"it's still fresh come and get now"
"Hey you! if you buy mine, i'll give you a 20% off"
"My shoes are top notch, i'll give you a discount if you ordered a custom."
"This clothes fits on you, come on it's a buy one get two."
Loud noise rang around everywhere at to what seems like an endless place. People soared through the place as if they were a plague without any signs of stopping. From this place, the market. One of the most populated area that I've seen by far. A place where people purchase and sell, ranging from anything. It was amazing.
Theirs was different from ours, in my place, the Abyss. There, demon kills to get what they what. That is why i have a mountains of treasure's. I've taken all the treasures from all the demons that I've killed. All valuable, after all i have the ability to perceive what's valuable or not, therefore i can also perceive things in the market as to what's valuable. Such that i can avoid getting my money wasted!
For example, to value things. I perceive stars, of every each in here. Living beings, machines, tools, food, and many more. To set value aside, looking at these packet cakes that i'm holding. It's once concentrating enough, there it is. A hue of faint gold was appearing. Basing it in the aura emitted it was most definately a 1★ although low, it was still a food to consume after all, better than the food in my place. The values of the food that i ate there were almost 0★. And the highest valued food i ate was a 2★.
Demons never felt the need to taste there. They were not nitpicking due to their low level of intelligence. With the exception of mine of course. By far the most highest valued star i have seen here yet was my own clothes. The one i purchased from that building i've seen hours ago. A 4★, the closest to 5★. I had not seen any 5★ here yet. Even with my mountains of treasures, only a few were 5★ and i can probably even count it.
As such, wandering around once again. This time in the market instead of the whole metropolis. Although i'm not necessarily going into star hunting, instead i'll look on things with what i like rather than what i find valuable.
But then, after examining every nook and cranny in my field of view, there i saw. A hue of pure golden looming in quality.
"Holy shii! A 5star!"
I quickly sprinted towards the object that's excluding the 5★ aura. Upon closing my distance, i stared at it closely. Encased in a glass with locks, a spherical rotary device. Smaller than my palm it spun around as it's inside, the oddly shaped transparent piece moved thoroughly.
'I feel like i had seen closely resembling this before...'
I tried to think where have i seen similarities before yet to no avail. I am indefinitely sure i had seen something alike just when i get here. To ignore such disparity, i asked the sellers questions.
"What is this?"
Pointing at the rotary device.
"Ohh that dear, it was just given to me. What i know is it floats around when thrown for some time. It must be a toy.
A old woman gently answered after hearing my question. She must've been the seller. And her speech was sincere enough to not be a lie.
"Can it be sold? If so how much?"
"It's yours then, it was been in the display for sometime now. There's no need to pay for it."
"Wha-"
The old woman's words shook me by surprise. She then took the encased device and gave it to me, holding it off with my palms. Appalled to her actions, i stared at her opening my mouth in confusion.
"Why? Do you want me to pay you?"
"Don't worry about it child it was waiting for someone to take it. Back in my days, people didn't get to enjoy their previous moments in their younger days and was sent into war."
"Oh ha ha ha, it must've been tough."
"This person is really old now you see. But i'm sure of it but people who fought in war, wishes for the future of you youngsters."
The old woman gently smiled at me. Sighing, i then gave her a token of gratitude, placing it in her hand, burrowing it in hers, was a coin colored in gold. Then headed out of her place before she realized what i gave her. Laughing internally as to how ironic her word is.
Quickly glancing a look, the glass cubic case was locked without it's key. There i say the old woman probably didn't have the key because if it were, it wouldn't been encased here for long. Upon further inspection, the cage doesn't seem to be just a glass. It's much tougher than that of the ordinary.
"To think, such thing would be here."
After thinking of a moment, someone suddenly bumped into me. Looking at the person, it was a child. Almost seemingly could not be seen due to his height and the density of the crowd, the child dodging my glare.
'hold on, did i got robbed? By a child? Seriously?!'
The rotary device was here at my hand. It wasn't the one that was taken away. Well supposedly i have 2 gold frinz at my right pocket. Not knowing the actual worth of it, i examined the coin to see their actual value. The colorless frinz was 1★, the silver was 2★, then for the golden one. It was also 2★,which is the reason i have it in my pocket to used it evaluate it's currency. I gave one on the old lady. Meaning I'm supposed to still have 1 in my pocket right now. But then, looking it up, it wasn't there.
"Hey you! Return my possession!"
The child them sprinted away after hearing my yell at him to the densely populated area in the market. Now, now... I could've easily catch up to him. But yet he hids himself to the crowd, giving me the inability to chase. I can only move slowly. I had known the vulnerability of man, i had experienced it to those peasants in the slums. One full sprint in these crowd and their blood will spatter to the ground.
