Having finished the bath after what felt like only a few minutes, Poe and the rest still had some time left before it was time to eat dinner and get to bed. This time they also had Cecilia following them around.
"What should we do now?"
Poe asked while looking questioningly at the three girls in front of him.
"How about I show you around the town? You should be new here and might not know all the good places here."
Cecilia said with a smile on her face. Although Poe felt something was off about that smile and maybe Poe recognized it from somewhere before or maybe a certain someone, Poe decided that it was nothing and just agreed to let Cecilia show them around town.
Lucia and Ivy also agreed, they did after all have some free time to spend and Cecilia, who worked in this town, should know more about it than them.
Therefore, with Cecilia and Poe in the lead, they soon started their journey throughout the town.
"By the way, Cat girl… Where are we going?"
"It is Cecilia, Poe… Moreover, I was thinking of going to a clothing store to get some new clothes for you. The ones you have on are already quite ruined from hunting monsters."
Saying so Cecilia turned away from Poe and continued leading the way.
Poe on the other hand was quite shocked and looked down to see the current state of his clothes. Looking down what greeted him was the same clothes he got from Grant a few days ago.
The only difference was the clothes being totally riddled with holes here and there. To make things worse, it also looked dirty, how did he not notice this when he put the clothes on after the bath? And most importantly of all, why had Lucia and Ivy not informed him!?
"We were going to… But we did not really know any good clothing stores and most clothes would end up like that after a few days of hunting monsters! From what I observed when we hunted together. The strength you have would simply be too pitiful, even leather armor would be useless… let alone something with metal. Things that can defend monster attacks are heavy after all. Needing at least 10 strength for the worst things…"
Lucia said defending herself and her big sister.
Poe ended up taking a lot of mental damage after learning even the worst armor needed at least 10 strength.
Poe only had 5.5 strength after all and for him to reach 10 strength without using any stat points, he needed to reach level 21, but at that point, the gear he could use would most likely be useless…
Thinking this, Poe got even more depressed. Maybe he was fated to have his clothes destroyed forev-
"No need to worry so much about it Poe. There is still magic clothes and armors, I doubt you ever being able to use magic armor, as their strength and vitality requirement is normally high. The magic clothes on the other hand have extremely low strength and vitality requirements and mostly depends on intelligence, wisdom, mana and sometimes-even class. The store we are going to sells some low level magic clothes for mages."
Cecilia said, as she looked towards Lucia and Poe with a kind smile, Poe felt something off about it once again, but could not point out just what it was.
"Almost forgot about it, even Poe should be able to use some of them."
Lucia said, while kindly thanking Cecilia for her reminder.
"Ah, now that you say it, my robe is also magic clothes, though it also needs 50 strength to be used~ Want to try it Poe~?"
Just what kind of mage are you having that much strength, even a warrior on your level might have a hard time in a fist fight! Poe screamed internally while sending a helpless look towards Ivy.
"I CAN'T POSIBLY USE SOMETHING THAT NEEDS 50 STRENGTH TO USE! STUPID! AND TAKE YOUR CLOTHES ON!"
Poe let out some of his inner thoughts, as he screamed at Ivy, who was currently undressing in the middle of the street.
"Mom, why is she taking of her clothes?"
"Don't look at that darling! Let's just move on."
People in the streets were starting to look towards where the commotion was happening and starting to gather around them.
Ivy had also stopped stripping of her robe and had put it back on, after Poe's earlier outburst stopped her.
"Wait a minute… Is that not the rumored Pervert. Scarlet Devil Queen! Word has it that she kidnaps the girls she finds cute and does... stuff… to them…"
"Now that you are saying it, she does indeed look a lot like her… Especially that red hair…"
"Who else other than the Scarlet Devil Queen would strip in the middle of the streets!?"
"Look there is three young girls together with her and one of them even looks like a child!"
"D-do you think they were taken away by the Scarlet Devil Queen, I heard she prefer small cute girls…"
"Now that you mention it…"
Poe, Lucia and Cecilia, who clearly heard the people around them referring to Ivy in a different way, started to get a little unsettled. Especially the "rumors" around her and her new title.
Lucia decided that it was best to get away as soon as possible and dragged Ivy away with Poe and Cecilia following closely behind.
After getting away from the streets, Lucia, Poe and Cecilia let out a sigh of relief. Ivy on the other hand looked like she had no idea what was going on.
Having rested for a while and made sure no strange people had followed them the group soon returned to the streets.
This time, Lucia stayed at her big sisters side in case she did anything funny on their way to the clothing store.