Saifei'er had originally thought of taking a hundred or two hundred gold dragons, just enough to spend. Although she was committing a burglary, she still considered herself a good person. She had no grievances with the Brown family and would not steal anything particularly important.
But now it seemed that if Saifei'er really only stole one or two hundred gold dragons, the Brown family might not even notice they had been robbed.
In that case, she wouldn't be polite. Saifei'er opened the single-shoulder bag she had just bought today and shoved handful after handful of gold dragons inside. As the originally empty bag gradually filled up, listening to the crisp sound of the gold coins clinking against each other, her mood couldn't help but become pleasant. The corners of her mouth curved up uncontrollably, revealing a cute little canine tooth, and her tail behind her swayed lightly and cheerfully.
She didn't know how many handfuls she grabbed until Saifei'er's single-shoulder bag became bulging and could hold no more. Only then did she stop. But when she looked back at the treasure chest she had opened, there was hardly any sign of the gold dragons inside having decreased.
“Tsk, I should have bought a bigger bag earlier,” Saifei'er mused. “Or, there should be magical items with storage effects in this world, right? Like storage rings or something. I can ask Fei when I go back. It would be great if I could get one.”
After filling the single-shoulder bag, Saifei'er then took out a piece of paper and a pen that she had snuck from the study on the fourth floor earlier. She thought for a moment, then picked up the pen and wrote:
“Thank you very much, Viscount Brown, for your generosity. I am truly grateful \( • ㅂ • )/ heart.jpg”
“I'll just take a small portion for now. Please continue to keep the remaining gold dragons for me. I'll come again next time I'm short on money~”
For the last part, Saifei'er had originally wanted to write 'Left by Cat Burglar Miss', but she thought about it. Wouldn't that be too obvious? What if Viscount Brown, in a fit of rage, issued a bounty for Cat-folk?
It was hard to say if there was even a second 'Cat-folk' in the entire Stone Pine City besides Saifei'er. Wouldn't that be a targeted reveal?
So, Saifei'er drew a cute stick-figure cat head on the paper to give this theft a 'directional' quality. This way, if she were to steal again in the future, as long as she left the same cat head drawing, Viscount Brown would know it was the same person who stole it.
The reason for doing this was to 'gain popularity'.
Saifei'er quietly called out to her almost non-existent system in her mind. She could see that drawing the next persona required ten thousand popularity, and she currently only had a hundred and something.
It was pitifully little, but that was normal. After all, up until now, she truly had no fame. This hundred and something popularity might even have been contributed by Ailiya and others.
Saifei'er even wondered if, the next time she came, she should send a 'theft Preview' in advance, and then take the items exactly on time, to give the people of this world a little taste of the Cat Burglar's shock.
Anyway, with Godspeed, no matter how strict the defenses were, stealing things was a simple matter for her.
After placing both the paper and pen back in the opened treasure chest, Saifei'er clapped her hands. “Done, time to go!”
Godspeed activated, she left the room, relocked the door, and hung the key chain back on the waist of the guard by the door. All of this happened in an instant. Then, Saifei'er ran from the second floor to the first floor and left the mansion through the main entrance.
A flash of golden electric light streaked across the dim street, and the next second, Saifei'er 'appeared out of thin air' at the entrance of the Adventurers' Guild. She returned to her and Ailiya's hotel room, and by this time, less than fifteen minutes had passed since she left.
“I'm back~” Saifei'er said happily as she opened the door.
In the room, Ailiya, who was sitting on the bed reading a folk tale, looked up, her attention immediately drawn to Saifei'er's constantly wagging tail behind her.
Through their time together, Ailiya could now pretty much tell Saifei'er's mood by observing her tail. Without a doubt, Saifei'er was in a really good mood at this moment.
After all, anyone who suddenly acquired a large sum of money would surely be very happy, right? Saifei'er was already starting to think about what she would do with this 'windfall'.
Then, her first reaction was 'buy a house' and 'buy a car,' but she quickly realized, what's the use of buying a house in this world? Her current identity was an Adventurer, destined not to stay in the same place for long.
As for buying a car, that would mean buying a horse? That might be somewhat useful, but it also didn't seem that useful, after all, she ran much faster than a horse.
Saifei'er thought again. Besides buying a house and a car, the only thing she currently needed was probably a 'storage ring'.
In her previous life, as a Dragon Kingdom citizen living on Blue Star, her view of money was to save it to buy a house and a car. And if she truly managed to buy both in her lifetime and pay off all her loans? Then she would continue to save money. If she had children, it would be to buy houses and cars for them. And if she wasn't married and didn't plan to have children, it would be saved for retirement, for medical expenses when she got sick later.
So at this moment, Saifei'er was uncharacteristically a little lost. She really didn't know what to buy with this money.
If this were an RPG game, the first thing a 'player' would do after getting money would be to upgrade equipment and replenish consumables to improve their strength, but these were all useless to Saifei'er.
She still had some self-awareness. In this world, her strength might actually be quite strong. Not to mention anything else, after activating Godspeed, with just a small knife, she could almost instantly kill all humanoid creatures.
Just run over, slit a throat with one knife, and the battle would be over. It was just that she was still a bit resistant to killing now, and might not be able to bring herself to do it.
So, buying equipment to improve combat power was a meaningless thing for her.
“So, is buying a 【storage ring】 really the only option? And after buying a storage ring? Will all the money I get in the future be useless to me?”
Thus, in a bit of confusion, Saifei'er comfortably took a bath and went to bed. She wasn't someone who dwelled on things. If she couldn't figure it out for a while, then she wouldn't think about it for now. Anyway, having money was definitely not a bad thing.
Time came to the next day. Saifei'er woke up very early as usual. While exercising, she walked around the entire Stone Pine City, but she didn't find any magic-related shops, let alone a 'storage ring'.
Returning to the Adventurers' Guild, she met Fei, who was also up very early (actually woken up by Douglas's snoring). After asking, she learned that magic was not a common thing in the country she was currently in.
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