A small and remote town like Harad naturally is do not have much lodging place for travelers or adventurer and merchants who came from another cities or towns.
There's only two lodgings on Harad.
Sunsmile inn and Flauraee inn.
Sunsmile inn is known for their cheap prices for food and lodging with moderate facility, while Flauraee inn is known for how expensive their prices for everything but for not no reason since their facility is comparable even to their lord's room.
Sunsmile inn's customers often is from adventurers and travelers, or peddlers circles that just start their job for 1-2 years. They don't have spare money to choose the expensive Flauraee inn, so the cheap and friendly-to-wallet Sunsmile inn was their only choice. As the name's said, smile! Even if you're poor! Haha!
For Flauraee inn, well, no need to explain further. That place is there only for someone who had wealth comparable to low-level nobles.
So, naturally, Rert's and Riana's choice is only Sunsmile inn as well.
They do not have much money to spend in luxury any way.
Pushed the wooden door of the inn, Riana stretched and inhale the aroma of alcohol and soup mixed with sweet smell.
"Hm! Not that bad, i think!"
Her smile while looking at how fast bulky man near the entrance door gulped his glass of Ale is so wide and lovely, like a girl in love finally found her lover. Of course, her interest is locked to the Ale itself, not the bulky man.
"Maybe I should drink one or two as well tonight! Hehehe~!"
"Ah, wait, Lady Riana—"
Left Rert alone, Riana rushed in straight to the counter desk where a bearded man, who inhaling cigarette, sat.
She immediately put a bunch of copper coins in front of the bearded man. The total of the coins is 75!
How can she get that much while just doing herb gathering quest, you asked? Well, you should hear about an action called single multipled quest completion to know how.
Riana heard about a price for lodging on this Sunsmile inn is about 3-5 coppers a night without meal up to the market situation for lodging prises.
Here Riana thought. If she only completed one quest, then she would only got 5 copper coins, right? Then, if the worst happen, isn't she wouldn't had any food for dinner tonight? How can that happened to a great mage like her!?
But since the creating proses of the Adventurer card is also take times and finished tomorrow, she can't take other quests since then.
Then, what should she do in this situation?
The answer is to stacking the amount of Moongrasses she brought to complete the quest.
She brought about 150 Moongrasses, cleared any Moongrasses at the area of 5 kilometers from the entrances of the north forest.
With her knowledge and skill as a great mage titled as a Sage, gathering herbs is a child's play when she got motivated.
But this action is not legal, actually.
She only possible to did it successfully is because a very kind receptionist lady helped her.
If any other Assigning adventurer did the same, their reward would be suspended until their received their Adventurer card and officially avowed as an Adventurer.
Anyway, set aside these matters.
The bearded man grinned a smoky grin at her coins.
"A cup of Ale is only 7 coppers. How much do you intended to drink, little girl?" He asked, slightly raised his brow.
Riana pinch her small chin, think for a while, before opened her lips.
"Then give me 4 cups, a soup because I am a bit empty right now, and... A room for three night."
"Oh, 4 cups... W-what?" The bearded man at first continued smoking and nodded at Riana's order, but when he see how much cups Riana bought, he stunned and agape. His cigarette slipped from his mouth and dropped at the desk.
With that appearance!? The bearded man thought.
Riana tilted her head.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"Wh-what!? L-lady... Just how much... Do you want to drink?"
Before the bearded man can answered, a youthful shout sounded from Riana's back.
"Rert..."
Riana turned around just to found the boy she do the quest together today.
Rert looked at her with wide eyes.
"Even my dad can only drink three cups before fell asleep..."
His look to her face is like someone gazing at an unimaginable creature.
As a response, Riana pat his head and sighed in pity.
"What a pitiable your father is. He can't enjoy the real pleasure of alcohol with such a weak resistance."
Rert quieted down.
He neither sad nor angry to Riana's words towards his dad.
He just... Speechless.
Riana put her hands at her waist, smiled and pushed her not so big(little) breast upward.
"Maybe you should start drink from your age, so you can feel the true callings of alcohol!"
Just what was this woman is saying to such a young boy...
At that moment, the image of Riana in the mind of the inn's customers is changed drastically.
At first they thought a stunning beauty come, to only found that she is not so elegant her appearance imply, but then her image further downgrade to just a crooked but very beautiful girl.
Man's dream was quick to die.
Mortal, indeed.
For a while, silent engulfed the Sunsmile inn.
They all shocked to the core.
"It's 42 coppers for your ales, soup, and room. So..."
The one who break the silence is the bearded man.
After received the payment for Riana's orders, he pushed back the 33 coppers coins back to her.
That night, Riana enjoy her ales and meal in a calm atmosphere of the inn, which used to be more noisy with the shout and laughter of the drunkard Adventurers.
"A room for a week, a soup and a cup of water, please."
Rert received a bag of coppers from his parent, so he's not in so short of money that he needed to do the single multipled quest completion, by the way.
"Good night, Rert~."
"Y-yeah, night..."
A bit flushed by ales but not drunk, Riana smiled before entered her room next to Rert's room.
The night is the time for sleep.
While Riana maintain an unhealthy life until now, she never did overslept because she don't want her beauty to fade.
Well, she's not aging, anyway.
So maybe her consideration is futile in the end.