Chapter 109: You Know How to Give Change

Broly returned smoothly, and Akame and the others were not surprised at all.

Instead, he returned with a full haul, bringing back a large cart of gold, silver, and jewelry.

The quantity was so great it was astonishing.

"I think we should leave quickly. After being robbed of so much money without silencing anyone, the Empire definitely won't let this go."

After hearing exactly how Broly obtained these things, Merad decisively said.

"It's fine. I made sure no one noticed when I returned. Besides, these weren't stolen by me; they were change others gave me."

【Who uses gold and jewelry exceeding the payment amount as change?】

Even Akame and the other children, who had a big-brother filter, were complaining in their hearts at this moment.

"You really know how to give change."

Even Esdeath started complaining.

"Nothing much. Maybe I'm just naturally gifted."

Praised by Esdeath, Broly felt a bit embarrassed and scratched the back of his head.

"That wasn't praise for you. Forget it..."

Esdeath gave up complaining, pointed at a pile of Teigu, and asked Merad.

"Among these, which Teigu is the most powerful?"

Before Merad could answer, Broly pointed at the silver jar first.

"It's this Demon's Extract, but this stuff tastes terrible."

"Tastes bad? That doesn't matter at all, as long as it lets me obtain the strongest power."

Esdeath opened the silver jar and tilted her head back to gulp this stuff down.

"Wait, Demon's Extract?"

"Esdeath, don't drink it, that stuff..."

After hearing the name Demon's Extract, Merad felt some recollection. As she recalled the records of this Teigu within the Assassin Guild's internals and remembered what deadly thing this was, shouting it out, it was already a bit too late.

A whole jar of Demon's Extract was drunk clean by Esdeath, her flat belly even grew larger because of it.

"Sure enough, it tastes terrible!"

Esdeath burped, agreeing with Broly's evaluation that this stuff tasted terrible.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem with this stuff?"

Then she looked at Merad with confusion.

Merad held her forehead, looking at Esdeath with a face full of pity: "According to our guild's records, Demon's Extract is an extremely terrible Teigu. Everyone in history who drank it went mad without exception, and then died."

"Ah, is this stuff poisonous?"

Hearing this, the children exclaimed in surprise.

"Esdeath, are you alright?"

Broly looked even more nervously at the girl with ice-blue hair. He had drunk this stuff and didn't feel it was poisonous, but thinking of his own strong physique, he was a bit worried about Esdeath's condition.

"Other than my belly feeling a bit cold, everything else feels great."

Esdeath didn't feel anything uncomfortable. And at her chest position, a secret technique mark representing Demon's Extract was emerging.

When this happened, everyone had no time to choose other Teigu, but were all taking care of Esdeath, showing concern for this companion, afraid she would have some problem.

However, by evening, Esdeath had no issues. After drinking Demon's Extract, she even started practicing tricks of condensing ice.

The shape of the ice went from ice balls to ice thorns, and the firing speed went from the level of a child throwing things to the point where one could hear the sound of breaking air.

Esdeath adapted to this newly obtained power of manipulating ice at an extremely fast speed, with no abnormal situation at all.

"I say, could it be that your Assassin Guild recorded it wrong?" Esdeath couldn't help but ask.

"This... it's not impossible. It's been a long time, so recording errors are possible."

No matter how one looked at it, Esdeath had no problems, so Merad could only think her own organization had recorded it wrong.

After confirming Esdeath was fine, everyone felt relieved and each chose Teigu suitable for themselves.

Nahashu took a ring of Water Dragon Possession, Luosang's was two great axes called Two Great Axes, Main obtained the coveted energy weapon Romance Cannon.

Akame thought a strange headpiece was not bad; after putting it on, she could actually see through clothes and see into people's hearts. Black Eye obtained a small kodachi, not knowing what it was used for.

Chikushi thought the giant scissors were not bad. Cornelia coveted that majestic Thunder God Heavy Armor, said to be able to transform. The flute said to be able to transform was taken by Pony.

