After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World

”Is she not ashamed to show up here dressed like that?”

”I heard she went all the way to Ferrol to gain some deals for her town, heh, I don’t know what that lord thought of sending a daughter when he has two sons.”

”You know a lot,” Estra said to the woman, Lizbeth, one of the new members of their little clique.

”My maternal family is from Saul Town,” the girl said proudly, pushing her dark hair to her ear. ”I heard a lot about their family.”

Saul Town was a level 2 town, and it had the level 1 Dune Town as its subsidiary ever since it was a small village.

This made the others turn to her curiously. ”How did the deals go? The one in Ferrol, I mean.”

”If it did, she probably… you know,” she said, sending glances at the lone woman.

”Well, she is very beautiful.”

”But she wasn’t taken,” Lia said with a sly smile. ”What’s beauty when she can’t even capture men? Didn’t Ferrol just hold a trade fair? She didn’t catch anyone from there?”

This made the women think.

Xeno women would always think in the direction of men. In their minds, men were possessive creatures who loved beauty. If a beauty like that was still alone, then there was something wrong with her.

”Perhaps… those men discovered something?”

”Maybe she covered herself up?”

”Or… is she not… clean?”

They gasped and then looked at the woman who was still sitting still, though if one looked closer one could see her fingers shaking as it held on her ceramic cup.

The woman stood up and it was so abrupt they wondered if she’d dare start a confrontation. However, she just walked away, looking like a pitiful woman, though none of them felt pity at all.

Not caring of the fact that they could’ve possibly made a stranger cry, the group of young women continued to gossip about her.

”Why do you think she’s here, then?” another asked. ”Surely, she wouldn’t think of attaching to someone here when she couldn’t do it there?”

”Well, desperation can do a lot to a person,” Lizbeth said, knowing the dire situation of Dune Town. ”Her hometown is really in trouble. I heard more undead have been sighted the past couple of months than there had been the past year.”

This made the women gasp as they looked at her. ”Do the men know this?”

”I assume so,” Lizbeth said. ”My father had been receiving quite a few guests. If Saul Town is like that, then it must be more dire in Dune Town, which is hundreds of kilometers closer to the Undead Mountains.”

”She’s probably going to try to get some resources as well. That place just lacks… everything.”

”Who do you think she’ll try to grab onto, then?”

”The Trion family?” they asked, looking at Estra, who scoffed but didn’t exactly deny anything. Her brother had a huge harem, she wouldn’t be surprised if this one decided to get in his line of sight. It wasn’t the first time it happened.

Hopefully, this one wouldn’t try going through her because Estra was tired of those types.

It was here that a thought came to Lia. She looked at her friend. ”The Golds had arrived didn’t they? When they started to move, that woman appeared. Coincidence?”

At the sound of the Golds, Estra’s eyes sharpened. ”The other siblings are fine, but if she dares touch Otto… she’ll regret stepping in Bleuelle.”

She didn’t care about the others, but Otto was her fiance!

The atmosphere around her became a bit scarier and the other girls shivered a bit, afraid, and they looked at Lia who seemed to be watching a show.

”Speaking of the Golds, they are really surprising,” she said. ”I wonder what they brought?”

The other girls nodded. A lot of them were hanging out and shopping when the Golds’ small group arrived with their many beasts carriages.

All those carriages were full, and even the roof had a mountain of stuff in it.

”Who knows, they haven’t shared it yet.”

The Golds arrived a day prior and they caused quite an uproar. They brought so many things. When they went out as a group, it already caused some interest. After all, so many siblings going someplace at once was extremely rare.

They returned as a group again with so much in their bags—it was bound to make a few tongues waggle.

”I am so curious!” another added.

”They seemed so excited…” another said. ”So handsome…”

”You haven’t heard anything?” One of the women couldn’t help but ask Estra, just genuinely curious.

Instead of an answer, it made the redhead frown. The girls immediately flinched, realizing they had mispoken.

Although the Trions had been telling people Estra was Otto’s fiance, Otto had been going around saying he wasn’t planning on getting married at all.

It felt like hitting her face repeatedly, but Estra had looked at Otto as her husband since she was a child. She couldn’t bear call off the engagement.

She didn’t want to.

Even if she knew Otto had been sleeping with other women—she didn’t care! Women in their circle always had to push down the bitterness and live with it, but what made things worse was that—in most cases—their men were losers!

Not only did they have to deal with infidelity, it was to deal with the infidelity of their attractive men with decent level but low skills.

In contrast, Otto… Otto was one-of-a-kind!

He was extremely handsome, had a good family, and had amazing skills. He an epitome of a ’good man’ in her mind, and such a man was who she deserved.

If she was to live the kind of life noble women had already accepted as a norm, then it had to be someone worth it.

It was around this time that one of the maids hurriedly went to her master, taking out an aether letter.

Estra’s eyebrows rose as it was opened in front of her, her heart clenching as she saw its contents.

/The Golds have finally moved./