*Inside Dining Room*
As Anon was eating his breakfast as usual while Marie was standing beside him waiting for him to finish, Then Anon just decided to break the silence while putting off his half eaten sandwich, he just ask Marie directly,
"Marie, after this can you help me a bit"
When he says this Marie just looks into his face with a bit of confusement while redirecting a question to him,
"Help you specially with what Master?"
And Anon just nonchalantly replied with his already well thought words,
"Help me to gather information for the next step to broaden my recipe list in becoming a sucessful Supreme Chef"
But Marie was still confused and cannot compute anything properly as she was lost in thoughts a bit, while Anon just explained the whole things,
"The things is I will go to the grand library today but along the way I also wants you to run errands and collects all of the best recipe in our town"
With that being said Marie finally clasped both her hands indicating that she finally understood, while she just utters,
"Ah...I see, then Ill do as just you say master"
"Good..." Anon respond while biting off the whole sandwich, while the system prompt just appears,
[SystemV2: Minor Bluffings suceed✓✓✓ + 3points]
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Finishing his breakfast, Anon now was outside the Crimson Mansion along with his maid, while Marie just said,
"Let's go Master..."
"Let's no waste time"
With that both of them, slowly walks away from the Crimson Mansion and now Anon was following Marie just like a duckling following a mother duck, unbeknown to Marie, Anon just used her to be a temporary guide secretly,
Then both of them slowly makes their way to their destination while Anon just add ups a few order to Marie to make it more believable,
"Marie you should go scout on Honey's maid inn first, I have a few favourites foods there"
"Okay, Will do master" Marie acknowledged the order and nodded,
[SystemV2: Minor Bluffing suceed ✓✓✓ + 4 points]
Slowly moving farther from the Crimson Mansion, now Anon couldn't hide his excitement as his eyes was wandering off to his surrounding as slowly they are being welcomed by a new environment of the town, Now they have arrived at what looked like a central area, in which is bustling with people. It was like full of people of different types or even species as they were battering and making business exchanging things here and there. Which made Anon ponders in silent,
'is this a market area?'
[SystemV2: Most likely host]
Now Anon was pretty excited as his eyes sparkled with stars and his nose are fuming with vapour while Marie just maintained her attitude like a professional maid worker, moving steadily with enough elegance and formality, even her steps was counted and have certain following rhythm.
His gaze was everywhere, on the vendors or even on the people. It's intrigue him as this is a reality fantasy. While walking excitedly, he suddenly bump into a things and as he was looking straight into the things, he was shocked beyond measure. A tall man or rather what Anon would describe an AlligatorMan which stood at 9 feet tall.
'Holy furries!!!, such people exist?' he thought while a minutes ago he was in opposite the thinking,
But seems like luck was on his side as the AlligatorMan just continue to deviate his path and walk away, while Marie turns her heads and looks into Anon bewildered expressions skeptically, then the system decided to hold its hands to help it's host that's in predicament of getting caught off guard,
[Host you are breaking character again, Marie will be suspicious again in no time]
And as if he is hits by a brick on his heads, he just properly fix his stature and expressions before gesturing Marie to continue in which Marie comply with a sigh, turning her heads to the front again and continue walking,
*Sigh*
And Anon follow suit, while the system prompt decide to reprimand him again,
[I know you are excited for new things host, but be aware of your surroundings and act normal] while Anon just hardly refute the system with irritancy,
'You expect me to remain calm and normal when I just bumped into a walking 9 Foot tall Alligator, are you sane!!!'
But the system just nonchalantly replied with a slight chuckle,
[Owh eheheh, I forgot that this is the first time host been out from home, my bad host]
With this Anon just give the system a slight 'hmmph' before continue walking, but the systems doesn't end their conversations there, as it just give Anon a suggestions,
[How about activating the Artifact for this time around host, this could help alleviate your little problems for a while until you separate from Marie]
'yeah..yeah just activate it's
[SystemV2: Artifact Mask of Deception activated]
[Please pick your Deception:
-Happy
-Sad
-Stoic
- Angry
-Normal
- Narcissist
- Dead
-.....]
'Pick Normal' Anon made a straight answer
[SystemV2: Normal Deception]
[User will be Super Normal for this time period, whatever scene with heavy emotions inducing will be temporarily treated as normal, 4 hours remaining]
With that being activated, now Anon would be more inclined to act normal, even a plane crashed on his heads, he will not break into tears nor panic as it is considered normal, while he praise the artifact because of it's good enough effects,
'this is quite good, I don't need to hardly act or even try hard not being me, good...good'
With that they continue to walk, and Anon ears perks up like a long donkey ears hearing numerous things that he don't even understand or even know from the vendors that they past through.
"Blue mallide gourd for only 25 small Nira!!!"
"Obsidian Whetstone for rent, only 1 big Nira per day."
"Orand apple, 30 for only 5 Nira, very cheap and fresh'
"How about 2 Nira"
"No haggling or I will blast you with my meteor magic"
"Hey young lady there, I will fortunetell your luck today only for 50 small Nira, only for you beautiful lady"
"Hey, don't believe in him young lady, yesterday he was red cabbage seller, he is a scam"
"What!!! Don't slander me your moron, that was my side job"
Hearing those interchanging conversations made Anon feels alive again as he have been to street market frequently back at earth, because once in a while he will go the the street market to buy few things, and this engaging and heated conversations between vendors and customer makes him feel a bit nostalgic,
'this also happens in earth this, a typical street market settings' he smiled,
With that both of them slowly passed through the street market and arrived in a new area, this time the place was quite neat and more hygienic than the previous street market, medieval like buildings was uniformly place in each place with every sign to indicate the purpose of each buildings, and most apparent is the people that gathers here seems to be more common as Anon would think, because previously even though the People in the street market are common, some of them seem shady but Anon like it more here as it gaves a normal town vibe. They seems to be more sincere and accepting, while contemplating such things Marie just interrupted him,
"Master, here we will separate our ways, I know you familiar with this place but remain careful"
"Owh, okay...you don't need to be pressured, just take your time and take everything properly"
"Okay master, will do"
When Anon thought that the conversation is over, Marie just looked into him with a questioning looks before asking,
"I've been wondering for a while master, is it necessary for you to go along with me to Azar settlement instead of going straight to the grand library?"
When Marie mentioned that, he suddenly realised that he just made a mistake following Marie, as it seems the grand library was in other area that separated from where Honey's maid inn was settled, but with his sheer mental fortitude and maybe brilliant thinking he just start to work as usual, Bluffing work,
"owh don't worry about it Marie, I mean it's been a while for me to walk in town and I've decided to catch a glimpse of Azar before I go to Grand Library, "
"Is that so?, well it's master own choice anyway" Marie just shrugged off the little charade, before coming near to Anon and hands over a pouch to him,
[Minor Bluffing suceed✓✓✓+ 3points]
"Master, here's your pocket money for today, but spend it well as I don't want Lady Agnes to nag me for your expenditure"
"Yeah sure, don't know if I have something to buy later" Anon replied with a slight smile and Marie just nodded before moving away but not before bowing her heads and gave him a slight reminder,
"I will go personally to the grand Library later to fetch you up master"
Marie said while waving her hands and slowly moves towards her destination, while Anon just waved back with his other hand holding the pouch and giving his most sincere goodbye with a smile. When Marie dissapeared from his view, he just made a sigh of relief, before going back to his previous path, going to the street market again,
'hmmm, doesn't have that much choice I just have someone else to be my guide around this place'
'hope I found someone reliable' he mutter silently,