Lily's eyes fell on a green hat with a feather that looked incredibly like the hat that the man was wearing, although it was not the same color. It was on a white wooden stand outside a small shop that also had other funny hats that looked like something from a fancy-dress party. She lifted them all up there with it and saw that the other hats were incredibly ugly and wondered who had made them. They looked like some cheap crap that you bought in a very cheap store such as discount supermarkets that only lasted once you had used it. There were silver hats with glitter, and she touched one and got glitter on her fingers with this and hastened to remove her hand.
She went inside with William, Ace, and Aaron while the others looked in the other shops next door since the shop was too small to fit them all.
She looked around very carefully and had described to the others that they should find a purple hat that looked like the green one outside. They looked for several minutes, and it was easy to skim everything but unfortunately no hat caught their attention.
As they were about to turn around, they heard a man say, “Lord William. Lord Ace. What an honor to have you visit.”
They saw a small, chubby man with dark skin come out from a room behind the counter. He had dark hair and was hairy all over and was wearing a lot of rings and jewelry. He looked like a mafia boss but a cheap version. He only had gold teeth and black round earrings and a big thick gold chain around his neck.
"Isn't there something here that catches your eye?" he asked, wearing a greedy expression.
Lily shook her head and replied, "Unfortunately, unless you have a purple hat that resembles the green hat with feathers outside."
The man smiled widely and said, “That hat was designed by Lord Amos. In fact, he came by with one that he was unhappy with because he had made some mistakes with it.”
Lily's heart beat faster and said, “I'd really like to see that one.”
The man rubbed his little fat sausage fingers and said, “Since it’s Lord Amos who personally designed it, it’s expensive but I can give you a 10% discount because it’s used. You must pay for it before you see it.”
Lily nodded and would pay all her gold for it and if she didn't have enough, he could always borrow from the others. That hat was her only clue to her mother.
The man walked away and came back with a large white square cardboard box with a purple bow.
Before Lily paid, she had to make sure it hadn't been cleaned and everyone possible had touched it and asked, "Has anyone else touched it?"
“No miss. Lord Amos' hats are special so it was received with gloves.” the man replied, giving her a big smile so all his shining gold teeth could be seen.
Lily nodded and took out a bunch of black cards and paid for the hat. It was indeed expensive, but she had gotten that hat in return, and it was all worth it.
She took the box in the space ring, and they went outside and found the others with good news. She told them why the hat was so important to her and when they heard her story about her upbringing, they were all sad. She did not feel that she had lived badly compared to the discrimination that existed in this new world. Compared to now, she had lived in luxury because she got everything, she asked for but was just not allowed to go outside. She taught herself everything and studied by herself for the last 15 years with her mother's help. She had to look up a lot of things on the internet, but she had learned a lot which she had taken to heart.
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She looked around and noticed that the mood was bad and said, “Let's find something to eat. I’m happy now because I have you and you are my new family.”
They started walking and looking for a nice place with good food and since the weather was good Lily suggested that they find some street food because it wasn't made by the system so Arba could eat with them. They quickly found a lot of food stalls that had goodies and made sure they didn't have food from the system. They found a big, beautiful park with a lot of nice trees and plants and found a big lawn and took out a lot of blankets and cushions and sat down to eat.
It had been a long time since Lily had spent time with any of her girls besides the day, she had rescued them from the exhibition. They all chatted, laughed and there was a good atmosphere. When she saw Violet and the others they looked like normal people because they had different hairstyles and some of them had dyed their hair. Even though they had similar faces, they still didn't look alike because they didn't have the same hairstyles.
Was it possible to give them a different appearance if she could bless them to level up?
She would investigate it when she had time, but first she had to visit Cyrene and have that hat checked to see if it was real.
"Did you all get along?" she asked.
“Yes, I’ve spent a lot of time with Pearl.” Ralph replied, his cheeks blushed.
" Mistress. " Elijah has taken me out on dates.” said Marigold, very happy.
Lily was happy that everyone was getting along and now she just needed to find a woman for Aaron and her eyes fell on him. He was sitting across from her and had noticed her look and looked at her.
"I serve you for life." he said and continued eating.
Lily didn't know if it was the portal that had changed his personality or if he was just born that way. She had to have a talk with his father or him when she had time. She found out he had taken 6th place in the beauty contest and was surprised that he made it this far but not surprised that he was a handsome man.
She gave everyone who didn't have a space ring and shared Hidden scrolls and summoning scrolls out to William and the others. Unfortunately, her girls couldn't use them but her clone could, which didn't surprise her. Katniss and Dean also got some which made them very happy. She sent scrolls out to her team and the dwarves also got one each as a reward. Since they were scrolls, they had nothing to do with the system and they had space rings, so they just had to use them physically. They had all seen what happened with the duel with Celestia, so they all knew very well that she had been given an angel and a god. She mentioned it to them anyway and they all started laughing out loud.
Fergus said, "She threw an angel and a god at your face which was free, too."
Lily giggled and said, "I didn't have to lift a finger because Eco did all the work."
When they had finished eating, they wanted to shop a little more and walked around looking at things.
Suddenly a tall person ran into Lily wearing a brown monk's robe with a hood. She felt a sudden pain in her stomach. She looked at the person who had silver hair and red eyes who smiled evilly at her. Suddenly he disappeared in front of her. She looked down at herself and saw blood on her stomach and suddenly it dawned on her that she had been stabbed but she wasn't worried because she would wake up next to an obelisk in a little while.
"Ace." she said but before Ace, William or Aaron could react she disappeared in front of them.
"No!" cried Merlin's bird as it hovered in the air.
" Mistress." Mamba also shouted in shock as he floated in the air.
He rushed to take the fall for Cerberus who could not fly. They all looked around confused and panicked.
"Where is she?" William asked nervously.
He tried to contact her but there was no answer and became even more worried.
Ace shook his head and said, “It's Lily. She will probably survive wherever she ends up.”
Arba got worried and said, "If she was dead then me and the clone would disappear so she's still alive somewhere."
The others nodded and were still worried but didn't know where to look for her.
“Is she still in our world?” asked Ralph.
Arba shook his head and replied, “No. I can't feel her here so she must have ended up somewhere else but why would anyone throw her there?”
"She has offended a lot, so it is not surprising." Aaron said but wasn't joking this time because it was serious.
Violet said nervously, “Is she all alone in a strange place?”
Arba looked around and his eyes fell on Mamba, Merlin's bird and Cerberus and smiled.
"She has Eco with her so she’s safe." he said.