Tina looked at the beggar in front of her with some fear, her two big snow-blue eyes flashed with a few small tears, and her feet trembled slightly, and she hurriedly took two steps backwards.

The half-elf girl didn't know why the other party suddenly stared at her with a wolf-like look, and leaned forward to put her hand in her face.

At this moment, Raymond's voice suddenly stopped the little girl and the beggar.

Raymond shouted "Tina" at the volume of a roar, then ran between the two of them in a few steps, stretched out a hand to cover the little girl behind him, and glared at the beggar who seemed to want to do something to the half-fairy little girl just now.

"What's going on, Raymond?" Arroyo then rushed from the side.

Even those who were attracted by Raymond's shout were attracted by the attention of many passers-by on the street. For a moment, the people in the street curiously turned their eyes to the place where the beggar, the little girl, the young thief, and the future sword master were, and these people who had nothing to do with themselves soon realized that there seemed to be a bustle to see, and many people gathered there from different directions.

A small wall of people gradually piled up there, and the sound of discussion was as disturbing as a mosquito in summer.

"What did you just want to do to her?" Raymond lowered his eyes and glared at the beggar who was kneeling on the ground.

At this extremely close distance, the future Sword Saint condescendingly lowered his gaze, and then discovered at the same time as Arroyo on the side that the image of this dirty guy was actually not as obscene as the two of them imagined.

The beggar in a tattered cloak removes his worn hood from the top of his head, revealing his bewildered face, which makes it seem that he is a man of the same age as Raymond and Arroyo, except that the two thick dark circles around his two eye sockets and a mess of dirty hair make him quite decadent, and his body also exudes the smell of sweat from not taking a shower for a long time.

Arroyo looked at the beggar of his age with a frowning eyebrow, thinking that if a few more flies were floating in his hair, it would be a bit intimidating.

"Yes, I'm sorry. Two gentlemen, and this young lady. Seeing Raymond and Arroyo rushing from the side of the street, the excitement in the beggar's eyes that seemed to glow suddenly faded back as if he had woken up from a dream, "The first time I saw a half-elf, the performance just now was too gaffe...... I'm sorry, I apologize for the gaffe I just had, I'm sorry......"

As he spoke, he raised his forehead to look at Raymond, who was standing in front of him and glared at him fiercely, and then slammed his head to the ground with great dignity.

The beggar's behavior suddenly made Raymond stunned for a while.

It was only at this time that a very inopportune voice came from the crowd of onlookers to remind Raymond: "Hey. Don't listen to his, young man. This guy's name is Locke, and he might be a heretic! ”

"Heresy?" Arroyo, who was standing beside the swordsman youth and the half-fairy girl, suddenly turned his head to the crowd.

At the same time, the beggar named Locke raised his head from the ground, and his two eyes were covered with two black circles like pandas, and he also looked at the same place as the thief youth's gaze, and asked innocently, "How can you falsely accuse people of innocence out of thin air?" ”

"What innocence? I was in the tavern the day before yesterday, and I heard with my own ears that you had been studying heresy in the church a few days ago, and I was pointed at and counted. The man who had just spoken out to remind Raymond had mercilessly pierced the last layer of skin on Locke's face, "even in the middle of the night." I was blasted out of the church by the Lord Priest! ”

"Who did you listen to?" Soon someone asked again.

"Adventurer, mercenary...... There are also a couple of priests. ”

"Speaking of which, I did see him sleeping outside the church the night before, curled up with a dog."

"How do you see that?"

"Of course you see it with your eyes."

"Hahaha......"

said. There was a snickering from the crowd.

Suddenly, Locke felt that he couldn't distinguish a hundred mouths, even if he did have a bitter heart in his heart, he had to swallow his head and bury his head. Kneeling on the ground, he put the torn hood attached to the dirty cloak back on his head with his hands, so that his hot face would not be seen by too many people.

Raymond looked down at the dirty beggar with a dazed look in his eyes. For some reason, he suddenly felt that what the other party had just done didn't seem to disgust him so much.

In an instant, with an intuition, the future Sword Master felt that there might be a story of suffering hidden behind this guy who was crawling at his feet, and he seemed to be really pitiful.

"Brother Raymond......" Tina's two small hands grabbed Raymond's sleeve, and her little head with bright silver hair poked out from behind the young man and looked at Locke.

“…… Give me the money. Turning his gaze sideways, Raymond stared at Tina's innocent cheek and spread his palms to his side.

The half-elf girl looked up at him for a few seconds, hesitated, and then handed Raymond the small copper coin that had been given to her by Arroyo's hand.

The grumpy young swordsman took the bronze coin from the little girl's small palm, sighed softly, turned his head and threw it into the broken wine glass that lay at Locke's feet.

The coin falls into the cup with a crisp "ding" sound.

"Raymond?"

"It's okay... Let's go to the tavern, Arroyo. ”

Glancing sideways at the young thief who had been walking with him all the way, Raymond felt that the anger in his heart had subsided, and immediately took Tina's slender hand from behind him and prepared to leave from the encirclement of the onlookers.

However, trouble and encounter are two things, as if they could never get rid of it since the two young men met Finn.

When Raymond was already about to ignore the small commotion caused by Locke on the street, Arroyo suddenly followed the crowd's line of sight and looked in the other direction within his field of vision, and promptly called out to Raymond: "Wait a minute. ”

"Huh?" The young swordsman stopped.

"Look there."

The young thief stood on tiptoe and raised his arm to reach out a finger to the city gate.

Raymond is a few centimeters taller than Arroyo.

With the advantage of height, the future sword master took the little hand of the half-fairy girl, stood in place and raised his chin, stretching his neck as high as possible.

Then, he saw a small group of people riding horses, following the streets they had walked a few minutes earlier from outside the city into the city.

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The book friend character [Locke] has arrived, please provide for acceptance~

In addition, I will inform you of a painful thing: because the English test is going to be taken this month, the time is a little tight, so the update rhythm is temporarily changed back to one shift per day, and two shifts will be resumed after the test.

Our English grades are very scummy, and we haven't passed the English exam twice, so we must pass this time, otherwise it will be very troublesome when we intern next year.

The update speed will slow down a little during the preparation period, but as long as there is no accident, it will not be broken (it is even more impossible to break the root or something!). ）

All in all, I hope you forgive me...... QvQ (To be continued.) )