A brave man may not live, but he cannot die

Chapter 192 Bad Woman Good Woman
"How did you do that?"

With a murmur that sounded like he'd seen a ghost, Karel stared at Lin, who was holding the three-tailed fox, his eyes wide open.

The three-tailed fox in her arms didn't seem like the docile and obedient creature that had developed feelings for someone, nor did it resemble the submissive posture of someone bound by a familiar contract. Instead, it seemed like...
—A young animal being cared for by its mother fox.

The three-tailed fox in Lin's arms exuded a sense of innocent security, letting go of its previous guarded posture. Instead, it curiously turned its little head, looking left and right, as if it were not locked in an iron cage, but rather being carried by the scruff of its neck by its mother to play in the street.

Lin climbed out of the cage carrying the three-tailed fox. Quinn brushed the dust off her skirt, while Amamiya Nene hurriedly grabbed her little hand. The little hand, which had been viciously bitten by the three-tailed fox, was smooth and flawless, without a trace of blood or even a shallow wound. The skin was so delicate that Amamiya Nene couldn't help but touch it a few more times.

Hehe, so slippery, oh my, my hands are so sweaty.

"She...she..." After the initial shock, Karel's expression turned grave: "This young lady subdued the three-tailed fox with a single spell?!"

While the three-tailed fox was still on guard, Lin picked it up and made it give up struggling with just one sentence. Although she spoke softly, the people present could still hear her.

They couldn't understand what Lynn was saying, including Quinn.

It was a language that resembled a spell, yet was different from one. If a spell is irregular, like runes wriggling into disordered syllables, then Lin's words were not so dull and dry. They were melodious, somewhere between music and language, as pure as the language of a lark.

"What did you say to the little fox?" Quinn was also curious.

"Let's go find Mom and Dad." Lin paused. "Let's go together."

The "we" here refers to the little fox, herself, and Quinn.

“No, impossible—” Karel’s voice trembled, but he quickly realized his lapse in composure and forced a dry laugh, “Sir, do you have time to bring your student to the bank for a cup of tea?”

Amamiya Nene glared at him, then raised her chin at Quinn: "I'm in a good mood today, so I'll allow you to come with me to the Arcane Festival to watch the show."

"Rent a Boyfriend? That's very realistic."

Seeing the two, a little girl and a fox, walking away chatting and laughing, Karel hurriedly chased after them—

"I'll refund you the price of the three-tailed fox. Plus, I'll give you five thousand—no, fifty thousand!! Fifty thousand gold pounds! Please tell me what kind of spell that is—"

A curse?

Quinn sneered inwardly, thinking, "Now it's your turn to panic."

This is no magic spell. If he guessed correctly, it is probably Elvish, a language that has been lost for thousands of years since Tiresia "disappeared" and is hailed as the foundation of magic.

It's unclear whether Lin, being an elf, was born with this language knowledge or learned it later.

Just like the Chinese Lin spoke in the abyss.

Tiresia is the wife of the first hero Link, and also has a very strong friendship with the second hero Merlin.

At Merlin's tomb, Tiresia made a deal with Quinn in Chinese.

It now seems that Tiresia, who crossed space to arrive immediately after the appearance of the Colossus, may have had a mentor-mentee relationship with Lin.

She was disguised as Barbas, who was a professor of spatial magic, while Lynn was the top student in spatial magic.
"Lin, call me before your next space magic class, let's go together."

The little girl nodded, indicating that she understood.

Karel, who was chasing behind, raised his offer from 5,000 gold pounds to 50,000 gold pounds, and even shouted, "Name your price!" When he saw that the three of them ignored him, he had no choice but to stop.

After standing there for a long time with a solemn expression, he turned around and walked towards the bank.

The abilities Lynn demonstrated went far beyond simply taming magical creatures.

After walking through the long street and into the magnificent building constructed entirely of marble, Karel ignored the greetings from the bank clerks and goblins passing by and went straight upstairs to the "branch manager's office" on the third floor.

Pushing open the door, a slightly surprised female voice came from inside: "Karel, why are you back again? Didn't I tell you to stay out of trouble and just sell the three-tailed fox to them?"

Karel took a deep breath, calming his heaving chest.

"The full moon is above."

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The woman's voice fell silent for a moment, then the door to the bank manager's office slammed shut with a bang. Arcane light flowed from the walls through the windows and doors, until the entire office became an airtight space.

