She Chooses To Destroy the World

Chapter 13: Apprentice and leave.

The table in the kitchen has always been a place for Hewlett to talk to the employees in the pub. As long as the side door leading to the back alley and the door leading to the front store are closed, the kitchen can form a separate space, which can barely be used as an office.

At the end of each month, Hewlett always puts on his crappy old dress, sits at the table, and sorts out his accounts for a month. All employees know that this old dress symbolizes a change of status. As long as Hewlett wears this dress, it means that he is no longer a bartender who can joke casually, but the owner of this tavern. If he is wearing this dress and talking to people, then he must say something important.

On the first day Alice came to this tavern, Hewlett was wearing this crappy dress, sitting at this table, and made the decision to hire her. At the moment he was still sitting opposite her as he did then, but his expression was not as relaxed as last time. Seeing him like this, Alice became even more nervous, her lips pursed and she said nothing.

Could it be that he wants to fire her? Ordinarily this is impossible. As far as Alice knew, Hewlett had never fired anyone. But apart from this, what else is important?

Hewlett looked at Alice, seemingly unspeakable at what he was about to say. But he couldn’t escape, and finally said it:

“Alice, sorry, this tavern is going to be closed.”

The news is even more amazing than Hewlett’s dismissal. This pub has existed since Alice was able to run and play in the street. In her knowledge, this pub should always be Existing, she never thought that one day it would be closed.

Hearing Hewlett said this, she finally understood the reason for his trance these days. She quickly asked:

“Why?”

“Its owner sold it.”

“I thought you were its owner.”

Hewlett sighed:

“I hope so too. Unfortunately, all I have are tables, chairs, benches, cutlery, cups and plates. The owner of this house has someone else, and I haven’t been able to save enough money to buy it here. He informed me the other day, It is said that someone bought all the houses and land here and asked me to leave within a month.”

“Aren’t the new homeowners going to rent out anymore?”

“I inquired about it. The man who bought this place is the baron of the city lord. He wants to demolish it all and build a more magnificent tavern. In any case, this city has no place for me. I will leave. Now, in the last month, I will give you a double salary, and there is only this I can do.”

Hewlett apparently had this unexpected news so that Alice had no time to think about her residence. She stammered and asked:

“Where are you going? Where’s Lena?”

Hewlett shook his head:

“I don’t know yet. I have saved a little money over the years. If I have a chance, maybe it will be enough for me to change a place and open another tavern. But anyway, I have to leave the city. As for Lena…I haven’t I asked her about her plan, but I think she probably won’t follow me.”

Alice did not ask Hewlett how he came to this conclusion. She has been working here for a year and vaguely understands that the people working in this tavern have more or less unspeakable past. Among these people, Lena may have more secrets than others.

When they finished speaking, Alice came out of the kitchen in a daze, feeling that the future was bleak.

She has no place to live, no job, what should she do? What else can she do?

Only then did Alice truly realize that she was indeed a child. When faced with such a difficult matter, she had no choice.

After the conversation, I packed my things and prepared to open the door. Alice raised her eyes to look at Lena. She didn’t smile at all. Alice had never seen her like this. The relationship between Lena and Hewlett is difficult to describe, and Alice believes they are confidants.

“Lina, the tavern is gone, what will you do from now on?”

Lena shook her head and said nothing.

Although the pub is about to close, it will open today. Hewlett plans to sell all the wine stored in the cellar within this month, and advertises a limited time offer at the entrance of the tavern. The waitresses also cheered up, determined to earn as much tips as possible during this last period of time, so that they could get through the days when they couldn’t find a job.

Not long after the door was opened, the immortal Roma arrived.

Ordinarily, such a mercenary should not stay in such a war-free city for a long time. Alice originally thought he was fascinated by Lena, but upon closer inspection, his pursuit of Lena did not seem to be so fierce. Maybe he just wanted to find a place to relax and flirt with the barmaid before the next fate fight. In any case, he has always been the kind of guest that waitresses like best: handsome, not troublesome, and generous when tipping. Therefore, when he came here, they all gathered around him.

Two days ago, Alice hadn’t deliberately moved to Immortal Rom’s side, she was embarrassed.

