Holding Raphtalia’s face close to my chest, I turned to Master Naofumi, “Sir, please be careful. Raphtalia is a child, and she is terribly sick. So please be careful with my child.” I was staring him down. He began to shuffle under my stare until my precious daughter angel saved him.

“It’s okay Harry. He promised to protect us and won’t sell us as long as we become his sword.” She paused, “At least I can be his sword, you could be his, uh, healer!” She ended excitedly.

She is just too adorable, I buried her face in my chest and cooed. Even though Master Naofumi had softened a little he was still depressed and quite frankly, angry.

“You’re not off the hook, you still got training to go through.” He snared, “Both of you.” He glared. He didn’t intimidate me, but I can’t let that show. Our previous masters didn’t like defiance, the punishment for it was painful, but not as painful as the threat to my angel.

“Yes sir.”, I can mostly only fight with my magic, or what I have access to. Ever since I entered this world I only had access to healing and nature magic, hexes, jinxes, and a few curses. I wasn’t much use, but I can cook, gather useful herbs, and spot poisonous or venomous plants. Other than that, I was trained to use senbons to stop patients from running away, but I didn’t have any on hand-

I wonder, even though the currency between Earth and here is very similar, people wouldn’t use it because of the different symbols on the coins. So they were useless in this world, but I think I just found a use for them.

“Mister Erhard-”

“Call me Erhard, mister makes me sound old.”

“Erhard, I need a specific tool.” I took the ankle bracelet off and deactivated the shrinking charm. Everyone was surprised.

“So if that holds a trunk then-” Master Naofumi began to think. He’s smarter than I thought, I’ll give him that. I opened the trunk and pulled out three bags, each filled with something different.

“The first bag is filled with gold coins, the second is filled with copper, and the last is with silver. Do you know what senbons are?” I questioned. He nodded, “I need as many as you can make before we leave Melromarc for my master’s quest. Whatever is left unused can be split between us. Deal?”

Erhard smirked, “Deal kid.” He tried to pick up the bags and almost tripped.

“Oh sorry, I forgot to activate the featherlight charm. Here. That should work.” I was given a look before he tried again. This time he could pick all of them without a problem.

“I’m not even going to ask, I’ve learned questions lead to even more questions. Complicated questions.” Smart man. I pace the trunk back on my ankle before leaving the shop.

“A tree-” I guess he noticed my choker. “In mythology, it is said some Dryads are bound to their tree and can’t be a certain distance from their tree.”

I can understand where he’s going, “As you said some of us are tree-bound, I’m one of the few that is powerful enough to leave their tree. But I still need my tree to survive.” I picked up Raphtalia and began to explain more of my race, “My people are born to a specific tree, the tree is what we need to survive. It gives us energy constantly. Some trees make more energy than others, which allows us to leave our tree. For a certain amount of time.”

“Your tree must make a lot of energy for you to be away from it for so long. We’ve been together for 3 years now.” Raphtalia concluded, My angel is so smart, I’m so proud of her. I began to coddle her again, her protests falling to deaf ears. My little happy moment was ruined by a question.

“Where is your tree?” I froze, not wanting to answer. Master Naofumi’s eyes narrow, “Tell me.” My slave mark began to burn at the disobedience. I clenched onto Raph scared I would drop her.

“I have it with me.” I winced, Nymphs are protective of their tree. I didn’t want him to know exactly where it was, but this answer seemed to be to his satisfaction. Raph was shivering in my arms, scared.

“It’s okay, Raph, I’m fine. Don’t worry.” She was slowly calming down.

*Grumble~*