"Oh, so here is where you stayed." The Youngster stand in front of an old building, It placed far from the city centre and build by Stone. The entire building consists of 3 floors and looked elegant and majestic, only if the wall was not covered with lime plaster, which just didn't fit the atmosphere.
"What a great building, this building It brought me back my memory in Hellandia." Igor lay down his comment on the building standing in front of him. However, Vaterian pushed Igor with his elbow, warning him about the impoliteness, It's always not a good thing to be classified as a thing that is "Same as Hellandia".
"Really? This building looked very special to me. Maybe in future, I will visit Hellandia, but at least for now, I need to leave here quickly." Viridiana seems worried about the information she received. She didn't hear the mocking from Igor because of that, or she just don't understand it.
"Should we just walk into this fabulous building and had a friendly meeting with Mister de Montferrat? Or you want to have a long conversation while Mister de Montferrat waiting for us alone?" Asked Vaterian, as he saw the conversation might be dragged longer by Igor.
He looked up, there was an opening window, below it is a hard water crust pastry, commonly used by the miner to keep their rations. It's still a bit moist.
"Yes Sir," Igor replied and gave Vaterian a military-style salute, It successfully make Viridiana giggle for a bit. She walked into the Inn without waiting for them, Igor follow up but he open his lip when he walked past Vaterian, "What do you mean 'waiting for us alone' ?". Vaterian didn't reply but returned him with a smile and walked into the Inn.
After they walked into the Inn, they gain full sight of it. There had no other person on the ground floor other than them and the owner, who laid his head on the bar, taking a small nap.
"Do you need to spend some time with your father without us interrupting you, I think he must be worried about you, you might also need some time to explain your current situation and why you came back with two men beside you." Vaterian made a proposal to Viridiana, asking her to go upstairs.
"Then let me inform Mr.de Montferrat." The owner wakes up and go toward the staircase and pull one of many ropes, some Ringing came from above, informing the people above there had someone coming. He continue to pull the rope for 10 seconds, then he stopped.
"Clever Invention, I hope every Inn should have that."
"Thanks, sir, it's just a thing I made during my free time, not something to be proud of." The owner replied to Vaterian, he is being extremely humble about it.
The Teenagers sit down on a bench, they look around and find the table in the entire Inn was rather empty and tidy, the only exception was a table near the staircase. On top of it was three plates of food with beverages beside it, depending on the liquid splitting on the ground, they must be cheering a lot.
"This Inn was very welled decorated, how long did you handle this Inn?" Vaterian asked the owner about the story, the owner seems shocked by it. "It's already 20 years Sir, I inherited this Inn 20 years ago, but It opened since my grandfather years, thanked to that he decided to build this Inn with stone, so it didn't get burnt in the siege by the Carpathians.
"That's why there was lime plaster all over the wall, Interesting story indeed. By the way, I didn't see a lot of people in here, is it always the case?" Vaterian brought out another question to the owner, wishing to get a reasonable answer.
"We did have a lot of trouble recently, but thanks for Mr.de Montferrat, otherwise I might not be able to survive for the rest of the winter." The answer Vaterian gained from the owner surprised him a bit. "Oh! How many people are they? It seems like Mr.de Montferrat paid quite a lot to you."
"About 13 of them? I'm not quite sure, but they took quite a lot of space." The reply made the Teenager alert. Igor tap his hit on the ground, a small knocking sound come out from there.
Suddenly, Vaterian fell off the bench shouting, "Cockroach! Dear owner! There's a cockroach around here." Igor also falls back after knowing it. The owner felt embarrassed by it, he can't believe that they were born in this land.
"Let me take a look at what you are afraid for, I will show you that a true man won't be afraid for just a bug." The owner bent down and try to search for the insects, the only thing he forgot about, is there are never a single cockroach would appear in this season.
Vaterian, standing beside the owner. He holds his sword at its blade and hit the owner's head with the pommel. The owner fell onto the ground and lost his cautious.
"Is that a bit too violent? We might be able to do it more gently fashion." Asked Igor, he didn't agree about the choice Vaterian did. "Shut up and go, the clock is ticking, It will never wait for us." Vaterian run to the staircase, after identifying which rope the owner pulled, he followed it to the upper floor.
Igor stayed for a while, he turn his head toward the owner and make his move. He cut a rope from the staircase, tied up the owner and let him lean against the wall. After finishing all the work, he picked up one of the mugs placed on the table and followed the step of Vaterian.