He Pushed Me Into the Void, So This Time I Said No novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: Her Little Sister

On Day 4, my stepsister and my ex-fiancé accused me of theft in front of a hundred thousand people.

I woke to my own fire still burning white-gold at my feet.

Dee had left a note in my inbox that said only: eat the crawler leftovers, then look at the chat.

I looked at the chat.

KelseyRudd: [I'm not trying to start anything. I just need everyone to know what kind of person Lacey is. She took fifty logs from Brett on Day 1 and ran. Then she took his ooze. Now she's hoarding the only fire while people freeze.]

Under it, Brett had posted a picture.

[Trade Receipt. Day 0. LaceyOrmond receives 50 logs from BrettMaddox. No return.]

It looked official.

It had the same gray box and the same font as the system's.

Kelsey's soft voice floated through every line of it, the one she used on our stepfather when she wanted money.

A player: [wait is this real?? she did seem sus]

TinyTurnip had gone silent since last night.

Somebody I did not know wrote: [Hearthfire's an F-rank. What if she's selling people's warmth?]

Last time I would have spent a day writing a long, hurt answer, and nobody would have read it.

This time I pulled up my Trade Log.

Every trade in the realm is recorded, and every player can post their own log.

I pasted mine into the feed, in full, with the timestamps.

[Day 2: forty ooze bought for 4 logs. One hundred ooze bought for 0.]

[Day 2: ten ooze sold to NoMoreBadLuck for 10 logs.]

[Day 3: two lit logs sent to NoMoreBadLuck. One lit log sent to SkyDragon. One sent to a bitten stranger. One sent to TinyTurnip, a gift.]

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