Conflict in Ein City (2)

"Jeanne, are you interested in those two officers?"

"It's nothing... hehe..." Jeanne chuckled. Her cold voice was like a melting ice spring. She looked away and picked up the coffee in front of her. "I seem to have seen an acquaintance."

"Acquaintance? with those two officers?" the woman opposite asked again.

Jeanne took a sip of her coffee and said, "The one with the long hair saved my life six years ago." Her tone was indifferent as if she wasn't talking about her savior at all.

"Goodness!" The woman opposite was startled, looked back, and said, "I know her. Is she the legendary Death Reaper? The name is... Keiko Lee, isn't it?"

Jeanne nodded.

"Aren't you going to go there and say hello?" The woman across from her asked Jeanne so calmly.

"Take it easy, Bea. My time is for you today. If I meet them, it will definitely take up your time. But don't worry, I'll see her again soon," Jeanne replied.

Beatrix suddenly realized when she heard the words and said, while nodding in understanding, "I asked why you came to Valhalla suddenly before. It turns out that the target of your training this time is the army where your savior is."

The smile on Jeanne's face brightened, and she said playfully.

"This is not something I can choose by myself. I visited Valhalla this time and was completely tricked by the old man."

Beatrix burst out laughing, and said: "How can General Armstrong, one of the seven-star generals, be so troublesome in your mouth?"

Jeanne shrugged and said, "Who made him my father."

"My father probably knows about this, and the two old men must have colluded." Beatrix covered her mouth and smiled.

Jeanne teased, "How did General Heisenberg, a seven-star general in his prime, become an old man in your mouth?"

"Here you go again, I really suffer from your clever mouth..." Beatrix rolled her eyes at her and said, "It's rare that I take two days to come to Ein to accompany you, so why can't you be nice to me?"

"Am I not good to you, Miss Heisenberg? Today's dinner is on me," Jeanne laughed.

"And also the drink in the bar later tonight, it will be on your bill too," Beatrix pouted.

The two daughters were having a good conversation, and Keiko and Seol-Hyun Ae, on the other side, were also having a good time.

"Keiko, you've seen life in Ein; how do you feel?"

"Yes, it has a soothing and leisurely style. I quite like it," Keiko replied with a smile.

"Yes, I also like Ein very much. It feels like home to me," Seol-Hyun Ae said with a smile, looking at the street outside the cafe's window and the crowds on the street.

Keiko recalled it in her mind and said, "You are from Sariel, right?"

Sariel is the city at the northwestmost end of the seven major city-states. It is a secondary city area connecting Valhalla and Utgard City.

"Yes, the climate in Sariel is dry and cold, pretty much different from here, but the street style is very similar. I haven't been home for six years, and every time I feel homesick, I will come to the streets to stroll. I feel that I can understand it, the feeling of homesickness," Seol-Hyun Ae said emotionally.

Keiko nodded in understanding.

"However, the people of Sariel are very tough, but the people of Ein are very friendly and gentle. This difference is very big," Seol-Hyun Ae changed the subject.

"Really?" Keiko became interested.

"Sariel is on the border, the weather there is harsh, and it is also the poorest place in the entire Federation. You see, they said what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and Sarielian is very strong. Sarielians are basically engaged in heavy work, such as the military industry, heavy industry, and transportation industry. They like to drink spirits very much. People there have loud voices and rough hands and feet. But Ein is different. The people here are very delicate and gentle. When I first came here, I was not very used to it," Seol-Hyun Ae said.

Keiko replied, "I can't see much Sarielian in you."

Seol-Hyun Ae smiled, with a sullen expression on her face: "I am a cultural person. How can I be compared with a trickster and boorish."

Keiko wanted to reply to her: since you are a cultural person, why didn't you go to Vanaheim and become an entertainer, but instead served as a soldier in the city of Valhalla, but decided to swallow her words back. She didn't know much about Seol-Hyun Ae personally or her circumstances, so she didn't want to accidentally offend her.

Speaking of Vanaheim City, it is also one of the seven major city-states, also known as the "city of technology and culture." It is the most prosperous city-state in the federal academic culture. There were numerous military academies and scientific research institutes, as well as the federal library and the federal opera house, as well as the World Grand Theater, the National Gallery, the History Museum, and other culturally related national facilities. Most of the few companies and enterprises in the cultural industry in the federation also set up their bases there.

While chatting happily, Keiko suddenly heard a commotion outside the window. She looked up and saw that in the northwest corner of the garden square outside the cafe, under a big tree, two men in rough clothes were beating two women.

The two men had big muscly arms and their expressions were fierce and menacing.

The two women looked extremely thin and frail, wearing tattered clothes full of patches. One of the women looked like in her thirties, and the other one looked like she was in her early teens. Keiko guessed that they were probably mother and daughter.

Although their clothes were tattered, they were not disheveled, and they were fairly clean. It was just that they were beaten to the ground by someone, and it was inevitable that it would become messy.

The woman in her thirties had been beaten to the ground, unable to move, and the teenage girl was still struggling desperately, trying to protect the woman in her thirties with her thin body.

Surprisingly, the people were just nonchalantly passing by as if nothing had happened. No one helped to pull the two strong men away. All of them were onlookers not far away, whispering and pointing at the pair of mother and daughter.

Keiko frowned tightly, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

No matter whether this world is completely equal between men and women, at least in Keiko's heart, she still retains the values ​​of her era.

Violence is not advocated, and men who beat women are the most unforgivable scum in Keiko's eyes.

Although the physical advantages that men have over women have disappeared in this era, looking at the current situation, the physical fitness of the two sides is obviously not on the same level. No matter what, such unilateral violence should not be allowed.

After enduring for more than ten seconds, seeing that no one came forward, Keiko's hand pushed the table and stood up, ready to go personally to stop them. But just when she stood up, she was grabbed by Seol-Hyun Ae and heard her ask with a solemn voice.

"Keiko-chan, what are you going to do?! Are you going to help those two women?"