"Speak!"
"Did you deliberately exchange for these worthless bits of spirit stone because you were unhappy with the Heavenly Soldiers' ruling? Are you trying to make more work for us and get revenge by giving us a hard time?"
"You look so pretty, so how can you have such a twisted, vicious mind?!"
Faced with the other woman's furious outburst, the bewildered Annie shrank her neck a little. But then her own anger flared up.
So she immediately raised her voice to defend herself and argue back:
"That's not true! You're making things up!"
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"I really didn't exchange for them on purpose! These are all the spirit stones I have! I use them to buy food and other things all the time!"
Annie really wasn't lying. She'd copied a huge pile of these spirit stone beans, and there was still a hill of them in her Spatial Pocket. She'd paid for everything she'd bought that day with them, too. So she genuinely didn't understand why the person in front of her had suddenly turned hostile and gotten so angry.
(...)
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"You!"
Seeing Annie talk back, the fairy official grew even angrier. She slammed her hand on the counter, her chest heaving as she fumed:
"One hundred and fifty-five spirit stones means..."
"That's a full one thousand five hundred and fifty spirit stone beans!"
"Are you expecting me to count them all out here, one by one?"
"Do you know how long that'll take?"
"There are plenty of people waiting behind you to take care of their business!"
As she spoke, she pointed emphatically at the restless crowd waiting outside behind Annie.
"??"
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(゜-゜)
Annie glanced outside. Instead of looking worried, she nodded seriously and spoke in that innocent tone that could drive anyone up the wall:
"But