Act 127. Leave
It was already noon the next day, and Reiner visited Dr. Phyllis again, and they decided to leave the town on the afternoon train at the same time.
The steam train that passes through the town of Sur runs every two days, and the station is located in the eastern part of the town, where there are no people on weekdays, and for the townspeople, the outside world represents danger and terror, and only their own corner of the world is the best.
Fina was wearing a dark brown dress with a small vest over it, which was her mother's clothes, and with the intellectual glasses, Reiner suddenly felt that it was normal for Fina's father to fall back then.
She carried an old box in her hand, which Fina had brought with her father when he came to the town, and which now contained the academic results of Fina's father's life.
Reiner had gone to the hospital with Fina first, and Dr. Phyllis had already packed his belongings, and he had been in Sur for so many years, and everything was only a small suitcase, but the information about Fina's father's illness, and all the patients he had come into contact with over the years, was packed in two large boxes.
Dr. Phyllis was supposed to take the nurse to send the materials to a larger hospital for preservation, but when he saw Reiner, he nodded slightly.
"Give it to me."
Reiner freed the mage's hand and lifted two large suitcases of luggage, which helped Dr. Phyllis a lot.
The group of four of them walked towards the station, but before they could see the shadow of the station, they saw a group of people first.
It was the townspeople led by the mayor, and Reiner saw several young people mixed in, and he reached out and gently placed it on Fina's shoulder, and he could feel that the girl was trembling slightly.
It's not cowardice, it's anger.
"Calm down, I'll take care of it."
Reiner whispered in Fina's ear, then took a few steps forward.
His actions caused the townsfolk to take a few steps back, these people remembered Reiner's intimidation the other day, but they couldn't watch them leave under their noses.
"Are you here to see you off?"
Reiner asked, looking at the mayor and the people behind him, perhaps one of the people who had attacked Fina's father that day.
"You can't just leave, Fina. Nabistin should stay in town. ”
Mayor Mare said without confidence that he was afraid, afraid that Fina would become more powerful in the outside world, and then use other methods to get revenge on them.
"Why?"
Reiner thought it was a little funny, he hadn't met such a stupid guy again.
“...... She's a member of the town of Sur and it's my responsibility to make sure she's there! ”
The mayor didn't seem to expect Reiner to ask such a question, and was stunned for a moment, so he searched his brain to find such a reason.
"From now on, she's not anymore."
Reiner pulled out a piece of paper, a letter of appointment he had drafted yesterday, which said that he would hire Fina. Nabistin serves as a teaching assistant at Crescent Academy, and according to the rules of the Kingdom Law and Magic Association, mages who work as teachers in a school can move their household registration into the school for easy management, in other words, Fina should now be considered a member of Crescent Academy.
"I know you don't know how to read, Mayor, so I'll give you such a simple explanation, if you have any objections, you can contact the Baron who governs this place."
Reiner's words made Mayor Mare's face redden.
How dare he use the baron to crush himself??
But for a moment, the mayor couldn't think of a rebuttal, and watched as Reiner and Fina stepped over him, over the townspeople.
"Oh, yes, one last thing."
Reiner paused and said to the mayor.
"Mr. Nabistin left behind a black box, I wonder if anyone has seen it?"
He asked, scanning the crowd to see several of them with wandering eyes, as if avoiding Reiner's gaze.
"How can we possibly take his stuff?"
The mayor said with a look of disgust, and behind him, several people also responded.
"Well, the box is a very precious gem, it seems that it has been lost in the mountains."
Reiner sighed as if helpless, then turned around and led Fina towards the station.
He gave these people a chance, but no one cherished it.
......
After Reiner left, the town of Sur seemed to return to its original calm.
But a few young men were not so peaceful, and as night fell, they were gathering in a corner of the town.
"Cassin, we snatched that thing back together, and now you can't keep it alone."
One of the young men said, his words causing everyone to look at the mayor's son, who was leaning against the wall, his face gloomy and looking around at the others.
"Wasn't it me who proposed to teach the old man a lesson? I'm the one who gave you the information, right? In the end, it is still me who suggested leaving that black box, what qualifications do you have to own that thing? ”
He had always been the leader of the group, and as the son of the mayor of the town, he felt that he was destined to lead them, and at that time, he decided to take Nabistin, which his father had been targeting, and led people to secretly attack the frail old mage, snatching the black box he had been holding in his arms, and at this time, the box was under his bed.
Normally, when Cassin said these words, everyone else should have avoided them and stopped arguing with him, but perhaps it was Reiner who made him look good a few days ago, and his prestige among this group was gone, and this remark did not cause any waves.
"Divide it evenly, or we'll report you to the Baron."
One woman said that she had sacrificed her life to curry favor with Cassin, but now she was decisively on the side of money.
"Nabistin's death, you all have a share!"
Cassin threatened viciously, and a few seemed to retreat, but most were unmoved.
"Cassin, if you're not willing to split it evenly, I think we can do it another way."
A tall man said lightly that he had been rebellious in the past because of his family background, and now he was rebellious.
"What do you want to do......"
Cassin sensed that something was not right, and secretly picked up a stick by the wall.
But the others were faster, and the tall man grabbed Kasin's hand, and the other young men picked up the rocks on the ground and threw them at Kasin.
Ten minutes later, when the woman realized that the stone in her hand had already been stained with grayish brains, the group stopped.
And Casin in the middle of the crowd can no longer be called humanoid, it is a filthy mixture of flesh and blood.
"We killed ......"
It was only at this point that someone realized what they had done.
"Don't panic, he deserves it."
The tall man trembled slightly, suppressed the wavering in his heart and said.
"Now that we're all in the same boat, the next step is to find that black box!"
Hearing his words, the people with blank expressions slowly turned their heads and looked at the mayor's house not far away.