God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Keith walked through the entrance, which was basically just a door similar to most houses. Inside, there was three rooms. One, a simple partition with a small space which looked like a kitchen and then the other small room which he could only assume was a toilet.

The third room was large and spacious with three tables placed randomly in the room. All of the tables had multiple papers and thin books placed on them. Each table had one person sitting on one side and with two chairs opposite to them.

Keith simply went to the nearest table and sat down on the chair in front of a well groomed man, "I'm looking for a new house. But before that, could you be kind enough to provide chairs for my friends here please?"

"Oh, of course sir." he said as he twirled his mustache and looked at his coworkers who immediately grabbed the chairs in front of them.

The other four sat down and the man smiled, "So, could you tell me what you'd like sir? We can help you with getting any kind of house in Auberg district as long as it exists."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Keith told him about his requirements and while the guy was scouring though his materials, he added, "If it's at the center of the district, then that'll be better. Somewhere near the market."

"Sure sir, sure." the guy said and continued scouring though the papers until he found the ones he needed. He placed them on the table and pushed them towards Keith for him to see.

"These two are close to the market, but one of them is a relatively small house. It only has two bedrooms, but both of these rooms are pretty big. As for the other, it's got five bedrooms and two of them are spacious. It doesn't really have a specific study room since it used to be a top end brothel.

It was recently renovated to look like a proper house but it was a business before. It does have a nice kitchen and each bedroom has it's own bathroom and a toilet. The things I've talk about is only the first floor and when it comes to the second floor, it has two large rooms so you guys could use that as a study room if you'd like."

To Keith, this felt like too much but as long as it was in his budget, he was fine with it.

"How much?" he asked and the guy hummed as he referred to the paper, "Weekly, you'll have to pay six Zen. I know it's a lot, so may I ask what your weekly salaries are? This will give me an idea on what kind of properties will fit your budget."

Before anyone could respond, Keith spoke up, "Three zen and we don't plan on spending more than one Zen each. So a total budget of five zen but that's stretching it. It'll be better if the rent is lesser since we also plan on saving some money for our future."

"Understood sir." the guy said and put the paper aside but Keith kept it in his mind. 6 zen wasn't too much in his eyes and he was willing to put 1 zen on his own on top of the 5 zen that the church would pay for them.

The salesman then pointed at the other two properties, "These two were built by the same man thirty years ago for his two kids and both of them are currently empty as his sons got trapped in a lot of debt. And just like the owner of the previous place I talked about, it happened two months ago.

Thanks to this, they sold their property to the Kingdom, so the rent is also pretty low compared to the other properties and only costs three Zen per week. Both of them have three bedrooms, a decent sized living room and all the basic rooms. As for the study... it's slightly bigger than normal and the whole house only has one bathroom and one toilet."

"Alright, let's go take a look shall we? Only when we see, will we be able to decide if it fits our needs or not." Laura said as she got up from her chair feeling bit too energetic and excited.

Keith saw her grab Caleb's shoulder before shaking him violently.

The sales guy saw this and chuckled, "Looks like this young lady is really excited to take a look at the property directly."

As they all walked out of the place, Keith leaned closer to Laura and whispered, "Why so excited?"

"Well, this is the first time I'm actually going to, you know like... look at houses before buying. Until now, we stayed in small dorm rooms so yeah, I don't like it but I'm excited." she said, blushing slightly as she rushed forward to join Nathan and Caleb.

Clara inched closer to him as they walked and said, "Looks like they lived harsh lives."

"....." Keith said nothing for a few seconds before nodding, "Yeah, life isn't really fair but let's not get into a debate about it."

"Anyways, once we move in, I want you to write a letter saying that you're breaking off the pact between you and Timothy. Then, you can get it stamped by the priest and once that's done, I'll give the letter to someone to deliver it to Timothy." he whispered quickly as he tagged behind the group with Clara beside him.

Hearing this, she gave Keith a worried look, "The bags of silver and gold that you gave me... should we send that to him too?"

"Nah, I'll exchange all of it for money. The debt was eight hundred Chrons right?" he asked and Clara nodded silently, feeling slightly complicated at the sudden turn of events.

She had never expected Keith to get things done so quickly and a part of her felt a sense of loss.

'I was kinda enjoying the days of breaking rules with Keith but now....' she thought as she remembered the night she hooked up with Keith while she was technically engaged.

'Oh well, it doesn't matter. I have a feeling that he'll take me with him to break more rules in the future. All that matters is that I'm with someone I actually love!' she screamed internally as she looped her arm around his and squeezed.