Okay, for the time being, heres how were going to handle this issue: from now on, I will only use Warp to move to the Adventurers Guild buildings and into the Labyrinths, just to play my cards safe. Before I went back downstairs to rejoin Roxanne and Honesta I stayed on the first floor for a bit pretending that I was looking around so that it would not look unnatural that I went upstairs and then immediately came down.
How about it?The obvious downside of this house is that the river and the well are somewhat far away from here so drawing water from them will always require a little walk and that it is also far from the Labyrinths entrance, but since that shouldnt be a problem for you then I think you will agree that this place is not half bad, right?
The Landlady welcomed me when I came back down, and then remarked after glancing at both me and Roxanne. Well guess what, Mrs. Honesta? Even if a well and a river are far away and drawing water from them would take time, those downsides do not affect us in any way because of my Warp distance will not be a problem anymore.
Most certainly. I think this is a good property.
I dont know what Roxannes thoughts on the matter are, but from the looks of it she does not look like shes dissatisfied with what she saw so far. In that case she should be overjoyed when I will tell her later that since I have access to Water Magic we probably wont have to bother ourselves with drawing it by hand as well if I could fill the water container by shooting at it with Waterball. Honesta said that doing it shouldnt be a problem for me, but from her perspective she probably assumed that Roxanne, my slave, would have been tasked with doing it while I stayed home. And you know what, let her think that. Whatevers inside her head is her business, not ours.
Really? Well Im glad to hear it.
Yes, really. The shortcomings of this house do not apply to us because of my Warp, so I can definitely say that this is a good property.
The problem is whether we should decide on this house or wait and see the other options Honesta has to offer right now. However, looking over the other properties and checking if it would be possible to use Warp from them would definitely take a fair amount of time. Renting such a house will definitely be cheaper then living in an inn for an entire year, is far away from the center of the city and has relatively few neighbors in the area, so for now I guess we can take this one and switch over to the new one if it does not end up being to our liking in the end. Besides, if Roxanne does not have any objections and agrees with my assessment that his is a pretty good house, then I think tha pretty much seals the deal here.
So, what should we do now? Set the price of the rent?
Precisely. You look like your minds made up, so we can move on to that. Lets see
Of course, as long as it will be someone whom you absolutely know you can trust.
Then, can I ask you to do it for me, Roxanne?
Understood!
Honesta and Roxanne started taking care of all the necessary documents. Since there was nothing for me to do to help them with that, I decided to have a quick look around the store in order to kill time. As expected of a hardware store, it was lined up with all kinds of products and utensils made of metal, and all of them must have been created by the couple of owners themselves, just like the landlady said before when we met her husband on the way to the house. I cant help but to wonder as to exactly how helpful tools like that can be in your daily life in a world such as this oh, looks like they even have a wok here. Huh, who would have guessed? Well, just to be sure
Excuse me, but what is this?
That thing over there? It is a pot used by professional chefs. It is used primarily when the dish youre cooking requires a large amount of heat to properly prepare.
You dont say.
Not gonna lie, looking at this thing made me feel kinda nostalgic, even though its not totally the same, but extremely similar. But that should be expected, I guess, since I suddenly saw one of the things that I thought I was never going to see again. If both this wok and the one I know from back home are used for the same purpose, then it should be perfectly fine for them to have a nearly identical shape.
My shop is the only one around these parts that produces a tool of this type, so its not strange that this might be your first time seeing such a thing. If youre interested in it, then why not buy it? If your girl-companion over there is a good cook, then she will definitely appreciate it. So? How about it?
Has anyone ever told you that youre quite good at your job? *Sigh* Then I will be getting this together with the rent. How much would that be in total?