So You're a Rich Lady!

"It's a little too late to think about running now. Yoru God Style Drawing Sword Slash—Flying Dragon!"

The blade light of the Sword Draw Slash burst from its sheath, leaving a streak of silver through the air like a fleeting flash of light. Yet at the instant the air exploded, an extremely thin but astonishingly fast slash flew from Yoru Machi's blade and shot toward the Poisonous Demon Dragon, which had already flown far away.

The Poisonous Demon Dragon had already flown quite a distance away. Seeing that the human had not pursued it at close range, it had thought it had escaped disaster.

Now that it had flown so far, it was obviously impossible for that human to catch up unless he used long-range magic to shoot it down.

Its dragon scales possessed powerful resistance to magic, and ordinary spells would have difficulty inflicting effective damage on it. This time, it should have escaped danger.

But just as the Poisonous Demon Dragon thought this, its intense sense of impending death suddenly surged up again for no apparent reason. When it turned around to see what had happened, a brilliant streak of light abruptly filled its entire vision.

Before it could even react, the blue streak had already passed through the Poisonous Demon Dragon's body. Then... there was no then.

The Poisonous Demon Dragon, which had been soaring through the sky moments ago, began losing the color in its eyes. As a breeze swept past, its enormous body was instantly split in two midair!

"Boom—!"

Only when the Poisonous Demon Dragon's corpse, severed in half in the air, crashed to the ground did the Elf Maiden finally come back to her senses.

Looking at the horribly dismembered corpse not far away, her expression remained one of shock.

When Yoru Machi had appeared, she had hoped he would not throw his life away for nothing. To human adventurers, the Poisonous Demon Dragon was absolutely not an opponent that could be defeated alone.

Yet the Elf Maiden had never imagined that Yoru Machi would be this strong. Not only could he fight a Subspecies Demon Dragon head-on in close combat, but he had even used such superb swordsmanship to cut the Poisonous Demon Dragon in half with a single strike!

"Mountain-toppling force, between the breaking of evil, light within crystal, footsteps far away, thunder at the peak, returning earth, night concealing the sea of clouds, reverse the mountain's momentum.

Bakudo #73—Tōzanshō!"

Just as the Elf Maiden was still stunned by Yoru Machi's defeat of the Poisonous Demon Dragon, she discovered that a crystal barrier shaped like an inverted triangular pyramid had suddenly enveloped her.

At first, seeing herself confined within it, the Elf Maiden thought Yoru Machi had ulterior motives. She forced her increasingly weak body upright, struggled to grip the sword in her hand, and stood while glaring warily at Yoru Machi.

"I didn't want to meddle in the first place, but since I already stepped in, letting you die here would make everything I did before almost pointless.

If you don't deal with the poison in your body soon, you'll probably follow that guy into the afterlife.

And please stop moving around. You don't have much fabric left on you, and if you keep shifting like that, it's rather distracting. I won't be able to focus on treating you.

Trying to compensate me by seducing me won't work. Saving your life, plus the treatment fee now, will all be charged separately."

Upon hearing Yoru Machi's words, the Elf Maiden's wary expression froze. Then, after lowering her head to look at the state of her body, a vivid flush rapidly spread across her cheeks.

She let out a shy little cry, quickly crouched down, and glared at Yoru Machi before her with furious embarrassment.

"Who exactly are you? Why are you so strong? And what kind of magic is this? It can actually perfectly defend against the Poisonous Demon Dragon's toxic mist."

When she realized the inverted pyramid crystal surrounding her was not meant to imprison her, but to shield her—whose magic power had already run dry—from the corrosive poisonous mist permeating the area, the Elf Maiden's vigilance finally began to ease.

And when Yoru Machi used "Kaidō" to heal her injuries and purge the poison from her body, the Elf Maiden became even more astonished.

Although nearly everyone in this world could use magic, very few had mastered recovery and healing magic. Adventurers who were injured while exploring generally relied on various potions to recover.

The Elf Maiden possessed the Elf Royal Secret Art, which could store items. In her storage space, she actually had recovery potions and antidotes as well.

But for some reason, when Yoru Machi offered to treat her, the Elf Maiden had inexplicably failed to mention any of that.

"Seriously, are you some kind of curious baby? Why do you have so many questions?

I'm this handsome, so naturally I'm this strong. What's so strange about that?

Don't you know you shouldn't casually pry into other people's information? Besides, you haven't paid any information fee, so why should I tell you so much?"

Hearing Yoru Machi's words, the Elf Maiden was speechless. After their brief interaction, she had basically figured out what kind of person he was. She casually reached into her storage space, took out a cloth bag filled with gold coins, and tossed it onto the ground.

"I'll pay your so-called treatment fee and information fee all at once. Can you answer my questions now?"

When he saw the Elf Maiden take an object out of thin air, Yoru Machi realized in astonishment that this world actually had spatial magic.

Then his attention was quickly drawn to the bag of money on the ground. From the sound of the coins spilling from the cloth bag and the few brilliant golden coins that had rolled out, Yoru Machi realized in shock that it was a huge bag filled to the brim with gold coins!

This was another rich lady, and a super-rich one at that!

Why? Because the two A-rank commissions Yoru Machi had accepted, "Conquering the Underground Labyrinth" and "Subjugating the Poison Lizard Monster," only paid ten gold coins and fifteen gold coins respectively.

By this world's standards of living, a single gold coin was enough for a person to eat and drink extravagantly for more than three days.

And the Elf Maiden before Yoru Machi... no, the rich elf lady, had just thrown out a bag containing at least nearly a hundred gold coins. That was equivalent to nearly ten of his A-rank commissions!

In that instant, Yoru Machi felt that saving her had been absolutely fucking worth it!

"Hello, boss. My name is Yoru Machi. Don't you think this Tōzanshō is a little too plain? I can make you a luxurious, comfortable version.

And the 'Kaidō' I just used for treatment actually has an even more deluxe version. Would the boss like to experience it?"

Seeing Yoru Machi's attitude change so drastically the moment she threw out the bag of gold coins, the Elf Maiden was plainly dumbfounded.