"Click, click······"

In the smoke, two dice were thrown to the ground again.

Yanagihara sat on the side, looking at the dice with a total of only four points, and his face was slightly dark.

This is the fifth time she has lost in a row, and inexplicably, she has an urge to pick up those two dice and crush them.

"Yuan, it looks like your luck isn't going to be good today."

Jester sat beside him, comfortably holding a can of broth and drinking it, and his handful had eleven points, and it was no surprise that he had the right to ask a third question.

Ah, victory came so easily.

"Tsk." Yanagihara's brow twitched, but he still bit the cigarette in his mouth and said.

"Just ask."

"Hey, ask a question!" Jester smiled and raised one of his hands, his unusually fat body because he was wearing two layers of winter clothing, and he actually showed an amazing momentum in an instant.

"Yuan, may I ask what your criteria are for choosing a mate, don't doubt it! What I mean by this is, what is your x-fetish? ”

Even with such a shameful question, Jester's face was still serious.

At the same time, he put his palm in front of him (refer to JOJO Stand) in a seductive posture, pointed his fingers at Yanagihara in a pistol pose, and said with a sharp gaze.

"Please answer positively."

"Inhale, exhale—"

Yanagihara took a puff on his cigarette between his two fingers and was silent for a moment.

After a moment, she scanned the crowd with her calm and casual eyes, and finally fixed her gaze on Al, pulled her mouth, and said slowly.

"Al should be able to grow up."

Al's body stiffened, the two fingers in front of him were entangled, his mouth could not say a complete sentence, and the flush on his face quickly spread to the back of his ears.

"Oh~" Jester squirmed as if he had heard something terrible.

"Hara." Maika flicked the cigarette in his hand and hesitated.

"It's a crime."

"yes, a crime."

"Crime."

De Roso and Kent also responded with each other.

"So didn't I say I'm going to grow up a little more?" Yanagihara had a cross on his forehead.

It can be seen that her mood is not as calm as it seems on the surface.

The crowd seemed to want to say more.

But at this moment, Al suddenly closed his eyes and said loudly.

"I, I don't mind."

“······”

The atmosphere in the carriage became eerie.

Al seemed to realize what he had said, whimpered, buried his flushed face in the crook of his arm, and stopped talking.

After a few breaths.

Jester sneered and sat up straight and said, "So, are you still coming?" ”

"Come!" Yanagihara slammed a hand to the ground, she hadn't won today.

······

In the midst of the wind and snow, night gradually falls.

As the last rays of sunlight fade, the temperature on the ice sheet gradually drops to its lowest point.

In the snowmobile, three stoves had been lit in the middle of the crowd, and everyone except Yanagihara had also put on two winter suits.

Thick hoarfrost was condensed on the windows, the lights shone brightly, and the clatter of toss echoed in the car.

"Yanagihara at two, Kent at twelve, Kent, question." Maika sat in his place and announced the results of round thirteen flatly.

Yanagihara's luck was definitely the worst he'd ever seen, and there was no one in the thirteen rounds with more than five points.

However, it can be regarded as barely escaping the fate of being at the bottom a few times.

"Just ask." Yanagihara glanced sideways at Kent.

Kent seemed to recognize that look, the look in which the beast looked at its prey.

This made him swallow a mouthful of saliva unconsciously, and it took a few moments before he stammered.

"Well, my question is, Hara, have you ever been involved in hunting for "monsters" before? ”

The question is unexpectedly serious.

Jester, who was leaning against the car, complained dissatisfiedly.

"Hey, Kent, your question isn't interesting at all, let's get another one."

Shut up, you guy who doesn't know if you'll live until tomorrow!

Glaring fiercely at the heartless Jester, Kent turned his head, smiled at Yanagihara, and said with a sweat.

"Don't listen to him, I'll just ask this."

"Hmm." Yanagihara nodded, then replied.

"Yes, I did."

However, Maika seemed to be so unexpectedly concerned about the subject that he spoke before Kent could say anything.

"Are you an organization, what is it called?"

"If I'm not mistaken, you can only ask one question per game, right?" Yanagihara didn't suffer either, and directly used the rules to avoid Maika's question.

"So." Maika picked up the dice on the ground and said solemnly.

"I'll win a few to ask questions."

"We'll see." Yanagihara folded his hands in front of his chest and shrugged his shoulders.

Even as someone who has never won, she still shows no weakness in her momentum.

"Oh, the captain is serious." Jester seemed to see something interesting and immediately perked up.

What Yanagihara doesn't know is that Maika is very good at gambling, but he has always called it a trick that he rarely uses.

After all, he admired great warriors, not despicable gamblers.

