By the time we reached the next village, the sun had already begun to set. I think we took even more time than I had originally thought.
By the original plan, we were supposed to reach here by today morning but it’s almost night already.
Miss Francesca beside me looked towards me with an apologetic face.
She isn’t saying anything probably because she knows it was her fault that we’re late. She might be blaming herself more than normal actually.
Even though we men would be unable to say anything if she just looked at me with sad upturned eyes.
Well, I wasn’t really going to scold her in the first place.
While thinking such things, I looked towards the village.
The population is probably only 50 people. There are around 10 wooden houses that can be seen.
Since the sun was setting, the men seemed to be returning back from the fields and were glancing towards us travellers.
It sure looks like a calm and peaceful village. It really has an atmosphere that calms you down.
As we moved towards the inn, we asked for two rooms. The receptionist asked to confirm whether I really wanted 2 rooms but I decided to ignore that.
“Please prepare two rooms and meals for tonight and tomorrow morning as well.”(renji)
Saying that, I placed one gold coin on the counter.
He seemed surprised since a rural village inn like this one might not see gold coins too often but he soon brought out the copper coin change.
Normally I would negotiate here but since Miss Francesca is also here now, I’m wondering what to do.
Thinking for a moment, I lost the chance to negotiate in that moment.
[That’s because you try to act cool in front of women. If you are going to sigh in grief now, it would have been better to have just bargained as usual.]
As you say.
I gave a sigh and the innkeeper also gave a wry smile towards me.
Well, considering that he opened an inn in such a remote village, he’ll try to earn as much as possible in such situations.
I decided to give up and hope for good food.
‘This is why you’re always out of money.’ I felt I heard a voice like that from somewhere.
For the time being, let’s just smack that medal inside my pocket a bit.
“We’ll rest the whole day tomorrow so be sure to rest properly.”(renji)
“……is that fine?”(fran)
Unlike before, she looked at me with upturned eyes and a happy expression and my cheeks loosened a bit. If I had a daughter, it’ll probably be like this.
[You sound like a deviant.]
Did you not have anything better to say?
I’ll really get hurt you know?
As my cheeks cramped, she looked towards me while raising her head confused.
“n, yeah, with those legs, your pace would fall after all.”(Renji)
“Sorry.”(fran)
“No need to apologise. In fact, I think it’s amazing that you didn’t say you want to return.”(renji)
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