Exploring Technology in a Wizard World
Chapter 528 - 526 "The Name ’Clark’ Reversed

Chapter 528: Chapter 526 "The Name ’Clark’ Reversed

In the blink of an eye, the next day had arrived, early morning.

In the courtyard where Richard lived.

Pandora had appeared in the yard early in the morning, seated on her designated little wooden stool in the corner, biting on a quill, frowning as she worked on the problems on the Papyrus Scroll—a whole new set of problems.

Yesterday, she relied on her Prediction Ability to do the problems, and, unsurprisingly, Richard had figured it out. So he changed all the problem types to calculation problems that couldn’t be shortcutted.

At the moment, Pandora looked at the many numbers and arithmetic symbols on the scroll, feeling a headache coming on, extremely distressed: there were so many problems, and they were all so hard, who could help her?

Thinking these thoughts, Pandora gazed resentfully towards Richard on the side.

Richard spoke out to educate her, "Do the problems properly, no scribbling allowed!"

Pandora: "..." grew even more resentful.

Richard paid no attention to Pandora’s mood, seriously planning out procurement matters, preparing to complete the detailed work of rebuilding Eden—tedious, but it had to be done.

Taking steps, Richard walked to the door. With a "creak," he opened it and was about to walk out. Suddenly, he saw a person sleeping against the door outside who tumbled in, then with an "ouch" fell into the yard.

Richard looked towards the other party with slight astonishment, only to discover it was the girl from yesterday. He couldn’t help saying, "You... why are you here?"

Upon hearing this, the girl struggled to stand up from the ground, rubbing her drowsy eyes, looked over seriously, and asked back with a bit of annoyance, "Why do you think I’m here? Of course, it’s because of you."

"Because of me? What does this have to do with me?"

"It has a lot to do with you, you saved me, okay?"

"Who says I saved you, when, where?"

"Just yesterday, right here in this yard," the girl said loudly. "Don’t try to trick me. After I left yesterday, the more I thought about it, the more something seemed off. In the end, I was sure it was you who saved me because there was no other possibility.

Don’t say that just because I didn’t see you act, it wasn’t you who saved me. That’s because, your strength is greater than mine, after all, the guy from Deep Blue Castle was killed by you in an instant.

Besides, your demeanor yesterday was too calm. Whether it was me being chased by the guy from Deep Blue Castle into your yard, or the fight afterwards, when I dealt with the body of the Deep Blue Castle guy, you were not scared at all. If it had been an ordinary person, they would have screamed out long ago.

So, you’re not an ordinary person, you’re formidable, you saved me!"

"Umm—", Richard looked at the girl, thinking to himself: The contrast in her behavior from before and after sure is big, yesterday she was so stubborn, and today her intelligence has come online, quickly sorting out the logic. Since that’s the case, there’s no point in continuing to deny it.

The next moment, Richard admitted, "Alright, I did indeed take action yesterday and saved you. But I didn’t save you for any other reason, just simply because your opponent wanted my life, so I had to kill him first.

Now tell me, even though I saved you, why are you waiting at the door until now? Could it be that I deceived you, so you’ve come to teach me a lesson?"

"Of course not," the girl quickly waved her hand, explaining, "I’m here to repay the debt of gratitude. Yes, repay the debt! My teacher taught me that when one is helped, they should repay the debt doubly.

So, since you saved me, I can’t irresponsibly leave, I must repay this life-saving debt. I must!" she spoke with utmost seriousness towards the end.

Richard, upon hearing the girl’s words, felt a warmth in his chest—not a physical reaction, but rather the "Judgement Feather" inside his chest was heating up.

The "Judgement Feather" had the ability to sense good and evil; sensing goodwill would cause it to warm up, sensing ill will would make it turn cold. However, whether it was getting warm or cold before had always been mild. This burning sensation now was a first encounter. If the Judgement Feather’s definition of friendliness had a scale, the girl in front of him was basically off the charts.

"Is this what they call a moral exemplar? Or maybe... a Justice Angel?"

Richard couldn’t help but think.

The girl had read through the information and, unable to wait any longer, spoke out eagerly, "Okay, tell me now, what can I do for you? Whatever you need, I’ll make sure to get it done! I promise! Anything!"

Richard: "..."Silent for a moment, he truly didn’t know how to deal with this girl whose friendliness had reached the ’little sun’ level.

At this moment, Pandora, who had been distressed by her assignments in the corner, heard the conversation and suddenly came over with sparkling eyes, asking the girl, "Can you help with anything? So... can you help me with my homework?"

"Homework?" The girl was taken aback, clearly not expecting this choice.

Pandora said, "It’s actually really simple. The problem is called ’a circular quadratic equation,’ and it looks like this." As she spoke, she pointed out the numbers and symbols on the scroll to the girl.

The girl’s eyes followed where Pandora indicated, first startled, then stupefied, before blinking hard as if doubting what she saw. When she realized she hadn’t seen it wrong, her gaze suddenly deepened.

Slowly lifting her head and looking at Richard, the girl seriously added, "Uh... before I help, let me be clear. Though I said I can do anything for you, actually... I can’t be too careless, because I’m not a careless person. So... anything that requires thinking, I’d rather not do."

The girl pushed away the papyrus scroll that Pandora handed to her and continued to Richard, "What you ask me to do should be something that doesn’t require much thinking, like physical labor. Got it?"

Having heard the girl’s words, Richard first gently patted Pandora’s head, sending her back to the corner to continue working on her problems on her own, then looked at the girl and replied, "I understand, but there’s one thing you should know."

"What’s that?"

"I don’t have anything for you to do right now. If you want to repay a favor, it’s better to wait until later."

"No way!" The girl adamantly refused. "In ten days, I have to return to the Jungle Hut and report back to my teacher. Unless I repay the favor now, there won’t be another chance."

"Then you can owe it," Richard said.

"That won’t do either." The girl still firmly refused, "I hate owing people things the most; I must repay you. Time is precious, so hurry up and tell me what you need help with."

"Time is precious, you say?" Richard remarked, "I’ve got things to do myself, and since you realize time is precious, then help me with the biggest favor of all—disappear from my sight as quickly as you can and stop bothering me, okay?"

"Not acceptable." The girl rejected for the third time decisively, "That favor is too small; I can easily do it. It has to be something big, almost like saving a life."

Richard: "..."Silent for a moment, he looked up at the girl, seriously doubting what was going on in her head. He’d met honest people before but never anyone this honest. Actually, it wasn’t just honesty; it was more like denseness.

"Sigh—"

Taking a deep breath, Richard looked at the girl and said, "All right, if you are so insistent on helping, then there truly is something I need you to do with your hands. But it’s tedious, troublesome, and will require a lot of effort; think it over."

"I’ve got it covered," the girl said without a second thought, and then, for the first time, she introduced herself, "Remember my name, I’m Clark. If I fail, you can call my name backward!"

"So, it’s still Clark?"

"Uh..." The girl froze for a moment, then exclaimed loudly, "I mean the full name! Narlyd Clark backwards is Clark Delaine!"

"Well... okay..." Richard said.

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