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Chapter 35: 035 Dad’s Antique Shop_1 Chapter 35: 035 Dad’s Antique Shop_1 The buildings on either side of the street were markedly lower than before, and the roads were relatively quiet. The only thing there was a black streetlight, each one having two protruding brackets beside the bulb, rather like candlesticks.

They were the only decorations on this secluded road.

Going past these pale yellow buildings, Casio followed the sidewalk paved with square tiles to the deeper part of the intersection on the right.

At the end of the road, one could even see the black cliffs and the grassy trees behind. It was incredibly remote. No one would have expected a rather narrow antique shop to be situated here.

A rectangular metal nameplate was hung above the shop.

“Old Father’s Antique shop.”

Well, the name is quite strange. Usually, if someone names their shop like this, they would add a name in front. For example, Charlie’s Old Father’s Antique Shop, but this antique shop seemed to be more unorthodox.

Casio had been here once before the day before yesterday. The shop owner was a thin old man with round spectacles. His temper was rather quirky.

Despite this, he quite enjoyed being here.

The lack of people was, rather ironically, its appeal to Casio.

He patted the bulging pocket on his left chest. This time his scouring of antique shops across the city seemed somewhat promising, provided that the Obsession Antiques or Legendary Antiques were there. Otherwise, even if he had a mountain of gold and silver, he couldn’t buy the Obsession Energy he desired.

After standing for a moment, he pushed the door and entered.

“Welcome to Old Father’s Antique Shop…”
An aged voice rose from behind the red counter at the entrance, and the old man in a white shirt and yellow waistcoat raised his head slightly.

“Hello, Old Father.” Casio waved his hand.

He’s not much of a gregarious person, on the contrary, he seemed to be quite cold by nature. But for some reason, he always got a sense of familiarity with this old man. Maybe it was innate compatibility? Anyway, he was most comfortable in this antique shop.

Last time he stayed late into the night flipping through items, Old Father even treated him to a soybean sandwich, a somewhat bizarre food.

But admittedly, the flavor was actually pretty good.

“Li Wei, have you eaten lunch yet?” Old Father slowly put down the stuff in his hand, circled the counter, and picked up a plate.

“Not yet. I was planning to eat at Nington Street.” Casio had been busy sorting herbs and cooking ointment just before, hence he hadn’t had the time to eat.

“Then have a soybean sandwich to fill your stomach first…”

The old man pushed a plate towards Casio containing a sandwich. Without any hesitation, Casio picked it up and started eating.

“Thank you, Old Father.”

“Hahaha.” Old Father laughed cheerfully, his small eyes squinting, white eyebrows trembling, giving off a strange and amiable aura.

“Old Father, you’re feeding your customers weird soybean sandwiches again.” A weird voice came from the entrance.

A little girl wearing a children’s T-shirt, holding a large ice cream cone, glanced at Old Father and then at Casio.

“What do you mean weird? The soybean sandwich is clearly the most delicious sandwich in the world!” Old Father said angrily, “One more thing~ Little Yu, did you skip school and come back home again?”

“Old Father, you’re getting confused again. Today is the Saint’s Bath Festival, school’s on holiday.” The little girl yelled a few times, seemingly afraid that the slightly deaf Old Father wouldn’t hear her. She then proceeded upstairs.

“Hey, you dare to admonish Old Father.”

The old man waved the empty plate in his hand.

“By the way, Old Father, when is Uncle Yun coming back?”

The little girl upstairs shook her hair bangs.

“At least another month. He’s on the ship back from The United Republic of Yana.” Old Father put down the plate and said: “By the way, don’t interrupt, you haven’t responded to Old Father’s question just then.”

Casio chuckled at the scene next to him. Both the child and the old man were cute, but their cuteness was more about their characters.

He found out last time that the daddy and Little Yu were not from the Hong Li Federation, but from the Star Blue Empire in the Star Blue Continent. Their family also had an Uncle Yun who was abroad for business.

Their business seemed to be related to antiques, and a small batch of antiques would be transported to Baichuan City every once in a while. However, these antiques were peculiar and of little value.

Watching the determined old man walk upstairs, Casio couldn’t help shaking his head. Maybe they got along so well because of the child’s stubbornness.

It is often said that the older one gets, the more childlike their temper becomes. Innocence at heart?

He turned his head and walked toward the shelves in the antique shop.

From the outside, the antique shop seemed small, but it was quite large inside. There are about a dozen pale yellow shelves in the centre, not professionally made, but handmade.

You could see the wood grain and nail rivets on the edges.

Some odd trinkets were displayed on the shelves.

Music boxes, old pocket watches, bulky books, parchment…

The low counters covered with yellow cloth, surrounding the shelves on three sides against the wall, displayed larger antiques.

Half-body sculptures, broken iron swords, vintage oil paintings spread flat, ceramic pots resembling teapots or night pots. All kinds of weird stuff without the specificity of a big antique shop.

However, the complexity and diversity of small items seemed to be superior.

As usual, Casio searched and examined from left to right, from the head of the room to the tail.

Although he had a golden tongue to detect bitterness, this wasn’t foolproof. When Casio first approached his senior brother wearing the Wind Elephant Ivory Pendant, his mouth did not taste bitter.

Only touching it with his hand would give the most reliable result. If the antique had obsession energy, his arm would feel numb and bitter. Of course, if some obsession antiques were hidden too deeply, and he could only sense them when there were wounds on his arm, Casio would have to accept his fate. He couldn’t possibly run around touching everything with his bloody thumb. He could handle neither the rust nor the bacteria, let alone getting kicked out.

As he moved from one shelf near the road to another, Casio made no unexpected discoveries.

Putting down the goblet in his hand, he picked up a bronze coin next to him. The surface was rough and old, the metallic feel was weak, and the oxidation was not light. Casio gently rubbed it with his thumb, and his brow raised instantly.

“Familiar bitterness… Am I having a lucky streak these days?”

The corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curve upward.

Sure enough, the coin in his hand was an obsession antique. Casio glanced around, rubbing the coin vigorously with his hand.

The bitterness gradually intensified. It seemed like there was a layer of something on the surface of the coin that was wrapping the obsession energy, which required close contact.

Resolutely, he bit his fingertip and gently pressed it onto the coin.

A surge of cold energy drilled into his skin from the outside.

The numbers in the upper right corner jumped twice in an instant.

‘Obsession Energy: 1.9→2.0→2.1’
It was a bit less, but Casio didn’t mind. Having it was a good thing.

He looked at the shelf and immediately found seven or eight similar coins. On the back was a crooked crown with a cross at the top, and on the front was a large “fifty”.

Casio picked up the coins and tried the same trick again.

He found another coin infused with obsession energy.

‘Obsession Energy: 2.1→2.3’
He pinched the coin in his palm and shouted at the counter.

“Daddy, how much for these coins?”