"Woof, woof"
"Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. It's an entirely new feeling."
It's been almost an entire week since I have left the main household. And the carriage that I have been riding didn't encounter any bump during the entire journey, It's heaven compared to the hellish carriage rides in my memory.
I have to give it to the little head though, after the fiasco in the development of technology, I have been expecting nothing from the current generation, but they proved me wrong, according to the carriage driver the road was developed under the lead of the current head of the Alister family.
The road looks as good as the ones on earth, I don't even know how they managed to pull that out, It's like they wasted their entire time on the development of road rather than on what I asked them to. And the fun fact is that I never even left any knowledge about road development for them. But they even made the road wide enough to support four carriages.
Well, at least they managed to do something with their time.
Since I promised Tibaldo that I would help the kingdom to balance the power between the three powers, I'm on my way to the capital city of the Kingdom of Opheus. But I'm taking my sweet time on reaching the capital city, even ordering the carriage driver to stop here and there in places to waste time.
"We can stop here for today." I said to the carriage driver as we entered another town.
As far as the map says the name of the town is: 'Soaring Dragon'?! A tall name for a small town in nowhere. Anyway the town consists of a population of 1000 and is the last checkpoint before leaving the march of the Alister family.
The moment the door opened Noir took off to somewhere. Well most likely to take a dump. He was always like this, allowing no one to peep at him doing the deed.
"This way, sir." The driver started to lead me to an inn located in the town.
The town doesn't look that much of anything, the buildings are built disorderly and the people are just as desire less as a sloth.
But some of them does peek at me in curiosity. Of course they are not peeking at me because of my cuteness, It's mainly due to the fact that not often does you get to see a ten year old with a sword in his hand.
As I followed the driver in to a building similar to all the other ones, the gazes of multiple people having their dinner in it fell upon me.
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I nodded to the driver as a permission to leave me and seated myself on a empty table.
"What does our guest like to order?" A waiter came before me to ask for my order.
"Is there any room left?"
"Yes dear customer, which one would you like?"
"Single bed." I said as I placed eight copper coins on the table.
"Anything for dinner?"
"Yes, but make it a light meal"
"Yes, gladly"
With nothing to do while waiting for the dinner to arrive, I started to eavesdrop on the conversations of the people in the inn.
"There is a high chance for war to happen between the three powers."
Okay, next. Not interested in things which are already known by me.
"So will you be going for the expedition, Arthur?"
Again skip..
"The spirit beast brought down yesterday.."
A little interesting but no need for things that had already happened, next..
"The mother almost died due the outburst from the cursed child.."
Ohh! This is interesting. Carry on people, I will just keep eavesdropping on you.
"It's said that the mother was saved due to the lucky outburst from the blessed twin of the cursed child."
Interesting, cursed and blessed children. Maybe some prank to keep the gossips in the air. Or some fraud to earn money.
"They are going to show off the twins tomorrow at the White tiger village."
White tiger village?! It's located along the path to the capital. Maybe I should make the driver make a detour before marching to the destination?
"Sorry to eavesdrop on you. But I heard that something interesting is going on in the White tiger Village from your conversation. Is it true?" I asked the group in an innocent voice as I moved towards the group.
The group consisted of two brown haired males and one orange haired woman in there middle ages, they are engaging in small talks after their dinner. Judging from their aura, they must be loose practitioners of aura.
"Well, would you look at that, aren't you a cute one." The woman started to talk in a kind voice.
Courtesy of being cute and small.
"So is it true?" I asked in my innocent façade.
"Well, it is indeed true but you shouldn't be going there."
"Why?"
"You must have heard about the cursed child from our conversation, right?"
I nodded my head in response to their question. Of course I have heard it else why would I be here.
"That child's power would burst out frequently without any pattern and harm the people at random in the village and besides elders from many sects and the kingdom is on their way to there."
Of course they would be there, the smell of something like this would always enter their noses, as children with such supernatural power without even practicing aura is usually the sign of super prodigies.
"Thanks, two uncles and aunt" I said as I bowed and ran to the table like a child when I saw the waiter brining in my dinner.
"Hey.. little kid, you are going to the village, right?"
"No" I blurted a lie with an innocent face.
Of course I will be going there, else why would I waste my time in asking these questions. For the last one month after waking from my sleep, I have been waiting for something to happen, and now something is happening, I should be there. I'm not some mc from novels who will get into situations and adventures without actually proactively looking for it.
"Cancel the order for the room, please." I said to the waiter who came to place the meal on my table.
"We-"
"I know, no refunds. Keep the change." I said as I started to dig in to stew.
And like always I regretted not studying culinary skills back from earth. The food tastes as bland as ever.