Soon after, though, he put a smile on his face.
If Max had noticed him looking down on the desolate region's people or hadn't noticed that he was an Emperor mage, he wouldn't have bothered to be nice to him.
But since he had, he reckoned having an amiable relationship with him might turn out to be beneficial while they were in this town.
"Seeing that the old sir doesn't have many guests—sorry, customers—and therefore isn't earning much, I have decided to upgrade our two rooms from the second floor to the third floor and help you out a little," he said, putting the two silver badges on the table.
While the badges were needed to enter the room, if someone was already inside—like Esther and the others currently were—they wouldn't need the badges to come out. This was why he didn't ask them to empty the room immediately when he came down and just took the badges instead.
The grey-haired man didn't react to his words and calmly nodded.
