[37] Fake Id.
"Well, do you have money?" The old shop owner asked curiously.
"How much do you charge?" Kayra asked nervously. She hoped that the amount she had would be sufficient.
"100k." The old man said as he looked at her. "Can you afford it?"
"Umm, any discount?" She asked in a whisper with reddened cheeks.
The shop owner fell silent again. He pondered which gave Kayra hope. In no way would she spend all of the money or she would really become broke!
"Old man, I am telling you. You must give me a good discount! I like your shop and in the future, I will definitely buy other things!... Just that I am on a tight budget at the moment!"
Kayra tried to appear convincing enough. It was true that she had taken a liking to the pair of earrings. If possible, she wished to come back in the future and buy them!
[Host, you like the earrings so badly... I can take the pair now and you can pay later? What do you think?]
'Taking the pair? Do you mean stealing? Isn't a peace pearl enough?! You are up to no good! Bad Phiphi!'
[Humph!]
The old man saw as she stared at him with sparkling eyes. He couldn't bear to shatter her expectation and raised his forefinger.
"10%?" Kayra asked. If she could she would have told him to give her 99% off! Just that it was only her lucid dream!
The shop owner felt he needed to educate this dumb girl. He no longer wanted to give her any discount!
"Girl, I am telling you. Either you pay 100k or I am off!"
Kayra became silent. 'Old man, you look just like a girl on period! Frequent mood swings are bad for your old age!'
In the end, she sighed and said, "Fine, 100k then."
"Follow me." The old man murmured and then walked in front of a concrete wall. He took off his eyeglasses and then began to speak.
"#$£@#..." Kayra was awed as she saw his mouth moving at a very fast speed and spewing a bunch of awe-inspiring words. She had the terrible urge to pinch lips which could not be seen moving when he was moving them!
The wall in front of her creaked open and revealed a secret passage. As the old man went down, she followed him while maintaining a considerate distance between them.
The wall behind them closed after they went down, and at the same time the lights went off. The whole antique shop got shrouded in darkness and the door of the shop got locked automatically.
…
After entering the passage, they came out to an underground inn. All kinds of people, covered in scary tattoos and scars were there, seated on benches and gambling, shouting, and so on.
Kayra looked around curiously but none of them seemed to detect her. After coming in front of a room, the old shop owner stopped.
He looked at her and said, "Enter."
When she stepped inside, she saw a green screen and a stool before it. Kayra guessed it was meant for her to sit and thus, she sat there obediently.
The old man went to one corner of the room and took out a very old-fashioned camera from a cabinet.
Then he came back to Kayra and instructed, "Be natural."
"Hm-hm." She mumbled and put on a cute smile, her dimples were exposed.
Even if it's a fake ID, she wanted to have a good image in it! That's why, after posing, Kayra asked, 'System, how do I look?'
[ … ]
'Hey!'
[ Loli. ]
'Wh-what?! Do you want me to believe you? Humph!... Cardinal?'
{ By this world's standard, seductively cute? }
[ heh! ]
'Fine, I believe you!'
Kayra put away her cute look and flashed a modest and restrained smile. After the old shop owner was done adjusting the camera, he was satisfied by her pose.
Click~ Click~ Click~ Click~
…
[ Photo.jpg ]
Name: Kay Ra
Father: Ay Ra
Mother: Ka Ra
Gender: Female
Date Of Birth: [ Secret ]
ID Number: 696969-6969693x
Kayra and Phiphi went silent for a long time after reading the information.
The row of RA~ RA~ RA~ was really spicy to read~
Kayra thought that the people of this δ-solar system surely like the 69x number. Did they even know what it means?!
Also, the age of an individual was a secret and in all kinds of documents, it had to be concealed. Because many races lived together, their lifespans differed vastly.
Sometimes, one's first birthday could be someone else's entire lifetime!
How pitiful~
...
When the time for the payment came, the old man inquired, "White or black?"
"Ah?" Kayra was confused.
