Section 4: Goodbye is farewell

"When time turns a warm picture into a pale memory, we are left with only sadness and regret. Because it is only when we lose that we know what is worth cherishing and what is not demanding. 」

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One

A family of four sits around a log table, and the room is lit with candles, and the dim yellow glow creates a warm atmosphere. The middle-aged man with a beard cut the cake on the table into four parts with a knife, and the cake was only the size of his palm, so that he could swallow each one in one bite.

"Eat this cake, and you'll be seventeen, little Tegel!" spoke a young woman with curly brown hair, chestnut eyes, fair skin, and a plump body. She brought the largest portion of cake to Tegel and stroked his forehead.

"It's big for my sister!" Tiger said, placing the cake on his sister's plate.

"Thank you, brother——!" The little girl with long brown hair narrowed her eyes and looked very cute, "but today is my brother's birthday!

"Look! Jenny!" the middle-aged man hugged his wife's shoulders, "We have a good pair of children!

"That's right, a poor but peaceful life—" the wife took her husband's arm and rested her head on the other's broad shoulder, "It's a happy thing to watch the children grow up little by little." ”

"Tegel, from today onwards, you are a man!" the father picked up the wine bottle on the table, poured two glasses, and handed one of them to his son, "Come on! You are my comrade-in-arms in protecting their mother and son!"

"Oh no, dear, he can't drink yet!" the wife hurriedly stopped.

The husband raised his glass to the side of his body, avoiding his wife's hand, "I started drinking when I was fourteen, and this is a basic indicator of becoming a man!"

Tegel snapped his fingers, and the wine glass that he had held in his father's hand suddenly appeared in front of him, "Hah! it always works!" he said with a smile.

The mother looked stunned and glared at Tegel fiercely, "Drink——! as long as you dare to drink, I won't pay attention to you for a week!"

"Don't be afraid, I have a way to make her change her mind!" the father raised an eyebrow at his son, then dried the wine from his glass.

At that moment, the door was kicked open from the outside, and the whole panel fell down, and three tall soldiers in black armor rushed in, the leader wearing a red cloak, and the remaining two wearing white cloaks, with long swords at their waists and behind their backs.

"It's a Noxian soldier!Jenny, get the kids out the back door!" shouted the father, picking up two knives on the table, one of which still had cream on it.

"Sure enough, there's a woman, chief!" said the somewhat fat soldier on the left, "I'm going to drool, this girl is ****** hot!"

"Then you're the last one, Iron Bucket!" The tall and thin soldier on the right pushed his companion and strode over to Jenny, "The goddess of fate favored me today, and I was the first!"

"Jenny, what are you doing there!?" The husband's cheeks flushed with anger, and for the first time he was angry with his wife, "Take the child away!"

"It doesn't seem like it!" the leader of the soldiers drew the dagger from his waist and slashed at Tegel's father's neck, cutting off the other's head.

Jenny and her two children were so frightened that they even forgot that the emotion at the moment should be sadness - it wasn't until the tall and lanky soldiers began to tear Jenny's clothes that they came to their senses again -

"Mom——! no!" Tiger shouted and rushed at the soldier, only to be kicked down by the leader in the red cloak.

"Please, let my children go, let them go, they shouldn't see this!" Jenny's clothes were torn to pieces, revealing most of her body, and tears kept streaming from her beautiful eyes, "Please——!"

"No!" the leader grabbed his youngest daughter by the collar and picked her up, "both of them are going to watch here, and if you resist, I'll kill them!"

Tegel only felt that time passed slowly, and for the next hour, every second seemed to be extended by a hundred thousand times, it was a long and painful cycle, the beginning was endless despair, and when time and space finally pushed fate, drew a distant trajectory, and brought new hope, the cycle returned to the end, the endless despair...... The cold moonlight came in through the window, turning everything in the room silvery white, including the candles. Perhaps, everything in the world can end in this silver coldness, or hide the soul here. The younger sister wept beside Tegel until there were no more tears in her red and swollen eyes, and no longer flashed the innocence of innocence......

The three Noxian soldiers who had vented their **** left, and only the overwhelmed Tiger and his sister were left in the room, as well as Jenny who was only the **** shell - Jenny suddenly crawled towards her husband's body, picked up the head on the ground, raised her neck and smirked, gradually, her laughter turned into a whimper, until her voice was hoarse and she couldn't make a sound......

