"Are you going to empty my inventory, or are you already determined to live with them?" Thor leaned his hands against the wall, looking at Schuggoth as he teased.

It took a lot of effort for Thor to process the food.

The fish has been marinated, the jerky has been carefully cut into strips for ease of eating and chewing, and even the toothy beans have been carefully ground into powder by Saul, and they are ready to eat after being slightly stirred with water.

At this moment, like an industrious groundhog, Shogues is pouting and constantly pulling all kinds of food into an open cloth pocket, and there is a great tendency to leave no grass behind.

Hearing Thor's ridicule, he reluctantly stopped what he was doing and scratched his head in disagreement.

"I think we should be more generous when we first meet, so that we can win more favor from each other. As for the food...... Don't worry, I'll try to find a way to get some back. ”

Looking at Shogues's momentum of not hesitating to go bankrupt for the sake of the opposite sex, Thor laughed angrily.

"When you're hungry enough to nibble on the weeds, hopefully you'll be able to maintain this dignity. ”

It was the end of the second month of winter, and under the endless entanglement of Xiugus, Thor was finally defeated by his scoundrel-like determination.

Since the cold winter is so long, let's go out for a walk.

Repeatedly insisting that it would be a decent rendezvous, Thor had to accompany him to the convent's firewood room to boil some hot water, and the two of them jumped up and down in the cold to take a shower, and then changed into new clothes from head to toe.

Now the whole town is buried in the snow, and even the ants are hiding.

The two exhaled hot air and walked slowly through the wind and snow, and finally stopped in front of a house that looked like it was two stories covered in snow.

The cobbler was also a popular middle-class occupation in the town, but the house was only located on the edge of the affluent area, and Thor didn't see any status crest on the lintel.

Tossing the sack of food to Thor, Shogues stepped forward on his own, rubbing his frozen hands, bending his knuckles to gently tap the agreed rhythm on the mottled door.

After a while, the door cracked quietly with the sound of friction and cracked a barely passable space, and it was impossible to see who was in the door in the darkness.

Without looking back, Hughes hooked his hand behind him, motioning for Thor to follow.

Doors open to a spacious living room.

The living room was furnished on all sides, with a small circle of coarse linen carpet of broken lace in the center, behind which there was a short deep hallway, and a room on each side of the corridor. There is a wooden staircase near the wall on the right side of the living room, which leads to the second floor.

There are no candles lit in the house, and it is not like the bottom of a well, and if there is light leaking out, it will inevitably cause trouble.

Opposite Shogues and Thor, two slender figures in Narousses' long skirts stood quietly in the darkness.

It looked like they had clearly made up some minds for tonight, otherwise it would have been torture to wear dresses in this terrible weather.

"This is my sister Covier Joyce, and my sister Erin Joyce, and this is Saul Drake, my brother. ”

Xiugues pretended to introduce the two parties generously, and in front of the opposite sex, Thor's status directly surpassed that of friends to the height of brothers.

"Hello. "Sister Coveil's voice was flat and soft, and there was no enthusiasm or disgust to be heard.

After greeting him, Shogues handed over the food and politely signaled to the sisters that it was better to have a full meal first, as they looked a little weak.

After leaving room for the other party to eat, Shogues took the opportunity to drag Thor to the door, his head leaning over, his eyes flashing.

"How's it going? Sister Fourteen, Sister Thirteen. Since you have given up the first choice, then as you said before, my sister belongs to me?"

"I don't have a problem with my sisters going with you, just leave me a place to spend the night. ”

Saul replied with little interest, and was immediately met with a disdainful squint from Shogues.

"Damn it, don't your conscience bleed? Honestly, after a closer look, don't you notice that your sister's figure seems to be better than her sister's? ”

Looking at Shogues's look on his face, Thor was speechless.

In fact, he had never agreed anything to Shogues, let alone made any choices, since the sisters were just two strangers to him.

After a while, the four of them got back together.

