The Fake Princess's Soul Contract Duke

Chapter 27: The Expensive Sword

In front of a cashier's desk, with the gun salesman's father as a witness, Alianora stood firmly while staring at something. Both hands he valves in front of the chest, hiding a bag containing the remains of jewelry as well as money that is 10,000 soles, as if afraid that someone will take it from him.

Behind her Mary just stood stiffly while following Alianora's gaze. He had not even said a word, until sometimes if Alianora was too focused, she forgot that Mary was waiting for him like air.

By then the day had started to get hot, some of the gun shop visitors had mostly left the store to find lunch first. It's a good opportunity for Alianora to do this.

His silver bead twitched, up and down, toward a shiny sword on the table and also toward his pouch. His pink little lips were slightly muttering, like muttering some random numbers that could not be guessed by the people around him.

The salesman, a burly but short middle-aged man, stroked his thick beard around his face.

"Ehem, so miss, would you like to add or not?"

Alianora looked towards the man, then returned towards the sword before her. With all his heart he stared at the sword like his eyes would be dislodged, not forgetting the sweat that flowed on his forehead.

Okay, this should be enough.

After a moment of silence, Alianora finally opened her voice.

"I'm adding another 500 soles."

"Alright, the price is raised to 9000 soles."

The man knocked on the table three times with a grin that he looked like he really could not hide anymore. Naturally, in order to sell his wares at double the price he should, he really felt like he had earned money from a god.

On the other hand, Alianora felt that her wallet was going to expire. Apparently, his plan to sell all his jewelry was no longer avoidable. Never mind, he also did not need much jewelry, the most important thing now was that he needed and for him, having this expensive sword was certainly useful. Useful for satisfying her feelings, hm?

Unfortunately, however, Alianora's mind was again disturbed by the twang of coins on the table next to her. The clink was not just one or two, the slingshot streak was like a rain of coins. Alianora, has an ugly feeling about this.

Instantly, Alianora turned to her side to meet the person she cursed the most, the one who made her just drain the contents of her wallet.

He was none other than the brat he met on his baptismal day.

How could Alianora not be irritated, were it not for this one brat, she might not have thought of spending that 10,000 soles of money to play sword bargaining.

All because of that damn kid.

Flashbacks.

"What are you going to do now, princess?"

The boy looked at Alianora with a straight look, but because of the slight mocking smile on his face it gave Alianora the impression that the boy was playing tricks on her. It made Alianora rise in blood.

"What am I gonna do? I thought you knew enough by now who you were talking to."

alianora said with a calm but piercing tone. His eyes on the boy turned sharp and cold.

Alianora could see how the boy's eyes widened a bit in a split second, when Alianora finished speaking. It made Alianora satisfied.

"Your disrespectful behavior at the christening yesterday will be tolerated, because I feel you've managed to prevent me from making a mistake. But this time, if you dare to stand in my way again then look at it later."

He did not know which family this brat was from, but he was sure that this brat must have come from an ordinary noble family, ever since Alianora had memorized the names and faces of those upper-class noble children who were the same age as her. If his guess was correct, with an ordinary bluff like this alone, it should make this brat scared to death.

Alianora smiled too quickly.

Other than staring at Alianora in silence, the boy did not do what Alianora thought he would do. Instead, the boy kept staring at him. Not just a flat gaze, but something different, maybe 'pity'?

"If you don't want to already. This sword is mine."

he said indifferently.

From behind Mary intercepted the boy.

"Hey you! Didn't you hear my non? Ignoring my non-me talk is tantamount to insulting the Duke Sheridan Family. You'll be punished for that."

"Punished? What can you do to me?"

Although her tone of voice seemed to ask, but from the look of those dark blue eyes, Alianora knew that the boy already knew. He already knew that Alianora would not be able to do anything to him with her status that was only a stepson.

'Shit! Cursed is the mouth that has leaked my condition in the Sheridan Family!'

"I'll...."

"Hm?"

'You're gonna what's Alianora? Hit this kid? There I will only be locked up by Kalisto. Or maybe they were sent to a monastery. No. can't be that one. Ah, forget it!

"Argh! Yes, all right! I just have to do something to get that sword from you, right?"

The boy smiled back.

"Hn, whatever it is as long as you can."

Alianora immediately thought quickly. In fact he had two ideas, the first and the most he wanted to do was, forcefully snatch the sword from the boy's hand, he said, but when he found the atmosphere of shops and streets outside was still very crowded, Alianora undoes his intentions. He couldn't possibly do that in this crowded atmosphere, which would only cause chaos, and Alianora didn't want to be stamped again as a troublemaker.

Forced, Alianora has no choice but to run her final idea.

Even if it would make him regret.

"Huh, alright, I challenge you to make a bargain, the bet is that sword!"

End Flashback.

Bargain bid this open with the original price of the sword, who can bid at the highest price, then he will get the sword. Actually, it's not that hard as long as Alianora has enough to keep her opponent from twitching, but here's where her regrets lie.

Instead of having a lot of money, in his pocket there were currently only 10,000 soles that he loved, while his opponent this time had even twice bid at twice the price.

