*creeks*
The door opens with the sound of creeking. Pranjal and joshy walk into the house. In the house on left there was a couch in the shape of L , behind this couch there was a room. Inside the room there is a young women. She seems to be around 24 years old with 4'11 height. She seems to have black hairs. Her facial characters are that of an above average young women.
The women after hearing the creeking sound turns around and says, " Welcome back joshy!?, huh?" The women's face quickly showed fear and terror.
"J-Joshy who is that men with you?"
Joshy replied with an excitement disregaring his sisters fearful and terriefied expressions, " He is the guy that provided me with a job. I invited him over for dinner as a courtesy."
After saying this he whispers to Pranjal, " I can't just tell her that I tried to rob you and that you just gave me money."
Pranjal fully understood the situation and replied back in another whisper, "Alright kiddo."
After saying this Pranjal quickly takes the women's hand and kissed it. " I am Pranjal Singh. It's a pleasure to meet you. Your younger brother is pretty troublesome but he is smart and hardworking."
The young women started to blush due to the unexpected gentleman behaviour of the men.
After she regained her composure she replied, " It's a pleasure to meet you too! My name Is joyce. I am very thankful that you provided joshy with a job. We were.. struggling. Thank you very much for it. Allow me to serve you some dinner, it would be ready in just a minute. Please have a seat on the couch until then."
Pranjal and josh then headed towards the couch. And sat down.
It's been a while since I had dinner with other people. But I can't get too comfortable just yet. I need to somehow track down the person that gave joshy the job to rob me. I have to deal with him.
I looked onto my right where joshy was sitting. I asked joshy, " Do you have any way to contact your contractor again? Or do you have any way to track him down for me?".
Joshy replied, "Well, my girlfriend eva has connections with the black market network. I could ask her to track him down. But it would require some time."
What the f#ck. Even brats like him have a girlfriend. Why God Why? What have I done that no women is interested in me? Setting that aside. This kid is quite usefull. His network can come in handy for when I need to recover chronomortis's memory fragments., "Okay kid. I leave the tracking down part to you.".
Well after that a silence fell into the room, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of the cooking vessels and vegetable cutting.
Suddenly it seemed that joshy remembered something. He went inside one of the rooms of the house and sound of opening and closing of drawers could be heard. He came out of the room with a smirk on his face and some kind of device in his hand.
" Hey mister, I want to give this to you. It's a device I bought from the black market network." Joshy showed me the device and continued,
"This device had tons of rumours around it. Some said that it leads to some kind of treasure. But those rumours also said that the place where the treasure lies is extremely dangerous... I couldn't go there because I can't afford to die. But well I just wanna give this to you as a gesture of my gratitude. Please have it."
Well I wasn't expecting to get anything in return..but well something is better then nothing., " I'll take it."
He handed me the device. It seemed like some kind of radar. It has an tiny antenna and good old school display. I shoved it in my backpack.
Afterwards the room was once again silent until joyce came back from the kitchen with food.
The food was nothing too special just the simple bread, soup and sauteed vegitables but it was something of a delicacy for those people of the slum like me.
After I had my share food, I thanked both of them for the delicious meal and decided to take my leave.
Afterwards I found myself with no place to go to. My home was unsafe for now considering that someone literally hired the kid to have me robbed. Well i have a thin blanket with me. I will just sleep in the junkyard for now.
....
I arrived at the junkyard. And found a rusted vehicle that was discarded but had a good interior just enough for me to rest.
Pranjal prepared the vehicle for his rest and then once he was done, he went inside it and then closed his eyes and went inside a deep slumber.
*Yawns*
Welp the new day starts. But hell, I gotta lie low. The only thing i can do while trying to avoid the heat is probably search for this so called treasure.
First I need to find all the rumours around it and investigate them. But as domeone might be observing my usual routes and routine places I can't go to the black market. Perhaps I should visit the normal market . I will restock my food supplied while at it.
After some walking Pranjal arrived at the market. The market had a huge crowd. The perfect place to learn about those rumours. Pranjal restocked his food supplies and then roamed around while listening and poking around about any kind of information regarding the treasure.
It seems that the treasure is supposed to be in some kinds of ruins. The ruins must be heavily guarded and very dangerous as no one that went in the search of the treasure ever returned...
I need to arm myself further more. I should buy a gamma short sword. With the dagger I obtained from joshy, i could duel wield them to parry with one and attack with another.
Pranjal searched around and found a shop that sold swords and bought a gamma short sword from the shop. It seemed that the shop also has blacksmith services. It could be usefull in future as well. Pranjal left the shop with both the dagger and the dagger in the hilt around his waist. He then turned on the device .
*beep*
The device turned on and showed 12 kilometres on the display. Pranjal started to walk in every direction but heard the beep sound again on the north. He understood that the beep sound would help in finding the direction of his journey.
Pranjal started to walk north and slowly the displayed distance changed from 12 to 11. After walking around 7 more kilometres, the night had fallen.
Luckily enough Pranjal had bought the needed supplies and the sleeping bags for the night. He quickly lit a fire to scare away any animal that could have percevied him as prey and went to sleep.
The next morning Pranjal arrived at his destination.