"On 29 October, when the flames fell and the river was polluted, Ayala said to her partner: 'I will wait elsewhere'. ”

Jonah was reluctant to look down at the vague prophecy again and again, but his fingers nervously touched the rough papyrus repeatedly.

He couldn't control himself.

To celebrate the astrologer's apprentice waking up from a long coma, Toba just slipped out of nowhere and got two bottles of fresh ale, the golden liquor gurgling in the glass, spitting out tantalizing foam and aroma, and the tenants of A51 raised their wooden wine glasses, of course, Jonah's cup was still filled with the chamber master's secret "Mushroom Farm" brand porridge, which was a special treat for the sick number.

"We should say a toast. Elliott proposed.

Toba looked at Sibi helplessly, and the little grasshopper stabbed Long Ji beside him, and Long Ji smiled: "For good health." ”

"For the sake of good health, of course!"

"For health!"

"The most important thing is to have a good body!"

The Pitchfork's companions toasted each other, and even Jekong's eyes were brightly lit with joy.

The ale wine flowed into the esophagus and turned into a slightly drunken warm current, and the long-lost laughter and laughter sounded in room A51, and people tacitly agreed not to take the initiative to mention the imminent tomorrow.

Sibi chattered about the big and small news that had happened in Cherry Ferry over the past eight days, and Toba truthfully reported the recipe for each dinner for eight days, and Jonah felt much calmer as he stroked the unicorn's silky mane and drank the hot viscous liquid in the cup. -- Perhaps, just suppressing the uneasiness in a deeper part of my heart?

Jonah's hourglass was tossed aside, and time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, night fell, the brazier was lit, and Toba prepared a sumptuous dinner.

Putting a piece of plump fresh black gold gopher meat into his mouth, Jonah was suddenly shocked: "Oh, my work has been interrupted for so long, how can I explain it to my father?"

"It's alright, Lord Jonah, the head of the room has scraped together the money to pay for you for a month. Ignoring Toba's wink-wrenching expression, Elliott spoke.

"Toba, this ......," Jonah looked at the Bazeral peasants, not knowing what to say.

"Oops, what, hahahaha. Toba blushed and smiled awkwardly, "I still have a small task to complete, let's go first, please use it slowly, and rest early." As he spoke, he stood up and fled, the door of the room that had been punched out of a big hole earlier was gently slammed, and turned into a pile of broken wood of different shapes scattered on the ground, and the huge figure of the head of the room fled in the night.

"I'm going too. Sibi waved to everyone and scurried out the door with ease.

Jonah was stunned for a moment, "Just the two of them, doesn't it matter?"

The Rose Knight put down his plate: "Don't worry, it's just a meeting with the employer, there is nothing dangerous, and now our personal and property rights are protected by the terms." ”

"Speaking of which," Jonah dropped his fork as well, "what exactly are you going to do tomorrow?" tell me. ”

Elliot was puzzled: "The head of the room has specifically commanded not to tell Lord Jonah, this is ......"

"I have a right to know. Jonah said toughly.

The Rose Knight looked at the dragon queen in embarrassment, and the dragon queen sighed after a long silence.

"Okay. "This is a VVVH-class, extremely difficult mission, jointly issued by the tenants of ten V-class rooms—unique in the history of Cherry Ferra. Mr. Yame made the pitchfork team the first priority to take over the mission, which means that only the other teams have the right to take on the task if we give it up. ”

"Why?" Jonah wondered.

"After twenty-three brutal Twilight Arena matches, most of the squads had dropped dramatically, and before the new blood was replenished, the Pitchfork Squad became the second-ranked combat group in Cherry Crossing, behind V2 'Crumbs'. In this case, v2 itself is the publisher of the mission. The Rose Knight explained.

Jonah said, "I see." Wait, there's a new squad in room A61, Mr. W......"

"After taking the loot from the Dusk Arena, the squad was disbanded. ”

Jonah nodded. "Disbanded, of course. ”

"The rewards for the quest are amazing. No one could have imagined that V-class tenants would pay for a task with such a valuable object. Elliott gave a strange expression.

Jonah stared at him in bewilderment.

"Ferry ticket, Lord Jonah. To be exact, boarding quotas. There are twenty-three tickets sold by Daddy this time, each ticket comes with four attendant seats, and the reward for this mission is two places to board the ship as an attendant. The Rose Knight said.

It took Jonah a few seconds to react, staring at Ryuki in surprise, "So, you still have a chance to go back to the South?—I don't know why you have to go back, but I think it must be very important." ”

Long Ji nodded slowly: "Yes, our first reaction is the same. Very pleasantly surprised. But immediately, I said to Eli that we couldn't take up the task. That's pure death. ”

Jonah looked at the Rose Knight again.

