50 Beast-kin (1/2)
Inside his room, Kiro is already awake, due to the chain of events that occurred within the last few days. His body and mind felt sluggish.
Going down to the pub, Kiro greeted the Inn's owner with an amiable smile.
”Greetings, Mr. Walt, what's the menu for today?” Staring at the middle-aged man, who has short brown hair, a long dark brown eyelash with his experienced eyes flashed with knowledge in life.
Walt wore casual long-sleeves made of linen, and a short made of brown wool.
Staring at Kiro, Walt returned the greetings with a pleasant smile. ”Mm, Good afternoon Mr. Kiro.” Placing the wooden tray on the counter, Walt added.
”Today's meal is a roasted deer! I was lucky to encounter a bulk sale early in the morning.” Saying that, Walt showed Kiro the content inside the tray.
Staring at the tender meat in front of him, Kiro's appetite rose. ”Okay! Please serve me three servings of roasted deer.” Drooling over the meat, Kiro looked over for the nearest empty table inside the pub.
”Alright, three servings of roasted deer, coming right up!” Serving the meal to the other customer, Walt went inside the kitchen to prepare Kiro's order.
”Have you guys heard the incident inside the plainlan forest?”
Suddenly Kiro heard a gossip inside the pub.
”Yeah, to think another Goblin Nest was found near the border of the town, what the heck is happening?” Another person voiced out.
”Rumors that there was a Goblin King inside the forest... Then when the Nimrod party came back, they brought back thirty plus people along with them!” A drunk person in the middle of the afternoon boasted of his knowledge about the event.
”Hee~ What do you know! They said deep inside the forest, they discovered a demon's activity!” Hearing the man's voice. A sudden heavy atmosphere descends to the entire lodge.
”... Don't joke around, what do you mean by demons? With this town's capability, one demon is enough to swash all of us to death.” The drunk person who was boasting about his knowledge uttered his disbelief.
”... It said the Invincible A-ranker went to the forest and wreaked havoc whilst nearly changing the entire landscape of the beginner's forest...”
Hearing the other man's voice, the atmosphere inside the pub eased up.
”Hahaha! Speaking of thirty plus survivors, they said there was a rare species among the group.”
”... Oh, I heard about that, It's about the three silver-wolf tribes, right?” Hearing the man's voice, the drunk person responded.
”Yea... Poor fellows, I bet the underground world already marked their attention to them...”
Listening to the gossip inside the Pub, Kiro shook his head in resignation. However, the last words of those drunkards group caught his attention.
With that thought in mind, Kiro decided after his meal, he would go to the guild to check out the mentioned individuals.
Then Walt who came to get Kiro's portion saw him in deep thought. ”Three servings of roasted deer!” Gently place the tray to his table, Walt said. ”What's wrong?”
”Oh, it's nothing.” Pausing for a bit, Kiro added. ”By the way, Mr. Walt, since when did Alina quit her job?” Kiro replied while staring at the aromatic roasted meat in front of him.
”Mm, it's been quite sometime now since Alina quitted her job, after paying her debt in the guild, she rarely appeared here.” Sighing slightly, Walt added.
”Didn't you guys belong to the same party?” Picking up his voice, Kiro frowned in trouble.
”Haah, we had a minor dispute inside the group, while Alina stayed at the same place as others, for me. It was quite suffocating to have a heavy atmosphere on a daily basis, so I moved out of the place and stayed here.”
Noticing his troubled look, Walt wasn't a fool to not understand that he did not want to talk about the event that occurred during that time.
Ignoring the sympathetic look of Inn's owner, Kiro devoured the meat in front of him.
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