Otome's Law of Ascension

Chapter 70. Crocodile Teeth

"The crocodiles in the Dobali region have horns on their heads," Dimitri replied.

The two pretended to be curious and walked towards the crocodile stall.

"The head of the crocodile hanging there has no horns. Is it a fake Duobali crocodile?" Licia uttered nonsense amidst the chopping sounds.The boss in the gray-brown turban ignored her and chopped the crocodile into several pieces.

"Female crocodiles don't even have horns." Dimitri grabbed Licia.

"Brother knows the goods, do you want a tail?" The female boss threw the meat cleaver on the chopping board, brushed up her sleeves, and asked Dimitri, pointing to a bloody tail.

"Oh, how handsome, this little brother." In order to keep a low profile, Dimitri is wearing civilian clothes bought in Seine City today. "I'll send you a piece of meat back to taste."

Lycia's desire to win made her throw ten gold coins. "Bring me a whole one. I want a male alligator with horns."

The boss picked up the knife and started chopping the meat again. "There is no whole article."

Licia pointed to the crocodile's head. "The other end, I want a crocodile head with horns, I don't want a tail."

Anyway, all they need is teeth and a crocodile head.

"You buy heads? Miss, but no one eats crocodile heads. All crocodile heads are thrown away every night. I just threw away a male crocodile head yesterday." The butcher coveted the ten gold coins on the chopping board.

But being able to throw ten gold coins casually, she knew that the person coming must be of extraordinary status, so her attitude suddenly changed a lot.

"Where did you throw it?" Licia looked like a savage lady who wanted to find the crocodile head.

"Garbage pit, go along this road, then turn left, there is a big pit." The butcher replied politely.

Dimitri, on the other hand, looked kind and persuasive. "Okay, stop making trouble, maybe you really want to find that horned crocodile head in the garbage dump."

Licia glared at him. "Yes, I want it. I paid for it too, boss, and if I can't find the horned crocodile head, you're finished."

After Licia finished speaking, she ran in the direction the butcher said.

The rest of the shops were dumbfounded as they watched the neighbor earn ten gold coins. "Miss, I have a crocodile head with horns today."

Licia had already run away, and Dimitri followed.

The two ran to the side of the garbage pit in a hurry, and didn't care about waiting for Fudomi and Troy to be together.

If you want to quickly collect a large number of crocodile teeth, you can only look for the previously dropped crocodile heads in the garbage dump.

"This pit is a bit big." Licia covered her nose.

From time to time, someone dragged a cart of garbage and poured it into this garbage pit that was at least 20 meters deep.

"How are we going to find the crocodile head?" At a glance, there was nothing to be found. "I see one!"

Licia saw a crocodile head covered with fruit peels, with horns, which should be the one that the boss said was just thrown away yesterday.

"I don't want to pick it up." Licia shook her head, then looked at Dimitri. "Obviously you don't want to either, is there a magic circle that works?"

Dimitri shook his head.

"Let others help." Licia grabbed a thin girl who had just finished taking out the garbage. Her clothes were empty, and she also had heavy dark circles under her eyes. Her lips were pale and she looked malnourished.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" The thin girl looked very young for her age, but her face was covered with wrinkles.

Licia suddenly felt a little guilty, asking a thin girl to do something she didn't want to do.

"See that crocodile head? Can you pick it up for me? I'll pay you a gold coin." Licia had already taken out a gold coin and stuffed it into the thin girl's hand.

"Can I get a gold coin just by picking that up?" The girl looked at Licia eagerly. "What if you find more?"

"Then I'll give you more gold coins." Licia put her hand into her pocket, feeling that the number of gold coins was still sufficient.

"Thank you." The girl clutched the gold coin tightly, jumped down into the garbage pit, picked up the crocodile head, which was about the size of her, and walked towards Lizia.

"You give too much, which may have a bad impact on her life." Dimitri said objectively.

"Occupying the best resources, are you still pretending to be stingy with people who don't even have enough to eat?" Licia smiled while crossing her arms.