"Don't leave me behind...... Don't leave me ......"

Jenny stabbed herself in the chest with a knife under the horrified gaze of her two children...... She lay on the ground, clutching her husband's head, her body spasming badly from the pain, "I'm sorry - I'm sorry——!"

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Tegel and his sister walked through the crowded street market, they had not eaten for four days, and the family had run out of money, and now they had to beg on the streets. However, the last thing Noxus lacked was beggars, who either starved to death in the streets or were conscripted to work as laborers.

Tegel took his sister's hand and came to a meatloaf stand, and the two of them looked at the steaming meatloaf and became even more hungry, so they had to swallow desperately to moisten their dry throats. Tegeldo wanted to steal two pancakes and feast on them with his sister, but he knew that the consequences of doing so would be to be beaten to death in the street. Noxian merchants hate beggars the most, because the stench of beggars always affects their business.

"Brother, I want to eat!" said my sister, pointing to the hot patties on the iron plate, her big chestnut eyes filled with tears.

Tegel squatted down and hugged his sister's thin body, "Sister, we don't have any money, we can't eat meatloaf." ”

"But I'm so hungry! I'm so hungry! I don't have the strength to walk!" the sister cried, drawing disgusted glances from the passers-by.

"Bella doesn't cry, brother gives you meatloaf, brother buys it for you!" Tiger couldn't help but burst into tears, and every time he saw his sister's immature but sad face, he felt a great sense of guilt in his heart, and the sadness that almost drowned him.

"Hey——! Sam! eat, eat!" said the owner of the meatloaf stand, picking up a stack of meatloaf with a wooden clip and throwing it on the dusty floor. A big black dog, six feet long, came out of nowhere, gnawing and gnawing on the meatloaf, and it ate so deliciously that it attracted many beggars, and these fellows looked directly at the meatloaf, and saliva hung on the corners of their mouths......

A skinny man fell to the ground with a thud, picked up the meat stuffing that was scattered on the ground, and ate it into his mouth with the sand and dust, and his saliva soon flowed to the ground...... More and more beggars became his imitators, but the ground was limited, and they had to approach the big black dog, and yet—the big black dog, sensing the danger, barked violently, and some of the beggars turned terripy, while the rest approached it without knowing it. With a scream, a bald thin woman was bitten on the head by a big dog, her legs kept staring at the ground, and two slender little hands desperately pulled the black dog's mouth, and blood flowed immediately...... However, the black dog's strength was amazing, and it only took a few twists of its neck to break the woman's spine......

Tegel took Bella's hand and quietly walked to the meatloaf stand, their clothes were a little dirty, but they were not enough to be considered beggars, so the boss did not suspect it. Of course, there's a good show going on at the moment - pedestrians in the streets gather in a semicircle, and the eyes of these fellows flashed with the coldest light in the world, as if they were not human, but stone statues with human skin. The big dog put down the dead woman and continued to eat her meatloaf, which had more delicious human blood sauce than just now. However, the beggars no longer looked at the meatloaf, but on the woman's corpse, which was then rushed as if someone had given them an order, and it was not long before the woman's body turned into a large pool of blood, and her limbs were torn to pieces by the beggars......

"Eat, beggars!" shouted someone in the crowd.

"Eat——! eat——! eat her all!"

The "corpse feast" began! The unlucky beggars grabbed the arms and thighs, which were undoubtedly the most affordable parts, and the less fortunate beggars grabbed the internal organs, but for these people, they could live if they ate them, and if they didn't eat them, they would die, so they had no choice. As a low-level commoner in Noxus, they have long been accustomed to the "corpse feast" of beggars, but they still enjoy watching this "grand scene", because for them, only time is not a luxury.

Tiger kept glancing at the meatloaf on the wooden shelf next to him, he was less than eight inches away from the meatloaf, so to speak, and behind him, there was just an empty space for escape...... "Use that ability! yes, that's the only way!" He closed his eyes slightly, thinking about a picture of the meatloaf flying into his hand automatically, "That's it, that's it...... It's going to take effect, it's going to take effect......" However, for some reason, the wooden frame where the meatloaf was placed turned on him entirely...... He was shocked and held on to the wooden frame in time, and at the same time, the boss turned his head to this side-

"What are you doing!?" the boss's big brown face was full of confusion and bewilderment.