Now she can only believe in the prophecy of that god, and believe that the fate of the mercenary in front of her has something to do with her. Walking with him can make her grow up to seventeen years old safely. At that time, she will be an adult, with enough strength to live, and enough intelligence to make up her mind whether she wants to become a believer of the future god, or she can complete the rest of her life on her own.

She came to Roma and asked him again:

“Please accept me as a disciple and teach me how to learn swords.”

Undead Roma didn’t expect Alice to make such a request again, so he turned his head and looked at her seriously. When she mentioned it last time, she gave up so easily, which made him miscalculate her determination. The girl’s eyes are very bright, and her figure is very smart. From Roma’s eyes, she should be quite suitable for learning swords. But he is a forty-year-old man who accepts a teenage girl as his apprentice. He wants and knows that there will be a lot of trouble, but he absolutely cannot agree.

He was about to open her mouth to refuse, but Lena spoke first:

“Please promise her,” Lena said to him. “The tavern is going to close recently, and this child will soon have nowhere to go.”

This made Roma embarrassed. He liked Lena and was unwilling to refuse her request directly. But let him accept a young girl as an apprentice… this fact is extremely troublesome. He thought for a while and said to Alice:

“For Lena’s sake, it is not impossible for me to accept an apprentice. But I am a famous mercenary, and I don’t know how many people want to be my apprentice. I can agree to accept you, but the tuition fee is Nothing less.”

Alice was overjoyed when she heard him let go:

“Of course, as long as you can accept me.”

Roma decided to say a number she could not afford in order to dispel her unrealistic illusions, but the number should not be too outrageous, so as not to let them see that he was deliberately making things difficult. He thought about it, and said the number:

“Two gold coins.”

In the absence of any task, two gold coins are probably Roma’s income for half a year. Even for a famous mercenary like Roma, this can be regarded as a small amount of money. In his reputation, accepting two gold coins as a commission for apprenticeship is reasonable, and it can even be said to be very cheap. But Roma can be sure that the little girl in front of her can’t afford so much money.

Unexpectedly, Alice’s eyes lit up suddenly.

When she went to the landlord’s wife in the morning, she once took a gold coin and put it in her pocket. At this moment, she hadn’t had time to take it out. At this time she took out the shiny gold coin and placed it in Roma’s palm:

“This is a deposit. The remaining half will be paid when you start teaching me.”

Rom looked at the gold coin in his palm in surprise, and reflexively picked it up and put it in his mouth to bite.

Yes, it is true.

As a mercenary, Roma has his own rules of survival, one of the most important is that he must never let go of the money already in his palm.

He stuffed the money into his pocket and looked at Alice again:

“If you go back in the future, I won’t return the money to you.”

Alice nodded:

“I know.”

Roma didn’t intend to ask Alice where the money came from. Money is money. There is never a fixed owner. Even if she stole the money, it has nothing to do with him. But since he accepted this gold coin, it means that he really wants to accept a female apprentice.

“I have to say something in advance.” Roma said, “I am a mercenary and I have no fixed place. I often go to war. I can’t stay in one place for a long time. You are my apprentice and you have to follow me. Run west.”

At this point, Alice has long realized:

“It doesn’t matter, I can fight with you as a mercenary.”

He glanced at her:

“Although there is no threshold to be a mercenary, the mercenary union does not want women. No one will hire a woman as a mercenary.”

Alice responded calmly:

“I think if it is an apprentice of’Undead Roma’, no one would think of going to check his gender specifically.”

Alice was right when he said this, and Roma was somewhat proud of it:

“This is true. I am a well-known figure in the mercenary guild. Recently, people in the guild have often suggested that I accept an apprentice. As long as you follow me, no one should doubt your identity.”

He said that while looking at Alice. He found that the child was very clever and very likable. Besides, in most cases, girls are always a little more reliable than men. When he gets older, his physical strength and concentration will decrease. On the battlefield, he really needs a trusted apprentice to assist him. Thinking about it this way, it may not necessarily be a bad thing for him to accept such a young female apprentice now.

Thinking of this, the soldier’s eyes became gentle:

“Go, I’ll take you to change your dress.”