Chapter 43: The Piano

The night was uneventful.

The next day, the Baron and Howard went to the relevant department early in the morning with the people of Chabrol to go through the formalities.

The baron didn't say anything special before leaving, except to tell Freya and Eric to be safe.

Although the city of Dazier is relatively safe compared to Byron's city, it is also relative, there are dark forces everywhere, but some are hidden in the light and hidden so that people can't see them.

However, with Freya's current strength, she can escape if she can't fight in danger, and I think the baron's special instructions are for Eric.

After a brief breakfast, everyone dispersed, and Freya had planned to take Eric around, but he was clearly working his swordsmanship at the moment under the Baron's encouragement, and didn't care much about anything else.

So, Freya had no choice but to go alone.

At this time, it was the season of late summer and early autumn, and Freya, dressed in a simple white hunting suit and carrying no weapons, was walking down the street next door to the manor.

With her blond hair tied up in a ponytail and a curious look at the surrounding scenery, Freya was touring this strange city like a real girl.

The morning sun shines brightly on the ground, and the European-style city of Dazier slowly awakens in this tranquil atmosphere, although it is a residential area, there are already many pedestrians, girls in skirts, soldiers on patrol, warriors with swords, or performers and vendors playing and singing with harps, all adding life to the city.

Walking down the street, Freya looked at the city in this peaceful atmosphere, and there was a sense of unreality.

After all, I've seen too much blood and fire, and it's always a little uncomfortable to suddenly come to this kind of place.

After walking through the residential area, the number of pedestrians gradually increased, and the stone road under your feet became the usual dirt road, and the surrounding area began to be a little noisy.

On the side of the road, some shops also appeared in her field of vision.

Bakeries, taverns, weapons shops, grocery stores, and even an open teahouse.

The shop looks very chic from the outside, and below the signboard above is a line of small words that read 'For nobles only, commoners are not allowed to enter', and it just so happened that two aristocratic women in gorgeous skirts came out of it.

Freya just gave a casual look and left, not wanting to go in.

Wandering around, Dazier City is a city that has a trade relationship with the Sea Clan, and here Freya can always find some particularly strange things, such as small red seahorses that shoot water arrows, human-faced fish with distorted faces, seashells that can make loud noises, and strange crabs with human-like feet.

Most of the trade here is seafood, but there are also small things that interest her.

After walking for so long, she also bought some white light stones that can emit light and a pair of handguards that are said to be made of deep-sea crocodile shark skin, although I don't know if the handguards are made of crocodile shark skin, but the quality is still very good.

Walking aimlessly along a river in the middle of the city, the river was freshwater, not very wide, but very clear, and some black freshwater fish loomed at the bottom of the river and quickly disappeared.

From time to time, there was a seagull or two in the sky, passing over unseen places.

After a corner, Freya had unconsciously walked in front of the massive building she had seen from afar last night.

A huge black stele towers over the front, with a string of letters written in the lingua franca.

'Beram Higher College. โ€™

"Sure enough, it's a school." Freya was sure.

Most of the surrounding areas were young men and women in black robes, but many of them were adults in ordinary clothes who came out of the academy.

The gate of the academy seems to be always open, and there are no guards guarding it, so it seems that this school is not closed, and other outsiders can enter it casually.

After thinking about it for a while, Freya decided to go in and observe and see what the difference between the school in this world was from her previous life.

Entering the academy, you will be greeted by a wide green meadow, in the middle of which is a huge statue of an old man, and in the distance a row of five or six-story buildings is facing the college gate.

On the bluestone paved floor, occasionally Freya would see three or four students with bows and arrows and wooden swords, laughing and talking, and did not show any special looks to Freya who were dressed differently.

"It seems that the schools of this world do not only teach cultural courses." As she watched the students walk by, Freya's eyes twinkled.

In Byron, only nobles were eligible to study in the academy, and if commoners wanted to acquire knowledge, they could only learn by joining a faction, and when they were at Castle Green, the baron had set up a place for teaching, and the students were young men with good qualifications selected by the baron from the territory as the new blood of the guard.

And here, most of what Freya sees is the appearance of ordinary people, which is also different from Byron.

However, from Freya's point of view, these students with weapons walked vainly, and they didn't look like they were really learning.

But if you think about it, it is not necessary to learn real combat experience in Dazier City, at most they use it to exercise their bodies and increase their storage of one skill.

Walking aimlessly, she soon reached the middle of the academy, a place that resembled a large auditorium.