Tegel's mind went blank, and he didn't know what he was doing, so he quickly took a few meatloaf from the wooden rack, stuffed them into his pocket, and then picked up his sister and ran away......

"There are thieves ——! catch them!" the boss's voice was surprisingly loud, overpowering the voices of the people around him, "They stole my meatloaf!"

Several Noxus strong guys immediately took action, each of them wearing a **** upper body, and coarse cloth clothes tied around their waists. These guys are town laborers, and when necessary, they are also klepto-killers, limited to beggar-thieves, of course.

Tegel ran for his life, he had never run so fast, Bella had already hurt his arm, but he couldn't care so much at the moment - the laborers were approaching, and if they were caught, they would inevitably be beaten to death. As he ran, he kept looking at the sides of the road, and as long as there was a fork in the road, he would not even want to get into it, but the sturdy laborers still chased after him...... Maybe ten minutes passed, maybe twenty minutes. Tegel's lungs were about to explode, and it seemed to be stuffed into a cold iron stone, and he knew he was about to reach his limit, but he couldn't stop because there was a bald laborer chasing after him. That guy was muscular, and his face was full of flesh, and the Grim Reaper must have been like that......

"Hey, buddy, come in!"

As Tegel turned into a fork in the alley, he was seized by a thin black hand, and a dark-skinned young man dragged him into a large wooden box beside him—he slipped into it without thinking and closed the lid.

"Go down, there's a bigger box in there!" said the young man, opening the lid of the box and turning to Tegel, who was hiding inside.

Tegel was a little puzzled at first, but by the light outside, he saw a row of wooden steps under his feet, and then he understood. He put Bella down, took the other person's hand, and walked down the steps to a narrow "hallway". It was actually a huge wooden box with an oil lamp lit and two rows of small holes in the top of the head for exchanging air with the outside world.

"Hello, my name is Dyce!" the young man walked down, his clothes so tattered that he could barely cover his body, his neck as thin as a stick, his skin dark, his limbs long, and his back bent.

"Dyce, what a strange name!" Tegel looked at the man named Dyce, "My name is Tegel, this is my sister Bella, thank you for saving us!"

"I didn't save you! it's a box of the dead!" Dyce pointed behind Tegel.

Tegel looked down where Deis's finger was, where there were two white bones, and he was so frightened that he almost didn't cry out, and hurriedly covered Bella's eyes...... After his mood stabilized, he slowly turned his head to Dyce, "You-ate their corpses?"

"No!" Dyce picked up a ragged blanket and covered the two white bones, "they were as thin as corpses when they died—I took out their entrails and gave them to the dying beggars in the slums." ”

"That sounds—just terrible!" Tegel whispered.

"Do you have anything to eat?" said Dyce sat down in front of Tegel, staring at the other man deadly.

"Yes!" Tiger pulled a patty out of his coat pocket, and he found that many of the patties had been broken and the meat filling was scattered in his pocket.

Without saying a word, Days snatched the meatloaf, crumpled it into a ball, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it hard—the meatloaf got stuck in his esophagus, and from the outside, it looked like a ball of flesh had grown out of his slender neck......

"Y-are you alright?" Tiger looked at Days in surprise, he had never seen anyone eat like this.

Days raised the thumb of his left hand and bent it to nod instead of his neck. He then picked up the broken cup on the wooden barrel next to him, drank the cloudy liquid inside, then opened the wooden barrel, scooped out a glass from the dough, and drank it again...... After a few back-and-forths, the meatloaf was finally delivered......

"Why—why do you eat like this?" Tegel's face was full of confusion.

"Skipping the chewing process increases the time it takes for food to be digested. In this way, hunger pangs will come more slowly. Days replied as he closed the lid of the barrel.

"What the hell is this—what the hell?" Tegel pointed to the barrel, and he felt like he was about to vomit, unaware of his surprise just now, and now the pungent smell made him repulse.

"This is my vomit that can be used in place of fresh water. Dyce's answer made Tegel's mouth open wide.

"Won't you get sick if you drink it?" asked Tegel.

