"Why did you bring me here? I thought I already did enough for them?" Bernhard stared at Manfred, he was confused about why Manfred forced him to stay with them in the room.
"They wanted to know about those Angles jewellers, I didn't know a lot about those guys who lives on the island, not a thing that people like me would know about." Bloodhounds sat on a chair, but followed after a breaking sound, he fell onto the ground.
"Pff...Maybe you should keep your attention on the durability of that piece of furniture, I spent a lot of time finding them in the garbage hill." Bernhard couldn't hold back his laughter, he laughed and hit his thigh as an expression.
"Why didn't you pick up this trash in River Wend? There had far more trash and that wooden furniture will float on it!"
"No! that stuff can't even last for a week, I even need to dive into the sewage to pick up those things!" According to his words, it was obvious that Bernhard had tried it before, but it didn't go well as he thought.
"Piss off Bernhard, I won't talk with a guy swam in that river." Manfred's quickly turned his anger to non-stop laughter, the grin on his face made Vaterian doubt he ever raged to toward Bernhard.
"Back to the topic, Mister...How should I call you?"
"Vaterian, Sir."
"Mister Vaterian, OK. You wanted to know about those jewellers, right? Do you mind me to know about the purpose?" Bernhard cough a couple of times to get back Manfred's attention which he failed to do so, but he didn't get disappointed from it, he never expect Manfred to stop laughing by his reminder alone.
"Let me inform you, those jewellers was rather... arrogant, to be said. Especially when you were a Hellander, you know those Angles always saw us as their subject, even after their country been destroyed by the Papacy they still had a huge ego."
"I won't surprised about that, I was born under their rule after all." Said Igor.
"From Hellandia? You must have a harsh life then. I never had a good experience with those Angles, even I just stay with them for a couple of days."
"And imagine I live under them for years." Igor sneered, despite he was not proud of Hellandia returning to Hellandic rule, he still happy to see those Angles nobles bow their head down for the first time.
"But lucky you, for some reason I had once picked up an Angles in River Wend. he not a noble at least not dressed like he was, but he got a bunch of fancy little equipment to shape different jewel."
Bernhard got himself a cup of water and drank the whole of it. He looked at the teenagers and saw them looking at him suspiciously.
"Why are you looking at me?"
"Aren't that water was for cleaning?" Staring at the muddy water in a bucket, asked Vaterian.
"No, It was for drinking."
Vaterian started to regret his choice for coming here, he might need to relocate to a better place.
Bernhard didn't notice their reactions, or he just didn't care about it. He proceeds to his words.
"I still remember that day, I have never been so rich in my life, those tiny jewels in his pocket grant me a full day of enjoyment. Damn, those Sirens was great!" Bernhard looked like he wanted to go back to sirens bay again, Valerian also knew why his Inn was so old and fractured.
"So how was the man?"
"I always serve those who pay me. He stayed here for days? Or month? I had no idea, he told me he wanted to go back to Tharcia and left. He left me a note, but I could understand it, those Angles don't even dare to learn the language used here, neither Hellandic nor Graecian." Mister Bernhard shook his head and littered out his words.
"Do you still keep the note? I may understand it as long as it didn't write in dialect." Igor asked the owner.
"Oh, wait a minute." Bernhard walked out of the room, after a short while Vaterian heard a huge cough from the other end of the Inn.
"You sure he's fine?" Veteran whispered beside Manfred.
"I think so?"
After some time, Bernhard was back into the room, but the amount of dust on his cloth showed him he might need to have a shower later.
"Get off and had your bath, don't stay here." Manfred pinched his nose and threw a towel at Bernhard.
"Here you had it, boys. It's all up to you that could you understand it." Bernhard passed a piece of cloth which some words are written on it to Igor and yell at Manfred.
"How about we shower together, Manfred? We haven't done that after a long while!" Bernhard seems excited to do it, he shouted at Manfred who currently looked down at him.
"Fuck off, you know I married right? Did you know what would happen if Zofia knew that I bath with a filthy old man?"
"But I'm still young?" Answered Bernhard.
"Fuck off!" Despite swearing at Bernhard, Manfred took a towel from the shelf and walked out from the room alongside Bernhard, Veteran can still hear them arguing at each other when they walking out.
"You wanted to have a bath with me? We haven't done it since we meet." Igor put his hand on Vaterian's shoulder and asked.
"Fuck off." Vaterian denied his offer and laughed.