When Violet heard Stroph talking about food, she was immediately excited, she had been fed, but it had been a long time since she had eaten something truly delicious, but her joy didn`t last long for she remembered that she had no money.
"Master... I have no money, I can't pay for the food" Her voice was slightly depressed, she was really saddened by this.
Immediately after her words, Stroph looked at her as if she had said a nonsense, he didn't understand how such thoughts could even come into her head and said: "Wow, what a decent one, but you shouldn't be talking nonsense. It`s naturally my treat! You can order whatever you want and as much as you want!"
Violet couldn't figure out for a while if Stroph was joking or if he was actually ready to buy her a meal. But, when she saw the confident look on her master's face, she knew that she could get enough and enjoy her meal today.
Stroph was also very pleased with everything that was going on, Violet could be a very good subordinate in future, but apart from that, the information window from the system was floating in front of him, which he began reading only now.
[Congratulations! You received a rare level history - "First Subordinate", the effect - slightly increases your charisma]
[200 wish points and 1000 history coins is received.]
Though the effect wasn't obvious or somehow incredibly cool, every history, every title, all of it, made him stronger.
Stroph and Violet had to go to the upper level of the city to have a meal, of course, they could find plenty of food in the underground city, but Stroph wanted to look around upstairs as well, for almost as soon as he had come to Terein he went to the slave market.
They got to the topside fairly quickly, on the way Stroph bought one interesting thing - a special bracelet, which was a some kind of small computer. Searching for everything on the phone display wasn`t as comfortable as with this bracelet. After all, a single press of a button brought up a 3D hologram of a window from which you could access the Internet.
He took two bracelets, one white for himself and the other blue for Violet, they weren`t expensive at all, for literally everyone who was in the underground Terein had them. For everything he paid only five thousand sempets.
They took a lift up, luckily they didn't have to take the stairs that Cristo had taken him up before, because Stroph wouldn`t have survived such a long climb. The lift was free and they ended up in some musty building very similar to the one he had been in with Cristo. When they got out of it they finally found themselves in a city where most ordinary people lived and no human or monster`s organs were sold on the counters.
As they were going up in the lift, Stroph was looking through a list of interesting cafes and restaurants and his choice fell on a café with a name that spoke for itself: "The Fire Pig". There was mostly served all kinds of pork and many spicy variations of it, but it also had several desserts, vegetable and fruit dishes.
This cafe had a pretty good rating and was only a couple of hundred meters away.
All along the way, Violet and Stroph were silent, but when they finally arrived at the place, Stroph said: "I hope you like spicy food, otherwise, you won't be able to fully enjoy the food here ". After these words he opened the door and went inside.
Violet said nothing and quietly continued following him.
Once inside the cafe Stroph chose comfortable seats in the very corner, he liked it when there were fewer people around him. There weren't many waiters, as mostly the trays with food were handed out by drones, and the dishes were ordered through tablets built into each table, everything was automated.
Stroph chose a large medium-rare pork steak, with garlic sauce and an assortment of vegetables, he didn't know exactly what kind of pig it was, because there was a wide variety of species. As with the six-eared cow, it served the meat of certain monsters that looked and tasted very much like pigs. Stroph just liked the view of this steak so he decided to order it.
Violet chose the cheapest vegetable salad with broccoli. Upon seeing it, Stroph said: "No need to be shy, order what you really want, it's my treat, we came here to eat but not to chew the grass."
Hearing him, Violet hesitated for a while, but finally gave in and took what she really wanted to try.
Violet ordered spicy ribs with sweet and sour sauce. As for the drinks they ordered soda for Stroph and milk shake for Violet.
While they were waiting for their order, Stroph was looking for a house, they needed somewhere to live and that choice had to be made very thoroughly. Finally, Stroph liked a simple two-story house, with a small sauna and a pool on the ground floor and a huge underground floor that included a medium-sized shooting gallery.