"Licia, you are so kind." Dimitri kept praising Licia today, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.

"No, I'm just deceiving myself. In fact, I'm still exploiting them in a sanctimonious way." Lizia saw the girl throw the crocodile head on the ground, and ran into the garbage pit to find other things. crocodile head.

"You paid a guinea, which is more than a year's work for her," Dimitri said.

"But I didn't do anything, and I was able to get a lot of gold coins for nothing." Licia couldn't convince a person who hadn't experienced modern society to understand.

"It's useless to think about it. What you should think about is how to destroy the beasts, so that more people can have enough to eat." Dimitri was right.

The girl worked very quickly, and soon found eighteen more crocodile heads.

Although two crocodile heads were found without horns.

"Okay." But it was a little late.

Licia called out to the girl who wanted to go back to the pit to continue searching.

"Is this enough?" The girl stared at Lizia's hand in the purse with bright eyes, and climbed onto the shore with a lot of thought.

She already stinks.

"A total of eighteen crocodile heads." Lizia looked around and confirmed that no one was around, and handed her eighteen gold coins. "Take it, don't let anyone see it."

The girl nodded, with a cheerful and simple light in her eyes. "thank you."

Perhaps seeing that Licia was beautiful and kind, and caring for her so much, the girl had the courage to squat down and help Licia tidy up the garbage on the crocodile heads.

"For only three gold coins, I can buy a house and live in it myself." She looked up at Lycia. "Miss, the meat is rotten, do you want more?"

"I want to save the remaining 12 yuan."

Licia subconsciously felt that the girl would say something similar to what she said if she had money to treat her family members.

"Where's your family?" Dimitri obviously had some stereotypes about the poor.

"They are all dead. There was a lunatic in our village last month. He picked up a stick that was flaming, and he killed everyone." The little girl said this without emotion . "I was pushed into the stinky puddle by my younger brother, so I was not found."

'Fire stick?chug chug. 'Licia's first reaction was, guns?But there are no guns in this world.

"Now that I have money, I can find a job in the town." The little girl showed her teeth.

"What kind of flaming stick." Dimitri was also very curious. "Is it a heraldic item? Even a lunatic can use it?"

The girl didn't dare to look at Dimitri, but only stared at his shoe uppers. Maybe adolescent girls are a little shy about handsome men. "I, I don't know, I don't know how the fire started, and our village was burned down."

There was still a little fear on her face. "I almost couldn't escape."

Licia glanced at Dimitri, and it seemed that something new had happened after a wave of unrest.

"Where was your former village?" Dimitri asked.

"There!" The little girl didn't go to school and didn't know how to describe the geographical location, so she just pointed to the south.

"Don't go, there is nothing there now, only a pile of charcoal." The little girl had already arranged the crocodile's head, and it was neatly stacked.

"Okay then, where do you live?" Licia saw that the girl's favorability had increased from the initial 30.00% to 50.00%.

"Don't worry about me, I won't let people take the money away."

Indeed, it must be her ability to survive so thin and weak.

"Do you need me to find someone to help you drag these crocodile heads?" The little girl showed her chopstick-like wrists and waved to Licia.

"No, we can just find someone for these." Of course, it is impossible to take the whole crocodile head away. "You go back first."

After the girl left, Dimito used dragon flames to burn off the meat hanging from the bones, leaving only the gleaming white crocodile skull, and then took advantage of no one to collect all the teeth, and there was a small bag.

"It should be enough." Licia weighed it.

"Your Highness!" Troy ran over eagerly, just as Dimitri was receiving a bag full of crocodile teeth.

"These? Are these crocodiles? Skulls?" Troy gasped.

Dimitri pushed away Troy's face, which was too close. "What's the matter, tell me quickly."

Although the female crocodile couldn't tell whether it came from the Duobali area, Licia still collected them and put them in her bag based on the principle of not wasting.

"The city lord still found us here. It seems that we have to spend the night in Chinonbo tonight." A gust of wind blew, and Troy smelled a stench and almost vomited. "You've been standing here all this time?"

