After Karl said that these were the stories that began to circulate in Erward after the Great Collapse, the truth was completely unascertained, and the children were mixed up and talked about something else, and the honey water in the cup was less than half drunk, and the servant of the city lord came to the tavern.

This servant was not a demon, but a fellow of Carl's, a flax-gray haired and black-eyed wurmist, but unlike Carl, his scales were attached to a large area, and his throat and the back of his hands were covered with light gray scales.

The three children were not prepared for the formal occasion of the formal dress, plain cardigan, thickened jacket, cotton shirt inside, trousers were also plain cotton pants tied with leather leg armor, this dress made the servant's eyebrows twisted, when he saw Carl, the brow was slightly stretched.

"Hello three, I am the servant of the city lord of Feihu City, Yashu, after receiving the letter from the principal of your school, the city lord did not receive you at the first time out of consideration for the need for rest for the three of you, and I sincerely invite the three of you to have lunch together in order to discuss the headmaster of your school's search for the parents of the children who are suspected of being born in Feihu City. ”

The lord of Phehu was named Leigh Cork, a fat man of a well-proportioned body - almost as thick as he was from head to toe, and during the feast Alph found that the lord of the city did not eat much, even less than the less edible Elver, and as he ate frantically sweating, the sweat was as dense as droplets of water sliding down the window in the heavy rain, but the temperature in the room was not so high that it would make people sweat on the field.

Several children forced themselves not to stare at the city lord.

Vincent was not good at dealing with such occasions, especially since the content of the headmaster's letter to the lord of Phehu City was almost a lie, and Vincent could only pretend to be attentive and eat with his head bored, and Alver also said a few polite words, but Karl was decent, from the reconstruction of the places after the collapse to the love and kindness of Headmaster Crent, and how painstaking it was to reunite the orphans at school with their families (in fact, the letter was written in only a few minutes).

Finally, at the end of lunch, the moment Alver put down the dessert spoon, Karl spoke: "Lord of the City, in addition to the family reunion, may I ask if you have received some curse for your size and sweat?"

The tablecloth in front of the city lord was already soaked with sweat oozing from his sleeves, and the city lord groaned for a moment and nodded, "That's right, it's a curse." ”

"Would you like to talk about it?" Karl said with a smile, ignoring Elph's hand tugging at the hem of his coat, "Maybe I know a way to lift the curse." ”

"I don't know if I can break the curse, but two years ago, when I was on my usual tour of the outskirts of the city the day before the celebration of the founding of the city of Feihu, a witch stopped me in my way, and she insisted on holding my horse's leg and saying that if I didn't give him ten copper coins, it would turn into a barrel full of ice wine. ”

"And then?" asked Karl.

"I gave her ten copper coins, and I went to harass the patrol team, and I had to whip her to scare her away, and then, as you can see, I sweat profusely whenever I am in a warm place, and my body does become like a wine barrel," the city lord wiped his mouth with a napkin: "At the beginning, I don't mind, child, you know, people will be blessed when they reach middle age...... Anyway, it wasn't until I noticed that my head was becoming difficult to support my neck that I tried to go to the old witch, but the people in the neighborhood said that the old witch was dead, the night I met her. ”

Karl nodded.

"I really wanted to get rid of the curse, but after two years of trying, nothing happened, so I plan to retire after this year. The city lord took a deep breath, "The witch is dead, and the curse is no longer possible." ”

"Not necessarily," Karl said to the lord with a smile, "I think you know the reputation of the school we came from, and if you can trust or are willing to try, we want to stay in Feihu for the time being to help you lift the curse." Karl pointed at Alph and Vincent, "These are the top students in our school, and I'm a wurmite who knows the curse very well. ”

"Is there anything you can do?" the lord sat up straight, his chair creaking in pain.

"We need to stay here for a few days to observe your condition, after all, this curse has been around for two years, and it is likely that it will be twisted and mutated for some other reason, do you mind?"

"No problem," the lord stood up very cheerfully, "as long as it can be lifted." ”

Because of Karl's seduction of the lord, the three children were granted the right to spend the night in the castle, which meant that two days later, Serra Valen would invite everyone in the castle to her banquet.

Karl carefully inquired about the village where the old witch used to live and where the lord of Phihu City had met the porcelain witch, and the three children went to the inn to pick up their luggage for the horse to live in the castle of Philahu City, Carl dragged Vincent and Alph to the outskirts of the city halfway, and found the old witch's home with a simple hand-drawn map.

"That's it," Karl blew on the earth that had broken the bowl, "and after the feast, we'll just burn this on fire, coat it in a layer of lead powder, and break it up, but we'll have to act like we're working this curse for the next two days." ”

"There's your Carl," Vincent said without hiding his admiration.