"If it's well controlled, it will be about a month before you get sick. Luckily, I've been holding on for two months. Days stood up and lifted the wooden planks of the ceiling, and the soft sunlight poured in, "Every time I eat, I spit myself out so that the food doesn't turn into feces - you are new beggars!"

"That's right. Tegel was reluctant to admit that he was a beggar, but in the current situation, it was an indisputable fact.

"Don't steal, remember!" Dyce lay on the ground, folding his hands in front of him, "The laborers joined the 'Noxus Beggars Cleanup' and they were given a bag of corn kernels for every beggar they killed. ”

"Why do you want to get rid of beggars in this way? I mean, it's a time-consuming and laborious method. ”

"In this way, the government can preach two things to the outside world - the number of beggars in Noxus is decreasing, and the civilians of Noxus are brave enough to capture thieves!"

"There are thousands of beggars here, and tomorrow they will live a life of no one or a ghost!"

"Trust me – to outsiders, Noxus is still the most powerful city-state. Not even the Noxians themselves would believe that there were people like us. The senior officials of the Order Party called us 'bad people', that is, the commoners at the lowest level of society, a group of people who were ignored by this city-state!"

"It was—...... like this"

"Most people live in the sun, so they don't know that there are places in this world where the sun never shines!"

Two

"Another night......" Tegel looked at the quiet night sky through the lifted planks of the canopy, "we were out of food and almost drunk with vomit......

"Bella is dying. Days touched Bella's hot forehead and whispered.

"We're all going to die—soon—" Tiger sat down on the floor, looking at his unconscious sister with tears in his eyes, "I'm such a useless person, she's still so young, and her life has just begun!" he said, slamming the floor.

"Do you want to save your sister?" Dyce squeezed the cockroach that had crawled over his lap and stuffed it into his mouth, "luckily, she's a girl, and she's cute and beautiful." ”

"I don't understand—" Tegel looked at Days with a puzzled expression.

"This box is a very special place!" Dyce sighed as he leaned back on the plank behind him, "On the left, where you entered when you first came, leading to the slums. On the right, the wooden window I made connects to the dark alley of Noxus, where there are many brothels, and there are many rich people. ”

"We're right in the middle, how ridiculous that sounds!" Tegel snorted.

"On the left, it represents death. On the right, it represents pleasure. The choice of where you want to go is yours. Days lowered his head and slowly closed his eyes.

"To the right, of course!" said Tegel, without thinking.

"Then you have to sacrifice one thing - dignity, the minimum dignity of being a human being!" Dyce looked like he was about to fall asleep, which was what he called a meditative state that would reduce physical exertion, "I know a prostitute who could save your sister, but at the same time, dignity and chastity would be discarded." ”

"You're going to send my sister to a brothel? she's only six years old!" said Tegel, who was a little agitated, and would have jumped up if he hadn't been exhausted.

"Half of the women in Noxus are prostitutes and they have no choice but to survive. Dyce's tone remained calm, "To the left, or to the right?" I think most people will go to the right, even if they have to give up everything, but at least they are still alive." ”

Tegel looked at his unconscious sister and stroked the other party's hot face, the power of life was passing little by little, he knew that he would not live long, and Bella would leave before him...... The once warm image resurfaced in their minds, at that time, they had not yet lost their parents, and at that time, they still fantasized about one day traveling to the Coast of Time*......

"Mom, where is the Coast of Time?" Bella sat on her mother's lap, her little hands stroking her hair.

"In Demacia, my darling!" the mother kissed Bella on the cheek, "When you grow up, our family can travel there!"

"Then why can't we go now?" Bella blinked her big chestnut eyes.

"Because we don't have enough money!" replied the father, who was making the bench on the side, "and when Dad finishes making this stool, he can buy chocolates for Bella!"

"Brother—have you ever eaten chocolate?" Bella shook Tegel's hand.

"Uh...... What is chocolate?" Tiger looked puzzled as he tried to get an answer from his mother, but her had the same expression.

"Luke next door said today that Bella is a poor kid and can't eat chocolate!" Bella pursed her lips and looked a little angry, but to outsiders, it was an extremely cute expression.

"Don't ask me, I don't know what chocolate is!" the father on the side glanced at his wife and children, and continued to jingle his busy work, "Jenny, we can't live in Obsidian City anymore, it's all rich here, and I don't want the children to be discriminated against!"

