Adventures with Von

[11]

LYING IS NOT A SIN

A young child, who has a name Farell, lives in a small poor town. She lives there as far as she remembers. There, she learned that in order to survive you need to do everything you can.

Literally, everything.

When she was four years old, Farell gapes at the kids who stole a bread at the man's store. She guessed that they were a year older than her.

The owner of the store didn't noticed the crime, but one kid showed up and told the man what happened. She even pointed out where the other kids went.

As the man chases the kids, the girl steals more bread than the other kids. She even smirked before leaving.

Farell heard the girl whispered before leaving the scene, "That's what you get for believing my plan, fools."

Farell was lost in thoughts. Farell believes that the scene she just saw was the most amazing thing. It was beautiful in her eyes. She realized that what those kids did was the most basic thing everyone must learn in order to survive.

The town that Farell lives is a tourist spot, but it is also not that common to see people to visit their town despite of having an attractive place. It must be because it is located at a secluded spot. That is why when an adventurer happens to pass by, people in the town starts to compete for that person.

Each of them have a something on their sleeves. May it be advertising, giving promos, seducing the customer or even ruining the other's stores.

But Farell didn't think as how the others think. She uses her skills by gaining their trust and manipulating the people. Farell does not need products, she just need human who can give or bring her money.

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One morning came, Farell saw an adventurer who was swinging a sword. Farell immediately thought of a plan.

She immediately went to where her comrades were and told them the plan she thought of.

"What will be the made-up name of the guy that is supposed to do the kidnapping?" One of her comrade asked.

Farell thought about it when she mindlessly uttered, "Esperanza"

When she told that name, an image flashed in her mind. It was a blurry image but it was familiar to her. That is when Farell realized that it was a memory of hers when she was still young. From that fragment of memory of hers, there was a silhouette of a guy that was helping her when she was a child. She just couldn't remember when, how, or why that even happened.

Even if she tried to think about it, she couldn't find any answers. She just tried to forget about it since she just needs to focus on the plan that is about to commence.

Every plan that Farell think of usually works out. But Farell didn't expect that the plan won't work the way she wanted to this time.

Farell watched how her companion talked to the adventurer at a hidden spot.

"S-sir, please help us." the little boy asked for help in a trembling voice. It was noticeable how nervous the kid was.

The two adventurer stopped from munching their food as they turned their head to the child who spoke.

"Why? What happened?"

"There's a guy who kidnapped our friend. He told us that in order to release him we should give him some money but we don't have one. He only gave us until night time to find some money. If we weren't able to give him some money, he'll kill our friend" the little girl explained.