Book 4 Chapter 19 - Adventure to the East

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TL: MerrickEmrys

TLC: Zhao

Editing: Krisaia

In a barbecue stall by the road, two shabbily dressed men sat around a table. A tattered plastic knit bag was under the feet of one while the other stepped on a stack of cardboard. Both had smiles on their swarthy faces as they ate cheap barbecue and drank equally cheap beer. Their voices added to the deafening noise of the city street at night as they exchanged stories, each one more exaggerated than the last.

The man on the cardboard was visibly drunk. He stammered when he spoke, punctuating each pause with a slap on the shoulders of his friend. The noise prompted the owner of the barbecue stall to peek out.‘I wonder what kind of grudge is big enough for them to do this...?’

“Don’t you think my nephew is foolish? Who would quit being a manager and apply to be a civil servant? Look at what happened! Lost his job for nothing! Now, all he does is stay home and wallow in his remorse. What an eyesore!”

“Ohhh, is that so…?” The man on the receiving end of the blows smiled and listened on quietly. He even filled up...