Elemental Cats

Chapter 241 Brunswick's Eyes (1)

?The others began snatching and emptying the storage items before Toz even placed them on the ground after they got over their shock. A large portion of the rings and bags only held more rings and bags or items that Toz and the cats took from the executives of the Blue Lounge League in the ballroom. However, there were still many rings and bags that contained the Blue Lounge League's treasure chests.

Even if he was overwhelmed by the prospect of filling his treasury with valuables, Wulf still maintained reason as he began sorting and organizing everything that the cats, Brunswick, and the Bunglehoppers pulled out of all the storage items.

The largest pile was one of the things Wulf deemed worthless trash since it was food, fake, or clothes from the Blue Lounge executives.

The next pile was the chests filled to the brim with mostly gold coins from various kingdoms.

Wulf just piled the remaining treasures together and planned to sort through them after they emptied or checked every spatial storage item in Toz's pockets. Eventually, Toz stopped pulling rings and bags out of his pockets, and he began helping the others go through the treasure within the spatial storage items.

Toz realized that Brunswick had taken off his glasses since the Bunglehoppers got shocked at his eyes.

"Is that why you wear glasses? And not because you have bad eyesight?"

Stitches asked Brunswick since he had been wondering if it was something he could help with or heal.

Brunswick looked a little awkward at the question and at the attention he got just from removing his glasses, but he answered Stitches' question since he had seen how well Stitches and Toz got along during their walk down the stairs.

"Yes, that's right. A lot of people find my eyes unnerving, so I had these special glasses made that make my eyes look normal while I wear them."

"That's good, then.

"Ah! Not that you had to hide your eyes, but that there's nothing wrong with them."

"I-I guess."

Toz didn't know if it was related to Brunswick's mood or what it was, but it seemed like his swirling irises could change color. And Toz wasn't the only one who noticed. Lucy, who had been looking at a shining necklace made from some rare metal and jewels, looked up just in time to find Brunswick's light blue eyes slowly shifting to a light pink hue.

"Woah! Can you control that?"

Lucy stood up and stepped closer to Brunswick since he wanted to get a closer look at Brunswick's eyes after he asked.

"C-control what?"

Lucy's approach flustered Brunswick, and he didn't know what Lucy meant.

"Your eyes. Can you change their color at will?"

"W-wait. My eyes change color?"

Stitches picked up a nearby diamond-encrusted handheld mirror and held it in front of Brunswick's face so he could see for himself as his eyes changed colors and switched between blue and pink.

"What the fuck…?"

Brunswick's exclamation was enough of an answer to Lucy's question.

Brunswick grabbed the mirror and took a closer look as he inspected his eyes, as they turned into a deeper shade of blue.

"You didn't know about it?"

"No, not at all. My eyes have been mostly blue every time I've used a mirror."

Brunswick responded unconsciously to Toz's question, so he was slightly startled when Toz asked him something else.

"Mostly blue?"

"Well, there's also usually some white mixed into them."

Brunswick stared at his reflection in the mirror for a while, but it didn't seem like he could control the color of his eyes and that their color was most likely affected by what he looked at or by his mood.

Lucy, who sat on Toz's shoulder across a pile of storage items, got dizzy after staring into Brunswick's eyes for a little while and went back to going through the treasure.

Lucy's movements also got everyone else to go back to sorting through the treasure. Even if they were curious about Brunswick's eyes, it was evident he didn't know much about them. It would also be rude to ask someone about their inclination, especially when it's someone they've known for less than a day.

The cats and the Bunglehoppers continued sorting through the spatial storage items while occasionally casting curious glances at Brunswick, who also returned to the treasure after determining he couldn't control the color of his eyes.

Most of the things they pulled out were pretty useless and thrown into the trash pile. Money and coins were easy to sort since they just put gold coins with gold coins and silver coins with silver coins, and so on.

However, things got slightly trickier when it came to determining the authenticity and value of other treasures. The only one with enough expertise and knowledge to accurately determine if a sword was as good as it seemed or if it was made from poor materials and crudely enchanted was Wulf.

But there was a limit to how fast Wulf could go through every item that the others piled next to him, especially since he had to carefully inspect most of the items the others weren't sure were real or not. There probably weren't a lot of fakes or bad items, to begin with, but Wulf wanted to be sure and store only actual treasure within his treasury. It also wouldn't be weird if they found a bunch of replicas the Blue Lounge League used to show off.

Wulf was going through the pile of possible trash when he realized something.

The others all placed the items they weren't sure about in their separate places. Hayar placed the things she thought weren't worth anything in one pile. The cats handed over most stuff to Toz, who piled those things in one place.

There was usually one fake or useless item every now and then in each pile. Except for one.

Wulf realized that every item that Brunswick was unsure about was an actual treasure. He also saw how Brunswick threw a lot of items into the trash pile with close to no hesitation. Brunswick's ability to accurately sort away trash and treasure couldn't be a coincidence.

Brunswick soon noticed Wulf's intense stare and looked up.