The morning after the celebration, I had quite the job waking up Sarah and Alicia. Sarah had been the undefeated winner of the arm wrestling, and Erina had spent the night talking about army stories from her family (obviously hiding her own identity).
Fortunately, I managed to wake the two girls lying beside me. We had breakfast together and headed to the edge of town. Joseph paid us with a sack of gold coins—the reward we had agreed upon. With that amount, we could cover our lodging and meals for a while.
When I held the sack of gold, I thought about how much that mission had cost us and how much they must have spent yesterday on food and drink. No matter how you look at it, they had overdone it last night.
"Is something wrong?" Joseph asked when he saw me staring at my reward, gloomy as if I hadn't just received an A-Rank reward.
"Aren't you going to miss this money?" I asked.
