Since my day started early, I thought of buying the bread that I will serve together with the stew for tonight''s dinner. Nothing beats freshly baked bread in the morning! I looked for the best bread shop as per the people that I asked around the city. As I arrived at the shop, there are already a few regular customers queuing to get their usual breakfast loaves. Though I have been in this world for more than two weeks, it won''t be enough for me to know all about their food culture so the first thing I did was to approach the bread shop owner. I asked the old man a simple question, "Mister, which bread will be best to serve with meat stew?" He looked at me with an amicable smile and readily gave me his suggestions. He was even kind enough to let me have a taste of each type so I can decide more easily. I then decided to get the middle priced one which is a kind of balance for me. It has the right sweetness, softness and crunch too. I then ordered 50 loaves which shocked the owner. He then told me that he only baked about 20 of it today and some were already bought earlier. I asked if he could make 50 more for me by 4:00pm and that I am willing to pay in advance and he said he would gladly do it for me. He then whispered, "Would you like me to deliver it to the community kitchen at 4pm?" I looked at him with widened eyes since I never knew that people would know about what I did yesterday. I nodded and said my thanks. I left my payment and told him to bring all 50 loaves to the agreed place later. Sёar?h the ηovёlFire .net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    I then went to the vegetable market with thoughts of buying tomatoes, onions, carrots and potatoes for the stew. For some reason, the vegetable sellers are more eager to offer their goods and even gave me discounts here and there. They then said, "Thank you." with doting looks as if I did something that made them proud. I am feeling a little creeped out, honestly. This look seem to be similar to the old man at the bread shop though.

    After the market, I decided to drop by the room of questions while it is still quite early to avoid prying eyes. Better to keep it a secret for as long as I can. As I entered the room in a hurry, I did not notice that in one inconspicuous corner, someone was observing my every move. I looked at the board and took out 5 of the oldest question and placed my answers on blank sheets of paper quickly. Placed them in the answers box and left immediately. As I left the room of questions, that was the only time I noticed that I had another stalker! Though he tried to conceal himself, his scent and well, his invisibility spell doesn''t work with someone like me who already exceeded his mana rank so there you go. I don''t mind him stalking me though and I do not mind having a connection with the magic tower in the future too. On top of his head used to be an 88, now it is a 93. It is getting harder to avoid you, Mr. Tangerine.

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    Keeran''s POV

    Something in me just knew that she will come back quite early the next day so I decided to do a vigil to wait for her here. Damn! I even slept in a very uncomfortable position just to make sure I won''t leave this room of questions. The long wait eventually bore fruit as I saw her walk in. She came in almost an hour late compared to the time she came in yesterday. She must have tried to avoid me, didn''t she? Too bad, I have nothing in me but persistence. I think all magic researchers must have at least this much.

    I saw with my own eyes how she took 5 of the oldest questions from the board, read it in under a minute then write her answers for all of them in less than 5 minutes and lastly, she placed them in the answers box after stamping them. I did not know those questions were that easy? If they were, they wouldn''t be on that board for almost three years! You see those papers are color coded as per the year they were posted so I knew with just one look. She must really be a genius.

    I decided to follow her around today. I decided to take a leave from work for the first time since I started working here just to spy on someone! How degrading as fuck! It''s not that I don''t want to do it but I''m kind of desperate. I know damn well she was avoiding me. She has been doing that since that night we met eyes at Eden. Why? I thought she was at least interested in me when she was checking me out as I was posing almost naked in the middle of the studio. She even bought those embroidery pieces so, why? She is my resonant and I know that she knows that too. So, why do I feel her strong dislike of me?

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    I simply continued what I planned to do even if I was being followed by a persistent tail in a form of a mage in an invisibility spell. I went to the adventurer''s hall since I already settled all the other ingredients for the stew. It''s time to procure the main ingredient! I also have to take in the usual three tasks. As I entered the adventurer''s hall, I greeted the receptionist and she greeted me with a loud "Hi, Luna!" which was enough for everybody in the hall to hear. This woman is always energetic and unnecessarily loud but it''s not that I hate it. I simply smiled at her and immediately went near the huge board filled with tasks.

    I took two herb gathering tasks and one simple hunting task but for another animal. I need the wild boar for my personal use so it is weird to get a hunting task for that. I brought the tasks to the reception and as I did so, a man did the same thing at the same time and our hands ended up touching each other and I felt a spark where our hands met. (Keeran''s POV: How dare this brat touch my wife''s hand? He''s even staring at her! Tsk!)

    This is the reason why I do not touch men recklessly! Shit, that was a resonance and quite high at that! That is definitely above 85 points. No way! I ignored the spark and simply continued with the transaction as if nothing happened when our hands touched. I avoided looking at the man beside me with my entire being. I was curious but I don''t want complications even more so I''d rather pretend I have a stiff neck. The man beside me though was clearly staring at me (I can see it through my peripheral vision) and he''s clearly waiting for me to look his way. Fat chance! I won''t look at you even if you stare holes into my body! After the receptionist finished registering the tasks to my adventurer card, I hurriedly turned around and left for the gates opposite the direction of the entertainment district since I have already went through that gate near there yesterday. I have scavenged my way around that other half of the forest so let''s do the other half today.

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    Dongmin''s POV

    I decided to start with my adventurer''s tasks early today. There is no limit as to the number of tasks one can do in a day as long as you finish the first batch you took. The earlier I start, the more money and points I can earn. I usually take harder tasks since they earn more but today, I have decided to take the easier tasks to help my father''s alchemy shop. It''s not like I don''t do that before but honestly, not as regular as I should. I feel threatened when my father started mentioning Luna. What if father ends up loving her more than me. I know she''s not going to be my stepmother. My father has cleared that up but he can be his adopted daughter and whether we like it or not, men always want daughters over sons. They can deny it all they want but I can clearly see the happy sparkles in my father''s eyes whenever he talks about her so yeah, the denial doesn''t count at all. That truth hurt a lot when I first realized it. It turns out, she''s more filial than me too in many ways looking at how much improvement the shop had, the inventory system and all.

    When I got to the adventurer hall, I immediately found some herb and material gathering tasks. Since I am already a rank 8 adventurer, I can take 5 at once for these low level tasks if I wanted to. To show how filial I am, of course, I took five! When I was arranging the tasks I chose, I heard the receptionist greet someone named Luna. My head snapped back immediately. I wanted to see if this is the woman that never left my father''s praises. I saw her walk towards the counter but her long black hair is covering the side of her face so I couldn''t see how she looked like so I hurried to present my task at the same time to get a closer look. I also wanted to see what tasks she will be taking. I was so much in a hurry that without me meaning to, our hands touched! And when they did, I felt electricity course through my body. I felt blood rush to my face, my body heated up, damn my groin even went hard in an instant too and my legs almost turned into jelly. I had to hold onto the counter to keep my balance. The energy left in me could only help me look towards her direction slowly with widened eyes. Damn, her side profile alone was beautiful and my mind went blank when she smiled at the receptionist. Why can''t that smile be for me instead? I looked down when I realized I was having weird thoughts. Huh? Why do I have such thoughts? Oh. Oh no, this isn''t it, right? I looked up again and she was just talking to the receptionist like I was invisible. I know she felt it but why is she ignoring me. I clearly know what these body reactions meant and this is definitely not one-sided! How dare she ignore me! Did my father, for some reason, know beforehand that me and Luna would have this fated connection?