Chapter 128: Malice

"I'm not running, I promise. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Lévy assured the gray-haired old butler, "Isn't it the task that the old man gave me, and I promise it will be completed." ”

"Your Highness, alas......" Philip sighed.

The chase between Levy and Philippe caused quite a commotion, and a small group of security forces in uniform leather armor had already appeared at the turn in Avenue La Villette.

Philip went up to negotiate with the city guards, and Lévi didn't like the trouble, so he walked over to Karl and Alexia and greeted them.

"Yo, I didn't expect to see you here. ”

A hint of surprise crossed Carl's eyes: "Can you recognize us?"

"Of course. Lévi laughed, then turned his gaze to Alexia, "I don't have many blades that Lévy has made, how does it feel to use them, Miss Alexia?"

There is unabashed confidence in the words.

"Good. Alexia commented briefly.

Because the level of the riot was very low, and there were no casualties, seeing that Philip was obviously the temperament and clothing of the butler of the great aristocratic family, the city guards left after a little questioning.

I saw that Philip had finished negotiating with the security team, but Levi had an expression on his face that he didn't want to go back.

"Who is this old gentleman?" Karl gestured to Philip with his eyes.

"Grandpa Philip, he was our family's butler when my grandfather was young. Levi said.

"Why does he seem like he's chasing you?"

"That's a long story...... What are you doing?" asked Lévy, deftly shifting the subject.

Karl pointed to the entrance to the black market, "Come buy some materials." ”

"No...... That's not what I'm talking about. "When I jumped off the building just now, I seemed to see what you were discussing. ”

Alexia gave a rough idea of her conversation with Carl, about the begging winged maiden.

Because of the little confusion, the little girl is now hiding in the corner with the other beggars.

Lévi listened to Alexia's description, and then took a closer look at the girl with her head hanging in the corner, and Levi's purple eyes flashed with an inexplicable light.

Walking to a bakery on the side of the street, Lévy tapped on the table: "Boss, bring me a piece of white bread." ”

"Okay, okay. The bakery owner took out a piece of bread and filled it for him, boasting, "This bread is ground with new wheat on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, and you smell it, and it has a rich aroma of wheat." ”

Lévy rolled his eyes, noncommittal. In the jealous eyes of the other beggars, he handed half of the bread to the Winged Girl's hand, and then tore the other half of the hand and gave it to the other beggars, looking at the Wingman Girl's gaze, it had changed from jealousy to gratitude.

"Hmm...... You're doing the best thing. Karl groaned for a moment, and said to Levi as he walked back.

"What are you guys doing?!" Alexia's voice suppressed her anger, as if it could explode at any moment.

"What can I say?" asked Lévi to Carl.

Carl felt that a murderous aura had locked on him, wiped the cold sweat on his head, and said, "Let's make it clear to her." ”

Philip had returned, and when he saw Lévy talking to outsiders normally, he stood quietly as a statue.

Levi straightened his gray coat and looked sideways at the blonde wingman girl who was biting the bread and swallowing hard: "There are two doubts, first, do you think that the delicate and moving story may have been written by this girl herself?"

Alexia frowned, she had only focused on the content before, but had not noticed the anomaly of the thing itself.

"Then, did you notice the scars on her body, which were very regular, with long swollen strips with blood scabs. If the other beggars were jealous of the second team's attack, the wound would not be so regular, and the special shape accelerated the distribution of the area, which was obviously a wound that could only be caused by the use of characteristic tools in characteristic situations.

The aim is to inflict pain and bring to a kneel rather than real harm, and in addition to the fact that the vast majority of it falls on the imperceptible back. Hehe, the methods used by the slave owners in the past are still good today, and the girl's crockpot full of coins must have been taken away by some pot-bellied slave owner after dark. ”

Levi's tone was as calm as water, but Alexia began to tremble, which was a sign of the girl's anger to the extreme.

