Reeekree left the Inn not wanting to stay any second longer than necessary. His departure was so quick that Akira could not ask him when he would be able to meet with chief Raibread.
“All of our large rooms have already been paid for in advance up to the next week. If you want to stay here you’ll have to settle with using two smaller rooms,” said Reekrull.
“That will be enough for us, we only plan on staying a short time. About before… you should really watch those demigods. They are no good,” said Akira.
“Humph… they are paying customers. Don’t be butting your head in where it doesn’t belong and don’t go starting trouble in my inn or I will kick you out even if the lord wants you to stay here,” said Reekrull staring grumpily at Akira for a few seconds.
“Rucereee, after they pay, show them their rooms and hand them their keys.”
“Yes father,” said Rucereee. The young Ramia had been paying close attention to everything that had happened since Akira had entered the inn.
Klyn, who was put in charge of the finances of this expedition, walked over to the young Ramia and paid the few coins needed to rent the rooms for two days.
“Please follow me,” said Rucereee after placing the coins into a metal box that was secured to the stone floor.
The young Ramia slithered out from behind the wooden counter and over to a steep stone ramp. Ramps, instead of the stairs that bipedal humans and demon races used, could be found in any Ramia building that was taller than one floor.
The stone ramp was well-worn with certain spots polished enough that just stepping on it would send you tumbling back to the first floor.
Akira looked at the ramp for several seconds with the others as they tried to figure out how to not make a fool of themselves. Rucereee easily climbed the slippery ramp unaware of the predicament that Akira and the others found themselves in.
Akira was the first daredevil to step forward and instead of walking up such a slippery ramp normally, he used the wooden railing on the right side of the ramp and began using his large arm muscles to pull himself up the slippery ramp.
Everyone else seeing this followed suit. They had to pull themselves up two sets of slippery stone ramps to reach the 3rd floor where they would be staying for their time here.
“You guys must have a lot of fun going on so many adventures and fighting with demigods. So cool!” said Rucereee upon reaching the third floor well out of the view and hearing range of his father.
“It’s nothing like that really. We were just cleaning up the area of troublesome people,” said Akira.
“I want to go out on adventures as well! I have been practicing my martial arts with my friends every day that I can,” said Rucereee. His scaly tail twirled in the air and snapped out with a crack as he showed off some of his skills as well as chopping the air with a knife-hand.
“But… I can’t go out because I have to help my father with running the inn and tavern,” Ruceree said with regret as his eyes full of longing stared at the armor and weapons Akira and the others wore.
“Even if you can not go out on adventures you can still use your skill to help protect the inn and your father from any troublesome people,” said Klyn.
“Nothing like that ever happens here. Everyone that comes here is just cheapskate introverts. Oh! I’m not calling you one, since the lord is the one that sent you here.”
“Either way, you are a man! Keep up the hard work and pack on some more muscles… you look too skinny,” said Zundar smacking Rucereee on the back in encouragement. With this ‘light’ touch, Rucereee was nearly sent flying down the hallway.
“But out of all my friends, I have the most muscles…”
Ruceree became completely quiet as they passed a set of 4 rooms that all had their doors closed.
Akira could just barely make out soft muttering from one of the rooms but no matter how hard he tried to focus on the words, everything he heard was a garbled mess. For some reason, there was a constant buzzing sound that interfered with listening to the conversation.
The two rooms that Akira and co. would be using, were at the opposite side of the building of the first four rooms were probably the rooms that were being used by the demigods.
“These are your keys. You can be assured of your room’s security as there are only two sets of keys for each door. You now have one set and I have the other downstairs.”
With a bow, Ruceree left them.
Zundar inspected the first room to see if it was safe before Akira and the others entered the same room and closed the door.
Akira walked over to the opened wooden shutters on the only window in the room and latched them shut. With that, he activated his darkness domain filling the entire room with the muffled darkness that interfered with the sight and sound of unfriendly peeping toms, while not also not affecting Akira or the other allied members inside the room.
Only after the skill was activated did he turn to everyone with a grim face.
“What is that damned Raibread doing sending us here to wait at this average place. He has no honor!” grumbled Zundar, letting out his frustration at everything that had happened since they arrived.
“These petty actions are to be expected from him and are not the real problem…” said Klyn.
“He is allowing demigods to stay inside his own city, and these are the worst type of demigods…” said Akira.
“Everyone must stay on guard for any tricks or ambushes that they may try while we run our errands here and wait for Raibread.”
***
The next morning Akira was sitting at one of the tavern tables with Dolph, Vilkas, and Fluffball, eating the local Ramia middle-class breakfast when the tavern door opened and a Purple-haired female human entered.
Akira only glanced at her to see if she was a threat but quickly returned to his food after not sensing any killing intent coming from her.
Her footsteps stopped at his table and the chair opposite him was pulled out as the female sat down.
Akira looked up from his food confused at why this person had decided to sit down at their table.
Dolph and Vilkas put down their utensils and had their hands resting on their weapons as they glared at the person sitting across from them.
“Yap!” said Fluffball threatening the woman.
“Can I help you with something?” asked Akira, as he patted Fluffball to stop him from biting her.
Now that she was sitting directly across from him Akira’s nose was twitching in discomfort.
Ding!
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You have resisted the calming effects of the passive skill [Perfume].
Akira’s eyes became sharp as he glared at the woman before him. He had never seen her before but he was now sure that she was a demigod. What he did not know was if she was part of the bandit group they had tussled with before.
He glanced at Dolph and Vilkas and saw both of them had their noses scrunched as they both could smell something was wrong with the scent coming from the female in front of them.
The female demigod in front of them had a bright smile on her face and acted as if she did not see the four sets of glaring eyes directed at her.
“Huuuuh~,” there was a loud exasperated grunt from ReekRull behind the counter as he watched what was going on.
Again Akira spoke, this time with a harder tone to his words. “What do you want, demigod.”
“My what a hard nut you are. You should loosen up.”
Akira and the others were silent and just stared piercing gazes at her.
“My name is Sue. Sue Duza. I am the leader of your fan club,” said Sue, holding out her hand.
Akira did not take it and only stared at her trying to figure out what she was talking about and why she was here.
Akira noticed a flicker of light in her eye.
Ding!
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You have resisted the skill [Seduction Illusion].
“What do you want?” asked an angry Akira for the third time. His anger was now boiling to the max and was about ready to lose his cool!
