Chapter Forty-Six: Gorme D. Roger
"Excuse me."
Saitama pushed open the door to the tavern and stepped inside.
The interior of the tavern is very simple, not only the tables, chairs and benches in the store, but even the signboard at the door are old, and it seems that it is not a short time.
Maybe it's because it's not busy time, and there aren't many people in the tavern, just a few guests sitting there whispering something.
While at the docks, an older dock worker told Saitama that the owner of the tavern had been a sailor on merchant ships when he was younger, and that he was a very knowledgeable and experienced person, and that if you wanted to inquire about the location of the "City of Water", you could go to him and ask.
So, Saitama walked to the town, and after asking all the way, he finally found the site of the old tavern in the mouth of the worker.
However, unexpectedly, the owner sitting at the bar was not a very old man, but a beautiful girl with long blond wavy hair.
"Am I in the wrong place again?" Saitama scratched his head in distress and went out to take a look.
"Well, this tavern is indeed the place that the uncle said, but why is the boss not right?" Saitama muttered to herself.
Saitama's dress is already a little strange in the eyes of these people, and with that conspicuous bald head, it's hard not to be noticed.
"Hello, guest, is there anything you can help with?" At this time, the blonde girl standing at the bar came over and asked.
Saitama looked at the beautiful girl with blond hair in front of her, frowned and asked, "Excuse me, isn't the boss here an old man?" ”
The blonde girl was slightly stunned and smiled, "Are you here to find my father?" He hadn't been out for a long time, and it seemed that he had gone to the mayor's place. ”
"Ah, that's right." Saitama responded with some disappointment.
"Is there anything you're looking for him?"
Saitama took out his navigation map, pointed to a circled location on the map, and said, "That's right, I want to go to this place on the map called the water capital, but I got lost, and I heard the workers on the dock say that the shopkeeper here may know, so I came here to ask, that, do you know how to get to the water capital from here?" ”
The girl didn't expect that the person in front of her would come to ask for directions, but she had been in Rogue Town since she was born, and she didn't know the "Water Capital" at all.
"Sorry, haven't heard of this place, you just wait here, my father should be back soon."
"Oh, that's it, okay." Saitama regretfully agreed.
"Well, would you like something to drink? My father's sake is very delicious, and it's very popular in Rogue Town. The blonde girl asked politely.
"No, no need, thank you." Saitama didn't have the money to drink any good wine, so he could only refuse in embarrassment.
"It's okay, then you can find a place to sit down and wait for my father to come back." The girl smiled like a spring breeze and said.
"Okay, that's a bother......" Saitama nodded and sat down in a very inconspicuous corner.
Saitama sat bored in the corner, feeling that the shopkeeper hadn't come back after a long time.
Saitama waited until he was sleepy and was about to doze off in a daze, when suddenly there was a dense and chaotic sound of footsteps outside the store, and it wasn't long before a man wearing a straw hat on his head pushed open the wooden door of the tavern and walked in.
As soon as the straw hat man entered the door, he saw the blonde girl at the bar, and he was obviously a little surprised.
"Lu Jiu! I am back! The man in the straw hat couldn't hide his happiness and shouted loudly.
"Roger!" The voice of the girl Lu Jiu was also a special surprise.
Saitama was drowsy and startled by this voice, and suddenly fell asleep: "It turns out that it's not the boss who is back." ”
After seeing that the other party was also a young man with strong blood, Saitama suddenly lost all interest, but the owner's daughter was very happy to see the other party.
"Maybe it's an acquaintance or something." Saitama guessed that it had nothing to do with him anyway, and Saitama fell to the side bored and continued to doze off.
During that time at sea, Saitama's sleep quality was not very good, but now that he was finally able to lie down peacefully, a sense of sleepiness swelled up, and it didn't take long for Saitama to fall asleep again.
Roger sat in front of the bar, and the girl Lu Jiu mysteriously took out a bottle of wine from the cabinet behind her, and skillfully poured a large glass for Roger.
Roger unceremoniously took a sip, and finally put down the wine glass with a satisfied face: "Uncle Portcas's ability to make wine is getting better and better, and even the great voyage can't find such fine wine!" ”
Lu Jiu covered his mouth and let out bursts of laughter like silver bells: "Roger, this wine is not made by my father, it is my achievement!" ”
Roger was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then burst out laughing: "It's worthy of Lu Jiu!" Uncle Potkas's skills are not as good as yours! ”
With that, the two looked at each other and laughed.
The laughter continued, and a group of guys with a fierce temperament walked into the tavern one after another, and the girl Lujiu was not afraid when she saw these people, but was very happy.
"Reilly, you guys come and try Lou Jiu's own wine, it's even better than Uncle Portcas's!"
