City of Sin: Thirty-seven blood and innocence

Only in an instant, Richard has seen many things, but Erin rushed out and stood in front of Richard, there was a kind of look that wanted to pounce into his arms, but he endured it. She reached out and pulled Richard into the room, and then glanced outside before closing the door with a bang and locked it.

Erin leaned back against the door, staring at Richard, his chest undulated sharply, and his face was flushed, looking very excited.

Richard is looking at the room. This is a small house, composed of two rooms inside and outside, and a small bathroom. It is fully functional but pitifully small. Standing by the door, you can see all the corners clearly, and only the bedroom There is a window to the patio on the side, and the other spaces are all four walls. There are also magic lamps in the room, but they are not lit, but replaced with a candle.

Small rooms are already filled with the smoke of candles, but it ’s hard to hide the smell of the girl ’s body. The room is very small, there is only a single bed and a cabinet in the bedroom, and the bathroom can only stand and take a bath. The outer hall is not much larger than the bedroom. There are many things in the room, but the code is very neatly arranged, and the space is cleverly used, but there is not much feeling of crowding.

While Richard was observing the room, Erin suddenly saw blood spilled between Richard's fingers and his hands were sticky and greasy. She reached out and looked in front of her. By swaying the candle light, she saw that palm was full of blood!

Thinking that he just took Richard's hand and pulled him into the room, Erin couldn't help but screamed: "Richard! Are you injured?"

Richard waved at random, and some casually said: "A little injury, it's okay." For him, this is indeed a little injury, not worth mentioning, especially after watching the whole process of Naya handling Blood Parrot .

Erin saw the injury of his palm clearly. The rough surface of the iron bar almost scratched all the skin from the finger to the palm of the hand. Richard pressed it again several times, causing a scary wound, and it seemed that the entire palm was cracked It looks like it's coming.

She couldn't help raising her voice and cried: "How could you get hurt! They promised that I wouldn't really hurt you ..."

As soon as he spoke, Erin immediately covered his mouth and looked pale. And Richard raised his head, not much accident/surprise expression, sharp eyes swept across the face of Erin, all her reaction closed in the eyes. Then his gaze turned to peace and profoundness, and said calmly: "You did participate. So tell me, who are they?"

The calmer Richard is, the more cold Erin feels. She grasped her collar subconsciously, lowered her head deeply, and said in a voice that was almost impossible to hear: "It's Minnie. She came to me and let ... let me lead you here, she said some I want to tell you something personal. I ... I have no way to refuse, so I have to agree. "

"But Minnie promised me that it will never hurt you! And she said that you are your favorite student of His Highness, how dare she hurt you?" Erin's voice is getting higher and higher, but it seems more like Desperately convinced himself.

And Richard is very calm, asking: "Minnie? How much did she give you, and what are the reasons why you ca n’t refuse?"

Erin has gradually calmed down here, smiling bitterly, saying: "There are five hundred gold coins in total, and in addition she promised not to trouble my father."

"Five hundred gold coins? It turned out I was only worth this. But with your father, the weight is almost enough." Richard smiled self-deprecatingly, then looked at Erin, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, asked : "You sold it for the first time, can you tell me how much it sold?"

Erin's face paled for a moment, his head lowered deeper, but after a moment he still said: "Two thousand gold coins."

"Four bottles of ordinary Mana Recovery Potion." Richard commented on this number in a brutal way, and continued to ask: "Who is the other party? Why would you rather make his money than use me?"

This is a very old question, and it has been mentioned. This time, Erin did not choose to escape. She seemed to be out and she quickly replied: "It is Stevenson, and also a student of His Royal Highness. I was in desperate need of money at that time, and he happened to request it at this time. Ordinary people living in the fringe zone barely touched the edge of the nobility. With his power and identity, I have no way to refuse. "

"Stevenson ..." Richard meditated on the name several times. The important part clicked on. All things were like puzzles, and the pieces were joined together one by one. The outline of the plot gradually became clear. But there were still some knots in his heart that could not be opened, and the tyrannical blood vessels in the deepest part of the body also started to move.

"What is your price now?"

Richard ’s words made Erin tremble involuntarily. She hugged herself as if she could n’t stand the cold. She whispered: “No one but Stevenson. He occasionally comes to me, giving me two each time. One hundred or three hundred gold coins. Sometimes I ... when I need money, I will go to him ... "

"What price do you have now?" Richard asked again.

Erin finally gritted his teeth and said, "I owe you 1,600 gold coins, if it is you, one hundred times!"

Richard slowly reached out and grabbed the front of her corset. The violent aggression in her chest became more and more serious, almost unable to suppress. He suddenly wanted to see blood, and the fact that Erin deliberately avoided was echoing in his heart repeatedly.

"Just for five hundred gold coins, you betrayed me, almost made me dead?!"

Richard squeezed these words out of the teeth, both eyes did not know when it was covered with blood. His hands snapped, and with a snort, Erin's robe has been torn in half! Richard grabbed Erin, walked into the bedroom, threw her on the bed, and then went up pressed!

Heavy gasps, beast-like growls and groans from the girl's **** intertwined, filling every corner of the room. Erin is like a small boat in the wind and the waves, and it is up and down. Her hands clenched tightly on the back muscles of Richard. When it was the most unbearable time, with a sneer, it left ten deep blood marks on the back of Richard! The severe pain made Richard scream, but to him at this moment, the pain was like dry wood thrown into the fire, which only made the flames in the body burn more violently, so the Erin's cry increased by eight.

