After selling the rabbit at the meat shop, I went outside the town again to hunt. This time, I hunted until evening and now I am level 5 with 10 rabbits to sell. Well, I hunted quite a lot but I can’t carry all of those since only 10 rabbits fit on my bag.
I went to the meat shop to sell the rabbits I hunted and I paid the butcher to teach me how to cut or butcher the monsters I defeated. Of course it is limited to beast-type monster since it will be pretty gruesome if I butcher humanoid-type right? Anyways after learning the skill “Butchery” I went to the Leatherworker’s Guild to learn the skill “Skinning”. This skill allows someone to take the fur of the monsters he/she defeated. The reason I took this skills are to maximize the profit I would gain from the monster I will encounter in the future and for my own survivability as well. I am also thinking of getting the skill that deals with gathering herbs and also cooking since it will be better to learn those skills.
It’s already evening when I finished all of what I planned to do and now the problem was where would I sleep?
When I was working on the tavern they let me sleep at its quarters since I am employee but now that I decided to become an adventurer I don’t have a place to sleep. Well, there was an inn where I will pay 200 kwarts (2 silver) for one night but the meal isn’t included. I can afford it yet I am hesitant to pay 200 kwarts for a night. Sleeping outside is no good since I won’t be able to rest comfortably. What if I sleep on Kaezar’s place? I am not close enough to ask for that and she is was a girl. It is weird for a man to ask a girl to let him sleep on her house and she might think that I might do something bad. Well let’s say that she would not think of that thing but her father will surely think of something.
Money check, 959 kwarts. I can check in for about 4 nights and 10 rabbits means one night at the inn with a change of 50 kwarts. Let’s say that I will be staying for a week there, a day can give me 500 kwarts and it will be deducted by 200 per night giving me 300 kwarts per day multiply it by 7 for one week and I will get 2100 kwarts per week of course the food expenses and other expenses aren’t in the calculation yet. It might not be a bad idea to stay at the inn and if I will think that it is the same as a boarding house then it isn’t a problem. Anyways I just need to sleep for a night for now.
Deciding to sleep at the inn for the night, I went to the inn.
As I am walking towards the direction of the only inn in this town, someone called me.
“Jasper!”
I look back at the source of the voice and saw a girl running towards me waving her hand. She was wearing a simple white dress and her chestnut hair swayed as she ran. The girl who was running was Kaezar. I stopped walking and stares at Kaezar who was 7 meters away from me.
“I finally caught up……. Wait…. Let me rest for a while.”
She was panting when she reached me and now she is calming her breath.
“Uhmmm.. What can I do for you?”
I don’t remember doing something that will make her ran at me like that…
If it’s because of the incident last time it’s not my fault. She was the one who opened the door without knocking and I don’t know where my clothes that time.
“You left your sword and shield at the clinic.”
Sword and shield? Wait… When I was new to this ‘dream’ world certainly I have a short sword and after beating Greg I obtained a shield and another sword…
“Sorry, I totally forgot about those.”
I apologized to Kaezar. I am not the type of guy who easily forgot my things. I am stressed out that time so I think that was the reason I forgot about it.
“Hehe… I think Jasper is the type of person who easily forgot his things.”
Kaezer covers her mouth when she laughed. She’s cute.
“I am not that kind of person you know.. My mind was wandering that time since I just-“
“Killed someone for the first time.. Right?”
Kaezar finished what I was about to say. Yes she was correct. It is the first time I kill even if this was just a dream.
“Come! Pick up your stuff at the clinic or my father would sell it.”
Kaezar jokingly said to me.
Sometimes I think if this world was really just a dream but whenever I saw the health bar in front of me I automatically assumed that this was a dream. Well, this is my first time that a dream would last this long. I am quite concerned about the real world now. What if I missed the bus stop where I should get off? My friends are there so it would be impossible since we get off at the same bus stop. Then what if my friends also fell asleep? Marc, Iggy and I could possibly fell asleep at the ride but not Gino. Gino once fell asleep while riding a bus and when he wake up he found himself 2 stops away from the bus stop where we get off since then he never fell asleep while on a trip.
Once I thought that this dream was too long and tried to wake up by pinching myself as hard as I could but it’s no use. Come to think of it, I was stabbed by the sword and the pain I felt was so real yet in the end I never woke up. Hmmmm… Did the bus got on an accident while I was asleep? Maybe the worm-thing that I saw before was a representation of the accident on my dream and my body might be on the hospital on a comatose state that’s why I can’t wake up.
Thinking about these things makes me shiver.
As I was lost in my own thought we already arrived at the clinic and the doctor, who was Kaezar’s father, was waiting for us on the entrance. He is clearly angry based on his expression alone but Kaezar paid no attention about it.
“I’m back father.”
“Welcome back, didn’t I tell you that you can call him tomorrow? It is dangerous for a girl to walk around the night alone. Why didn’t you listen to me?”
Woah… The father was pretty pissed. Even I will be pissed if I knew that my daughter sneaked out in the middle of the night just to meet some strangers. No, even if I knew who was it I will not allow my daughter to walk outside at night.
“But father, you said that you will sell his things first thing in the morning if he failed to get it tonight.”
Kaezar said to his father.
“…”
“…”
Both her father and I were silent for a while. I don’t know what to say about what Kaezar said. I looked at the doctor and he avoided my gaze. Is he embarrassed about it?
“Uhmm.. Kaezar, you know… I don’t mind even if he sell those things… In the first place, I was the one who forgot about those so…. Yeah.. Doctor sorry for the inconvenience.”
