49 – Scar-3

“One room! No, two? What shall we do, Baron?”

“Do whatever you feel like.”

“Give me a room! Including meals and bath water!”

After handing over some coins, Ceres walked lightly.

“Here, the facilities are nice!”

“Yes.”

The wooden table was old and the door was shabby, but it was fairly tidy.

Depending on how the owner manages it, it was an inn for adventurers that could become ridiculously poor.

“It’s the first room on the left when you go up the stairs.”

An old man who seemed to be the innkeeper pointed to an old staircase in the corner.

“Are you a baron? It’s not an appropriate place to serve a noble…”

“it’s okay.”

It was enough to be able to sleep without having to worry about surprise attacks.

If I wanted to live comfortably, I could stay for several days eating the imperial palace, but in the end I wanted to go back.

“You don’t need a drink?”

A waitress with a light smile suggested a drink. I sat in my chair and pondered for a moment.

I don’t like alcohol.

However, at the inn he entered during his adventure, he never had a chance to drink. I wasn’t in need of money, but I felt like I wouldn’t be able to survive tomorrow if I calmed down even a little.

I couldn’t afford to drink when everyone else didn’t drink. In the first place, most couldn’t even afford to sell alcohol at the inn.

“…a little bit.”

The taste of the drink was not what I expected. Rather than drinking in a shabby place like this, it would have been better to order a maid from the imperial palace to drink well-maintained liquor.

I just wanted to try it. Ordering a drink at an inn is something I couldn’t do before.

“Yes. Dad, here’s a big beer!”

The maid ran to the old man with a bright smile as if she had succeeded. Maybe my legs weren’t comfortable, and my running posture was a bit clumsy.

“Well, even though she’s my daughter, is it because she’s courageous, talented, or thoughtless… she’s doing business with the nobles herself.”

After a while, the waitress took two stew bowls of black bread and beer and set them on the table.

“thank you.”

He took out a few coins, gave him a tip, and took a spoonful of the stew from the small bowl.

As always, it was a bland stew, but at least it seemed to have a lot of meat in it. The grease irritated his tongue.

“how about it?”

The waitress did not leave her seat and kept an eye on her, as if she had expected to give her an extra tip if the taste was good.

“Ah, it’s delicious…but worse than what this friend did.”

Of course, there was a sense that the comparison target was excessively high. While eating the food in the imperial palace, my tongue got too high, and Seris’ food tasted a bit unconventional.

If she wasn’t using magic, she would have hidden the seasoning somewhere in her maid’s uniform.

“Yeah, were you really a maid? Did you do all the household chores by yourself? Did you just pull out a knife or something and go around slicing monsters?”

Seris scratched her head and denied the maid’s words.

“It’s not that much. Just what you can do?”

Slightly embarrassed, the waitress turned her gaze to the large wooden goblet full of wine,

“Well, then… have a drink! It’s my father’s own beer!”

Let’s have a drink, it just tasted like sweet alcohol. There was nothing special about it, it was the kind of alcohol you could drink in this world.

However, I continued to drink it. So as not to regret it again, I continued to shove alcohol down my throat.

“ha…”

He let out a slightly heated breath. The waitress was still looking at me with expectant eyes.

“It’s not… not bad.”

It wasn’t great, but the basics were there. It wasn’t visibly dirty or insincere, and it wasn’t terribly tasteless.

It was true that it was difficult to find an inn that did the basics. I took out a coin and handed it to her.

“thank you!”

After bowing her head and bowing politely, the maid approached the innkeeper holding a coin.

“Dad, look, I got it! It’s a tip!”

“Oh, the kid who made good money… Is that one coin that good?”

“Because I didn’t earn a lot of money working at the inn myself. This is a lot of money!”

He tossed the tough, tough bread into the stew-bowl and tossed it around.

Seris, in her maid outfit, was somewhat attention-grabbing, but not enough to make me uncomfortable.

Few people thought of me as a real baron after coming to such a place, but at least they thought I was strong enough to wear a maid outfit on one of my colleagues and walk around on foot.

Moderate respect, moderate indifference.

“Will that amount of money be enough? If you’re going to serve nobles, don’t you need a woman to make the night hot at an inn like this?”

“He must be a handsome nobleman, how could he flirt with his body?”

