Chapter 30 (1/2)

The next day.

Loren opened his eyes and shook his head, ridding his head of alcohol and drowsiness.

There were quite many bottles stacked on the table, and across from it was Jack, completely knocked out with his cheek on the table.

Loren tried to recall what happened the night before, and buried his face in his hands as he remembered Jack going on and on about how he was in love.

The frightening thing was that Jack had kept talking about Nim, the elven hunter, until both of them went down from all the alcohol.

Since Jack was the one buying the alcohol, Loren thought that it wouldn’t be too bad to listen to him talk for a bit. But it started to become a pain after Jack kept on going through the night, and as the bottles piled up, Loren started to feel less and less.

Although Loren had listened to Jack the whole time, he wasn’t sure which one of them fell asleep first.

When he woke up he found himself leaning back against his chair, and Jack was sleeping soundly in front of him.

“Don’t tell me…you were here the whole night?”

Loren turned his sleepy eyes towards the voice that came from the entrance of the bar and saw

Lapis walked in, with the morning sunlight shining behind her.

Lapis, who was wearing the same clothes she had been wearing the day before, walked towards him. Exasperated, she tapped Jack on the shoulder to see if he was still asleep, and then walked next to Loren.

“Umm…Well, yeah.”

“After leaving last night, I remembered that we didn’t get a new room at the inn.”

“Now that you mention it. We had to check out of the inn that the guild let us stay in.”

“I’ve already done it and moved our things as well. Loren, you don’t have much so it wasn’t hard at all.”

Lapis’ words took a while for Loren, who drunk too much, to process, but he eventually grasped what she was saying and glared at her.

He could understand checking out, but if she wanted to move his things, she would have to step into his room.

“How did you get into my room?”

“They let me in pretty quickly once I told them that I was with you.”

Loren wondered if it was fine to do that, but the inn was one of the best ones and was also one that the guild recommended.

There would be times when customers couldn’t come to take their things, and it would be too much work to go through loads of procedures for them.

He didn’t know what the baseline was, but decided that there must be a way to get into your party member’s room using their information and knowledge as a party. If that was the case,

Lapis’ actions weren’t that unusual.

“I got us new rooms at a different inn as well, so don’t worry.”

“Sorry for the trouble.”

“I got the money ready too. As much as I would like to start shopping…what are you going to do about the payment here?”

The number of bins stacked on Loren and Jack’s table was quite high.

They had eaten quite a bit of side dishes as well to go with all the alcohol, and it wasn’t hard to imagine how much money it costed.

Loren was going to let Jack pay for everything, but since he was pa.s.sed out, he couldn’t just leave him here. When he was wondering what he should do, a helping hand reached out.

“Jack, here you are.”

A woman walked in just like Lapis had a moment ago.

Loren and Lapis remembered her thin figure, but while Loren was wondering if that was something he could say out loud, she suddenly kicked Jack, who was still asleep, straight on the back.

A loud noise erupted, and Loren and Lapis thought that it would be enough to wake Jack up, but he didn’t even respond to the kick and was still asleep.

“Nim, right? It’s been a while.”

“Hey Lapis. I don’t think it’s been that long though.”

“Have you come looking for Jack?”

“Yeah. I’ve been looking for this b.a.s.t.a.r.d.”

“Umm well. He was here because I wanted to ask him some stuff, so…”

Loren was the one who came to Jack in the first place.

Jack was drinking even before he came, so Loren wasn’t the reason that he drank all night, but he didn’t want him to take all the blame, so he started to talk, but faltered as Nim stared at him closely.

“Loren is a good boy. Lapis should follow your example.”

“Are you saying that I’m a bad girl?”

“I’ll let you decide that. I’ll tell Ritz that he tried to do something good for his juniors. I’ll pay for all of this too.”

Nim gave Loren a thumbs up as she said that, but it was hard to guess what she was thinking from her expression, and Loren stayed there wondering if it was okay for him to leave. Since he wouldn’t leave, Nim made Loren stand up and pushed him out of the bar.

“Should we go apologize later?”

“I think it should be fine. Rather than that Loren, am I such a bad girl?”

“Don’t ask me that…”

For some reason, Lapis was worried about what Nim had said earlier.

Loren refused to answer her question and started walking towards the shopping district, towards the shops where they were going to buy his equipment.

Although there were many shops there, they weren’t ones that ordinary people would go to.

It consisted of shops that sold items and equipment for adventurers, and it existed in any large city.

Lapis said that she had already researched and found a good place to get his equipment, so he followed her to one of the stores.

“Most importantly, what we need is a weapon and some armor. You can’t live as an adventurer without these.”

The store that they went into sold weapons and armor.

There were many weapons hung on the walls and the place was filled with armors of different shapes, sizes, and materials. It was quite a thrilling sight.

At Lapis’ words, Loren pointed at the leather armor he was wearing, but she immediately shook her head.