21. Chapter 21
As soon as Arka got off the boat and touched the ground, he shook Shanks and Bucky neatly, they always like to move around together, and this time Arka plans to go it alone.
Shanks and Bucky stood dumbfounded, staring at the empty ahead.
I rubbed them, and threw them cleanly, worthy of Alka!
"Chasing?" Bucky asked, stabbing Shanks to the side.
“…… Can we catch up? Shanks expressed doubt, but he quickly swept away that suspicion, and he said seriously: "Yoxi, let's play a game of peek-a-boo with Arka~"
"Huh?" When Bucky heard this, the dead fish appeared, and he immediately turned his head and left: "You can play by yourself......"
But apparently he will never be able to get rid of Shanks, the idiot who only has Arka in his head, his collar was grabbed by Shanks, dragged him forward, and said with a smile: "Well~ don't do this, Bucky, we have to be full of confidence~ right~"
After Shanks finished speaking, he looked sideways at Bucky, who was about to foam at the mouth by the collar, and at this look, Shanks was taken aback, let go of his hand, and said, "Bucky, are you getting food poisoning?" ”
"Medium, poison your sister!! You didn't make it yet!! ”
Bucky clutched his neck, gasping for air, and then roared.
However, the other party's innocent face made Bucky's forehead pop out of N wells, and he decided that he would not mix up anything that happened to Shanks and Arka in the future!
Alka on the other end didn't know that Shanks had come up with such a game, and she was walking down the street empty-handed, with the money bag given by Rayleigh Baba tied to her waist.
She didn't look at the surrounding shops, food, and gadgets, but at the looks on people's faces, and she didn't know why she suddenly cared about this.
As Reilly said, Arka is unconsciously learning, learning about human feelings.
Curiosity begets exploration, exploration gets answers.
But that's still far from the answer.
"You want ice cream?"
Suddenly, a man's voice came to my ears.
It turned out that Arka stopped in front of an ice cream shop, and she was stunned as she watched the children take the ice cream.
It's no wonder that some would think she wanted to eat this.
Arka came back to her senses when she heard the questioning of others, her brows furrowed slightly, and she seemed to be a little disturbed and a little displeased.
She looked over, then her gaze froze.
The man smiled and said to Alka, "Wait a minute. With that, he ran to the store, and snow-white hair fluttered in front of Alka.
He pulled out the money, and his pale wrist was tied with a chain of red stones, which was strange in its pale and blood-red.
"Give." He smiled and handed Alka three different colors of ice cream in his hand.
Arka looked at him, then at his red stone chain.
This made him mistakenly think that the other party was struggling with something, so he said, "This is for you, it tastes great." ”
…… It's a hellish child-like tone again.
Arka took it quietly, and the cold fingers touched the tip of his hand, and there was no difference.
Alka held the ice cream, lowered his eyes, and looked at the ice cream in his hand, its coldness had already passed through the crispy shell and passed into the palm of his hand.
"Don't you taste it? Pink is strawberry, yellow is mango, and green is apple. ”
He told him all the flavors he ordered.
Arka glanced at him, then frowned at the end, and took a small bite of the top semicircle: mango, very cool, but not bad.
"Pretty good, right?"
He looked at Arka with a smile, his turquoise eyes as gentle as his smile, and he could see at a glance that Arka hadn't tasted it, so he said, "It's always fun to try something new once in a while, isn't it?" ”
"Hmm......" Arka took a bite and then gave up on the next bite, because she was a little unaccustomed to it.
So this ice cream can only melt in her hands?
"The beads on your wrists are beautiful." Arka stuck out the tip of her tongue and licked her lips, and she said a longer sentence.
"Are you talking about that?" He pointed to the red stone on his right hand, looked at Arka with a soft gaze, and smiled, "You like it?" ”
“… Probably? ”
Alka said not so sure.
"Poof, well, that's a vague answer, but unfortunately I can't give it to you." He smiled and reached out and touched Alka's head, but Arka dodged him, frowning and saying, "I don't like people touching my head." ”
"Ah, I'm sorry." He was stunned for a moment, then smiled a little awkwardly, and said, "I just took you as my sister." ”
"Ah, what a pity." Arka glanced at him, took the ice cream and turned away, walking very simply.
"Ah, wait, wait, that, my name is Nickles, what about you?" The man who called himself Nikles followed Alka, and he walked beside him: "You are not a resident of this island, are you? ”
"I know the inhabitants of the whole island, nay, you're a ship merchant?"
Arka furrowed her eyebrows, and she suddenly felt a little like throwing the ice cream on her hand in the man's face.
It's so noisy!
"That, that, I'm just, just happy, aren't you happy that I have so many problems?"
Nikles carefully looked at Alka's side face, but his words successfully attracted Alka's side eyes.