A few bad adventurers told a joke to the maid. It seemed that the hand was going up to a dangerous place.

I paused and thought about how to deal with this.

During the adventure, there was no need to worry. Of course, I had to make a fight like a deukdal.

No, the fact that I was able to hear those words first was nothing short of luck. The moment Eleanor heard such a conversation, the inn would have had to clear the body.

Running in moderation and creating a fighting arena was the only way to save a person’s life.

Very occasionally, there were times when I got help from a wizard who really didn’t want to see blood, but most of the time the situation was over with blood.

But, do I really have to deal with this now? You might be criticized for kicking out a regular customer with useless kindness.

However, my worries were, as always, worthless worries.

“I! I have a lover! I have!”

The lady picked up a wooden stick from somewhere and beat the men coolly.

“I was an adventurer.”

The maid was looking at the scene with an excited expression.

“I was an adventurer.”

It was a woman who could walk without difficulty even with a prosthetic leg. However, even so, it would not be possible to leave the adventure in that state.

If it was common, it was common, and it might be fortunate that he saved his life. Still, it was disappointing.

“Wow, the old temper comes out again! Master! The maid here hits people!”

“Be careful not to break the table. It doesn’t matter if you break some bones.”

The innkeeper, without looking back, was stirring the stew in the pot with a long ladle.

“Ah. Hey, it hurts! Ah, it really hurts! I got hit in the bone!”

“You’ll get better if you rest comfortably at the inn! About a week! I’ll even pay for the delivery of meals!”

Perhaps they weren’t on bad terms with each other, and even the adventurers who made dirty jokes didn’t really try to resist.

“…”

“Are you okay?”

“No, just.”

Not all summary judgments could be prevented.

Some women thanked the hero for saving him, but some did not.

Occasionally, there was a girl who trembled in fear at the sudden murder and the rolling head.

There were people who shouted loud and clear why they were killing people, though it was rare. The hero replied that attempted rape was a felony and that they had reasons to die.

Perhaps, among those who died, like the people at this inn, there could have been people who died just playing pranks.

It was meaningless. If you’re alive, you can apologize and make amends, but you can’t do anything for a dead person.

Even if there was an unfair death in between, it would be forgotten. The countless lives saved by the hero will justify her actions.

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“Why why?”

The old adventurer was trembling with fear, tied to a rope.

“Why? You touched someone you shouldn’t have touched. Did you want him to survive?”

“stop…”

The severed fingers were strewn about on the ground.

“Kill… uh…”

“Oh, I know. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you. Don’t bother me too much.”

The noble aristocratic lady, who was completely unsuited to such rough behavior, was cutting off the adventurer’s flesh with a sword in her hand.

“aaa!!!”

“It’s noisy. Ugh, not a pretty kid, not a young friend. Why are old people’s screams so vulgar and loud?”

The skin was already peeling off. The red muscle was cut like a thin cloth with blood.

“What the hell…why?”

“Because the hero will be offended by you. Well, I wouldn’t mind a guy like you, but wouldn’t he be offended if you took revenge?”

“Eww…”

It is true that the old man had a plan for revenge, but at most it was limited to inciting other adventurers to spread bad looks toward the hero.

There were a lot of people who didn’t believe in the new ‘real warrior’ and believed in the original warrior party. If the plan worked, it would have been a blow.

However, it was only a minor revenge. It wasn’t such a big deal that a lady from an aristocratic family would have to torture a person herself.

“Even if you don’t recognize it right away, if you help the hero one by one, starting with trivial things like this, I’m sure you’ll open your heart to me and my family someday.”

“Uh, uh, uh…”

“Sorry. Did I talk too much? My hobby is to tell the truth to people who are about to die. My father called it a bad habit… but he said he couldn’t help it.”

Cristina grinning with blood on her hands, using his screams as background music, poured out her heart.

“It’s not easy to live as a lady from a noble family. You can never reveal your true feelings, and you can’t feel at ease… But, it doesn’t matter in front of someone who is about to die.”

“AA AA AA!”

After stabbing the dagger through his heart for the last time, Christina slipped out of the torture chamber and washed her hands in a bowl of water prepared by an attendant.

In the clear water, red, fresh blood spread out.