Chapter 124: Living in Alice's inn
"Can you all quiet down a little? The next door is going to start complaining from all the yelling."
The young waitress finally decided to intervene, bringing a short piece to the dining area as all the dwarfs lowered their voices.
"Here's your guy's food."
"Thank you so much."
Katherine nodded slightly in gratitude as the young waitress began to unload plates full of food onto their table.
"Don't worry about it. You're our most esteemed guest. If you feel something makes you uncomfortable, please just tell us."
As Katherine nodded, all three of the kids were already holding their fork and knife, waiting for the last few dishes to be served.
"Enjoy."
With all the food on the table, the three kids, along with Meiya and Luqing, immediately started eating their well-done steak.
Just as Katherine was about to enjoy the food, the dwarf's voice started getting louder and louder once again.
Both Meiya and Luqing, as well as the three kids, didn't bother speaking up as they were too busy with the food.
However, the loud, constant outburst was starting to get on Katherine's nerves.
"Dad!"
As soon as the young waitress yelled out loud, the entire inn fell into dead silence.
After a few seconds, a man wearing a chef hat emerged, holding a frying pan that still had a layer of cooking oil on it.
"What's wrong, Alice? Is someone causing trouble?" the man asked as he started scanning every table.
"Oh, oops. I found it. You can go back to cooking!" The young waitress murmured as she pulled out a bar mop.
"Stop being so forgetful all the time."
The man sighed as he headed back into the kitchen with his frying pan, leaving the young waitress alone behind the counter.
As she began wiping the counter with the mop, not a single dwarf dared to speak out loud.
The dwarfs finally started whispering or talking normally in 'normal' human voices.
"Why are all the dwarfs scared of that man?" Mary quietly asked as she started eating her food.
"No clue," Sophia answered as she picked up a small piece of the steak.
A few minutes later...
As all six of them finally finished the food on the table, Katherine left a tip before heading upstairs back to their room.
With dinner over, the six of them took a short little walk around the inn before heading back to their room.
After a short shower in the bathroom downstairs, Alex was once again lying down on his bed, getting ready to sleep.
"Please be the next day."
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When Alex woke up, he could hear a constant chirping sound ringing in his ear.
Unable to endure it any longer, he finally opened his eyes and looked towards the noise.
To his surprise, it was a bird standing on the table, chipping down at the wood as if it had some sort of feud.
"How did I leave the window open?"
As soon as Alex got out of bed, the bird immediately flew out of the window.
Feeling the urge to go to the bathroom, Alex quickly changed out of his pajamas before heading downstairs.
After taking care of business, Alex headed over to the sink before taking a look at himself in the mirror.
A soft, alluring face that seemed to have never aged, with a slight baby fat on the side that remained.
His pale skin almost looked as if there was barely any blood behind it, not to mention the light seemingly to have pierced right through.
With his slightly pinkish lips and blonde hair down to his neck, an idea suddenly popped up in his head.
"I look so cute... If only this were on someone else's... What the hell am I thinking?"
Alex immediately turned on the sink, quickly splashing the cold water right onto his face.
"I need to get a haircut," Alex murmured as he checked himself in the mirror again.
It was too long for his liking. But for some reason, Katherine kept saying no to it.
After exiting the bathroom, Alex headed back to his room before sitting down on the bed again. Experience new stories with mvl
As he looked over to the window, the sun was only barely out on the horizon.
"I should just meditate... Just a short one."
Not wasting any more time, he closed his eyes as he began to relax his mind.
With light dots before him, he quickly started training his mana tunnel as he began to direct his mana back and forth, trying to expand it.
After almost what felt like forever, barely any progress was made.
But he was still happy with it, considering he could now meditate for an entire hour without needing to stop.
"What time is it now?" Alex wondered as he put his shoe back on before heading outside to the hallway.
Standing before Katherine's door, Alex gently knocked on the door before saying his name.
"Come in."
As Alex entered the room, Katherine was already fully dressed and sitting in her chair with a glass cup full of an unknown white liquid.
"Alex, come over and drink this."
Seeing Katherine's face with a slight hint of redness, Alex slowly walked over to the table before grabbing the cup.
With several gulps, the cup was empty as he put it down.
"It really tastes like the one in the dream..." Alex murmured, as this only further confirmed the theory.
"You said something, Alex?"
"Nothing. Mom, are we going to adventuring today?" Alex asked as he shifted the topic away from him.
"That's what I was planning... Can you wake Meiya and Luqing up? I'll go wake up Sophia and Mary."
"Okay."
The two of them headed out of the room together before Alex headed toward Meiya's room.
"Meiya, wake up. It's morning already."
Hearing zero signs of waking up from the inside, Alex knocked on the door again before repeating the same thing.
Standing for almost a minute, Alex looked over to Katherine and saw a black cloud of smoke.
"How convenient..." Alex murmured as Katherine had clearly just teleported past Sophia's locked door.
As Alex reached the doorknob and tried to turn it, to his surprise, it was unlocked.
After a short consideration inside his head, he decided to go inside the room to wake her directly.
Just as he expected, Meiya was still inside her bed, sleeping peacefully with no care in the world.
Despite all the bird noises outside and him opening the door as loud as possible, she was still asleep.
Walking closer and closer, Alex suddenly noticed something about Meiya that caught him in complete surprise.
Her blanket was on the side, revealing her pajamas that had two pointy tips right near her two bumpy hills.
"What's up with women in this world not wearing bras to sleep?" Alex wondered as he stopped right by the bedside.
With his mind a little distracted, he quickly shook his head to get everything out before moving a little closer to her ear.
"Meiya, wake up. It's the morning already."
"Hm?"
As Meiya opened her eyes, Alex's face was right before hers, looking down at her hair.
"Mom told me to come over and wake you up... We're going to the dungeon today."
"Oh, right... Thank you for waking me up."
"No problem."
Seeing Meiya slowly sitting back up, Alex quickly left the room before walking back into the hallway.
"Fuck, why is my heart beating so fast? Come on, Alex, calm down... Miss Meiya is already old enough to be your grandma."
Despite trying to calm himself down and convince himself, it only caused the problem to worsen.
His mind was filled with Meiya's voluptuous body and cute, sleepy face, which felt almost the polar opposite of her usual curious attitude.
"It's not my fault. Her body is just a more mature Luqing... It's not my problem that her body looked way too young for her age."
After calming back down, Alex finally knocked on the door to Luqing's room.
But to his surprise, the door was instantly opened, revealing Luqing, who was already dressed.
"We're leaving?" Luqing asked as she gave a warm smile towards Alex.
"Not yet... Miss Meiya just woke up, and Mom just woke the other two up."
"Okay..."
As the two stood at the doorway in an awkward silence, neither side could speak a single word that could save their life.
After almost an entire minute, Luqing broke the silence.
"You want to wait in my room?"
"Sure."
Entered the room, Luqing guided him to the only chair before sitting down on the bed.
As the two sat in silence, the awkwardness only got worse until Alex suddenly got up from the chair.
"I'm going back to my room."
Luqing didn't say anything as she watched Alex head towards the room exit before closing the door.
"Why didn't I say a single word?" Alex questioned himself, as he couldn't believe how shy he had been earlier.
It was almost as if he was meeting a stranger despite having known Luqing for almost half a year now.
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