"Except for you, Master Griffin!"

Looking at Cecilia's serious appearance, Charles scratched his head in embarrassment: "I? what's wrong with me..."

"You don't seem to know how to get into elemental resonance, do you?" said Ezek, leaning lazily back in his chair.

"Can't you use magic without resonance? So what's wrong with me?"

"I don't know, that's why you're a freak," Ezek gritted, scratching at the ashy hair.

"Bang bang bang, bang!"

Izek was in the middle of his sentence when there was a rough knock on the door.

A few people looked through the window, only to see the big iron door at the entrance of the courtyard knocked on rust, and the knocking still did not mean to stop.

Hearing this knock on the door, Cecilia's face suddenly darkened, and Azek's pair of eight-character sword eyebrows were also twisted, and Hawke even slapped the table directly and stood up, a pair of small eyes widened:

"It's these bastards again, watch me smash them!" he said, going to get his own double shield.

"Sit down for me!" Cecilia shouted to the others with a gloomy face, "Don't come out, Azek, show me the two of them." ”

After taking two steps, she turned her head again, propped her hands on the table, stretched out a gloomy little head at Charles, and said condescendingly:

"Young master, eat well, don't mix. ”

With that, he grabbed a long stick by the door and strode out.

"I've just noticed that this house is full of sticks, and your house is always being robbed?" said Charles, who was inexplicably bluffed, and pointed to the four or five long sticks that were still hanging behind the door.

"The one that Cecilia left behind when she was practicing magic was not suitable to use as firewood, so she put it away to prevent thieves. Ezek's face sank like water, and out of nowhere he found his heirloom sword, and carefully wiped it up.

"Well, who's that guy out there?" Charles walked to the window and watched Cecilia walk into the courtyard to open the door.

"Rift outpost. Azek replied in a deep voice without raising his head.

"What is that? Army people?"

"You guy... It's really not a fireworks in the world. Azek turned his face sideways and sighed, "Have you heard of the Cracks?"

Charles shook his head blankly.

"Hey, it's good not to worry about food and clothing..."Ezek smiled bitterly and continued, "The Rift Outpost is the old nest of the Rift Tile Society, this place..."

Azek gave Charles a cursory briefing on the Rip Society.

To put it simply, the Rift Club is a typical money lender that provides high-interest loans of three cents a month to poor people who are in dire need of money, which is a standard loan shark.

Not far from the royal capital of Alton, there is a watchtower, which is connected to two stone houses, and these two rooms and one tower are the Cracked Tile Outpost.

It is said that a group of merchants were robbed on the way to the royal capital.

Because he was in a hurry to enter the city to sell the goods in his hand, but he was penniless and could not pay the entry tax, he borrowed money from the veteran of this outpost, and the saying of three cents per month was set from that time.

Later, people who were in need of money in need of money borrowed money from the veterans of the Rift Post at this interest, and the veterans did not have so much money, so they went around looking for people to lend money.

The businessmen who borrowed money at the time knew about this situation and felt that it was a business opportunity, so they paid for the establishment of the Rift Club.

Later, the people who lost their homes due to the beast tide re-established a new settlement outside the royal city, which is now the outer city.

The outlying city stretched for three kilometres, and the Rift Outpost lost its role as a outpost and instead became a landmark of the Outer City of Arton.

The veterans have also retired and become masters of lending money and collecting money.

Over time, the Cracked Tile Outpost gradually became the last straw for the poor who were in need of money.

But where is the money from loan sharks so easy to borrow?

No matter how many names this underground lending organization has changed, they have been tied to the ruffians and hooligans since ancient times.

If these gangsters meet someone who can read, they should be more restrained.

If you meet an illiterate person, ask them to collect 10 silver coins, and they can break them into 30 silver coins or more.

“... The Rift Outpost is this kind of place, and it's normal for a young master like you not to know about it. Azek finished sullenly, and a long sword was already polished.

"It turned out to be a loan shark, how could you provoke such a person?" After listening to Azek's introduction, Charles nodded abruptly and asked strangely.

