Chapter 490: Renovations
Derek enjoyed his slow walk back to the city alone. He may become restless and antsy after staying couped up in a city for a while, but it was nice to take a moderately long break after doing a raid or going on an adventure like he just had with Alanah. Sometimes, it was just nice to slowly take things in and be alone with his thoughts.
And Derek did take his time. He was sure that everyone else who went to see the siren off had already made it back to Savannah by the time he entered through the city gate. He still wore the badges that he and Alanah had received on his shoulder, and the guards knew him, so he didn’t have any trouble making his way inside on foot—also, nobody tried to stop him for a chat, and that was nice most of the time.
Once inside the city walls, he leisurely strolled the outer region of the city until he made it back to his shop, which was still very much under construction. Derek stood outside the shop and examined everything in front of him. The lots around the shop were all being built up. On one of them, he saw what looked like a massively sized barracks. It was the bunkhouse that they had talked about building.
The reason it was so big was because they had to make sure and make it large enough for Ogre to live within comfortably. Derek ventured over to it and walked inside. The building wasn’t finished by any means, but he could see exactly what they were going for.
He thought of it as a bunkhouse, but it was really more of a massive building with apartment-like rooms. It was a one-story building with a ceiling tall enough to be the top of a two-story building—that was all for Ogre’s sake. Geoffrey had gone above and beyond in the construction of the building, too.
It was very basic, but also very comfortable. When he walked in through the central door, his first sight was that of a sort of living area with a small kitchen. It was very open, had sitting places all around—including some reclining chairs—and the kitchen was equipped with a bar, stove, and his current world’s version of a refrigerator—which was a big box with cooling runes etched inside.
After scanning the living area, Derek went on to check out the personal rooms. There were basically two wings of rooms—one to the left of the living area, and one to the right. He opened the door to one of the rooms and nodded after giving it a quick look.
Each room was actually bigger than the one he lived in at his shop and had a built-in bathroom. They were basically one-room studio apartments. The only difference was that they didn’t have their own kitchen in each one—for that, the residents would have to use the central kitchen.
For now, each room was bare—Geoffrey and Malorie hadn’t gotten around to furnishing all the beds and the rest of the furniture for each one. When Derek stepped inside the shower, he let out a slight chuckle. Since Geoffrey didn’t know which room Ogre was going to choose, he made it so each room would accommodate him. This meant that, just as the rooms and the building were, the showers were also massive.