For a moment, only silence remained between us as neither of us spoke a word.
Her request was so vague that I was trying to understand it.
"Join you? Like your guild? If that's the case, then I can't help you. I appreciate your help and all, but I can't join."
Amanda didn't reply and only continued to smile. I got the feeling that ever since this conversation started, she had been trying to size me up.
"You know, my sister came to me secretly a few times to ask for help. It surprised me because the sister I know is so prideful that she would rather swallow her own tongue than ask me for help. That's how I knew she didn't ask for money for her own sake."
"Amelia asked you for money?"
"You don't really think that a part-time job at a restaurant is enough to take care of anyone, do you?"
Back when I first entered Vesperia, I relied on Amelia for quite a lot. She paid for the food, bills, and even the vitalis fluid that I needed to stay in Verseia for one week.
