Volume 8 Chapter 5: Calction Error
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 8 Chapter 5: Calction Error
<span style="font-weight:400">"Why are you staring at me like that?" Keith questioned as he saw how Krystal circled him. Any other time, he would be calm about this. However, they were walking on the streets right now.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What are you made out of?" Krystal''s curiosity was piqued as she continued to stare at the man. He was too abnormal, too different. How is this guy not tired? He had a boulder on top of his body as he trained. Yet, he''s fine?!
<span style="font-weight:400">That didn''t make sense at all. This man did push-ups with a boulder on his body as if nothing was there. Plus, he sparred with all the knights as well! Yet, he was walking so normally as if it was any other day?!
<span style="font-weight:400">"What kind of thing do you usually do at the Marquis''s estate?" This kind of strength came from years of training. It was not something you gain from one month of training.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I started training when I was three, and I''ve been sparring with themander every time, so, yeah," Keith recounted his childhood.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Wait, three?! Against themander?!" Everything that he said in that one line was just wrong!
<span style="font-weight:400">"What? You didn''t start during that time?" Wasn''t that the norm?
<span style="font-weight:400">"No! I started when I was seven." Krystal didn''t even get to spar with Sterling until a yearter.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh," Oh, yeah. I forgot that I''m an outlier. If Keith thought about it, starting at three would have been absurd. Leon and Laura were practicing right now after whining and begging William. They still haven''t sparred with Michael yet. Everyone could tell they would be sent flying if they did.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I guess I''m abnormal?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"You think?!" Was that even a question?!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Don''t need to scream at me like that." Keith rubbed his ears. Krystal really wanted to chew him out when,
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ah! It''s the young miss and her friend!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hello, young miss!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Krystal returned to a calm expression as she greeted, "Hello, everyone."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Wee home to the grand duke!" As the crowd cheered, Keith nudged her, "Happy that your home became better?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm." Krystal nodded, "Rodrick messed it up. But now, it has be so much better." That was something she was d about. Rodrick and his family had used all the merchants and tried to make her step down as the interim head. However, they didn''t ount for one person.
<span style="font-weight:400">"You did so much work." Keith''s White Owl Merchant Group had supplied the entire duchy to the point the citizens had no need to worry about supplies. That was absurd since he basically substituted multiple merchant groups.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Just how many resources do you have to do something like that?" Even saying it was unbelievable. For him to supply the entire duchy while also supplying the northern region was insane.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I have a lot of resources." Keith wasn''t going to lie. In these few years, farms and gardens expanded. With so much, there was actually a surplus of it. The fruits, especially. He kinda miscounted and grew a little too many.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was because of spoge.
<span style="font-weight:400">Spirit-infused fruits were not something to trifle with. They had a longer expiration date, and they don''t get rotten. So there was a surplus there.
<span style="font-weight:400">And there was a whole storage full of sugar. Sugar didn''t have an expiration date, so it was always surplus. People in the northern region were in awe of sugar.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Try it out."
<span style="font-weight:400">Keith nodded as he peeled it, "It has a reddish clear flesh." This is definitely a fusion between the two. Biting into it,
<span style="font-weight:400">What in the world?! A sweet and sour taste had filled his mouth!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Delicious."
<span style="font-weight:400">"I know, right?" Krystal grinned. This should be the only fruit that couldpare to his garden''s.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…" What would it taste like in Diana''s hands? Keith was quite eager to find out.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Also, do you have mangos?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"The regr ones?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…" So you do have some in this world.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Are you sure you want it, good sir," The clerk asked, "They''re really sour."
<span style="font-weight:400">"I will take some." Keith nodded.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"So, you''re going to grow it with Fira''s help?" She knew about the small nature spirit''s ability
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm. It''s going to be delicious." There was already no need to worry about anything.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Let''s return to the estate.." Keith nodded as he headed back. And when they did,
<span style="font-weight:400">"Grand Duke, we apologize!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"We were tempted by the count!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Please forgive us!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Let''s keep ignoring them." Keith and Krystal didn''t look at the people who were begging. Edmund and the rest of the knights were on clean-up duty. Everyone who had worked under Rodrick was fired or given severe warnings and demoted. But the ones who were getting hit the most were the merchants. They were being picked out like rotten apples.
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