"Do we really have to do this again, Kayn?" Marcus complained quietly.
"What choice do we have? Since we accepted the gold already, unless we plan to leave the church, we got hold of our end of the deal" Kayn said with a bitter tone.
"But..."
"No buts Marcus, unless you are confident on winning against that knight Danzel." Anna said with a small grin on her face.
"Like anyone could win against this guy..." Marcus rolled his eyes at Anna´s comnt.
`I will probably be cut into pieces before I even throw a punch of my...´
Closing the door of the church, the three made their way towards Honor´s store.
Having already received the storage from Danzel, they just had to bring it to Honor, but the closer they got to their destination, Kayn in particular had a weird feeling.
`Sothing is wrong...´
Staring to his surroundings, his eyebrows knitted together.
At first, he thought it was him imaging things, but once they arrived at Honor´s store he realized what was wrong.
`They weren´t so many people before...´
Compared to other tis where they were here, although they were around five to six people in the street doing their business, that number had by now increased by three tis that amount.
Usually, he would consider that the store suddenly beco popular for so kind of reason.
But once he realized that many of these people were stealing glances at him and the other two he knew sothing was wrong.
"Marcus, Anna, we are being watched, don´t react~."
Hearing that, Anna frowned slightly before her face turned back to of a smiling little girl that she was.
Marcus in comparison turned his face 90 degrees left and looked at Kayn with surprise and an opened mouth.
If it weren´t for Kayn looking like when he was punching him rcilessly in their training, Marcus would even turn his face and make eye contact with those people watching them.
`I shouldn´t have ntioned it in the first place..." Sighting to himself from Marcus' behavior, he stared in front of him without showing much emotion.
One of the people who noticed Marcus behavior a mont ago blocked the door of Honor´s store.
"Hey brats, what the hell are you doing in this shop, huh!? Did your guys by any chance lose you, mama and papa?" A man with an intimidating look said as he moved closer to Kayn, Marcus and Anna.
"Huh? What di-" Before Marcus had the chance to get angry, he received a swift yet deadly hit from Anna´s elbow to his ribs.
`Gwaagh!´
"We aren´t lost! We are here get grandma healing herbs!" Anna said with a cute voice.
In contrast to Marcus habit of brute force this way through problems and Kayn's overwhelming talent in combat, she prided herself on her mory.
Though she mostly found such a talent of hers useless compared to the boy's combat ability, at tis such as this she felt grateful for having a great mory.
The mont Kayn warned them about the man watching them, a flow of information flowed through her mind in hopes to find the reason for it.
And with a little strain on her mind, she soon realized or rather saw a scenario as to why the man in front of them was questioning them.
For her, it felt like a thousand-piece puzzle to finally co together, though piecing every single piece together was tireso, in the end, she was rewarded with an image.
`That knight and his contract, the rchant who traded with him...´
At first, when she saw the concept of the contract able to see through lies, she was quite amazed, but the cause of her lack of knowledge of magic and the world itself, she subconsciously put the contract as a convenient item made from magic.
Sothing that everyone could get his hands on if they wanted.
That knight used a bunch of those on so brats like them as it was nothing.
Such a mistake was common to everyone.
Even with her mory, if she were to label sothing to be right at first glance to in actuality being false without even trying to question it, she would end up gaslighting herself.
Turning the lie into the truth.
Unlike others who would stick to the lie even when given the truth, she was different.
Picturing that this lie detector contract was extrely rare and precise, she could easily think of it making a big profit with others wanting to monopolize the source.
`If my suspicion is right, then that guy isn´t asking us because he is concerted about us or being purely pissed of. He must be soone who wants to find the source of these contracts...in other words us´ Anna thought to internally.
Since she had to find a reasonable cause to justify that a bunch of brats with rags covering their body enter the store, she rembers how Honor sold a few herbs that improve the condition of so everyday illnesses.
Thus coming up with the idea of buying dicine
The man hearing that showed a frown on his face before softening back.
"Oh yeah, the report also ntion that he was selling such stuff..." Covering his mouth with one hand, the man mumbled to himself.
"Can we pass, please~?" Anna said with her cute voice.
"Hmm? Yeah, whatever. Just be quick with picking does leaves or sothing!"
`Idiot´ With a bright smile on her face, Anna and the others walked inside the store.
Honor who was writing sothing on a piece of paper, raised his head to look at his new custors.
"So you are here again..." Honor said with a nervous tone.
Kayn who noticed that noticing his distress was suddenly pulled by his sleeve by Anna.
"Hey Kayn, go pick so of those herbs from over there and give him the ring together with them."
Realizing what Anna wanted him to do, he quickly picked up so random herbs and went towards the receptionist's table.
"We would like to buy these good sir..." Kayn said as he quickly hid the ring in the herbs and handed so coins.
Honor who was at first considerably confused was surprised to see what those brats were doing.
"It seems like you guys learned your lesson that stuff is not for free...but it seems like those herbs were mixed with so bad ones too, give a second to bring so new ones for you."
Taking the herbs together with the ring to the other room, Honor shortly ca back with so new herbs in where the ring of spatial storage was hidden together with a small piece of paper.
"Thanks for the herbs..." Hiding the ring into his sleeves, Kayn picked up the herb and left the store with Marcus and Anna.
The mont they left the store, everyone who was standing around the area looked at them for a mont.
"Tch, they really went in for so stupid herbs..." The man of before grumbled to himself.
Distancing themselves with each second, Marcus soon turned to Anna and Kayn with a confused look.
"Since when did the grandma from the bakery beco ill and why doesn´t I know of anything of it?" Marcus asked cornered.
"Idiot."
"Idiot"
"Huh? Why are you guys suddenly calling that..."
"We will tell you once we reached the chu-" Before Danzel was able to finish, from the corner leading to a dark passageway ca a cold voice.
"Hey you guys"
"!!!"
Suprised from the voice, they made a step back and looked in the direction of the passage with wary.
The man as if blending with the shadows of the dark passageway and only the silhouette could be seen asked with a softer tone.
"Ah, please. There is nothing to be warry about. I just heard about your guy's ill grandma and couldn´t help but feel concerned."
Looking at the kids who were staring in his direction ready for a fight a small smile ford in his mouth.
"I really an it, seeing you guys with rags on and dicine by itself being expensive. I thought I could pay for your dicine, even if you already got it..."
"...Why would you want to help us?" Kayn said with a harsh voice.
Kayn imminently doubted the man's goodwill without a second thought.
"Well...consider it a donati- or rather the goodwill of soone who got more wealth than he could spend on. If you don´t trust I can just give you the coins right now, just tell the side effects that your grandma is having and I will provide you with enough coins to get the best possible dicine by yourselves..."
Kayn who was about to refuse his offer saw the look in Annas' eyes that ntioned accepting.
`Right, if that man is like the other one watching us, then for kids like us refusing free money would look just more suspicious.
"Our grandma recently got so high fever..." Kayn said loud enough for the man to hear.
"Hmm...fever you say? That´s too bad to hear. Here, catch that..."
Throwing a shining gold coin towards Kayn, the man said.
"With that, you guys can probably buy whatever you want, be it dicine or whatever you want..."
Catching the gold coin, Kayn looked at the dark passageway with a frown before him and the other two took another way towards the church.
Seeing the trio left, the man hiding in the shadows with two dark gauntlets scoffed.
"Since when do herbs used to help with diarrhea cure fever..."
Cleaning the blood that stained his dark gauntlets the man disappeared into the shadows.
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