Compared to the rest of the academy, it is much more crowded and lively.

On both sides of the road in the auditorium were two huge banners that read 'Welcome to the Castle Lord'.

In addition to the students of the school, there are also many people from outside in the auditorium.

The sound of cacophony of music mixed with the words of people came from inside.

Curious, Freya noticed that it seemed to be some students rehearsing something with instruments she hadn't seen before.

The sound of the different instruments is mixed with a kind of unpleasant feeling, which makes Freya, who has a good tolerance, also feel the urge to cover her ears, while everyone else looks like they are not surprised.

For the music of this world, even if she is not proficient, she can see the roughness of these students' rehearsals.

However, just as she was about to leave, in a corner of the auditorium, a huge black old-fashioned piano appeared in front of her, and no one cared about it.

It was the second time she had seen the piano, a common instrument on earth, and the first time was at the final ball at Grimm Castle.

Seeing this once familiar thing again made her feel a little emotional, and she walked over unconsciously.

The piano has no covering, and a fine layer of white ash has accumulated on it, which seems to have been left for a long time.

Stretch out your finger and gently press on one of the keys.

'Ding'

The loud noise made Freya frown slightly.

Then she pressed it two more times, and she had a judgment in her heart.

In her previous life, she also played the piano for a period of time because of her life, even though she was not very fine, she could hear that the tone of this piano was not very accurate.

Perhaps seeing Freya playing the piano, a young man in a black robe strode over: "This classmate, don't you know that this piano is broken?" โ€

Seeing someone coming, Freya immediately withdrew her fingers.

When the man got closer, he saw Freya's dress and wondered, "Aren't you a student of the academy?" Why didn't you wear a uniform? โ€œ

Freya nodded honestly. "Well, I'm not from the academy."

"Oh?" The young man glanced at Freya up and down, then smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, I thought you were a student at the academy." โ€

"It's okay." Freya said casually. "I just saw that the piano didn't sound very accurate, so I pressed it twice."

"Inaccurate sound?" The young man listened in some surprise to what Freya said, "Do you know how to fix a piano?" You're a musician, perhaps? โ€

Unconsciously, the man actually used an honorific title, which made Freya frown slightly, obviously misunderstood.

"No, I'm not a musician, but I've played the piano before, so I'm not sure I can fix it."

"It doesn't matter, this piano has been broken for half a year, because no one will repair it, so it will be shelved here, if it can be repaired, it will be the best, if not, it may be sold after a while." The young man said with some regret.

Looking at his expression, Freya didn't speak, and directly opened the lid above, revealing what was inside.

Freya glanced at it a little and found that there were no missing traces of the parts inside, just some subtle things were loose, and the timbre of the guide was not very accurate.

With a few more strokes, she pressed the keys a few more times, then adjusted them again until she finally got them into the right place.

Listening to the crisp 'ding' sound, she clapped her hands and said.

"It should be almost, I'll give it a try." "Uh... Okay, please, please. The man didn't expect that the piano that had been put on hold would be repaired by the girl in front of him with a few random strokes, and looking at her skillful techniques and her own temperament, she was not an ordinary person at all.

Maybe it's a family member of some great nobleman in disguise. He thought to himself

For Freya, if she wanted to test it, she immediately agreed.

She didn't care what the people next to her thought, and after getting the answer, she directly found a stool and sat down, putting her fingers on the keys.

Exhaled softly, closed his eyes slightly, and then the crisp sound of the piano slowly sounded in the auditorium.

In her previous life, she had lived alone for a long, long time, and had done a lot of work in order to provide for her own school and life, because her brain was still quite smart, so it was not very hard to study while working, and because her learning ability was not bad, she gradually learned a lot of new things from some part-time jobs.

Playing the piano and tuning the piano is one of them.

In fact, in addition to debugging, she doesn't know a lot of piano music, and she has almost forgotten it until now, and the only thing she is more familiar with is the piano music that she used to play to herself because it was good.

At this time, the music of the past was played again, and some things seemed to slowly enrich the body and mind with the sound of the piano.

The music gradually stopped the noise of the people around her, and for a while, the whole auditorium seemed to become her alone stage.

Everyone's hearts also became quiet with the ups and downs of the music.

At the door of the Great Hall, a group of strong guards in armor appeared at some point, standing straight, and in the center was a handsome man in a white aristocratic costume, looking at Freya who was immersed in his music.

The golden ponytail swayed gently with the swing of his body, and his delicate face and beautiful music made his hard heart seem to melt.

