Chapter 61: Preparations: Taking Responsibility for Shopping

A few minutes later, Keith walked out of the room with his thoughts occupied.'If things go well, then I'll request a second awakening for Amelia, but if it doesn't, then I guess I'll pick Brandon as he too has potential. His stone skin might get upgraded so much that it might have the potential to negate almost all damage. If I copy this, then it won't really be a loss.'

He walked back to the main hall of the church and saw Brandon waiting for him near the main door.

"Why are you here?" Keith inquired as he walked towards him.

Brandon sighed, "Well, we're not allowed to sleep in the church apparently. We'll be taken to a forest and the whole training program will be conducted there, so the others have gone out to buy some essentials."

"Is that so... can't we just stay in an inn until the program starts?"

"I suggested that too, but Edward wants us to practice from the get go. Better to be prepared or whatever... Anyways, let's go."

Keith nodded in response and was just about to follow Brandon when he remembered something important, "Wait, I forgot to exchange my money."

"Well, you can just exchange it here. Go through that door right here and walk along the corridor until you reach a door that has the word Treasury written on it. You'll be able to exchange it there." Brandon said as he pointed at the wall on the right, the one that was closest to the main door.

Keith thanked him and went straight to the door as he ignored the two other doors that were on the same side of the main hall, but were further away from the main door. He followed the instructions and managed to find the room.

He pushed the door open and saw a middle aged nun sitting on a chair while she was busy knitting.

"Excuse me, I'm here to exchange some of the Kazak Empire's currency to Baroms."

Without even looking up at him, she said, "Place the money you wish to exchange on the table."

Keith silently picked a few Zen notes from his leather pouch and counted them before putting them on the table.

The Nun stopped Knitting and took the thin stack of notes before counting them.

"Twenty Zen, that'll be four hundred Baroms." she said and put the 20 Zen notes into a wooden box before taking out four stacks of green notes.

Keith took the money and stuffed it into his blazer's pocket before leaving the room.

Baroma Kingdom only had one kind of currency denomination and that was the Barom notes. Each one's value was the same as one Brak of Kazak Empire.

Keith felt nostalgia when he saw these notes as they reminded him of his previous life. Just one currency that everyone used and was a simple way of doing things compared to having three different currency types like the other two kingdoms. Searᴄh the ηovelFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

He got back to Brandon and followed him to the market until he met the girls who were busy shopping for clothes instead of buying the stuff that actually had to be bought.

"You two... were you guys just wasting time?" Brandon frowned as he looked at the two of them, but Amelia shrugged, "We were waiting for you two. I didn't want to buy something only to get reprimanded by you for not buying something better. Since you're the leader of the team, we thought that it'll be better for you to make the important decisions for the team."

"You just want to dump all the work on me!" Brandon complained before turning to look at Keith, "Well then, you'll be our treasurer for the day. Keep an eye on the money that we have and stop us if you think that we're spending too much."

Saying that, he shifted his attention to Clara and Amelia, "You two, give him your money. Each person has to contribute one month's worth of their salary."

He then took the lead to hand over his quota, which was a total of 240 Baroms as Brandon's weekly salary was 3 Zens, which translated to 60 Baroms or Braks a week.

Following his example, Clara and Amelia gave out 280 and 140 respectively. Keith calculated the amount he had to pay in his mind and took out two stacks of 100 Barom notes. Read new chapters at M-V-L

He placed one stack on the pile of notes given by others and handed it to Brandon, "Hold it for a bit while I count."

It took him a few seconds, but once he was done, he put 40 notes back in his pocket and put 60 on the pile, bringing up the total to 820 Baroms.

Once done, he took all the money back from brandon and divided it into two parts before putting each stack into each one of his pant pockets.

As for his personal money, which was a total of 240, he had it all hidden in his blazer's inner pocket.

"We have a budget of 820 Baroms... isn't that an overkill?" Keith asked, feeling slightly hesitant to throw away so much money just to buy a few things.

Amelia sighed, "Well, we'll be getting double of our salaries for the next two months and Edward stressed a lot about not sparing any money on preparations. He basically told us to buy anything that might help us out in the forest."

"Welp, I'll keep track of money and leave the buying to you guys." he said, deciding to take a laid back approach to this.

"Yeah, leave the buying to Brandon so we can blame him when things go wrong. Heh." she said, smirking evilly as she looked at Brandon who patted Keith's back as he shook his head, "When you have subordinates like her, it doesn't matter how many good things you buy. All of them are bound to turn out useless."

Sensing another potentially long argument between the two, Keith decided to change his approach and took things into his own hands.

"Let's go, I'll do the buying. But just in case there's something you guys want me to know, don't hesitate to speak out. I'm not really too knowledgeable about camping and stuff."