After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 826

"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.