As the receptionist clocked out, she headed towards the table Cynthia was waiting at. "I never asked what your name was, my name is Cynthia. What's yours?" said Cynthia. "My name is Gloria, nice to officially meet you!" said Gloria. "How much do clothes usually cost?" asked Cynthia. "Beast pearls are worth a lot because they are cultivation materials. One medium rank beast pearl like you handed over earlier would be enough to buy the entire inventory of a moderately sized luxury store." replied Gloria. "Well I guess that's what I'm going to do since I don't have anything smaller," said Cynthia. "How much could you possibly have at your age?" asked Gloria, astonished that this little girl was carrying around a mortal's fortune as her smallest increment of money. "You keep judging me by my appearance, but I am a lord who has killed several other lords. I am plenty capable of gathering medium sized beast pearls on my own. I even have subordinates capable of that. In total with what I paid you with I arrived here with 20 medium, 13 large, and 1 lord sized beast pearl." said Cynthia "I also left most of the medium sized cores I had back home.".
"My tuition is less than one medium sized beast pearl!" muttered Gloria with wide eyes not intending the girl to hear. "Take this then." said Cynthia pulling out a large rank beast pearl. She was careful not to show it to anyone but Gloria since she now knew it was an extremely large sum of money. "Consider it an up front payment for future consultations. A specialist in the ways of space is something I'd like to have access to." said Cynthia "I also don't have any true friends in this world. All I have are enemies, subordinates, and acquaintances.". "I understand where you are coming from but there's quite an age gap for us to be friends. I could be your aunt." said Gloria. "My body may look like this but I was an adult in my past life. I'm sure you've noticed that aside from my temper and appearance I have not resembled a child much." said Cynthia "In fact I was around your age when I died. You're around your mid twenties right?". "I'm twenty four," said Gloria. "I was actually older than you. I was twenty six." said Cynthia "It's fine I won't make you use honorifics, I'll call you aunty in public if you want to save face but I have my pride behind closed doors.". "Fair enough. Although I don't quite understand. How were you reincarnated?" asked Gloria. "I've been told that my story was known as a fable which is why I was able to be reincarnated, but my life was ordinary. Replied Cynthia. "Maybe if you get back to your old home you'll be able to hear your story told around the world." said Gloria "anyways we're here!".
The two had been walking towards their destination during this conversation. Cynthia could see the luxurious store front. Glass panes were rather uncommon in this area but the entire front of this store was glass. The door was made of glass and there were big display cases on either side of the door which spanned the entire front side of the store. As the two walked in they were completely ignored. "I figured this would happen." said Gloria "we don't look like customers who can pay. The only reason they don't assume we're here to steal is because of the enforcers.". "All we have to do is change their view of us." said Cynthia as she walked up to the payment counter. Cynthia then retrieved two medium sized beast pearls and then all of the employees' eyes widened. "You've ignored me. That's minus ten points. You break even and I will pay with both of these. If not, you get just one.". Cynthia was well aware that these people get paid on commission. If she paid extra they got paid extra and one of these beast pearls was enough for them to make a whole year worth of wages from just a commission.
The employees went into the back for a moment to speak with each other. "Let's all work together and make that little girl feel like an absolute princess. We'll split the commission between all of us.". Since there were four of them they would get roughly six months of their salary in commissions so all of them liked this plan.
Author note(I've decided to go based on earth time for long periods of time. Earth time will be the cross world benchmark in this world I've created. There will be many other worlds with vastly different day and night cycles in the future.)
Cynthia, having heard their plan in the back because of her supernatural hearing, smiled outwardly. The employees quickly came out with a number of outfits around her size. Cynthia tried on most of them but trying on clothes was far from her favorite thing. Cynthia decided to just buy everything the women suggested after a while. "I also need bigger clothes. I grow rather fast." said Cynthia. The women brought out all kinds of outfits, ranging from her size all the way to sizes that adults would wear. She bought most of it even though the adult clothes varied greatly in size since she wasn't sure what size she'd be in the future.
Once her selection was done she picked out some denim shorts and a crop top to put on, and put the rest of the clothes in her warehouse. "For someone who was an adult in her past life you dress like an angsty teenager." said Gloria. "Well excuse me for having a favorite style." said Cynthia "besides dresses and looking pretty aren't my thing.". "That's a damn shame given your adorable face," said Gloria. "Yeah, don't say that again, I get enough of that garbage from that old man," said Cynthia. "What old man?" asked Gloria. "You've met him before and that's who we're heading towards now." replied Cynthia "the damn ape that carried my ass through town naked. Even though it's partially my fault he could've covered me up with something even if it had to be the corpses of the lords I killed!".
"Little lass, you shouldn't be so vulgar at your age!" said a man running a stall that Cynthia and Gloria just walked past. "I'll be vulgar if I want to." replied Cynthia "What are you selling? It smells good.". "I'm selling tacos," said the man at the stall. "Good, sell me 50." said Cynthia. "Are you headed to a party or something?" asked the stall owner. "My stomach if I fully transform is bigger than you are. This is a snack for me and me alone." replied Cynthia. "How big of a beast are you, little lass?" asked the stall owner. "Didn't your mother ever teach you that asking a girl how big she is, is rude?" asked Cynthia. "Didn't your mother ever teach you to respect your elders?" replied the man with a smug look. "I never knew my mother. I woke up in a forest when I attained sentience and didn't remember anything before that." replied Cynthia with a touch of murderous intent. "I uh…" said the stall owner. "Yeah that's what I thought, now do your job and make my snack." said Cynthia, knowing she won the argument.
"Hey you got any change? I'm sure as hell not giving this asshole a medium sized beast pearl." Cynthia said, turning to Gloria. "I actually brought the change from everything at the inn. Ten iron coins are worth one silver coin. Ten silver coins are worth one gold coin. Ten gold coins are worth one low grade beast pearl. And ten low grade beast pearls are worth one medium grade beast pearl.". The coins have pretty much no value to medium rank cultivators which you'd call lords since they typically pay chefs a yearly salary up front once a year to make meals for them." said Gloria "left over after the night gown and the ring you still have about 45 gold coins.". "How much does food usually sell for at these stands?" asked Cynthia. "A good rule of thumb in this area is that a meal generally costs 2 iron pieces. You ordered a lot though. 3 tacos are normally a meal so 33 iron pieces would be the right price for 51 tacos.". "He'll get 30 since he insulted me.". Gloria then places three silver pieces on the stand. The stall owner looked a tad disappointed but he made the food quickly without complaining.