Ariane held a covered pot filled with bean and bacon soup, while the wrapped basket contained bread and some type of red fruit inside.
While she was pouring soup into a bowl, I surveyed the room once more, but the thing I was looking for didn’t appear in my sight.
“…This cottage doesn’t have a bath.”
“It can’t be helped. Originally, this cottage was built for the purpose of housing humans who had lost their way around here.”
Towards my complaint, Ariane answered while feeding a piece of fruit to Ponta.
Fifty kilometres west from here was Rhoden Kingdom’s town, Cellist, while thirty kilometres south was the Archduchy of Rinburuto, so the likelihood of a human being chased by a monster and losing their way was high. Due to those circumstances, this cottage was built only to temporarily house lost humans.
As a result, the cottage only had minimum facilities left behind; there weren’t even the crystal lamps like those in the elven houses here.
Only an oil lamp, which acted as a sorry excuse for light, was on the table, producing an unreliable light source.
─If I had stayed in Raratoia, at this time I could have taken a bath…
While the salty taste of the bacon and bean soup entered my mouth, the trip’s new objective was engraved into my mind.