The teen seemed to be filled with a multitude of questions but unfortunately he wouldn't be getting the answers today. Looking at the slowly fading visage of the old man, the teen quickly kowtowed three times to express his deepest gratitude.
The old man seeing this felt warmth for the first time in centuries. 'Its been far too long since...' His thoughts trailing off.
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[Cameraman]: I sense a flashback moment!
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Quickly circling around, the [Cameraman] tried to zoom into the old man's face hoping to show a little backstory of the old man. But he was shock to find that in the place of his face, there was instead a glitch!
It spanned over his entire face and emanated with an eerie presence. The [Cameraman] seeing this was shocked as even his trusted camera couldn't discern through it or even identity it.
'What's going on?' He thought but was immediately frightened when he saw pale fingers extending out from within the glitch. Slowly, the fingers turned into a hand then into an arm that pointed straight at the [Cameraman]!!!
The [Cameraman] was alarmed as he sensed an immensely powerful presence coming off the arm. What was truly alarming though was the building up of that presence, that almost made it stifling to all others in existence. Thankfully, both the [Cameraman] and the teen were spared from its crushing weight. With a large discharged of said power, the [Cameraman] was targeted!
'What the fuck is going on?!?!?' The [Cameraman] couldn't even defend when he was suddenly flung away into the vast expanse of space. Shocked at what had happened, the [Cameraman] looked around in fright as he thought, 'What in the world was that?!'
He had really been pushed into the vast cosmos in a blink of an eye.*Prominent Wuxia novel line* 'What sort of power could have done such a thing?!' To affect someone like him, someone who was a literal aspect of reality, it had to be a truly frightening existence!
Thankfully, at that same moment the power had affected him, he had also used his power to send the teen out of the mental space. 'I'll go check on him first...' leading up to that thought, the [Cameraman] disappeared from his location, appearing back into the infirmary in an instant.
Looking at the teen who was awake and conversing with his friends, the [Cameraman] was relieved, but he still couldn't make sense of what had happened. 'I'll have to go over it with [BOB.C]...', that was the last thought he had before duty had called and he was summoned to the next scene.
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Yuno and Han Sen were now at the second scene of the main character's crime. They stood with pale faces and shocked expressions, as they stood in front of a burned down bakery. They had watched as the fires that had ravaged the small bakery be put out, only leaving behind burnt wooden remnants. All others having been damaged beyond function or turned to ash, Ash that was seen spread over its corners.
The shopkeeper could be seen letting out silent tears as he looked at what remained of his bakery, his hands clutching a coin pouch, one that probably held his life's savings.
Miraculously the neighbouring shops were hadn't been damaged by the fire, their shopkeepers standing in the distance shocked seeing what had happened.
One of the rival bakery owners let out a wild laugh as he said, "The Lord always has a way!! Old Zou, you have always stolen my customers, so this blessing suits you just right!!!!!"
The shopkeeper continued his mockery but was caught off guard when he saw Old Zou start laughing like a mad man.
"Oh, I see... He must have lost his mind!!!" The surrounding shopkeepers didn't really laugh as much as for starters, Old Zou wasn't their competitor so their had no reason to be glad for his downfall, and secondly, it was common knowledge that if you were to laugh at others misfortune, you yourself would be plagued by it.... Pretty common sense... They also felt some sympathy towards him as having your life burn down would be most detrimental to anyone.
They all looked on in pity as Old Zou laughed out loud but were soon taken aback where they saw his expression. It was one of happiness as if he was glad his bakery had burned down. Could he really have lost his mind? No one knew, but the rival shopkeeper was determined to find out!
"Hey are you crazy?! What are you laughing when your bakery has burned down?! Don't you have kids to feed?!!!" he shouted, but no words were replied to him. Having been ignored, he felt humiliated prompting him to walk up towards Old Zou and grab him by the shoulders. "Hey I'm talking to you!" he asked as he gave Old Zou a good shake.
What he had done seemed to have worked as Old Zou ceased his laughter before looking at his rival straight in his eyes before saying, "It is indeed a blessing Fatty Ken, it is truly a blessing!!! You see the person who had done this had also left behind compensation!!" With that, Old Zou parted his coin pouch a little, just enough for the gold inside to be seen by Fatty Ken.
Mind you, Fatty Ken wasn't fat at all but just had a slight turkey neck. As for why Old Zou referred to him as Fatty Ken was because he had discovered that whenever he called him Fatty Ken... well, Fatty Ken, for reasons unknown, would always get mad. And unfortunately for him the name had stuck, now everyone called him that.
Anyways,*Got side tracked for a second*, Fatty Ken seeing the gold coins was shocked beyond compare as he stumbled back with an ashen expression. "Tha-Tha-" he stuttered before finally saying, "That's GOLD! A pouch full of GOLD COINS!!!!!"
The crowd that had gathered were shocked as gasps could be heard all around.
"A pouch full of gold coins???"
"My lord, Old Zou hit the jack pot!!!"
"No wonder he said he was blessed!!!! He can probably buy four more shops besides this burnt one!!!"
Hushed discussions like the ones described above spread across the crowd. Everyone was shocked and envious of the riches Old Zou had incurred for such a small loss. Some even contemplated finding who ever the BENEFACTOR was before angering him, in hopes that they would be blessed as Old Zou had.
Yuno and Han Sen, who had been standing amongst the crowd, had gone through a multitude of emotions, ranging from shock, to confusion, to awkwardness, and finally back to confusion. Why had the main character done this? They thought in unison. It was obvious why he had destroyed the bakery but leaving behind a pouch of gold coins... Why? It just seemed a little counterintuitive...
'Wait, could it be?' they both thought in unison.
'Could it be that Master has forgotten the weight of a gold coins after dealing with spirit stones and other credits? That would account for why he is giving them out willy-nilly.' That was Han Sen's thought process while Yuno on the other hand thought of how they have lived in poverty for such a long time. 'Could it be that he genuinely doesn't know the value of a gold coin???'
Although both of them had different starting points they had ended up to the same conclusion, the only thing left being conformation.