"Hahaha, Roger, I'm afraid you guys only think it's delicious because of Lu Jiu's relationship!" Reilly stepped forward and teased.
"Reilly! And Jabba and Sikal......" Seeing the familiar faces, Lu Jiu immediately called out their names one by one and greeted happily.
"Ahh Lu Jiu, long time no see. ”
Because of the arrival of this group of people, the originally deserted tavern suddenly became lively, and a group of people drank wine and ate meat, which was not very pleasant.
Saitama was impatient at first by the noisy voices of this group of people, but then he got used to it and didn't think so.
From the conversation of this group of people, it is not difficult to hear that these guys are actually a group of pirates, but from the time they came to the town without causing a riot, to the time they walked into the tavern and had a good conversation with the blonde girl, it is not difficult for Saitama to guess that these guys should not be as bad as imagined.
The most interesting thing is that the pirate leader named Roger is obviously very familiar with the tavernkeeper's family, at least in this tavern, these people are free and easy, and that kind of behavior is not pretended.
Maybe Saitama's chosen location was too inconspicuous, or maybe Saitama's presence was not high, and those people didn't even notice that in a dark corner of this tavern, there was a bald head with a salted egg face.
"Roger, aren't you going to the Great Voyage? How did you come back to Rogue Town? ”
"Ah, I'll tell you, Rujiu, we're ......"
Roger looked smug and was about to share his experience with Lu Jiu, but before he finished speaking, suddenly, "Bang! The wooden door of the tavern was kicked open.
A group of staggered men dressed in a swagger in, including the guy named Stiger the Lion that Saitama met at the docks.
The movement at the door made the originally lively tavern instantly quiet, and everyone looked over in surprise.
"Sdiger, look at any of these guys if there's the bastard you're looking for!"
"Dad, that guy is very good, we have to be careful."
"You coward, no matter how powerful you are, can you have Lao Tzu's gun? Useless stuff, get out of the way. ”
The first middle-aged man with a mustache scolded a few words, and Steig suddenly cowered and hid aside.
Mustache held a musket in his hand, and his eagle eyes looked around before landing on Roger in front of the bar.
"Yo! Who's this? Gore S. D. Roger! I heard you're going to be a pirate! Mustache said as he walked over to the bar, stomped on the chair next to Roger, and shouted in a strange way.
"As the sheriff of the town, I can't be lenient to people like you, but I can spare your life if you were born in this town, as long as you pay me enough money."
The group that had come in with the mustachioed sheriff burst into laughter and shouted loudly.
Roger lowered his head, and suddenly his body began to tremble, and the mustache showed a smug look on his face when he saw it, thinking that Roger was trembling with fear, and he was about to speak, when Roger finally couldn't hold it back and burst into a burst of laughter.
"Hahaha, Randy the Mustache, you guy still looks like a clown as always, hahaha......"
The surrounding pirates also laughed out loud like Roger at this time, and the seemingly vicious guys like Randy with the mustache were more funny and ridiculous like a group of juggling circus clowns in front of Roger's pirates.
Randy the Mustache was furious, and angrily snatched the bottle full of red wine from Lou Jiu's hand, poured it on Roger's head, and then smashed the empty bottle to the ground.
"Smack"
The empty wine bottle smashed to the ground, and it instantly fell into countless pieces, and the sound of the explosion frightened Lu Jiu into screaming.
However, Roger didn't show any anger, but squatted down unhurriedly, and said with a smile while cleaning up the broken wine bottles: "I'm so embarrassed, I just came back and caused trouble to Uncle Portcas's tavern, and scared Lu Jiu, is there a rag?" ”
"Hey, Roger, even if you're a pirate now, you're still the same piece of garbage as before, hahahaha......"
With that, Randy the Mustachioed waved one hand and smashed all the wine glasses and bottles on the bar to the ground.
"Hey, Roger, don't you like to clean up? The way it looks now is more suitable for you to clean up......"
"Hahahaha......"
Randy the Mustachioed laughed triumphantly, and his men laughed along.
At this moment, suddenly a voice came from the corner of the tavern:
"Hey! I'm talking about you! ”
Everyone followed the sound and looked, only then did they notice that there was still a person sitting in the dark corner of the tavern.
Not only the arrogant mustachioed Randy, but even Roger and the others were slightly stunned.
The man stood up and slowly stepped out of the dimly lit corner.
A bald and reflective head catches everyone's eyes first, followed by the iconic strange outfit.
When he saw the bald head who spoke, the lion Stig weakened his legs, fell to the ground, pointed at the bald head in fright, and shouted: "Yes! It's him! ”
At the same time, Reilly's face suddenly changed when he saw Saitama's appearance and dress.