While they were talking inside the inn, someone else slid open the door and walked in.
The newcomer arrived just after Wolf and his companion.
The moment Takeda saw this new traveler, his eyes went wide.
His face flushed red; one look was enough to tell how excited he was.
Needless to say, the newcomer had to be another great beauty.
Sure enough.
Wolf saw a slender woman dressed in white, with a veil covering her head.
She held a Shamisen in her arms.
"Plink, plink."
She plucked the strings, making them ring.
The woman smiled faintly. "My lords, would you like to hear a song?"
Takeda immediately said, "Yes, yes! What songs can you sing?"
Seeing this, Wolf quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Compared to dealing with people through words, letting his blade do the talking was much easier.
A server brought over six rice balls and two bowls of pork bone soup.
It was all very simple food.
Each rice ball had a small Umeboshi on top.
The pork bone soup was just a bowl of broth with a little fat floating on it, without even a leaf of greens in sight.
After killing a wild boar, those samurai lords had brought it to the inn to be cooked while it was fresh.
Naturally, they had also given the inn the pig bones to make soup.
That was why Wolf and the Divine Child of Rejuvenation could have some hot soup to drink.
This was already quite good, better than the soggy rations they had eaten in the cave.
But they had eaten just before setting out. Were they hungry again already?
Yes.
Wolf and the Divine Child of Rejuvenation had only taken the edge off their hunger. Never mind being full, they probably had not even