NOVGO.NET Chapter 1684 1684: New Party Member
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“Yeah, with the money we got, we could probably buy a lot of phones and sell them to Khione…” I said. “Or… Potential Cubes too… Well, whatever the case, I had to agree to a deal with Daddy Sardine.”
“D-Daddy Sardine?” Mark asked. “That’s the name of the cat you met?”
“Yeah!” I nodded. “We’ll have a new friend here until we leave Avalon, here.”
“Nyaeh, let’s let bygones be bygones and work together for business,” Kajithe extended his paw, shaking Mark’s hand.
“Huh?!” Mark looked back at me. “He’s coming with us?!”
“Yeah… I had to agree to that to get these precious items,” I nodded. “Sorry… but he’s not that bad, and Daddy Sardine said that the Threads of Fortune favored him or something… It was weird, like he knew about us before we got to him.”
“That’s impossible. The only one that can see the future is Queen Khione!” Frosty said angrily.
“It’s a little different with Daddy Sardine, nyeeh…” Kajithe said. “His power is all about seeing Fortune. Glowing spots of Fortune mean something good or lucky will happen, and even people can be imbued with great Fortune, which he can spot and connect to a ‘lucky outcome,’ though it seems really confusing, meow.”
“Weird…” Mark said. “But… I guess you’re welcome to the group then? If Elayne trusts you…”
“I mean, he did bring me here where I was able to secure some top-tier materials,” I said. “So it’s definitely good!”
“Alright then, shall we regroup with everyone else?” Mark asked. “We’ll have to tell them about our new traveling companion here.”
“Nyeeeh… We did start off on the wrong foot with quite a few… I do hope they don’t get too mad…” Kajithe said, acting a little shy.
“It’s alright,” I said. “So what do you bring to the table in terms of fighting?”
“I am not as defenseless as you think… I am well versed in some magic,” he said. “I also have my own mount, a strong Spirit Beast you’ll see later! I wouldn’t travel around this Realm if I wasn’t decently confident I could survive the wilderness, right, nyeh?”
“I guess so~!” I giggled. “It’s nice to have a cat, though… You’re fluffy.”
I patted his head as he looked at me with an angry, grumpy cat expression.
“Don’t pet me! I am not a common cat, you know?!” he hissed at me, almost slashing my hand with his claws, if it wasn’t because he didn’t. I was pretty tough, after all.
“Hahah, sorry, sorry~” I laughed. “Mark, you should try petting him.”
“What? He clearly disliked it…” Mark said.
“Don’t pet me!” Kajithe kept crying. “R-Respect me as a person, I’m not a house cat…”
“Sorry,” I apologized again. “Anyway, are you hungry, Kajithe? We could go eat something somewhere. Do you know of a great place?”
“Hmm, I do know of a few good restaurants around this block,” he said. “Some are more expensive than others. What’s your current budget?”
“Around 250 big spirit coins,” I explained.
“Good enough, I suppose, nyah,” he said. “We could go to the expensive ones. Your group is huge, right? Get ready to spend at least five big coins then.”
“That’s alright,” I nodded. “Let’s go regroup with everyone else then!”
I sent a Spiritual Message to everyone, trying out my Spiritual Telepathy, and it didn’t take long for everyone to walk to the entrance and find us.
“Ah, Elayne, did you call?” Rita asked. “I had no idea you could do that…”
“Yeah,” I nodded. “It’s a good way to communicate with everyone and know where you are. Did you buy anything?”
“We got some stuff,” Elena said, showing me a glowing green knife. “Some Spirit Weapons.”
“They said that by using Spirit Power, we can strengthen them and unleash their power,” Elisa said. “So we naturally bought a few to test!”
They had been saving their own coins so far, so they were able to buy whatever they wanted. I don’t know how big their savings are, though.
“I mostly bought more food,” Rita said. “They were selling some wine too, and I wanted to try it out… Can you store it for now, Elayne?”
“Sure,” I nodded as I grabbed the wine and stored it. She had bought three bottles. “Alright, so I was thinking about going to eat something before we depart. Kajithe here is… Ah, right, I should explain why he’s here with me.”
I told everyone about the deal with “Daddy Sardine” and Kajithe joining our journey… I was met with unexpected joy from the young girls and mostly indifference from the adults… they really didn’t mind him.
“Well, this is a surprise. I thought you wouldn’t want me around, nya…” Kajithe said.
“It’s fine. We’re already a big and quite diverse party. We’ve got all kinds of people,” Katherine smiled at him. “It’ll be nice to have you around! I have rarely had the opportunity to know Cat Siths better. I’m honestly curious about your culture and everything.”
“Hmph, is that so, nya?” Kajithe raised an eyebrow. “Well… whatever the case, let’s go eat! I’m starving, nya! And once we’re done… you… you’re really going to fight all those Ice Trolls on your own?”
“Yeah,” I nodded. “Didn’t I show you the corpses?”
“What corpses—NYA?!”
Kajithe gasped in disbelief as he saw a pile of a few dozen Ice Troll corpses that I retrieved from my Inventory. He was completely flabbergasted by them.
“As you can see, we’ve hunted down a whole camp. We’re targeting another at the mountain’s foot, then going to the one inside the mountain,” I said. “That’s our plan. Nothing too complicated.”
“Nyaahhh… you’re a little too crazy, honestly,” he sighed. “But this is what Daddy Sardine wanted… so I must obey.”
He didn’t look all that convinced, but, well, that’s how things will be!
Let’s go eat, then I’ll use these new materials, and then it’s time to subjugate all these Ice Trolls once and for all.
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