Zain took the sit opposite to the king and Iso stood besides him.
The documents were already on the table.
The king looked at them and said, "The house is 20 000 gold coins since the house requires a lot of cleaning. The original price of the house was 150 000 gold coins but its value went down all the years."
Zain thought that the calculation don't align, 'If the house depreciated that much it's either there was a murder involved or its a broken house. Unless...' he thought as he figured it out.
"Are you selling me a haunted house?"
Zain asked the king as if he's sure about it.
"Yes."
The king didn't try to lie or sound reassuring like a modern estate agent.
"So, you selling me a haunted house at the price of 20 000 gold coins, that's expensive?"
Zain said shamelessly and he knew it. He knew the price is too cheap even for a haunted house.
"It's not expensive. In Fact it's cheap because the house has a training grounds, the tea house and 120 rooms in it included the servant's rooms."
The king said with its voice sounding impatient and Zain caught on.
"120 rooms? That's a big house."
Zain said in a happy tone.
"Yes, it belong to one of the noble family when my grandfather was a king."
Zain was shocked to hear that from the king.
"It comes from a way back. Aren't you going to give a discount or something?"
Everyone in the room looked at Zain when he said that. Iso remained quiet besides Zain but she still reacted like the others.
"Discount? What's that?"
The king asked in confusion and Zain seemed confused at first but realised something.
"Can't you reduce the price of the house a little bit?"
"The price is already reduced because I'm supposed to give it to a Duke, Marquis or sell it at 37 000 gold coins. I'm sorry but the price is already reduced."
The king said seriously and Zain understood his reasoning. The king's body was impatient that Zain decided to stop stalling and finish the business.
"Okay. I'll buy the house now."
Everyone in the room was surprised when Zain said that because Zain didn't carry any pouch on him or had any accessories that can act as spatial storage items. He wore black shirt, black pants and black leather boots. He didn't even carry a weapon on him.
"Are you going to fetch the money and return?"
The king asked Zain impatiently.
"I've got the money and were can I pay?"
Zain said as he looked around the room and saw a small pouch the holy Knight was holding in his hand. Zain thought, 'Were did that come from?'
"You can put the money in this pouch."
The holy Knight put the pouch on the desk and the king gestured to it when he talked.
*INSIGHT FORCE*
Zain scanned the pouch and found out that it has small orb inside of it like the size of a marble since he can't see inside the pouch but he can sense what's inside it.
"Okay."
*SPATIAL STORAGE*
Zain pulled his pouch from spatial storage and poured 20 001 gold coins in the other pouch. He didn't take out gold coins one by one, he just limited how many coins can go out.
It looked like he poured coins onto the other pouch but in reality, he just surrounded both pouch with his mana and controlled the mana to pull out 20 001 gold coins from the other pouch to put it in the other pouch.
His pouch can't spill anything out of it unless it can sense the signature energy of Zain. It doesn't matter which signature, it can be aura, mana or DNA.
"I'm done."
Zain said out loud as he looked at the king. Everyone was confused and suprise when Zain said that because it looked like nothing happened to them.
The king instructed the holy knight to take the pouch and inspect it. The holy knight held the pouch and it felt heavy. The holy knight nodded to the king and pulled out the orb from the pouch in the size of handball ball.
'I guess the pouch shrinks items.' Zain thought to himself.
Holy Knight put the orb infront of the king and numbers appeared in the orb that says [XX 00I nummī aureī][1]
"20 001 gold coins huh. What's ünus for?"
The king asked Zain and Zain said, "It's a show of good faith."
The king didn't mind Zain, he just signed his name of the document and gave Zain to sign his name. Zain was about to sign then paper when something happened.
*INSIGHT FORCE*
Zain's ability activated immediately when he was about to sign. He sensed a woman dressed in fancy clothes, not in good health running towards this room in distress. It looks like she didn't care about her body because she was running barefoot and the guards were chasing after her.
Everyone saw Zain freeze the minute he was about to sign and became confused by why did he stop. Iso said to him, "Aren't you going to sign?"
Zain came back to his senses and signed the documents. He gave the king the document back and the king wrote [Dawnbreaker Residence] near residential name. He stamped the document with his seal, He gave the original to Zain and decided to make a copy of this in other times.
"Now I own a house." Zain as he looked at the document and continue to say, "Oh, we'll see ourselves out. It looks like some news are coming."
"Huh." The king and everyone in the room became confused by what Zain said.
Before the king can ask ask Zain what does he mean by that, a woman burst to the door in distress and scared.
"Ho...hone... Honey." She said hoarse and out of breath. The king saw his wife in distress, stood up immediately and went to her to help her.
Zain put the title deed in the spatial storage and stood up.
"Iso let's leave." Zain said to Iso as he decided to go to the door. Iso looked confused, surprised and eager to know what's going on. She was in conflict of whether to leave or see this through.
Zain was stopped at the door by the two knights, they said, "You can't leave until permitted."
"Great, we're gonna be here a while." Zain said as he turned around and went to the corner to lean at it. He watched what was happening in the room with folded hands and silent observation.
"What is it honey?" The king said to his wife sounding scared as he knelt down towards his wife as he held her.
"It's about our daughter. She's... She's not... She's not going to wake up." The woman said crying and scared. The king became shocked when he heard the news.
Iso was quite the whole time and didn't say anything. Zain thought, 'Now we're stuck here.'
Zain decided to sit on the floor and watch everything unfolds. Zain could teleport out of the room but doesn't want to do that because it'll create bigger problem since he want to remain problem free or problem less at least. If he teleported out, the king can try to put a man hunt behind his back and would be forced to kill those that hunted. Which in turn would make him a bigger criminal and be forced to have a bounty which would make him live in hiding.
That's what Zain thought.
"The healer said she's left with 3 years to live." The woman said crying. The king became shocked, sad and angry when he heard that.
"It's her doing. IT'S THAT MAID'S DOING!" The king said in anger as he stood up from kneeling on the floor.
Zain thought to himself, 'Ahh fuck it.'
"I don't think it's her doing."
Everyone in the room looked at Zain.
[1] If you haven't figured it out yet... this world doesn't speak English... It's because of a certain Trait that Zain can read and speak this world's language but this is Latin... No Spoilers but FYI the first/oldest language ever known would appear...✌🏽