“…… Personally, in my opinion, this is an eagle. ”

Azir stretched out a hand and put it on his chest, as if to solemnly introduce the matter:

"Eagle!"

"What's there to worry about? What is the difference between a chicken and an eagle? ”

“……”

Azir didn't want to continue on this topic with her, so he said, "I want more Uru alloy, let's offer your price this time." ”

The convenience of doing business with Twilight is that she never asks why, and she doesn't care if the other person is going to do good or bad, she just needs to give her a price that she is happy with.

The red-haired woman pinched her chin, "I'll think about this...... You start by saying how much you need, I'm looking at the situation pricing. ”

Azir thought for a moment, "Preferably an entire mine. ”

"What a big appetite, a whole mine? That represents the core of an entire Death Star. Twilight went to the data cabinet and rummaged through it for a while, "There was a fight in Zaun half a year ago, and the red-haired pirates snatched a Uru metal mine from the original mine owner, but they didn't have the refining technology, and everyone who could refine was killed by them, so now only the original metal is sold." ”

"Zaun?" Azir was stunned, he had never heard of this name.

"It's our name here, the original Beta No. 2 Beta No. 2, it sounds like a random number, and everyone is not happy." Twilight said.

"Whatever." Azir said nonchalantly.

"I can't help you in this situation, you can't expect a weak woman to rob a well-guarded mine?" Twilight regrets that she can't help herself, "It's still a bunch of vicious, pirate mines!" ”

Azir asked, "Where can I find them?" ”

Twilight said, "The uppermost bazaar has their harbor. ”

"So what do you want this time?" Azir asked.

"I want to think about it...... A commitment from you. Twilight's beautiful eyes are curved into crescent moons and squint like foxes.

"What promise?" Azir didn't get it.

The red-haired woman teasingly held her cheeks: "I want you to promise to help me do something, but I haven't thought about what it is, but I need you in the future, and you have to help me." ”

Azir was silent, and walked along the watch on the wall, and it didn't take long for him to say, "Yes, but that thing must not be detrimental to the interests of my world." ”

"Deal!" Twilight pats the table in agreement.

Azir muttered, "One more thing, when I came, something very important was stolen. ”

"Tell me about that child."

Twilight goes back to her seat, lights a cigarette for herself, and leans back in her seat to swallow the clouds, which she doesn't find unusual for children to steal from Zaun.

Azir recalled, "He was probably to my chest, in human form...... A very thin child, looking a little malnourished, with white hair, very dark skin, and a pocket watch pinned to his belt. ”

"I know who it is, you're talking about Ike, he's the best student we've ever had." Twilight puffs out a puff of smoke and laughs.

"The best ...... Student? ”

Azir was still a little sensitive to the word, but he could think of the environment of Zu'an, and the words of the sweeping old man just now, who knows what curriculum their school offered!

"Ike was only interested in mechanical repairs, and this was the first time I'd done stealing something."

For the first time since Azir entered the house, Twilight's face was sad, as if she was really worried about someone, "His mother is sick, and the little one doesn't have enough money to buy medicine, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen this path." ”

"The first time I was so proficient......

Azir was rarely interested in their lessons, wondering what kind of teacher could teach such a thief to steal the golden disc from his ascension himself.

"Of course, he's a genius!"

"It's not something to be proud of...... Why don't you just give him the medicine? As far as I know, the hospitals and pharmacies below are all under your name. ”

"You seem like a fool to ask this question, and I don't have that obligation." Twilight gave him a blank look, "Also, I'm going to contradict your assertion that in Zaun, no matter what means you can rely on, as long as you can survive, it's something to be proud of!" ”

Despite Azil's repeated assurances that he would not harm the child, Twilight disagrees with him going to him alone, citing the fact that it is her student and that she is his principal.

It reminded Azir of his headmaster, who not so long ago had been shouting to kill him.

Azir was even more uncomfortable.

Most of the inhabitants of Zaun, except for the black marketeers and pirates who came to do business here, are mostly survivors of destroyed civilizations, some of whom were defeated in the war with Kamigawa, and some of whom were destroyed due to the bottleneck of their own development and could not be changed.

So there's a mix of things here, each race has a different level of technology, and as well as culture, and these factors always lead to conflict, so there are almost daily violent incidents here.

However, in Twilight's introduction, Azir learns that the present time is much more peaceful than it was when it was founded, and that through this struggle, the technological abilities and cultural levels of each race tend to be equal.

Along the way, Azir also saw many races that he had not seen in Kamigawa's materials, but they all had similar traits to other races, which were mixed races of different races, and they had grown up in Zaun since birth, in this garbage heap that was spurned by other civilizations.

Of course, the half-breeds are only a minority, after all, not every race has the same aesthetic, and most of the people who have destroyed civilization have settled here, and some have even multiplied for several generations.

And they have never given up on inheriting their own culture, even if they know that it is useless and that what has long been destroyed cannot be reproduced, but seeing familiar things will still comfort the vacant mind.

Ike is one of the many such people, and according to his mother, their original civilization was a beautiful world called Birgit, who had just invented the teleportation technology for the designated space when Birgit was swallowed by a black hole.

A small number of Bilgit fled to settle in Zaun, but that was thousands of years ago.

Many technologies can only be heard about in stories, and they have long been lost.

Ike's father died in a firefight with Zaun before he was born, leaving his mother to live with him.

"Ahem...... Okay, I'm full, you can eat some too. ”

In a small hut so simple that it could be blown away by the wind at any moment, a haggard woman leaned on the bed, half-covered with a quilt, and looked at her son with tender eyes.

"I'm not hungry, you eat more, so that your health will get better quickly!"

Little Ike pushed back a little stubbornly, and the bowl was filled with earthy yellow sticky soup, which was already good food in a powerless family like theirs.

"How's your school?"

"My float skateboard project has been approved by my teacher, and as long as I can build it, I will definitely sell it for a big price! Mom, at that time, we can live a good life. ”

Little Ike's eyes are full of longing for the future, although he was born in a quagmire like Zuan, he shows that he has never given up his yearning for a better life.

His mother saw her son's innocent smile and was willing to fall asleep.

Ike soon lost his innocence when he walked out of the house, the family didn't have much money, and the wages of the small jobs he did were not enough to buy medicine, and he had been studying Principal Twilight's thief course for today.

Ike didn't tell his mother about stealing, because he knew that his mother knew that she didn't want her son to grow up to be a thief, even if it was for herself, and she hoped that her son could learn some real skills and one day leave here and find a civilization that could accept him and live under the light.

But how can a loach that grows up in a dark mire be accepted by a clear pond?

Capable people can choose to be good people, like Twilight-sensei.

Incompetent people only have the fate of being chosen, how can there be any good or bad, good or evil, black and white, only unscrupulous means to live.

This is Zaun.

"I want to be a good person, but good people in this place can't make money, I want to use the money to buy medicine, I don't want my mother to die." He said to himself, "I did the right thing, I did the right thing." ”

"I'd rather make mistakes than do nothing!"