anyways! I'll take you for your word and co tomorrow morning!" said the girl, rushing outside and waving her hand.
"See ya!" she said, running away.
Frank never expected he would have a third encounter with a girl so mischievous… he ended offering her a job at such a young age. He hoped there weren't any laws against child labor.
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After a few minutes, Onyx had co back safely, although what happened was indeed what Frank thought it would happen, Arthurious was almost attacked by a group of thugs with monster pets, but Onyx knocked them out before they could even reach the boy, and he made it successfully back ho.
With Onyx back, Frank closed the shop and moved back to Earth, barely a few minutes passed there, and everything seed to be mostly fine, he quickly resud his daily life there for the mont, his family was still trying to decide which monster pet egg they wanted though…
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