VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

"The hairpin: 1 Gold, 10 silver. The storage ring for essentials: 1 gold. Storage box for monster bodies: 3 gold. A box of twelve (Basic) Mana potions: 60 silver. A box of twelve (Basic) heath potions: 48 Silver.

Two pairs of enchanted clothes and boots: 6 gold. A box of thirty scrolls with various kinds of magic: 9 gold.

And if that wasn't enough… we even spent: 3 more gold on lunch, food essentials and ingredients.

AND, of all that money, I only spent on the hairpin."

In total, they spent over 23 gold and 118 silver while not counting the amount of copper they had splashed over in less than a day.

According to their original world market standards, if silver was over 1800V and a single gold coin was around 25 times its price, around 45,000V, then they had just wasted around 1.2 million V.

"We could have very well invested all that money in good assets, you know?"

After everything was said and done, now that he was realizing just how much she had spent on his things today, he could not stop cursing himself.

"It's my mistake… I shouldn't have agreed to go shopping in the first place…"

She just ran around and bought a bunch of things that she thought he would need going forward.

She didn't ask him for most of the things and even the clothes… she bought specially enchanted costly clothes instead of some light armor.

The kind of money they spent in the last few hours was just absurd.

They could have lived off of that much money for weeks if not months… and now all of that was gone.

Just like that.

Gone.

"Hump. Bastard. I bought all that for you and you're still crying like a baby?"

"You spoiled brat. Don't you even understand how costly these things are?!"

He couldn't help but shout at her at this moment since she was making it sound so simple he couldn't help but get angry at her.

Simple people of their world barely make this kind of money after months of work and here they were, spending all that like it was no big deal…

"Hey! Do you think I bought all those things for myself?! Do you think I wasted money?! Just tell me, damn it and I'll never buy you anything in the future!"

She had been happy until they were out, but as soon as they came back to their inn room and he took out everything to do the math, he became sad.

It was as if some kind of post nut clarity had hit him hard, enlightening him to the truths of the world.

"Yes! That would be better than spending another million! Money doesn't grow on trees, Alex!"

"What do you know, bastard!? Money does grow on trees! A lot of it mostly grows under the trees as well!"

On an important note— both of them were serious right now.

It wasn't like one was half heartedly arguing back with the other since the one was doing it, that was certainly not the case here.

Both of them were serious about everything they were saying.

"Of course, right? How can I forget this is a virtual world~?! Hahaha!"

Well, he understood the importance of money more than her, and he could not stand it when the person he was closest to took such financial decisions.

"Yes! This is a virtual world! And yet the money of this world is as important as the crisp fresh banknotes that you cherish so much!"

Ummm… they were arguing right now, and it was a common occasion.

They will stop anytime now and start doing… stuff, so the little slime and gecko shook their heads at them and ignored their dumb game.

They weren't human but one understood emotions well, while the other had good enough life experience to know what affection was.

"Hump! Spoiled brat!"

"Oh my god~? Spoiled brat? Me~?!"

The gecko could tell what they were doing right now was their way to show their unique affection to one another. Something that was beyond their simple understanding… so, they both ignored them.

There was something more interesting for them here.

"Muuu."

"Miu!"

Among the pile of things that were placed on the ground, there was a glass box containing a unique golden pin that looked pretty attractive.

This pin, though something unknown, had caught the attention of Az's {Curiosity}.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

It was a special skill that allowed it to find the creature who used to live in that small hole in the cave of the red hob.

The first time they met was when the skill led the curious slime inside the cave and then all the way to where the gecko was living.

When they met, the gecko's condition was not as bad as it became after it accidentally 'almost' fell into the pool of waste and got poisoned.

Miu was fine and they played around the cave while the two of their human friends were fighting the ugly creature.

They somewhat understood one another and Miu was pretty friendly so they became friends quickly.

In this new place where Az did not have its old slime friends, Miu was the first that played with it.

Had he lost its first first because of its own mistake, it might never have forgiven itself.

However, its human friends saved its friends.

And thanks to them, as well as thanks to its {Curiocity}, they were now together.

"Miu?"

"Muuu…"

The same skill that led the slime to his gecko friend had led it to this certain unknown golden stick.

And, even though the slime had no idea what exactly this strange object was… it found the pin attractive.

"Muu?"

"Miu."

They weren't certain if they should take it out of the glass case, but since the humans were busy loving one another, they somehow opened the glass box and Az sat down in the golden pin.

Then, the slime passed the pin through its mucus body and raised it on top of the surface of its body, accidentally infusing its Mana.

-spark!

-Ooooooooooooooooong!

It was out of the blue but, when the mana of the slime got into contact with the pin, it started glowing as a new golden Mana sprung out of it.

"Hmmm?"

"What the?"

A golden light exploded from the wand not long after, and both of them who were now busy winning against the other's lips were momentarily blinded by this bright explosion of light.

They did not understand what was going on there, but the presence of the strong Mana confirmed the suspicion that Elio had.

The hairpin… in fact, wasn't a hairpin.

It was something that any mage would lust after.

Something that now coincidentally belonged to a little slime.