She Chooses To Destroy the World

Most people only use copper and silver coins in their daily lives. Alice has never seen gold coins a few times in her life. She raised her head quickly, and saw that the person who gave her the money had already walked to an inconspicuous little corner and sat down.

He was wearing a long black cloak, with a hood on his head covering most of his face, with only bright red lips showing.

Only those who want to avoid the eyes of the world will dress up like this. Generally speaking, such people are either fugitives or mages with many enemies. In short, they are suspicious people.

Among the pub’s guidelines, there is a way that does not ask customers. Whether it is a prince or a fugitive, they all receive the same. But Alice had never encountered such a thing before. She didn't know what to do, so she quietly pulled Lena and showed her the gold coin in her hand.

As expected, Lena had seen the world, and looked extremely composed:

"If you give it to you, just keep it, but don't go there later, I'll go and see what's going on first."

So Alice stood in front of the bar and watched Lena walk towards the man with the menu. After a while, she came back and stuffed the menu in Alice’s hands:

"He doesn't drink, he only needs a dish of fried onions, and you have to deliver him food. That guy is dressed so strangely. He is probably a dead family member. Be careful not to be turned into a ghoul."

Even Alice has heard of the names of the relatives of death. They are followers of the **** of death, usually in the funeral industry, digging graves, installing tombstones and so on. If the relatives of the deceased have no money to bury them, they will also take the body away. When Alice's mother died, it was such a person who took her body away. It is said that they are all necromancers who will make dead bodies into puppets... Alice never dared to imagine where her mother's body went. Most people shun the dead relatives, and even use their names to scare children.

Alice was heartbroken and didn’t want to deal with such a person, but the other party just gave a tip of two gold coins and asked to see her by name. Go past the corner.

The man saw her coming and flipped her hood slightly. Alice saw the pale blonde dreadlocks and blue eyes exposed by the man's sideburns, her eyes widened in surprise:

"Ah-"

The man put his finger on his lips and shook his head at her.

Alice put the fried onion on his table, covered her mouth, and lowered her voice:

"Master Etienne?"

He put down his hood, nodded, and glanced around slightly disturbed:

"I'm not fit to show up in this kind of place... Is there a place to say a few words?"

Alice was nervous and excited. She never thought that she would have the second chance to see Master Etienne in her life. At this moment she pursed her lips, for fear that she could not help screaming, lowered her head and pulled the corner of Master Etienne's clothes, and led him through the kitchen and out the side door of the tavern.

Outside the side entrance of the tavern is a secluded alley, except when the tavern is unloading goods, usually no one comes here, it is very suitable to talk alone.

"No one usually comes here," Alice said, "just here."

Etienne nodded. Out of caution, he did not take off his hood, keeping his face hidden in the shadows:

"I heard you work as a waitress here, so I will come and see you." He said, "How are you doing?"

"It's okay." Alice wanted to say that she had a good life, but this is not very realistic. After all, her life is always tight. "Everyone in the tavern takes care of me. I also have the money to pay the rent. "

"That's good." Etienne breathed a sigh of relief, "The Doomsday God and the mercenary you mentioned...did you see it?"

"Mercenary?" Alice remembered what the Doomsday God had said to her in the small prayer room. "You mean Immortal Roma? I haven't seen him yet."

Etienne nodded:

"If you meet that person, don't follow him. Mercenaries are dangerous elements. If you leave with such a person, your life's trajectory will deviate from an uncontrollable direction... In case you encounter something that cannot be resolved, Just come to the temple to find me, and the temple apprentice will inform you. In short, don't believe the promise of the thirteenth god, he is very dangerous, much more dangerous than you can imagine. You are still inexperienced Children, don’t put yourself in danger."

Alice felt worried from Etienne's words, which made her feel warm:

"Don't worry, I can take care of myself here."

Etienne carefully recognized Alice's expression by the light from the tavern kitchen window, and he saw her face illuminated by the light, showing the innocence of a girl. It can be seen that nothing has happened to her that will make him feel uneasy. What will happen afterwards? This girl grew up in such an environment, and it is very likely that she will degenerate to a worse place in the future.

Ordinarily, it has nothing to do with him even if she fell to a worse place. After all, Etienne came here today at the risk of being seen. It was not out of boring sympathy-he was mainly worried about the momentary compassion he had at the beginning. Bring unforeseen dangerous results. The warning from the master priest is not groundless. He is likely to bring unimaginable disasters to this world because of his initial softness, or completely ruin his future.

But he didn't have no sympathy for her. The girl in front of him was somewhat moved by his similar life experience. He still has a protector to plan his future, but this girl has nothing. Thinking like this, he took out another gold coin and placed it in her hand:

"Alice, promise me not to be a believer in the God of Doom."

