James had been skeptical that it was possible for her to escape while she was not looking, but nothing like that happened. The girl went to the shop and talked to Margaret for a while, and although it didn't seem to be so harmonious, it wasn't long before the girl ran back as promised.

"How?"

"What else......" The girl pursed her lips. "Originally, alchemy is a very mysterious technology, and usually only people with particularly high talents or nobles from well-off families can learn professional alchemy knowledge, let alone buy alchemy equipment. She glanced at him with some resentment. "The shopkeeper's name is Margaret, right? She was a graduate of the New Garand Alchemy School, and after graduation, she chose to stay in her hometown of Kingsbridge as an alchemist, and as for this alchemy equipment, she said that it was provided by the Alchemists' Guild itself, and she didn't need to pay extra money to buy it. ”

"Huh?" James sighed with some disappointment. "Okay......"

The girl stared into his eyes for a moment, pursed her lips, and said, "If you really want to buy some alchemy equipment, go to the alchemist school in New Garand and have a look, maybe you will get something." ”

"Okay......"

James shook his head, looked at the girl in front of him, and said slowly: "You have already helped me with this, I don't know your name yet......"

"Uh-huh......" she looked like she was struggling. "How can someone like me need a name?......

"Huh?" James' newly relaxed body tensed up again, he glared, and said again in confirmation, "What did you just say?"

"Well, I don't have a name...... the girl lowered her head, her hands in front of her and twisted constantly, as if she was at a loss.

"Come on...... Hehe, how can we not have a name? We live in this world, and if we don't even have something to call someone else, then what's the point?"

"No, if it's called...... I do. ”

"If it's not your real name, tell me your nickname. James said with a smile.

"People call me a dentist...... However, I prefer to be called a doctor......"

"Dentist?" James rolled his eyes and thought for a moment. "Since others call you that, it means that you have a deeper understanding of the tooth and mouth. He said half-jokingly.

"No, you idiot......" the girl snorted and kicked James in the shin with her face. "You don't care about the dentist, you can just call me a doctor in the future...... Oh yes, I almost forgot, didn't you say you'd buy my stuff if I helped you? Come on, I'll show you some good things......

She opened her satchel, flipped through it, muttered a few words indistinctly, then looked around again, patted James' arm with her hand, and raised an eyebrow.

"Why are you standing here stupidly? This is the big bazaar, and it's not convenient to talk about prices here, let's talk as we go. ”

"Come on," James said, turning around, deliberately turning his head to avoid Constance's eyes falling to his face, and then took a steady stride towards the other end of town. "How many things in your bag are reliable? Not to mention buying them, even if they are given to me for free, I don't want them. ”

"What do you mean?" the girl followed, stamping her foot in frustration. "Well, you dare to release my pigeon to see that I don't strangle you. ”

As she spoke, the girl pounced, like an angry crab, and stuck her pincer-like fingers on the flesh of James's arm, so that James immediately couldn't close his mouth in pain.

"Gotta get it, I'll buy it...... Can't I buy it?" he apologized to a passerby he had just bumped into, and then turned around and glared angrily at the girl. "Come on, sell me that pale green bottle of deception. I'm guessing you either stole this bottle of ogre power potion from Marcus, or traded it for him with all sorts of deceptive gadgets, didn't you?"

"Cut, what is cheating? What is stealing? I got it by skill, how can it be called cheating? How can it be called stealing?" Although she said this, as soon as she heard that James was going to buy her own things, she immediately smiled, rummaged in her bag for a while, found the small bottle containing the light green liquid, and put it in front of James's eyes. "Bring the money first, and I'll give it to you. ”

"Eh, you guy sells fake medicine and wants to get the money first, hey, really......" He reluctantly took out five gold coins from his small bag, and the look of pain on his face made the girl laugh uncontrollably.

"Poof...... Look at your stingy look. The girl snatched the five thin gold coins from his hand, snorted, and quickly put them in her satchel.

"That's all the savings I have now, hey, I didn't expect that not only did I not buy anything good on this trip, but I was cheated out of all the money by your guy...... It's tragic. It seems that I'll stay in my room in the future, and it's better not to come out......," James quipped. Although he said this, he was actually full of affection for the short-haired brown girl in front of him, and half of the money to buy fake medicine was also voluntary.

"Okay, in that case, I've done you a favor, you buy my things, and we'll be clear!" she quickly put the bag away and said with a few laughs. "Since Liangqing, then we are strangers, if you see me on the street again one day, don't say hello to me, I'm embarrassed......"

"You seem to have a problem with this logic......" James pretended to be serious. "Look, you helped me ask the proprietress about some things I want to know, which means that you helped me, and I bought your things to fund your life, which means that I helped you again. Help each other, then the two of us should be friends, how can we be strangers?" he tilted his head, waiting for the girl's response.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the girl heard this, her face, which had just become normal, immediately turned red again, she trembled violently on the street, lowered her head, but her eyes rolled up, looking at James.