[ Regarding money. He is asking if the money you are paying to him is yours or stolen. ]
"Black money…" Kayra whispered as she handed the credit card to the old man. At the same time, she murmured sneakily, "I don't want the card. Take 101k and give me the extra 1k Az."
He gave her a cheeky smile however he was missing some front teeth. The smile was in no way pleasing to the eyes.
After checking that the card had exactly 101k Az, he decided to keep the card and gave back 1k Az to Kayra.
After walking out of the antique shop, Kayra was both relieved and anguished. Turning from rich to poor overnight was really painful. However, feeling the fake identification card on her hold, she was relieved.
With the ID card, Kayra's mood was much better. She went to check into a decent-looking hotel right away.
…
A random hotel in the Capitalia.
"For how many days?" The receptionist at the front desk asked as she opened a booklet to write down Kayra's information.
"Can be one day, week, or month… in the worst-case scenario, a year…" She replied seriously and that's why the receptionist stopped on the verge of cursing her eighteen generations of ancestors!
"You can live forever but you have to pay once a week. Also to eat, you have to come down and go to the hotel's small restaurant. For other things, call the room service."
The receptionist said as she wrote down Kay Ra beside a room number and added, "For one day and night, you have to pay one…"
"One… hundred or thousand?!" Kayra exclaimed. If it's any of these, there was no way she could stay in the hotel for a month, let alone a week!
"What are you talking about?! Are you high or what?! It's 1 Az." The receptionist had a straight face even though she was stunned by her words. Even tourists would not pay more than this!
"One Az a day?" Kayra was dumbfounded. 'So cheap?!'
The receptionist was feeling restless. She had to pause the movie she was watching because of Kayra's arrival.
At that moment, she wanted nothing except Kayra to check in as soon as possible!
"Discount…" Kayra blurted out. She wanted to see her luck and ask for a discount when she misunderstood the price.
The receptionist nodded her head and said, "6 Az a week. No less."
"Deal!" Kayra nodded her head vigorously.
"..." The receptionist had never encountered such an oddball in her life. She stared at Kayra who was going to the elevator after she gave her the room card.
…
Kayra was satisfied with the room she got. It had a table for two people, a fluffy bed, an attached little bathroom, and a little wardrobe.
She went towards the window and opened it. The view from the 10th floor was decent enough.
After checking out her new temporary nest, Kayra went to the bathroom. She glanced at the mirror and smirked. While she was making many weird expressions in the mirror, Phiphi doubted her mental condition.
Lv1 Egg [ 0/10 ]
It looked at its energy bar and felt its future was blank.
While the system was worried about its future, Kayra finally stopped mocking herself in the mirror. Then she pressed on her face and a mask fell out.
Kayra splashed water on her face and then gently rubbed. She felt finally her skin got the chance to breathe!
Before her intuition was telling her that somehow other people would come after her for killing that worm!
After all, it's a world she didn't have any knowledge about and if she got caught, she wouldn't be surprised either.
To be on the safe side, she traded her purple suit for ordinary black attire and a special face mask that could alternate a little of her features.
After Kayra was done washing, she left the hotel. Along the way, she bought a normal mask which hid half of her face and put it on. She went to the Central Park of the Capitalia and sat on a random bench.
Just breathing the fresh air in the greenery, she felt her inside was being revitalized. Also, the chirpings of little birds gave her the illusion that she was still on Earth.
'Such a good day~'
But soon her illusion crashed when she saw a calf following a milf lady with pointy ears, ten chicks following a burly man who had a red comb on his bald head.
After the initial shock had passed, Kayra gracefully sipped her ice coffee while smiling at a litter of kittens in a girl's arm who looked like a loli with her petite body and pointy black ears.
'I forgot that I have transmigrated.'
Kayra thought with a twisted smile. The surroundings were too much for her 'innocent' mind.
"Sigh~" She looked down at the iced coffee and took another sip full of heavy cream.
Unbeknownst to her by appearing at that site, she had already caused the little babies to become restless by her sweet milky aroma.