hearts

chapter 9| Cas

"What do you mean this is not the correct currency!?"

I glared deeply at the old man in front of me. He didn't bother making eye contact with me as he looked everywhere but at me. "Sir this is Heart currency and my shop doesn't take it, you can go exchange it and a shop down the stree-

"Why don't you take my money then you exchange it. Money is money!" I growled out.

Long story short I was lost. We entered the East a long time ago and Hibi immediately started walking somewhere and expected me to follow her. I was going to but I got distracted, last time we were in a town I barely had enough time to look around, we were in and out.

The whole point of escaping my mother was to see what was beyond her palace walls and all this time I'd been following someone else's map. Right there and then I decided to depart from Hibi and do the rest of my journey alone. Which brings me to this tiny shop that I found.