DAY 20: MORNING — THE LADY FINGER BOUDOIR
DAY 20
MORNING
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THE LADY FINGER BOUDOIR
WITH THE CASH I’d earned, I went back to the inn to pay for my room.
“Here you go, Flyers Girl,” I declared, handing it over.
“Ooh, thank you, honored guest!”
I was rich—a millionaire! I’d expected to get 25,000 ele or so, but I walked out with a cool 1.6 million in my bag.
The first night plus one meal was 4500 ele, and subsequent nights had a 300 ele discount. Most meals cost between 500 and 1500 ele, while using the public bath cost another 1000 ele.
Should I become a regular patron of this place? I felt like I could live here, not that I wanted to be associated with a place called “The Lady Finger Boudoir.” I smirked at the thought.
“Haruka-kun?” the Class Rep asked. “Uh…how’d you get all that money? Yesterday you were completely broke. I even needed to lend you money yesterday, so why do you look so smug today?! Why do your finances keep seesawing so wildly?!”
“What? How could you possibly go from having 8 million ele to nothing, then back to 1.6 million ele overnight?!” the others shouted.
The Class Rep confiscated all my money from me. Diabolic, fiendish treachery! This is the tyranny of a prudent mother! The Class Rep told me that she wouldn’t allow me to carry more than 50,000 ele at a time.
It’s true that I didn’t need weapons. But I needed medicine, food, and daily necessities! Maybe there was some good stuff at the general store? I knew the location of a good general store thanks to the guild. 50,000 ele was hardly enough for another shopping spree. I don’t have a spending problem!
Vice Rep B came back and heard what happened.
“You got your money confiscated?” She shook her head, though that wasn’t the shaking I noticed. “What a bummer. You were in the middle of planning another shopping trip too, weren’t you?”
The shaking and swaying was such a distraction that I was afraid those endowments would be declared contraband and confiscated as well… Impossible, there’s too much to confiscate!
“Haruka-kun, thanks for worrying about the rest of us, but you should focus on how you handle your own money,” said Vice Rep A. “We’re all worried about you.”
Fortunately, as an A, there wasn’t enough to bother confiscating.
“She took my money too, Haruka-kun!” chimed in Vice Rep C. “She said I didn’t need another dress…and I only fit into stuff from the kids’ section, anyway.”
Vice Rep C had absolutely nothing to confiscate. Should I start referring to them by size? Vice Reps A, AA, and E…or possibly F…even G? Uh, don’t mind me.
Enemy Tracking snapped me from my reverie and alerted me to two…no, three enemies! Were assassins targeting me? This world is filled with menace.