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“Yes, that is my brother, Pide,” Paytel said as he was given the gold pouch. In the background, Pide was beginning to throw out insults at her. “Have you met him before…” He trailed off as he opened the bag. At first sight, he could tell it was already more than double of what they had made earlier today. Paytel shut his mouth in astonishment and simply turned around to put it away.

“...How much was in there?” Frankly, he was a bit too lazy to count it all.

Confirmation was all she needed. Ignoring whatever other insults Pide slung, she looked at the other man.

“Thirty-thousand, two hundred. And no, we haven’t met before.” Laima paused. How would she exactly explain her distaste for him? Well, whatever. “I was going to bring Mistreil to the promenade, but he apparently beat me to the punch by a few hours.”

Oh. Prom. The reminder had thrown back so many mixed feelings at him. “Sorry to hear that,” Paytel simply said. It really was a shame that Pide had to go instead of this girl, but he felt like he wasn’t really in a position to apologize for it any more than he just did.

Paytel picked up the bucket of crabs dropped three of them into the tank, one by one. “You fucking dyke,” Pide yelled out, “You’re wasting your money!” Paytel then handed the girl six sandbags and positioned her on the mat placed in front of him, as the set distance the player had to throw the bags at. said, “If you hit the target in your first three tries, you win the prize, okay? Good luck.” He stepped out of her way.

You hit the target right in the center, and Pide falls to his doom. He gets bitten by the crabs in the tank. Wrecked.

Paytel congratulates you and hands you a raffle doll as a prize. It is an Ishiki doll. Behind him, you see Pide struggling to get back onto his seat. He slips a little, and you can see the crabs still attached to him, but once he’s back on the chair, he picks them off and curses you quite excessively.

You decide that you are ten times cooler than this fucker and he doesn’t deserve any more of your attention. You take your leave. Swag.

She had been married before, but she never consumed her marriage with him, and the fact of having sex with someone she just met not even a day prior to, just seems like a nightmare. She shouldn’t have drank all those bottles. She surely regretted it. There was no way she could ignore this man now. Even though she absolutely hated him, she had no reason to ignore him now. Even less if she had sex with him. She got up and looked around for her clothes, putting them on before Paytel finished with the bathroom. They were a bit moist. Why? Perhaps it rained yesterday. It wasn’t comfortable but she did not want to be naked around him and she didn’t have any other clothes.

She heard the door open.

  Paytel stepped out of the bathroom fully clothed, wearing the oriental robe he always wore. He had left his prom outfit crumpled on ground since it was still wet from the night before, and wherever he had stored the spare clothes from was some kind of strange milletian secret.

He looked over at Yasu, but she was just looking down at the sheets. She had put on her dress from the night before, but considering how wet his own clothes were, she must not have been comfortable. She looked absolutely devastated by what he had said - and, kind of... shocked. He was certain she wasn’t willing to talk to him, let alone know him, any longer.

Well, she never wanted to know him, he supposed. But, he could fix that.

Paytel hesitated for a second, considering that he should perhaps give her something else to wear. But he decided not to. He wanted the full effect of leaving.

Without saying anything, he grabbed the keys on the nightstand and walked out the resort room door.

  Trying not to look a Paytel, she heard the door open and then close. She turned around to notice that he had left. Without saying a word, she did not knew where he was going, nor if he was coming back.

She looked around for some paper and ink. After finding some, she started writing a letter to her maid, Okashi. She simply wanted to let her know that she might be home a bit late today; she could not simply leave immediately after what happened here. She told her to let Suppai know that she will not require him to pick her up, she will walk home through the moon gates.

After carefully writing the letter in her delicate printing, she folded it and put it into an envelop. She then grabbed a candle from last night and light it up with a firebolt spell. She waited for the candle to melt a bit and dripped some wax on the letter to seal it. After so, she signed it. She opened the window and noticed the area was damp; it probably rained. She then whistled for an owl. She attached the letter to the owl’s leg and then told him where to go.