He has always believed that music and women are just boring things, and only iron and blood are the meaning of his life.

But now he feels like the values he's been maintaining are slowly crumbling.

As the last syllable was slowly pressed and the smooth music faded to a still, Freya opened her squinted eyes.

When she was still reminiscing about the past, the strange scenes around her made her heart suddenly burst.

'Bang Bang Bang'

Almost as soon as the music stopped, the quiet auditorium erupted in thunderous applause.

For beautiful music, which is the same everywhere and in every world, perhaps it is Freya's piano music that is inversely proportional to the previous students' rehearsals, which is why it has such a strong response.

However, Freya has a bit of a headache about this, and unconsciously plays beautiful music that is different from this world, which makes her attention break the table for a moment.

And the baron had warned him last night not to attract too much attention.

He stood up from his chair with a slight frown, not paying attention to the other people's eyes.

While everyone was still reminiscing about the previous music, she relied on her own body to leave the auditorium slowly but quickly.

"Miss, youโ€”" A magnetic voice sounded.

As she walked through the doorway, the handsome man dressed in aristocratic attire suddenly stretched out his hand with a smile on his face to stop her, but in a trance, a faint sound of wind gently pushed his arm.

Before the words were finished, the people had already left the auditorium.

"It's... Knight! โ€

Raising his hand a little awkwardly, the aristocratic man frowned slightly, and the smile on his face condensed a little......

"I got carried away!" Freya, who had already burst out of the qi in her body and was hurrying, frowned slightly.

"It seems that my heart still needs to be exercised!"

Even though Yiqu is nostalgic for his previous life, it seems to have attracted unnecessary attention, but fortunately, he only stayed here for three days.

"I hope nothing goes wrong..."

After this incident, the mood for shopping was gone, and Freya had to rush to the direction of the manor according to her memory.

And in the auditorium where she left, the crowd that had been quiet until they saw the performers leave in a hurry revealed something inexplicable.

But when they saw the guards and the handsome man standing in the doorway, the slightly restless hall was silent again.

"Beram Academy, welcome to the City Lord!"

A middle-aged man in a red robe with a canary embroidered on his chest walked quickly to the handsome man and bowed slightly.

Under his leadership, everyone seemed to react and saluted one after another.

"No need to be polite, Mr. Buckley."

The handsome man smiled and helped up the middle-aged man who was bent over, and said softly.

"No matter how many years I've been out of this school, I've always been a student here."

"Hehe, my lord, you're laughing, no matter what, you are the greatest city lord in Dazier City, if it weren't for you, this school might have been in the Sea Clan a long time ago..."

Without continuing to listen to Barkley's compliment, the handsome man interrupted with a wave of his hand.

"Don't talk about that, by the way, Mr. Barkley, is the girl who played the piano just now also from our school?"

"Uh... Well, she's not a student of our school, so she seems to have come in from outside the school to visit, and I've never seen her before. Seeing the handsome man's eyes, Barkley also guessed what he was thinking, and shook his head in embarrassment.

"Oh, is that so? You're from somewhere elseโ€”" he looked thoughtful.

"But, my lord, although I don't know where that girl came from, but with the piano skills she just showed, she is certainly not an obscure person, as long as you follow this clue, you can definitely find it." Barkley thought for a moment.

"I'm just asking, I don't mean anything else." Hearing Buckley's idea, he shook his head and smiled.

"That's it,..." Just as Barkley was about to say something, a shouting voice came from a distance, as if calling Barkley over.

Hearing the voice, the man interrupted Buckley, who wanted to continue.

"Since you have something to do, teacher, I won't bother you."

"Huh? I... Sorry for that. Barkley gave an unnatural smile and turned to leave.

Not paying attention to Barkley, the man turned his head to look at the piano where Freya had been sitting, a faint glint in his eyes.

And one of the guards standing next to him saw his expression and took a step forward.

"My lord, do you want to sue Lord Pei Lie to check the background of that woman, with Lord Pei Lie's underground relationship, you should..."

Hearing the guard's construction, the eyes of the man who was originally thinking suddenly froze, and his originally modest temperament became a little different.

"No need to go to him! If he is asked to investigate, maybe something will go wrong, after all, although the relationship with the Sea Clan is peaceful on the surface, it is actually a little uneven, and although I have a good impression of that woman, I don't have to do these things deliberately, if there is fate, I will definitely see each other. โ€

"Yes!" The cold tone made the guard bow his head.

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