Lawrend raised his hands at chest level and said to her, "I'm not, I'm not. I will ask them properly."
"...Really?" Grape asked him in doubt.
"Of course, I wouldn't help Feli Lana and tell it to you if I'm just gonna kidnap them," Lawrend replied.
"You're right…"
Grape nodded her head. Though, there were still traces of doubt in her eyes. She had seen the dirty side of humanity throughout her life in this inn. Lawrend's words just don't hold enough credit for her to believe him.
"Okay, fine. We will come back here before we leave. You can ask her yourself," he said to her in defeat.
"Yes, that would be better," Grape nodded her head at him.
Grape stared at his face for a while before she turned around.
"I'm leaving…" Grape whispered.
Even though she said that she didn't open the door to leave, she merely stood there and waited for Lawrend to make his move. Sadly, Lawrend had no plans of taking her with him.
She waited for a whole minute. Only then did she realize that he had no plans of keeping her. She could only leave the room bitterly as she bit her lips.
"Sigh. She must be really expecting it," Lawrend said to himself after seeing her leave.
Lawrend entered the shower room and took a quick shower before he left the room. He then knocked on Nuon's door.
Knock Knock Knock
"Who's there?" Nuon asked from inside.
"It's me, Lawrend," he replied.
"Oh!" Nuon exclaimed and opened the door.
He saw Lawrend standing in front of the door looking all fresh and his hair slightly wet.
"What's going on?" Nuon asked him in puzzlement.
"Let's go buy some supplies for tomorrow," Lawrend said to him.
"That's a good idea. Maybe we should get some meat jerkies so we don't have to hunt every time," Nuon replied.
"That's what I was thinking," Lawrend said to him with a smile.
"Alright, let's go," Nuon said to him, and he exited his room.
"Are we also getting Logan?" Nuon asked Lawrend.
He figured that Lawrend would want to deal less with that guy. After all, they hate each other.
"Why not? He's also a part of our team," Lawrend replied with a confident smile.
"Right," Nuon nodded his head.
…
"So..? What are we buying?" Logan asked Lawrend as they walked through the streets.
It was already almost midnight, and lanterns were lighting up the streets. There were also more sellers lined along the street compared to during the day. It was like there was an event.
"Food and clothes. Remember, we hadn't changed or taken a bath for 3 days now," Lawrend said to him with a wry smile on his face.
"Ughh… Now that reminded me…We stink..."
Logan's eyes were unfocused as he stared at the ground. Remembering that fact made him very ashamed of himself.
"But you smelled like soap earlier, Lawrend," Nuon said to him.
"I took a bath, but I didn't change my clothes. Do you think that changes anything?" Lawrend replied with a wry smile on his face.
"..." Nuon was speechless.
"Anyways, there is a clothing store over there. It looks decent too," Lawrend said to them.
It was a large open store filled to the brim with clothes. They practically covered the walls with it.
"Hello, customers. Do you want casual clothes or battle clothes?"
A store clerk stopped in front of them with a smile. He was as tall as Lawrend, and he had a staff in one of his hands.
"Ah, speaking of, where did I put my staff?"
Lawrend suddenly remembered the staff that Humility gave to him. He was supposed to bring it with him, but he absolutely can't remember where he placed it.
"You had one?" Nuon asked Lawrend in surprise.
"Yeah," Lawrend nodded his head to him before he said to the clerk, " Anyways, we'd like to have both."
"Thank you for choosing Hurry Valley. Follow me, I'll show you clothes that I think suits you well," the store clerk slightly bowed to them.
"I have never seen you with it before. Maybe you left it at the capital?" Nuon replied to him.
"Maybe," Lawrend replied to Nuon before he turned his head to the store clerk, "Uhh, do you have something that can help us keep the clothes we're gonna buy? It'd be hard to carry them on their own," he asked as they followed him inside.
"What a weird name…" Logan murmured as he followed behind them.
"This cloak is made of quality Land Lizard skin. It can resist the effects of magic that doesn't have any weight, like fire, up to True Mage-level," the store clerk introduced a brown cloak to them.
"Hmm… Can it resist lightning magic?" Lawrend asked.
"Unfortunately, it's similar to every other cloak as it just lets lightning through," the store clerk shook his head sadly.
"I'll get four. Also, can we get hooded ones?" Lawrend said and asked the store clerk.
"Four?" x2
Nuon and Logan repeated in confusion. They didn't have multiple eye visions to count their 3-man party as a 4-man party.
"Yes, sir. We have hooded ones too. And about the storage you talked about earlier, we actually received a special product from outside today," the store clerk said to him mysteriously.
"Oh, what kind of an item is it?" Lawrend asked him in surprise.
The store clerk moved his mouth to Lawrend's ear and said, "A Storage Ring."
'Storage Ring!?' Lawrend exclaimed inside his mind.
He had heard about it, but he never had the chance to see one before.
"How much is it?" Lawrend asked the store clerk solemnly.
"50,000 gold," the store clerk whispered into his ear again.
"50!?" Lawrend shouted in shock.
"I will let you see it if you can prove to me that you can pay," the store clerk said to him with a sly grin on his face.
"Tsk," Lawrend clicked his tongue in annoyance and said, "Show it to me. See this?"
He then pulled his wallet from his pocket and showed its contents to him.