A little while had passed since she started writing the letter. Paytel was not back, she was a bit stressed about what to do. She knew she had to face him one way or another. She sat down and then waited for him.

Realising he might never come back, she started feeling a bit dizzy and decided to lay down. She must of be getting a fever from yesterday, judging by her wet clothes, she probably was in the rain. Prideful as ever, she just decided to ignore it and fell asleep quickly on the bed.

  It had been a while. Paytel stood outside of their resort room door, the key in one hand, and a plate of fish in the other. He took his sweet time eating the breakfast that the resort was offering that morning, since it was free… and delicious… and not consisting of forest snake or spider meat. The fish was for Yasu; he hoped that, since she was a cat girl, she might like it. He had no idea. If she didn’t, maybe she’d appreciate the thought - although he wasn’t on her good side enough for that to work.

“...I just don’t want to go home,” he sighed. He rested his head on the door for a minute before finally opening it.

Yasu was still there, sleeping on the bed. He closed the door behind him and came over to the bed. He nudged her softly to wake her up. “Hey… Good morning, Yasu. I brought you some breakfast.”

  Something was poking her. She slowly woke up only to look up. It was Paytel. “Oh sh-” She quickly sat up straight and greeted him. “Oh hi, you’re.. back,” She was obviously nervous around him. She got up and looked around. She saw the meal sitting on a table. Fish. “Oh.. thanks, I like fish,” She sat at the table and started to eat.

Paytel was simply sitting on the other end and looking at her eat. She didn’t really knew what to say. She could feel his stare on her. She started eating a bit faster, not rushing it but still trying to be quicker. It was quiet. She had to prompt something. She then noticed he had changed clothes.

“Ah, you got yourself some spare clothes?” she said as she looked on the ground to see his prom outfit from last night. She didn’t knew what to say.. She wanted to ask about last night but she did not dare to.

  He blinked. He shouldn’t have just sat there and watched her eat. He didn’t realize he must have made her uncomfortable, since she had started to eat a bit faster. “Oh.. Yes. I noticed you’re still wearing your dress from last night. It must not be comfortable to wear; if you’d like, I can let you borrow something of mine.”

Finishing her plate, Yasu looked up as he spoke. “Ah.. do you have anything that would uhm.. fit me?” she said, as she looked at him. Perhaps he had good intentions, perhaps not, but until now he seemed different than the man she had met at the restaurant the day before. She might aswell get to know him, since they had such an intimate night. They couldn’t stay in the hotel room the whole day either.

“Let me borrow something and after that we can go out and I can buy myself some clothes.. if you don’t mind,”

He couldn’t help but make a face. Was she careless enough with her money to be able to just buy something new like that? Or was she just rich enough? It was so different from the way he and his brother lived - scrounging up money for days just to run and buy something in the city. It took planning, but this felt a little careless. It didn’t matter, anyway. It was Yasu’s money.

“I don’t have anything that will fit you, but it’ll cover you enough until you find something else, I suppose.” He went ahead and pulled out his trinity wear from his logic-defying milletian inventory and handed it to her.

  “Thanks,” she grabbed the clothes and went to the bathroom. She took off the wet, sticky dress off her body. Yasu had to dry herself a bit before putting on the trinity wear. She couldn’t find her underwear anywhere and didn’t have a bra.. this was quite embarrassing. She tied up the belt around her waist really tight so that nothing could move. The outfit was really big at the shoulders and was almost dragging on the floor. Her inner fashionista was simply crying for help.

She walked out of the bathroom, not really enjoying the outfit. At least it wasn’t wet and uncomfortable, but she would have preferred something else for sure. “Should we go now?” she prompted Paytel.

Yasu came out of the bathroom, looking a little bit pitiful in his clothes. It didn’t flatter her body at all. It didn’t really matter to him, though. She was still beautiful. “Should we go now?” She said. “...Yes. As long as we have everything we need.” Paytel looked around the room, picking him both his still damp prom outfit and hers, and then walked towards the door. Yasu followed him. He held the door open for her and they left the resort.

