"You volunteered to treat me. It's not like I forced you."
"Of course. I took up quite a bit of your time today, Senior. I'd feel bad if I didn't treat you to a meal."
"That's nothing. I don't usually have any customers coming to my place anyway."
Andeni closed the door to Thorn House.
Unlike the casual pajamas she usually wore in the shop, she had changed into an exquisite dark-green dress for going out. The elegant hem stopped at her knees, revealing slender calves clad in soft brown leather boots.
"Senior, do you usually not go out much?"
Gauss watched her repeatedly inspect her makeup and outfit, looking rather concerned, and asked curiously.
"After retiring, I got too lazy to go out. Familiar taverns deliver food to me anyway." Andeni adjusted her skirt again. Only after confirming that everything was fine did she let out a sigh of relief.
However, even though she had deliberately dressed herself to look mature, her height of less than a meter meant that when she walked beside Gauss, the two of them still looked like siblings with a huge difference in height.
Gauss noticed, but did not point it out.
He realized that Andeni seemed somewhat concerned about her height, especially when she was in a human town.
Of course, it was also possible that as a retired adventurer, she no longer needed to go out frequently and simply was not used to it.
"Let's go. I happened to hear about a good restaurant this morning."
If most of Grayrock Town's taverns were public cafeterias meant to serve low-level adventurers, then there were naturally also high-end restaurants with more refined dishes, catering to the relatively small number of professional adventurers in town.
After all, when Gauss had gone to the taverns before,