Unlike those relics or potions that only worked briefly, this Lucky Soy Milk could provide good luck for a full twenty minutes. That was why it was so expensive—more expensive even than the Instant Coin from just now.
"Destiny may not be nobler than time, but this soy milk is definitely nobler than a coin!"
That was Old John's reasoning when he named the price. Of course, he was not merely taking Shade's money. Before Shade left, he also told him the results of the investigation into the "time anomalies" Shade had commissioned:
"There are no real results. Incidents involving time anomalies in the Material World have been very rare over the past few decades, and the few that did occur were all clearly related to relics. But if you look into older incidents, there are too many dubious rumors, and it is hard to tell truth from fiction.
Mount Mazaro in the Archipelago Kingdom, Creekwood Town northeast of Weilun Dai'er City, the uninhabited region of the Fermi Plateau in southwestern Delarion, and an unnamed village deep in the Rommel Mountain Range in the central-east of the Old Continent—there are simply too many places with stories and rumors of time anomalies."
Old John handed Shade a bulging document bag and told him to read it himself when he got home.
When he returned home with those things, Dorothy and Leisha were still asleep. They did not wake until lunchtime. Since Red Butterfly Day was about to end, they only ate a few bites with Shade before leaving separately, making him promise that the next Red Butterfly Day absolutely would not be postponed:
"Every time we postpone Red Butterfly Day, it makes it seem like we do not care about you."
Her Royal Highness the Princess said so, then kissed Shade's