Alan looked at the endless ice fields in the distance, a little bored.

He had been a gate guard in the Elsi Kingdom for several years, and at first he was very interested in appreciating the polar beauty of the Polar Ice City, but he was soon defeated by the same scenery.

To tell the truth, anyone who looks at the same white clouds for several years will lose interest, anyway, he is tired of the beautiful scenery that is very shocking to the Gentiles.

Looking at the fur and leather armor worn by the adventurers who entered the city, and then at the standard light armor he was wearing, Alan smiled a little proudly.

When there is no fun in the scenery, the fun is of course transferred to the people.

Especially when the other party's standard of living is not as good as yours.

As the captain of the gate guard of Polar Ice City, Alan felt that he had seen countless people in the past, and he felt that he had already developed a pair of fiery eyes.

For example, the two female assassins in the team of adventurers who were about to enter the city, judging from the outline of their bodies, must be two beauties.

Especially the one, although her face is covered, it can be seen from the purple eyes and silver ponytail that this little beauty may still have a strong royal blood of Elsie.

Thinking of this, it seemed that he had thought of something, and Alan shuddered inexplicably.

Putting away the hanger, he walked towards the adventurer squad.

"You are not from the city, and you need to pay two silver coins per person to enter the city." Erwin, the gate guard, looked at the few people who were obviously from the adventurer team, with a straight face and a businesslike appearance.

"Here, these are six silver coins......" Giselle nodded, and was about to take out the silver coins from the spatial ring, when she heard something strange coming from the city gate.

"Erwin, let them in, don't charge them entrance fees, I know these people......"

Alan walked over quickly, patted his subordinate on the shoulder, and turned to Giselle.

"This swordsman lady, please go directly to the city with your companions, and you don't have to pay the entrance fee."

After speaking, Alan also deliberately glanced at the masked petite female assassin with great meaning, revealing her most 'bright' smile, suggesting that the little royal beauty in front of her should remember her goodness.

"Maybe she'll be caught up in her handsome face, ah! Sometimes it's a sin to be too handsome......"

"Who is this, with a disgusting look on his face that I know you best, and he smiles so disgustingly at me...... Do I know you? I don't even know who I am now. Can I know you? You know a hammer!"

The young man looked at the gate guard a little strangely, and secretly slandered in his heart.

The other party seems to have exempted his team from the entrance fee to the city, and his attitude towards himself is a little too polite, as the so-called nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief, the other party's behavior is strange, there must be other meanings that he does not understand.

After nodding at the other party's 'goodwill and friendliness', he couldn't help but bow his head and ponder, thinking about whether to take the time to kill this guy who had other plans for him.

All danger and malice need to be nipped in the bud.

Seeing that the masked girl accepted his kindness, Alan raised his eyebrows with some excitement, he got out of the way and bowed down to welcome everyone into the city.

Erwin, who was next to him, looked at his boss's style, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes.

Allen, of course, did not see the rude eyes of his subordinates.

For him who received a 'positive response' and was excited, this was his good life.

Leisurely in a daze every day, when necessary, charge more despicable foreigners' entry fees to the city, bow your head to please others when necessary, maybe one day there will be a nobleman who looks at yourself to bring you a higher status and opportunity?

In the current Polar Ice City, the talent is far less fast than the promotion of the whiskers, after all, the promotion device of the boss who can already be his grandfather, he is not willing to take it.

Taking a step back, even if he was willing, the 'grandfather' was still unwilling......

I'm afraid I'll never learn these Elwins, and it's no wonder that he's been working here for more than ten years, and he's still a little janitor.

Seeing Erwin looking at himself with a dissatisfied expression, Alan hooked his shoulders and grabbed the other party and said something.

Hearing that Eren was going to invite himself to eat in Selse's pocket tonight, Erwin hesitated for a moment and decided not to pursue Allen's illegal operation just now.

Alan glanced at Erwin with disdain in his eyes, a person like this may only be a doorman for the rest of his life.

