Chapter 100: Touring the Black Market

"So you're here looking for me because you said some big words, and now you somewhat regret not repaying kindness with enmity toward that girl named Hill?"

Leone handed the matter of distributing the toiletry sets to the neighbor granny, then took Broly aside to talk.

"Mm, that's about right."

Broly nodded, though he was merely anxious over gain and loss.

"But coming to find me seems useless, doesn't it?"

Leone was a bit speechless; this didn't seem to have anything to do with her at all.

"You're my other capture target."

Broly didn't speak this truth; according to Main's analysis yesterday, without understanding the girl before him, without drawing closer to her, just casually saying he wanted to make her his wife would very easily get him rejected.

"I just came to ask you, do you think I should repay kindness with enmity or not?"

Broly asked this question; as another new capture target discovered in this imperial capital, he believed Leone's words should have some value.

"Ah, this..."

Leone hesitated; how was she supposed to answer this question? Answering that he should repay kindness with enmity went against her conscience.

Answering that he shouldn't — did she still want tomorrow's guide job? "This is Little Boss's own matter; I feel Little Boss should make the decision yourself."

Thinking it over, Leone felt however she answered would be bad, so she simply kicked the ball back.

"Then if you were Miss Hill, would you be willing to let me repay kindness with enmity, or unwilling to let me repay kindness with enmity?"

Broly asked again; Leone only felt her head ache, but seeing the boy insist on an answer, she could only answer carefully.

"From a normal person's perspective, they'd definitely dislike having their kindness repaid with hostility, but I'm not that bespectacled girl, so I can't really say what the other party thinks."

Leone spoke some roundabout words; born from the bottom, she kept playing tai chi, neither wanting to bear a debt of conscience nor lose a cushy job.

Broly listened from the side, felt Leone's words seemed to make sense, but thinking carefully, felt she was just spouting nonsense.

"It's not early, Little Boss; if you have no other business, I'll head back to rest first."

"Wait, keep me company talking a bit more."

"Little Boss Broly, I don't really know how to chat."

"But didn't you say you know how to coax people? My mood's bad right now; I want you to coax me."

Leone: "..."

Mocking someone behind their back, only for the person involved to hear it — truly trouble.

Leone felt she'd been held a grudge against by the boy before her; he was making trouble for her.

Hey, look at that bad temper of hers; worst case she just doesn't want tomorrow's job! "I'm the one paying."

"Alright, Little Boss Broly, how do you want me to coax you? Want to play Old Maid? I can go call people to play with you."

The tomboy girl said somewhat broker-like.

"Not playing Old Maid; you take me shopping, let's walk and chat."

Broly shook his head in reply.

【Shopping, the imperial capital late at night — what's there to shop?】

【Oh, Flower Street's lively at night, but you're not the right age for that!】

【Mine isn't suitable either...】

Grumbling in her heart, it actually made Leone think of a place worth a stroll.

"Little Boss, since you want to go shopping, I'll take you to tour the Castle Town's Black Market."

Called a Black Market, but it's actually just stalls selling old goods that form a night market at night; since the goods are complex enough, prices generally aren't expensive either, making it a place where many poor commoners with no big money in their pockets go treasure-hunting on ordinary days.

"Here, someone with a sharp eye might dig up good goods; I've heard before of someone buying a hanging painting for fifty yuan, and it turned out confirmed to be a famous painter's legacy work, bought by someone for five hundred thousand yuan — an overnight riches story."

Leone talked on and on, working overtime as Broly's night street guide; Broly followed behind looking east and west at this lively Black Market street, but most of the time his attention was still drawn by snacks on the food stalls.

"Want to eat?"

Seeing this, Leone asked.

"Want to."

Broly nodded.

"If you want to eat, just buy it."

Leone said; she also wanted to mooch some snacks. "Do they allow tabs here?"

Broly asked.

"They don't; what's up?"

"I was in a rush when I came out; I didn't bring money on me."

Broly turned his pockets out for Leone to see.

Leone: "..."

She looked at the iron plate squid, then took out her own wallet.

"How about this, Little Boss; I'll spot you the money for now, just pay me back tomorrow."

Leone bought two iron plate squid, one for herself, one for Broly.

"Leleo, you really are a good person."

Receiving the iron plate squid, Broly said sincerely.

"Nothing of the sort; I'm just temporarily lending you money..."

Leone felt a bit guilty; the iron plate squid in her hand wasn't bought with her own money, but charged to the Little Boss before her.

"Right, don't call me Leleo anymore; I'm actually called Leone; Leleo is the fake name I use while scraping by outside."

Thinking it over, Leone added.

"Why do you use a fake name?"

Broly had long known her real name; he just didn't know why she would take a fake name.

"Life on This Side of the Imperial Capital isn't very stable; sometimes situations of mutual deception arise, and when going out using a fake name to show to others, if an accident happens, it's not easy for others to find you at your door, which can avoid a lot of trouble."

Leone explained, and it was only because she believed Broly held no malice toward her that she was willing to tell her real name.

Of course, this perhaps also had to do with the fact that she had already been found at her door; since her residence address was already exposed, lying further would really be rather improper.

"I see."

Broly learned.

"Leone, what's your opinion on the matter of becoming someone else's wife?"

The two chatted idly while eating squid, and after the iron plate squid was eaten finish, Broly suddenly sent out this kind of inquiry to the tomboy girl beside him.

"Eh?!"

Leone was stunned by the question.

"I seem to have no opinion."

"What kind of opinion is 'no opinion'?"

"???"

Leone played question marks; it wasn't that she had a problem, but she felt Broly had a problem.

"In our slums, girls growing up and marrying to become someone else's wife is an extremely normal thing, just like boys growing up must marry wives and have children, and since it's an extremely normal thing, it's just treated normally; what opinion could there be?"

Benefiting from the other party's identity as the Boss, Leone still patiently explained one sentence.

"So, you don't reject becoming someone else's wife, is that it?"

Broly pursued the question.

"That... of course."

Leone hesitated a bit; she couldn't quite imagine the scene of herself marrying, but still replied.

"Then do you have any requirements for the other half you'll marry?"

"What requirements, I really haven't thought over this, but I want to live a wealthy life in the future, so, regardless of anything else, I hope my future other half will be a rich person."

Leone thought a bit, then gave out the first requirement.

"Then do you think I have money?"

Broly pursued the question.

"Eh, wait, this problem of yours?"

Leone looked at Broly, suddenly reacted.

"Ah, Little Boss, you wouldn't happen to have taken a fancy to me, would you?"

(Chapter End)