Fortune teller: No, you need an entirely different kind of profession, and one copper please. Next!

Child: Will you tell my fortune for free?

Fortune teller: No, and you have to pay one copper for this answer. Next!

Homeless girl: Will I have a big house for my family when I grow up?

Fortune teller: Maybe, let do your best. Next!

A couple: Will us two get married?

Fortune teller: Yes, but not with each other, and I charge one copper from each of you. Next!

Another man: That means I still have a chance then?

Fortune teller: Yes, but be careful, both of them heard you. Next!

Women: I still can't find my ring.

Fortune teller: Search carefully. It's hidden in the corner of your rug under your bed, and one more copper please. Next!

Woman: Have you seen my husband?

Fortune teller: Yes, he is looking for you. If you wait here for a while, he might come. Next!

Boy: I still can't find my dog.

Fortune teller: Now the dog has walked to another side of your house, and one more copper please. Next!

Child: I'm still not sure I can pass my exam next week.

Fortune teller: What is the question? Better start reading now and you will have a better chance, and one more copper please. Next!

Girl: He ate my chocolate but he still don't want to be my boyfriend. Should I make more chocolate?

Fortune teller: Yes, if you want to, but he will never ever be your boyfriend, and one more copper please. Next!

Old man: I have gone to the vet but my dog is still sick.

Fortune teller: Try another vet, but your dog might die anyway, and one more copper please. Next!

Women: I still can't find my ring after looking under the rug as you said.

Fortune teller: From the left corner of your bedroom door, walk 3 steps towards the top left corner of your bed. The ring is hidden under the rug 3 inches away towards the left wall of your bedroom. How much more specific do you want me to be, and one more copper please. Next!

Boy: I still can't find my dog.

Fortune teller: It has fallen into the pond and died alone, slowly and painfully. The corpse has sunk into the bottom of the pond. Find a new dog elsewhere, and one more copper please. Next!

Man: I still can't find my wife. Have you seen her?

Fortune teller: Yes, I told her to wait for you here but she didn't believe me, and one more copper please. Next!

Homeless girl: Can I have a small house right now, and another big house for my family when I grow up?

Fortune teller: No and maybe, respectively, and one more copper please. Next!

Girl: Thank you. I am going to be married with a better man because of your advice.

Fortune teller: Congratulation, and one more copper please. Next!

Man: Another man get my future wife because of you. You are going to pay for....

Fortune teller: I'm also a powerful magician. If you really want to fight me, better come fully equipped and bring a few of your friends, or else you will have no chance, and one more copper please. Next!

[Near the fortune teller's table]

Violet: Wow, she seems pretty good at it, right? Hi, come over here, Iris, Ruby, over here.

Iris: She is a charlatan. These are all random answers she can make up in her mind on the spot. Tomorrow she won't be here because angry customers will come back, asking for a refund.

Ruby: What is a charlatan?

Iris: Never mind.

Sola, walking in with Almond: I guess so. At this rate, she can earn like 10 gold coins per day, more than an army's squad leader earns in a week, and tomorrow she just need to travel to another village.

Violet: I'm not very good at math, but if you girls said so.

Lord: Come on...girls. It's just 1 copper. Pretty OK for a cost of entertainment.

Ruby: Why don't you try it, my lord. You might get a glimpse of your past, and the memory you lost.

Violet: Good idea, Ruby. If we pay her 1 gold coin, we can ask her 10 questions.

Sola: It's 100, Violet.

Ruby: Then, our gold coins are useless then, we want to ask her only a few questions.

Sola: .....

Iris: Yes, I want to know about his past too. When I was born, he practically has lost all of his memory, even before he went into his slumber. He didn't even remember the yggdrasil and anything that had happened a few days ago.

Sola: Didn't you just say she is a charlatan earlier.

Iris: Oops. Anyway, let try it just for fun.

[Near the end of a very long queue]

Lord: The queue is so long again, and this time there will be no Queen of Rose rushing out to welcome us.

Almond, walking to a spot nearby and shouts: One free gold coin for everyone, get in this queue, answer a few questions about yourself and you will get 1 gold coin. Hurry up before the coin is run out.

The fortune teller's queue disappears in an instant. The fortune teller herself is hesitating whether she should get into the new queue or not.

Lord: Wow, she is pretty clever, isn't she?

Sola: Yes, better than myself in some aspects, but let do it before we lost our fortune teller.

[At the fortune teller's table]

Iris: Hello, may I enjoy your service?

Fortune teller: Yes, one copper please.

Iris: Could you come talk with us over there? The new queue starts to cause quite a chaos around the area.

Fortune teller: Yes, I can and I will, one more copper please.

Sola, whispering: Calm down Iris. With the money we have, we can do this practically forever till the end of time.

Iris, whispering: My lord, better start asking the real question before we run out of copper coins. Our coins are mostly gold.

Sola: I will get more copper coins real quick. Everyone please continue.

Lord: Tell me about yourself.

Fortune teller: I am just a generic fortune teller, and one copper please.

Lord: With unique sprite and all, do you want me to believe that?

Iris: Huh? What?

Fortune teller: No, I don't really want you to believe that. I perfectly understand what you mean, but do you think this is the most appropriate place to talk about how two-dimensional bitmap work? and one copper please.

Iris: Could you two stop talking about what everyone else can't understand?

Fortune teller: Yes, I can, and one copper please.

Sola, rushing in with a bag full of copper coins: All these coins for an hour of your answers. I think someone might be really fed up by the word "one copper please"

Fortune teller: I accept you offer. From now on you don't need to pay a copper coin for anything that I can answer.

