"Name. ”

"Brunei. Brunei Carlyle. ”

"There is a surname...... Carlisle, hmm...... Gender?"

“...... Well, male? I'm asking this. ”

"Yes. Isn't that a matter of course? What else can gender ask?"

"No, I mean, I don't think there's any need to ask that question......"

"Less nonsense, just answer the questions. Hmm—I'll explain to you, Carlisle, it's possible to be wrong to judge gender based on what you see. Naturally, asking questions does not rule out the possibility of lying, but it is better for us to ask questions. ”

"Well, is that so? Thank you for your trouble. ”

"Go on - age?"

"Sixteen years old. ”

"You have the mark of the city people, the time of the mark?"

"About eleven months ago. ”

"What day is it?"

“...... Sorry, I can't remember clearly. I was tired, hungry, and scared, and I had come all the way from the Endless Mountains, and I couldn't count the date. By the way, you may be able to see here, a little west-south, near the borders of the Empire, there was a meteorite shower at that time - I mean meteor showers, even though it was daytime, it was quite bright, I don't know if you remember. ”

"What are you talking about?"

"I went into town about a day or two after that meteor shower, which is rare, so I was very impressed with it. ”

"Hmm...... That's fine. Next question, through which gate did you enter the city?"

"West City Gate. ”

"The purpose of entering the city?"

"I used to be an Imperial mage, and I didn't become an Imperial Mage because I wanted to become a Federal Mage and escaped. I came here because I couldn't run after escaping from the imperial territory, and I saw that the academy city was just recruiting new people, so I entered the city. Now I'm grateful for the chance that the Academy City gave me a lot of opportunities, and without the Academy City I wouldn't be where I am today. ”

"Ahem, that's good. Why did you leave the city without a declaration?"

"It's because I've received a kidnapping letter and I'm so anxious — you see, this is it. Carried away. ”

"Well—the daughter of the Miltrov family. I've heard of her. What's her relationship with you?"

"Luckily, he was favored by the eldest lady, and in the last month, he has served as the temporary guard of the eldest lady. Until His Excellency Butler Ford returns, I am solely responsible for the safety of the eldest lady...... It's all because of my momentary negligence, oh, damn it!"

"Ahem, calm down, don't cry — didn't you cry? That's good. So, where is this Miss Miltrov now?"

"I don't know! This kidnapping letter is fake! But the eldest lady was indeed kidnapped! They did not hide the eldest lady outside the city, but somewhere inside the city! This is a blatant provocation to the order of the academy city! Your lord, you must be able to understand that we must not allow such a mob to run amok in the academy city! Their existence is an insult to you! they—"

"Okay, okay, I'm not an adult. I'm just an ordinary guard in charge of vetting people who have entered the city illegally. Remember, in the future, when you encounter similar situations, calm down and let us know in time. The College City will shelter its people, and you have to have faith in the College City. ...... Well, the daughter of the Miltrov family has disappeared in Academy City, which is a real nuisance. We have to report it quickly – we're going to hurry. Last question, for what purpose do you want to infiltrate Academy City?"

"Ahh It's better to say that I can't get into the city - it's not really easy to say, but for me the College City is already a home. It's just that the eldest lady is still missing, and it is very likely that she is still in the city, which is the most important thing. Whether out of a sense of responsibility or my own will, I could not have accepted that I had put the eldest lady in such danger and did nothing. ”

On the rough table, the burly and rough-looking guards wrote beautiful words on the paper at a speed that was not suitable for his image, and the slender and delicate federal letters were generated on the paper one by one, perhaps because Brunei couldn't understand it, and it seemed to him as beautiful as a painting.

Brunei glanced around again with a little uneasiness, but the same conclusion as he had previously reached with "Observe" was nothing. He had no handcuffs on him, no controls, just a simple check and took away his belongings—thinking of this, Brunei once again turned his gaze back to the only guard who was struggling to write.

Without gloves, the magic emblem was not in the standard pentagram style, but the monotonous pattern and the size of the back of his hand that did not fully cover it already revealed the fact that he was only a mage's apprentice. Of course, he is tall and burly, and judging by his muscular muscles, he is a very suitable adjective. But compared to the first person killed by Brunei, that rascal, I am afraid there is still a gap. This made Brunei very uneasy.

Brunei wasn't going to do anything, but the Academy City side should be prepared to be so careless about a possible dangerous person - not to say that he looked like a mage, even if he wasn't a mage at all, it wasn't impossible to kill the poor guard, and then create some dangerous chaos.

This is not normal, so it makes Brunei very uneasy.

Maybe there was some hidden arrangement, maybe there was a weapon aimed at him that even the system couldn't detect, maybe there was some strange magic he didn't know about—he wasn't going to do anything, but he was uneasy because of the possibilities...... Or, to put it more appropriately, he panicked.

The guards didn't seem to be aware of the possible danger to him at this moment, did they have nothing to fear, or were they just commonplace and neglected to take precautions?

Brunei realized that he didn't really need to think about these things, but he couldn't stop, and he didn't want to, his brain was churning desperately, congested by a bubble of possibilities, and every burst of the bubble would upset the balance and cause a chaotic current, and he felt that he was almost going to be overwhelmed, or simply his head was bursting.

But in the end, nothing happened. The guard wrote down the last word, carefully put away the pen, folded the paper three times, held it in his arms, and nodded to Brunei: "You wait here for a while." After leaving a fluttering word, he turned and pushed the door open. The door was closed a little too hard, leaving Brunei and his shadow fluttering back and forth with the flickering lights.