She then asked seriously, "What did the Cavendish family discover?"

"No, no, that woman who looks like Prince Amamiya seems to be a teacher at the academy."

"What? Her daughter is a teacher at the academy?" The woman was slightly surprised. This was quite a bombshell. Clock Tower Bank had been trying to win over the Cavendish family for years, and it seemed their efforts had failed. But failure aside, the plan to win over the Cavendish family wasn't orchestrated by the woman and the powerful families behind Karel, so it shouldn't have caused him to lose his composure like this.

"That female student—she made the three-tailed fox submit with just one magic spell."

"Hmm? Just a three-tailed fox. Selling it to them means they'll just submit... Wait, a curse?" The woman's brow twitched, realizing something was wrong.

"Yes, just a short incantation. I didn't even sense any change in Mana. It was very, very short, and the three-tailed fox instantly became incredibly docile, yet it didn't seem to have its mind affected."

"Are you sure? You're not mistaken?"

“Absolutely not.” Karel sighed regretfully. “It’s just that you know my level of arcane magic. Although she recited it, I couldn’t remember it. There isn’t a single spell I’ve learned that’s similar to this one.”

"Has the Academy's research on magical creatures reached this point?"

“I was thinking,” Carrelton paused, “that although it’s just a three-tailed fox, there’s still a lot of room for improvement in terms of casting speed and the simplicity of the spells. The sect has been researching the elves’ methods of controlling magical creatures for years, but to no avail. With only three months left until the Lunar Ritual, could we…”

"Forget it, a spell academy of this caliber won't sell."

"But that student council member... a little girl, who looks to be only a first or second-year student, is unbelievably beautiful. Even first or second-year students can capture a three-tailed fox in an instant! The academy has probably really developed a spell beyond our imagination!"

A cold glint flashed in the eyes of the woman sitting behind the bank manager's desk.

"Capturing a student from the academy within the territory of Axwell is not even worth mentioning. If the academy finds out, the Clock Tower will throw us out as an apology, and our entire family will be implicated."

“We can try negotiating with the academy first. But if the academy won’t sell,” Carrelton paused, then cautiously added, “it will be up to the family to decide.”

The woman pondered silently for a long time.

"Who else knows about this?"

"Apart from you and the person who opened the iron cage, no one should have noticed."

"Don't mention this to anyone after you return to the Clock Tower," the woman instructed calmly. "Go to the storeroom and get a magic mirror. Draw the likenesses of that female student and the two teachers."

"Also, get rid of the lock-picker."

Should I do it myself?

"Take him to the Westward Bank on Cloud Avenue and find a Western Continent man named Quasimodo White. He's well-connected with the local gangs, and I'll speak to him."

"understood."

The woman lowered the back of her chair and looked up at the full moon etched on the office ceiling.

It is not one of the three bright moons hanging high in the brilliant sea of ​​stars, but a single moon, round like a giant sun, covered with meteorite craters, resembling a dark celestial body.

Her voice carried a hint of encouragement:
"Karel, you've done very well. If the family can capture the Moon Beast because of this..."

"You'll be the branch manager of Aiswell in the future." "I've discovered I'm really not cut out to be a bad woman. No matter how deliberately I try to act bad, I always exude a cute, innocent, charming, and pretty aura~ I've always been a very good girl~"

The three walked along the road in Saoba Alley.

This time, however, Lin didn't block the way between Quinn and Amamiya Nene. Instead, she gave up the right side of the room. Although the two of them wouldn't hold hands, Amamiya Nene felt that the five thousand gold pounds were well spent because of the little girl's change in attitude.

"Yes, yes, yes, good woman, good woman, good woman can go to heaven."

Amamiya Nene glanced at him. "Why does it always feel like nothing good comes out of your mouth?"

“In my hometown, heaven is the best place. A good man named Fat Cat went there,” Quinn praised.

"Tsk."

Lin was still observing the various magical animals in the iron cage, but she no longer lingered as long as she did when looking at the three-tailed fox. She would simply look at them for a while, and after making eye contact with an animal, she would slowly leave.

Perhaps she simply couldn't find the emotion of "sadness" again.

Or perhaps she knew Quinn was dirt poor and wanted to save him some money.

"Hey."

