Chapter 56 - 1: Yug

"Where am I?" Says Haruto lying on a wooden bed in a fairly simple room with only a table and stool.

At the same time the door opened and an old man wearing a purple pointed hat came and sat on the stool mentioned earlier.

"I guess you're the one who helped me, I'm grateful."

But the old man took a grave expression as if an impending disaster was about to happen, completely ignoring the words spoken by Haruto.

"Young man, I have a question to ask you, be honest with me." Says the old man.

Haruto, seeing the man's serious expression, couldn't help but nod his head, he thought that the old lady was going to ask him for the fall from the sky, but the question of the old man's question almost smothered him.

"Do you have any money, you know it's hard for a poor old man like me to take care of a big, strong young man like you."

Then in front of Haruto's astonished eyes the old man took an abacus out of his pocket and started counting.

"Three days' accommodation in my house, 30,000J, use of my bed, 20,000J, dressing for your wounds, 50,000J, charges for my services, 100,000J, pillow, 10,000J, sheets, 15,000J, so a total of 225,000J."

"And let's not forget your gratitude to your saviour, you should thank me with at least 250.000J!"

Seeing the smile on the face of the old man, Haruto could not help but be speechless, in the web novels of his passing life, when the hero was seriously injured, he was always saving by an adorable loli or a beautiful young woman, or sometimes even a loli and a beautiful young woman, but he was not only saved by an old man but also a shameless old man.

"I'm sorry, but I don't have any money."

Hearing this, the smile on the old man's face suddenly hardened, he approached Haruro's face with a look full of resentment and anger.

"What do you mean you don't have any money!"

Haruto suddenly felt like slicing the old man in front of him into a thousand pieces, but he finally held back.

"I really don't have any money."

The old man then stood up from the stool and had a thoughtful facial expression for a moment before sighing.

"Then you'll work for me until your debt is paid off, wake up early tomorrow."

Then he old man left the room, leaving Haruto alone.

Haruto got up and sat on the bed and looked at his limbs for a moment.

"My limbs are intact, but I can no longer feel them, although I can make fairly simple movements."

Then he moved his feet and left arm with difficulty for a while.

"But what were those chains, perhaps some sort of protective mechanism to prevent passage from one world to another."

Then he thought for a moment before closing his eyes, but a few moments later he opened his eyes with surprise.

"What is this energy, it does not resemble the chakra, nor the physical energy, but it is just as powerful.

But unfortunately he did not know the method of absorption of this energy, so he was content to accelerate the healing of his wounds due to his crash with his aura.

. . . . . .

In a workshop full of vials and test tubes with several strange substances arranged on several shelves, Haruto meticulously swept the floor while Yug (the old man) sat on a chair writing on a parchment before mixing several substances.

*Boom*

But soon the substances mixed by Yug exploded.

"* * cough* * cough* Haruto's coming to clean up! Or I'll cut your salary!"

"You don't pay me, you old skinflint!"

Haruto with a lazy expression then came to sweep up the debris from the explosion.

Yug with hair blackened by the explosion then took an indignant look.

"Who feeds you, clothes you, takes care of you since you were a child, you ungrateful child!"

"You never fed me or clothed me, you only gave me an old dress that was lying around in your cupboard, and what a childhood I've only worked for you for about a week, and what about the magic you promised to teach me?"

Yug then had a slightly embarrassed expression and opened a drawer and showed three scrolls to Haruto.

"Well here's three ultimate magics, you can make your choice and let no one say the great alchemist Yug mistreats his employees." Says Yug with a vain expression like a rich man giving alms to a beggar.

Haruto with a cheerful face took the scrolls and after reading them for a short time had a sudden urge to strangle Yug.

"Elemental Gardening Magic Level E, Plant Vitality."

"Fire magic level E, light a candle."

"Vibrational magic level E, vibrator massager."