The World We Do Not Know - 125 Diverse Alley

“This is it, huh?” Faust keeps staring at the shop painted in black. It is built as one of the oldest bars,  with all wood. Glass windows for ventilation and a white signature board in front of the shop that is attached on top of the entrance.

Faust follows the steps of Neith and enters inside. The whole shop is quiet and on either side, elemental stones are displayed inside a glass display. There are all seven types of elemental stones without the black one. There also some stones that implanted inside rings and watches.

Faust is mesmerized by the wide variety of tools and places his hand on the glass display out of admiration. These elemental stones are like gems and the tools are made of gold and platinum-like jewels.

“I wouldn’t touch them if I were you.” He hears a female voice from behind him that startles him quite a bit. He immediately retracts his hand and steps away from the glass.

A girl appears from behind, carrying a spray in her hand. She sprays onto the place where Faust placed his hand and starts wiping it off with a cloth. She repeats the process until the glass starts to shine.

“This glass is of low quality, so if you touch it, your fingerprints are clearly shown on it. And if my boss notices them, I will be punished.” She utters in a low voice.

Faust has found her voice, unique and adorable. It sounds like a female character from an anime. She is wearing a tight figure-hugging black jumpsuit like clothes. It looks like an outfit with only zipper in front. In a sense, the dress is enhancing her every shape, The dress is kind of leather. She bends down to wipe the dust on the bottom of the glass.

Her hair is brown and short, one side of her hair is really short while the other side is long enough to cover one side of her face, over her left eye.

“*Uh oh.”* Faust says in his head as her outfit is getting tighter and tighter as if it’s going to be torn. He is surprised that she could bend first of all, as her pants are tighter than normal and look like they will be ripped apart if she even bows to someone.

“Faust!” Neith calls for him from inside. Faust takes off the tissue that is in his pockets to wipe the sweat off his forehead. He notices that his forehead has gotten hot. He folds it and places it back in his pocket and starts going deeper into the shop.

“There are also tools in this shop huh?” Faust tells as he is walking to where Neith is standing. In front of her is a wooden table and she seems to be talking to a middle-aged man.

“N-o, Listen! That is not. Why can’t you understand?”

“I’m telling you, we don’t buy black stones. Those are useless as pebbles.” The guy sitting down in his chair is arguing with Neith, without even listening to what she is saying.

“Faust, show him the stones that you have got. He is thinking that I came back here to sell the black stone again.” Neith yells in anger. She is fuming like a fire.

“Faust takes out his pouch from his other pocket, takes out the stones and places it on the table in front of him. One red stone and Four green stones. The man jumps out of his chair seeing five finely polished stones on his table.

“Melissa!” The man yells and the same girl walks towards them.

“Who disturbed him again?” She asks in a really sweet voice.

She walks over towards the other side of the table to the guy and plants a thin earpiece in his left ear.

“Ahhhh, now I can hear properly, are you sure you guys came to sell the stones?” The man wants to check with them again. He could not believe, he is looking at brand new elemental stones.

“Tell us the prices first, if we like it, we will trade them. If not, we will go to some other city.” Neith raises her voice, she is not being the kind and caring aunt anymore, her body language describes her as strong military personnel.

“Yes, yes! Normally it is three hundred thousand Kani for the red stone and five hundred thousand for green. But, since it’s you, I will give you a price that you cannot deny.”

“Five hundred thousand for the red and seven hundred for the green. Final price. No more bargains with me.” The man says in a rather aggressive and demanding tone. His voice is resonating around the whole shop even when he speaks normally. If he were to shout, it would make one quiver in fear immediately.

“Ok, nice to know.” Neith, takes all of the stones, turns back and starts walking. Faust is confused, but he follows Neith in her steps.

“W-w-wait wait wait! What happened to my princess? Come back here and let us talk.” Neith stops in her tracks upon hearing the words of the man.

“Come one, let’s not be hasty, tell me if you don’t like the deal, but don’t just walk out on me.”

Neith comes back furiously and slams the stones on the table. She leans forward onto the table. Her eyes are burning like a fire. “Look here, old man. We don’t have all day to sit and discuss with you.”

“These elemental stones are not even used once in their lifetime. You think I’m stupid to take five hundred and leave? Did you forget about me?” Neith says and the table that her hand is on starts producing snowflakes and shortly the snowflakes turns into ice freezing the wood around her hand.

Melissa, who is standing beside the man, draws a short gun from under the table to point it towards Neith and aims at her,

*click*

In a blink of an eye, the gun that is in the hands of Melissa is in Faust’s hands and he takes out the red elemental stone off the gun. Melissa and the man sitting there are beyond shocked. The shotgun is instantly teleported into Faust’s hands.