Alice pushed Etienne's hand back:

"No, I can't ask for your money... Please take back the gold coins just now. As a tip, this is too much, and I can't charge it."

Etienne squeezed the money into her hands:

"Take it, I don't have any money in the temple, and I keep it. If you encounter any difficulties, you can use the money."

Alice looked at him a little embarrassed, but Etienne's attitude was very firm and could not be rejected. At this time, his expression was a bit like the time when he was in the temple before, and Alice realized that she did not have the ability to reject him.

If Alice had her mother, she probably wouldn't accept Etienne's money. Alice’s mother has high self-esteem and would never allow her to accept this kind of money that shouldn’t be taken. However, she is only a child, and she has no clear values ​​or firm will. She felt a little embarrassed, but still accepted the money.

When she received the gold coin in her pocket, Alice heard the sound of something falling to the ground not far away.

She turned her head and saw someone standing at the street. She tried her best to recognize the person's appearance, and finally cried out in surprise:

"Burke?"

The man took two steps forward, standing in the moonlight, and it was Burke no doubt.

Etienne said nothing, he didn't want to be recognized. At this moment, he had finished saying what he had to say, so he stopped bidding farewell to Alice, pulled his hood, turned and disappeared into the night, leaving Alice and Burke staring at each other.

The two looked at each other for a while, after all, Alice spoke first:

"Why are you here?"

Burk raised what was in Yang's hand:

"Master forgot to take something, I'll give it to him, by the way, thinking about coming over to see you...Who was the person who spoke to you just now?"

Alice opened her mouth, not knowing how to answer him.

Master Etienne changed his outfit to avoid being seen in the tavern. Moreover, if you tell Burke the identity of Lord Etienne, you must also tell what happened in the temple before. Alice did not distrust Burke, but she still felt that the less people knew about it, the better.

She shook her head:

"Nothing, just a guest in a pub."

Of course she is not a lie to say this, but Burke frowned:

"If it's just a normal guest, why would he give you gold coins?"

It's really bad. Burke saw it when the two of them pushed the gold coin. The gold coins are shiny and can be seen clearly even at night. Where would the average tavern guest give such a large gold coin to a little girl who is a waitress? Alice looked at Burke's expression and suddenly understood what he was thinking.

He must be thinking...she, like the other waitresses in the tavern, met with men outside the tavern.

It's hard to explain, but Alice still frowned and said:

"It's not what you think!"

Burke looked at her worriedly:

"Don't worry, I won't say anything. But after all that person..."

"It's a person I knew before, and I heard that I was working here, so I came to see me."

"It's Alice... Mom's friend?"

Seeing Burke found an explanation for herself, Alice breathed a sigh of relief:

"Yes, exactly."

Perhaps because her relief was too obvious, Burke's expression was still full of doubts. Alice sighed heavily:

"What should I say to you to believe me? Forget it, it doesn’t matter if you don’t believe it. What you saw here today, please don’t tell the landlord’s wife... If she suspects that I’ve done something bad, she’ll take the house Take it back."

Hearing Alice say this, Burke asked dubiously:

"You really didn't do anything?"

"real."

Burke also let out a long breath:

"All in all, you don't want to be deceived."

Perhaps because Burke's last words still showed a lot of care, Alice smiled at him:

"Reassure, I won't do anything to be sorry for myself. Didn't you come to deliver things? Bring them, and I will send them in for you."

Burke handed the props prepared by the master to Alice, and walked away, turning around one step at a time. Alice took the little bull's head ornament and returned to the tavern from the kitchen door.

Lena seemed to have been paying attention here. Seeing her back at this time, she saw what she was holding at a glance:

"Ah, this is a small statue I commissioned Master Carpenter to make. It is going to be given to Hewlett on the bedside... Was his apprentice here just now?"

"Yes, his apprentice Burke."

"Give me things," Lena said. "I'll talk to Master Carpenter. Also... the man has already left? He hasn't settled the bill yet."

"Ah... it doesn't matter, I'll pay for him, he only needs a plate of onion rings."

Lena looked at her a little disapprovingly:

"Although I don't care about the personal affairs of the waitresses, I still have to give you a piece of advice: a man who has to pay even the bill is not worth entrusting."

Alice knew that Lena had misunderstood:

"It's not like that at all."

Lena looked at her with a look of distrust in her eyes:

"That's good."

In the second half of the evening, Alice didn't think about these episodes anymore, she was too busy. According to the usual custom, the night of Bacchus lasts until the next morning. By three o'clock in the morning, most of the people who come to participate in the night of Bacchus are already drunk. Alice had never been so late before, and she was so sleepy that she was fighting with her upper and lower eyelids. After finally getting up until dawn, Hewlett and the fat chef threw the sleeping alcoholic outside the tavern, closed the shop, and said to the waitresses:

"Go back and get a good night's sleep. You can come here a little later this afternoon."