"I see you were assigned a bongo. They tend to be quite timid with strangers."
I focused my attention back on Giya.
"Yes. She was anxious at first but she managed to relax by the end."
'Enough to start masturbating, at that.'
"You might have a gift if you can make a young bongo loosen in ten minutes, hahaha. I hope your skills as a merchant are on the same level."
"I'll have to do my best on that side too."
"Well said."
"Thanks again for the treat, Giya. I had a good time."
"Don't worry about it. It's the money you retrieved from that thief. I'd have nothing without you."
I nodded and diverted the topic to his experience.
"How was your partner?"
"Got a hippo."
He made some circular gestures with his hands in front of his body, the sort that would have been used to describe someone busty in my world. He then added with a lewd smile.
"Well, she wasn't bad."
"Glad to hear it."
I obviously had no idea what a hippo was but I wasn't one to let these small details stop me. I didn't know anything, after all.
"Alright, we should get going now. Do you have somewhere to spend the night?"
"Yes, that's taken care of."
"Good."
We exited the building, the fresher air from outside alleviating my tension even further. Before we separated, I still had something to ask of my newly made friend.
"I've got a small favor to ask. I'll need a few days to settle but I'll probably start a stall like yours after that. Can I reach out to you for help when the time comes?"
"Of course. It's nothing too hard, but you'll probably need to start on the night shift. You know how to find me. I'm at the market there pretty much every day. Just come and find me anytime. I'll help you talk to the market manager."
"Great. That'd be a big help."
After a few more small exchanges, Giya headed to his house to rest for the day. I was back to my lone self, which wasn't such a bad thing. I still had a few things to do before calling it a day.
I had to adjust my plans a little. I initially planned to get water and maybe wood from the outside world, sell it in the inside world, and live a peaceful yet well-off life there together with Suutu. However, now that I knew how interesting the outside world was, I wanted to do business there too.
Yet, there was a major obstacle in my way: the language. By now, I was almost certain they were using the same language inside and outside the dome, maybe with some variations that occurred due to being separated for hundreds of years. So far, everyone was accommodating me since I was passing as a foreigner and a client. This wouldn't work anymore if I was a trader instead. People would be a lot less tolerant of me not speaking their language.
So, my first goal would be to learn the language enough that I didn't force people to use sel all the time with me. Once this was done, I could sell raw materials inside the dome, and maybe use the technological advantage they had there to buy selnic items and sell them to the outside world. I didn't see anything disadvantageous, except for the high workload. I would just get rich in two places instead of one.
Now that was settled, I entered a small backstreet, checked that no one was in the vicinity, and teleported to the river in the forest. I used a few metal containers I had borrowed from Suutu in the morning to store as much water as I could. From there, I teleported again to the bandits I killed previously. A few animals that were inspecting the corpses got scared by my sudden arrival and immediately flew at full speed from the scene. There only remained some dark birds, high in the sky, croaking ominously while circling the area.
The view was as gruesome as before, even though the blood had mostly dried up. I quickly gathered everything that I judged to be usable. I ended up with some clothes, two bows, some arrows, two axes, one sword, and a bit of money. These guys were quite poor and all together, they only had 3 silvers and 47 coppers. It was ironic that this would be how I acquired my first goods and money in the outside world. Still, there was no such thing as small gains. Every copper counted toward becoming a giant in the industry. Plus, with my recent experience still fresh in mind, I couldn't help thinking that this was enough for another fellatio at the brothel.
I left the place as soon as I was done since I didn't want to stay there longer than necessary. The forest animals would take care of the cleanup. I teleported a few hundred meters away from Suuru's house, in the direction of the city, to make it as if I was coming back from there. I then walked for a few minutes.
As I approached the house, I noticed that Suuru was outside, looking in my direction. When I was close enough, I found out she had quite a large scowl, and wondered if something had gone wrong for her. She didn't wait for me to reach her and instead ran to me.
"Tila!"
She placed her hands on my shoulders and inspected me from top to bottom with a worried look.
"What's wrong, Suuru?"
This made her stop her inspection and she glared at me with an upset look.
"What do you mean what's wrong? Why are you so late? I've been so worried if anything happened to you!"
"Oh… You don't need to, you know. I'm a grown girl. I can take care of myself."
"No! You're still not perfectly fine. And you're just a rank 0. The city isn't as safe as you think it is. I… I still need to protect you!"
"Protect me? Hm… Are we talking about the same Suuru who couldn't wait to join me in the bathroom on my first day here?"
"H-huh? That was…"
"The Suuru who can't sleep well if she doesn't hug me hard at night?"
"Uh…"
"The one who couldn't even take a little massage to the end?"
"Ugh… S-stop it! Okay! Fine! I'll show you I can do it. You can do your massage or whatever and I won't stop you until the end. You'll see!"