An outsider's arrival had interrupted things, and Klein finally managed to calm himself down a little.
Forget it. It was all in the past now. He would just treat it as having wasted some money.
Though it was far from just a little money.
Though it had been an exceptionally pointless expense.
Though... sob, sob... (＞QwQ＜)
Klein could not help hugging his impoverished self in his heart and weeping bitterly when he heard Hikari say:
"Now that you've been rescued, what are you planning to do next? Go back to Backlund?"
"Uh..."
Klein blinked. He was definitely going back to Backlund, but certainly not right now, and besides...
Looking at Noah, Klein tentatively asked:
"How much do I owe Shopkeeper Tiga now?"
"Fifteen thousand Gold Pounds, including interest and breach-of-contract penalties."
Upon hearing the latter half of Noah's sentence, Klein swallowed the words that had reached his lips.
Very good. It was now certain that he would not be returning to Backlund anytime soon.
So the question was, where should he go before he had saved enough money, and where was he supposed to get that money?
He might have a job that paid a weekly salary of one thousand Gold Pounds, but that did not mean he could save one thousand Gold Pounds every week, to say nothing of the fact that he was currently penniless.
Before receiving that thousand-Gold-Pound paycheck, he first had to find a way to survive this week.
At that thought, an idea surfaced in Klein's mind.
Was he really going to stay aboard the Argo any longer?
The moment that question arose, Klein already had the answer in his heart.
Taking a deep breath, Klein looked at Noah.
"Can you find an island with all sorts of people, where plenty of pirates and merchant