Reckoning Tale-An Undertale Fanfiction Novel

Chapter 83: Scavengers

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Fun level five: Damaged

Sans blinked his light guiders as he started to wake up. Only convenience of not having a house? No getting up, simply walk forward to start the day. He saw Monster Kid standing in the snow, but didn’t say much yet. Hopefully that kid got someone else to feed him tonight. He didn’t mind helping every once in awhile, but he didn’t want to start being responsible for another soul.

Not since he lost the last soul he was responsible for. Not since the kid that he kept his promise to Toriel for killed just about everything. It happened years ago, but the damage from its presence would always continue to be felt.

He hit a switch and lowered some spikes. It would take a long time to cross all the puzzles to get to the main side they used to live on. He looked up ahead and saw one of his employers. “Here.”

“Late,” they said, “as usual.” It looked at its list. “Hottest things we are looking for. Basic ingredients from Mettaton’s Restaurant. Pay is usual 3,000 GOLD from Burgerpants. Some napkins would be great too. He’ll throw in 500 GOLD extra for that. Reading Material: Study and Entertainment. 1,000 GOLD for Entertainment, but one monster is willing to pay 2,000 GOLD for each study book you grab.”

Ooh? “Limit there?”

“Six is top. Also, basic wood. 3,000 GOLD for a bundle. Then, there’s a trade if you’re interested.”

Trade. At least one new trade a day. “What’s the trade?”

“Unknown trade.”

Sans had a feeling he knew who that had been. “What do they need?”

“Crib or anything. Toy even?”

Ah, close. Not the new mom on the horizon, but probably relation. It was a tricky grab. Not as many little ones were born even when monsters were plentiful, so that was going to be tough. No one would be going for it though. Especially under the pay of ‘unknown trade’. It could be something as simple as a barrette for payment.

“Basic everything.” The monster handed Sans the sheet of paper. “200 GOLD per qualified grab.”

“Got it.” Sans noted it in his head. It wasn’t half as hard as the calculations he used to need to remember. “Basics from Mettaton’s and napkins. Reading. Wood. Something nice for a kid. Then just 200 GOLD for qualified grabs? Killing me for 200 GOLD. Should be 300 GOLD.”

“Yes, and you better get going. Four monsters beat you out already today.”

Yeah. No big deal. Sans trotted past him, opening up another puzzle. He solved another puzzle. Another puzzle. They were difficult puzzles, way more difficult than the childish ones he and Papyrus messed around with. There was no way anyone with a lower IQ than a skeleton would know. Everyone else left with their memory of where everything went instead of knowing how to solve the puzzles. "Hey.” *Four monsters were glaring at him as he went to the next puzzle. Some of them were still hard to even memorize though. Some had different outcomes each time. “Morning?”

“You’re late.”

“What’s new?” Sans watched as the other four monsters raced past him. One of them was moving extra fast. Great, probably family feeders. Fortunately, Sans had the power of teleportation. It was a power no one else had. If he wanted, he could get the whole hot list in under five minutes and several things off the qualified list.

But, everyone else would make nothing for the day, and all he needed was food for one. That’s why even though 'trade’ was risky, he was usually the one to do them. They at least spiced life up. He knew a lot of the others would go toward random houses, check out their qualified list, and try to find either qualified things, some old canned food, or even monster candy lying around.