Because of drinking the Water of Brokilon and overdrawing in battle, Geralt was in very bad condition and might even fall off his horse.

So Lan invited him, Ciri and Mossak to live in his house first.

The witcher was a solitary person by nature and didn't seem to like high places, so his room was at the end of the corridor on the first floor.

When Lann walked to the door of the room, he heard the sound of two people arguing.

“Geralt, she is your destiny. Your paths have crossed three times. You don’t think it’s just a coincidence. You asked Calanthe, Pavetta, and her husband to swear an oath. That was the ‘law of accident’, the power of fate. They kept their promise. Ciri is the accidental child. Fate requires…”

"Asking me to take her away and turn her into a witcher? She's a girl! Look at me, Mossak! Can you imagine a beautiful little girl becoming like me?"

"To hell with the rules of witchers! Ever since Ciri was born, your wishes and plans no longer matter. For the sake of plague and cholera, even you are not worth mentioning! Do you understand? Fate is a double-edged sword, and it is dangerous to play with it. Don't play anymore, Geralt, and establish a relationship with Ciri like a guardian and a ward.

Otherwise... the bond might take other forms, more terrible ones. I want to protect you! If you take her, I won't object, and I'll risk explaining everything to Calanthe."

Then Lann heard Geralt's loud denial, followed by a more intense argument.

These two old guys are probably more than 300 years old in total, and they have really loud voices.

After a while, Mossak pushed the door open angrily and saw Lan standing at the door.

"Uncle Mossak...good evening?"

The druid sighed and smiled awkwardly at Lan.

"You may have just heard something, we'll talk about this later."

Lan nodded. In fact, he already knew exactly what the two people were arguing about in the room.

He walked up slowly and knocked on the door out of politeness. Geralt, who was still trying to process his emotions, looked up.

Speaking of which, Geralt once said a famous saying: I am a demon hunter, and demon hunters have no emotions.

And now, he was breathing heavily with his chest heaving in the house, obviously he was emotional because of the quarrel with Mossak just now.

"Lord Lannister." Geralt nodded to Lann. "Please come in. I haven't thanked you for taking me in yet."

"Please, just call me Lan." Lan walked in with a smile. "Anyway, you saved Ciri and stood up to Lady Esna for me. You also saved me many times when fighting the griffins. I thought we were already friends."

"There is no such thing as 'rescue' during a battle. We just fight together against the enemy."

Lann sensed a hint of alienation in Geralt's words, and his attitude towards him seemed to be no different from that towards other nobles.

If you want to establish a "friendship" with Geralt, this is not a good start.

Lan thought for a moment and said, "I don't know if Uncle Mossak has told you that I have always been curious about demon hunters."

"I can see that you used a silver sword when hunting griffins, right?"

Geralt's tone was cold, and Lann knew what the problem was as soon as he heard it.

A witcher cannot lose his sword, just as a hawk cannot lose its claws and a lion cannot lose its fangs.

And if the silver sword is in the hands of a non-demon hunter, it means that the person's hands are stained with the blood of the demon hunter. Geralt obviously misunderstood.

Lann took out the cat head badge from his arms and explained, "I encountered a bandit group when I was suppressing bandits some time ago. Their leader was also a demon hunter. He attacked and killed many passing caravans and massacred our village, so I made him pay the price."

Geralt glanced at the cat head. "What's his name?"

"Jadd Carradine."

Geralt shook his head. “I’ve never heard of that name, but there are always bad apples.”

Because Lann was an outsider, Geralt did not elaborate. After all, the Cat School could be said to be the family shame of the witchers: not only did the Cat School produce many lunatics, it was also the only school that would accept murder commissions. They even accepted more murder commissions than witcher commissions.

Many people believe that the Cat School has strayed away from tradition and is barely considered a "demon hunter".

There are other old grudges between the Wolf School and the Cat School: in the background story that Lann knows, the King of Kaedwen was once deceived by the warlocks and believed that the witchers would shake his regime, so he hired the Cat School to trick the backbone of the Wolf School into organizing a so-called "academic exchange" competition.

During the meeting, the Cat School backstabbed the Wolf School and slaughtered all its members. Geralt, who was still an apprentice at the time, was also present and was saved by Mossack who passed by. This was the beginning of their friendship.

This incident directly led to the weakening of the Wolf School, and it was even unable to recruit and train new members. When Ciri grew up, even with her half-demon hunter, the total number of members in the Wolf School could be counted on one hand.

By the way, the Cat School witcher who backstabbed the Wolf School was eventually backstabbed by the king who hired them.

As a witness of the massacre, Geralt had little affection for the Cat Faction, even if he did not have hatred for them.

Not to mention that Lann killed a wicked man who deserved his own death. In Geralt's moral view, Jared Kaladin might also be a kind of "monster".

Of course, in the future, Geralt also helped the cat-faction witchers, and other wolf-faction witchers also had cat-faction friends. The wolf-faction witchers could rationally distinguish between "good" and "evil" instead of taking out their anger on an entire group. This is the incomprehensible but admirable moral value they uphold as they adhere to "absolute neutrality."

Let’s not talk about what will happen in the future for now. At least for now, when Geralt understood the whole story, the gap between him and Lann that he had deliberately created disappeared.

Favorability: Indifferent → Average +.

After Geralt sighed at what Judd had done, he asked, "So, Lann. What's the matter with you coming to see me so late at night?"

"Regarding your reward, Geralt," Lann said, "you saved Ciri and protected her all the way. I heard that Ciri promised you a lot of wealth? And you killed two griffins for my territory. I have an obligation to thank you for my people."

Geralt shook his head. "Don't worry about Ciri. I saved her for no other reason. As for the griffins, I only participated in the killing of one. Just give me a hundred crowns."

Lann smiled and said, "But I am willing to make friends with you. I don't want our relationship to be limited to such a superficial money transaction, Geralt.

The superb skills you displayed in battle are admirable. I wonder if you are willing to accept some other commissions, such as private swordsmanship instruction, monster knowledge teacher, etc.?"