Javier slowly sat up on the edge of the bed, rubbing his temple.
"Ah...
My head hurts."
He squinted at the sunlight leaking through the window.
It had been a long time since he drank like that.
He and the dwarf had laughed, toasted, and kept drinking...
until both of them completely passed out at the table like old war buddies.
Now?
He was paying for it.
"And now I'm risking my healthy body for this,"
Javier muttered with a sigh.
He stretched his arms slowly, cracked his neck, then stood up with a groan.
"Well...
Now where is Buddy?"
Cuquawked!!
The familiar sound echoed from the market street below.
Javier blinked, stepping to the window.
Down near one of the food stalls,
Buddy was already up, wide awake..and causing trouble as usual.
"Hey!! Don't eat it in one go!"
the beastkin merchant screamed, waving a ladle in panic.
"Where's your master?!
Eeekk!!
Don't just chomp it from the grill!!"
Buddy had already shoved half a tray of grilled meat into his beak,
