Chapter 12 It's a sad story
His name was Trist, and he was born into a poor gypsy family, but from an early age he had a special talent for playing cards, and made his fortune gambling in several underground casinos in Demacia and Noxus. The officials tried to arrest him many times, but each time he was sensed in advance by his magical sixth sense, and he immediately fled, making the government officials who came later sigh. Even if he gambles on his luck and there is almost no situation where he can't win, living on this magical continent, he still has a greater wish, he wants him to get magic, and for this he is willing to give everything!
His name was Graves, an orphan who had been abandoned in the back of a tavern in Bilgewater, with a glass of milk mixed with wine. This is a region governed by pirates, and he has to learn all kinds of despicable methods from books, all in order to survive himself. With what is written in the book, he successfully found an opportunity to smuggle and successfully returned to the mainland, but what he didn't expect was that the risk of the mainland was almost the same as that of Bilgewater, and he had to travel between various cities to survive in a trance. It is worth mentioning that he has also learned a good gambling skill since he was a child living in the territory under the jurisdiction of pirates!
Two lone wanderers, a master of a thousand arts, wandered around the casinos of various city-states all day long, and almost no one was defeated. Until one day, in a gloomy underground casino, the two finally meet fatefully.
Trist looked up at the bearded Graves across from him and smiled slightly. Graves also looked at Trist, who was still pretending to be a gentleman in ragged clothes across from him, and the corners of his mouth twitched. The two looked at each other and smiled, and the first game between them began.
After a fierce game, when it came to the final showmanship, Trist smiled: "Play the cards!" Graves taunted him: "Little ghost, do you think you're lucky?" Then, the two of them showed the cards in their hands at the same time, the cards in their hands were the same, the same four aces, both of them met opponents who were on the same level as themselves, and they couldn't help but feel sorry for each other. In the days that followed, the two gradually got acquainted, and the two relied on their own magical skills, as well as the tacit understanding between the two, to win their chips in various casinos.
"It was the happiest day of my life, and I found my best brother, Trist, at least that's what I thought at the time. Graves said
"I didn't expect that to happen, I'm really sorry, old man. In the days long afterward, Trist confessed.
At that time, although the two of them did not have the most respectable magic in the entire continent, the two gamblers who lived at the bottom of the society felt real happiness, and sometimes Graves thought that it would be good to live like this for the rest of his life, and he would have the opportunity to find a girl in the future, and when he was short of money, he called Trist, a hypocrite, to go out and get some money together, and it was quite pleasant to have a little wine or something together. Graves thought to himself
The two of them sometimes drank a little wine in the tavern during the day, and sometimes studied a thousand techniques in Triste's den, and Graves remembered that he had accidentally touched Trist's hat, which made Trist anxious and shouted "Hey, don't touch my hat!" After that, he found Trist's weakness, perhaps a habit of cleanliness.
Trist, on the other hand, reminded Graves that it was time to shave after he was tired of seeing his beard, and Graves said impatiently, "I don't have the time to shave, and I look so manly like this, hehe!" Graves laughed triumphantly.
The two of them felt fair and both found each other's weaknesses, and when Trist reminded him to shave again, Graves sneered, "It's okay to let me shave, how about lending me your hat for fun?"
Trist dismissed the idea of letting the man shave: "Well, when I didn't say it." ”
Occasionally, there will be quarrels because of some small contradictions, but in the end, I always remember the days when I first met, and the scene of getting along for so long, and then the two looked at each other for a moment, and laughed at the same time, any contradictions will pass.
It's a very pleasant and satisfying day, isn't it?
