Hearing Fina's words, Reiner chuckled in his heart, and he hurriedly turned his head to look at the girl, who couldn't see any expression on her face, but there was a little sparkle in her eyes.

Fina slowly walked to her father's bedside, sat down in the slightly shabby chair, and reached out to gently take his shriveled hand.

"Bed Seven should run out of medicine."

The nurse on duty downstairs walked into the ward at this time, mechanically removed the needle in Fina's father's hand, used cotton to stop the bleeding, and then left, without saying a word to Fina.

"Let's go."

After just a few moments, Fina stood up and walked out of the room.

Reiner didn't say anything during the process, he already sensed that Fina and her father didn't seem to have a good relationship, and the town was a bit odd, but he decided to wait for Fina to speak herself.

Walking out of the hospital, Fina breathed a long sigh of relief, then pointed to a tower on a small hill far away from the town, and whispered.

"That's my home, Principal Ian Gray."

At night, the town has only a small section of the road illuminated by dim lights on the side of the road, but it seems that there is no need to worry about hitting people, because the huge streets are silent and no pedestrians have walked by.

It's like a backward ancient village, where the sun rises and the sun sets.

"Should I find a hotel to stay in?"

Reiner looked around, and the doors of every house were closed and it was pitch black.

"There are no hotels in Sur Town, so to be precise, there are usually no outsiders here."

Fina sighed, causing Reiner to look at her.

"Principal Ian Gray, let's go to my house and rest for a while."

She didn't shy away from anything, and seemed to trust Reiner quite a bit.

"Uh, okay."

Reiner could only obediently follow the petite girl who was not yet her chest to the tower.

The road was dark, but Fina knew it with ease, as if it had been walked a thousand times, and the two of them walked in the night for about twenty minutes before they came to the bottom of this secluded tower.

The four-story tower was located on a hill large enough to overlook the city, but the outer walls were covered with moss, and the faint walls were very dilapidated, and Fina took out the key to open the door, and the rotten wooden door creaked and slowly opened.

Through the starlight, Reiner saw what was inside the tower.

The tables in the hall were littered with piles of parchment, all the materials needed to construct magic, and there was little place to stay on the ground, which was obviously much more messy than Antoine's alchemy workshop that Reiner had seen for the first time.

Fina sighed, lit the candle on the wall, and bent down to tidy up the room.

Reiner stood in the doorway, waiting for a moment before Fina sorted out a small area where people could sit.

"I'm sorry, but my dad doesn't usually pay much attention to packing these things...... I'm going to make tea. ”

Fina was a little helpless, turned around and went to the kitchen to be busy, in Reiner's opinion, this is the surprising side of this girl, I thought that Fina should be a good girl who focuses on studying, but I didn't expect to have such a homely appearance.

She was wearing a light long skirt, and at this time she wore an apron, and was washing the teapot in the sink, which for some reason reminded Reiner of the image of a sister who is good at taking care of people.

"Please."

Bringing out a clear cup of tea, Fina also sat down on the chair next to Reiner, who had been carrying a faint sadness from the moment she had been impressed.

"Well, it tastes good."

I thought that in such a messy room, tea leaves and the like should have expired long ago and could not be drunk, but the tea made by Fina was unexpectedly delicious, and the faint aroma of tea was endless.

"My father was a mage."

Fina also took a sip of tea with a teacup in both hands, and then took this opportunity to speak.

"It's just that he has achieved almost nothing over the years, but he refuses to give up his research and barely survives, which is really terrible."

Fina's father was the only mage born in this town, and after graduating from the magic school and achieving the rank of official mage, he chose to return here for some reason, and after that, Fina's mother died shortly after her birth, leaving them father and daughter in this world.

According to Fina's words, her father is probably the worst father in the world, since she was a child, her father has never cared about Fina's life, nor has he taught Fina even a single magic, and in Fina's childhood memory, her father has not done any research on magic at all, just like an ordinary farmer, working every day.

The early death of her mother and her father's inability to take care of people made Fina self-reliant from a very young age, from tidying up her room to doing laundry and cooking, and life forced her to learn it all.

If that's all there is to it, then it's fine.

"This town, Principal Ian Gray, you may also be aware, they don't like mages, and they don't like magic."

Fina said, looking out the window at the dark town.

"The people here have always lived a primitive life, and it is said that because they were deceived by a mage in the past, most of the income in the town was wiped out, and since then, people have been extremely disgusted with mages and are unwilling to accept the help of other mages."

Her father, on the other hand, learned magic in secret, and was valued by a passing mage so that he could enter a magic school.

But Fina couldn't figure out why her father had come back to this place after becoming an official mage.

Even though her father never started out in magic, Fina was ridiculed by her peers, who called her a "witch" and a cousin who would lure men to bed, throw stinky eggs and leftover melons at her, and even doused cow dung on her head.

It wasn't until she was ten years old that an uncle persuaded her father to send her to Crescent Academy to study magic, and Fina was able to escape from this nightmarish place.

After Fina left, her father resumed his study of magic, but it was of no practical value, and Fina could only see the situation of his life from his father's occasional letters.

But Fina had already decided that she must become a full-fledged mage and leave this ignorant and backward town forever.

This also explains why Fina worked so hard and got good grades, because she had no choice, the other students could go home and inherit the family business, and they could take the exam a few more times to become a mage, but Fina couldn't.

However, all these plans were shattered by her father's sudden serious illness.

"It's raining."

Fina muttered to herself, and outside the window, the sparse stars were obscured by dark clouds, and a summer rainstorm followed.