Reincarnated in the Alternate World, I'm A Demonic Lord as Well as a Villager-Chapter 55: Hero, but in Debt

Seeing Shami eating calmly, Lina also extended her little tongue, licked the popsicle, which was sweet and tasted like nectar, and directly took a bite, chewing it slowly in her small mouth.

"So sweet... Saint Karno is just like the teacher said, they like to put sugar in everything..."

Lina murmured to herself.

Shami glanced over, somewhat envying the white-haired girl’s lack of fear for the cold on her teeth.

Lina blinked her indigo eyes and changed the topic.

"I’ve always been relying on you and Miss Lureya for help, it feels like I can’t pay back the money I owe..."

Shami thought about it and realized that the white-haired girl had spent less than one gold coin here with him.

"Then just don’t pay it back."

"No way! If I can’t even repay the money, what right do I have to call myself a swordsman?"

Lina shook her head firmly, assuring Shami.

"Even though constantly taking on jobs leaves no time for sword practice... I will still repay the money properly, Shami..."

Hearing this, Shami’s eyes lit up, and recalling the white-haired girl’s embarrassment about debt, a thought worth testing popped into his mind.

The white-haired girl stealthily glanced at Shami, noticing the latter smiling like a villain, she backed away in fear.

"Lina, let’s go, there should be a lot of things you want to buy but haven’t, right..."

"But I don’t have money..."

"No worries. I do."

Shami smiled sweetly.

Although Cash’s 3000 gold coin bounty was still with Goldie, he sold Cash’s equipment and other things, and the Demon King Ring contained about a hundred gold coins of various sizes. Spending a third on the white-haired girl would still allow her to do two years’ worth of newbie village errands to pay off the debt.

This is the [Outerworld’s New Debt Strategy of Throwing Money at the Hero to Keep Them Busy with Errands and Unable to Train and Level Up].

Clearly a hero, yet one has to be occupied with tasks to pay off debts, dealing with trivial life matters, unable to realize the dream of defeating the Demon King.

Ah, such a familiar taste.

"Eh?"

Before realizing it, Lina was pushed by Shami into a shopping street.

"All the things there are so expensive, even selling me wouldn’t afford them!"

"It’s fine, it’s fine."

"But, really, it’s not okay, I have enough with what I just bought, Shami..."

"No worries. Isn’t it better to have quality goods?"

Attempting to drag the hero into a vortex of massive debt, the Demon King laughed more maniacally.

"While you were away from the village, I dug up a bag of gold coins hidden by an adventurer party in the field. So I have quite a lot of money now, feel free to spend without repaying."

"Eh?!!"

The white-haired girl panicked.

At night, the two parted ways at the village entrance.

"Lina, today was fun, have a good sleep tonight."

"Oh..."

"You should go back early too."

"Oh..."

After Shami’s figure disappeared into the night, the white-haired girl was left stunned, turning to see the pile of clothes, food, and equipment behind her, her legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground.

Today started with the intention to treat Shami, why did it end with freeloading? Nearly fifty gold coins, taking up a whole year’s worth of jobs couldn’t possibly repay that!

...

Morning.

Shami opened a teleportation gate, entered the room with the flat-haired Goldie, and as he stepped in with his left foot, he saw the latter was already awake, sitting cross-legged in the middle of the bed, staring at him.

The two stared at each other for two or three seconds.

"Sorry."

Shami apologized, closing the teleportation gate.

Five seconds later.

The sound came from inside the bathroom door: knock knock.

"I’m coming in if you don’t respond."

Shami walked into the bedroom.

"When I’m asleep, you just enter the bedroom directly, Shami!"

"Sorry, I just forgot today."

Shami scratched his head, laughing.

Lureya looked incredulous.

"Alright, since you’re up, let’s go, we have to attack the village this afternoon, it’s your first time fighting for the demon race, Lureya."

Shami turned into a gentle persona, while consoling the groggy golden hair, he described today’s plan.

"It’s also the first historical incident in the Elf Race History of an elf invading a human village."

Lureya grumbled, her jewel-like eyes blinked, looking at Shami.

"If I say I won’t go now, I can still regret it..."

"Spell [...]

"Just kidding, fool! Don’t use your ultimate move out of nowhere!"

The blonde elf climbed out of bed, quickly putting on her shoes.

The elf maiden had actually woken up early today, partly to explore a human skill called Disguise Technique, but found nothing all day; also because she hadn’t seen Shami all day yesterday, inexplicably feeling uneasy at night.

"I didn’t see you the whole day yesterday. I thought you got buried..."

After putting on her shoes, Lureya walked to Shami’s side, snapped her fingers lightly, and the Spirit Protection Array enveloping the room disappeared as they both passed through the teleportation gate.

"Can’t you wish me well? I took a trip to Eden City yesterday."

The blonde girl hugged her chest with both hands, walked out of the teleportation gate, blinked her eyes, quickly figuring out the situation.

This guy for once knew strategy is normally done by the guy.

Is it preparing this city trip as a date or something...

Spending so much time together one can’t help but feel the charm emanating from the elf.

The elf maiden blushed slightly: "Well, I agree..."

"What are you agreeing to?!"

Shami looked puzzled at the flat-haired Goldie. This early, he couldn’t quite catch her wave lengths.

"I went with Lina. Otherwise, I wouldn’t want to go, we could use the teleportation gate to arrive and leave instantly, but ended up spending a day on a carriage ride and couldn’t take care of the slime."

Lureya paused her small mouth halfway through speaking, her eyes gradually widened.

"Eh? You and Lina?"

"Yeah."

"Why go together? And you didn’t invite me?"

"It was early morning, you were probably still asleep."

"Super dangerous! Being alone with the hero! If your identity is exposed, she’ll just chop you down, Shami! You definitely have to call me for such meetings!"

"Calling you would just add another corpse!"

"Quickly tell me what you two did."

"Are you ready? I picked a village fifty kilometers away from here."

"One reason I slept uneasy last night was worrying about you..."

"In the afternoon, my plan is to use the teleportation gate to send you to a spot two kilometers outside that village, then you can head off..."

"I know that, bringing the slime to stomp fields, bully children..."

"Actually didn’t do much, just helped her get registered for an Adventurer’s Certificate..."

The two of them spoke over each other, forming two chaotic streams of dialogue in the Maple Forest Clearing, messy yet overlapping.

Unexpectedly, both of them understood the other’s words, getting their own information, and then suddenly fell silent.

Shami: ...

Lureya: ...

After a few seconds of eye contact, the golden-haired elf first averted her gaze: "Oh, whatever you plan..."