Elliott's expression was a little gloomy: "Participating in the Twilight Arena and putting the whole team in extreme danger is a lot of consideration, after all, the spoils of war are a ticket, five boarding places, and five places can allow most of us to avoid the war and settle down in the relatively peaceful southern continent." It's worth the risk.

But it would be extremely foolish to accept the VVVH-class mission for only two boarding slots, that is, to put the entire team on a life-and-death journey for the needs of Miss Longji and Elliott. We made our attitude clear to the head of the room on the spot. ”

"Yes, it's all dead...... "Jonah muttered, "but I guess Toba won't hesitate to take on the task, for you." ”

The Rose Knight bowed his head: "Yes." The roommaster and Miss Sibby signed the task list despite our resistance. In accordance with Article 40-3, any two members of the team accept the mission, and the entire team is deemed to have accepted the mission. - At that time, they didn't even look at the content of the mission. ”

The silver bells in Long Ji's hair jingled. Jonah looked at her, only to see her face twisted out of the door, and her slender neck as white as a swan.

"Stupid? Jonah seemed to ask, and he seemed to talk to himself.

"It's very stupid, the benefit is completely disproportionate to the effort. The Rosenkavalier pursed his resolute lips, "as stupid as the chivalry we hold to our creed." ”

There was silence in the room for a while.

"So, what exactly is the mission?" Jonah asked, clearing his mind.

"There is no content to the mission, only the goal. The goal: to delay the pace of the Zavi Imperial Iron Cavalry and ensure that Cherry Ferry is not threatened head-on by the regular army by April 27.

Mr. Hachime announced several reconnaissance missions a few days ago, and the intelligence brought back by the field team one after another showed that the fortress of Motima was breached by the Golden Hammer Legion, and Her Majesty Queen Wenger IV of St. Borun and Her Majesty Queen Abidelle I of Bazelar led the remaining royal family members of the two countries to retreat eastward, reaching the Sucasa Gorge as soon as April 26, and continuing eastward through the hilly terrain into Cherry Ferry.

Lord Jonah should have heard from us that Mr. Dan Sutherland in room V7 had obtained two ferry tickets by various means to prepare for the two queens to cross the Holy River by boat. Elliott drew his sword and leaned down on the small dining table beside the bed to dip his wine and draw a topographical map.

To the east of Bazelar is a hilly and mountainous area with only one road leading to Cherrycross, the valley path that Jonah once walked through the Sukasa Gorge and the miracle grassland "Tears of Shiva".

"I ...... I don't really understand. Jonah frowned.

Elliott didn't know how to express it, and thought for a moment, "To put it simply, there are three forces in Cherry Ferry now.

First: Daddy. In response to the actions of the Zawi Empire, Daddy did not react in any way, and still faithfully enforced the fifty-five additional terms;

Second: the royalists, headed by Monsieur Dan, mostly composed of the old nobles of Saint-Bourne and Bazelar, were ready to receive the two Queen Majesties;

Thirdly, the forces of the wealthy merchants and nobles of other countries in the rest of the V-class rooms, that is, the people who issued the VVVH-class missions, our employers. ”

"Well, go ahead. Jonah said.

"This year's Colombo Spring Hunting Festival falls on April 27, so the ferry will set sail at 12 noon on April 27.

The third faction, which had the tickets in hand, tried every means to ensure that the ferry could sail on time, and the two Majesties became a source of instability.

It must be known that behind Her Majesty's Majesty, the elite troops of the Golden Hammer Legion of the Zawi Empire are closely in pursuit, and it is even rumored that the commander of the Golden Hammer, the Storm Knight Isaacchios, is among the pursuing army. ”

Jonah immediately remembered the Golden Dragonrider Chop, the leader of Isaakios' personal guards, whom he had seen in Lady Duran's Black Cat Cafe in the Sukasa Gorge. With the sheer power of a single detached dragon knight, Jonah couldn't imagine how terrifying the Storm Knight himself could be.

"Although the third faction has a certain degree of confidence in Daddy's strength, it still wants to minimize the unknown factors, so they jointly issued a VVVH-level mission and sent the strongest team of Cherry Ferry to delay the footsteps of the Zavidi ** Regiment. Does Lord Jonah understand that?" asked Elliott.

"Totally understood. The astrologer apprentice nodded, "This is indeed a mission to die!" He jerked to his feet and sat back down from his weak dizziness.