"Hm... slick-tongued kid."
Just as Clara finished speaking, the tavern's door creaked open.
With the sound of heavy footsteps and a noise as coarse as a saw cutting wood, a few men who were clearly no good entered the place.
What was puzzling, however, was that the man leading this group did not look as fierce as his followers. His appearance stood out even among the pedestrians on the street.
Although Arthur was seeing him for the first time, the man's appearance immediately made it clear to him that this was the gang leader Victor had mentioned—Gervais.
Despite the common belief that people's hobbies change with age,
philosophers often assert that a person's habits in youth only grow more intense with age.
This was perfectly exemplified in Gervais, who at just over ten years old was already a little drunkard, and now, in his well-established age, his alcoholism had indeed become even more severe.