"Hey, I've never seen anyone willing to be friends with a liar......"

"Then you're seeing me today. James smiled widely and held out his hand to her. "You shake hands with me, even if we sign a friendship contract, what do you think......"

"Come on......" the girl began to blush and pout again. "When a friend, is it true that when one person is in danger, the other person has to sacrifice his life to protect him?"

"Ahh......h

"Name?" the girl looked up.

"It's awkward to call you a doctor and dentist every day, if you don't have a name, what will I write to you another day......?

"Poof......" The girl laughed again.

"So you see, do you know the importance of a name?" James clasped his hands to his chest and was silent for a moment before speaking. "What do you think of the name 'Calis'?"

"Calis?"

"Well, to tell you the truth, the name comes from the Valanari language, which means: god of the forest, as well as healing and health. How's that, that's okay, right?"

To tell the truth, those half-baked Valanari words were learned by James when he was a child in the village, fooling around with those natives.

"Hmm, you can speak Valanari......" the girl lowered her head again. "Okay...... Then I'll leave it at that......"

"What? You agree with a name, and you have to ask if your parents like it......" James looked at her with a smile.

Calis turned his head.

"I don't have parents ......"

James was stunned for a moment, then smiled again. "That'...... Do you like it or not......

"Cut ......"

Callis's eyes were a little dim, as if someone had been mentioned something unhappy, James was keenly aware of this, and laughed a few times, eager to change the topic and continue the conversation, but Calis always responded with silence or a few simple words.

The two of them walked silently through the street for a while, and when they reached a less crowded alley, Calis, who had been silent on the side, suddenly spoke again.

"Why are you friends with me?"

"What? Didn't you help me again because I helped you?"

"It's not...... It's not because of that, I mean......" Calis's gaze kept jumping up and down. "I mean...... I had no money, no background, no parents, let alone a name, and I had to lie to people to make ends meet. In Vasilia, such a person is tantamount to a slave of the Messiah, and a young freeman like you should make friends with people of similar status to you......"

"By what you say, I almost thought I was a nobleman. James stopped. Carlis didn't pay attention, and his head lightly hit James's body. "Why do you think so much about being a human being? Isn't the founder of the Kingdom of Messiah a slave? If you become the empress of the 'Kingdom of Calis' one day, then who cares if you have a name when you are young?"

"Woo......" she exhaled through her nose. "How can I be an empress, someone like me wouldn't have a name. Don't lie to me, you must have other intentions to talk to me so much......"

Calis took a step back.

"I've seen a lot of people like this, you...... I don't even need to know your name to understand what you want. I have nothing but these fakes in my body, and only I can be deprived of them. ”

James looked at the teary-eyed Calis and shook his head.

"Ah......h Why do some people like to judge a world so recklessly? Actually, I used to be quite like you, and then I met a very unserious old man named Giarnold, who taught me a lot of things, the most important of which is to create value. ”

James tried to reach out, but Calis took another step back.

"I'm not that kind of person, I don't want to possess your body. He touched his head. "Hehe, it's not that you're not cute, it's just that the only thing I want to share with you is friendship......"

Calis furrowed his eyebrows and looked at James.

"Na, na...... You can understand it this way, there is no such thing as a person who deserves a name or not. He coughed a few times in embarrassment. "At least in my opinion, there is not much difference between you and me. I'm even a little bit like you, like you, who had no parents when I had memories. ”

"No...... No......" Calis muttered quietly.

"Hehe, if you have to find out what makes me better than you, maybe it's that I never feel like I'm any different from anyone else. I don't think I'm any different from those vagabonds who sleep under filthy bridges all day long, and I don't think I'm any different from those nobles who sit in castles all day long eating and drinking. Some people are born with a noble surname more than us, but they don't have an extra head than us, so how big is the difference?"

"No...... No, I don't have much value as a friend. I don't have anything I can do for you......"

"Didn't you just ask Margaret for me?"

"This kind of thing can be done by any one person. ”

"Aren't you good at fooling people? When the time comes, you teach me this technique, and show me how to trick a person without being detected, and I use this trick on people I hate...... Hehe, look, aren't you better than me at this point......" He laughed a few times. "Didn't you say before that you know something about alchemy, but I don't know anything about it. ”

"I ......"

James leaned down, gently smoothed Calis's short soft hair with his right hand, and said:

"It hasn't been half an hour since I met you that I have discovered so many of your virtues, not to mention the undiscovered things that are hidden in your heart. You see, the world isn't necessarily less fair. God has given us the same ability to create happiness, and isn't it a pity that we don't have a good eye to find it?"

"I ......"

James gently pinched Calis's face and spoke slowly:

"How's that? Do you like the name?"