Chapter 108
Chapter 108
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Translator: True Detective
Chapter: 108
Chapter Title: Lavish Spending (2)
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There were a few things Yuri wanted to do before he died.
The moment he finally achieved one of them, his shoulders trembled.
Burrrr.
‘Kuh! To think the day would come when I’d say this!’
Yuri was so moved by his own words that he got emotional all by himself.
Memories from the past flooded his mind vividly.
The village that burned down, and the childhood instant when he lost his home and became a beggar.
From that point on, Yuri had done anything and everything to survive.
He worked tirelessly, so the income never stopped, but no matter how hard he labored, after buying painkillers to numb his suffering, he was left with barely enough to scrape by.
That was why his dream had become to buy things without caring about the price.
Even if they were things he didn’t need.
He had wanted to do it just once before dying, and now that dream had come true.
‘Though it’s not real gold or silver!’
Still, in the Cradle, these points were currency, weren’t they?
This was more than enough to call it fulfilled.
And so, perhaps.
Yuri’s face was filled with happiness.
Meanwhile, there was a sullen gaze fixed on him.
Hooook.
A puff of pure white cigarette smoke billowed out.
“What are you doing?”
Coco asked Yuri that.
Her eyes were full of the meaning: ‘What the hell is this idiot doing?’
It was understandable, though.
He had walked right up and said, ‘Everything from here to here, I’ll take it all.’
Who wouldn’t be baffled by that?
Yuri’s shoulders slumped a bit under Coco’s blunt stare.
“If you look at me like I’m some idiot, even I get a little hurt, you know? I was being serious.”
Coco brushed off the dejected Yuri nonchalantly.
She puffed out smoke from her cigarette and asked.
“First-year? Here for the special sale?”
“That’s right.”
“First time?”
“It’s my first time using the special sale, yeah?”
Coco checked her watch at Yuri’s response and said curtly.
“Not time yet.”
“…Huh?”
“Special sale hasn’t opened yet.”
She showed him her watch as she said it.
There was still a minute left until midnight on February 1st.
Yuri’s face hardened as he looked at it.
“Then those items in the display case…?”
“Those? Just display items. We haven’t even brought out the February special sale stuff yet.”
“……?!”
Yuri’s pupils shook violently.
‘You got too excited!’
He had hurried over, caught up in fulfilling his dream, and missed the timing.
‘Then… what I said earlier…?’
He thought he had achieved one of his life goals.
But this was just swinging at empty air.
Yuri said with a careful face.
“About earlier… can we pretend you didn’t hear that?”
Hooook.
Through the thick puff of smoke, a gaze screaming ‘This guy really is an idiot’ pierced Yuri intensely.
Feeling it, Yuri turned his head sideways.
“Haha… Oh, so your side gig today is running the canteen, huh? Who was it that said Coco’s the idlest one? You’re the busiest in the Black Sword Legion!”
Anyone could see he was desperately trying to change the subject.
Coco nodded at that.
“You know your stuff, kid.”
Coco seemed pleased by Yuri’s words.
“Time’s up.”
She checked her watch and stood from her seat.
Then, just like before, she pulled the fancy rope next to the display case.
And then.
Drrrrrk.
The existing display case slid back, replaced by a new one.
Coco stepped back lightly from the case and said.
“There you go, February special sale items.”
No sooner had she said it than Yuri’s eyes lit up, and he thrust his finger out vigorously again.
“Everything from here…”
“Do that one more time, and I’ll make sure you never set foot here again.”
“…….”
His vigorously extended arm drooped dejectedly.
Yuri’s lips puffed out, deprived of his chance to fulfill his long-held dream.
He looked at Coco resentfully and asked.
“…It’s still a 10-minute limit this time, right?”
“Nah, special sale has no time limit. Come anytime and buy. Oh! Of course, once something’s sold, no restocks.”
“First come, first served, huh? Wait, then what about the stuff on the previous display? Isn’t that January special sale?”
“There was no special sale in January.”
“Ah! It’s because of the discount sale. That’s why you called those display items. Just fillers to make it look good.”
“Yeah, you got it exa…….”
Coco nodded casually along with Yuri’s explanation but suddenly froze.
‘Why is this conversation flowing so smoothly?’
Wait a minute…
‘A first-year who’s never used the special sale before knows about the discount sale?’
She blinked.
Once she sensed the first oddity, everything she had brushed off as annoying now felt suspicious.
‘A first-year knowing about the special sale and coming here? That could happen….’
But walking right up and pointing at the display demanding items?
Knowing what was on the display?
And that guy didn’t even flinch when the display changed.
That wasn’t the reaction of a first-time special sale user.
And…
‘Did I ever tell him my name?’
It was definitely a face she’d never seen before today.
She hadn’t mentioned her name or her side job.
Yet this guy was saying it all so naturally.
‘Among the first-years, the one I told about it….’
Coco reached out her hand.
The boy was standing with arms crossed, eyeing the display carefully.
She covered his beautiful face with her palm.
Then slowly slid it up, revealing just his lower jaw, and something familiar flickered into view.
“Huh?”
Flick—flick—flick.
Startled, Coco kept covering and uncovering her palm.
Each time, the familiar image grew clearer.
“……?!”
At the same time, the voice and speech she’d heard until now finally clicked into one person.