I watched as the child slowly drifted away like a wave. Unable to catch up to him. Unable to do my last resort, violence. Now then again, it was only a gold frinz after all. It doesn't pain me much, but what's infuriating me is the fact that a child was able to trick and outmaneuver me.
'Screw this!'
After rationalizing for a moment i leaped away from the ground and landed on the roof. People then started to pay their attention to me. I was on the roof, my eyes still locked with the running child, not knowing where i was due to his height. then i started darting off following him which caused people to pay attention to me, watching me run off the roof.
Hopping off from roof to roof, i followed the child. After some enough time, he slowed down. By that time i also had regained my distance. The child hasn't realized yet people around him did. Looking at them, i jumped in an attempt to land. People then instinctively dodge my descent. Unbeknownst to him, the child was puzzled as to why the crowd had circled away from him. Slowly, the child looked on what's behind in his back. I was there.
"You.. where is my currency?"
Grabbing him by the arm, I then raised my arms hanging him away from the ground. He tried to ran away but to no avail.
"Come on, give it already. You wouldn't want this to escalate are you?"
"I-i don't k-know what you're talking about! P-please don't hurt me!"
I shook him off which made him nauseous. He tried to take off his arms from my grasp yet failing miserably that he started to cry.
"Just return my money if you don't want to get hurt."
"Please, please! Uhg- ugh, I'll do anything just don't hurt me! please! Wah!"
The child's plea for mercy hit the watching watching. As they started to sympathize with him.
"A-are you really sure, the child robbed your money?"
A man uttered. To what was once just an interference, started to plague the crowd one way in another.
"Just let the child go, he's already crying!"
"Dude, do you think a child can snatch someone's money?"
"What did the child even do? Why are you making a child cry!?"
"Just let him go, don't you feel bad about him?"
The remark of the crowd pangs in intervention. Stating their own opinion to the issue, only believing to the child's point of view. Not looking at the other side.
"Without a doubt, i believe this brat has my coin. What i want was just to get back my money, so If you want to check the child for it then do it."
I responded. Yet they didn't moved forward to present themselves with their so called righteousness. Instead they only muttered in complaints. With anger, annoyance, and hatred, seeping to their eyes. I thought to myself.
'why are they triggered so much?'
"Come one, just free the child. Do you want to traumatize him?"
"Just check him yourself then, if you can find your money."
"Just give the child the money, aren't you rich enough?"
"Sigh.. it's always been with the upperclass."
Then it finally hit. The reason behind their hostility, their hatred. They don't necessarily hate me, they only put their anger to me, their unpleasantries to the rich at me.
'what the hell happened here for the public to hate nobility that much? Did those so called royalty that the boy i met earlier said, has their reputation tarnished to their doing this much?
I scratched my head off, as i was planning to let the child go. But after that a loud man appeared.
"Hey hey hey, HEY, stop talking, hold it for a moment!"
people now payed their attention to the loud man. As they made their entrance, people started to make a way for them. There are people, both adult male. With scar, dampening in their face, the loud man wore an aggressive demeanor, while the person in his side walked in caution. Marching in front of me.
"Officials finally arrived huh"
Someone in the crowd murmured.
'Officials huh, must probably been an equivalent to that of knights.'
"Now, now. What the heck is happening here?"
Asked the loud man aggressively while looking at me.
"This child snatched my money."
"... Are you certain? If yes then, how much is it?"
The cautious man stated. Sighing as to not being able to get away here to not cause any complication, i answered.
"A gold frinz. He took it out of my pocket."
Low mumurs then spread towards the crowd.
"1 thousand frinz huh, wait isn't that a large sum?"
"It doesn't matter, it might've probably been a pocket change to them."
"They even dare to cause a ruckus cause of a thousand frinz huh."
"Okay, okay, okay. There's no longer a shitshow here anymore. Leave now, don't butt in!"
The loud man exclaimed. Shooing off every person not involved here. As people finally leave, i sighed in relief, giving the child to these authority. To cease the child's cries.
And to no one's surprise the child have my money, located in his right shoes, dirtying my money in the process. There wasn't any problem, i have the ability to deminished bacteria, dirt, and odor after all. I picked up my gold frinz at the hands of the cautious man, picking it up. Upon contact the coin spew trails of smoke then it disappeared in the air, now becoming the same as new.
"You two have my gratitude... Uh, officials?"
"Officers, just call us that. Hey yeah, I'm really sorry about the child, life is just that difficult here."
Answered the cautious officer to me. I nods in satisfaction as the situation was put at ease and didn't escalate to a larger degree. Now looking at the sky, the sun was still above, meaning the day hasn't ended yet.
"Well then now it's time for me to depart."
"Hold it, wait!"
As i was about to leave, a hand was put in my shoulder, stopping me from leaving. Looking from behind there he is. The loud officer, glaring at me intensely.
"I'm sorry dude but you have to come with us. You are under suspicion."