As Lin ran off to look at a very noisy dragon-feathered parrot, Quinn watched her retreating figure and said to Amamiya Nene, "I'll pay you back the five thousand gold pounds within two months."

"Give it back to me?" Amamiya Nene looked at him, both amused and exasperated. "Why do you want to give it back to me?"

"It's something I'm going to buy for Lin, but you're the one paying for it."

"She can't really be your daughter, can she? You've suddenly become so responsible."

Quinn remained unfazed by the slightly serious question.

"I would be so happy to have such a beautiful daughter."

"No need to pay it back, it was paid for with my mom's credit card anyway."

"Didn't you say that trying to please students is childish?"

"How can that be the same?" Amamiya Nene snorted. "Besides, can your meager salary even cover five thousand gold pounds?"

Quinn glanced at the stalls across the street. "There are part-time jobs available."

Those are mostly adventurers who recruit teammates.

Unlike the unemployed adventurers who merely registered as adventurers and made a living by taking odd jobs every day, the adventurers here are mostly well-equipped, wearing leather armor or even iron armor. You can find military weapons from various countries on them, and even arcane equipment engraved with magic runes.

These people are not commonly seen in the city; most of them are engaged in lucrative missions in the wild. For example, the magical creatures in this row are basically captured by adventurers and sold to the Clock Tower. Others hunt monsters, hunt down wanted members of the cult, or explore dungeons.

Those who can set up a recruitment stall in Sweeper Alley are clearly not ordinary people, and the requirements for the signboard are also beyond the reach of ordinary people. At the very least, they require retired soldiers from elite troops, but many also require only extraordinary individuals. Such teams usually do not have monthly salaries, but rather receive bonuses.

In terms of profit sharing, these gold-level adventure teams earn slightly more than those who work as teaching assistants in Grindelwald.

Quinn had no intention of joining an adventurer's party. This kind of activity, which sounded like something out of another world, had an absurdly high mortality rate. This was evident from the varying numbers of recruited teams. The attrition rate in this line of work was no less than that of studying at Grindelwald.

The difference is that Grindelwald has an immortality totem, while the adventurer does not.

"Instead of wasting time on part-time jobs, you might as well advance to level seven sooner and come with me to the Abyss," Amamiya Nene said irritably.

"You should plan how to get there."

"what?"

Quinn looked at her astonished expression. "If you don't die on the promotion, you can go next week."

"You wouldn't believe how fast that is."

"You can't use 'fast' to praise a man."

Amamiya Nene crossed her arms and stopped looking at him.

"Be careful, don't die."

"Too quiet, I can't hear you."

Amamiya Nene sneered:
"When you die, I'll go to your dorm, find the stockings you stole from me, and stick them on your grave to tell the whole school—"

"You're wrong, sister."

Quinn surrendered immediately.

"Could you look after Lin for a bit? I have something to do."

"Heh, I'm being unusually kind by letting you watch the banquet with me. Do you dare say you have something to say?"

"It'll be done in half an hour. Just find a seat anywhere in the venue, and I'll be able to find you."

"Who cares? Come if you want, don't come if you don't." Amamiya Nene was very aloof.

Quinn called Lin, who was watching the monkeys, over and told her what was going on. Lin glanced at Amamiya Nene and nodded.

He took all the loose change out of his pocket and put it into Lin's palm.

"Don't buy too many snacks. I'll make whatever you want to eat."

"Ah."

Amamiya Nene, who was standing to the side, immediately became anxious. She couldn't give him any pocket money—that's how rich teachers who only carry bank cards when they go out are.

Quinn was about to leave when he noticed Lynn tugging at his clothes.

Lin pinched the three-tailed fox under its armpits and lifted it up.

"name."

"A name?" Quinn was taken aback. "You want me to name the little fox?"

The little girl nodded.

She pointed to the fox first: "Daughter."

He then pointed to Quinn: "Dad."

Finally, he pointed to himself: "Mom."

Quinn chuckled, wondering if it was because he had said earlier that she wasn't his daughter.
Amamiya Nene squeezed in: "What about me? What am I? I paid!"

Lin thought about it seriously for a moment, then uttered two words: "mistress".

"What book is Harry showing you?" Amamiya Nene laughed in exasperation.

Quinn thought about it carefully, "Since this little fox has gained a mother, and we bought it to find a home, let's name it 'Mom's Home' to symbolize a happy family reunion."

(End of this chapter)