Chapter 25 (2/2)

Loren looked at her like she was planning something fishy, but Lapis’ eyes were dead serious as she responded.

“You said you’ll stay with me, right? Of course, I wouldn’t like it if Loren smelled like the sewers.”

Loren could understand her point, so he reluctantly crossed out cleaning sewers from the list of quests he could do from his head.

Lapis’ idea of using deodorant after going into the sewers wasn’t a bad one, but Loren couldn’t help but feel that the rewards of the quest would only be a fraction of what it would cost.

“Is there any other quest that I can accept without a weapon?”

“Let’s see…”

As Lapis rested her cheek on her palm, the waitress came back with the food, and slipped the egg sandwich in front of her.

Then she proceeded to put the ham sandwich in front of Loren.

“Let’s eat first and then think about the difficult parts later.”

“I don’t think we’re talking about something that’s difficult though…”

Although Loren said that in a tired manner, the smell of the sandwiches tempted him to take one of them and pop the whole thing in his mouth.

Loren had spent his time in the hospital for the past few days.

He had to eat hospital food the whole time, and although it was good for his body, the taste wasn’t.

To Loren, who had lived off hospital food for four days, the taste of ham and mustard inside freshly baked bread tasted too good.

“Hey, look at that guy. He’s a b.u.m (freeloader?).”

“Man, he’s only a copper rank but he’s having a girl buy him food. Wish we could get some leftovers.”

Loren heard the voices of two men drinking at a table that was near his.

On their chests were iron cla.s.s identification tags.

The adventurers, who were a higher rank than Loren, were watching what was going on between him and Lapis, and decided to interrupt them.

He gave the situation a good thought, as he gulped down the sandwich and licked the mustard off his fingers.

He guessed that his current position was something others could jeer at.

But whether it could be overlooked or not was a whole different problem.

“Isn’t it better to just ignore them Loren?”

Lapis was holding her egg sandwich with both hands and was nibbling the corner of it.

She glanced towards the adventurers, who were laughing and making fun of Loren, with the corner of her eye, but quickly lost interest and went back to eating her sandwich.

“Not sure if you know, but in these cases, if you let them look down on you, they’ll keep on looking down on you.”

“Is that what all mercenaries think? I don’t really get it, but I don’t think they’re worth your time.”

She smacked her lips at the sandwich with thinly sliced boiled eggs seasoned with salt and pepper, and continued.

“Because people like them will never get a girl to buy them food.”

“What!”

“The h.e.l.l did you just say!”

They immediately reacted to Lapis’ venomous words and jumped up, kicking away their seats.

Loren stood up and walked towards the two, only stopping to put his hand on Lapis’ shoulder.

Lapis wasn’t even looking at them.

“Good job provoking them. I’ll go kill them really quick.”

“You can’t kill them, you know? It’ll be a crime. But leaving them ninety percent dead is okay, because it’s an unspoken agreement between adventurers. Also, you can’t take their belongings, okay? You’ll be arrested for theft.”

“Got it.”

“Oh, and if you break the things in the store, you’ll have to compensate for it. Well, I’m going to pay for it so I don’t mind if you break a few things.”

“That’s a discouraging thought…”

The adventurers outnumbered him two to one, and on his chest, was a copper identification tag.

The two adventurers weren’t afraid of Loren at all, seeing that he was a lower ranking adventurer.

“Is this guy stupid? We’re iron rank, you know?”

“If you grovel on the ground and ask for forgiveness, we’ll just take the girl and leave you alone. She’s a priest, right? There’re many ways we can use her.”

“You’ve already had your fun with her, right? So why not let us…”

Loren felt that he would want kill the guy if he heard him finish what he was saying, so he punched him in the face, making sure to hold back quite a bit.

If Loren was a normal adventurer, the punch would have started the fight, but he was able to wield a heavy weapon that normal adventurers and mercenaries wouldn’t even be able to hold up, and swing it around like it was nothing.

Of course, being able to wield such a weapon, his strength wasn’t something that could fit within ordinary limits, even if he did hold back.

The adventurer, who was caught off guard, didn’t even last a second against the punch.

He flew backwards, in a spiral spin, and crashed into the wall of the bar, along with a set of a table and a chair.

“Oh…The table and the chair are going to cost quite a bit.”

Lapis was already standing next to Loren, who dropped his shoulders at not holding back enough.

He remembered that there was one more adventurer, but when he looked down, he saw him sprawled on the ground with a big b.u.mp on his head and eyes rolled back, with a piece of a chair next to his head.

“Geez, how can they say such a thing to a young maiden.”

Lapis said angrily as she tossed the rest of the chair on top of the unconscious adventurer.

As Loren wondered if he should point out that a maiden wouldn’t use a chair to knock an iron rank adventurer unconscious, he sighed when he saw Lapis hand money to the waitress, telling her it was for repairs.