But now, he thought he might need to put his skills to good use.

So, ten minutes later, Yanagihara ushered in another painful three-game losing streak.

In fact, Maika didn't expect that Yanagihara would be able to finish at the bottom three in a row, and he was ready to win until the problem was enough.

As a result, it was only three rounds, and the number of questions seemed to be sufficient.

"So, are you an organization?" Maika asked, sitting in front of Yanagihara, smoking a cigarette in his hand.

"I should say that they are no longer one of them." Yanagihara replied with a dark face.

"Yes, they are an organization."

"Where's the name?" Maika asked again.

"Many, some call them night owls, some call them night watchmen, some call them scavengers."

"Sss Jester, who had been drinking water, suddenly took a slow breath.

Even Kent looked up and looked at Yanagihara in surprise.

"The predecessor of the Central Mercenary Regiment?" Maika frowned, looked deeply at Yanagihara and said.

"Really?" Yanagihara obviously hadn't heard of any central mercenary groups, so he just raised his eyebrows.

"They're called that again now?"

"Hmm." For the three of them, the name of the Central Mercenary Group is naturally famous.

After all, the three of them were professional mercenaries, so it was impossible not to know what the three largest mercenary groups were among the mercenaries.

The first is the Federation of Employers in the Western Region.

The second is the Employers' League in the Eastern Region.

The third is the central mercenary group in the central region.

And among the three, the most powerful force is the central mercenary group known as the "center of artillery fire".

It is different from the old employers' organizations such as the Employers' Federation and the Employers' League.

The Central Mercenary Corps first appeared in the public eye only five years ago.

Then, in just five years, they became one of the three largest mercenary organizations on the ice field with their powerful firepower and well-trained mercenary personnel.

Because the rise of this legion was so fast, someone began to investigate their background.

And this investigation also let people know how deep their background is.

It is rumored that the predecessor of the Central Mercenary Regiment was the "Scavenger" organization, which has continued from the Dark Ages to the present day.

They used to hunt monsters for a living, helping people clear out the living areas of the eastern and western parts of the ice field in the hands of monsters.

He also participated in large-scale battles such as the Battle of the No. 1 Greenhouse, the Battle of the Bright Snow Field, and the Battle of the Ice Fields Survey in the North and South.

It is no exaggeration to say that they were once the heroes of all mankind, and without their hard work, people today would not even have a chance to despair.

But they should also be an organization long since they died, because at the end of the Dark Ages, they disappeared because of a fiasco.

Along with this, people have never set foot in the depths of the north and south again, and have since curled up in the east and west of the ice field.

However, the emergence of the Central Mercenary Group has brought this organization into people's eyes again, in a completely different way.

It can be explored that Angelica Hawke, the current head of the Central Mercenary Regiment and known as the "Queen of Fire" by the good deeds, is the great-granddaughter of Otto Hawke, the last head of the Scavenger Organization.

Yanagihara actually came from that organization, could this be a lie on her part?

As soon as this idea appeared, the three Maika rejected it.

Not because of anything else, just because Yanagihara didn't have to lie, with her ability, no mercenary group would turn her away.

Why, then, does she say that she comes from a scavenger and not a central mercenary group?

For a while, the three of them had a big drama in their minds.

The content is roughly like this, the scavenger organization, after that tragic defeat, withdrew from the front line and regained self-cultivation.

Yanagihara is roughly the descendants of one of the members, and they live in the ice field, while continuing to hunt monsters, protecting the east and west of the ice field from monsters.

Until, Angelica proposed to create a mercenary group.

As a result, the early scavenger organization was divided into two factions, one was the old school, they did not want to appear in the eyes of the world as a mercenary group, and only wanted to silently continue to fulfill the obligations of scavengers. On the one hand, there are reformers, who want to start a new life and don't mind accepting new ways to change the difficult status quo.

The two factions argued, and in the end, Angelica, who is the descendant of the head of the regiment, stood up and decided the direction of the future.

Unable to accept this new form, the old-fashioned people quit the organization and stopped calling themselves scavengers.

As for the reformers, the central mercenary group was established, which has continued to this day.

Well, the plot is reasonable, and the logic is clear and thorough.

If not fanciful, so much the better.

In short, no matter what, Yanagihara has been identified in the eyes of the three of Maika.

That's the descendants of the scavenger organization back then.

This is not to blame them, because in any case, they could not have imagined that Yanagihara was a person who lived from that era to the present day.

"Angelica?" And Liu Cheng pronounced the name with a strange expression after listening to the introduction of the Central Mercenary Group by Maika and others.

To be honest, this is really an acquaintance of hers.