"Where are we going?" asked Jenny.

"The slums of Noxus, I heard that there are many empty houses, uninhabited and uninhabited, and there is no need for money!" replied the husband, "since we are poor, we should live in the slums." ”」

......

"Can you still reach your friend?" Tegel bit his lip, holding back tears, "I mean, the prostitute." ”

"I once saved the life of that prostitute, and she was always ready to come out and see me. Days took out a jade ring from his pocket, it was a precious Ionian white jade, "If one day, your sister no longer wants to be a prostitute, you can redeem yourself with this." With that, he threw the ring to Tegel.

Tegel took the jade ring, took it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but show a surprised expression, "Incredible! It can buy a mansion! Who the hell are you? Why do you want to be a beggar when you have such a valuable thing?"

"Beggars are not necessarily poor, they may have things of great value – and yet, because they are at the bottom of society, these precious things are devalued by their status. Even if I have this piece of jade, I can't get to the place where it is, so it's useless. ”

"It was—like this...... So why don't you ask your friend, the prostitute, to help?"

"This piece of jade was a love object I gave her, and later, she gave it back to me. ”

"She-she's your former lover?"

"Before she was a prostitute. ”

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"Tegel—" Days leaned back on the plank, looking at the cold moonlight falling from the ceiling, "I'm going to die—there's a chest under the wooden window on the right, open it, and there is my former robe. Go see your sister while you still have the strength to walk. ”

"What other face do I have to meet her?" Tiger chuckled, "a brother who sent my sister to a brothel!

"Perhaps, she will hate you—but you are still her only relative. Days pulled out a dirty cloth bag from behind him and placed it on the ground in front of Tegel, "Put on my robe and go to Liuli Street, this money will allow you to open a small shop-" After he finished speaking, he gasped, and his originally swarthy face became a little pale.

"Why don't you turn to the right and make a choice to survive?" Tegel grabbed Dyce's hand with tears in his eyes.

"I've long since lost my faith, and I'll never be able to go back to Glass Street—" Dyce's voice weakened, and he slowly closed his eyes, "It's a blessing to be able to help others before I die—goodbye, Tegel! It's not about surviving, it's about living—"

"Dyce——! Dyce!" Tiger shook Dyce's shoulder vigorously, and the other party was no longer breathing...... He sat down on the ground and began to cry bitterly, "You just said goodbye to me—and left forever—"

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In the last few days of summer, the temperature dropped a lot due to the rain. The black stone pavement of Liuli Street is full of rain that has not evaporated, like tears on someone's face. Tegel, dressed in a brown robe, walked between two rows of tall buildings, occasionally looking up at the moon disk hanging high in the sky. The moon is like a lone person, in the sky and on the ground, two by two, constituting a poignant and sentimental, but far-reaching oil painting......

Tiger stopped in front of a building with a red railing at the doorway and looked up at the second floor, where he wished he wanted to see Bella, but he was afraid to face his sister's lovely face. Compared to this ambivalence, the cold that invades the body is nothing. Time passed little by little, and with it was the life of Tegel, who had not eaten or eaten for three days, and the only remaining heat in his body had been carried away by the cold wind of midnight and scattered in the boundless night.

Just as Tegel was about to turn to leave, the floor-to-ceiling windows on the second floor were opened, and a skinny girl walked out, it was Bella, dressed in a silk robe made for her. For some reason, Tegel felt like he couldn't face his sister for a while, and he immediately put on his hood, wanting to leave before his sister found out, but—

"Brother, is that you, brother?" Bella exclaimed.

Tiger stopped, tears welled up in his eyes, he turned his head and wiped the tears from his eyes, "Bella, how are you doing?"

"Hmm!" Bella nodded and smiled cutely, "Very good! The sisters here are so fond of Bella, they are very good to Bella!"

"That's good, that's good—" The great guilt was like a powerful hand, pulling Tegel closer to the abyss of pain, tears falling uncontrollably, and the hem of his shirt was soon soaked.

"Brother, Bella misses you!" Bella also shed tears, "Bella wants to be with her brother, don't leave me, please-"

Tegel's psychological defenses completely collapsed, and he fell to his knees on the cold stone slab, and cried out loudly - the inky sky suddenly dripped cold rain, as if he could not bear to see this tragic story, and it seemed that it was difficult to bear the pain of a world...... The rain became heavier and heavier, and soon a transparent veil was woven between the sky and the earth, connecting the heavens and the earth, but blocking the brother and sister.

