Seeing the clerk staring blankly at her, Seele could not help asking again.
"Please wait a moment. I'll go get the shopkeeper."
After a while, the clerk returned with a portly middle-aged man. He was probably the owner of this shop.
Seele did not ask any further questions.
Perhaps because of Seele's appearance and clothing, the shopkeeper did not doubt where these gold coins had come from.
After verifying the gold content of the coins with Seele, he merely curiously asked about the patterns and writing on them.
Seele only shyly told him that she was the legitimate daughter of the Fulei Family from Country E, visiting relatives in the Far Eastern Land.
These gold coins had merely been toys from when she played house as a child. Since she had spent too much recently and her allowance was no longer enough, she had decided to exchange them.
As for whether he believed her, Seele did not care... Once she received the money, she left the shop directly.
Perhaps believing Seele's words and thinking she was the daughter of a Country E noble, he paid the market price without shorting her a single coin.
Just as Seele was holding the money and preparing to get something to eat, something terrifying was happening in a relatively remote shrine in the city.
It was a small shrine occupying more than three hundred square meters. Perhaps because it was somewhat remote, the shrine was rather deserted.
The shrine buildings covered roughly one hundred square meters, while the courtyard was nearly another hundred. At the entrance to the courtyard stood a torii shaped like the character "open."
People of the Far Eastern Land believed that birds were incarnations of human souls. Some were good souls, while others were filthy. Birds could not