"Well, well..."

The elf looked behind Hulim, or more precisely, at a long box she was carrying.

"Don't you have a nice mithril sword? If you use it as collateral, 880,000 should be fine."

“This won’t work!”

Hulim quickly hugged his mithril sword and looked at the elf warily, "How did you—never mind..."

Could it be that even my appearance has been seen through?

“Hahaha~!”

The elf was amused by Hulim's appearance and explained with a smile:

"I won't steal your things~! You're going to need this later, right?"

Hulim: "..."

"Hmm, what should we do now? Ah, forget it—"

The elf seemed to have given up thinking.

"You can take these two things, and when you have enough money, you can return it to me!"

"Huh?"

Hulim was very surprised,

"Is that all right?"

"That's all!"

"But I have nothing to pledge."

"Don't bother with IOUs and promissory notes. I'm tired of looking at them. I'll just remember them. You're at the Manax School of Magic anyway. If you don't come to pay me back, I'll go find you at your school!"

Won't you go bankrupt if you do this... ...By the way, you did see what I looked like, didn't you?

"Okay, stop wasting time. You have things to do, right? Just grab your things and do your thing."

The elf handed the two materials to Hulim.

“… …”

Hulim looked at the other person silently, put the purse back into her backpack, and took the materials handed to her by the other person.

"...Thank you, Miss Elf. I will definitely pay you back."

"You're welcome~!"

The elf said with a smile.

... ...

"Ding-ling~!"

The sound of the door closing and the wind chimes echoed behind me.

Hulim walked out of the elf owner's potion shop with the collected materials.

"Ah, little sister."

The elf shop owner's voice came from inside the shop.

Hulim turned around and looked at the other person.

"Even if it's for my money, please don't die~!"

“… …”

Hulim nodded silently, turned around and left...

Looking at the other person's back as he walked away, the elf shop owner muttered to himself:

"A girl who's already close to B-rank at just eleven or twelve... Someone interesting has arrived. Looks like things won't be boring anymore."

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