"I guess you treated yourself to quite a nice meal, huh? Considering you decided to grab all of my money?" Hearing the door leading to their room being opened, Wells began to voice out his complaints as he made his way to the main area.
Though, just as he was about to continue, his next words got stuck in his throat, glancing at the kid that accompanied Valyr with widened eyes.
"Valyr..." Swiftly hiding the surprise that was on his face earlier, the young man looked at his friend with a calm expression. "Who did you bring along?"
"It's a long story." Bitterly smiling as he had expected such a reaction, Valyr told Edward, who was hiding behind him, to make himself comfortable for the meantime.
Thankfully, with how he had let the kid's guard down around him, Edward eventually followed, giving Wells a bow as he made his way towards the living area sofa.
"Mind if you come with me for a bit?" Smiling as he looked at Edward for a bit, Valyr eventually focused his attention on his good friend. After that, he made his way to his part of the room, leaving no choice for Wells but to follow.
"So... can you finally tell me more about the kid?" Once he had arrived at Valyr's part of the room, Wells was faintly surprised after the young man had cast a barrier of mana around them all of a sudden. Though, after seeing the serious expression on his friend's face, the man immediately knew what to do.
"I'll definitely tell you what you need to know." Valyr nodded. "But first..."
At those words, the young man rummaged through his pockets, revealing to Wells his money pouch. After that, he had grabbed a platinum card from his pouch and gave it to the man before him.
"Consider this my apology for grabbing your money while you were asleep," said Valyr to a Wells that had his widened eyes fixated on the platinum card.
In Wells' mind, he thought that he would obtain the exact amount of money Valyr had borrowed from him after the latter had revealed his money pouch. To him, that was more than enough since he was more interested in the kid his friend had brought along.
However, when his good friend had given him a platinum card, it was no surprise that he was left at a loss for words. After all, what Valyr borrowed from him was a dozen gold coins at most.
In comparison, a platinum card was equal to almost a thousand times that!
Asking Valyr as to how he gotten such an obscene amount of money all of a sudden, the young man's curiosity was piqued when Valyr told him that he finally gotten some of his equipment sold.
Then again, when the latter mentioned that he had earned over 30 platinum cards' worth of profit from his equipment, Wells was left at a loss for words once more.
'And here I thought the money we earned from the smithy back in Clossbay was a lot already...' With this thought in mind, the young man let out a sigh, deciding not to think about it anymore.
With that, he returned the topic of their conversation to the kid, prompting Valyr to go a bit into detail about Edward's backstory.
At first, Wells raised his eyebrow in interest after hearing that Edward was actually a slave of a noble clan. After all, as part of a noble family himself, he knew that clans and families had a fleet of servants they could order at every beck and call.
With that, it came as a slight surprise for him to find out that the kid was basically one rank below that.
Though, as Valyr explained more and more about how the kid ended up following him, Wells gradually ended up feeling more and more sorry for the kid. By the end of it, he did not have any problems with having the kid stay with them for the meantime, telling Valyr that he had made the right choice.
With their conversation over, Valyr dispelled the barrier surrounding the two of them as he thought about checking up on Edward. After all, with how many things the young man had exposed him throughout the day so far, it wouldn't be surprising for the kid to be sitting with back straight at the sofa, considering he was in a foreign place.
Fortunately, whether it was from exhaustion or the feeling of having gotten used to the place, the young man was instead greeted by the kid soundly sleeping on the sofa while he was curled up.
For a while, he thought about having the kid sleep on his bed for the day and then buy him a bed of his own tomorrow. In the end, he decided to leave him be for now, thinking that this might be the first time for Edward to get some good rest.
With that, Valyr and Wells left Edward be, deciding to grab a meal from a nearby restaurant as they talked about a couple things. Unsurprisingly, the topic of their conversation was Wells' subclass, with the man asking Valyr if the subclass the latter had recommended to him would be a good fit.
"I'll have to check again tomorrow," replied Valyr with an apologetic smile, explaining to his friend what he had been doing for most of the day. Because of that, Wells got mad at him, only for that anger to all disappear once Valyr bought him more food.
"For now, you should probably head to the Spearman Guild and get registered." Seeing that his friend had somewhat forgiven him, Valyr inwardly let out a sigh of relief as he said something that piqued Wells' interest. "You haven't registered with them yet, right?"
"Nope." Taking a bite of the food Valyr bought him, Wells shook his head. "With how I've been using most of my time on [Technique Introspection], how could I have the time?"
"Well, set some time tomorrow to head to the Spearman Guild," said Valyr in response, to which his friend nodded. "I know a couple people there who'll help you with the process."
At those words, Valyr sent a message to Noel through the chat function, informing the latter of Wells. Naturally, to entice the old man's interest, he added on the fact that Wells was the proud owner of a Legendary spearman class.
Seeing that the old man had taken the bait after a while, a smile unknowingly crept up onto Valyr's lips as he continued his conversation with Wells, moving onto other topics to pass the time. At some point, they even talked about their plans regarding the orc outbreak.
By the time the two of them were done, the moon had already become part of the night sky. Returning to the inn, the two of them headed to their respective parts of the room after making sure that Edward was in a comfortable position.
Though, before the two of them truly separated ways...
Ding!
[You have added Wells Anadhar (Lvl. 25) as a friend.]
"I'm surprised we haven't done this ever since we went on that journey back then," said Wells, with Valyr nodding in agreement.
With nothing else left to do, the two of them finally headed to their beds, with Valyr lying down on his bed as he thought about the story Edward had told him.
"To think that a kid would go through something like that..." Muttering these words to himself, the young man let out a long sigh. Then, after a bit of silence, a thought popped into his mind, sending a message to a certain someone through the chat function.
"Hey, Julian."
"Mind if I disturb you for a bit?"
