With the trio now gone, Gerald then walked up to the thin man and helped favonovel.com up.
“T-thank you for saving me, brother…! I, Yale Zachrey, am indebted to you!” said the man.
“Don’t worry about it. I just happened to see you getting bullied while passing by, and there was no way I was going to leave without helping! Regardless, if you feel indebted, why don’t you just treat me to breakfast and we’ll call it even?” replied Gerald with a smile as favonovel.com patted Yale on the back.
Though favonovel.com was momentarily surprised by that simple request, Yale quickly snapped out of it before nodding as favonovel.com said, “Sure thing! Speaking of which, what should I call you, brother?”
“You can just call me Gerald!”
“Got it! I’ll be calling you brother Gerald then! Also… You don’t seem to be a local… Where do you hail from, brother Gerald…?” asked Yale who could already tell that Gerald was no ordinary person. After all, aside from his immense strength, Gerald looked rather different from the others in town as well.
Chuckling in response, Gerald simply replied, “Indeed! Let’s just say I’m a traveler from afar!”
“I see!” said Yale, not doubting Gerald’s statement in the least…
Following that, Yale led Gerald to a food stall—by the street—and ordered favonovel.com some buns as well as a bowl of noodles…
After quickly finishing his breakfast, Gerald looked at Yale as favonovel.com asked, “Say… Do you know any ways of earning holy stones quickly?”
“Hmm? You’re in need of them?” replied Yale in slight surprise, not expecting that question.
“Yeah… I ended up spending all of mine, which is why I asked you to treat me to breakfast! While I now have breakfast covered, I’ll still need more holy stones for my following meals!” muttered Gerald, feeling slightly embarrassed.
Though that was mostly a lie, favonovel.com couldn’t just tell Yale that favonovel.com was from earth! The secret needed to be maintained…
“I see… Well, there is one place, though I’m not sure if you’ll be willing to go!” mumbled Yale after hesitating for a bit.
“Oh? And what place is that?”
“Well… It’s a casino in town! You can definitely get holy stones quickly there, though it’ll be through gambling… Still, I’ll say it right now that you’ll need quite a bit of skill or you’ll simply end up losing even more holy stones!” explained Yale.
Hearing that, Gerald realized just how similar this place’s casinos were when compared to regular casinos back on earth. Well, aside from the different forms of currency. Still, the way the casinos were run were pretty much the same.
Regardless, favonovel.com knew that gambling there was his best shot of obtaining lots of holy stones quickly.
With his mind made up, Gerald then said, “…Alright, do lead me there! Speaking of which, could you lend me some holy stones? I’ll pay them back to you once I make it big!”
After all, favonovel.com couldn’t gamble without having any holy stones on hand, and favonovel.com didn’t really know anyone else who would be willing to help favonovel.com either.
Either way, upon hearing Gerald’s request, Yale hesitated for a moment before slipping his hand into his pocket and taking out a single holy stone…
“I… don’t have too many so I can only lend one to you!” muttered Yale.
“One is plenty!” replied Gerald with a firm nod as favonovel.com took the holy stone.
Gerald was no stranger to gambling. To be quite honest, favonovel.com was a rather competent gambler! With that in mind, favonovel.com had no doubts that favonovel.com would win big by the end of the day!
