The grocery store Jenkins and the cat stepped into was warmer than the beach on a chilly spring morning.
It is said to be a grocery store near the beach, but in fact, there are many miscellaneous things sold here. In addition to souvenirs and seafood, there are all kinds of messy things. Jenkins even saw a superb oil painting mounted in a picture frame and hung on the wall on the west side. Jenkins valued it at 2 pounds.
Jenkins was probably the first guest today, and the boss received him warmly, which made Jenkins a little embarrassed who was just planning to take a casual look. Considering that most of the things sold in the store are cheap things less than 1 shilling, I plan to buy something casually.
"Hmm... Are there any glass beads? This big..."
As he said that, he stretched out his hand and made a spherical shape about the same size as the [Life Orb]. Of course, he bought the glass bead to find a new toy for Chocolate, so that it would be farther away from the ring that sealed the calamity black stone.
In this era, the industrial technology level of glass manufacturing has reached a very high level, so there will never be a situation where glass beads and spice gold are equivalent.
It's just that the technology of embedding specific patterns in glass beads is not yet mature. At least Jenkins has only seen similar toys from Dolores.
The volume of the [Life Orb] is much larger than the size of ordinary toy glass beads. The owner promised to search for it, but failed to find it after wasting some time. During the period, a second person entered the store. He bought all the messy things in the store, and finally packed a big box and left.
Not having the glass beads he wanted, Jenkins ended up buying a new poker. The one from the antique store is a bit worn out, so a replacement would be a good idea.
"The man just now bought old goods and refurbished them before selling them. The grocery stores in the city are all his target customers."
While giving Jenkins some change, the owner explained that Jenkins was looking after his cat, so he just let out a "hmmm" to show he heard it.
"I used to sell him a lot of things, such as bones that washed up on the beach, old fruit bowls from other people's homes, and strangely shaped rocks picked up in the fields. He can always turn these wastes into useful things and sell them. , this guy is really talented..."
"Um."
Jenkins nodded, wrestling with the cat's paw with one finger. It's more like play, except it's hard to tell who's playing with whom.
"Um?"
After a few seconds, Jenkins suddenly realized that he had heard a familiar phrase.
"Fruit tray?"
"Yes, last year, a thief stole a lot of rubbish from an old gentleman who lived alone. He really didn't leave empty-handed. He would rather take some rubbish than leave empty-handed."
The shop owner didn't mind telling Jenkins his purchase channel at all. In fact, it didn't matter even if Jenkins heard it, because everyone would do this kind of thing.
"Is it this one?"
Even knowing the odds were slim, Jenkins thought he'd give it a try. He interrupted the shopkeeper's words, put his hand into his pocket, and directly used [reading] to draw his own fruit plate as a photo.
Along with the photo, there was also a £1 note, so the owner was very enthusiastic to answer Jenkins' questions.
"Probably, that happened last year, I don't remember very well. Do you want to find this fruit bowl? Sorry, the guy who stole the things died in the silver vertigo incident last year."
He said sorry.
"No, I don't want to find the guy who stole..."
Jenkins' eyes wandered, and until now he couldn't believe that he was so lucky to be able to find the next clue about the fruit plate after losing the clue. Before that, in fact, he didn't have much hope that the former owner of the fruit bowl knew more about the characteristics of the fruit bowl, so after the clue was broken in that grocery store, he didn't conduct any further investigations. Something took the initiative to find him... (Note)
"Where does that old man who lives alone, the former owner of the fruit bowl live?"
He handed over another bill, and the shopkeeper gave him a raised eyebrow, then two fingers deep, so Jenkins added another.
The owner immediately reached out and took out a black booklet from under the counter. After flipping through it for a while, he pointed out an address to Jenkins.
Jenkins took note of the address and left. The address was on the other side of the city, a rental apartment near Privet Drive, so it was far from Papa's antique shop. Jenkins plans to investigate again when he has time, anyway, this matter is not in a hurry.
It was a bit late when I arrived at Papa's antique shop because I walked the cat in the morning. But Pop didn't say anything, and he didn't really mind when Jenkins arrived at the store as long as Jenkins wasn't running around.
Dad also told Jenkins a new thing, the church discovered that Miss Knight had grown dragon scales.
"Um?"
Jenkins expressed surprise: "The church watched Miss Knight take a shower?"
"How did you come to that conclusion?"
Pop was about to throw the newspaper in Jenkins' face, and he said slowly:
"It was Knight who found that something was wrong with her skin, so she took the initiative to ask the church for help. It happened that Capet was there at that time. She thought it was a rare phenomenon of atavism. She had seen it in [The Church of Everything and Nature]. Celtic The scale-like lines that appeared on Knight's skin were most likely dragon scales, so we carried out a more professional examination."
Pop shrugged, indicating to Jenkins that he knew that.
Both Miss Knight and Miss Capet were companions who once ventured with Jenkins in the mirror world, but only Miss Capet and Jenkins made it to the end. Miss Capet once suspected that Miss Knight and the huntress Miss Warfel, who left the team early, actually discovered something in the mirror world. Jenkins didn't believe it at the time.
But when Miss Knight walked out of the mirror world, there was an awakening of the bloodline of returning to the ancestors...
"How is she now? I mean Miss Knight."
"I live in the Evergreen Forest for observation. People from the Church of the Sun and Justice received the news and will come to deal with this matter. After all, the blood of the dragon is very precious."
Pop continued to read the paper, sounding like he didn't care about it.
"It's really strange recently. I haven't seen a lucky person who has awakened the blood of the ancestors for decades. Now there are two."
Uncle muttered under his breath, and Jenkins thought the other of the two he was referring to was the poor woman who drank the potion of Pompeii, but Cat knew that Uncle was really talking about some stupid man.
PS: The clue about why Jenkins found the fruit plate is not luck but necessity... So I want to explain that it is not a coincidence that the author made up for the development of the plot. You will know after reading more than 30 chapters.
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