I bowed deeply to the doctor. I don’t know what to say in the first place. Of course I would be mad if he sells my things without my permission but I already forgotten about those so I won’t blame him if ever he sell it or not. By the time I realized that I forgot those things maybe I have a better gear on hand and will not cry over those things.
“Tsk tsk… You’re wrong Jasper, if you found a coin pouch on the ground and it contains a big amount of coin, would you keep it?”
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‘Yes I would keep it.’ Is what I would like to say but I decided to stay silent.
“If it were me, I would find the owner of the pouch. He/she might be looking for it everywhere.”
She’s a good girl. If I found a wallet or coin pouch lying on the ground the first thing I would do is to look if there were any witness. If not, then quickly picked it up but it inside my pocket and went back home. After it, I would get every single money inside and put it inside a plastic bag with other trash as a cover then throw it away.
“I s-see.”
I said awkwardly at Kaezar who was smiling and said “No problem~”
“But you don’t need to look for me in the middle of the night. It is pretty dangerous.”
I said to Kaezar and his father nodded in agreement.
“I know that it was dangerous but what’s done is done. I looked for you and found you so everything was alright.”
Kaezar said while smiling.
Well, what she said was right. What’s done is done. Whatever complaint or objection I raised to her action nothing would change.
“*sigh* I get it. So can I get the sword and shield now? I need to go to the inn while it was open or I might be spending the night outside.”
“Inn? It’s already close now.”
Wait… I know that it was already night but I think it was just 7:30PM now. What kind of inn closes early?
Seeing my dumbfounded expression Kaezar explained to me.
“The inn here closes early than the other inns since it was in the frontier village and there were just a few adventurers here compared to the city.”
“What if some adventurer from the city went here due to a quest?”
“Most of the adventurer that went here went to the inn first before leaving for their respective quest so it is not really a problem.”
So basically, I don’t have a place to sleep now. Am I going to sleep outside? This would be the first time that I would be sleeping outdoors. Well, if that was the case then I would hunt all night and sleep as soon as I rent a room at the inn tomorrow. Sometimes I don’t sleep for a day or two and since this was just a dream I think I can do fine even if I don’t sleep at all.
“Is that so?”
“Yes. So why don’t you sleep here? Of course it was not for free. Maybe for 150 kwarts per night would be cheap enough right?”
Kaezar said to me while smiling and I saw her father got surprised at what Kaezar said. Of course I was surprised as well.
“W-what are you saying?! This isn’t an inn! This is a medical facility! We can’t just let anybody sleep here specially that man! I can’t tolerate him staying here!”
Did her father hate me that much? What did I do to make him hate me? I don’t remember anything that would make him angry. If it’s about the incident before then I was not the one to blame for that! His daughter opened the door without knocking!
“Father before you let some adventurer sleep here and you got angry at me when I asked for a lodging fee and you said that helping others was the right thing to do right? Then why are you saying that you don’t want him here? Are you saying that we should abandon him? I don’t remember having a father like that!”
Kaezar got mad at her own father for declining her idea.
“But that man clearly has an ulterior motive! Maybe he purposely stay outside and waited for you to come! I mean, who would forgot his own weapon?!”
What is this old man saying? In the first place I don’t know that the inn closes this early and I totally forgot about the sword and shield. It’s not that I purposely left it here.
“Jasper didn’t left it on purpose! He forgot about it since maybe he is trying to run away from the fact that he killed Greg! Why can’t you understand it father?!”
She’s somewhat correct at that. Seeing that sword and shield reminded of Greg but it is not because I felt guilty on killing him, it is because originally those where his item. Why would I feel guilty killing someone in my dream if it was only a dream?
“Then it should be fine if I sell it right?!”
The doctor shouted at me.
Why am I getting dragged on their fight?
“Uhmm… Well, I would like to sell it personally..”
I muttered in a low voice. I won’t be giving money to someone who can earn by himself especially if he has a business.
“Father! Let him stay here for the night in exchange he will give you the sword and shield. If you’re still not willing to let him stay here, then I would accompany him at sleeping outside.”
When did I say that Kaezar? It’s money you know? I don’t like the idea of throwing money as if it was garbage.
“Kuh…”
The doctor seems to be in a tight position. He cherished his daughter so much and it can be seen on his actions.
“I understand. Hey you! One wrong move and I’ll kick you out!”
The doctor accepted his defeat and throw a threat on me. He went inside muttering “I’ll kick him out for sure” repeatedly. Well, good luck with that. I don’t plan on doing anything suspicious in the first place.
“Okay, Jasper you will sleep at the clinic. Follow me.”
“Is this okay? I can sleep outside you know.”
“It’s fine. Father is only like that when a boy sleep in our clinic. Well… I can understand him since he cares for me too much.”
Even I would do this thing if my daughter suddenly brought a man and tell me his sleeping on our house.
We arrived at the clinic and Kaezar prepared the bed, although I said that I can do it myself but she said that it was the responsibility of the host to make sure that the guest would be comfortable.
After she left, I put my things on the side of the bed. I put off my armor and it smells bad, I think the first thing I would be doing tomorrow was washing my armor but if I did that then I need to stop hunting for a day to watch over it. Maybe I could just left it hanging somewhere and hunt? There’s a chance that it will get stolen. There’s no other choice but to take a break from hunting tomorrow huh? Even though I just started it.
As I think about things I would be doing tomorrow, my consciousness faded and I fell asleep.
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[Note]
First and foremost sorry for posting very late.
I am quite busy at the moment so i can't promise that i can pose one chapter a week.