Sixteen years ago.

The year 1277 in the Aramaic calendar and the year 2674 in the Holy Spirit calendar.

Four years have passed under the new Syrian monarch.

After the promulgation of the "Lordship Act", the emperor carried out the greatest suppression, and since then, the centralized royal court has radiated to various places, and all the nobles and nobles have also become vassals of the royal court.

The golden port of Dawn, located in the narrow sea, has also ushered in a new life, with frequent trade, the injection of capital from investors, creating many jobs.

In a short period of time, it has changed from an unknown wild port to one of the first cities in Aran to become rich.

Extremely prosperous.

The Coinage Act promulgated a few years ago has boosted the wealth of the people of Aranne.

Even though Ogne Heinrich was tried as a war criminal and his fears were slowly diluted over the years, the shadow he brought with him was still etched in everyone's bones.

Under the emperor's deterrence, the village warrior regiments that had been formed in various places to fight against the secret department were disbanded, but many people have been secretly equipped with weapons in their homes in case of emergencies.

It's the same in Maika's house.

Located in Dawn Harbour Central, near the Eternal Church, a single-story eight-storey duplex with a spire red tiled building, one of which is the property of Maika's family.

On the side wall of the burning fireplace, an arquebus is hung that can be fired, and the furnishings in the hall are not high-end, but they are quite exquisite, and they are made by extremely skilled carpenters.

The bright light of the winter noon day outside the window was completely cut off from the wordless dull and dimly lit room.

The rocking chair squeaked and made a somewhat sharp and torturous sound, and a middle-aged woman with a sad face sat on the chair with her eyes closed and one hand against her temple.

A man with sunken eye sockets was also pacing back and forth in the hall, seemingly a little agitated.

The sound of firewood bursting in the fireplace and sparks in the fireplace reduced the space that was already frozen by anxiety to freezing point.

"How much did you lose?"

It was Maika who spoke first, and he couldn't stand the way these two men made a fuss.

He looked sixteen or seventeen years old, quite young, with three-dimensional features, a high nose, gray-blue eyes, a white shirt and black vest, and a pocket watch.

He took out a cigarette case from his pocket, shook it out, and was about to light it.

A resounding slap had already been thrown in his face, leaving a red mark.

The middle-aged woman withdrew her hand with trembling fingers.

"Why don't you just smoke a cigarette?"

Maika was indifferent, the hot pain on her face wasn't very bad, but the ring on this girl's face was scratched a little, it was really fucked.

"You have been dismissed from the school now, and all the tuition fees you paid before have been lost, and you still have ...... face"

The middle-aged woman's anger gradually subsided, and she began to choke.

Maika didn't go to an ordinary school, and the tuition fees were high, even with his family's background, which accounted for a quarter of the total expenses.

The reason why Maika was fired.

It was because he stabbed a school teacher in the thigh with a dagger, and stabbed him twice, and the leg was completely useless and disabled, and should have been twisted to the sheriff for three years' imprisonment.

But Maika's father insisted on bailing him out on the basis of all these years of business, and of course, he also gave the disabled teacher a lot of compensation and reached a settlement.

"I'm going to go to Milk's parents so that those riffraff don't come to fool around with you in the future."

Middle-aged women try to solve problems with their own ideas.

The so-called Milke is a well-known problem student in Dawn Harbor, and his family is quite wealthy, and he started a gang at a young age and did some things to cheat and deceive.

Maika thinks that this way is the most mentally retarded, and the woman's way of thinking is unacceptable.

"Eldest sister, it's okay, Milke is my little brother, where do you put my face like this?"

Maika wondered if this woman did this, she would have no face to mess around in Dawn Harbor.

He was the second-in-command of that gang, and in fact it was not a gang, it was just a small group of students who gathered together for entertainment, and they were too numerous to be bullied by others.

It just so happens that the Adventurers' Guild has recently settled in Dawn Harbor, and if he loses face with Milk, he plans to run away from home and try his luck.

The middle-aged woman was about to die of anger and rubbed her temples.

"Why are you stabbing your teacher?"

Even if the family is about to lose everything, the middle-aged man is calm, and Maika's hooked nose and gray-blue eyes are also inherited from him.

Maika was very irritable.

Tired of these commanding tones, that old pervert wants to the woman he likes, can't he teach him a lesson?

"That level is not worthy of being a teacher, misleading people's children."

Maika gave a very good reason, as if he was clearing the way for Arran's education.

He mainly studied two subjects in school, history and arcane foundation, Daddy Maika counted on him to be able to work in the government in the future, judging that in the future, Aram will still be rampant with the military and police, and the emperor is the military government to come to power, this is no way, if you can't fight, you can join, and only by blending into the government can you have a future.

With Maika's talent, if he didn't commit this, he would have a chance to be admitted to a higher university in the hinterland.

He glanced sideways at his son, who still had a hatchet at his waist, and now no school would accept him, so he had to find another way.

Daddy Maika has been in business for many years, and many new hallucinogens have recently appeared on the market, and it is rumored that someone in the Great Prison of the North is reselling drugs.

Unlike some traditional hallucinogens, psychedelic effects are excellent.

And that's not all.

I heard that in the villages where the plague broke out in the northern part of the empire, the disease was uncontrollable in the past, but the doctors from the big prison came out and solved the problem.

"Perhaps...... I should have found you a tutor to learn the art of medicine. ”

He judged it this way.

"Excuse me?"

Maika suspected that he had misheard, he hated two kinds of people the most, one was a priest and the other was a doctor, both of them were magic sticks, and some herbal creams he thought were purely bluffing, and it was better to heal people naturally.

He didn't want to be a stupid herb seller.

"Are you mad and I wiped it, I apologize Okay, I shouldn't have stabbed someone, I knew I would kill that watchman to solve my worries, it's a big deal to go to sea and make a living like Henid."

Maika said.

Henid was not arrested at this time, and was still a Narrow Sea Mixed River Dragon who could stop children crying at night, and was widely known in the Narrow Sea area.

The middle-aged woman had already begun to find a duster and was ready to smoke him.

"Save it, your little strength, as if you haven't eaten, you have to do it."

Maika unloaded the axe from her waist and kicked it at the middle-aged woman's feet.

However, Maika's behavior made his father make up his mind, he must let Maika learn the new pharmacology and new traumatology, which is a blue ocean that few people compete, and it can also change this kid's fierce and ruthless nature, and contact more patients outside in the future.

Recently, the business has lost money, and the savings are about to bottom out, but considering the sunk costs, there is only one way to go dark.

"Okay, you have to go out and hang out, you can go home at night, at least once every three days, you have to play, until I get you a tutor, then you have to be serious."

After his father finished speaking, he untied the money bag he was carrying, took out six silver coins, and gave them to Mika.

"Brother, you are my father."

Maika was so moved that she was about to cry, and presented a silver coin with both hands, which could be said to be a huge amount of money for a teenager of sixteen or seventeen.

"By the way, how much did you lose?"

Maika is obsessed with this.

(End of chapter)