"I borrowed one semester of tuition from them, and Cecilia paid it back for two years!

"Cecilia studied at the Royal Faculty of Magic and just graduated from the House of Commons this year. Her tuition fee for each semester costs five gold coins.

Now, even if she pays off her debts to the Ripper Society, she will have to work in her teacher's carpentry shop for two years to cover all of her tuition. ”

Ezek said in a deep voice, and looked up at Cecilia, who was theorizing with a few gangsters outside the window, and his eyes were full of pity.

"I've told you, we will definitely be able to pay it off this time, why do you still come to urge it in advance!"

At this moment, Cecilia's coquettish voice sounded outside the window.

Charles stretched out his head curiously, listening carefully, wanting to hear what he was arguing about, but he was stunned when he heard it.

"If you don't rush it, you can't do it, Miss!"

A man said in a strange tone:

"If it weren't for an adult to send you back this time, you wouldn't be able to catch up with the day of repayment, right? I heard that there was an extra man, I'm not afraid that your money will be spent on a man, so I'm here to remind you~"

"You... Bastard!" Cecilia's cheeks instantly turned red when she heard this, and she was embarrassed and angry.

"Oops~ I've already raised two, and it's not strange to raise another one, but that's right, these two have been used for so long, and they should be changed to understand..."

The man was still talking in a weird manner, his expression was extremely obscene, as if he didn't see the wooden stick in Cecilia's hand, and he laughed with the two thugs next to him.

Charles was stunned for a moment, because the man's voice sounded so familiar to him, and he walked to the window again and carefully identified the man's appearance.

A familiar name immediately came to mind:

Terry?

Thinking of this, Charles was about to rush out of the door to find the man to confirm it, and as soon as he left, he was stopped by Ezek.

"Get out of the way!" exclaimed Charles as he looked at Ezek.

"Master Griffin, I can understand your feelings..."Ezek's sword was unsheathed, and he stopped the door with open hands, "You go out now, things will only get worse to clean up." ”

"I was angry and punched those bastards last time, and the interest rate was increased by 20% that month. Hawke also stood up and stopped in front of Charles.

"I'm not..."

"Besides, those three thugs Cecilia really want to learn a lesson, and they don't even need to use magic, don't worry. Seeing that Charles was a little emotional, Azek patted him on the shoulder and said.

"I really—" Charles pulled Azek's hand away and was about to push the door and walk out.

"Hawke, hold him down!" Hearing the movement in the house, Cecilia shouted loudly, worried that Charles would come out to make trouble.

"Oh!" Hawke replied loudly, then grabbed Charles by the shoulders to pull him back.

Charles was about to break free, but he accidentally caught a glimpse of the little blood oozing from his shoulder, and he couldn't help but feel soft in his heart, afraid of hurting this cute big man.

I had to sigh helplessly, followed the two back to the dining table, and sat down honestly.

"I'm really looking for that man..."Charles innocently looked at Azek, who was sitting across from him.

"When the money is repaid, I will also have something to do with him, and you will have to queue up then. ”

Azek raised an eyebrow, said angrily, leaned back, and put his legs on the table.

"Ezek, the captain said, don't put your feet on the table. Hawke pressed Charles on the shoulder with one hand and said to Ezek.

Ezek waved his hand indifferently and remained unmoved.

"I have something to ask him, and I'm not going to fight, what kind of queue to line up. ”

Charles said depressedly, shook his shoulders, and looked up at Hawke standing behind him: "I know, I won't go out now, you can sit first." ”

Hawk shook his head angrily: "No, the captain said to hold you down." ”

Charles rolled his eyes speechlessly, twisted his ass and tried to struggle a few times, the inferior wooden chair squeaked and screaked very well, as if it was about to fall apart if it tried harder.

The death of the chair was obviously effective, and Charles was afraid that he would fight Hawke hard, so he dismantled the chair, so he had to sit down carefully and depressedly.

Ezek looked at Charles's "rat thrower" and secretly laughed, and his heart warmed:

"You have something to ask Yuri, how do you know him?"

"Yuri? isn't his name Terry?"