Shut up, brave man! I don't want to atone for my sins to you!

Rachel thought about it and asked the old woman:

"Can you tell us how we can find Crazy John?"

"There is a tavern near the wishing well," the old woman replied, "Crazy John often goes to that tavern to drink. You go to that tavern and wait, maybe you can find him."

Lacier thought for a moment, turned her head, and asked provocatively:

"How about going for a drink with me?"

[To be continued]

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19. Sit still

Just as the old woman said, there was a medium-sized tavern in the square where the wishing well was located.

The name of the pub is quite simple, called "The Wheat Ear".

In fact, its logo is an ear of wheat - the ear of wheat is placed in a glass bottle and hung high, like a string of slightly strange wind chimes.

However, the string of "wind chimes" did not make any sound.

Charles pushed Lacieel under the "wind chime". Lacieel looked up at it curiously for a few seconds, and suddenly a very outrageous sentence popped up in her mind -

"Brother, do you want to tie a bell to me and see whether the bell rings louder or the person yells louder tonight?"

This was the only area in which her imagination was so rich.

Before coming to this world, she was an older virgin. After coming to this world, she remained a pure little virgin for several decades... Well, although by human standards, her age is definitely not "young", but by witch standards, she is far from being an "adult".

The total time she has lived in her two lifetimes is almost longer than the lifespan of an ordinary human being, but to this day, she is still a good girl who remains chaste.

Is this a good thing?

Lacey's mood was a little complicated for a moment.

she does not know.

Damn it, she obviously wanted to be sexy, but she just couldn’t find a girlfriend in her previous life, even though she was obviously not bad in terms of conditions.

She had a car and a house, and her salary was high, so she was quite generous. She was decent-looking, and not a small and cute Yodel. On the contrary, she was tall and strong at that time! She was more than 1.8 meters tall! Although her height shrank sharply after she came to the Pangaea and became a witch, although she did not become "about 1 meter". But for her, this new body was not even 1.6 meters tall, which was not much different from "about 1 meter" after rounding off.

"Ugh……"

The witch sighed sadly.

The hero probably heard her sigh, and subconsciously looked down at her and asked with concern:

"Are you okay?"

Of course Lacie was fine, how could she be okay? She was absolutely fine!

So, Lacier, who felt that she was fine, answered decisively:

"Of course I'm fine, what could possibly happen to me?"

Her tone was quite rude.

Charles was choked back by her, but he didn't feel angry, just confused - confused as to why she suddenly became so angry.

But since Lacie didn't want him to ask any further, he didn't continue to ask. Instead, he bent down, stretched out his arms, and pushed open the door of the tavern.

But why, whether on Earth or Pangaea, are bars and taverns always closed when they are open?

With such questions in mind, the witch and the hero stepped into the tavern.

The layout of Diesel's Wheatear Tavern is roughly the same as that of taverns outside. A long table is used as a counter, with the owner or bartender standing behind it, and behind them is a wine cabinet full of wine bottles.

In this era of lack of entertainment, most men who have been busy all day will choose to go out of the house when night falls, go into this tavern, order a few glasses of cheap and inferior wine, chat with acquaintances, and tell a few dirty jokes that everyone likes to hear. Half of the night will pass like this, doing nothing but enjoying themselves.

Because of this, both Rachel and Charles were rare guests in this tavern.

The moment the two of them stepped into the tavern, the entire tavern's attention was drawn to them.

The slightly vulgar but quite cheerful atmosphere seemed to condense, and the tavern fell into an eerie silence.

Rachel has never been good at socializing, let alone being stared at by so many people at once...

She subconsciously wanted to shrink back, until she was behind Charles, then poked Charles' waist with her wand and ordered him:

byd brave man, say something quickly!

But it wasn't possible, after all, she was sitting in a wheelchair, and the damn wheelchair prevented her from even escaping.

Laceel began to regret pretending to have a disability.

"Brave man, please do something!" - that's all she could shout in her heart.

Then she felt the wheelchair move.

As if he had heard her thoughts, Charles pushed the wheelchair and took her away from the entrance of the tavern to an empty corner of the tavern.

Lacey breathed a sigh of relief silently.

Finally, she doesn’t have to be stared at by so many people. Just now, she was about to have a social phobia attack.

Perhaps only at this time can she feel Charles' goodness.

As long as you make a request to Ciel, he will not let you down no matter what. At least on this point, you can always choose to believe in the hero.

Perhaps it is for this reason that there are so many supporters of heroes throughout the entire Pan-Continent—

Perhaps for them, when a brave man comes, there will be peace in the Pangaea; when a brave man comes, there will be a blue sky.

The hero will be your most reliable teammate, but if he doesn't stand on your side, then you should be careful.

Because he may become the most terrifying enemy that makes you tremble with fear all the time.

But Lacele never worried that Charles would become her enemy. After all, she had never done anything evil. At most... at most, she and Charles would hurt each other and then be even. If you have to say it, they are still companions now.

Although she was quite jealous of Ciel.

Charles is a brave man. There are countless girls in the entire Pan-Continent who admire him and want to throw themselves into his arms. If he wants, he can flirt with the beautiful girls in a different way every day.

