Chapter 84 (1/2)
We arrived at Osen town on the evening of the fourth day. It seems like we had been moving faster than expected. In order to enter inside the town, I showed my guild card with the status hidden to the gatekeeper.
Once in the past, they seemed to use some kind of ancient relic to confirm identity of person who enters the town.
I, eh? Is that necessary?
I look around, there seems to be no one who acts like that other than me. The gatekeeper sends me a wry smile.
There is only simple fence surrounded this town, there were no high walls like in the other cities. I asked for the reason, it seems because the scenery of hot spring town will be ruined so they removed the walls. However, he taught me that there is invisible magic barrier that always protected the town.
Other things he taught me, this town is divided into three sections. They seems to be called ”mixed bath district”, ”men bath district”, ”women bath district”, their difference are just like how it sounded.
Most of people went to the district following their own gender, that as expected. There seems to be soldiers who entered mixed bath district very rarely, but most of time there were only men inside.
Although in the past mixed bath district only used for bathing, recently over there, borrowing a wisdom from certain shop in the south, a place that dedicated as common place for men and women to soak only the foot called footbath was made. It seems that place was popular and more people come to mixed bath district.
Actually, it seems that the magic barrier was also a wisdom from that store, people in this town revered highly of the store owner. For a moment, I remembered the all black dressed peddler when I hear about this store. But thinking back about the change in this town, it's likely a different person.
I mean, the owner of this store thought something amazing. If by any chance I come back to my hometown, I'd like to visit the store.
I ask them to return my guild card while talking, after that we enter the hot spring town, Osen.
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It seems the place we entered was the entrance of mixed bath district. It's already late night so we are planning to look for inn to stay a night.
I want to go looking for Meru at once, but an unfamiliar town, moreover night time, I don't know where should I start without slightest clue. I abandon the idea for tomorrow. I hope Meru stay safe.
All inns in the mixed bath district were fully booked so we headed to the men bath district. But after a little thinking, we all decided to go back and stay in a barn at the mixed bath district.
Because in the men bath district, muscular men who seems to be Haosui challengers are all over the place. There are time when the heat of hot spring get into their heads and a fight broke. That district has turned into a lively (noisy) place.
I think that our judgment isn't wrong. We ask for permission from the innkeeper and spend the night inside a barn.
On the next day, we were allowed to use hot spring because of the innkeeper's kindness. I decided to search for Haosui as the first step in looking for Meru whereabouts.
I asked the innkeeper; apparently Haosui fighting challenge has become number one entertainment in this town so the location was found out immediately.
Haosui fight her challenger on the big stage in the middle of town. It seems that some people especially comes here to watch it. Based on the information we all headed to that place.
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