Chapter 14: Leon's rewarding mont
Leon and Louise headed straight to an inn after asking for directions to the best one.
It's been a long ti since both tasted warm food and water. Leon, in particular, survived so long without eating solely because of the system's level-up function. Louise leveled up, too, so she was in the sa boat.
After entering, the pair noticed many people, mainly tourists, sitting by wooden tables, slurping on a hot soup and biting off pieces of bread. All were satisfied with their al. Leon grew jealous of them, picking up his pace to face a plump lady behind the desk, clearly the receptionist here.
"Hello, I hope you have free rooms. Anyway, we'd like to eat first." Leon impatiently requested a dwelling and al for both of them — his partner nodding a few tis, her scarlet bangs dancing.
The receptionist smiled brightly as though she had sensed their hunger and jealousy and passed them a nu. She barely stifled a chuckle after Leon picked it up in a flash, only to blink at him, confused.
He skimd through the nu in less than five seconds, then gave it back. "All of it."
"Do you have enough-" the lady asked an obvious question, but Leon chid in midway, stopping her for the second ti. When silver coins rolled on the desk, her eyes lit up since it was an exact amount of money for the whole nu, and she lifted her head to look at Leon differently.
Did he know the price already? But why would he take a quick look at the nu if he knew?
"Forgive for asking stupid questions, sir. Please, take a table and wait for our chef. He'll make a fast al for you two first!" the receptionist promised, took the money, then ran to the chef and his workers to pass the news of the wealthy man in their inn, which surely turned upside down the entire kitchen.
Leon waited for her to return to ask about a price for a few nights. She didn't misunderstand him, talked about a few coppers, then Leon and Louise went to the table.
But while Leon expected two rooms, he'd receive just one. Thus, the receptionist actually misunderstood him.
A few minutes later, a waitress ca to them with two plates. She promptly said another al would be in just a few more minutes, then excused herself with an awkward smile as Leon and Louise had already started digging in.
The first al in another world was delightfully copious.
Bystanders couldn't fathom how such a short lady like Louise could eat as much as Leon did, and murmurs about them being monsters in disguise spread across the inn. Well, Louise had lovely fox tails and ears, but even those didn't stop so idiots from thinking of her as so demonic monster.
Fortunately, the inn's owner was clear-headed, and he dealt with those rumors silently and swiftly, not affecting his clients' lives and dwelling in his inn.
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Leon and Louise entered just one room, realizing that the plump lady misunderstood them. They had spent a pretty eventful first day and even slept in turns while being close to each other, but their relationship wasn't that of lovers, and it wasn't appropriate for them to stay in the sa room.
"We'll save so coins," Leon joked to lighten the nervous and tense mood, knowing that Louise had many of her thoughts doing a marathon in her head. "I'll sleep on the ground, just a pillow will do. I actually have so experience sleeping on a floor, you know?"
"No, no, no!" Louise shook her head, then pointed at a bed. "It's spacious. We can sleep together, can't we?"
Leon glanced at her from the side, questioning her instead.
Knowing that her Master was such a considerable person, Louise didn't allow him to sacrifice his comfort and the bed, which in her belief, everyone deserved. She threatened to sleep on the ground if he followed his idea. And that worked as Leon said they would sleep together in one bed.
It was embarrassing, for Leon didn't an anything sexual, yet it sounded like that.
To change the topic, Louise asked whether she could take a bath first.
"Rock paper scissors," Leon replied unexpectedly, though. He saw that, though Louise had freed herself from the chains and collar, so of her still thought of herself as a slave.
The way she's been calling him was just one example. Leon never tried to touch that, for he never wanted to force her, but now her question was just another instance.
Clueless about his thoughts and a plan to use rock paper scissors to help her with her mindset, Louise agreed with Leon but asked nonetheless. "I don't mind playing gas to decide who takes a bath first, but didn't Master pay for this room? It's the Master's privilege to enjoy a bath first. I can wait."
For the first ti, Leon blankly stared at Louise, his cheeks scarlet, and he was at a loss for words. He was actually wrong about her and misunderstood Louise's intent!
Louise didn't know what had occurred in his mind, but he turned so cute she tilted her head to the side a few tis, rembering his expression brushed with the embarrassnt. It was an adorable side she hadn't expected at that particular timing — it made her heart skip a beat!
"Master! We can play! It's okay." Louise cheekily smiled and extended her clenched hand forward.
When Leon did the sa, both of them shook it a few tis, and as the mont to see who was the winner ca, Louise's fox tails swept through the room, going forward and eclipsing her little hand.
Leon stood with a paper, confused. "What?"
Louise glanced at his hand, took away her tails, then innocently said, "I won, Master." She lifted the scissors! "Next ti, I will go easy on you!"
"You literally waited to see what I chose!" Leon stared at her with the peculiar expression of soone who had just got played.
Louise adorably tilted her head, "Does Master have proof?"
"What proof?"
"Proof of doing that, of course!"
Leon didn't utter a word, gazing at her with trembling lips.
Turning around while giggling from ear to ear, Louise waved her tails at her master and happily ran away to the bathroom. When she was inside, her heart seed to jump out of her chest, and she had to grasp her breast. But while her ears drumd with nerves, she looked too ecstatic — her smile was uncontrollable.
On the other hand, Leon swallowed his pride, took a seat on the bed, and whispered, "She's doing much better, and it feels rewarding."
While Marco and his farr friends would drink tonight and enjoy their rewarding mont, in Leon's case, a girl's smile was precisely that mont. Though it wasn't Athena and soone he'd t just a while ago, it was what Leon had been missing for a long ti.
"How should I pay back?" Leon pondered this question like a mischievous kid, quickly finding a good idea to make his partner get as embarrassed as he did.
And then, he opened his system, for it was ti to check how much it had changed after the forest events.
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