With the deal complete, I felt like a weight had left my shoulders.
I checked one by one and discovered on bag of tomato seeds, one of corn seeds, one with watermelon seeds and the last 2 bags had wheat seeds.
Considering the seeds, I couldn't help but ask:
"Sorry, I was too long in the cave, I lost the sense of time. What's the current date?"
"Eh? Date? Hmm... if I remember right we should be in the middle of the Sun season, but the correct date I'm not sure..."
"Sun season, is it? Ok, thanks."
"No problem."
"So, can we go to the healer now?"
"Hmm, yes, but I think it's better if I go alone."
"??"
"It will take some time to explain to the hunters the deal. If you go now, the situation may go bad..."
"Ok, then what do I do?"
"Wait here for a minute while I call Leticia."
"All right."
As I waited, I start reviewing my actions.
Not bad! Not only the safety of the dungeon had been assured, but I also got a healer to look after Ruyk and got 5 new bags of seeds to plant some new vegetables in my farm.
If I consider only the market price of the seeds versus the market price of the ruby, maybe it was not worth it, but if I consider how hard it is for me to get my hand on those seeds versus how hard is it for me to find rubies, it was quite cheap, after all this mountain seems to be full of gems.
Now, with this new seeds, maybe I can summon some new creatures! I can't wait to go back and try! ^_^
Soon Bia came back bringing another girl with her.
"Mr. Plate, this is Leticia, our village healer."
"Hello Mr. Plate, my name is Leticia, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"The pleasure is mine, Miss Leticia."
"Oh please, just Leticia is enough."
Looking at the two young ladies, I couldn't help but compare them.
Side by side, the two appeared like a pair of sisters. While Bia was on the shorter side, with a height a bit lower than 1.6m, Leticia was close to my height, surely higher than 1.8m. Leticia had a mature aura on her, adding her chignon hair style and glasses, she gave a vibe that was surely older than 20, while Bia had a childish face and movements, small side brands and smile made her appear no older than 16. Honestly I am quite surprised by the difference between Bia's serious mode and the way she was acting now, it's like the one before was two years older and now I'm dealing with her little sister instead. Actually if they were not being called by the same name, I would feel like I was being tricked.
"Well, Mr. Plate, Bia told me you need my help."
"Yes, didn't she explain it all to you?"
"No, she just said you need my help."
I take a glance at Bia, she looks at me and makes a "ops, I messed up" face.
Sigh....
"It's like this..."
I tell her what happened and the deal we made.
"Oh!!!! So you are the 4 meters tall, fire breathing, 8 arms monster who had tentacles for legs and wings of devil and angel on his back!"
"Wha?!? Isn't this even worse than what you told me before?"
"Oh, I may have forgot a few details..."
T_T
"As you can see, while I don't consider myself specially pretty, reality is not that bad."
"Hmm, who knows? We have no idea what kind of face you are hiding inside that helmet."
"Sigh, if that makes you happy, I can show you now... "
Saying that, I took out my helmet.
"But can we please hurry to my home after this? If we keep wasting time and go too late, she will have to sleep there since it's not safe for her to wander around the forest at night."
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"What? Why all the silence? Is it so bad?"
"Maybe staying in your house is not so bad..."
Whaaa!?!?
The two turned around and started whispering to each other, unfortunately my hearing is quite good so I was able to hear everything.
"What are you saying Leticia!? Didn't you love Josh!?"
"But he never answered me, he is always so vague, maybe it's time to change my target to someone else, right?"
"Well, yes, but..."
"What? Did you get interested as well? What about Jack?"
"Eh? No, I..."
My face was already burning, I couldn't take it anymore and stopped them.
"Girl's stop! I can hear everything!"
""Waaahh??""
"Sorry girls, I'm happy with your intentions but I already have a wife."
As if! I just don't want trouble with these two! I feel like if I let this go on, all my hard work will go down the drain! T_T
"Well, we are not the jealous type, maybe you can add a mistress or two?"
O.o
God, what kind of face makes a girl say that!? I'm starting to get curious too.
"No, I'm sorry, it won't work out."
""Oh no...""
They look dejected but I had decided and won't change my mind.
"Anyway, let's go, we don't have all day."
I put back the helmet and with the seeds in my hand, I start heading back to the Dungeon.
The two nod and start following me.
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Why is Bia coming too?