A small mutter escaped from Coco’s wide-eyed face.
“Yuri… Holland?”
Plop.
She was so shocked that the cigarette fell from her mouth to the floor.
Meanwhile, Yuri, robbed of his life goal by Coco.
He shook off his sulkiness and eyed the display carefully.
‘If from here to there is off-limits, I’ll sweep up everything my points can buy!’
His current bank balance was about 33 million points.
With that, he figured he could clean out the display, so he burned with resolve and scanned quickly.
‘First up, elixirs or mana boosters.’
As he swept his gaze over the display, one elixir caught his eye.
-Low-Grade Mana Booster Potion 2,500,000P
‘One for now.’
A low-grade potion he’d tried before.
Any other 50th Cohort member would freak out at the price alone, but Yuri didn’t stop there and kept scanning.
‘No more? That’s not even a drop in the bucket.’
Yuri had already outgrown settling for just a low-grade one.
Rolling his eyes for something better, he soon found what he wanted.
But.
“Ha…….”
What came from his mouth wasn’t a gasp of joy but an exasperated curse.
“Whoa… insane.”
Yuri blinked.
A line of text and numbers reflected in his pupils.
-High-Grade Mana Booster Potion 10,000,000P
Ten million points.
The moment he saw it, Yuri let out a hollow laugh.
“I’m just a rookie.”
Clean out the display?
With a measly 33 million?
No way.
If there were a few more high-grade ones, it’d be his account balance emptying first.
Yuri clicked his tongue and looked at Coco.
“Coco.”
“…….”
“Coco?”
Coco, who had been staring blankly at Yuri, snapped to at the sound of her name.
She looked at him with eyes full of disbelief.
“You… you’re Yuri Holland?”
“What about it?”
“…It really is you?”
Realizing why Coco was reacting like that, Yuri let out a small sigh.
“Yeah, yeah, the ragtag Yuri Holland from the 50th Cohort is me.”
“My god, it really is! Wait, you said it was your first time at the special sale!”
“It is my first special sale. I’ve done the discount ones. Anyway, that’s not the point, Coco.”
“What?”
“With prices like this, does anyone even buy?”
At the question, Coco glanced at what Yuri was looking at.
She lit another cigarette and smirked.
“Way more than you think.”
“…The ten-million-pointer?”
“Well, too much for fresh chicks just entering the Cradle, but upper-years can afford even pricier stuff.”
“Ah!”
Yuri finally got it.
‘Makes sense. That pervert casually dropped a million without blinking.’
It had to be that way.
The absurd scores in the billions on the Hall of Fame.
‘My situation was special, but I cleared a first-year quest and made tens of millions.’
Upper-year quests could yield even more.
Maybe billions from one quest?
‘Of course, spending ramps up too.’
Nodding, Yuri turned back to the display.
As he meticulously checked the items, one odd one caught his eye.
-Lecture Application Form 10,000P
It couldn’t be more out of place in the Cradle.
Curious what it was, he looked at Coco, but she beat him to it.
“I told you, I sell stuff. I don’t explain it.”
Her eyes said to find out himself if curious, so Yuri dropped the question.
Instead, he finished scanning all the items and nodded.
‘February’s elixirs: one low-grade, one high-grade. That’s it.’
With his final check done, he pointed.
“That one, that one, this, and that too. Oh, and that one over there.”
Yuri bought not just the elixirs he wanted but also external and internal wound meds.
He’d felt the need for emergency supplies during the hide quest.
Meanwhile, Coco narrowed her eyes at Yuri’s picks.
“All of that?”
Her gaze seemed to say, ‘You know how much that is?’
Yuri grinned.
And.
Thud!
He pulled his bank balance certificate from his pocket and slapped it grandly on the table.
Coco peeked at the balance.
Her eyes widened bit by bit, then she let out a light whistle.
“Heard some crazy bastard from the 50th Cohort swept all the hides in the integrated quest… That was you, huh?”
Of course, the payout was under Poppi’s name, but since the hides were his, Yuri didn’t deny it.
Confirming he could pay, Coco handed over the items.
Thud.
“Here, take ’em. The points’ll deduct from your account automatically, so don’t worry.”
Finally, the elixirs were his.
High- and low-grade ones at that, but for some reason, Yuri’s face wasn’t bright.
Specifically, he wasn’t satisfied.
‘Left with about 17 million points.’
Enough for another high-grade if there was one.
Smacking his lips, Yuri asked.
“That’s all the elixirs here, right?”
“That’s all the new ones this month.”
“Figures… Gotta wait till next month for more.”
But even that was uncertain.
‘Special sale refreshes monthly, but no one knows what’ll come up.’
This month had one low- and one high-grade, but next could have none, or more than two.
If really unlucky, no elixirs for months.
‘Hmm… Settle for snagging two this month?’
As Yuri soothed his regret.
“Well, do you really need to wait till next month?”
“……?”
At Yuri’s quizzical look, Coco reached under the bar table.
A large box appeared in her hand.
Thud.
Yuri tilted his head at the black box on the table.
“What’s that?”
As if waiting for the question, Coco smirked slyly.
“A mystery box.”
“…Mystery box?”
Repeating her words, Yuri’s view filled with the pitch-black square box.
As if tempting him.