The next morning. The first thing Lapin does early in the morning is to prepare the ink for the day. She takes out from her pochette a black stick with soot hardened with rabbit glue and a flat stone with an indentation in it, and drips a little water from the jug onto the flat surface of the stone. Then she gently draw a circle with the stick. The water, which was clear at first, gradually turns black and begins to have a sheen to it. Add a little more water and draw a circle again. Repeat the process. When the ink had collected in the hollow to some extent, she took out the ink pot from her pochette. She opened the lid and poured the ink into the hollows of the stone slab. If you look closely, you can see that there is a groove cut in the corner of the hollow to make it easier to put the ink into the jar. This is a tool that Lapin has been using for a long time. After a few times of making ink and pouring it into the jar, the jar filled up nicely. Lapin checked the weight of the jar, smiled, closed the lid, and put it in her pochette. She quickly cleaned up the other tools and put them in her pochette as well.
"Well, let's go for bathing, Pyon!"
After bathing, Lapin was in the cafeteria. For some reason, there was bread in the shape of a rabbit, so she was eating it.
"Oh, they're cannibalizing each other, aren't they?"
It was the old man from yesterday.
"After all, In this world, there are only rabbits to eat and rabbits to be eaten."
"Isn't this rabbit hell?"
He sat down next to her, saying so.
"There are plenty of empty seats."
Lapin points to the seats around her with her fork. Unlike yesterday, she is eating a little late, so there are plenty of other seats available.
"Well, well. It's not like I'm going to take the little girl and eat her. It looks like there's nowhere to eat."
He is a rude old man. In case you're wondering, Lapin looks like a girl of her age, and she doesn't have the kind of body that would make her look like there's nowhere to eat.
"So, where are you going, little girl? It's not like I have any business in this town."
"Shut up, little girl, little girl. Lapin Rabbit, Pyon."
"That's a joke of a name. Then I am Handsome Boy."
"That's a lie. What do you mean 'Then', Pyon?"
"Of course it's a lie. Are you serious, little girl?"
"I'm serious. That's what I wrote in the innkeeper's book. I'm going to register as an adventurer under that name, Pyon"
"I see. So, after you finish eating, you'll follow the road to Tirumino?"
"Mm, ....Pyon"
As a result of her careless slip of the tongue, her destination was revealed.
"Then again, I didn't think you were unregistered, little girl. Pretty strong, huh?"
"Ngh."
She've never thought of herself as weak, and in fact she is strong. But she was also aware that she did not look strong to those around her. She was so surprised that she almost choked on his bread.
"Calm down, calm down, strong or weak, if you can't breathe, you're dead."
The old man then placed a bowl of water in front of Lapin.
"Thank you for your help, Pyon"
"But still, you're with Pyon."
"Of course, Pyon"
In the end, she did not know the old man's name.
"That's a hell of a dagger she was carrying around..."
After parting with the Lapin, the old man twisted his head and muttered.
"I'm sure we'll see each other sometime soon, but ... I feel like I want to see her, and I feel like I don't want. ... I'm pretty sure I'll face trouble if I'm around that little girl."
He was so curious that he got involved with her even though he thought so.
"Pyon, Pyon It's Pyon-Pyon, Pyon!"
After leaving the inn, Lapin was walking as energetically as ever. If she continue along the road, she'll eventually reach Tirumino. If she can get a card from the adventurer's store in Tirumino, she can use it to prove her identity almost anywhere in the kingdom, and even outside the kingdom to some extent if her credit rating improves. This means that the existence of a being named Lapin Rabbit will be recognized by the world.
"I can't wait, Pyon!"
But this was a girl traveling alone, and she was on foot. The trouble is that it comes from the other side. For example, a large horse-drawn carriage with vulgar decorations of black and gold with a hint of pink came running at breakneck speed from behind her. The owner is the third son of the lord of the area, a typical profligate son who does as he pleases with the power of his parents. The profligate son's carriage came running at an incredible speed, and as he passed, he pulled Lapin into the carriage. It was a brilliant move. He must have been doing this a lot. And if things go wrong and someone gets hurt, it won't be a problem. In fact, as if to confirm this, the witnesses looked at each other as if it was happening again. The profligate son and his private love-carriage are both famous in this area.
"Rejoice, you rabbit-headed freak woman!"
The space was more like a room in a love hotel than a carriage. And there was a man.
"There's a man who looks like a chicken, Pyon. ..."
Lapin muttered as he was held down by the man who seemed to be the perpetrator of the abduction. A white suit and red hair. A curious man stood in the shaking room, both appropriate and inappropriate for a suspicious room.
"You were chosen by me!"
"Wow. ..."
Forgetting the end of the word for a moment, her bare voice comes out.
"What's a 'wow', He's like this but ..."
The man holding the Lapin is about to say something, but
"What the hell is 'like this'?"
The chicken man gets angry and shuts him up.
"Oh, well. As you can see, this is the carriage I use when I want to get a woman laid. You're in luck."
While the chicken man was talking, Lapin was thinking that if she could use him, who, despite his stupidity, seemed to have a certain amount of power and could be use it, he could be useful in the future if something happened. She wondered what she could use to scare him a little, but not kill him.