"Goodbye, Bella—"

——

The veil flutters softly

The night grew longer and longer

Hurried rain

When he came, he refused to leave

We're in a hurry

Got together, but we had to part

I wandered in the empty alleys

Silence

Until there is no more hope

Fate engraved the tragedy on his face

Let the tears and rain flow on it

Cold hands can no longer touch your face

Snuggling and clinging to each other is just a fantasy in the heart

The cold moon weeps about the passing time

The warm and vivid picture will be given to death by fate

It is impossible to forget the innocent wish of the night

I can't go back to the workshop where I played as a child

Years later,

When you open the doors and windows every time

Will you still be able to welcome the sunshine as warm as before?

Say goodbye to you

The place of goodbye may be the other side of heaven......

[Author's Note]

* Time Coast: The western coast of Demacia, known as "the most beautiful seaside in Valoran".

* Liuli Street: Liuli Street is the term for the inferior people, Noxus divides the city into two parts, the large city and the inferior district. The Bad Guys are completely separate areas, similar to a large prison, where the lowest civilians of Noxus live. No one knows of the existence of the Bad Neighborhoods except for the bad people and high-ranking government officials. Every month, the Noxian authorities deport some of the poorest people in the big city to the degraded districts. In the eyes of the bad people of Noxus, that side of the world is called Liuli Street.

Three

Three years later

When the sun was born, most of the merchants in the inferior area had not yet come out of their stalls, and the beggars lined up in front of a large tent. The owner of the tent was dressed in a brown robe and hood, with long thin cheeks, thick eyebrows and small eyes, and his cheeks were visibly wrinkled every time he smiled. Beside him were two large seven-foot-tall wooden shelves filled with meatloaf, which he was handing out to the beggars, something that happened every morning for a month. Some learned beggars called the young man "saints," and a bizarre story soon spread: the gods took pity on these miserable people and sent a saint to give them food every day. This saint has a very noble name - Tegel.

Of course, not everyone believed that Tiger was a saint, such as those laborers involved in the "Noxus Beggars Purging" program. Since the advent of Tegel, thefts in the ghetto have been rare, leaving laborers unable to exchange enough food to feed their families. So, they've been plotting lately, how to get rid of Tegel.

"Tegel, my sister is sick, I can't afford to get her doctor, can you help me?" said a thin, pale man who came to the tent and panted, as if he had been running a long way.

"Don't worry, Jerry!" Tiger patted the man on the shoulder and smiled, "I'll send these patties to you!"

The beggars in the front row gave Tegel a thumbs up and kept saying one word in their mouths - good guy.

"May the gods bless you with a long life, my child!" a wrinkled, hunched old woman gripped Tegel's hand tightly.

"This is your meatloaf, be careful on the road, old man!" Tegel stuffed a stack of meatloaf wrapped in paper into the old woman's hand, and at this moment, he found that he had an extra platinum ring on his finger, and he looked at the back of the old woman gradually moving away, and remembered what Days had said three years ago:

"Beggars are not necessarily poor, they may have something of great value – and yet, because they are at the bottom of society, these precious things are devalued by their status. 」

The back of the long line was in an uproar for some reason, and the orderly line began to become chaotic, and Tegel followed the prestige and saw three soldiers in black armor, who looked like creatures from another dimension compared to the beggars beside them.

"Get out of here!fucking fuck off!" a fat soldier kicked down the slow-moving old beggars around him, "Damn the bad people!"

"Saint Tiger - a saint in disguise!"

The sudden sound of the voice startled Tegel, but the most painful memory he could never forget - he slowly turned his head to look at the man in front of him, a six-foot-tall, heavily armed Noxian warrior, with a faint stain of blood on the dark red cloak behind his back.

"I heard that you have been giving meat cakes to beggars every day for a month, and you have a lot of spare money!" the leader of the warriors spoke, his tone a little mocking and provocative, making people feel uncomfortable when they heard it.

