# Chapter 22: 22
While rubbing the arm that Margaret had torn, he snapped back.
-I know.
Huber's eyes sparkled.
—Do you know me?
"Isn't he a Gillem merchant?"
Radis nodded slightly.
—And I know more than that. Being a Gillem merchant is just his facade, he is actually a mana stone dealer. I extort mana stones from people in my family without telling them the true market value of the mana stones.
As Radis stared at him, he swallowed his words.
In her previous life, Margaret and Zade were responsible for selling the mana stones that Radis obtained after hunting monsters.
They knew Huber, but it was Huber who first approached them with bad intentions.
He desperately blocked other merchants from knowing about the mana stones they had, and persuaded Margaret to let him buy them at low prices.
Of course, that ridiculous stunt didn't even last half a year, but Huber made quite a profit during that short period.
Margaret and Zade, who had been scammed without their knowledge, felt very humiliated, but they could not complain anywhere.
When those old memories came back, Radis immediately wanted to hit Huber hard in the face.
But those were old memories. Those events had not yet happened to sixteen-year-old Radis.
Sighing briefly, she caught the man staring at her.
Huber's fraud had not yet happened; No, it will never happen in that life.
First of all, Radis would never bring mana stones home.
Radis spoke coldly.
—I don't need a companion. I like to be alone.
However, Huber just smiled and didn't let the situation go.
—Who in the world would be happy to be alone like this?
—...
Radis walked away from him without even answering him.
Obviously she was ignoring him.
At that, Huber frowned.
Although on the outside he seemed fine, on the inside he was not. There was no one there who didn't know that the Tilrod family was like a sinking paper ship.
However, the young lady of that family simply ignored him.
Huber, whose mood was low, changed his focus and spoke in a sarcastic tone.
"By the way, the Tilrod family seems pretty excited."
—...
—That dress looks familiar to me. It was in the Rhode Boutique catalog with a fifty percent discount at first, then sixty percent, then seventy percent year after year… Isn't that the dress that gradually dropped to ninety percent? Aren't you ashamed to wear those clothes?
Shortly after saying that, Huber himself realized that he had gone too far.
The person I was talking to was a sixteen year old girl who had absolutely no experience with socializing.
His words and actions were too much to retaliate against an arrogant girl who was walking away from him.
However, Radis smiled.
—It seems that you are interested in women's clothing. It's a little suspicious.
—…!
—I'm sixteen years old. I have no choice but to wear what they have given me. Wasn't it the same when you were the same age?
Huber could not answer anything, although he murmured. Radis continued.
—But if it's something to be ashamed of, then it must be embarrassing to just stay by my side.
Radis narrowed his eyes as he stared at him.
"Then I'll go." I have something to do, even in a dress like this.
The Huber before her was not the same man who scammed her and the Tilrod family.
But that didn't mean she had to be nice to him.
—It's probably best not to get involved with him.
But apart from that, just now he saw a familiar person on the second floor.
—Robert.
But she wasn't sure.
And if it really was Robert she saw, it was strange that he was there in the first place.
Anyway, she wanted to go and see if that person really was Robert.
But.
—Wait a moment!
Huber was persistent.
—Excuse my rudeness. As expected, it was a response befitting a lady from a noble family. Excuse me, would you like to dance with me?
Huber's voice was more nuanced than it had been a while ago, and his eyes shone with thoughts she couldn't read.
When their gazes met, Radis felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
"Dance?"
She didn't want to.
How scary!
Walking into Monsterwood with nothing but the clothes on her back was an even more appealing idea than having a single dance with Huber.
Valiz