The house had everything they needed right now and even more, it cost as much as a hundred thousand sempets. At that moment Stroph remembered that he had paid as much as 36 thousand for answering questions to the man with the cigar in Metro-02! That was a third of his future home. Once again he was convinced that the personality of that man was far from ordinary one.
Their food was brought fairly quickly. They were eating and chatting, Stroph didn't learn much about Violet, but the girl was surprised that Stroph wasn't from the slums, but came here from the Outer Circle, so most of her questions were just about the place where Stroph had lived before.
Stroph was full enough of one large delicious steak, but Violet additionally ordered for herself a dessert and a milk shake with berries very similar to black currants.
They paid 1400 sempets for everything, as Stroph realized it was a rather expensive place, but the meal was very tasty, he was happy with everything.
When they left the cafe Violet asked: "Master, where are we going next?"
Stroph yawned and slowly answered her, " Home, of course, it's time for you and me to have a rest, we need to wash up and then go to buy you some clothes, it isn`t good walking around in some dirty torn rags."
Violet only nodded slightly and followed him. As Stroph looked at the map their new house was pretty far away, at least it would be a long walk to get there. So, they went to the bus stop and waited for the bus.
About forty minutes later, they were standing in front of the house.
Just like Cristo had said, the AI of the house already knew that Stroph was its new owner and there was no problem getting in.
Upon entering the house, Stroph immediately sent Violet into the bathroom, she had been stubborn for a while and insisted that he should be the first, but she lost that battle.
While Violet was having a bath, Stroph was looking around the house and the underground floor, everything was just like at the pictures, an ordinary kitchen, an ordinary hallway, everything was usual. But that's what he really needed, just a house, just a place for living.
After watching around the house, Stroph sat down on the leather sofa in the hall and began looking through the store of the system. And eventually he came to one conclusion, he needed points and coins. They could be obtained through histories and quests, but it wasn't stable, so he realized he needed to find a place where monsters lived. He needed to kill and fight that way he could earn points and coins and maybe get titles and new histories.
The next moment he heard a familiar sound.
"Oh, and you're here, I hope you won't attack me this time" Saying this, Stroph looked at the little vacuum cleaner robot diligently cleaning the hallway.
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About an hour after Violet had gone to the bathroom, she came back into the hall.
Stroph looked at her and realized that there was one thing that needed to solve straight away and that was clothes. Both for him and for Violet. Right now she was standing in front of him in a towel as the only clothes she had were some dirty tattered rags.
Having made up his mind, Stroph turned to Violet, "Would you like to go with me and choose some clothes?"
Certainly, they could go to the store, try on different variants and buy everything they needed there, but it was much easier to order a delivery and a drone just would fly to your place in an hour with all your stuff.
Hearing Stroph's suggestion, Violet smiled slightly and nodded approvingly.
But as he opened the clothing catalog with his bracelet, Stroph realized how stupid he was. At that moment he thought, <What an idiot I am, how can she choose clothes if she can't see anything... I guess I'll have to trudge to the store... I hoped to have a lie-in...>
After these thoughts, Stroph said: "Violet, why don't we go shopping? We can try them on and buy right there." Saying this, he looked at the girl expecting her answer.
"Okay, but I really have no idea what kind of clothes I'd like."
Ten minutes later they left the house and headed straight for the nearest store. Stroph sincerely hoped that they would buy everything quickly and go home without any delays or accidents.
Although Violet was blind and she couldn`t see both colors and screens, nevertheless she could feel and "see" everything perfectly well in her own way.
Stroph left Violet alone for a while so she could choose the clothes she liked in shape and material, while he quickly grabbed two T-shirts, a pair of jeans and a pair of gray sneakers for himself. He was already prepared emotionally for the full force of a girl's love of shopping, but a real miracle happened.
Violet made her choice almost as quickly as Stroph did, to his great surprise she chose a strict style. A woman's black blazer, white shirt, black pants but she didn't like the tie for some reason. It was reminded him of someone else when he saw her choice.