After the episode, Giselle and the others went directly to the Adventurers' Guild in Polar Ice City.

The boy looked at the beautiful buildings like ice crystals, and observed all kinds of strange races dizzily.

From the very beginning of the sight of the long-eared green-haired archers in the squad, it seems that there is more to this world than just humans.

On the way back, he had seen other elven archer girls who were tall, delicate, and elegant, and he had seen a low, muscular dwarf with a hammer in his hand and a round shield in his left hand, and even he saw a hideous orc with green muscles, a tall and strong body, and a huge fanged orc girl carrying a beast girl with cat ears and a cat tail......

Although the team members are very wary and disgusted with orcs, they do not fight as soon as they meet like some thin but brutal goblins, which makes the boy slightly concerned.

His subconscious doesn't seem to be surprised by these strange races, which means that these races are all within his cognitive range, but what the hell is that?

The boy looked at the two animals arguing face-to-face on the smooth stone slabs of the street.

An animal was obviously an owl, I don't know if it was an eagle owl, staring at a pair of big round eyes, and the beak opened and closed quickly.

The other is a big yellow dog, sticking out his tongue from time to time, his mouth also opening and closing, and sometimes he bites his tongue when he is in a hurry, and screams in pain.

Seeing both sides open and close their mouths opening and closing to each other in the language used by the team members, the young man grew his mouth in amazement.

That one... It's a quarrel, right? It's swearing... Scolding the beast, right?? Animals can talk?

Are all the animals in this world refined?

Fortunately, the eyes are covered with a black cloth, otherwise wouldn't you reveal that you don't know anything now?

Seeing that the big yellow dog seemed to be unable to say anything about the other party, he moved the real fire, opened his mouth wide and pounced forward to bite the owl, but saw the owl spread his wings with disdain and flew up, and smashed a piece of bird in the mouth of the big yellow dog's roar.

The big yellow dog was angry, plopped to the ground, and rolled his eyes......

I don't know if it's angry or smoked......

The boy seemed to understand what the owl was saying in the sky.

"Dumbfounded, stupid dog, you can fly! Huhtui"

Tracy looked at the prince who turned his head to look back at the quarrel between the intellectual beasts, pulled the other party a little funny, and motioned to follow the team, but she was muttering to herself in her heart, isn't there enough of this situation for His Royal Highness the Prince? What's so nice about the intelligent beast tearing, it's over when you go......

Perhaps, it was the brain that was broken, and the memory was really lost?

Thinking of this, Tracy's eyes were even more gentle and could drip water, and she held the young man's hand tightly and did not let go, which soon made the young man's palms sweat.

Seeing Tracey's gentle eyes that cared for (mentally retarded) him, the boy was a little inexplicable

But I didn't know what to say, so I had to come back to my senses, and I had to wait until later to figure out what the talking animal really was.

When he looked back, the boy suddenly felt that he was familiar with this kind of scene, and this kind of contradictory thinking made the boy's head ache faintly, so he stopped thinking nonsense, took a deep breath and tried to calm himself.

"Hey, hostess, do you have any extra work for me? I'm just looking for a place to take a shower and eat a meal, even if it's leftovers......"

A young man in a rudimentary coarse cotton jacket stood at the door of the shop, exuding a violent stench, ignoring the vigilant and disgusted gazes around him, and shouted at the owner of a shop next to him.

"No, no, you can go to someone else's house and ask."

The proprietress glanced at it, saw that the young man looked like a beggar, turned her head, waved her hand with disgust, and said without looking back, but saw a group of adventurers who were obviously dressed lavishly, and her eyes lit up.

The young man looked at this scene bitterly, laughing at himself, but quickly picked himself up and walked towards the next store.

The young man looked at the proprietress who was still above the top just now, and now greeted his group warmly with a smile, ignoring the proprietress and looking at the young man's back again.

