"Now scram!" The vendor scolded Gabriel, keeping the necklace in his pocket. "Next time, don't take things if you can't afford it. Not everyone here is as nice as me."
Gabriel couldn't help but be amazed at the audacity of this person. No matter how expensive the currency of this world was, it could never be worth a single fruit. Especially since he could clearly see the greed on the face of the person.
"You should control that greed of yours. It might harm you quite a lot in the end." Gabriel reminded the man. For him, that necklace was worth nothing. He had even more precious yet useless things in his storage ring. However, he did feel quite irritated because of the man.
"Are you threatening me?" The Vendor glared back at Gabriel.
"This one was better!" Ezekiel chimed in, finishing the fruit he was given. He picked up another similar fruit and started eating as he observed the people in the streets.
Seeing him nonchalantly take the fruit even after all this, the Vendor was even more furious. Even though he got something more precious that his entire stock was worth, he didn't consider it.
"You, thief! I've had enough!" The Vendor reached out his hand. Before Gabriel could intervene, the Vendor's hands were on Ezekiel's collar.
He tried his best to pull Ezekiel back but the man proved to be even heavier than a mountain.
Even Gabriel has had enough of the man. He grabbed the wrist of the man, crushing it in his grip, taking his hands off from Ezekiel's collar.
Meanwhile, Ezekiel turned around, feeling someone try to pull him. However, by the time he turned around, he only noticed the Vendor's wrist in Gabriel's hands.
"That's enough." Gabriel told the Vendor. "Don't test your luck!"
The vendor didn't know why, but he felt as if thousands of ants were crawling all over his body, biting him. However, he couldn't even cry or scream. Some mysterious force was keeping him restricted.
He could also feel an invisible hand around his throat, as if warning him that he could lose his life at any second.
Fortunately, Gabriel didn't want to spoil the experience of his new friend, who was here to experience how humans lived. They already had to run away from one town. He didn't want to do the same since it was only a waste of his time.
"Next time, I won't speak. However, I won't leave you able to speak either..." Gabriel freed the wrist of the man. "Use the extra you get from that necklace to have your wrist treated."
After freeing the man, he picked up a few more fruits from the stall, and gave it to Ezekiel.
"What was that about?" Ezekiel asked.
However, Gabriel simply told Ezekiel everything that happened, including the greed of the man.
"There are many humans in every world. However, not all humans are good. Some are greedy, while some are outright evil. However, there are also some genuinely good people," Gabriel spoke. However, in between he stopped. When he thought of good people, he couldn't help but remember Cylix and Novius.
Both of them should've been back to life by now. However, the world itself was destroyed, which meant they were dead, unable to return.
Cylix and Novius were the first two people who showed Gabriel that humans could indeed be nice, from the bottom of their hearts.
They made him differentiate between the good and evil. They were also the ones who taught him so much about the world, and how he could safeguard himself.
However, thinking about them also made him realize that he could never see them again. They were gone forever, just like his sister and Avilia, all because of Caen.
Thinking about this, his eyes lowered and he stopped talking.
Ezekiel noticed the change in Gabriel's emotions but he didn't ask. He had a guess that it had something to do with how he ended up in the Abyss. It was clear that the young man next to him had also lost many precious people to him, just like he had lost.
"So we need what you call the coins to take things in this place?" He asked, changing the topic.
From where he was, there was no such concept. At least it wasn't something he had seen before. No one ever asked him for money in the past, or even showed any discomfort as he took things. He always thought that's how the world was supposed to be.
"That's how the world works in most places," Gabriel came out of his daze and nodded. "At least in human society. I don't know how it works in the Realm of Gods."
"Wait a minute. I'll be right back. I'll exchange some jewels for the coins," he added, noticing a jewelry shop nearby.
Since he wanted to give Ezekiel an experience of an ordinary life, he wanted to use the official currency so previous problems couldn't occur again.
He told Ezekiel to wait for him, as he rushed inside the jewelry shop, bringing some previous jewels from his storage.
****
Only a few minutes had passed since Gabriel entered the jewelry shop to sell some jewels like an ordinary human would've, to get some money.
He made sure to tell Ezekiel to not go anywhere else, and just wait for him right where he was.
However, he didn't expect that just shortly after he entered the jewelry shop, something was going to happen outside.
The Vendor whose wrist was crushed by Gabriel came running, while holding his broken wrist. However, he wasn't alone.
There were close to ten guards next to him.
"There he is! He's the thief! He stole from me, and his friend did some evil magic and even broke my hand! Catch him!" The Vendor exclaimed.
Half the Guards surrounded Ezekiel, aiming their guns at the man. "Where is that evil wizard friend of yours?!"
"Evil Wizard?" Ezekiel tilted his head sideways. "If you're talking about that kid, he went inside there."
He didn't have to lie to them. To him, these were just a bunch of ants.
The other half of the guards rushed inside the jewelry shop with the vendor to catch Gabriel.
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