"Of course, despite all my prejudices, I still have to commend you young people for your courage and decisiveness."
"Just like when you held your first gathering after the school term began in my bar."
"In fact, when school had just started, I was quite surprised to hear from the bar manager that a group of young freshmen wanted to hold a small gathering in my establishment. For one reason or another, few students ever held events here. To that end, I specifically cleared the bar of its customers one morning in advance and allowed only students from the school to stay inside... I hoped we could get off to a good start."
Perhaps old people simply liked to ramble. Wizards were no exception.
Listening to the Wanderer Wizard's long-winded account, Zheng Qing's gaze grew slightly unfocused. For an instant, it was as though he had returned to Wander Bar half a year ago—to the moment when he had flourished his brush and written talismans before a crowd, to his first meaningful interaction with the gypsy witch at the bar counter.
"Yes... just hoping for a good start." The young scholarship student murmured to himself.
The old wizard seemed to have heard the sorrow in the young man's words.
He smiled faintly, his gaze falling on D&K's street-facing display window.
"So that means this beginning certainly won't include wariness toward one another, right?" The Wanderer Wizard raised an arm and pointed at the window, asking with a smile, "I saw that you covered that lovely display window with blinds... Surely that wasn't to keep the Big Frog guarding Wander Bar's entrance from coveting the mice in your shop?"
"Of course not... Frogs don't eat mice, right?" Hearing the old wizard's half-joking words, Zheng Qing immediately pulled his attention back from