Chapter 120: Helping Those In Need

"Miss!? Miss, wait for me!" Yuyu was still in her daze, trying to figure out what was going on with her miss when her miss suddenly took off running after only saying a few words. 

As for the man, Beauty was off chasing. He stood in front of the village lord's house and took a deep breath. "Hopefully, I will not get any more weird quests with crazy demons." 

The man Beauty had fallen in love with at first sight was none other than Ryu. Ryu walked up to the front door of the village lord and knocked on it. Because of his past experience in Roland Village, he hoped nothing strange was going to happen this time.

"Doors open. Come on in."  A voice came from the other side of the door.

Ryu let out a sigh of relief as he opened the door and walked inside. As he entered the house, Beauty came to a skidding stop just outside. She bent over and tried to catch her breath. She, who was usually a homebody who spent all day in her lab, was not someone who ran around. And today, she had run like her life depended on it all because of a guy she had yet to even speak to. 

"Miss! You can't run off like that!!" Yuyu yelled out. Unlike her miss, Yuyu was only slightly tired after running as fast as she could trying to catch up to Beauty.

"Why are you so slow!? Quickly hurry up and think of a reason for me to talk to the man when he comes out." Beauty yelled as she smacked Yuyu on the top of her head. 

"Right!" Yuyu rubbed her head. She was quite surprised by the realism of this game, she could even feel a small bump forming. She tried to quickly think of an idea, but only old fashion cliche thoughts came to mind. When she snuck a peek at her Miss she, she saw that her miss was getting impatient, she could only try one of her cliche ideas. "Miss then, how about accidentally bumping into him? This way, it will seem like an accident and give you a chance to speak to him."

"This… This is not a bad idea! Maybe hitting you on the head actually fixed your brain deficiency. Good! We will go with that. Quickly let's go hide!" Beauty took Yuyu's hand and walked a little ways away from the house in order to be ready for when the man came out.

Inside the village lord's home Ryu sat on a couch when a bunch of properties laid out in front of him. "You can pick as many as you want. As you may have seen, this village has quite a few empty shops as well."

"Wait, I can buy a shop as well?" Ryu asked.

"Yes, you can. You can buy shops and houses here as many as you want. Normally when someone is buying a guild hall for a town, it is restricted to 1 lot, but with the current situation of the town and how low the money intake is for civilians,  the taxes are not able to fully take care of things. If I were to raise taxes, it would cause a burden on the people who live here. So I am unable to do that. While I say you can buy as many as you want, I will need to limit you to five shops and five plots of land." The village lord explained. His old face looked very tired as he spoke.  "As I am saying all of this, I never thought to ask if you even had enough money to buy more than one property. Excuse me for getting ahead of myself."

"No, it's fine. As these places are cheap, I will not have any issues buying up five shops and five properties. In fact, that will be good for me since I plan to set up many divisions for my guild at some point. This will help me with some of my future plans." Ryu did plan to make a few different divisions for his guild, from crafting to raiding. Having different guild houses with crafting rooms specific to the trade skill would make things much easier when helping out the new guild trade skillers.

"Oh! Bless you! To think the goddesses and gods would be shining down on me today. Please pick any of the places here." VIllage Lord was very happy. Just by getting a few bits of gold would lift some of the burdens on fixing up the town. While it looked amazing to the eye, there were many places that were lacking and needed repairing.

Ryu looked at the properties and shops.  He found three shops right in the center of town and two near the main entrance. He quickly pulled these five shops out. As for the houses, he picked the biggest properties there. The location did not matter for these. "I will take these ten. It should be around two platinum, right?"

"Yes, yes, two platinum… Huh?" The village lord's eyes almost bulged out of his head as he stared at Ryu in disbelief. "Young man, you are not reading the prices right! The whole lot of them are only worth four gold max!"

"No, no, I say they are worth three platinum, so they are worth three platinum. " Ryu liked the old man's honesty which made him want to help him out even more. He slapped the three platinum coins on the table and pushed them to the old man. "Just think of it as me donating to the village, I will be setting up shop in." 

Seeing Ryu smile at him with such a sincere expression on his face, the village lord could only lower his head and try to suck back his tears. He never felt this blessed before. These three platinum alone was almost fifty years' worth of taxes. This money would allow the village to last for many, many years without worry. "Young man I will never forget your generosity for as long as the old bones are alive."