<Eh, Charles, it looks like I found your female copy, at least in your choice of clothes, you're as like as two peas, just the same reflection in the mirror>
Along with these thoughts he wondered if Charles was doing okay now, because as for himself, things got really fucked up.
"Master, how do I look?" Violet roughly understood what she was wearing now, but she didn't know what color her clothes were.
Stroph looked at her, assessed her again, then said: "Better than ever, I think you`ve made the right choice." It wasn't clear whether he really liked the way Violet looked or whether he wanted to go out of here and get into bed as soon as possible.
To his surprise, Violet blushed slightly and was just standing silently waiting for Stroph to pay for everything. This time she no longer resisted the fact that Stroph spent his money on her.
All the purchases cost about five thousand sempets.
Stroph strongly wanted to get home, but there was one last question to solve, he couldn't leave it unfinished. And that was Violet's fingernails, or rather their absence.
"Violet, I want to pay for fingernail surgery, what do you think?" The question was rhetorical, as he had already made up his mind and Violet seemed to understand that as well.
She just bowed low respectfully and said sincerely: "Thank you, Master". Her voice trembled slightly, apparently Stroph's kindness really touched her. Stroph didn`t think he was doing any kindness, in fact, he simply couldn`t leave his subordinate dirty, hungry and sick.
Actually, while Violet had been taking a shower, Stroph had already signed her up for surgery, but the hospital that had a good rating was pretty far from their house, so before they left they had to come home and leave all their shopping, Stroph's clothes and another set of formal wear that Violet had taken.
Their next destination was the bus stop from where they got to the hospital. They arrived rather early because Stroph had scheduled the surgery calculating the time if Violet just got bogged down in the shopping, but fortunately or unfortunately, he was wrong.
While he was waiting, Stroph read about the procedure itself and was surprised that the Slums had such advanced medicine, for as far as he knew, there was only one hospital in his city that performed such operations. Certainly, it could possible to implant plastic or metal plates instead of real fingernails, but Stroph couldn't afford to make it so squalid.
About two hours later, Violet was called into the office where she and the surgeon selected the nails, and then the operation began.
In Terein there was absolutely no importance to have such things as a medical insurance or any documents necessary for the operation. If you could pay, you would get any surgery you wanted without any questions.
It was certainly not cheap, as much as fifty thousand sempets! Ten fingernails cost as much as half of their house, but Stroph didn't regret it, he couldn't leave Violet with a piece of meat instead of fingernails and at the same time he didn't want to implant her any of that plastic stuff.
The operation lasted until the evening, all that time Stroph was either reading something, or watching videos or playing. He also mentally communicated with "Snow White Darkness", as he wanted to know what it thought of Violet, and in short, his companion thought that she could become incredibly strong through her muscles and her strength of spirit. Hearing about her strength of spirit, Stroph decided to ask more about it, he hadn't spent enough time with Violet and didn't know how strong she was emotionally, finally he received a simple reply: <I just know much better than you about the aura of living things, you make some progress, but you are still so far, there are no words to describe the distance between us>
Hearing his words Stroph thought to himself, " It`s arrogant, incredibly arrogant, but it`s really true, I think I'll focus on myself and get stronger". Then added "Of course, after a little rest"
Stroph was also thinking about the fact where to hunt monsters, on the local network he could find information that a variety of monster species lived outside of the city and the further away from the borders, the more dangerous the creatures were.
The option was quite simple and effective, in fact, he should leave the city and kill monsters, and then return, but this option had one big disadvantage, it was too long to migrate, back and forth, even if he had a private plane, but he didn't have one.
Thinking over the matter, he concluded that he would have to call Cristo, he had his contact information, so it would be foolish not to take advantage of it. Cristo would probably know a better way.
The next moment, the operating room door was opened and Violet with the bandaged hands and small blood stains around her fingernails came out of it.
On seeing her, Stroph stood up and said: "Well, let`s go home to bed at last"
Creation is hard, cheer me up!
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