In the darkness, Shogues seemed to whisper something to his sister, and Coweller nodded.

Then Shogues turned back and raised an eyebrow at Saul, turned and followed Kovel into a room on the first floor, where a slight closing sound was heard moments later.

Thor and her sister Erin remained silent and continued to stand in the dark.

"My father formed a squad of adventurers, and my mother was on the band, and they left my sister and me in town, thinking that they would have more chances of surviving. ”

The statue-like sister suddenly opened her mouth, and her voice was not as immature as she imagined, but sounded a little tactful and pleasant.

"It is wise that you are too old to face the dangers of the wilderness. ”

Thor casually looked around, nonchalantly responding to the topic that the other party had improvised to provoke.

Their parents may have a reason to leave, and even if they stay, the family's food needs will be a heavy number.

It's hard to say which has a better chance of survival through the dark wilderness or the town left behind, after all, luck is an uncontrollable factor.

"My room...... Upstairs. As she spoke, Erin lifted the hem of her skirt and walked towards the wooden staircase by the wall, followed by a series of slight stampedes.

Silently watching her back disappear from his vision, Thor stood in the darkness for a moment, then slowly followed.

Above the staircase is a horizontal aisle on the second floor, with a row of wooden handrails erected on the outside of the aisle that can be held to overlook the foyer.

There are three rooms on the side wall of the hallway, which is also in line with the layout of a wealthy family, but at the moment two rooms have closed doors, and only the one at the end of the corridor is slightly open.

Like most girls' rooms, Thor smelled a faint fragrance in the air as soon as he entered, and even in these difficult times, everything in the room was still neat and uncluttered.

There was no one in the room, and Thor was a little confused, and when he looked closely, he noticed that there was a human-shaped bulge on the inside of the blanket on the bed, and it was obvious that Erin had taken refuge in it.

After a moment of silence in the dark, Thor slowly sat down on the edge of the bed, bent down and took off his half-boots, and then slipped into the blanket.

The bed was not big, slightly cramped for two people, but it was soft. Compared to the terrible environment at the bottom of the well, where he slept on the ground with rags, it was so comfortable that Thor wanted to roll around as much as he wanted.

Only Erin's cowering back could be seen under the blanket, and after a while, she turned to stare at Thor slightly.

She is not ignorant of the relationship between men and women.

In fact, the children of the town did not suffer as much as the orphans, but living in a frontier like Grey Curtain and their early involvement in the various tasks of the family made them far more precocious than the children of other wealthy towns.

"You don't seem to care too much because ,...... Am I not glamorous enough as a woman?"

Erin's voice sounded calm, but it was actually difficult and bitter inside.

Since tonight is premised on 'trading', there is no point in begging or gaining sympathy at this point, and the remaining dignity in her heart does not allow her to show her vulnerability to the strange boy in front of her who is about to possess her.

It's just that since I met Thor tonight, the other party has been acting a little careless, which makes Erin very angry. She thinks that there is obviously an element of contempt for herself in the other party's attitude, which makes her feel humiliated.

If it weren't for the difficulty of the world, who would want to despise themselves like this.

Faced with Erin's question, Thor was a little stunned.

Don't care? Are you asking me how much I'm looking forward to tonight? Is there any?" Thor thought to himself.

In fact, he himself couldn't tell what kind of mood he was involved in tonight's irrational nonsense.

Maybe it's the lack of food, maybe it's the cold, or maybe someone else in the dark?

Death has never gone far, there is no hope and tomorrow in sight, and too many predicaments are like swords added to the body, overwhelming people.

Instead of being trapped in the small space at the bottom of the well, watching life slowly decay day after day, it is better to experience something new to tear apart this lifeless winter.

On the way here, Thor always thought that this was his own reason, but until the strange girl in front of him asked, he was a little dazed and uncertain, and it seemed that using pain to divert the heaviness in his heart obviously did not have much effect.