I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated - Chapter 541: One's Gaze
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Chapter 541: One's Gaze

Chapter 541: Ones Gaze

Mogu! Mogu!

Gafu! Gafu!(*munching sfx)

Does it taste good?

Nn!

After we returned from our adventure in Lady Blue, Fran and Urus.h.i.+ were now in the middle of dinner at the inn.

They even served a normal meal for Urus.h.i.+ too without needing us to pay any extra fee.

The meals contents were not an animals food or anything like that, it was just the normal, salty food, from the same menu as Frans.

It was hard to say if she was just like the old j.a.panese moms who didnt care about the health of their animals, or if she just dared to serve the same food to Urus.h.i.+ because she saw him as a powerful magic beast.

The menu consisted of gnocchi-like pasta made from wheat and potatoes with cheese, and tomato soup with ground meat. The rest of the meal consisted of bread, scotch eggs, and salad.

Urus.h.i.+s portion was put together in a large deep dish, making it look like a left-over food for cats. No, it was not even a left-over food for cats anymore when it was mixed with so many other things.

It looked very unappetizing, but Urus.h.i.+ was eating it like it tasted good. It seemed that it consisted of a combination of ingredients that went surprisingly well together.

Hmmm

Aah, Fran, dont mix it up! Its not polite! Dont look at Urus.h.i.+ with such envious eyes. It may look delicious, but its not!

How do you like my cooking?

It tastes good!

Woof

Thats good to hear then. Just say so if you want more. Ive got plenty of it

After that, she refilled Frans bowl three times without any hesitation, and the old lady didnt even look uncomfortable, and even happily gave us a special serving.

But still, was it okay for us to eat this much? Should we pay extra for it? Fran and Urus.h.i.+ were probably already eating ten peoples servings after all

However, the old lady didnt seem to mind Fran and Urus.h.i.+s binge eating. The way she smiled while looking at Fran and Urus.h.i.+, was just as if she were grandmother taking care of her grandchildren.

Uwaah, you sure eat a lot arent you?

It was delicious

Is that so? How about some herbal tea after dinner then?

Okay

It was a dark green tea that looked quite bitter, but Fran seemed to enjoy drinking it. She seemed to rather like it.

As Fran sipped her tea, she looked up at the huge old tree. Well, her gaze was blocked by the ceiling though.

Fran, who had been quietly staring at the tree for a while, unexpectedly opened her mouth.

Hey, is there really a spirit in this tree?

Yeah, the Spirit of the Green Trees was in it

Why did you build an inn around such a tree?

Its a bit of a long story, but

The old lady gave us a very long explanation, just like what she said. Fran almost got bored halfway through, but I managed to tie her to a chair with my telekinesis and secretly gave her some sweet snacks out of my storage.

To summarize briefly, there was originally a tree here where spirits dwell. It was said that the tree was now over 3,000 years old. However, about 1,500 years ago, it was not considered to be a tree where spirits dwelled anymore, but just a mysterious magical tree. Its sap, branches, leaves, and bark of the tree had been forcibly extracted by the alchemists and pharmacists who lived in this area at that time, and the tree had weakened.

The tree was then saved by the Elves who founded the inn, and Weena Rhyn, who was consulted by the Elves.

The method was simple: they bought the place and surrounded it so that no one could mess with the spirit tree. The reason why they turned it into an inn was because the spirits that lived in the tree liked to observe people.

As a result, it became an unusual inn that only allowed people approved by the spirits to stay inside. Fifteen hundred years have pa.s.sed since then, and now the old lady, the granddaughter of the founder, was running the place. It has been 1500 years, and she was still the third generation As expected of the long-lived Elf.

Then, was I also approved by the spirits?

Yeah. In the first place, you wouldnt have been able to enter the inn without the spirits approval

I didnt know that. We couldnt sense spirits, so we had no idea. Spirits were mysterious existences after all.

I also understood the horror of it. After all, since we couldnt detect it, we wouldnt know if a spirit were aiming to attack us.

We would know if it launched an attack on us, but if the spirits were to lie low and stay put, it would be nearly impossible to detect them.

Afterwards, Fran and Urus.h.i.+ thanked her for the meal and went back to our room. Even as she walked, she kept looking at our surroundings.

Well, I know what she was looking for.

Are you looking for the spirit?

Nn! I want to see it!

Woof!

Even when we got back to our room on the third floor, she peeked between the branches of the spirit tree and into a small cave. But she never touched them. I guess it was because she was told not to hurt them.

However, there was no way she could find the spirit by doing so, and she ended up giving up.

Both Fran and Urus.h.i.+ went to bed looking disappointed. Lately, Fran and Urus.h.i.+ have been sleeping in the same bed together. Now that Urus.h.i.+ could become smaller, it was no longer a problem.

Urus.h.i.+ was held tightly by Frans hands and feet in a hug. I wonder if it hurt. No, Urus.h.i.+s sleeping face looks happy. Fran was also breathing comfortably, and both of them seemed to be enjoying their sleep.

As I was observing their sleeping faces, Fran suddenly opened her eyes. Did my presence disturb her?

But when Fran jumped out of bed, her gaze was not on me, but on the entrance to the room for some reason.

Wh-whats wrong, Fran?

Woof?

Even Urus.h.i.+, who had fallen off the bed when Fran suddenly raised herself, tilted his head, unable to understand what was happening.

I felt a gaze on me

A gaze? Did you feel it too, Urus.h.i.+?

Woof

I felt it

Fran too, was still unclear about it.

Did she have a strange dream? Neither Urus.h.i.+ nor I could sense it after all We used our skills to the best of our ability to search for a presence and magic, but we couldnt sense any presence of anyone other than us and the old lady inside the inn.

Of course, there was the presence of small insects, but it was hard to imagine that Fran would be awakened by such a presence. For example, if she had magic or skills that allowed her to see into the distance through the eyes of insects, she would definitely be able to sense the presences origin. However, there was not even that in the inn.

Maybe it was the spirit? It was said to like to observe people after all

I see

After that, neither Fran nor the two of us could feel any presences. Well, we were dealing with a spirit after all. It would be quite difficult to sense them.

Eventually, Fran lay down on the bed again.

Good night

Ou, good night

Spirit

It seemed that it would be a while before Fran could sleep soundly.