Hinata, Stop Pretending - Chapter 741

As the window opened, the sun, already slanting westward, shone in through it, seeming to break the atmosphere in the room.

But at that moment, a burst of noisy footsteps came from outside the door, along with the familiar voice of the innkeeper's wife.

Indeed, every room looked quite nice, wrapped up tightly and securely, but in truth, the soundproofing was rather poor.

From here, they could clearly hear the innkeeper's wife's enthusiastic pleasantries. "Come, come, come, guests. Your rooms are this way."

"The five rooms over here are already occupied."

At that moment, a somewhat deep and steady male voice spoke. "Oh! Innkeeper, is your business really this good? You should know that the Artisan Ninja Village isn't very peaceful right now."

There was no warmth in his voice, but the innkeeper's wife still introduced them enthusiastically. "Those guests? They're actually like you—guests who arrived today. They just came in the morning."

After the man gave a simple acknowledgment, his voice grew slightly more distant.

Mizuki Rei, who had originally been standing by the door like a pillar, suddenly shifted his expression.

He turned around, came to the door, slowly opened it, then leaned half his body out to look in the direction the voices had come from.

What Mizuki Rei saw was the plump innkeeper's wife, her face constantly beaming with smiles, and a black robe patterned with red clouds, only half visible beyond the doorway.

Mizuki Rei's gaze paused slightly. After one look, he turned around without hesitation and shut the door.

But because of that slight movement, the door across the way, which had been about to close, paused briefly.

Having already escorted her guests there, the innkeeper's wife turned around with a smile.

The door paused for a moment as well before closing completely.

Inside