After deducting water, electricity, and other essential living expenses, she was left with around seven hundred beastdollar.
Out of that, she set aside four hundred beastdollar each month for emergencies, leaving just about three hundred beastdollar for food.
That's why Ash felt immensely grateful that she had transmigrated into a quiet, remote town, where ten beastdollar could buy enough groceries to last her an entire day.
While she couldn't afford to eat meat at every meal, filling her stomach wasn't a problem.
At least she wouldn't have to experience the embarrassment she faced shortly after arriving in this world—fainting from hunger in the middle of a class.
"Let's see… The school break should be next week, right?"
Walking along the path back home, Ash counted the days on her fingers while mulling over the information the old librarian had shared with her earlier.
Perhaps it was because she had grown accustomed to hardship over the years, but after calming down, Ash wasn't entirely convinced that such a miraculous stroke of luck would fall into her lap.
It wasn't that she doubted the old man's intentions; she simply didn't believe in her own luck.
As someone who had never even won a consolation prize in the lottery and always hit the lowest guaranteed rewards in gacha games, Ash found it hard to imagine that fortune would suddenly smile upon her with such a gift from the heavens.
In short, she just didn't believe it.
Still, after an intense internal struggle, she decided to investigate the old man's information about the Azure Bay Mountain and the Ripple Fruit.
Since the opportunity was already presented to her, she couldn't afford to be hesitant now.
Otherwise, how could she ever embark on her dream of traveling the world with her Spirit Beast in the future?
Ash had long since decided to follow in the footsteps of the great adventurer Wesley Bennett, exploring every corner of this world.
There was no way she would back down before even getting started!
With this thought in mind, Ash began to roughly plan out her tasks for the following week.
She considered everything from the possible Spirit Beasts in the Azure Bay Mountain, to how she could escape if she accidentally wandered into a Spirit Beast's territory, to what kinds of medicine she should prepare in advance.
She even thought about what to do if, by some miracle, she actually found the Ripple Fruit—how to harvest and preserve it properly.
By the time she got home, she planned to write everything down in a detailed checklist and then head to the school library or other places to search for the information she needed.
Lost in thought, Ash soon found herself less than 500 meters away from her home.
Solvale Town lived up to its reputation as a mountain town dominated by hills and low peaks.
Even though Solvale Town was in one of the more remote regions, Ash still couldn't escape the endless staircases that defined this place.