The First Store System

Chapter 189: The Truth

After not finding any Bow worth using, Aakesh left the weapon room and returned to his comfortable chair while two customers were already checking out their desired weapons.

Aakesh still hadnʼt checked his bonus reward. He got his reward last night, but since he was experiencing the murals of the war, he ignored it.

He could check them right now, but he thought it would be better if he checked after the closing of the store, so he put it in the back of his mind.

It had only been five minutes since Aakesh exited the weapons room when a customer who was checking the weapon came running to him.

”Store owner, is there a place to test the weapon?” The man asked. He had a double-edged silver sword in his hand.

”In the center of the room...” Aakesh responded and snapped his fingers.

The man nodded and returned to the weapons room.

The next moment, in the center of the circles, a gray slab began rising from the ground.

The man went toward it. Aakesh had told him that he could check his power on this slab.

The man did a casual swing and struck the slab.

The next moment, the slab lightened up and showed intermediate Soul Formation on it.

The man couldnʼt help but smile, seeing the casual swing from the sword reaching the level of intermediate Soul Formation.

He decided to use his strongest skill and check its power.

The next moment, a red hue began surrounding the sword. In no time, the red hue surrounded the sword.

The man took a deep breath and swung the sword using all of his energy.

”Clang!”

The manʼs full power strike didnʼt even cause a dent on the slab as the next moment, the writing on it changed.

A bar appeared on it, with one end denoting peak Soul Formation and the other end, early Nascent Soul.

The blue color started moving, and it stopped even before covering 10% of the total distance, but still, the man jumped in excitement seeing this.

According to the slab, his strike surpassed the peak Soul Formation level, which was his cultivation level.

The other customer, seeing the man, couldnʼt help but decide to test his strike power.

He was an early Nascent Soul cultivator, and his full power strike almost reached intermediate Nascent Soul.

Itʼs as if they both caught a contagious virus. Both customers started testing their power using different weapons, while Aakesh welcomed a familiar person in the store.

It was none other than Punta and Brinda.

It was the first time Brinda came as a customer in the store and also the first time she could have a direct conversation with the store owner.

”Greetings, senior,” She greeted Aakesh with a slight bow.

Aakesh nodded in response to her greetings and asked for what they needed.

”Did you kill my son?” Punta suddenly asked as his face turned stern.

A shocked expression appeared on Brindaʼs face as the first thing her grandfather taught her before coming here was to always stay respectful in front of the store owner, but now he was calling him a murderer without any proof.

Aakesh had no change in his expressions when Aakesh asked that. Now that he remembers, he had even acted in front of Punta so that he wouldnʼt doubt him.

He had done this, so the issue of him being here doesnʼt get found out, but now when only two weeks had passed, he had customers from top-level races of the Primal dimension. So that acting didnʼt provide any extra advantage to him, except no one finding out that he had killed Pinto. Which, even if everyone had found out, wouldnʼt have mattered.

”Yes,” Aakesh expressionlessly responded. Now that Punta had started having doubts, there was no point in hiding this anymore.

The shocked look on Brindaʼs face turned into pure horror as Pinto was not only the king; he was her father as well. She looked at Aakesh and Punta, and she had no idea what she should do.

A wry smile appeared on Puntaʼs face as, since the first time he arrived here and saw the level of the products, he began having doubts about it.

But the memory in his head said something else. Even when he talked to his elder brother and father about this, they couldnʼt find anything wrong with his memory, so the doubts started to lie down, but after the events began and he saw the grand scale, the doubts rose again.

So today, he decided to clear his confusion.

But now that he had asked the question and Aakesh had accepted the blame, he didnʼt know what he should do.

He neither had the power nor the status to do something to Aakesh, so he had no idea whatʼs the next step.

”If you did it, why did you lie?” Punta asked as his voice had turned hoarse after getting the confirmation.

”I had some issues,” Aakesh expressionlessly replied.

”Why did you kil...kill him?”

”He deserved it,” Aakesh bluntly replied. He had no interest in what he and his family felt since it was Pinto who started this mess.

Puntaʼs shoulders slumped down and turned around to leave. He even forgot the purpose of coming here.

Brinda seeing her grandfather leaving, took a glance at Aakesh, only to find indifference in his eyes for her fatherʼs death and her grandfatherʼs sadness. She also followed her grandfather.

Aakesh put it in the back of his mind after the pair of grandfather and granddaughter left since he didnʼt care what they felt.

As for the issues arising between the Bisan Kingdom and the store, Aakesh wouldnʼt even think of stopping it. The many customers he had were already Immortals, and stopping them from entering his store was no better than dooming the entire Kingdom.

The only thing Aakesh hoped for was Punta to act sane and donʼt create trouble like a good king. Even though it wouldnʼt take even a second for him to destroy Punta and his entire lineage, he didnʼt want to do this.

As expected, only a few minutes had passed when Brinda came running back.

The smile she had when she arrived earlier was nowhere to be seen.

”Grandfather had announced retirement and told me to invite you for my coronation ceremony,” She said as her voice trembled, talking to someone who killed her father.