31 Iva
Behind their store is the entrance to the shallow part of Bagyoo's forest where you can take a rest or hunt small wild animals and some travelers use it to travel from one place to another.
Geraldine decided to go there and rest for a bit to give time for her symptoms to subside. Sitting beside the tree, she rested her head on the trunk as the shadows of the leaves danced in her face, she was about to take a nap when a scream is heard from the distance.
"I'VE TOLD YOU TO BUY ME THAT BEAUTY PILL!!! IT'S NOT THAT HARD BUT YOU'RE STILL UNABLE TO EVEN GET ME ONE!!!"
The topic of their conversation perked Geraldine's interest and forced herself to stand up and walk to where the voices came from. Not far from her are two girls standing in front of each other, the other one dressed like a noble while the other dressed as a servant.
"WHY CAN'T YOU DO YOUR JOB RIGHT!? YOU WANTED TO BE FIRED!?" The noble girl screamed so loud that the veins on her neck were about to pop. The servant trembled in fear as she wipes away the tears that are falling nonstop.
"La-lady, th-there are o-only 20 p-pills and o-other n-nobles are al-also there f-fighting to ge-get one," The servants trembled while explaining her side.
Geraldine pitied the servant as it's not her fault that she wasn't able to get a single beauty pill for her master, after all, some nobles came personally to the store to buy one themselves.
"YOU'RE REALLY USELESS!!!" The noble girl screamed in anger and raised her hand to slap her servant who closed her eyes as she anticipates the hard slap.
Geraldine instantly stepped out from the shadows to make herself known, "My, my... That's not how a young lady must act towards the servant who only follows your orders," She uses her fan to cover half of her face as she stands beside the trembling servant.
"Who are you to interrupt me? I'm educating my servant to do well on the task I've given her... This doesn't concern you!" The noble girl looked at her from top to bottom and assessed Geraldine's status by what she wears.
"Yes, this doesn't concern me at all, as it's your own business but I'm here because I've heard that you wanted to buy the beauty pills," Geraldine smirked as she took out two beauty pills from her pocket and showed it to the noble.
The girl's eyes widen in shock and her irritated expression changed to a joyful one, "You're gonna give this to me?" Her hand instantly grabbed the pills, but Geraldine was a lot faster and retrieved her hand away from her.
"Give? You must be in delusion young lady, I would like to sell you this for 100 gold coins each," Geraldine showed her the beauty pills that were placed inside a see-through pink pouch.
"100 gold coins!? That's a ridiculous price for a pill like that, so stop scamming me," The noble girl looked at Geraldine with disgust on her face but her eyes are still staring at the pills.
"Well, if you don't want it then I'll go, good luck on buying the beauty pills and I hope you'll be able to purchase one when it launches again but who knows when that might happen," Geraldine shrugged and was about to go when the girl hold her hand to stop her from going away.
"Okay okay, I'll buy all that pill besides 200 gold coins is a small amount anyways," The girl takes out a check and wrote the amount before giving it to Geraldine, "Here, just get the money from the bank."
"Thank you for your purchase young lady," Geraldine gives a slight curtsied before walking away with a big smile on her lips due to the huge money she accumulated by selling two pills.
"Lady Iva, the duke might ask why you spend too much gold on the beauty pills," The servant said in a frightened tone.
"Don't worry about it," Iva hushed her servant to be quiet and pull her back to their carriage.
Geraldine looked back at the two retreating figure, "So she's the oldest daughter of the Duke huh, a bit childish," she muttered and shakes her head in amusement but then a piece of memory came back to her unexpectedly, creating a terrible headache that makes her kneel onto the ground while clutching her head.
"AHHHH!!"
