A mysterious pendant on a gold chain...

Dangling from a marble bust of a woman Ro doesn't recognize is a super-cute pendant on a gold chain. It looks strangely familiar to the knight apprentice, but she can't place where she's seen something like it before...

"Oh wow," Ro says as reaches for the piece of jewelry.

The trader's eyes bulge worrisomely for a moment as the nearly-naked naïve girl picks up the necklace, flinching as if she expects something bad to happen...

"It's beautiful!" Ro says as she holds the strangely light treasure in her hand. "Is this for trade?" The girl feels strangely compelled to don it before she even gets an answer.

The trader's grip on the counter tightens for a moment but then seems to relax as Ro wordlessly starts posing and looking at her reflection in a vanity mirror resting on the counter.

"Um... w-well..." the trader stammers, beads of sweat dribbling down her forehead (or the would be, if not for her covers).

"I'll give you these..." Ro calmly says as she casually slips her panties down her legs and off her body and tosses them on the counter.

The trader blinks in surprise as the naked girl stands there utterly un-phased as she exposes her milky-white, thin thighs, and neatly-trimmed bush to the trader.

"O-ok..." the trader says, her eyes darting nervously about.

The awkward quiet soon dissipates as Ro's giddy, girly attituded re-emerges. "Great!" The girl chirps with a toothy grin, still standing there utterly naked save for her new necklace. She turns around and starts walking towards the exit.

"H-hey! What about your other goods?" The trader asks as the nudie cutie just turns back and smiles at her. "Huh? Oh! Uh... just send those to the knight's barracks. Ask for Ro!"

And with that Ro rushes back outside to rejoin the Night Parade.

The trader just stands there for a moment in utter silence, before a brief, pent-up, nervous, some might even say deranged laughter comes from the woman. "I'm... I'm free." She says, before another laugh escapes her lips. "I'M FREE AT LAST!"