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Chapter 93 - The Two Sisters 1. Two Encounters

That morning, Yuri was handed what Adon said were the proceeds from the sale of his "goods," the Gambit Grizzly bones and gall bladder. It was an unexpectedly large sum of money. Yuri, who hadn't even finished spending the money from the Greed Wolf materials, was now faced with the problem of how to spend this windfall. In the end, he decided to follow Dona's advice that "money is for spending when you need to," and bought various things his village lacked. The last time he went shopping, he had been mostly dragged around by Dona, so he hadn’t had time to look at the things he wanted to buy. So this time, he would look around for things he wanted from start to finish. After declaring this, he asked Old Man Audel and Dona to accompany him, and they readily agreed.

"So, Yuri-kun, what is it you want to look at?"

"Well, we’re short on things like knives and pots, and also thread and cloth, and maybe some crops we could grow."

"...That's not really what a twelve-year-old boy wants, is it?"

"But it's true that we’d be in trouble without them..."

"Well, it would be strange for us to criticize what you want, Yuri-kun. Go ahead and buy whatever you like. It's the money you earned."

And so, they went around looking at miscellaneous goods and clothing. After buying various things that caught his eye, he finally headed to the place that handled fresh food. He had heard that these were sold in a separate section on the north side of Laurenzen, commonly known as the North Market. When the three of them arrived at a section selling fresh produce...

"...I wonder what that child is trying to sell?"

Dona looked suspiciously at a pair of sisters, who were probably younger than Yuri. They seemed to be trying desperately to sell something in a bag, but everyone they spoke to shooed them away brusquely and irritably.

"...What could be so unpopular?"

"Well now... it certainly piques my curiosity."

As the three of them casually approached while talking, the older-looking girl called out to them with a pleading look in her eyes.

"Um... please, just take a look. It’s delicious. It’s not poison or anything."

"Delicious" and "not poison." For Yuri, it was a combination that greatly intrigued him, but the other two, who had seen the crop in question a moment earlier, had grim faces.

"Ah..."

"Poison potatoes... You can’t sell those."

"That's not true! It’s not poison!"

Yuri, his curiosity piqued, peeked inside, and there he saw...



(Wow... it’s a potato... I have to buy this...)

Seeing a potato for the first time in this world, Yuri’s excitement shot through the roof. French fries, potato chips, nikujaga, buttered potatoes... He remembered the flavors of his favorite foods from his past life, which he had been without since his reincarnation, and his mouth began to water.

"How much are you selling that for?"

"Yuri-kun!?"

"Yuri-kun... I hate to say it, but this has poison in it..."

""It's not poison," you know?"

The voices of the girl and Yuri overlapped.

He instinctively exchanged glances with the girl, and was about to explain to Dona and Old Man Audel when...

"Sena!"

The girl’s scream made him turn around, and he saw a young girl who had collapsed weakly.

"Hey!? What happened!?"

"Sena! Sena! Stay with me!"

"Big sister..."

Perhaps due to his experience of being hospitalized in his previous life, Yuri quickly recognized it as a hypoglycemic collapse. He immediately took out a self-made potion from his pocket, one formulated for nutritional supplementation, and handed it to the older sister... two of them.

"Give this to her right away. You drink one."

"Uh, um... this is."

"It’s a potion, so don’t worry. More importantly, hurry!"

Urged on by Yuri, the older sister hurriedly put the potion bottle, a rugged earthenware pot made with earth magic, to her sister’s lips. She didn't seem to have the strength to swallow properly, but the potion that managed to enter her mouth seemed to take effect. She fell into an exhausted sleep, but unlike before, her breathing was steady. After confirming this, Yuri urged the older girl to drink her potion as well, then picked up the sleeping younger sister and prompted Dona and Old Man Audel.

"Well then, shall we head back?"

"Uh, um... Yuri-kun, those children..."

"I’m taking them with us. We can’t just leave them here, can we?"

"W, well, that’s true, but..."

Right now, they were also guests. They couldn't just do as they pleased without consulting their host, Adon... As Dona hesitated, Yuri spoke.

"It’s alright. This is a business deal. If Adon-san is a sharp merchant, he’ll definitely take it."