Struggle in the Steam Age

　　 Leaning on the table and looking at the ships coming and going in the harbor from the window on the second floor of the cafe, Lawrence began to recall what happened when he was a child. He has been living with his adoptive father in the small town called Fir Town since he can remember.

　　 This small town is named after a large area of ​​beautiful fir forests around it. At the beginning, this small town was just a simple water refilling station on the railway to supplement boiler water for the steam trains passing by. But then the local environment attracted many people. Among them is the father of Lawrence's playmate, Syphil Coburg.

　　The Coburg family is the ruler of the Coburg Grand Duchy in the Old World, but such a big family often has many branches. Among them, some non-primary branches will choose to leave their ancestors and venture abroad. And Syphil Coburg's father came from a branch of this family that left Emden early and came to the New World.

As the second son, Coburg took a grant from his family and followed the Transcontinental Railway, which had been built for less than ten years, to look for opportunities westward. As a result, he met Lawrence's adoptive father who was preparing to preach on the railway. Mr. August. The two people talked more and more in the car, and finally chose to settle down in Fir Town together.

　　 After more than 20 years, Lengshan Town has changed from a small town of 400 people to a large town of 1,200 people. Lawrence's adoptive father and Mr. Coburg also owned their own church and farm respectively.

　　 Later, Mr. August adopted Lawrence, who was a premature baby at the time, at the train station. Mr. Coburg also had his own wife and children. Because of the same age, both the adoptive father and Mr. Coburg were busy when Lawrence was young. So he and Saifei often read books and games together in church or farm, so the relationship between the two is very good.

　　 Lawrence had the impression that Syfiel was a tomboy. When he was a child, he not only habitually wore boy clothes like suspenders and plaid shirts, but also acted as lively as a boy. What Lawrence especially didn't want to admit was that she was better than herself, whether she was riding a horse, fighting or shooting with a gun.

"I don't know how that crazy girl is now. I heard that the girls' school in the Old World is a place to train ladies." Lawrence shook his head when he thought of this. He really couldn't imagine how a girl like Saifei got from The kind of aristocratic girls' school graduated.

　　 Just as he was sipping tea and recalling his childhood, there was the sound of a siren in the distance. A three-masted steam ship, as noble and elegant as a white swan, sailed out of the thin rain and fog, and then followed the cracks exposed in other ships towards the trestle bridge in front of the customs building.

There is obvious magical aura on the ship, and there is also a circle of golden decorations on the side of the ship. A beautifully carved gilded mermaid prow is placed at the root of the bow mast. The whole ship reveals a kind of elegance from the inside to the outside. And gorgeous.

　　 "It looks like the Mermaid Princess has arrived." Looking at the name written on the ship's gunwale, Lawrence drank the last sip of tea in the teacup. Then hurried downstairs.

When he got downstairs, he threw a two-cent coin and asked the waiter of the cafe to give himself a cardboard and a pen. Then he leaned on the bar of the cafe and wrote on the paper in bold fonts on both sides of the cardboard. The words "Safir Coburg" are on it.

　　 After all, Lawrence knew that after his bloodline awakened, his appearance seemed to have changed too much from the past, and he hadn’t seen each other for four years. So in order to prevent the opponent from not being able to find him, Lawrence thinks it is better to prepare a stop card.

　　 When he finished all the preparations and hurriedly came to the waiting hall of the customs building, it was already crowded. The passengers on the Mermaid Princess have already disembarked at this time. Many people who have passed the customs inspection are walking out of several passages. Coupled with the relatives and friends who came to greet them, the entire customs waiting hall looks a little messy and crowded.

　　 Lawrence looked at the messy situation before him and simply found a place to lift up the stop sign he just made, and then stared at the main exit. However, he didn't see Syfiel appear until the tourists on the mermaid princess were almost finished.

　　 "Where are the people?" Seeing the people coming in from the entrance gradually became sparse, Lawrence became a little anxious. He couldn't pick up the person and lost him.

　　 "Ha, nerd." Just as Lawrence began to look around, a petite figure quietly ran to him and looked at his face. Then stretched out his tender little hand and patted Lawrence on the shoulder, and greeted Lawrence in surprise. "How did you become like this?"

"Safir," Lawrence heard this already strange nickname slap one after another, and then suddenly turned his head to look at the place where the sound was coming from, and saw a girl standing beside him dragging a **** leather suitcase. Behind him, he looked at him with a smile.

Syphil’s appearance has not changed much from Lawrence’s impression. Even if she wears a pair of high heels, she is only taller than the tip of Lawrence’s nose after awakening Bai Ze’s blood. height. There was a little disheveled short hair on his head, the gray hair was slightly upturned at the ends, and the blue eyes under the oblique bangs were full of smiles.

　　 Same as four years ago, Safir's face is still small and delicate like a doll, and it looks as if the facial features are full of green feeling.

　　 What surprised Lawrence was that Safir was now wearing a skirt that was very popular recently, with a large straw hat decorated with silk flowers on his head.

"I just had a little bit of adventure recently and awakened a certain bloodline in my body." Lawrence shrugged slightly. In his impression, Uncle Coburg himself was an extraordinary warrior, so Seifer could understand him. What is said.

While explaining 　　, Lawrence kept looking at Syfiel, because he had never seen Syfiel's feminine dress for so long before.

"You—why keep looking at me like this?" It may be that Lawrence’s sight has been on Syfiel’s face, so Syfiel looked a little nervous, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com “What’s wrong with my dressing? ?"

　　 "No, no. Your dress is very fashionable and suitable for you." Lawrence smiled and praised, "It's just...but I have never seen you dressed like this before, so I'm a little surprised."

　　 "Do you think this dress is very beautiful?" Syfiel put his hands behind his back and stretched out the toe of his right foot and gently touched the ground. "I, I actually don't like to wear this type of clothing. It's just that I was in first class when I came. If I don't wear this, I would look very undecent."

　　 "It's okay, you should wear it as you like. As long as it is not for formal occasions, it is not a big problem. After all, this is the New World and there are not as many rules as the Old World." Having said this, Lawrence quickly changed the subject. "By the way, what are you going to do next when you come back?"

　　 "I plan to find a job in Eagle Fort." Saifei said after thinking about it. "Like you, I have had some special adventures in the past four years, so now I plan to be a detective."

　　 "Detective?" Lawrence felt a little strange. "Why do you have such thoughts?"

　　 "Well, because I found that not only men, but many women also have a need for detectives. Now the detectives outside are mainly male detectives, which is not convenient for many things."

　　 "Sounds very good," Lawrence nodded and helped Syfiel lift her suitcase. In this era, the city developed rapidly but the number of police officers was seriously insufficient. Therefore, this also gives detectives a lot of living space. "By the way, have you contacted a good place to live now, do you need me to help you?"

　　 "Already contacted." Saifeier smiled. "I live in my grandfather's house temporarily and move out after deciding on the location of the detective's office after a while."