This was the clever part about him; he never outright quarreled with the other party.
After all, Parost was a local, and when a conflict arose with an outsider like him,
the locals would instinctively side with Parost, a fellow local.
Even if he won a fight against Parost, he would still end up losing his reputation, becoming a domineering dragon oppressing the local snake, and consequently face the united ostracism of the locals.
Gaven had exerted all his effort to outmaneuver Parost, but the native carpenter stubbornly clung on, sneering, "Everyone in the village knows that there's a treasure of the Launcel Family stored in the basement of the Laughing Bandit Inn. Who knows whether you really want to rebuild the inn or if you're just using it as a pretext to dig up the Launcel Family's treasure? What if you end up completely infuriating the Weeping Witch and bring calamity upon our village?"
