A Strange Store: Part III

His lips twitched as he looked at the woman lying on the ground.

All her life aura was extinguished, like a corpse, the alleged "whisperer" lay still.

Yuichi reached out to touch her and when he did, she disappeared.

"..."

Only the nine-star card remained, a little warm from the woman's touch.

Yuichi held up the card with a confused expression.

Suddenly he looked up, focusing on the antique wooden counter, and there was the woman... or rather, her silhouette was slowly being drawn, now it seemed to be made of reddish smoke.

"..."

In a few seconds the same woman appeared.

Her calm expression had escaped somewhere, a little pale and trembling, she didn't dare to look at him.

"..."

Why does it feel like I bullied her?

The woman looked really pitiful.

Yuichi didn't say any words, he had a feeling that the woman would collapse again if he did that.

Yuichi kept the coin while still watching the woman.

The woman regained her composure and pulled out some kind of intercom and quickly sent a message to her superior.

In turn her superior would send a message to her own superior.

This situation was out of her hands!

Afterwards she approached, this time walking slowly.

Yuichi watched her, it seemed that the woman was performing some kind of ritual?

Every step showed an unattainable elegance, even Yuichi could not help but admire the woman a little.

However, his impression was completely undone when the woman prostrated herself on the ground crying out for forgiveness.

It was the famous Dogeza pose!

"I'm sorry for my previous behavior, I apologize for not recognizing you earlier," the woman was actually self-conscious, though there was a sort of.... happiness in her words?

Was this woman a bit of a masochist?

Yuichi just waved that he didn't care about that problem at all with a carefree smile on his face.

But since he was hooded from head to toe, the woman didn't notice that.

He didn't say a word.

The woman felt extreme concern, from her perspective, the hooded figure (Yuichi), seemed so indifferent, a bit annoyed, as if it was not worth spending saliva to talk to her miserable existence.

The woman wanted to say many things but did not dare.

The woman felt like crying, she felt that all her years of effort had been wasted because of her little mistake, even if her life was hanging by a thread right now.

Suddenly, Yuichi squatted down as he held out his hand to help her up.

Intimidating an innocent woman didn't seem to be his style and made him a little uncomfortable.

The woman was too surprised by this act.

The ultimate leader of the Whisperers always said that the owner of this "coin" was extremely arrogant and despised everyone, so she adored the submission of all existences, in her presence everyone had to adopt a pose of Dogeza....

In those years Lady Luck changed her personality many times, in fact, nowadays, those memories embarrassed her deeply.

But anyway, the owner of the coin was the most important existence for her, the ultimate leader of the Whisperers was obsessed with Lady Luck.

The woman was still prostrate in Dogeza's pose and only shook her head.

"I d-don't deserve your help, Lady S-supreme Luck," the woman spoke in a halting tone.

Touching her was a mere dream... a dream too dangerous.

All the Whisperers knew that their leader was obsessed with a woman, the famous Lady Supreme Luck.

All the Whisperers were curious to know what that woman called Lady Supreme Luck looked like.

That woman had even managed to make their leader fall in love with her.

A woman as cold, indifferent and ruthless as her leader, prostrated herself many times at Lady Luck's feet.

Their leader had said that Lady Supreme Luck was the most beautiful woman that would ever exist, in those years, without distinction, all races worshipped her and prostrated themselves at her feet.

Even the woman was tempted to look under Yuichi's hood, but that thought had to die or she would!

On the other hand, Yuichi's mouth couldn't close.

For some reason he felt embarrassed when he heard the name "Lady Supreme Luck".

His opinion about Lady Suprem... no, his opinion of Lady Luck changed too much.

He slowly withdrew his hand.

The woman seemed to have her reasons for not wanting to touch him.

What had Lady Luck done in the past?

As an awkward silence spread through the air, another woman appeared.

The woman wore a dark blue dress that came down to her calves, even Yuichi was tempted to ask how the woman could walk in something so "tight".

Her voluptuous body could not be exposed any higher than this.

At the level of her generous bosom, there was a label: [Branch General Manager No. 456596].

The woman watched the scene, the "receptionist" prostrate.

Yuichi, indifferent, a bit annoyed (from her perspective).

That's her!

The woman also looked down like the other woman, all the General Managers of every branch that existed had an artifact that allowed them to read a person's aura, specifically this artifact only served to read Lady Luck's Divine aura.

Their leader had invested too much time in that artifact, something she was proud of.

The woman was also tempted to prostrate herself before the "woman" in front of her.

"Lady S-supreme Luck...", her melodious words were interrupted.

"Just lead the way," Yuichi's ethereal voice echoed.

Yuichi was cautious this time in all aspects.

Although the two women were submissive, they were too powerful, Yuichi suspected that even the elegant but trembling woman prostrate on the ground, could kill him with one blow.

His "ethereal" voice was copied from the real Lady Luck.

Truly Yuichi regretted coming, now he was forced to act like Lady Luck or at least like a woman.

The women did not question anything.

They didn't know Lady Luck's real voice, let alone dare to ask him anything.

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