"Aha! Just kidding, don't care! My friend! ”

Taking a sip of the contents of the glass, Anna breathed a long sigh of relief and began to continue her story;

The old guy's brigade is called Blood Raven, of course! Even in that golden age, the strength of that brigade was an extremely terrifying existence in the territory of Nord at that time, although the blood crow would always only have about 300 people, but the survival rate of the blood crow was the first among many brigades!

At the time,

People were eager to join the Blood Ravens, but the Blood Ravens only kept their total number at about three hundred...

Speaking of this, Anna paused, picked up the ugly and strange black wine bottle and filled her glass again, and took a leisurely sip before continuing:

You know what? In Nord, the crow is a magical creature that represents hope, and whenever the ocean-going ships find a crow flying nearby, it means that they are not far from the land, so I privately call the old ghost's brigade the Hope Brigade. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because he almost never let me down, whether it was the wine of Viruga, or the scimitar of Kujit, or even the armor treasured by the Marquis of Harungos, he always brought it to me after a few months of vanishing, and I always thought that he was the god of all powers, the stars in the sky, and he could take them off and give them to me if I wanted to.

Anna's eyes were a little moist and a little misty, and I saw her cherry lips lightly open an epic war in front of Beichuan's eyes...

That's right! That's what I used to think, he is God and the sky that belongs to me alone....

But when I joined the old ghost's brigade when I was six years old, I had a new understanding of the word crow - in his eyes, blood crow was hope, but it was also burdened with death.

The other half who carries hope is burdened with death, which is a reasonable explanation, isn't it?

It was the first war I had ever experienced, and the worst breakout I've ever experienced. The three hundred heavily armed Swadia knights of the Swadia Royal Knights with nearly 800 knights were surrounded on the plains by the main force of the Blood Ravens at that time, including the charioteers who transported the goods, and more than 150 people, including the carmen who transported the goods, surrounded the plain outside Fort Kerrydan.

Because of the irreconcilable contradictions between the two countries, the war began without negotiations at all.

In the face of the king of the plains, the Svadia knights, the blood crows, who were completely at a disadvantage, still had an advantage in numbers, so the leader of the other party ordered to charge without thinking. With a command, the torrent of steel rushed towards the fortress built by the turtle in the wagon, and although the members of the blood ravens were experienced and cooperative, they had to fight the cans after the spears and axes were exhausted.

I can even remember the smell of steel and blood...

As for the outcome of the war?

The woman smiled miserably, rolled up her sleeves, exposed the cross-shaped sword scar on her shoulder, and then pointed at herself:

"I was the only survivor of that battle... It was only when I saw the crows that were attracted by carrion after the war that I learned the true meaning of the word 'blood crow'. ”

Anna's words seemed to mean something, but Kitagawa couldn't grasp it, so he could only let her continue.

The battle was later known as the Battle of the Blood Raven Sunset, and the name seemed to herald the beginning of the fall of the Golden Generation, as the Golden Generation, which rose like a comet fell one after another in the conspiracy of the three kingdoms, the Transboundary Brigade was hit far worse than before...

The Blood Raven was forced to disband due to the loss of the main force, and I returned to the place where the Blood Raven started alone and quietly opened this tavern, and then abandoned the name of the Blood Raven to establish the current Thunder Hoof.

That's when I met you, oh no! Meet Higgs, a famous villain in Downtown...

I remember the first time I saw him, he had just stolen the hammer of the blacksmith Uncle Linus but I hit it squarely, and in the panic the hammer fell and hit my foot, ah, that~ That stupid guy actually hugged my leg and asked me if it hurt (of course it hurts!). - Dark Anna, Andrea), only to be caught by Uncle Linus who chased after him, and beat him severely.

When Uncle Linus was angry and walked away, this guy seemed to be kind enough to help me rub my medicine, but he took the opportunity to steal my wallet.

I thought this might be the only intersection in our lives, but I met him again and again~

The second time I met him, he was flirting with the grocery store owner's daughter, and just as I was about to roll up my sleeves and teach him a lesson, he actually gave my money bag to a beggar on the street, and when I wanted to chase him, he had disappeared into the crowd...

I found that he was getting bolder,

On the third encounter with him, he was actually beating up the guards of Ruger Town, uh! Don't look at him as skinny, he's actually very flexible, and I heard that that guy drugged the guard in advance...

Anna looked at Beichuan and waved her hand and took another sip, her voice already a little slurred. She was finally still drunk.

The fourth time, he was robbing the mayor's girl's lollipop...

The fifth time, he hit the fiancée of the captain of the guard....

Sixth 、...

...

As he grew older, he became more and more courageous, but he shot less and less....

Until one rainy night, he suddenly came to me and said that he wanted to go to sea.

I joked that I needed something enough to pledge a boat so I could lend it to him, and he hurried back and when he came here again, he had an extra knife in his hand, well! A misshapen knife...

I lent him the boat, and on that rainy night...

Click!

Kitagawa felt as if something had shattered, and some fragments of memory came to mind...

Anna: "He went to sea that night..."

The Beichuan ghost envoy said in the same tone, almost synchronously, "I went to sea that night... My father has been out at sea for several days, and if he hasn't come back yet, something must have happened, and I want to find him! I have to find him! ”

The rain was so heavy that I couldn't see clearly on the surface of the sea, so I could only move forward intuitively... Forward...

There is no end, the rain is still falling ....

I don't have the strength anymore...

Higgs lay in vain in the boat, the oars had been lost in the heavy rain, and he had to go with the flow.

At this time, he hated it! I hate myself for not learning how to play the paddle with my father!

He hates it! I hate myself for not being good enough for my water nature!

Don't recognize the charts! I don't know the route! I couldn't even find the sea that my father frequented!

He had never hated himself so much! But even if all this he would? My father will still go out to sea to fish on this rainy day....

So...

If my father hadn't gone to sea that day, none of this would have happened!

If the family has enough food and clothing, my father will not have to be so embarrassed!

If, without those clanging weapons, there would be no war that destroys everything?

If there is no difference in status, is there no dignity or inferiority?

If......

But! There is nothing if...

He lay on the violently shaking plank, and sincerely prayed to the great being in the underworld, for a man who could change everything, and for which he was willing to pay any price, even if it was his soul...

And so he fell asleep in the pouring rain...

"On the beach outside the city the next day I found the boat without oars and the pale Higgs, who looked very bad, and though I tried to keep it, he gave it back to me and left, and I haven't seen him since......"

Anna took a deep look at the cramped and restless Beichuan and answered meaningfully:

"Until the day before yesterday I saw another Higgs..."

Beichuan didn't dare to follow that inexplicable subconscious mess anymore when he heard this, so he hurriedly shut up, but in his heart, he couldn't help but recover the situation at that time.

(Higgs went back with a fever and died in his own bed...) ）