Kerry suddenly had a bad feeling again. Could it be?
"Did you discover something?" Emma had appeared as Kerry's female companion at the gathering. When she noticed that Kerry had not responded, she felt it would be rude, so she politely played along with the boastful fisherman.
"I discovered an oak bed that was ninety percent new! That bed was really huge, just like the one at my house that still smells a little..." Mike continued talking, but Kerry had already stopped paying attention.
Kerry cursed inwardly. Why is it always you?
"It took me a lot of effort to drag that oak bed back to shore from the sea. Unfortunately, just like the one I salvaged last time, some creature had made a nest in it. It was covered in filth. I'll bet ten Silver Coins that none of you have ever smelled anything so foul..." Mike continued showing off his history of salvaging beds.
Emma was even more traumatized. For the rest of the time, Kerry kept hearing her mutter things like, "It should have been burned. It would have been fine if we'd burned it..."
At noon on the tenth, Kerry entered the Dimensional Exchange on time. As usual, he first found Baxia and traded away all the jellyfish.
Sure enough, he had only received 90,000 Points, and Baxia had noticed something strange as well. "Kerry, the quality of the jellyfish you've traded me these past two times has been getting worse and worse. This time, there are barely any large ones."
"Oh, do you know how hard it is for them to grow that big? I let them go," Kerry lied. If Baxia found out that he could not supply them over the long term, he would lose the six percent discount.
"..." *You let them