Chapter-2[Bakery Shop]

Kyle walked out of the room-like place he was staying and looked around, and a frown appeared on his face from the smell of human excretion and the rotten smell of corpses that may be lying in the gutter right now.

He was standing in a small road like a place with different houses all around him, from the simple dirt house to some rotten wood houses. The ground was littered with waste from different things and blood was splashed in some places and the walls.

This was the normal or even better condition as the place Kyle lived was near the border of the slums, and the condition deep in the slums was the worst, as it could get.

Kyle started walking in the left direction, from where he could exit the slums while also being cautious of his surroundings. He knows that even with all the fighting skills and other stuff, he would be easily killed by some adult from the slums as his weakened body can't even walk properly.

After walking for a while, Kyle become surprised as he saw no one, not even any other kid from the slums as kids usually roam around here in search of food, 'Was something happening today?'

Kyle wondered as he continued walking through the creepy calm pathway while ignoring the disgusting stench that continuously made its way into his nose and in another five minutes, he walked out of the slums and breathed deeply.

The fresh air, without the disgusting smell of any human excretion or the corpses, was there anymore, only the fresh air with some aroma of freshly cooked wheat. Kyle felt indescribably calm and felt like he had walked out of hell.

A smile formed on Kyle's face. He had come here to visit the bakery that was a little away from the slums but was famous in this Ardrith for its quality and the ingredients that it used from the dungeon. Only some shops had access to the ingredients from the dungeon and this shop was one of them but it also meant that the prices were reaching the sky. Only some rich families or the nobles working in the Dukedom afforded the things from this bakery.

But the security of the bakery was quite lax, making it easy for others to steal as the shop was full of people all the time, from when the shop opened till it closed. Kyle had started to steal loaves of bread from that bakery to eat and calm the hunger in him. And today he had come for that again as he hadn't eaten anything for 3 straight days. It was already a surprise that he was able to even walk right now, with how weak his body had become.

Kyle walked for another 5 minutes, he reached in front so a wooden shop, with glass covering its outside showing the pieces of bread and cakes that were arranged on the shelves. The whole shop was filled with people to the brim, and there was not a place to it in this shop, meaning whether commoner or noble, they both had to purchase the things and take it with them.

Kyle ignored the stares and the glances that he was getting from the people due to his clothing and his condition. He was looking disgusting right now, that was the truth and it was especially true to those rich people and the nobles who wore expensive winter coats over themselves to protect themselves from the cold winds blowing as it was the start of November right now.

Yes, the year and the time of this world were similar to Kyle's original world from his last life, so he had some advantage that he don't need to spend time to learn about those as the previous Kyle had way too little information on his own.

Reaching in front of the bakery, Kyle started walking in between the legs of the people that were standing there, waiting in line. His height was lower than a normal kid of his age, just like others from the slums, so it was easy to hide like that. And the aroma from the bakery covered the smell from his body.

'Well, this weak body came in hand for now...' Kyle started going inside the shop through the hidden path between the legs of people. His expression turned painful when someone stepped on his foot but he endured it. He know that if he screamed now, then only the prison awaited him as he was already on the search list of the owner of this shop cause of his constant stealing from this shop. All the loaves of bread in this shop were expensive so it was natural for the owner to be angry at Kyle.

It wasn't easy for the adventures to travel to the Dungeon and collect the ingredients and the ingredients collected by the Dungeon Squad were used by the Noble, in whose territory the Dungeon was, making it harder for the normal shops to acquire the ingredients. If not for the owner of this shop having close connections with an Adventure party letting him buy ingredients from them, else he wouldn't be able to sell things like that.

Kyle soon reached inside the bakery, and the moment he did, a deep aroma of fresh bread hit him making his stomach grumble but the voice wasn't heard by anyone as the whole shop was filled with noises from people, some buying, some talking in between, and some extreme ones complaining about the slow service.

The shop from inside had shelves and a whole table with many different types of bread and cakes arranged onto it. A fat man around 1.74 m stood tall on the other side of the table wearing the whole white chef clothing. The fat man was none other than the owner of the bakery. His eyes were looking through the crowd, all over the crowd while also serving the customers.

Kyle also saw the Bakery Owner but ignored him and walked to his left and his eyes focused on the normal bread that seemed normal but was the most expensive in the shop. Most of the ingredients of this bread were from the Dungeon, even the butter, and the eggs making it the costliest, around 1 Gold Coin, which was enough money to feed a middle-aged family for months without any problem.

More and more hunger rose in Kyle as he lifted his hand and tiptoed and tried to place his hand on the bread, and he successes after several failures. The moment his hand touched the bread, a warm feeling came to his hand indicating that the bread was fresh. His fingers were getting sucked into the bread with how soft it felt.

Kyle was about to take the single piece of bread and his whole body was ready to make its way out of there at any moment but suddenly his body froze as a big hand was placed onto his hand. Slight fear crept in his heart from the worst situation that came to his mind.

"Finally, I caught you, you little thief." A man's voice echoed in the whole shop making everyone stop what they were doing and focus on the people.

Kyle lifted his head only to see the Bakery Owner standing there with his hand caught by him. All the people around Kyle moved away from him a little, letting others see what was happening.

The moment Kyle's figure was revealed, murmuring broke out. All the people here were the Top Dogs of the Ardrith, Capital of Avarice Dukedom. So, seeing a kid wearing disgusting clothes coming into the shop where they purchase things made them disgusted.

They were the proud members of the society and looked down on the slums, the place where the darkness of the capital resides.

The bakery Owner narrowed his eyes at Kyle and applied some force to his arm and lifted Kyle as a whole in the air easily. Kyle started struggling to break himself free but all of his attempts failed. He was not able to bulge the Bakery Owner at all.