"Happy? Not happy? ”
"Ah, yes, aren't you happy that I ask you so many questions?" Nikles looked at Arka, his turquoise eyes hidden a hint of caution and nervousness, and Arka looked sideways at him, thinking of Shanks, for he sometimes looked at her like that......
It's really annoying.
Wait, upset?
Arka furrowed his eyebrows, irritability in his heart.
At this moment, on the other side of the street, there was a commotion.
When Nikelus looked at it, he immediately reached out and grabbed Arka's wrist and pulled her to the other end.
"They are?" Arka glanced at the several men in armor behind him, who seemed to have a very authoritative appearance on the island, which forced Arka to take a closer look at the man, well, the man who called himself 'Niklos'.
It didn't take a few steps before he gasped and flushed.
"Tsk, a weak chicken."
Arka snorted.
Nikelus, who was gasping for breath, suddenly heard Arka's words and said: ...... Tired.
Then his feet hung in the air, he was stunned, his waist tightened, his perspective turned, and the scenery and caught up with him and retreated.
Alka, who was disgusted with his lack of speed, reluctantly stretched out his hand, grabbed the clothes on his waist, lifted him up effortlessly, clamped him to his arm, toe a little, and jumped on the roof at once.
The strange experience made Nikelus's eyes light up, and he couldn't help it, and laughed out loud: "Hahaha is so funny, na, what's your name-"
Arka glanced at him and didn't answer his question.
Just as she was jumping over the other roof, she suddenly stopped.
She saw red, and the only reason she stopped was probably Shanks.
That's right, it's Shanks who was unceremoniously dumped by Bucky on the street, ah, what a pitiful.
At this moment, he was standing at the crossroads, looking distressedly, not knowing which path to choose. However, it was precisely because Arka stopped that he was saved, in a sense.
"Shanks."
"Alka!"
Compared to Arka's bland shout, Shanks's voice was like a starman who saw bones, and his eyes were still shining with stars, Shanks seemed to be particularly sensitive to Alka's voice, he raised his head, his eyes flashed, and he chased after the sound, and saw Arka stepping on the roof, and similarly, Nikleus, who was held by Alkati, also merged into Shanks's eyes.
Shanks, who saw the face of a strange man, furrowed his brows, glanced at it, looked away, and looked at Arka with Nickles in one hand, melted ice cream in the other, and Arka who didn't know yet.
He jumped onto the roof as neatly as Arka, which seemed a bit difficult for Nickles, probably.
"Alka, your ice cream has melted." The first thing Shanks said when he jumped on the roof was this.
"Well, then throw it away." Arka noticed the ice cream in her hand, the water was already on her hand, and as she said, she raised her hand to throw it away, but Shanks stopped it.
"Hee-hee is such a waste, give it to me~"
Shanks took it into her hand before she could agree, opened her mouth, and took a big bite.
The expression suddenly became extremely exciting.
"Good, so cool~" Shanks swallowed, his teeth chattering.
"It's too big." There was no displeasure on Alka's face, and she pointed out the reason very calmly.
"Hiss~ We're usually like that..."Shanks didn't listen and ate the last bit of ice cream on hand again, threw it into his mouth with the crispy shell, and then muttered: "It's so cold, my tongue and teeth are frozen..."
In this regard, Arka can only give him two words, that is: he deserves it.
Shanks grinned and ate the ice cream in his hand, and then his eyes suddenly ran to Alka's hand.
"Hey, there's ha~"
"What?"
Arka didn't understand Shanks' brain circuits very well, and it wasn't until Shanks grabbed her wrist and leaned close to his mouth that Arka understood.
She watched as Shanks stuck out his tongue, which was cold, probably because he had just eaten a big gulp of ice cream.
The tongue licked along Alka's fingers, delicately licking off the melted ice cream.
This......
Arka's slender eyelashes fluttered, and so did her hand.
"Hee-hee, this is the best ice cream I've ever had." Shanks, who had licked someone's hand, said with a grin, his eyes glinting.
He looked at Arka with a smile.
There is her figure in the eyes.
For some reason, Arka suddenly felt that the finger he had licked was on fire!
She withdrew her hand with a cold face, and then, under Shanks's puzzled gaze, lifted her foot and kicked Shanks down mercilessly.
'Bang! ’
There was a loud bang, followed by the screams of passers-by.
"Ahem, that..."
Nicklers, who had been ignored all along, said cautiously under Alka's gaze:
"Actually... No more hand washing. ”
A group of people who couldn't catch up with them, and before they could shout, the person they were chasing was suddenly picked up, and then, under an ominous premonition, Nickles became a human cannonball, and was thrown over.
"Ahh!!!hhh
Wait, did the last sentence reveal something?