For some reason, the boy had a faint sense of familiarity with this young man.

After thinking for a moment, he touched his bulging pocket, and the young man suddenly broke away from the group and ran towards the young man, ignoring the surprised team.

Tracy was about to hold the boy, but when Giselle shook his head, she stopped, and the group slowly followed.

The young man did not go far.

He was rejected again, looking at the indifferent shopkeeper, the young man sighed, looked at his hands that were red and chapped from the cold, let out a breath of heat, endured the pain of cracking the flesh and rubbed it carefully, and continued to walk to the next shop, only to find that someone patted him on the shoulder.

Turning her head, a petite teenage assassin was staring at her intently with a pair of large, violet-like eyes.

The young man was stunned.

There was no contempt or boredom in the girl's gaze that she had ever seen, nor the sympathy and pity that she hated the most......

There was only calmness in her eyes, only recognition, only encouragement.

It's as if telling yourself, don't give up, don't feel inferior, and live strongly.

It's as if this person is a good friend I've known before, even though I've never had friends.

Friend, a beautiful word that is the farthest away from oneself, a fantasy that one has never dared to hope for.

The young man has always thought that the distance between warmth and emotion is farther than the distance between hell and heaven in the mouth of the bard, but at this moment, he has denied his 'persistence'.

If I really had a good friend, she would be like this, right?

Looking down at his depressed appearance, smelling the urine of the cat demon that he hadn't had time to wash off, the young man's nose seemed to be sour, and his eyes were a little red.

A young man who has never felt dirty and unbearable, who has never cared about anyone's contempt and disgust, suddenly feels inferior and ashamed at this moment.

The 'girl' did not speak, but took out a small worn bag from her already flat chest and handed it to the young man.

The young man subconsciously took it, looked at the familiar cloth bag, and his expression changed slightly.

When I opened it, I saw that there were nine silver coins shining with silver light lying quietly, and the silver coins were engraved with the large portrait of the first monarch of the Elhi Kingdom, with a pleasing atmosphere.

The young man did not speak, suppressed the heartbeat that was getting more and more out of control, and pretended to be calm and looked at the pair of moving purple eyes, as if he wanted to see something.

The 'girl' tilted her head and blinked her eyes in some confusion, as if it was a manifestation of a young man who was a little puzzled.

The young man, who found that he couldn't see anything, still accepted the shabby money bag and bowed his head at the girl.

"Thank you......"

"Beautiful girl, can you tell me your name?"

"I will definitely repay you in the future...... (Even if it costs everything I have, even my life). ”

Of course, the 'maiden' could not understand the young man's words, let alone his inner activities, so she could only nod her head, not speak, and turned around to leave.

Seeing the 'girl' seems to be because he doesn't want to talk to himself more, he doesn't want to have more intersections with himself, the young man's heart is as painful as a knife, the last time he was so uncomfortable, was when he heard the news of his father's death.

He touched the worn-out money bag in his heart, fell to his knees in the street, and covered his tearful eyes with his dirty sleeves, suppressing his cries......

It's like a child who gets lost in the vast sea of people and can't find his mother, gritting his teeth in a strange world, enduring a sour nose, forcibly making himself strong, not letting himself appear weak, making jokes, and being bullied.

At least, you can't cry in front of this girl who makes her heart move.

A gentle touch came from his own head.

I can't feel the temperature, but I can feel the special gentleness.

While putting down his arm, the young man was even more embarrassed to wipe his forced tears with his dirty and foul-smelling sleeves, clearly saying that he would not cry anymore, but he couldn't help it......

Thinking that he had wiped away his tears and snot, the young man looked up at the 'girl' who was stroking his messy and sour hair, and in his surprise, he touched his pendant with some confusion.

It was the last memorial my father left for me before he died, a silver cross.

A hint of nostalgia flashed in the girl's eyes, and then she froze in place.

The young man looked down at his silver cross pendant, his gaze becoming blurred.

(End of chapter)