The house was, surprisingly, larger than he expected. Upon approaching it, Hyōen had to credit the size of this place that was approximately 10 times bigger than his own cottage or something. He couldn’t really set a precise size for the building, though, because when they were getting closer and closer, the building just seemed to increase in size. Maybe it was 20 times bigger, or around 25 times. It caused question marks to pop out of his head, fascinating the Fire Mage just like the town did earlier. Looking over at Ana, she suddenly appeared more… well, apparent due to whatever, or rather mostly because of the dull old atmosphere that this town emitted. The mage never noticed it before, but she sure shone a lot for an ordinary human being. It was likely her magic’s doing as she did show some effects of it back at Worth Woodsea with all the bristling flames and all that.
They managed to reach the entrance to the large house that appeared to have been a hotel of sorts, in which they both entered the haunted looking place. However, once when they were inside, everything looked rather fine for such a weird looking house, or at least, it did look strange from the outside. The walls were finely decorated, and as soon as they began looking around, an elderly woman arrived behind them. She sounded to have been the owner, or at least, the leader of the hotel as she greeted them. They were, per her words, welcomed in the hotel, unlike the feeling that they both had when seeing all the other people outside close their doors by their mere presence. The older woman was friendlier, or perhaps just very socially welcoming compared to the rest of the people.
She offered them both a place to stay, a suite as she called it. It was the first time that he heard of such a word, but he simply followed the elder lady along with Ana to another room that turned out to be as large as his damn cottage in whole. “Woah..!” he let out in amaze, “This room is… larger than my home.” He didn’t hesitate in entering the same room, taking looks everywhere as he literally just popped around as a very curious looker, until he caught sight of the spa room. “Dips!” came out of his words faster than he could think as he jumped into the spa, once midair taking off his clothes until he was mere trunks, as he landed in the hot, almost burning water. For him, though, it was like jumping into a heaven, and he couldn’t but close his eyes and float around in tranquillity…
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