The silence was broken when a sudden laugh echoed through the whole store.
“Hahaha, see I told you uncle this guy is worth being friends with, it looks like you will never get bored when you are with him”.
The employee was in a predicament, they indeed had that number of swords in storage but selling them all to the same person could be troublesome as some resellers have tried a similar method where they will buy the whole supply of a product to sell it to a higher price later.
Egil Asher was amused by all the situation, so he gave Aster a little helping hand.
,m “Don’t worry, sell them to him, in case it turns out to be a situation like the one you are thinking the Asher family will give a proper compensation in materials”.
The employee felt relieved, she left for a moment to bring all the swords, Aster saw some of the other equipment they had in exhibition but nothing caught his interest, on the other hand Aria seemed quite interested in a flexible sword but the ones they had were not of high rank, since not so many people use them because they are harder to master than normal swords.
Aster wanted to buy her a usable weapon, after all out of all his girls with who he could interact right now the only one without a good weapon was Aria, Alice had a sword that Lilia gifted her and Aster has seen his mother polishing a black sword similar to the Dragon Fang, she gave him.
Aster secretly approached another employee and asked in a low voice.
“Does this store take commissions? I want to order a flexible sword of the highest grade you can create”.
The employee shook his head.
“I’m sorry dear customer, right now our master blacksmiths are not taking orders… but if you want a flexible sword there will be an auction sponsored by the Kraft and Asher family tomorrow, since you have a medal of the Asher family you can reserve a VIP private room with a cost of one spirit stone”.
Aster considered some things before deciding, “mmm Aria will be refining the bone chilling lotus and according to mom it will take her at least two or three days to finish the process so I can get her the sword as a gift… also I will take sis with me to the auction and buy her something as an apology for implicating her in all this”.
After debating with himself he nodded.
“Fine, can I reserve the room right now?”.
The employee was happy this sale will definitely get him a promotion, he noticed that Aster was speaking on a low voice on purpose and he supposed he wanted to buy the sword as a surprise gift so he answered in a calm tone.
“Of course, we can effectuate the transaction right now and don’t worry, to not rise any suspicions I will ask my co-worker to put the token of ownership for the VIP room and a pamphlet with the rules of the auction and the benefits of the VIP room, will that be okay?”.
Aster nodded
“Yes, that will be helpful”, he handed the employee one spirit stone and he left after that, a moment later the first employee that attended Aster returned with a little black box which she offered to Aster.
“The requested items are inside this courtesy spatial ring please do check them and confirm if everything is okay”.
Aster took the ring and quickly used his spiritual sense to check the contents, effectively there were three thousand swords, a golden token and a pair of pamphlets inside so he nodded and handed her two spirit stones, the cost of each sword was ten gold coins so the total amount was 30,000 gold coins which he indeed had but as it would be a pain in the ass to count them, he paid with spirit stones.
“Keep the change as a tip but divide it in half with the guy who told you to put the auction token in the ring ok?”.
The girl felt her legs trembling a bit, for a moment she considered to not say anything but after a couple of seconds she spoke.
“Sir… are you sure about it, these two stones will exchange for about 38,000 gold coins so the change is…”.
Aster stopped her from finishing her sentence.
“It’s fine”.
The employee understood that probably she was dealing with the young master of a rich powerful family since one of the supreme elders of the Asher family was being friendly with him a moment ago, that is why she kindly reminded him of the big amount of money he was leaving as a tip but he didn’t seem to care about it so she accepted it and left after she thanked him.
Aster said goodbye to the Asher family people and left the store with the girls, but as he started to walk towards the exit of the shopping district, Lilia stopped him.
“Hold on darling, I was talking with Aria and your sister and it seems you came here before with them right ♥?”.
Aster saw the amused expression on Alice and Aria’s face and he felt betrayed “these two did this on purpose”, he thought, but now that the arrow had left the bow there was nothing he could do.
“Yes but…”.
Lilia didn’t let him finish, she dragged him along to the same store he visited before, like before they went to a dressing room, as soon as Lilia entered as if they have accorded it before Alice and Aria left to see other stores so Aster had no other choice but to stay.
He sat on a bench while he waited for Lilia to finish changing her clothes, “well at least those two are getting along really well… even if the reason is taking revenge on me hahaha”.
It took Lilia almost 30 minutes to choose what she wanted, Aster saw the poor employee bringing lots of different clothes from time to time, he was getting a bit bored since there was nothing to do while waiting, there were other dressing rooms next to the one they were using so it could be troublesome if he walked alone by the corridor, finally he shrugged while thinking “I guess this is something every man has to endure for his girl hahaha”, he came out of his daze when he heard Lilia calling him.
“Darliiiiing, how do I look ♥?
He rose saw his mother and his heart skipped a beat, she was wearing a deliciously low-cut white dress, the contrast created by her beautiful black hair and the dress was perfect, Lilia saw her son almost drooling at her and she felt proud of herself, it was a weird feeling because back when she was younger, she never really cared about her appearance, of course she still dressed according to her status but she never bought clothes for anyone to see… until now.
Aster came out of his daze just to see Lilia’s amused expression, “you succubus of a mother” he thought before answering.
“You look gorgeous… but do you plan to use that dress outside?”.
Lilia hugged her son tightly and caressed his hair
“Hehehe, do you feel jealous?
Aster knew the perfect way to counter Lilia’s attacks, he also hugged her while burying his face on her chest to play the act of a “spoiled kid” before speaking in a low voice.
“Of course, I’m jealous, there is no way I could let other guys see my beautiful mother wearing something so flashy”.
Lilia felt her sugar levels going up, she kissed her son’s forehead.
Don’t worry about that, this dress is only for my dear son to see ♥”.
Aster had a warm blissful feeling on the inside, leaving aside the ambiguous talk between them, going with his parents to a shopping mall as a kid, is something he wanted to experience back on earth but he never had the chance to, little by little Lilia and the other girls were filling the hole in his heart.
Rya was meditating inside Hyperion when she felt the current mind state of Aster and little tears formed in her eyes.
“After suffering so many times, it is only fair for you to finally heal that wound in your heart, I will never leave you again my beloved master”, she mumbled.