When a man in black finds Trist who is alone at home, and hears his intention, Trist is conflicted. It turned out to be that the old guy from Graves showed his feet in a casino, and the other party was still a high-ranking official of Zuan, uh, not the Frankenstein of Zuan. It was a high-ranking official named Arego Preggs, and Preggs was so angry that he sent his men to get Trist to provide evidence of Graves' thousands. As soon as he heard the news, Trist immediately wanted to refuse, joking, how could he betray his brother, even if he was a little bad in some ways, but he still didn't think he would do this to the brother he recognized, after all, he was such a brother, betrayed, and he was going to live the life of a person like before. To be honest, Trist is now accustomed to having a big man with a big beard like Graves with him all day long, as he said, to chat together when he has nothing to do, to talk about the gambling skills that both of them are keen on, and to have a little drink. Although the old guy always talks about things with his hat, he doesn't mean anything else, it's just a little cleanliness and not used to it.
The man in black on the other side of "Magic" just spat out these two words lightly and stopped talking.
"What are you talking about!" This made Trist stand up in shock, and hurriedly asked, although the two of them are living a good life now, Trist has never forgotten his dream when he first debuted, that is, to learn magic. Become a human being. That's it, is it going to betray Graves? Trist was ambivalent. He sat down heavily, looked out the window, and froze. The man in black beside him waited for half an hour, and finally stopped waiting, stood up and walked out the door, "Sir, we can let you learn magic, of course, there is a probability of failure, there is also a probability of success, and there is a probability that you will have nothing, you choose for yourself, whether to continue to live like this with this gambler, or learn magic and become a master!" said the man in black seductively, and then turned around to leave.
"Don't go, I, I think I can agree to your terms. In the end, Trist still couldn't resist the temptation to learn magic, and agreed to the other party's conditions, although there is only a 1 in 3 probability that he can learn it, and there is a 1 in 3 probability that he will fail to die, but Trist does not regret it, as a gambler, there is a 1 in 3 probability that it is worth his gamble, isn't it?
Needless to say, with the evidence provided by Trist, the high-ranking officials easily uncovered Graves's trick and immediately sent troops to send him to the prison, where all kinds of people were wronged by him. Graves didn't understand what was going on so far, and he was even thinking: "Alas, I'm planted this time, but I don't know if Lao Cui will miss me, hehe, I hope that kid won't be hot-headed to save Lao Tzu, and he may not have the opportunity to drink with you and discuss Qianshu in the future." Alas. Graves sighed in prison that it couldn't help but be a sad story.
And Trist, after an inhuman pain, finally succeeded in learning magic, and when he managed to teleport miles away, he knew that his good days were coming. But the first thing he thought of was to save the brother at the beginning, even if he betrayed him, I don't know if he would recognize him, but he can't watch him die!
So, "I'll calculate" Trist turned on his magic, fate!But the whole of Zaun, where he and Graves had lived for decades, could not find Graves, and there were only two possibilities, either he managed to escape from prison, or he had ......
"Is it really worth it for me?" Trist asked himself with a clenched fist and chagrin
On the other side, inside the prison, which had endured for several years, Griffos became depressed, and he also knew that it was his so-called brother, Trist, who had betrayed him. He often wept secretly on a solitary night. I really can't figure out why this is being done. "Is that the allure of magic so great?" he was tempted to ask Trist. He knew that he couldn't die, and he had to go out to find that kid, he wanted to teach that kid a hard lesson, and he dared to betray Lao Tzu, I don't know if the first thing Lao Tzu thought of after going to prison was you, how could you do this. Graves sobbed.
Years have passed, he has forgotten his sadness, and now he is full of joy and anger, and all this time, he has been plotting how to escape from this ghost prison, during which a friend here gave him a shotgun. He didn't know how this man got his guns in a hellish place like a prison, but he liked it, and he heard that Trist's magic was called, Destiny? So, in the dead of night, he led the prisoners to escape from prison, and several of them said that they wanted to go with him, but they were all rejected by him, he felt that he would not have any friends before teaching Trist a lesson, and his heart was already hurt
In another time and space, the two of them saw each other again, and each other's eyes were very complicated, but Graves spoke first: "Old man, it's time to settle old scores, isn't it?"