No door locks were heard, and the footsteps of the guards were clearly audible. This means that he doesn't care that Brunei opens the door and leaves, and there is no one else guarding the door. What the hell is going on? Why? New bubbles kept popping up, and finally, naturally, he was completely overwhelmed by them.

So he wasn't sure if he hadn't noticed it or if the guy really wasn't making a sound.

All he could know was that after he had been in deep thought for an unknown amount of time, a thin, age-spotted hand pressed against his shoulder, so old that he couldn't help admiring that the man who could still stand appeared behind him unconsciously, the wrinkles of his face and the indistinguishable scars twisted together to reveal an expression that might be called a smile.

Brunei couldn't help but swallow. It was the first time he had seen an old man of this age, and as far as he could see, a man would have died of sickness or hunger or any other cause before he had grown like this. So he swallowed.

“...... Who are you?"

"Scoldi Lone wolf', the dean of College City. It's a pleasure to meet you, Brunei, though the location may not be so pleasant for you. Compared with his excessively old appearance, Skordi's voice was the opposite, not loud, but clear, and his tone was calm and unhurried, like a middle-aged man with status and a city.

However, the content of his words was more eye-catching than the voice of his speech: "Dean? are you talking about—the city lord?!"

Brunei hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Little Pheeth Carlisle, it's an honor to meet Your Excellency the City Lord. ”

"Whew......" Skordi made a strange leaky sound, and Brunei thought it might be laughing: "Brunei Carlyle." Well, that's fine. Little Brother Carlyle—you don't mind me calling it that, do you?"

Brunei made a posture of sincere fear: "The villain can't afford it." ”

Skordi waved his hand arrogantly, and that action couldn't help but make Brunei worry if he would throw the arm out: "Little brother Carlisle." It didn't take long for you to be caught by the guards after you climbed the wall, right?"

Brunei smiled awkwardly. Perhaps the brightness of the "Jet Flame" was too high, but it was more likely that the group of guards on the city wall had been on regular patrols, and he had just gone up and before he could laugh at his new discovery, he was captured by a group of heavily armed guards and thrown into the place.

"Your Excellency, I just explained to the previous chief, and I have a reason—"

Skordi simply interrupted Brunei's words, repeating his previous words at a slightly slower pace: "You were caught by the guards not long after you climbed the wall, right?"

Brunei closed his mouth honestly: "Yes, Your Excellency the City Lord." ”

Skordi suddenly laughed, and this time his smile was still ugly, but it was much easier to distinguish: "That section of the city wall is more than ten meters and almost twenty meters high. If I'm not mistaken, you'd better turn a mage - fire and water. Tell me, how did you climb the walls?"

Speaking of this, Skordi stretched his head forward a little and solemnly emphasized: "I'm curious!"

[This old bastard insulted this famous line!] The system made a completely inexplicable comment on this.

............

What happened after that went smoothly and surprisingly, and the unexplained restlessness from before seemed to be a complete illusion. Skordi seems to be very fond of Brunei, not only in terms of the title of brother, but after listening to Brunei's explanation, he was amazed again and again, and his attitude towards Brunei was more affectionate. Hearing the news of Scarly's disappearance, he waved his hand and immediately said that the matter was on him.

Then the two of them searched Dongcheng together. Speaking of searching, Skordi didn't seem to pay attention to it at all, and walked slowly street by street, as if he was completely focused on chatting with Brunei. After thinking about it, Brunei didn't say anything in the end, and after being prepared for nothing, he chatted with Skordi.

As a result, when they walked down the street, they saw the running eldest lady and the strange bald head following closely behind from a distance. Brunei turned his face back, and suddenly found that His Excellency the Dean was missing, and when he looked forward, he found that he had actually reached the two of them.

Was it just a coincidence that Brunei's brain had honestly failed to keep up with the progress of the matter, or was there some reason he couldn't understand that had brought things to this point?, but the result was undoubtedly in his favor, so he put these doubts aside for the time being and ran on.

Sculdi's cage of three bolts of lightning that had previously been helpless was vanished with a wave of Skordi's hand.

Then, Skordi grabbed the back of the neck of the bald head chasing Scarly, although the guy didn't look fierce, at least he was young, but he had no idea of resisting, he really curled up like a caught chick, honestly without saying a word, Skordi nodded with satisfaction, showing a mouthful of scattered teeth: "Look, little brother Carlyle, I said it was wrapped around me, right? Now Miltrov's girl has also been found, and the prisoner has been caught, and this matter is considered a satisfactory settlement." Don't worry, this guy who dares to do anything wrong in the academy city, I will definitely let him not eat and walk around. ”

Scarly blushed, bowed deeply to Skordi, and thanked him repeatedly. Skordi waved his hand nonchalantly, but his eyes stayed on Brunei: "Little brother Carlisle, do you have any questions?"

Things are moving so fast that until just now he was still trying to digest and understand and analyze every detail in between. However, he was not prepared to say this now, because he thought of a more important question: "Thank you very much for your help. It's just that, in my opinion, this incident cannot be considered a complete solution. ”

The smile on Skordi's face was still the same, but there was a pause before he spoke, which was not easy to notice: "Do you mean the question of who is behind the so-called kidnapping that you mentioned? If there is still an accomplice or accomplice behind this guy, please rest assured, little brother, he will definitely confess. ”

At the end of the sentence, the smile on Skordi's face opened a little more, and it became even more eerie.

Brunei shook his head: "Your Excellency, thank you very much for your trouble. It's just that finding who is behind it is not as troublesome as you say. If you can count on me, I've got an easier way. ”

Skordi gave Brunei a deep look: "Little brother Carlisle, you are really good at surprising people. ”

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