Now outside of the resort, Paytel looked around. They were in a town, apparently called Emain Macha. He was there with Pide just yesterday, he remembered, but they never came to this part of town. Frankly, he had no idea where he was. He looked at Yasu and said, “Wherever you need to go I can take you there. I do have a mount…” He trailed off.

Paytel was very polite with her lately, she felt like he was a different man. Leaving the resort, she noticed she was still in Emain Macha. This was good, she knew the area. Paytel told her that he had a mount, which was good. “I need to go to the Tailor, do you know where she is? If not, I can always lead.” She came here often before she moved to Tara, this area was very familiar. “It shouldn’t be too far away,”

  “Okay,” he said. It was lucky that Yasu knew her way around her. She seemed like a rich city girl, anyways. Promptly, a brown spotted horse magically appeared before them. It stood still as Paytel mounted it. He held out his hand to Yasu to help her get on. “Just tell me which way the tailor is.”

With the help of Paytel, she mounted the horse. Sitting in front of him, she directed him towards the town square then the tailor. Once at Ailionoa’s shop, Yasu and Paytel got off the horse. Yasu spoke a moment with Ailionoa, requesting a dress. She had no time to make something up so she just bought a pre-made dress in white. She whispered to Ailionoa and asked if she had any underwears.. The tailor chuckled and said yes. She left for a moment and came back with a little bag. “Do you have any rooms in which I could change?” Ailionoa nodded and directed Yasu towards a dressing room.

There, she finally changed into a cute ruffled skirt, nothing too fancy. She gave Ailionoa the gold and then approached Paytel. “Is there anything you need, Paytel?” she asked as she hands his clothes back.

“Hm?” Paytel still wondered how she was about to just buy something on a whim, and then ask if he needed something. He didn’t even have money. “I’ll be fine…” He looked her up and down. She was so attractive; he wanted to hold her again. But instead, he just decided to take her home. He could just talk to her again another time, especially since he figured he must have done enough to her last night.

“I’ll just take you home now, if that’s alright with you.”

“Are you sure? I live all the way in Tara,” she replied. It was quite far from here. She felt bad that she couldn't do anything for him, he was quite nice for the small time they've spent together, while she was sober at least. She took a moment to look at him carefully, he was really good looking actually.. too bad she did not notice until now. Their eyes met and Yasu quickly stopped looking at him. “How embarrassing, hopefully he does not get any ideas..” she thought. She could feel herself blush a bit, and was pondering why she was even blushing. This was simply awkward.

“..let’s head to Tara then,”

  “Are you sure? I live all the way in Tara,” she said. Where the fuck is Tara? It was sort of embarrassing that he didn't know this continent much at all. Since Uladh was a really crowded region, I guess she assumed that he did know. Paytel waited for her to say something else - like a hint for where that might be. But she didn’t say anything. He looked down at her and she turned away.

Was she just looking at him?

“...let’s head to Tara then,” she finished. “Alright,” he said. They got back on Adurelo. “...Which way is Tara?” Paytel reluctantly asked.

Yasu had to give directions, again, which was embarrassing, needless to say.

Tara was a huge city as well. How did he not know about its existence? It was absolutely stunning - he had never seen so many tall buildings so close together, so many people in one place. It was noon, and the streetlamps were not lit but they gleamed in the sunlight. The town was very clean and wealthy too. He regretted having never seen it before. He could tell that Yasu was indeed a rich girl, as if she wasn't already desirable…

They had finally arrived at Yasu’s house, a nice mansion a bit away from town. There was cherry blossom trees surrounding it. It was beautiful, fancy. Paytel realized how different their living situations were. He lived in a place completely different from Tara for all his life - the forest, uncivilized, crawling with all kinds of different creatures and fomors. It was beautiful, too, but in a completely different sense.

He unsummoned his unicorn and walked her to the door. Once at her door, he said, “I guess this is where we say goodbye.” For now. “Thank you…” for spending the night. He almost finished that sentence, but he decided it was best he didn’t say that.