"Who would've known that the fucking box was the most valuable thing! Hahaha~! The Force has a pretty good sense of humor sometimes."
"I should have realized it sooner… Who would make a simple supply crate out of Chromium?"
Except for the datapad they picked up from Watto's shop later, the two of them were empty handed now. Of course, there was also a black hilt on Asmodeus' left hip, but he obviously wouldn't sell his own lightsaber.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to put everything in the bank though?"
"Even if it's something illegal in the Republic, no one would bat an eye out here. It's much easier and safer to use bank credit transfers…" Shmi looked around at the prying eyes everywhere and got closer to that muscular chest, her eyes were barely at his shoulders. So she had to stand on her toes to whisper in his ear, "People usually only deal with small coins, wupiupis and truguts mostly. It's rare to see a peggat. No one would carry around a thousand peggats, Master."
Not just a thousand peggats. There was also an equal amount of Republic Credits, about 40,000.
"But I still don't really understand the prices of shit." He looked over and saw her reddened face, though obviously not as 'red' as his was, "What can you buy for eighty-k credits?"
"A GX1 Short Hauler."
"I have no idea what that means."
She held his muscular arm against her chest and looked up at his 'cute', clueless face, "Master… It's a type of ship. A shuttle. You can buy one for eighty-five thousand credits, 'new', directly from the manufacturer."
"That's pretty good then. How much does a Sheathipede Shuttle cost? I've got one of them."
"I think they're a hundred and twenty thousand, but… They're mostly used by Trade Federation dignitaries. Master, I'm starting to worry now."
"You think I left it in the spaceport?" Asmodeus smirked and started walking ahead, "Don't worry. I left my ship at home. Speaking of which, let's go to your place, I'm kinda exhausted."
"Okay." She struggled to keep up with his pace, "But Master, my house is in the Slave Quarters. Over there."
"I know. You already told me. But I figured we should pick up some groceries first!"
"Master, there's no grocery store over there."
"Then you lead the way! I've never been here before, hahaha~!"
The two of them went shopping for a little while, but even after buying a lot of food, they still barely made a dent in their bank account. It was still bright and sunny by the time they got to Shmi's 'hovel'. They were basically large stone apartments. There were a bunch of stairs without railings leading up to the higher floors, but her house was one of the bottom ones.
"This place is actually pretty damn nice."
"Thank you… We used to have to share a home this size with six other people."
"Yeah, that sounds like shit. I'm sorry, you guys say 'poodoo' here."
"Yes… It was very poodoo." She couldn't help laughing a bit as she walked over to the kitchen on the right side of the living room they just entered. A decent sized beige stone dining table was in the middle of the room. There was a big machine up against the back wall, with one pipe going up into the ceiling, with a bunch of other pipes stretching down into the ground. There was also a small workshop to the left when they just entered the house.
"You can stay in my son's room… I'm sorry, Master. You can sleep wherever you want. I shouldn't have told you what to do again."
"Shmi, you should know by now that I don't give a shit about that kinda stuff."
She opened her mouth a few times, but eventually just smiled and nodded. Then she turned back around and started putting away the groceries in the cabinets. There were also refrigerators and freezers, but they weren't large. More like small cabinets above the burners and counters.
"Master, what would you like for dinner?"
"Uh, make whatever you wanna eat. I don't really care. I don't know what most of the shit we bought tastes like in the first place."
Asmodeus snickered and looked around curiously. He walked past her back and opened a door, but it led to outside the house. There was a cobblestone-like street with another row of 'slave hovels' over there. He saw a green-skinned Rodian woman staring at him with those big orange bug-like eyes. Then she continued smoking her cigarette while looking somewhere else.
After closing the door, he turned to Shmi and asked, "So where's the bathroom anyway?"
"It's over there. That used to be my son's room. Anakin… He was taken to the Jedi Temple recently. A nice couple named Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan."
"Hah~! Ehm, sorry, well, I don't know if they're a 'couple' or not. But they are pretty nice. Never met them though. Just heard stories from my Jedi friends."
After he went to the bathroom and came back, he saw Shmi sitting at the dining table, sipping a little water at a time. The food was cooking on the stove by itself, with some mechanical arms reaching down and dealing with everything.
As he sat down across from her, she looked up and asked: "Master, if you aren't a Jedi, what are you?"
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