Merad also obtained a thread-like Teigu called Cross Tail. Even Cassandra, as her maid, obtained a Teigu composed of six balls, and with four hands she could directly play ball juggling.

After distributing a pile of Teigu, only two remained: one was a compass-shaped Teigu named Shambhala, and the other was a creature-type Teigu like a puppy doll with no heartbeat and no breathing.

Having obtained their coveted Teigu, everyone wanted to try them out. Before night fell, they sneaked out of the Imperial Capital.

I thought that after the great event of the Imperial Palace being 【Zero-Yuan Purchase】 upgraded to 【Reverse Payment Purchase】, the city gates of the Imperial Capital would be strictly checked, but there was none at all. The city gate was peaceful as if nothing had happened.

"You didn't use an energy cannon to blow up the Imperial Palace and scare the Empire's upper-class aristocrats, so no one dares to investigate this matter, right?"

Merad had to suspect this; the Empire's reaction was too strange.

"How could that be? I reached a friendly transaction with people inside the Imperial Palace, and when leaving, there was even a minister who smiled and waved to see me off!"

Broly defended himself. He was very satisfied with this morning's shopping experience; it was a very harmonious shopping process.

"Alright, Broly, don't mind Merad. Come over and have a big fight with me!"

After the group came to the suburbs, Esdeath, who had obtained new power, was very excited. She directly picked up Broly and ran to the open space nearby to try out moves.

Esdeath tried out the Teigu in practical combat. Pony went to find mushrooms; she wasn't here to try out Teigu at all. Luosang was barely swinging the great axe in her hand, while Main held an energy gun and fired biubiubiu at the sky nearby.

The scene of trying out Teigu was chaotic for a while. Meanwhile, Akame just needed to sit to the side and watch everyone play, while Black Eye, as the younger sister, explored the usage of the small kodachi on the other side.

After Broly finished sparring with Esdeath, some Headless Rats appeared under her feet. Pony, who returned without finding mushrooms, was playing a flute. Eight Headless Rats danced around one Headless Rat to the flute music.

The scene had a subtle warmth and eeriness. This was exactly the usage of the Teigu Eight Rooms, able to manipulate eight corpses.

... 。

At night, when Broly and the others finished testing the Teigu and returned to the inn satisfied, Hill, who was temporarily staying at Hua Ling's home, encountered some trouble.

Her friend's ex-boyfriend suddenly arrived here, looking like he was high on drugs, and after rushing in, he tightly gripped Hua Ling's neck, demanding to know why she didn't go to Flower Street to earn money for him to spend.

This was an absurd question that no normal person would say, but unfortunately this man was no longer a normal person.

Before he became addicted to drugs, he was fine, but after becoming addicted, his parents severed ties with him over this matter; only Hua Ling, as his girlfriend, did not give up on him, until he asked her to go to Flower Street to sell herself.

But because of this situation, the man viewed his girlfriend's behavior as betrayal; now high on drugs, he had come here to vent the resentment he had accumulated in the past.

Hill tried to stop this man from harming her friend, but it was useless; as a woman, her strength was no match for an adult man.

However, she saw the knife in the kitchen, walked over to take it, and stood at the man's side rear, observing his unguarded neck.

The hand rose and the knife fell, blood splattered, half of the man's neck was severed, and he looked back at her in disbelief.

Hill's face and body were splattered with a lot of blood, but she did not feel afraid; she was only somewhat surprised that she had actually done such a thing, and that it had succeeded so easily.

Hill looked at the bloodied knife and smiled; she was happy that she had easily accomplished something meaningful for the first time.

But she soon came back to her senses; now was not the time to be happy about easily accomplishing something. Hill looked at her friend, who had collapsed on the ground and finished coughing, reached out to pull her, and asked, "Hua Ling, are you alright?"

But as a result, the girl on the ground kept scooting backward on her butt, looking at her in terror, as if she were looking at a stranger.

This was mainly because after Hill killed someone, holding a bloody cleaver with a sweet smile on her face was too strange; Hua Ling, the steamed bun hair girl, had almost been strangled to death, and unfortunately seeing Hill like this directly frightened her.

(Chapter End)