It Was Too Much Money to Turn Down

Kairos stopped in front of the second shelf from the inside, a dusty one.

After giving the shelf a quick once-over, he reached without hesitation for a large box on the second tier.

“In a tucked-away corner like this… Are you sure this is really something good?”

“Of course. The old man who owns the shop barely seems to pay it any attention, though.”

“What? You just called it a hidden item.”

“A hidden item even the shopkeeper doesn’t know about. Sounds much more convincing now, doesn’t it?”

“What kind of logic is that…?”

Kairos sometimes had a way of looking at things that was impossible to make sense of.

Without hesitation, he opened the box. Inside lay a rough, gray-brown wand with its natural wood grain on full display.

“Hmm… Well, its appearance passes, at least.”...