Fairy Tail: I don't want to be the president

Chapter 182 Human Life
In the north of the Kingdom of Fiore, the weather is even colder than in Magnolia.

The snow in the wild has not melted yet, and there are some footprints left by small animals such as hares and mice.

Occasionally, you can see some tall dead grass sticking out of the snow, and the small circle of snow around it always melts a little faster.

There are no sanitation workers to spread snow-melting agents on the roads here, and no one to clean the roads specifically. The snow on the road has been compacted and hardened by people, livestock, and wheels.

Those who are more playful can slide on it, but they must be careful not to trip over the protrusions on the snow surface.

On such a road, two big green crabs were walking one after the other. Their claws crushed the hard snow, leaving small pits, which seemed to have good anti-slip properties.

The crab in front was carrying two people, and the one behind was pulling a flatbed cart.

That was Erza's special cart for loading luggage, and it had been tied upside down on the top of the carriage all the way here.

As going further might be dangerous, Erza and Rod asked the two drivers to go back in advance.

The remaining part of the journey will naturally be hard for the river crabs.

It was almost noon and the sunlight was quite strong. I always felt a little uncomfortable in my eyes after walking outside for a long time.

Erza casually took out two pairs of sunglasses, which she wore when matching different swimsuits and beach clothes. She could just borrow one pair from Rhodes.

It was good to have something to use at a time like this, and Rhodes did not bother to be picky about the style. He just secretly made a note to prepare a pair of sunglasses in the future to prevent snow blindness.

In order to avoid being too conspicuous, Rhodes did not let the two river crabs take them all the way to the town, but instead walked the last short distance.

——Even though the sight of Erza dragging a luggage cart so calmly was already very conspicuous.

"Hello, which hotel in town is better?" Rhodes stopped a passerby and asked for directions.

Passersby couldn't help but look at them a few more times and replied, "There is only one hotel in Morningroy. You will see it if you keep walking along this road."

"Thank you."

The two then split up. Erza went to the hotel to book a room and store her luggage, while Rhodes went to the tavern in the town first.

The environment in the tavern is a little dirtier and messier than that in the guild, and the tables look greasy, but it is not as noisy as in the guild.

Rhodes looked around and sat down at the front desk: "A glass of beer."

The bartender poured the wine quickly: "500J."

So dark! As a semi-professional, Rhodes knew the price of alcohol quite well. 500J could buy three drinks in the guild.

This is just comparing the marked prices. If you calculate the profits, it will seem even more unscrupulous.

Rhodes took out the money and put it on the counter, then picked up the beer and tasted it. He didn't think it tasted any better than the one in the guild.

"Are you from out of town?" The bartender, like a talkative person, took the initiative to talk to Rhodes.

"How did you get it?"

"Feeling?" The bartender smiled. "Actually, there aren't that many people in this town. If they were from here, I should have some impression of them."

"You have a good eye then. I'm from the south. Are there any nice places nearby?"

"It's snowy everywhere this season. If you ask me, it's the same everywhere." The bartender looked nonchalant, like someone from Xi'an introducing the lousy Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

"If I have to say, you can go further north in the summer. The beaches there are nice, and there are places where the mountains meet the sea, which is quite interesting."

A customer in the tavern shouted, "Hey, Bob, don't hurt anyone. Is the north a place to go now?"

The bartender, known as Bob, responded, "I didn't ask him to go now!"

Rhodes asked, "What do you mean we can't go to the north?" "Because there have been many cases of children going missing in the northern towns of Manjusaka and Popi, and some of them have even resulted in people being killed because of being stopped."

"Someone died?" Rhodes became nervous. This matter was not mentioned in the intelligence.

"I heard it happened yesterday. The person who died should be the child's father." The bartender shook his head, looking a little regretful.

Rhode frowned and continued to ask: "What do the security team and the army say?"

"What else can I say? Those who do this must be human traffickers. They hid the people in the mountains after they captured them, or simply went out to sea.

Once they are sold to the Kingdom of Seven or the Kingdom of Bosco, what can the security team do to them?"

The bartender was quite resentful about this: "It's all those people's fault. Now we don't dare to let our children go out on the street alone."

"It's very despicable." Rhodes nodded. It seemed that ordinary people didn't know the inside story and just thought it was a more brutal human trafficker.

Rhodes sat in the tavern for a while, listened to some more fragmentary information, and then left.

Some guests watched him leave and asked, "Hey, Bob, you told him so much, aren't you worried that he might be a human trafficker?"

"Do you think he looks like him?"

"Human traffickers won't write the word bad on their faces."

"Who knows? Maybe he's a wizard who came to investigate, and the bad guys will be arrested as soon as he arrives."

"Hahaha, who would come to a dirty country tavern like yours when there's such a powerful wizard like him?"

……

Rhodes went to meet with Erza, and she also received similar information from the hotel owner.

"We can't delay any longer, those guys can do anything." Erza didn't want anyone else to be harmed.

Rhodes nodded: "Well, let's set off now to investigate Manjusaka and Popi Town."

"Let's split up, it will be more efficient, but..." Erza hesitated. Before they set out, the president had said that he hoped she would take better care of Rhodes.

Rhodes thought for a moment and realized that if he delayed any further, other people might get killed, so he nodded, "Okay, I'll be careful.

So, I will ask Worm to follow you. If I find the enemy, I will summon Worm away. If you find the enemy, let him go back by himself. "

"Okay, be careful." Erza acted decisively and took Worm with her and left.

Rhode quickly warned him, "Don't be impulsive. If you find an enemy, try to follow Plan A. If that doesn't go well, try Plan B."

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that after arriving here, Erza was not as calm as she was on the road.

Putting aside his doubts for the time being, Rhodes found a clothing store, bought some cheap clothes, scarves, hats, etc., changed himself a little, and then set off for Popi Town.

When you go out alone, you must protect yourself and try to look inconspicuous.

After setting off, you should also let the river crabs patrol in front and behind, and be more careful when you arrive at Popi Town.

Popi Town is the town where someone died yesterday. Erza thinks that since such a big thing happened there, the Black Magic Cult will probably not go there again.

So the more dangerous place today should be Manjusaka Town, so she chose there.

However, Rhodes was still a little worried about the situation in Morninggroy Town, so he left a small, low-cost raptor nearby before leaving with peace of mind.

(End of this chapter)