At the same time.

Soma Alliance, Faro.

This city, which has only a slight difference in pronunciation from somewhere in the Southern Free Federation, is now lying quietly on the ground, like a sleeping child—quiet and comfortable.

"Gollum ......"

The sound of horse-drawn wheels running over the road was heard, and a four-wheeled carriage was moving quickly on an avenue outside of Faro.

Driven by a skilled 60-year-old horseman, he pulled the reins with both hands and steered the carriage smoothly.

In the carriage, two people sat in the carriage, one of them was Sherlock, who had a mysterious family background, and the other was Sherlock's little maid, Lucia.

Lucia peeked through the window of the carriage, looked at the outline of the city on the ground in the distance, and turned back to Sherlock curiously and asked, "Master, what is that place?"

"What about the place...... It should be Faro, a medium-sized city in the Soma Alliance, not very far from the southern capital of the Soma Alliance, Char. Sherlock glanced at it a few times, looked very understanding, and replied softly.

"Then we're going to run away this time...... Uh, where are you going?" the little maid Lucia asked with a wink, "Are you going to the southern capital Char you said? It should be a bigger city than this, there must be a lot of interesting things, it must be very suitable for you, young master." ”

"This ......" Sherlock suddenly gritted his teeth, as if he had some toothache.

"What's the matter, young master?" the little maid asked with some concern, "Don't you want to go to Char?"

"No, I'd love to go. Sherlock shook his head and replied earnestly with a bitter face, "But after listening to your words, a serious question suddenly occurred to me. ”

"What?"

"You see, you can think of it, I yearn for Char very much, after all, there are all kinds of fun things there, and those people in the family can't think of it. Sherlock analyzed, "We've escaped several times before, and all of them have failed, and this time I don't want to be taken back as a slave in a few days." ”

"Those people have no humanity at all!" Sherlock grumbled in a somewhat high-pitched voice, "they don't even make sense. You say, I've made so many contributions to the family, and one person is better than ten, so I should be rewarded a little, and I have a holiday, right?

As a result, hmph, the better I behaved, the more they used me to death. What do you say to hand over the power of the family to me, don't think I don't know that they are trying to exhaust me.

I've said it all, I don't want to be the next head of the house, I just want to relax. My brothers are so powerful, why do they have to choose me-well, my brothers are indeed a little worse than me, but they are not too bad, right? As the head of the family, there is no rule that it must be the best person in the family, so you have to give others some chances.

Therefore, this time, I absolutely must not let those people in my family get back again, so I can't go to Char, and I can't go to other big cities. A medium-sized city like Faro is good, you can have everything you need, and if you don't have it, you can entrust someone else to buy it from Char - it's not far away, anyway, it's very suitable. ”

"You've decided, young master?"

"Hmm. Sherlock nodded seriously, squinting at Faro not far ahead, with a resolute expression, "I have decided, even if I starve to death and die in Faro, I will not go back to help the family." ”

......

Where Sherlock was looking, inside the city of Faro.

Under the cover of night, a figure hurried into a quiet alley in the city and knocked on the door of a courtyard in the alley.

"Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk!"

The knock on the door was urgent, barely stopping for more than a dozen seconds.

More than ten seconds later, there was movement in the door, accompanied by the sound of "brushing, brushing", and with a "squeak", the door of the courtyard was opened a crack.

Lady Nellid, a righteous girl with slightly disheveled hair, appears inside the door wearing a pair of wooden slippers. It was as if he had just been woken up from his sleep, sleepy-eyed, and his face was undisguised with displeasure.

"Ahh

Yawning, Nellid looked at the visitor outside the door, and saw that the other party was wearing a thick black robe, covering most of his face, not looking like a good person at all, and his vigilance suddenly increased a little.

Rubbing his eyes and facing the people outside the door, Nellid asked out loud, "Are you...... Who, in the middle of the night, are you doing here? I don't know what normal people are sleeping at this time?"

"Excuse me. The person outside the door responded apologetically, his eyes kept looking inside the door, and he looked very anxious, "I'm really sorry, but I have something urgent and want to see your teacher, Wizard Sercy, I don't know if it's okay?"

"Looking for my teacher?" Nellid frowned, glanced back into the room, and muttered, "My teacher should still be sleeping, or will you come tomorrow?"

"I'm really in a hurry. The visitor hurriedly said, seeing that Nellid was not paying attention, he pulled the door open, flashed past Nellid, and walked towards the room.

Nellid frowned, stepped on her slippers, walked two steps quickly, caught up with the person, grabbed her, and cried out loudly: "Hey, what are you doing! Are you polite! I haven't allowed you to come in, you just break in, do you know that this is trespassing on a private house?"

The visitor stopped, looked at Nellid, and wanted to have a seizure, but held back. His head lowered slightly, and he said softly: "I'm really, very sorry, my matter is very urgent, so this is a bit of a gaffe, I really want to see Wizard Sersi soon, can you ...... Be accommodation. ”

"What a problem! In that case, you should stand here and wait. Nellid said, with dissatisfaction in her tone, "Wait until I wake up the teacher and ask the teacher, hum." ”

With that, Nellid turned around and was about to leave.

At this time, a soft voice sounded, instructing: "Nelid, be polite to the guests. ”

"Huh?"

Nellid quickly turned her head, and when she heard the sound, she saw that her teacher, the wizard Cersei, had come out of the room at some point, followed by Heidi, a cat slave girl.

At this time, Heidi was in a similar state to her, apparently having just woken up from her sleep, sleepy-eyed, and couldn't help but yawn. However, Heidi was more ladylike in comparison, and before she could open her mouth wide, she lowered her head and covered it with her hand.

Poor Heidi, poor herself...... Nellid couldn't help pursing her lips, becoming more and more dissatisfied with the comer, and as soon as she pointed at the other party, she complained to her teacher Sercy: "Teacher, this person has to see you in the middle of the night, because he is rude first." ”

"Okay, I see, you and Heidi go back to the room first, I'll take care of it. The sorceress glanced at the comer and whispered softly to Nellid.

"Oh. Nellid yawned again, tears welling up in her eyes. I wanted to have a good reason with the visitor, but the desire to sleep trumped the debate, and finally nodded, lowered my eyelids slightly, walked over to Sercy, and led Heidi into the room.

As soon as she entered the room, there was a "bang", and Nellid threw herself on the bed, her eyes closing quickly.

"Senior sister, don't you take off your coat. Heidi glanced at the side and asked with concern.

"Don't take it off—" Nellid said, grabbed the feather pillow with her eyes closed, covered her head, squirmed a few times, adjusted her sleeping position, and fell into a deep sleep, and within a few seconds she let out a slight snoring sound.

Heidi looked helpless: "If you don't take off your coat, then at least take off your shoes." ”

As she spoke, Heidi gently took off Nellid's shoes, set them up at the head of the bed, tucked Nellid's feet into the quilt, and then lay down next to Nellid, also falling asleep.

......