The storm did not know how long it lasted.

The two only knew that when they finally separated, they didn't have the energy to move more.

The bed is very narrow and must be snuggled tightly to accommodate two people. Erin and Richard lay side by side, gazing at the gray ceiling together. Not knowing how to open the head, the girl began to talk about herself quietly, and Richard was listening silently.

Like many protagonists in the story, Erin came from the family of a small nobleman. His father is a hereditary jazz, with a small territory consisting of two villages, located on the border of Sacred Tree Empire, adjacent to Niall Marquisate, not too far from the kingdom of the Duke of Solam. If you strictly sort out the affiliation, Erin's father belongs to the vassal of the Marquis of Niall, so for her, Minnie and Solam belong to people who can not refuse at all.

Erin ’s father has a special liking for art and is passionate about the communication of high society, but he is not good at managing the territory. So the accumulation of days and months has gradually turned the debt into an astronomical number that cannot be repaid. Erin has been sent to Deep Blue to study magic since she was ten years old. She does have a good talent for magic, but that is based on the standards of her father's territory. In Deep Blue, she is nothing at all. Soon, Erin ran out of savings and received less and less funding from home. She could only rely on herself to maintain a deep blue life and study. Without money, her progress in the field of magic also slowed down.

Old Jazz ca n’t afford a Mage that grew up in dark blue. He does n’t want to train a Grand Mage. The real idea of ​​Jazz is that after the dark blue aura, Erin can be sold for a good price. In common language between nobles, Erin can marry a Viscount as a lady, or a mistress to a Earl or even a marquis of little power. Without the deep blue experience, Erin can only be a Baron lady, and the condition of that Baron depends on the dowry of Erin.

So Erin is desperate to make money just to stay in the dark blue. Once she returns to the family, she will be used as a bargaining chip in political marriage. On the other hand, another reason why the old Jazz did not force her to go back immediately is that his debt has reached the critical point of the crisis and may be taken away at any time. The reason why the creditors did not apply to the Circuit Court to force the Jazz to go bankrupt is because they will seriously consider the future of a young girl who can stay in the dark blue and learn Mage. They are unwilling to offend a future Archmage in order to collect debts. As long as Erin stays in Dark Blue for a day, creditors will not go too far. Of course, if she is willing to go back, the debt problem will be solved. There is an elderly widowed widow who has a wealth of assets and expresses his willingness to pay debts for the Jazz, provided Erin agrees to marry him.

Minnie has apparently investigated the life of Erin and knows her father ’s situation at the moment. If Erin refuses to cooperate, then Minnie will take away the territory of Jazz immediately through the power of his family. Jazz is already in an insolvent position, and now that the income in the territory has paid interest on the debt, he has been unable to maintain a decent minimum of life. If the territory is taken away, it means that the title of nobility is deprived, whether it is for the jazz or Erin, which means that the status of the class has taken a big step.

And Minnie also hinted that Erin, she wanted to contact Richard in private, partly because of the reason between men and women, and promised not to hurt Richard. Not to mention the majesty of His Highness Sharon?

"So, I have no way to refuse." The girl said finally. She reached out and took Richard's hand, stroking the new wound on his palm, and asked, "Did they not do too much to you? Did you hurt badly?"

"It's okay, the trouble has been solved." Richard said lightly.

He did not explain how the trouble was "solved", nor did he want to explain the whole process. There is undisguised concern in Erin's words, which is not false in his real insight, but she does not know what happened, and this concern is not so strong that she refused Minnie. For Erin, Niall and Solam are the two big mountains in front of us, which are large enough to block all sceneries. As for the recent war in the Niall territory, it is currently only a secret story that is circulating between Great Noble. When it reaches Erin, there is still a long way to go.

No matter how many reasons Erin has, in the end it is still selling Richard for 500 gold coins. In hindsight, her decision was stupid, because she was not very clear about the background and background of Richard, nor the special relationship between Sharon and Richard. But most ordinary people do not get enough information to make a decision when making a decision, so the decision is wise or stupid, how much depends on luck.

Erin insisted on being slightly innocent from the beginning, and finally succumbed to Stevenson. The apparent reason was that she was unable to repay the debt, but the debt was formed because her family and herself could not afford to live in the dark blue.

"Why don't you go back? You can restore the orthodox aristocratic life without having to work so hard." Richard asked.

“No! I do n’t want to go back! It ’s just a small place in the country, you ca n’t imagine the boring life. Even if I marry a Viscount, I just walk from a small village to another bigger village! Every day! Live in a dark castle or town villa, deal with tenants, slaves, and servants, give birth to a child every other year, and find a few nobles in nearby territories as lovers, this is the whole life! Maybe only a few times in a lifetime Earl. And dark blue is different, every inch of the place is full of dreams, and it is possible to see big men who have status on the entire continent at any time. Here is a place that can change my destiny! "

The girl ’s voice is full of passion and enthusiasm, but makes Richard speechless for a long time.

"Is it important to stay in dark blue?"

"Very important!"

For nearly three years in Deep Blue, Richard saw too many people struggling daily, just to stay in Deep Blue. As long as they can stay, they are even willing to give everything. Before today, Richard was indifferent to this, and there was neither prejudice nor sympathy for these people. But now, when the same thing happened to Erin, it made his heart feel the faint pain again.

I do n’t know how long it took before Richard said lightly: "Well, I know."