Damn it, she wants to be bitter too!

But she wanted to do some naughty things to the beautiful girl, not become a beautiful girl and have naughty things done to her!

This was one of the reasons why Rachel remained single for decades after coming to Pangaea.

However, Charles certainly didn't know this. He just pushed Lacie to a wine table, let go of the wheelchair armrest, turned to Lacie's side, and told her:

"Please wait here. I'll go to the counter to check."

But Lacie was a little unhappy.

She raised her face to Charles and said:

"No, I want to go too - I have to see what kind of drinks this pub has!"

As they walked from the door to this corner, both Rachel and Charles had carefully observed the group of people gathered in the tavern, and there were no familiar faces among them.

Mad John isn't here. Or at least he isn't here right now.

The old woman told them that Old John would suddenly appear when the tavern was about to close every day.

At that time, there were almost no customers in the tavern. After all, the men still had to work the next day, so the "Wheat Ear" tavern became empty and quiet, with only a waiter on night watch and Crazy John sitting at the counter, drinking slowly by himself.

Of course, the old woman had never seen that scene; she had heard it from her husband.

Her husband often went to "Wheat Ear" to drink. Sometimes when he was having a good time, he would inevitably stay in the pub for a while. As a result, he got to know Crazy John.

Even among the regulars of the tavern, Mad John was considered the weirdest one, but no one disliked him, let alone unwelcome his visit.

After all, apart from claiming that the wishing well in the square not far away can fulfill people's wishes and that the Emperor wanted to assassinate Diesel, Crazy John's words and deeds were surprisingly normal, even humorous, and he often made witty remarks that made everyone laugh.

At first, after learning of Crazy John's intentions, while expressing their incomprehension, most Diesel people chose to keep a certain distance from him and stay away from him.

After all, their emperor is not a tyrant. On the contrary, his majesty is wise and brave, benevolent and wise, and is a rare wise ruler in the entire Pan-Continent.

No one understood why Mad John wanted to assassinate the Emperor, and he never explained the reason to anyone.

In this case, it was only natural that he was alienated by the Diesel people, or rather, the Diesel people had been tolerant enough towards him.

At least there was no minister with strong martial virtues and extremely loyal to the Emperor to order his arrest, imprisonment, or even hanging, right?

He is still alive and kicking—

This fact is surprising enough.

Apparently, Diesel's Emperor didn't seem to care about Crazy John's transgression, which was merely verbal.

He had no problem with it.

As a result, his majesty's ministers and other Diesel people gradually had no objections to Crazy John.

No one took the initiative to punish Mad John in order to show their loyalty to His Majesty, and no one deliberately approached Mad John with the intention of subverting the emperor's rule.

After a long time, the Diesel people, who found that Crazy John never put his ideas into action, gradually got used to this eccentric who occasionally went crazy and said some irrelevant and stupid things.

So, the Diesel people treated him the same way they treated him after he became "Mad John" as they did before he became "Mad John".

This ancient little country has always been like this, like a quiet stream, occasionally splashing out a few restless water droplets, but as long as you extend the span of time and expand the perspective, you will find that the stream is still flowing as usual, just like the countless days and nights in the past.

So the sun rises as usual, and the Diesel people live their lives as usual.

However, is everything really as calm as it seems on the surface? Is there a turbulent undercurrent hidden beneath the calm surface?

Charles didn't know, and Rachel wasn't sure either.

In fact, they just wanted to go to the dock... no, to have a couple of drinks in the pub.

However, they had a subtle disagreement on this matter.

Lacele wanted to go with Charles to the counter to see what wines were available, but Charles thought it would be better for her to stay where she was.

Logically speaking, Lacele should have reasoned with Charles, but for some reason, when she saw Charles's face, she became inexplicably angry and didn't want to reason with him at all.

She just wants to be unreasonable.

"Let's go," the witch muttered softly, turning her wheelchair and planning to go to the counter by herself, "My hands and feet are on my body anyway..."

Charles couldn't control her hands and feet!

But at this moment, she suddenly heard a soft sigh, and then Charles gently grabbed her hand and put it back on her legs.

"Be good, sit down."

She heard Charles admonish her.

[To be continued]

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20. Too many cards

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If Lacele heard correctly, Charles had just told her to be obedient.

But only ghosts would listen to him.

Lacele just wanted to go against Charles. She turned the table when her leader served her food and she refused to drink when her leader toasted her.

The main feature is rebellion!

So when Charles just told her to be obedient, she raised her eyebrows, patted the armrest of the wheelchair, and said:

"No need! I'll wait here. You go to the counter and watch. Crazy John isn't here yet anyway."

Charles was stunned when he heard this, and seemed a little surprised, but he soon nodded and agreed without showing any emotion:

"it is good."

After saying this, he pushed Lacie in the wheelchair back to the small round table. After making sure that Lacie was settled, he turned around and walked towards the counter.

Laceel watched Charles leave, but for some reason a strange idea suddenly popped up in her mind -

Could it be that Ciel was taking advantage of her rebelliousness?

Did he say that because he knew she would deliberately go against him?