It has been weeks and Free's ramen stall was blooming, the crowd was there all day and now other people from neighbouring village and some even from town came to taste the delicacy of Hayan.
Free was in his room, signing some documents and calculating the cost of the flours Marin delivered, it was 5 silver per sack, and Marin had delivered 10 and so Free now has to pay 5 gold coin to Marin, but he wasn't worried about the pay.
He takes out his cigarette from his pocket and lit it up, he inhale a little and glance at the paperwork in his bed. 'The paperwork is only a few scrolls and paper. The nobles have stopped sending me, unnecesary documents' he thought, blowing smoke upward , he open his drawer and it had his spell pen gifted by Lina and his spell book.
".....i wish i could have a new one" Free mutters, he inhale his cigarette and blew a circular smoke for fun. He stares at the circular smoke remembering hot springs from his previous life.
Knock!. Knock!. Someone knocked on the door. "Enter" Lina enters holding a tray of tea and bread.
"Complete already?" Lina asked, glancing at the paper and scrolls in his bed. Free nodded faintly before he finish his cigarette. "Ah, Also Sir Marin give me this..." Lina took out a pouch filled with something, from her pocket and give it to Free. It was clinking, Free shaked it a little. Clink!. Clink!. Clink!.
"Look like we made a huge profit" he open the pouch and it was filled with gold coin, Free was unfazed by it, as the stall was profiting more and more every day.
"Yeah you did" Lina said, she gave a bow and exited his room. Leaving Free alone with the pouch of gold, he put the bag in his desk and sip his tea.
'If only dad was alive to see me' he thought, the memory of Philip's word was still fresh. He sighs, takes out his spell pen and starts to write spells in it for fun.
At the afternoon, Free was in the harvest of the potatoes, Rai was beside him overlooking his land filled with potatoes. "My land is profiting like a fine wine!!" he joked, some people around him chuckles. "They always like my joke!" Rai shouted proudly.
'I don't know if they are laughing at you or your joke ?' Free thought, he checks the potatoes by pulling one out from the soil, it was big and yellow. "They're ready for harvest".
"Okay everyone! Time for harvest!!" Rai yelled, villagers joined in. They start to dig the potatoes with shovel and other things, Free just stand there watching as villagers pulled out ripe potatoes and those that are still not ready are put back in.
'People are working hard' he thought, turns back and left the place.
A while later, Free reached the ramen stall but.... "Give me another bowl!!!" someone yelled from inside, he knew who this was. Inside the stall Hinata and Hina were eating ramen, a mountain of empty bowls were beside them. "More!!".
"No more" Free said standing behind them, both turn behind with a scared look. "Don't eat too much ramen" Free said with a calm yet dangerous voice.
"But papa-" Hina tried defending but Free cut her out.
"No more. Go home. Or i will ban you to eat ramen for a week" Both ran as fast as they can hearing his threat, after they ran out of sight he sighs and sat on the chair.
"Look like the honoured chief is toooo tired" one of the workers said, placing water infront of Free.
"Well it's not like i'm tired of work, i'm just tired of scolding Hinata and mom. Also don't call me honoured" Free leaned in his chair, takes out his cigarette again and starts to smoke.
The eldest chef looking in his late 30s chuckled. "Yeah i can't argue, they have sneaked more than three times since yesterday!" he laugh heartedly.
"Well i am not brave enough to make them cry" Free said leaning tiredly in his chair. blowing a circular smoke from his mouth.
"You're too overprotective" The chef said, slamming his hand in Free's back gently. "Well that's what makes you a brother".
"Thanks i guess?" Free mutter, scratching his cheeks with a faint blush. "Also can you deliver a bowl of ramen in my house, for Lina and Elina" he said, everyone laugh loudly and sighed again.
Evening came, Free visited Sylvia with a bouquet of flower. He knock in her door twice and Sylvia opened it, pen in her ears and her hair was slightly messy.
"....Ag-ah Free, i'm sorry i still couldn't visit you!" she apologized the moment she saw him. "I was busy handling some papers so we couldn't meet".
"No worries" Free shrugged, he peeked inside and Sylphia was peeking through the kitchen too with a sharp gaze and a smile making the air around her intimidating, while Rai was nowhere to be seen (probably hanged somehwere by Sylphia in the ceiling because of his jokes). '...Her mom is kinda terrifying....' Free gulped.
"S-so should we...g-g-go now?" Sylvia snap him back, he nodded and both walks into the village square holding eachothers hand, Sylvia stole glances at Free.
Free noticed but he ignore her stare. "Where should we go?" he asked.
"A good tavern....maybe?" she suggested, Free thought for a moment then nodded.
"Let's go to the guild's tavern, the food there is good" he said.
They reached the guild after a while, inside the crowd of adventurers were having a feast with the reward they got from today's quest.
Sylvia and Free found a quiet spot in the corner, they sat there, a worker came to take the order. "A steak with potato soup please" Free ordered.
"For me, it's tomato with cockatorice meat also add some cabbage and garlic" Sylvia ordered, the employee nodded and walk to the kitchen with the order. Free and Sylvia sat there quietly, the sound of the adventurers laugh made it hard for both of them to talk.
'I should've brought her somewhere where there are no adventurers' Free thought regretting his decision.
'Why did i even suggest this place!!' she yelled, inside her mind. "Free–".
"Sylvia–" both said, at the same time. They stare at eachother for a second and quickly turned away, both blushing. 'Shit, i messed up'.
Their order came, both ate quietly. The silence was awkward even after dating for almost half a year and doing many things, it was still awkward for them.
"...I-i heard Grok is getting married soon...." Free broke the silence..
"Y-yeah i heard it too".
"Remember how you cried the first time we met...because of him" he said.
"And you saved me" she said, both chukled quietly. The chaos of the adventurers died down in Free and Sylvia as they starts to have their own fun....in their own world.
To be continued.....
Please give me some love tips to make Free and Sylvia's love better('cause i'm single😐)