Alianora looked at her dried up pouch. Ah, it seemed like he could see his defeat in plain sight.

Next to him, the nameless brat, no more precisely, the boy whom Alianora did not know whose name it was spilling a bag full of gold coins onto the table. The pile of coins was like a mountain of his height, and coupled with the light of the yellow light in the room, the coins were even more glittering like treasure.

The two selling man's eyes in front immediately widened and beamed as he looked at the mountain of money, even Alianora herself could not hold her mouth from gaping.

Although Alianora lived as the duke's daughter, she never even saw that much money before her eyes, not as long as she came back to life as a human.

Damnit damnit! This one kid, how much more does he have?"

the boy said calmly as he looked at the salesman who was trying to hold back his saliva from dripping. When those dark blue eyes looked at Alianora's still foolish face, the boy snorted softly, and his pink lips formed an invisible mocking smile.

Argha! Fucking snot boy!

"The total is du-twelve thousand soles!"

The old man was already going to raise the pile of coins in front of him greedily, because he thought that a poor lady like Alianora who had only bid 500 sols, would not be able to bid more, no more, but the boy intercepted the man, and looked at Alianora.

"Wait, the one party hasn't decided yet."

The man glanced at Alianora in annoyance, but said nothing more.

Now all the attention was on Alianora, and Alianora did not want to linger any longer. Although he didn't want to see his opponent win, but he had already lost by a landslide. Nothing can be done anymore.

"Well you can have it if you want. I've lost my taste."

Alianora put her money bag back into her dress pocket, then glanced at the boy who was still staring at her, "After all, after I look around again, the sword quality is mediocre. Too bad, it was bought for 12,000 soles, huh. Goodby. Come on Mary."

Alianora stepped out of the shop quickly, she could no longer bear to see the victorious face of the snot boy.

Hah, he's really upset! He could have lost to the newborn boy yesterday.

If his finances hadn't been dragged this way, he would have brought home a fine sword and humiliated that one boy.

Huh, really! Cursed be Kalisto and his wife!

After Alianora's figure was no longer visible on the porch of the weapon shop, the blue-eyed boy snorted a little while holding his laughter to prevent it from exploding.

"Pffl...."

He had not expected that he would meet the duke's daughter again for the second time, let alone in a place like this. In addition, the attitude of the princess was getting strange, it made her a little confused, and inexplicably, felt funny at the same time. He's not what the rumors say, if he's stupid, clumsy, shy, and anti-social. Perhaps, he was just a little innocent, the rest of him was not at all the same.

He doesn't think it out.

What makes a clumsy princess to dare to run over a person who intends to humiliate her?

What makes a shy princess speak out loud and confident when dealing with her?

Highlight the sharp and sure eyes of that crystal-like blue silver bead, somehow unable to leave his mind.

By the way, what is that duke's daughter doing in a weapon shop like this?

He had no such answer, what the duke's daughter was thinking, he simply could not guess.

Thalia La Sheridan, Duke Kalisto La Sheridan's adopted daughter. A strange princess.

After a while, the boy fell silent again, the glare of his blue eyes this time glaring straight before him.

However, the rumors about the princess were not entirely wrong either.

Today he looked at himself, if the duke's daughter, it turned out like he often heard. Wasted and forgotten. Not considered.

To get to a crowded public place like this, without any supervision from a personal guard, only carrying a servant, and limited allowance, it was even more miserable.

That's like....

Suddenly, the shop door opened to display a young man no older than 18, dressed in knightly attire, standing idly by. His shiny orange hair was already tangled and messy, some were attached to his forehead due to the overwhelming sweat.

His moss-green eyes looked at the boy in front of him with a look of disbelief.

"Your Majesty! It turns out you're here! Hah, I've been looking for you everywhere, because you suddenly disappeared, but you turned out here, huuu."

After making sure that the shopkeeper was still putting his money together and had not returned, and that there were no other visitors present in the shop, the boy gave the knight an unhappy look.

"Rowen, I told you not to call me that here."

Rowen instantly closed her mut with her palm.

"Pardon Yang Mu-makutku young master Noah, I am disappointed. After that I was so sorry for not going in here first, but I have passed this store twice."

Then, he suddenly recalled something, and his face instantly turned radiant.

"Oh yeah, Yang-Master, you know who I met? I met Miss Thalia La Sheridan right across the street from this store! Ah, finally after that baptism day, I was able to meet him again. She's so cute sir."

Hearing the ramblings of his bodyguards nonstop, Noah only fell silent and frowned slightly, before throwing the sword he had just bought at Rowen.

"Yes already. Take this." Take this."

"Eh...Is this what I mean, sir?"

"You think?"

"Ah, well, I mean, did you buy this?"

Noah sighed, then went out of the store followed by Rowen.

"Be careful, it's expensive."

"Empiringly? How much?"

"12,000 soles."

Rowen scrunched his forehead.

12,000 soles for a sword, expensive?

Then, the magic sword made of red magic ore and the essence of the divine wood rod, which was forged directly by the fairies, what was it including?

"T-mister, is that 12,000 soles for you really expensive."

"Hn, it's more expensive than all the money a duke's daughter has."