Chapter 24 - Good Restaurant

There were people in the vicinity, but not as much as one would expect from a tourist attraction. There were manor houses all around them. They weren't aligned properly like me in a straight like. As a result, the front of many houses was not pointed towards the road.

Houses weren't particularly close to each other. There was enough space between most of the houses for a carriage to go.

Luan and Angela started moving ahead and they saw a board on many houses indicating what they were for.

"Are we not directly in the haunted city yet?" Luan spoke.

"Hmm" Angela nodded.

Slowly the amount of variation in the houses started increasing. Now there were restaurants and hot spring as well.

"Let's stay here for the night." Luan said.

They were in front of one of the inn. It had 2 floors but was alot bigger than most of the normal houses. The two went inside.

"Excuse me, we want to book a room." He said to the girl who was serving the people food.

The inside was made from a fine looking dark wooden slabs. On one side of the room were stairs going up and the other side were tables and a few people sat on them drinking wine.

She looked at the two and quickly went there.

"Sorry! Please wait a second." She sat on the desk and took out a document.

"200 gold for two rooms a day here sir." She said formally.

'Everything is so expensive here.' He thought, "I have over 3000 gold but I don't want to waste too much.

Luan thought for a few seconds and said, " We'll take a single room for the night. That would be 50 gold."

They sorted things out and the girl signed the document and gave luan the keys to one of the room and they left without much words.

'So young, I wonder where their parents are." The girl thought and gassed in shock, ''Could they actually be orphans?!"

•••

In the room luan slept on his back and Angela stared at the mirror sitting in front of it. With dreamy eyes. The room was the same as in the sect, but the walls couldn't block their attacks.

There was a seperate room to take a bath. It was made of concrete and It wasn't huge, just enough for a grown person to fit in and move comfortably. There wasn't a shower Instead, there was a bucket full of water and a hole on the floor that went underground.

They took a bath after coming in the room. Separately of course. So the air was fresh and warm. Angela was drying her hair with a tower.

She doesn't style her hair and let them flow, except a few stands here and there, so there wasn't much to do with them. Same for luan, he doesn't style his hair.

Luan saw Angela thinking deep about something and trying to hide her obvious smile.

Luan saw this and said, "I didn't know you liked horror stuff."

"Oh!" She was brought back to reality by him, "Yeah...I wanted to experience it." She said looking down in a slight smile.

"Haha, is that so? Well we have some days to doze around so we can explore as much as we want."

"Hm, before you go again." The thought made her expression a little sadder.

Growl

A growling noise came out of both of their stomachs. After hearing it, they two went quite.

But started laughing the next second.

"Let's go to the restaurant." Luan said and got up from bed.

"Hm." Angela replied with a light blush forgetting about their separation for the moment.

•••

It was 10 pm but most restaurants were open so there wasn't a problem finding a good one.

"What do you wanna eat?" He asked holding the menu. There were drawing of every dish on the menu and Angela choose steak. Luan also ordered the same as he was fine with both veg and non veg.

After a while, the food came in. It was juicy, tender, loaded with flavor, and it's strong smell roamed around the place reaching the nose of many people at the restaurant. A steak has a minimum amount of fat in it so it was one of the perfect dish for anyone.

Angela was astonished by the steak. The difference between a drawing and the real thing was day and night. Droll dropped from her mouth and she took a bite.

She chewed it and it seemed to melt in her mouth. It had delicate taste and it's lipid inside added the amusement to the feeling.

She took another piece, a big one this time and ate it.

Luan enjoying his steak just like her. He was amazed by the food but not as much as Angela. He also enjoyed watching her happily eating, so he was happy as well.

Luan consciously noticed something obvious while reading the menu.

The dishes here aren't like earth. The noodles were an exception including just a few other dishes, but things like Ice cream, Tofu, Pizza, barbeque and stuff like that wasn't introduced here. Luan liked steak, but those things were his favourite.

Most people in this world are non-veg, so eating beast's meat or chicken was normal to them while cultivating.

People would usually eat sweet potatoes and vegetables if they are veg. There wasn't much variety in food in this world. Same could be said for entertainment.

"Maybe I should introduce new things here?" He thought jokingly.

He looked ahead and said to Angela, "You really like this Angela?"

"Yeah!" She replied almost immediately. Small pieces of the meat was on her mouth as she finished the last piece of the steak and drank water.

'That was fast!' Luan thought and looked at his food. It was only over by half.

"Want to order something else?" He asked her.

Angela nodded and luan gave her the menu.

"Hmm... This" She spoke.

It was vegetable fried rice. There was rice, naturally, and some handful of green small pieces of vegetables. It filled the whole bowl.

It had completely different aroma and taste compared to the steak. But the taste was just as great.

Luan wasn't hungry so he didn't brought anything and just saw her eating with happiness.

When she was finished, more stuff was added on her mouth. the previously pieces of steak were accompanied by the rice.

"Thank you for... the food!" She said.

"Hahaha there is that leftovers on your mouth you know?" He told her. And she tried touching it.

"Wait! I have a handkerchief." Luan took out a handkerchief from his dimensional storage and got up from his seat.

"Here" He gently turned her chin up and cleaned the leftovers from her mouth. In the eyes of Luan, this wasn't significant, but for some reason, Angela's heart started beating fast.

''...Luan" She said in a soft voice in daze.

Luan's eyes were related warm. Completely different when he's killing beasts. Even when he's talking to someone else.

"Well let's go now. It's late." He said and got ready to pay the bills.

"Y-Yeah" Angela's heartbeat didn't calm down too much and she touched her heart.

"..."