The Black Jewel.

 On my way to aid a stranded foreign merchant, I found an adorable cat and brought it along. The merchant, robbed and stripped by brigands, asked me to retrieve his belongings. Inside the cave, I fought and stealthily eliminated bandits, collected coal, and recovered his luggage, strengthening our bond before meeting him again at Yokohama.   I noticed this adorable cat stuck up on that place when I was riding to meet a mysterious foreigner who has been attacked and was looking for help. I collected the cat on my way.   I had to ride a little to get to the mysterious foreigner but I touched the banner near first even when I saw the foreigner almost naked in the open there.  He's a merchant from the Great Britain who recently located some coal in a cave around but a band of brigands popped out of the woodwork and stripped him of everything he had.   The foreigner dearly requested me to go into the cave and fetch his belongings, how could I say no? After getting into the cave, I noticed two bandits around first.  When one of them went to the other side, I took one of them down quietly.   But there was a third person whom I didn't notice and he noticed me when I took down the other one. I went to fight him and it attracted the other one how was like a formidable foe. I used fire elixir and took them all down with much hardship.   I had to gather 2 coal and retrieve the merchants luggage. I noticed a bandit guarding a part of the cave alone. I took him down in stealth and collected a coal from there, and I collected another coal from another side.   I just had to retrieve the luggage then but I was not leaving any bandits behind alive. I noticed this one was guarding another entrance and I walked towards him quietly to take him down easily.  Then I went to another side where I noticed an archer from a far, whom I shot down with an arrow, so easily.   Then I noticed there were three more bandits below, guarding a big box that had the luggage. I shot one of them down with an arrow, another one with a bullet and the third one climbed up to attack me, whom I shot down in point blank.   I retrieved the luggage and went out of the cave trough the second entrance where I killed a guard a moment back.   I rode to the foreigner and gave him the luggage. He suited up and then said his wallet was missing so I'd have to meet him at Yokohama Grand Villa to get my reward.  I accepted what he was saying, which made him happy and I established a bond with the foreigner. I'd meet him later to collect the reward. We'll continue in another post. --- **Thanks for reading. If you like my post, please follow, comment and upvote me. All the in-game screenshots are taken by me, just the games logo is borrowed from deviantart.**