"In addition to being used for pleasure and squandering, money can also be used for good deeds – for example, to change the fate of others. Tegel looked at the warrior leader calmly, but his heart was already turbulent. Because the guy in front of him had killed his father, raped his mother, and taken everything that belonged to him.

"Change their fate?" the leader laughed from his back, the iron helmet making his voice a little weird, "You give them meatloaf for a lifetime, and they're still beggars!"

"Yes, they may always be beggars. Tegel tried to keep himself as calm as he could, but it was really hard, "but at least, they didn't have to choose between dignity and survival, they didn't have to live in the shadow of death anymore - rich people or beggars, in my eyes, there was no difference!"

"Well said!" the leader clapped his eyes in a smirked manner, "what a saint!

"Thanks, if there's nothing important, allow me to finish these meatloaf!" Tegel owed, knowing that he was weak and could only condescend to others.

The leader chuckled, "Looks like it won't work!" Before he could finish speaking, he drew his sword from his waist and split the wooden table in front of Tegel in two, and almost at the same time, his blade returned to its sheath.

Tegel was so frightened by the blow that he touched his brow that he felt only a little pain, and when he turned his gaze to his fingers, he realized that there was blood on it. At this moment, the beggars surrounded the two soldiers in gray cloaks, and all of them had anger and contempt written on their faces, and that momentum made the two soldiers a little hairy.

"I can't believe that these people embrace you so much!" the leader turned and looked at the ragged, emaciated beggars, "Flagpole, iron bucket!

"Don't ——! stop!" Tiger was about to step forward to stop him, but was kicked away by the leader.

The "flagpole" and "iron bucket" immediately drew their long swords from their waists and slashed at the beggars around them - however, the beggars did not retreat, and some of the unmortally wounded ones fell down and got up again until their heads were cut off or their bodies split in two. In the eyes of the "Flagpole" and the "Iron Bucket", this is a group of angry monsters, and the battle is becoming more and more unfavorable to them, because instead of decreasing, the beggars around them are increasing...... Attracted by the sound of fighting, the beggars soon joined the ranks of the rebels, armed with weapons such as planks and nails. The "flagpole" was knocked down! A large crowd of beggars fell with him, tearing off his armor by force......

"Bucket, help me!" shouted the flagpole in a hoarse voice.

Hearing the sound of his companion's iron bucket calling for help, he saw a large group of beggars lying on the ground, and several pieces of torn armor were thrown out—"Flagpole!" he shouted and rushed to his companion, knocking down a dozen beggars in front of him. At that moment, however, a short beggar jumped on his back, raised his carpenter's hammer, and slammed it down on his iron helmet—the bucket fell to the ground, and the crowd engulfed him......

"Really! I have to do it!" the leader drew his sword at the waist and behind his back, "Thanks to you, these beggars have finally learned to resist - for the sake of protecting those who have saved them, this reason is too noble!" As soon as he finished speaking, his figure turned into a black shadow, and he quickly shuttled through the group of beggars......

Tegel's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it was true, humans could move so fast that they were no longer physical like ghosts...... It wasn't until the warm blood splattered on his face that he came to his senses again, and most of the beggars who could have filled the street had turned into stumps and broken legs on the ground, and the blood flowed under his feet and seeped into the cracks of the stone slabs, and some loose stone slabs, as long as they stepped on them slightly, would be splashed with blood from the legs of their trousers......

"Ah, I'm a little tired!" the leader finally stopped, and at this moment, his double swords were falling on the neck of a female beggar, "How about you be the last one? well, cut off half of it first!" he said, swinging his left long sword, cutting off half of the female beggar's head, leaving only half of the nose and mouth, "Well? Why don't you call it? Oh—I forgot, you've lost this ability!" He then thrust the blade of his left hand back into the sheath behind his back, grabbed the female beggar's shoulder, and stabbed his right sword through her mouth, piercing her skull.

"Why—why be so cruel!?" Tegel looked at the tragic scene in front of him, and his body trembled involuntarily.

"Don't worry—you'll be like them soon!" the leader appeared beside Tegel like a gust of wind, crossed his sword, and stabbed him in the heart—

Tegel was shocked, he felt the hairs on his body stand on end, and the scene after being stabbed in his mind came to his mind, which was undoubtedly death...... Time seemed to slow down at that moment, and the long sword reflected the sunlight, turning it into the most dazzling sharp mang in the world. Gradually, he despaired, he knew that the only predetermined fate was death, and all resistance was superfluous, so he could only close his eyes and accept it calmly - however, nothing happened, no pain, no cold, and even a sweet fragrance...... He opened his eyes to make sure he was in heaven, but he saw the back of a girl......

