Chapter 55

"What did you just say? Say that again?"

Ailuka still couldn't quite comprehend and hadn't fully come to her senses.

"I said, I'm going to buy Shirna."

"You... say that again?"

"Are you annoying or what? I already said I'm going to buy Shirna."

Luolin wanted to pin this person down and beat her up, if only he could actually beat her.

"Buying her means..."

"Of course it means buying Shirna from the auction house."

Luolin spread his hands.

Luolin noticed that Shirna's expression seemed off. What was this person up to?

"Hey? Are you okay?"

"What you just said, was it all true?"

Ailuka confirmed again, and Luolin nodded again.

"Of course it's true. Anyway, the commission was to deliver Shirna to the auction house, so that counts as completed, right? So that's fine. What we need to consider next is how to rescue Shirna."

Luolin also took this opportunity to clarify his thoughts once more.

"Anyway, forcibly taking her from them is impossible. Even if we somehow succeeded in the end, where could we run to?"

Luolin quickly rejected this idea. The idea was good, but it simply wasn't realistic, so was there only another method?

"Since this method won't work, we can only go through the 'proper channels.' Since Shirna is going to be auctioned, as long as we buy her, won't that work? What, do you think this method isn't good?"

Luolin looked at Ailuka, whose expression was strange, and asked. Ailuka immediately came to her senses and nodded frantically.

"Good! Definitely good! Shirna is so pitiful, we must save her."

Ailuka said, then reached to pull things from her person.

"How much money? I'll pay!"

"You'll pay with a hammer, you will."

Luolin smiled bitterly. Did this person think this matter was as easy as it sounded? The money needed would definitely not be a small amount.

With the combined assets of him and Ailuka, they couldn't even cover a fraction of it.

"With those few copper coins of yours, save it."

Luolin mercilessly struck down Ailuka, who looked utterly despairing.

"Then what do you say we should do? If we can't afford the money, won't Shirna still be bought by someone else? What if the buyer is a disgusting person, what would we do then?"

Ailuka began to worry about Shirna's future.

"Let's go to the guild first, get the 5 silver from the commission, and then, the 20 silver commission that Luna paid seems to also be at the guild. Let's see if we can take it all together."

This way, they could get a huge sum of 25 silver all at once. This was already quite a bit of money.

But Luolin believed this was still far from enough.

"If that's still not enough..."

"What if it's not enough?"

Ailuka also pressed for an answer. In such a short time, to gather a large amount of money, was there any practical method?

"As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold..."

"Rob money?"

"That won't work. If we run into trouble and waste time, things will get even worse. We might not even make it to the auction in time."

Luolin rejected his own plan.

"Then there's only one other option."

"What option?"

"Find someone called 'Rob the Rich to Help the Poor.'"

"..."

Ailuka was stunned by Luolin's cold joke. She had been seriously thinking about this problem, but what was this guy saying? Such nonsense. Ailuka even wanted to cut Luolin down right now.

"Ahem, alright, I'll stop joking."

Luolin coughed lightly twice.

"Actually, I've already thought of a solution."

Luolin said. This time Ailuka didn't immediately let him manipulate her emotions, but looked at him with skepticism.

"What solution?"

Ailuka asked. Luolin deliberately remained silent for a moment, keeping her in suspense, then slowly said:

"Go borrow money."

"Borrow money?"

Ailuka was stunned again.

"But who would lend us money?"

Ailuka didn't know either. She couldn't think of any suitable candidates.

"There will be someone, it's just that we don't know this person yet."

Luolin wasn't joking—there really was such a person.

He remembered that in his previous world, if he encountered an urgent matter requiring a large sum of money and had nowhere else to turn, there was such an option: getting a loan.

There were very legitimate institutions that could handle this kind of business.

In this world, although such things didn't exist, there were similar alternatives, right here in this big city, in the center of 'Xikaer City.'

The place marked on the map as 'Kalan Special Trading'—according to Luolin's understanding, this was a place that could fulfill his needs. The owner there seemed to be a woman named 'Kalan.'

"Let's go. We'll borrow money from that person. Shirna's fate will be entrusted to her hands."