Chapter 358 "Gifted"
"Where are the people... Where are the people... Where did they go..."
On the street, Eula and her group were so anxious that they were sweating profusely... Well, this is just an exaggerated modifier.
But not being able to find Funina is indeed a very serious...problem?
When they reached the corner of the crossroads, Eula saw Funina tasting a small cake.
"..." Eula came to the door of the cake shop with a frown on her face, looking straight at Funina.
It's confirmed. There are three little creatures with unpredictable strength floating around, and their attire and appearance...
"Huh..." After taking a deep breath, Eula patted her cheeks and shouted to Funina with a smile:
"Funina, is that you?"
"Ah?" Funina, who was eating a cake, raised her head in confusion and looked at Eula.
gudu~
After swallowing the cake in her mouth, Furninna waved towards Eula.
"It's you, Eula. Do you want to come and taste it? The small cakes here in the Northern Territory are also delicious~"
"...Funina, why are you here? We were just looking for you."
Although he really wanted to question Funina for abandoning the guide and running around, causing the entire city to be under martial law, he was worried that the way he spoke would be heard by someone with ulterior motives.
So after much thought, Eula could only ask Finina in a roundabout way why she appeared in this place.
"Hmm..." Finina tilted her head and pointed at the small cake on the table with the spoon in her hand. "I just smelled a delicious aroma. Based on my rich experience, there must be a very delicious cake here."
“So I followed the smell and came here.”
He took a few steps back and silently looked up at the store.
Jones Cake Shop
It's our family's property...
Eula looked at Jones who seemed a little bewildered.
"Jones Lawrence is a branch of the Lawrence family and the offspring of Uncle Six. He is not taken seriously by the Lawrence family, and he himself has not been recognized by any gods or supernatural beings."
"Just a normal guy."
"I once trained as a trainee knight in the Knights of the Four Winds for three years, but was eliminated in the first round of the trainee knight competition. I left the Knights of the Four Winds in shame."
"After leaving the Knights, he wanted to study medicine, so he taught himself the medical skills from the Eastern Region. After three months of study, he was full of confidence and decided to research new prescriptions on his own. However, after compiling the prescription, he took it himself and almost died of poisoning."
"Three months after his recovery, he had a new idea. He wanted to learn alchemy, and he almost took the alchemy workshop with him..."
"For this, he owes the Alchemist Association a full 100 gold coins, and he is now paying off the debt through work..."
"According to the family, Jones is profiting by selling small cakes at a slightly higher price than the market price in order to pay off his debts."
With a flash in her eyes, Eula recognized Jones's identity at a glance and recalled information about the other party's past.
Ok……
Eula discovered that her distant cousin seemed to have some "gifts".
However, when she thought of the following content, a sharp look flashed in her eyes.
"Selling small cakes at high prices... is already another form of price gouging." Thinking this in her mind, Eula looked at Jones with a gradually unfriendly look.
"Um...Sister Eula..." Jones felt a little uneasy when he was looked at by Eula, and the smile on his face was extremely forced.
This elder sister of my clan is not a good person...
"Are you here to see this beautiful lady?" Jones took a deep breath and moved aside, presenting Funina behind him to Eula.
"Yeah..." Eula's smile was full of meaning.
Seeing this subtle smile, Jones' body trembled slightly, his clever brain began to work in overload, and some white mist faintly emerged from his head.
What to do? What to do? What to do……
What on earth is the reason... Wait! I understand!
Recalling that the first thing Eula saw when she came here was to look for the wealthy young lady she was entertaining today, and then thinking back to her past...
At this moment, Jones felt as if he was helped by God!
"Sister Eula, I have nothing to do with this beautiful lady, and I have never done anything excessive!"
Jones said this with a serious look on his face, afraid that it would be too late or Eula would draw out her two-meter-long sword and chop him to death with one blow!
"Oh?" With her eyes slightly narrowed, Eula felt her hands stirring.
Oops! I got the wrong answer!
Jones felt like he was going to die.
She reached out her slender hand, grabbed Jones by the collar, and pulled him to a place where Furninna couldn't see him.
"Sister You...Sister Youla..." The expression on Jones' face was extremely reluctant. He stretched out his hand and held down Youla's other hand, fearing that the fist that looked weak and powerless but could actually kill a monster with one punch would fall on him.
"Let go!" Eula said coldly.
“Don’t let go!” Jones, thinking about his own life, exerted a will and strength beyond his past. “If I let go, you will definitely beat me to death!”
"…Why should I beat you to death?" Eula frowned.
"Sister Eula, why did you bring me here when you are so aggressive?" Jones' voice was a little louder than before, but when he realized that his voice was a little too loud, he immediately began to beg for mercy in a low voice.
"Sister Eula, I really didn't do anything. I really don't know that young lady, and I didn't cheat her of her money. All the cakes were sold at the standard market price."
"I am still young and cannot die. I still have a debt of seventy gold coins to pay off. I also have an eighty-year-old grandmother above me and a three-year-old child below me..."
"Okay!" Eula interrupted Jones' nonsense. She let go, took a few steps back, and looked Jones up and down.
"...Sister Eula?" Jones, frightened by Eula's gaze, spoke in a trembling voice.
"Are you sure you didn't take advantage of that young lady's ignorance of the ways of the world and deliberately sell the cake at a high price?" Eula asked with a serious expression.
"No, no..." Jones shook his head frantically. "I saw that young lady buy a grass cake with five gold coins. I thought it was a big problem, so I immediately started to give change."
"The young lady just now bought all the small cakes currently on the shelves of Jones Cake Shop."
"I was just calculating the corresponding total price..."
“Then you’ll know.”