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The lord of Chinonbo is shirtless and wears a hat made of fish scales and crocodile skin on his head. His skin is black and blue, just like a murloc.

"I heard that a beautiful lady wants to buy a whole crocodile! Oh hahahahaha." The city lord, who looked like an aquatic chief, patted his big belly and laughed wildly.

The other students who didn't know looked at Lizia curiously, and she shrugged. "I'm just curious."

No, she was a little regretful, and Dimitri should ask himself.

"Our crocodile in Chinonbo is also very beautiful. I can let someone take you to see it." The city lord said while trying to put his hand on Dimitri's shoulder.

Avoided by him, Dimitri said: "Licia only wants to see the horned crocodile." He deliberately did not address Miss Licia, as if he was very close to Licia.

"Oh~" The city lord, who was like a chieftain, let out a long oh.

"I see. The castle is holding a performance tonight, and I asked someone to lead two male crocodiles that are more than eight miles away." The city lord laughed.

So Licia was forced to sit in the cold and damp basement Colosseum three hours later, watching a male crocodile duel performance from Dobali.

There is nothing to watch in the game. Watching two crocodiles bite apart from the blood is very boring.

So Lycia pricked up her ears to listen.

Most of what she heard was gossip.

"Let Qicun be burned clean."

"of course."

"The people who came this time seem to be from Lantcos City."

"They're all students. Are you afraid they'll find out? You're leaving tomorrow."

"Well, but these student girls are so beautiful."

Licia was furious when she heard the obscenities behind her.

She stood up, startled by Keith, who was eating sunflower seeds beside her, and watched her angrily walk towards the two officials who were speaking.

"Sir, are you sheriffs?" Licia's face was full of anger. Although she was beautiful, the two sheriffs obviously noticed something was wrong.

"Yes, ma'am," replied one of the burnt sheriffs.

Dimitri watched this scene from a distance, but didn't get up, and held Troy down. "You have to trust women to figure things out on their own."

Troy gave him a funny look. "Your Highness, you should say these words in front of Miss Licia."

"Where is Qicun?" Licia took out the map and patted it on the table in front of the two of them.

Still the fatter one, he pointed tremblingly at a place not far from Chinonpau City on the map and said, "Here, it only takes about half an hour from the town."

The thinner one was much calmer. "It was completely burned down by an unexpected fire a few days ago, and we are now investigating the cause."

"Geece."

Keith hurriedly put his feet into his shoes, stepped on the soles of his shoes and ran over, scattering melon seeds all over the ground.

"Divination for these two gentlemen, Qicun, this is where the fire started." Licia held down the thinner sheriff who was about to get up.

The man who was held down found that he was completely unable to compete with the force on his shoulders, obviously he was also a heraldry ability user.

"It's related to this gentleman." Keith pointed at the slightly fatter sheriff without hesitation.

"Me? How could it have something to do with me! It wasn't me, he asked someone to set it on fire." The fat sheriff was very nervous. In fact, Geese didn't do divination at all, so he recruited it himself.

"You!" The identified one wanted to shake off Licia's hand, but couldn't move, waving his hands up and down, trying to hit his companion. "You idiot."

Dimitri stood up from his seat and walked towards Licia.

The next thing will be left to the city lord.

No one knew that someone would simply destroy the crime scene in order to make the case handling process easier.

Lycia and Dimitri stood in front of a pile of ruins where nothing could be seen, sighing.

"Licia, something's wrong here!" Keith lifted her darkened face from a pile of carbon. "This thing is weird."

She held what looked like a bullet in her hand and shouted at Lycia.

Licia knew what it was, she took the bullet, it was a bullet, it was indeed a firearm.

But she didn't dare to say it, so she could only pretend to be surprised and handed it to Dimitri.

"I've seen this in my dreams," Keith said, with a look of uneasiness on her face.

"What is this?" Dimitri asked Geese seriously.

"Tools for killing people," Keith replied.

(End of this chapter)