The girl was tall and wore a beige robe with a fur chest guard and shorts, and brown boots reaching to her knees. The dark blonde hair was gently lifted by the breeze, and the fair face was full of heroism. At this moment, the girl is using the Nanmu staff to block the leader's blade.

"Oh——!?" the leader jumped back and distanced himself from the girl, "here comes a pretty chick! Hello, beauty, what's your name?"

"Death will answer your questions for me!" the girl waved her staff in her hand, causing it to shoot like a sharp arrow. The leader hurriedly raised his sword to block, but unexpectedly, the girl's attack speed was too fast, and the head of the staff drilled under the opponent's sword and reached the neck-

"Oh no——!" The leader realizes the danger and tries to fight back, but he is immediately struck in the neck, and before he can react, the staff's staff hits his helmet from the other side, leaving a deep dent there.

"Boss——! "Iron bucket looked at the unconscious leader lying on the ground, and shouted at the girl, "Little bitch!

"How dare you scold me!?" the girl looked stunned, and as soon as her words fell, she had already appeared in front of the iron bucket, and stunned the other party, "Hmph! you go to die!" She grabbed the other man's iron helmet, pulled it down, and raised her knee to hit him in the face, and then threw the other man's burly body out like throwing a bundle of straw.

"This—this is outrageous! Who the hell is she!?" Tegel's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it was true, the girl was about his age, and her body was slender, but she had such magical powers.

"Don't come here! I'll kill this kid!" spoke the flagpole, his helmet ripped off by the beggars, revealing an ugly face covered with pockmarks and scars that would make you sick to your stomach at the sight. At this moment, he was holding a little beggar of six or seven years old in his hand and pointing a long dagger at the throat of the other party.

"Summoner's Footwork No. 2: Moon Slash!"

If the shadow could still be seen when the leader moved just now, then this girl didn't even see a shadow when she launched the blow just now, and Tegel couldn't explain anything about everything in front of him with his existing knowledge and common sense. A second ago, the girl was standing ten feet away from the flagpole, and by now, she had picked up the kidnapped child. The flagpole had its head cut off, and its headless body fell to the ground with a thud—

"She- how did she do it?" Tegel's mouth opened wide as he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the blood on the girl's staff, "You can cut off someone's head with a stick!?

"Hey——!" The girl appeared beside Tegel at some point, and smiled and held out a hand, "My name is Michelia! I have heard your name, Saint Tegel!" Seeing that the other person did not respond, she shook her hand in front of him.

"You-"

"Look! I forgot!" Michelia laughed awkwardly, "You're a Noxian, you don't accept handshakes!"

"That-I'm not a Noxian—" Tegel explained hurriedly, looking at Michelia carefully, from head to toe several times, "Y-are you really human?"

"Nonsense——! Michelia frowned and slapped Tegel's head hard, "Could it be that I'm a ghost?

"Ah——!h

"I'm sorry, who told you that I'm not human!" Michelia patted Tegel on the shoulder, almost knocking him down, "Hey, hey, do you have a place to live? You look rich, can I live with you?"

"Okay, you can—"

Before Tegel could finish speaking, Michelia put her arms around the other man's neck, "Then take me with you!" I haven't slept for two days, and I'm ——!so sleepy now," she yawned, "Tell me your story, or I'll fall asleep......"

"Hey, that, Miss Michelia—" Tegel grimaced, as he pressed half of his body weight on top of him, "You're too heavy for me to walk!"

"What are you talking about——!? am I heavy?"

"Ah, yes, I really can't walk! Hey, what do you want to do? Don't hit me, you're going to kill me!"

"Hehe——! no! Kill you, I have no place to live! Quick, tell me your story, how did you become a saint?"

"Well, before that, can you answer me a question, Miss Michelia, who are you?"

"It's okay to call me Queen in the future, that's what they call me anyway!Well, as you can see, I'm a summoner, and I'm famous at the War College!"

"Summoner—what's that? I guess summoner, like a beggar, is a term for a class of people!"