CHAPTER 413: STOCKING UP ON FOOD?

"Time to another round of shopping... Yay..."

Once Lillian had finished up her call with Marionette, which lasted for about an hour, she made her way off the boat.

As she did that, she couldn’t help but feel as though Marionette subtly disliked hanging up the phone. But she could be imagining it.

Lillian reached the town and scoured through its stores and markets. She was intending on stocking up on supplies regarding food—canned food—or something edible with a long expiration date.

And for the past dozen minutes, she had already spent over a 100 Semis on food, which was enough to fill up around a quarter of her spatial ring.

She was beginning to run out of space inside her spatial ring.

’Hm... I do have another spatial ring, though...’ Lillian thought to herself as she pulled out the spatial ring that had been used previously to store the chest filled with gold coins before.

And on the topic of gold coins, she was planning to sell them the moment she got back into a city.

Lillian continued to walk down the street of the town and noticed the gazes she garnered. She sighed as she remembered that most of the people here were either pirates or thugs.

’Doesn’t really matter, though... It might be a problem for the others thou—’

"GET THEM!"

Lillian stopped mid-step and watched as a crowd of people rushed through the intersection past her. And they seemed to be chasing a group of people...

A group of people she was familiar with...

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"Drink up, mateys!" Righthook yelled as he raised a mug full of rum. They were now inside a bar, after an hour of shopping.

Viesta looked at the mug in front of her and slightly scooted it to the side. She wasn’t an entirely big fan of being drunk, even if she loved the feeling of adventure.

Nearlo looked down at the mug as well, but then raised it to his mouth before being stopped by his bodyguard. "You aren’t allowed to drink, Master Nearlo."

"Says who?"

As the two argued, Viesta watched as Righthook downed his mug of rum before throwing a subtle gaze around them. And what she found were people seated at their tables with frantic looks in their eyes.

She raised an eyebrow at this. Was there something going on within the bar?

"WHICH ONE OF YOU BASTARDS STOLE MY RING!?"

Viesta flinched as she snapped her gaze towards a man, who had slammed his fist against a table. Then, she watched as people stood up one by one.

"AND WHO STOLE MY GOLD CHAIN!?"

"MY BRACELET IS GONE TOO!"

And soon enough, everyone apart from the barkeep stood up with an enraged look on their face.

She then watched as Righthook slowly stood up as well. At first, she had assumed that something of his had gone missing as well, but that was until he began to slowly make his way out the door with a whistle as a tail grew out of his rear—carrying an assortment of jewellery.

***

"KAHAHA! YOU ALL SHOULD’VE BEEN TIGHT-FISTED!"

Lillian watched as Righthook ran along with the group with a fistful of jewellery. She facepalmed and immediately turned around; she wasn’t going to get involved, considering she wasn’t going to earn anything.

However, after another moment of walking, Lillian suddenly found herself being carried around like a sack of potatoes as Righthook hung her over his shoulder.

"KAHAHA! We gotta go, matey! Our shopping session has come to an end for today!"

Lillian smiled wryly at what she had just heard and sighed. Viesta, who was running behind them, watched as the white-haired girl waved at her with a smile.

Viesta smiled wryly as well and waved back. Lillian found the woman not to be fond of being chased by a crowd due to a certain captain’s actions.

Soon enough, they managed to get back to their boat and immediately set sail before anyone could throw a torch onto their boat and burn it down.

Everyone besides the Captain and Lillian let out rapid breaths as the island got farther and farther away from them.

And once they had reached a kilometre away, Nearlo stepped up and confronted the Captain for his actions.

"What the hell was that!?" Nearlo asked, his hand waving through the air in an annoyed and agitated manner, "You can’t just suddenly start robbing people in the middle of a bar! And what was with that tail?!"

Righthook looked down at him before smirking. He then gave an innocent shrug as he tried to hide the jewellery hidden inside his pockets.

"I have no idea what you are on about, matey. That roudy group was just enraged because of our presence!"

"I know what I saw! Robbing people is wrong on all accounts! We’re going back and returning what you stole—"

"KAHAHA! AS IF!"

As commotion erupted at the stern of the ship, Lillian sat on the edge of the front of the ship as she overlooked the sea.

Since leaving the island, she had not once kept her gaze away from the clouds. She was waiting, waiting for the time to come.

Viesta, who was slowly approaching her from behind, glanced at what Lillian was looking at and smiled, assuming that the girl was appreciating the clouds.

"They look nice don’t they?"

Lillian turned to her and smiled, "They do. Did you need something?"

"Not really... I did want to ask you something, though."

"Oh? What was it?"

Viesta grinned and leaned against the rails of the ship, eyeing Lillian, who raised an eyebrow at the Cowgirl. "How was your chat with your girlfriend~?"

"H-huh?! How did you know I was talking with her?"

"It was incredibly obvious with how fast you were, and you saying that you needed to call someone."

Lillian’s cheeks turned a light shade of pink as she turned slightly to the side. Was she moving that fast? Surely it wasn’t to the point that she looked needy, right?

"The call... Was nice..."

"Eh~? I envy you, Lillian—having someone to love and having them love you back as much or even more, I mean."

Lillian tilted her head, watching as the woman admired the clouds just like she was doing earlier. She then gave a small and warm smile, "I was just lucky that she liked me back... I think you have a good chance at scoring someone just about as good as Marionette, though..."

Viesta took off her hat and nodded slowly, "Thanks... I appreciate it, Lillian."

"No problem! Oh yeah, one more thing, Viesta!"

"Hm?"

"You might wanna get inside~..." Lillian chuckled as she looked down at the screen of her phone.

"Huh? Why? Do you... Want me to get you something?"

Lillian stared silently at the Cowgirl before giving a sly smile and pointing towards the clouds, which had begun to darken slightly.

"It’s about to rain..."

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{To-Do List}

1. Get to Blackridge Town (Completed)

2. Have Viesta finish her weapon and leave (Crossed out)

- Defeat the Alpha Barrel Mole (Completed)

3. Get to Restara’s Port and get the Nail (Completed)

4. Defeat incoming pirates (Completed)

5. Reach the town and gather supplies (Completed)

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6. Survive...