Today was like any other; washing clothes, cleaning dishes, shopping, and visiting friends but something unexpected happened ..
--Homura POV--
"hmm~ hm~ mmmh~"
While humming my favorite song I here a commotion outside while cleaning my home. Getting curious I peek outside and see a crowd gathered around something now even more curious I look out side and join the crowd
Spotting my friend Kurutta I rush to her and tap her on the shoulder she turns around and says to me in a happy tone
"Finally what took you so long Mura-chan ?"
getting confused I ask her what was happening in the square
"Kuru-chan what is going on?"
Kurutta gasped dramatically and then said
"Didn't you hear? the emperor is looking for some girl that made a beautiful painting for one of his maids!"
"Hmm? why is everyone so excited then?"
"well duhhh! his majesty is looking for the girl and is holding a contest for all of the girls in the empire to see who is the mysterious painter!"
"Is it you?"
I ask jokingly
"Of course not but I wish it was!"
confused I ask why
"Why is that kuru-chan?"
"Because! once the his majesty finds the 'Angelic Painter' he will request a painting and that girl will be given 200,000 gold coins!!"
"T-two hundred- th-thousand??"
"yup I was surprised too."
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Before we continue! this is the currency in this world:
1 platinum coin = 10,000 gold coins ( only excess-able by high ranking nobility and some priest's and the pope.)
1 gold coin = 100 silver coins
1 silver coin = 100 copper coins
1 copper coin = 100 pento coins
1 pento coin= 0.5 coin ( this type of coin is worthless than a penny about half of it really)
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I think of what I could do if I was that girl who earns 200,000 gold then sigh inwardly I think about it then realize I'm never gonna be that girl I wont ever know the luxury of having available money to spend for myself and not my siblings...
-Author POV-
Homura wasn't exactly doing the best but with help from the villagers she can live a stable life with her younger siblings, Shizuki, Kurai and Akari
Their parents died in the war 4 year's ago when Homura was 17 but that's another story...
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A knight announces;
"All women in the village over 14 please report to the palace at noon."
'I thought only the girl would go to the palace?'