The Author's POV

"Thank you for your purchase, your order will be delivered to you in a week's time"

Coldly looking at me, Richard handed me a receipt and proceeded to ignore me. Rolling my eyes at his obvious display of jealousy I headed back towards the sofas.

Honestly, though annoying, Richard's behavior was quite amusing. Although he acted like a typical arrogant young master, he wasn't looking down on me nor saying things like 'how dare you touch my Amanda! you're courting death!'

It was sort of refreshing...I guess he was just a very frank person.

Either way, once again sitting on the sofa as a light sigh escaped from my mouth, I looked at the receipt in my hand and fell into deep thought.

20,000,000 U

I spent a total of 20,000,000 U on a sword today...

That was just about all of the money I had saved up excluding the budget for the mercenary group which was pretty much off-limits.

...I was now once again poor.

Still, I didn't regret my decision.

If this decision proved instrumental in keeping myself safer in the future, then it was a worthy investment.

After all, my life was more important than money.

Plus, I could very well make the money back in the future. Especially so since I now had a clear direction with regards to earning money.

"Ah!"

Suddenly recalling something I smacked my fist on the palm of my hand.

'Right, I guess now that Amanda is with me I may as well bring the topic of the company project to her'

...I had originally planned on doing this a long time ago, but since I didn't have a concrete product at the time, I didn't do it. However, now that a bit of time had passed since I gave the outline of the project to Melissa, the initial phases of the product were now completed.

From what Melissa showed me, it was now presentable for investments.

Thinking along those lines, my eyes quickly drifted towards the sofa next to me where Amanda was sitting. However just as I was about to bring the topic up, I stopped myself as what I saw and heard made me speechless.

With his elbow on the handrail of the stairs, leaning backward, Richard stared at Amanda who was sitting on the sofa next to me and casually said

"...So, Amanda how long has it been since we've last seen each other?"

Ignoring Richard as she looked through the tablet, Amanda bluntly said

"I forgot"

Not minding Amanda's cold tone, Richard chuckled.

"hehe, but I didn't forget, it's been a total of one month and three days since I've last seen you. Not once did I forget the moment you walked through the door and stole my heart, ever since that day I've bee..."

Completely unfazed by Richard's long love confession, pointing towards the screen of the tablet, Amanda said

"I want to purchase this and this"

Seeing Amanda point towards the tablet, taking his elbow off of the handrail of the stairs, Richard enthusiastically moved to where she was and said

"Oh, you're buying this one? A very wise choice.."

Watching Richard continuously try to flirt with Amanda, I was left speechless.

What sort of failed attempt at flirting was this?

Wasn't Amanda making it obvious that she wasn't interested? Even I who was terrible at dealing with girls could see this.

Facepalming as I cringed at Richard from where I was sitting, I thought to myself.

'...this guy is a total simp'

In the end, much to Richard's disappointment Amanda only spoke a few words to him as she placed her orders down. Regardless of how much Richard tried to shift the conversation, Amanda would just coldly ignore him.

After purchasing everything that she wanted, much to Richard's distraught, Amanda stood up and looked at me.

"Let's go"

"Alright"

followed Amanda out of the worn-down apartment. According to what I've been told, our orders would be automatically delivered to our dorms

looking at me

your patronage, I hope to

of his sentence, shaking my head,

How petty.

same old man with a hunch

thank you for the patronage, I hope to see

towards the old man, Amanda left the building. Following Amanda's example, I too thanked the

"mhm"

"Yes, thank you"

-Clank!

metal door behind us closed, we soon found ourselves back outside

is something I want to talk to

Amanda tilted her head

"Something to talk about?"

you have

of seconds, Amanda eventually nodded her

"Yes, I do"

off she naturally had

at the black cat resting on my shoulder, Amanda bit her lips

animals...and after seeing Ren's cat, Amanda couldn't stop herself from wanting

didn't want to get slapped

of Amanda's inner thoughts, glancing towards my

This isn't really the most ideal

thoughts, Amanda nodded

"Okay"

as we were about to move,

know any place that

to the side, a confused look appeared on Amanda's face

"why?"

on Amanda's face, I

...why?

even aware of

*Sigh*

sigh escaped from my mouth, I made up a

don't

eventually nodded her head and turned right

"Okay"

with going to secluded spaces alone with a

enough, she wasn't repulsed by

this way...was it perhaps because of pudding? or was it because Ren gave her an odd sense

...Amanda didn't know.

she knew her feelings weren't that of love, at the

Amanda's thoughts about me, I

"Great, lead the way"

thinking for a bit, Amanda decided to go

"Follow me"

towards the main street, we walked for a couple of minutes

had a transparent retractable door at the entrance of the store, glancing at

"Is that the place?"

place, Amanda

"Yes"

of warm air brushed past my skin warming my body immediatly. Subsequently, the rich aroma of the coffee invaded my nostrils prompting me to directly stare at the blackboard on

it, were

"Welcome"

I at the register was a moderately beautiful young girl. Greeting the young

took an espresso, we soon found a table in the corner of

-Squek! -Squek!

shop, the aged wooden floor creaked beneath our feet creating a subtle squeaking sound. Ignoring this, arriving at the table, I made myself comfortable and sat on a bulky wooden chair that

opposite side of me, Amanda calmly took a sip of her coffee and looked at me. After a short pause,

what did you

the holographic function

a look

had asked Melissa beforehand to send me a video of the current progress of her research..and the video I was currently going to show Amanda

image before her, Amanda