Sola: In retrospect, I should have paid you with gold coins of equal value instead.

Lord: Oh, by the way, what is your name, fortune teller?

Fortune teller: I am sorry I refuse to answer that question. Here is a refund of one copper.

Iris picks it up and throws it far away.

Lord: Could you tell me about my past? I want to know about my past.

Fortune teller: Yes, but not with some difficulty. Your past is different, one more copper please, oops, no need, sorry, it has become a habit.

Lord: Tell me more about it. How can we avoid this difficulty?

Fortune teller: Your past are clouded by a powerful force. I can overcome it to some extent but I need 3 days to prepare and 1,000 gold coins.

Iris: I told you she is a charlatan! How come you charge everyone else 1 copper and charge us ten thousand times more.

Sola thinks: [She messed up her calculation a bit but better not bring that up right now.]

Sola: Let our lord decide. It's his money after all.

Lord: Well, we will think about it. Do you know any other fortune tellers around here?

Fortune teller: I think now there should be one west from here, where Water yggdrasil are.

Lord: OK, thank you for your answer. See you later.

Fortune teller: Thank you for loads of copper coin. See you later.

Almond: Are you sure, my lord? A thousand gold coins are just a small pocket change for us.

Lord: I haven't got used to spending that many gold coins, I guess, and we should be back at the castle before nightfall, since there are 2 children with us.

Iris: She is a charlatan!

[In a shop with a sign: Advanced Magic Item]

Ruby: Wow, there are so many weird items here.

Sola: My lord, we should carefully choose and buy only some good ones that might benefit our cause.

Almond: How much do all items in your shop cost, sir?

Sola: ... or just buy them all and think later.

Shopkeeper: Wahahaha, little girl. Not only you are so cute, you have a good humor too.

Almond lays a sizable bag of gold coins onto the counter.

Almond: Is this enough, sir.

[A few seconds of silence have passed]

Shopkeeper: You got the place and the land beneath it too. Thank you for your patronage.

Sola: She know how to use money.

Shopkeeper, far away in the back: Darling, we have been rich. Let move our shop to the business district in Midland.

Shopkeeper, walking back: Come visit us in Midland if you have a chance. Farewell, we are moving right now.

Iris: Well, this village no longer has an item shop.

Violet: Check this one. The description said "Power scouter, used to measure overall fighting power of a person"

Ruby: Let me use it on our lord. Wow, 45? Is that high?

Iris: On the path to yggdrasil, Sola said that I'm about 10, if I remember correctly.

Ruby, moving closer to the lord: Really? Wow, I always know you are stronger than you look. A man should be about 4 times stronger than a woman, right, sis?

Violet: Our lord is a very humble man and always hide his true power. He will use it to safe us only when we are truly in trouble.

Lord: I have a very strong hunch that there must be something wrong somewhere in this chain of reasoning.

Sola, with a dry smile: Let try it on Astille.

Ruby: Oh my deity, 4263.

Lord: What? Oh I get it.

Violet: Something must be wrong, my lord. Use it on Sola then.

Sola: No, you shoul....

Ruby: It's done.

As faint smoke come out, the device is not working anymore.

Sola: Let Almond explain. My throat is dry.

Almond: Every kinds of device are designed with certain limited range of use. Think of a weighing scale, it can measure a weight of a person with no trouble, perhaps around a range of 0 to 200 kgs, but if you use it to weigh an elephant even once, it will break and can never be used again. Some devices have some measures to prevent overloading like this, but perhaps not this one.

Almond: I think this device has been calibrated so that 100 is the power of average unarmed male human. So, that's why our lord get 45. The number 10 iris got is on an entirely different unit of measurement.

Lord thinks: [Everyone please leaves this weak, not even half a man alone T_T, oh cheese, better not piss Astille too from now on, she can certainly kill me in one strike if she want to]

Iris: Oh, that makes sense. Never mind. Let play another item.

Ruby: Look at this jug, water keep flowing out non-stop.

Violet: Wow, floating silver coin.

Astille is playing quietly with a top that spins forever.

Ruby: What is this, Sola?

Sola: A flute, a kind of wind musical instrument, not actually a magical item though. You block some of the holes with your fingers and blow into it.

Ruby: OK, like this... and this?

Lord: Huh, you played this somewhere else before? You have quite a talent.

Ruby: [giggle]

Iris: She has a talent in practically almost everything, except intelligence.

Ruby: Sis!

Iris: That's not a sarcasm though. You name it, fighting, jumping, swimming, sculpture, dancing, embroidery, cooking, music, art...

Ruby: Love you sis.

Iris: But a bit stupid.

Ruby: Love you only half.

Iris, hugging Ruby from behind: And as a maiden, her nectar has the best quality of all maidens, both in scent and taste. She usually doesn't produce much though. Come taste it, my lord.

Ruby: No, sis.

Iris: The lord won't taste you if you say no, you know. He is quite a gentleman. Do you want him to taste it or not?

Ruby nods.

Iris: Too bad, I think our lord doesn't want to taste someone like you. He has a lot of other maidens to taste already.

Ruby: ....

Lord: All right...all right. [Hmm..similar trick Sola used on me earlier]

While still hugging Ruby from behind, Iris picks the end of Ruby's braided pony tail, and hand it to the lord.

Iris: Massage this red flower attached to the end of her pony tail. She won't give much nectar unless you massage it well.

Ruby: Be gentle with me please. No, stop, stop... it feels so.....