Soul || KNY x Reader

012 ≈ Making More Friends With The Side Characters Because They're Great

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After you and Nakayama split up (your crow had flown off somewhere. Hopefully, they weren't eaten by an eagle or anything), you made sure that you were out of his line of sight before hunching over and clutching your wound. It had been flaring up in pain ever since you woke up and you thought that it had something to do with the bandages being too tight, but you didn't want him to feel bad about it, so you waited until he walked far away to redress your wound.

You weren't very good at it either, but now it was loose enough for you to breathe comfortably.

You stood up and lightly stretched your legs before making your way back to Urokodaki's mountain.

The journey seemed to take you much longer than you thought, your injuries slowing you down. Thinking to yourself that it was lucky that it didn't happen during the fight, you eyes the setting sun illuminating a small town.

I should have enough money to stay at an inn.

After asking around and finding the inn, you paid the money you had to stay the night (was it normal to pay 100 yen for one night?). The man who took your money gestured for a woman to lead you to your room.

"Ah, I should mention," The woman spoke, "The amount you've given isn't enough for your own room, so you will be staying with two other people in the same room."

You slowly nodded.

That was a lot of my money though.

"Alright, that's fine."

"But!" She continued, looking rather nervous, "We still have private baths and meals of the highest quality, so please don't misunderstand!"

. . . does she think that I'll think they're stingy? Lol, did someone come in here and yell at them for making them share rooms?

You snickered at the thought before hurriedly clearing your throat and avoiding the questioning gaze of the woman.

"Here it is!" She exclaimed, putting her hand on the door but not opening it. "I hope that you'll find the room to your liking since we have a no-refund policy." Ignoring your deadpanned look, she slid open the door and hurriedly pushed you inside, slamming it close behind you.

"Man, are they scammers?" You wondered to yourself, looking at the other two occupants of the room.

There was a boy and a girl, both looking around your age. The girl had her black hair in two pigtails and blue eyes, while the boy seemed relatively plain, but similar looking to the girl. All three of you were tense and awkward, no one knowing what to say.

Before you even moved away from the door, the boy suddenly let out a sigh of relief, sagging against the wall and clutching his shirt.

"Oh thank God," You heard him mutter, "It's not some weird, older guy. It's just a foreign dummy."