Chapter 22 - Healing Balls

Looking at this pitiful amount of gold points, Nathan felt like something inside him was awoken.

The urge to start spending started to appear inside him.

Nathan wants to earn more gold points and buy those magical things!

He clenched his fist as he vowed, 'Someday, I will buy the things I want without being restricted by money!'

Since young, Nathan has never been someone who likes spending money.

If it's nothing important, Nathan won't really buy it.

Especially when their parents passed away, he has to manage his small salary for the two of them, siblings, to live.

He has to spend only on necessary things, even a piece of candy might mess up the budget. That's how tight his wallet is!

But now that he has money, Nathan feels like he's been freed from the need to budget every peso that he spends.

And so, he can just buy anything that he wants, to live a better life as well as to make more gold points to buy things at the shop.

…

After his small emotional episode, Nathan roughly browsed through the shop and bought something before exiting the system.

He was able to find something to buy since he used the filtering system in the shop, making it easier for him to look at low prices products.

Nathan turns back his attention to Natalie, who's been tinkering the awakener.

Now looking at his sister, Nathan immediately became serious.

"Tal… I know that you don't believe what I just told you, right?"

Natalie looks at him, nodding her head.

Since she was a child, Natalie has always been meticulous with details. She doesn't just believe anything people say, even if it's their parents.

She's always been an intelligent kid.

That is why, even if Nathan truthfully told her about the awakener, she still has doubts because of the 'impossibility' of those things.

Heck, any average sane person would doubt it, what's more Natalie.

For Natalie, it was easy to see a lot of holes from Nathan's explanation earlier.

And those holes, unknowingly piqued her interest for some reason.

And now that Nathan seems like he is about to tell her something, she listens to it carefully so as to not miss any details.

Nathan started to speak,

"Since you don't believe me… I can only show you something that is also not believable."

He took out two white balls the size of a bottle cap.

Those balls give Natalie a unique feeling that she doesn't know.

Seeing that he got Natalie's attention, Nathan let out a smirk that disappeared after a second.

Looking at the balls in his hands, Nathan's shone a little.

'I did not expect that even just 1 gold point could buy this kind of life saving consumable!'

These two are called healing balls.

[Healing Balls: Mixture of different kinds of herbs that have healing properties. Small wounds and minor injuries can be healed instantly.]

Nathan raises the healing balls in the air, then looks at Natalie, "These things are called healing balls."

Natalie raised an eyebrow, "Healing balls? What's it for?"

Natalie already know the usage of the healing balls just from its name, but she asked since it seems to be part of what Nathan wants to show.

Nathan smiled, he grabbed a knife, took a deep breath, and made a small cut on his palm!

Piak!

Blood started dripping down from the knife, falling onto the dining table.

Natalie did not expect that, she screamed, "Ahh! Brother!"

Panicking, she hurriedly came near Nathan to look at his wound.

But Nathan stopped her, "Tal, stop, calm down!"

His face twisted with pain, but still tried to act calm.

Inwardly, Nathan is already screaming to himself.

He was actually just planning to make a small gash on his arm to demonstrate the efficacy of the healing balls. But it seems like he was not able to gauge his strength and made the cut deeper.

Right now, Nathan can't help flinching from the pain on his hand.

"Tal, look at what I'm about to show you."

Natalie now has tears flowing down her eyes, looking at Nathan she doesn't know what to do.

When she hears that he's about to show something, Natalie can do nothing else but nod her head.

Stopping paying attention to Natalie, Nathan grabs a healing ball and throws it in his mouth.

As the healing ball fell into his stomach, it started melting and flowing inside his body.

As that is happening, the wound on Nathan's hand started healing with speed visible to the naked eye!

Natalie saw that scene clearly!

It's so magical!

The wound disappeared in just a matter of a few seconds!

She has her eyes widened more than ever before.

Even her tears stopped as she watched Nathan's flesh connect after being separated by the knife!

Even Nathan was surprised by the efficacy of this medicine.

'Damn! Isn't this like a legendary elixir!?'

Although he was shocked, Nathan kept his face calm on the surface so as to not make Natalie think about other things and become suspicious.

In just 5 seconds, the deep slash on Nathan's palm has been fixed!

It looks as if there was never even a wound to begin with!

Suppressing his mood, Nathan looks at Natalie with a small smile.

"See that? As good as new."

He showed his hand from all angles, as if being smug that he has such treasure like healing balls.

Natalie looks at him, but she did not even take a glance at his hands, only on his face with an unreadable expression.

Seeing her like that, Nathan stiffened, he awkwardly laughed,

"Uh, haha, A-awesome… right?"

Without warning, Natalie suddenly rushed to his side and launched her body at him.

Nathan was stunned, but he still caught her by reflex, embracing her.

When he recovered, he was about to ask her why she did that when…

He heard her sobbing…

Then he realized,

Natalie… is worried and ends up crying.

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No bonus chap since we did not get 200 power stones!