"Scum, taking advantage of the lives and goodwill of others for profit, is the greatest evil in the world......" Alexia clenched her fists slowly, and her crimson eyes seemed to be lit with flames, "The soul of a sinner is only worthy of falling into the abyss forever, never, right, no, can, forgive, forgive!"

Carl and Levi looked at each other, Carl clutching his head in a headache, and Levi had an innocent expression.

"Don't be impulsive, Alexia. Carl grabbed the girl who had already taken a step.

Alexia suddenly turned her head, her red eyes staring at Karl tightly: "Are you just watching something like this happen in front of your eyes, and you are indifferent?!"

"If you want to settle this matter once and for all, just stop. Carl looked at her without flinching, "Impulsiveness doesn't solve anything. ”

"Agreed. Levi put his hand in the pocket of his trench coat and turned to the old butler, "Grandpa Philip, can you help us watch the little girl of the Winged Terrans?"

The old butler put his hand in front of him and bowed slightly: "Your will." ”

"Please don't call me 'you', the old man and the eldest brother know that they will kill me. Levi said helplessly, "How many times have you said it, just call me Levi...... Well, that's it, two. ”

Levi turned his head to look at Carl and Alexia: "I'm also interested in this matter, count me in, okay?"

Alexia was silent, seemingly calming down, but Karl clearly sensed that she was only temporarily suppressing her anger.

Carl didn't speak either, because Alexia was the captain and he wouldn't overstep his authority.

"Yes. After a few seconds, Alexia nodded.

"Well, let me ask you first, which of you is the captain. Levi asked.

"Me. Alexia replied.

"Well, what were you just going to do?" Levi continued, "what can you do?"

Alexia was at a loss for a moment, what could she do, at most she could save the winged girl from the slave owner, but there must be more than one orphan like that little girl, and if she did, those people would at best escape the criminals, and maybe even bring disaster to the other children.

"I think I should know where those people are hiding, but I need to verify it. Karl suddenly said, "Come with me." ”

His eyes swept over a few of the orphans among the beggars, and Carl looked in one direction, and Alexia and Lévi looked at each other, both of them looking surprised and curious.

......

Philippe stayed on Avenue Lavillette to keep an eye on the winged maiden, while Levi and Alexia followed Carl to a somewhat dilapidated manor.

"What building exists in a slum where someone can maintain it without too many visitors, and at the same time have enough space and a justifiable reason for a group of orphans to live?" Karl looked up at the somewhat dilapidated manor house in front of him, "and the answer is the monastery. ”

The white slabs of the long aisle were cracked and blackened, and the angel statues on either side of the doorway were worn by the wind and rain, and the dirty and blackened surface made the loving angel look like a weeping resentful woman.

"And then there's the soil. Karl crouched down and looked at the ground in the empty courtyard with a little dirt on his hand, "As a sign of reverence for God, the monastery land will be covered with red clay, a tradition from a hundred years ago, heh." ”

When Levi and Alexia heard Karl's explanation, they remembered that many of the orphans were stained with reddish-brown soil.

The door was unlocked, and Carl was in front, and Levi and Alexia hurriedly followed.

"Because of the multi-ethnic coexistence of Padré, the Church of Light has not spread well here. "The more relaxed monasteries were clearly more popular than the more focused churches, so the old monasteries were built in large numbers in the past, and they were used to train orphans to become a new generation of nuns and monks to spread the glory of the gods." But today, with the increasing importance of the clergy, monasteries have gradually been replaced by churches and shrines, and have become a place that no one cares about. ”

"So they were targeted by these slave owners and bad people who wanted to make a profit, and these outsiders came here to coerce the monks and nuns to keep it back...... "Alexia continued.

"No, my captain. "If Carl's guess is correct, then the truth will be more boring than you think-"

There was a faint quarrel across the corner, and Levi spit out the blades of grass in his mouth, squinted his eyes, and said:

"Bad people, sometimes they don't necessarily come from the outside. ”