#17. Rumors
Two girls with good backgrounds are prone to get into some strange trouble when they go out on the street, especially in places like taverns.
So before the trouble came to her head, because of the problem of reputation, Lena still whispered a reminder to Heine not to expand the trouble as much as possible.
In other words, it doesn't matter how you toss, just don't reveal Lena's identity.
When she was reminded by Lena, Heine's feelings were quite complicated.
Because the one who says this is the easiest and the most able to extend the trouble to the greatest extent.
So after answering Lina's words, Heine was secretly ready to fight at any time and run away at any time after the persuasion failed.
"Oh, a tavern is not a place for a girl like you."
Ignoring the mercenary disguise who had come to get in the way, Heine smiled faintly and pulled Lena to go straight to the counter around him.
In the face of such a reaction, the man did not move, and took two steps back to stop in front of the two again. On the rough face covered with stubble, a playful smile emerged.
As he stopped him again, the people around him who were watching the play began to make a big noise, and the sound was not loud, but there were many people who couldn't stand the heckling.
It didn't take long for the already noisy hall to become more and more crowded.
There are all kinds of people who applaud, urge them to hurry up, bet on everything, and even a few who choked up and almost started by themselves.
Heine had been out alone for so long, and it could be said that she had long been accustomed to this kind of fault finding fault with this group of people as entertainment, and the only thing she was worried about now was Lena.
As I said earlier, if she ......
Boom!
Before the worries could be revisited, Heine saw the big brother who was blocking the way fly upside down.
Use a few tables as cushions until you hit the counter.
Retracting the staff that the bearded man had pulled out, Lena in turn pulled Heine towards the counter.
Lina's behavior of doing things directly without saying a word naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the eldest brother and his companion who had fainted, and several people stood up from their seats in a scolding manner, leaning towards the two of them in a surrounding manner, intending to reason with her on the spot.
Then the guy who was looking for trouble with these people was blown out of the tavern directly by Lina with a storm bomb.
Passers-by saw a few people flying out of the room, and began to point fingers at these people.
"Hey, look, it's a few of them again, they must be drinking and not paying."
"Shhhh You keep quiet, and they will hear the trouble coming to you. ”
“……”
Ballard, who had returned from the docks, was worried about where to find Lena and Heine, and when he happened to see this scene at the door of the tavern, the melancholy in his heart immediately disappeared.
If nothing else, this hand is indeed Lena's style.
Catching a glimpse of the red mark on the face of the big brother who had been struck with the staff, Ballard confirmed his thoughts.
Pushing open the shutter door to the store, Lena and Heine stood in front of the counter, scanned the messy surroundings, and sighed to the two of them.
He took out a handful of gold coins from his purse and placed them on the counter, turning his head to look at the boss with a disgruntled face.
"Enough compensation."
More than a dozen golden steel hammers instantly dispelled the gloom on the boss's face, and he hurriedly changed to a smiling face, chattering repeatedly while collecting the gold coins.
"The rest is our room money for the past few days, and two rooms are enough."
"Enough is enough."
The boss continued to nod.
"Well, it's enough to have a drink with these friends who were accidentally injured."
"Enough is enough...... No, that's not enough for guests. ”
almost went down the quilt cover, which made the boss suddenly have a lot of good impression of this middle-aged man who came to do ordinary things.
But after another handful of gold coins were slapped on the counter, he picked up the goodwill that had just been reduced.
Clapping his hands, Ballard gave a thumbs up to those who were either ready to ask for an explanation or who were going to continue watching the ensuing farce.
A hearty smile appeared on his face, and a mouthful of white teeth reflected a flash with sound effects.
"I'll invite you to a drink, it's kind of a ...... for my two troublemakers"
"**Affiliation."
"**I apologize to you."
The name of the ghost animal was said by Lina, and Ballard didn't think much about it at the time.
But after he finished speaking, he realized that something seemed to be wrong in the atmosphere in front of him.
Immediately afterward, he finally realized what was going on that would make the originally jubilant atmosphere turn into silence in an instant, so that the pins could be heard.
The head of his own regiment began to "get sick" and pit his own people again!
Raising his hand and knocking on the top of Lina's head, he took the two keys with the house number in the boss's hand, and Ballard picked one in one hand, and walked briskly to the second floor with the two of them as if he were carrying luggage.
As soon as they came to the corner of the second floor, the three of them heard a lively discussion about the relationship between the three of them coming from the hall downstairs.
Of course, it's more about exclaiming "that friend is really strong" and something like that.
Finding the room with the corresponding house number, Ballard threw the two of them directly on the bed after entering the door.
Before he could open his mouth to complain, Lena put on a pitiful but reluctant look, and the tone of her mouth was as greasy as she was.
"Do you really have the heart to do it to a minor?"
Then the top of her head was knocked again.
It's just that unlike just now, this time Ballard used the butt of his gun.
Holding her head and giving Ballard a middle finger with Shame Lime, Lena looked like nothing had happened just now, and began to ask for details about the charter.
Relying on the reason that "Lena, who doesn't pit his own members for a day, is absolutely uncomfortable", Ballard returned the money bag to Heine, shook his head and sighed.
"It's storm season coming, and no one wants to go to sea."
Counting the days, Lena asked a somewhat jumpy question.
"Theoretically, there is still some time before the storm season, are there any rumors starting to circulate in the harbor?"
"Worthy of my regimental leader."
With a snap of his fingers, the helplessness on Ballard's face suddenly changed to confidence in knowing everything.
"A while ago, a fully loaded cargo ship went to sea, and a few days later, part of the wreckage of the cargo ship was found on an uninhabited beach not far from the city of Saltinia, along with a surviving crew member. After a few days of treatment and recuperation, the crew woke up, but after he woke up, his spirit was no longer as normal as before, and he just curled up in the corner of the room every day, muttering in a low voice that the sea god was finally going to send her divine punishment. ”
He took out Heine's box as a deposit from his satchel, and when he opened the lid, Lena turned to look at Heine.
"Where did you get this thing?"
At the sight of the scales, Heine fell silent.