Chapter 25: Grilled Fish
"So...... Temporary addition of a ferry ticket?"
The man wore an elaborate badge on his chest, which depicted a map of the continents of the entire Western world, which was not very accurate, but which was the most complete under the limitations of today's measurement technology, with many star-like points of light, which were connected above the great continent and the ocean, like the constellations of the night sky.
This is the symbol of North Dero, and the star track is their course, which spreads throughout the Western world.
"Hmm. ”
To the man's question, Lorenzo responded.
There were people all around, everyone was queuing up to board the ship, and due to the peculiarity of Lorenzo's operation, North Dero prepared a special passage for them.
"But ......"
The man looked a little troubled, he remembered that there were only four people who came, but now there was one more, a rat to be exact.
He didn't know what the job was, but he remembered his boss's order to report any changes to it, and this increase was obviously counted.
"We are short of people, so we are looking for one temporarily. ”
Lorenzo replied, and he pulled Hercule, who looked constipated, over,
"But there is no such ...... in the instructions"
Before the man could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Lorenzo.
"Friend, you have to be adaptable, you can't get in touch with everything, right?"
Lorenzo smiled, but his expression was like this, Lorenzo exuded a dangerous aura, and the man felt a little pressure for a while, and his breathing was slightly short.
"Okay, but I'll have to report back to my superiors...... Go in first. ”
The man got out of the way, and the group hurriedly boarded the steamer.
Leisure time is always so short, but in such a short time, everyone has different gains.
Eve once again saw Lorenzo's shamelessness, and Lorenzo once again succeeded in fooling the person lame, as for the one who was fooled, he was looking constipated, and was pulled away by Lorenzo, although he said that he was pulling, but it was more like a hijacking.
Hybold followed behind the trio, his outfit the same as before, his tall figure wearing glasses, and looking at the books in his hand as he walked, which reduced his sharpness and made him more like a muscular scholar.
As for what he's looking at...... Hope not to be known by others.
Before leaving, the ingenious Lorenzo wrapped the book's cover to cover up the thought-provoking title.
At the back is the kestrels.
Halfway through, Lorenzo turned his head and looked at the kestrel with some concern.
The kestrel is in a wonderful situation, and I can't tell if it's bad or too good.
Everything had to come back from the kestrel fishing, and he didn't catch a single fish, but he brought back someone else's fish, which he said was given to him by a lady, hoping that his basket would not be in space.
This was normal, but then something was not normal, and Kestrel put the fish on the table and smiled silly at it.
Truth be told, that smile was disgusting to Lorenzo.
"Kestrel are you alright?"
Lorenzo asked, seeing the face of the kestrel reflected in the big eyes of the dead fish, like some hell ritual.
"Gloria......
The kestrel whispered the name, ignoring Lorenzo's words at all.
He ...... What's going on?"
Eve also came over, this guy who was a little passive and slacking off, such a drastic change made her feel a little scared.
"Hmm...... I guess......"
Finally Haybold came over, and the fellow looked at the kestrel and flipped through the pages of the book to find the corresponding sentence, which he read.
"Although it was the first time we met, I think I had fallen in love with her, and I suddenly realized why I had been so unfortunate in the first half of my life, and it turned out that all my luck had been used for this encounter. ”
He said something that even Lorenzo couldn't hold back, and he scratched his arms, feeling goosebumps all over his body.
"I guess he's in love. ”
Hybod concluded.
"Wouldn't it?" said Eve.
Lorenzo looked puzzled, and he shook the kestrel vigorously, but the kestrel didn't react at all, and continued to stare at the dead fish.
"How do I wonder if he's controlled by power?"
The professional answered, and Eve stopped Lorenzo, and judging by the guy's eagerness, he was really ready to check if the kestrel had been eroded.
"Alas...... I don't think I'll ever see her again. ”
Kestrel said suddenly, his expression of intoxication turning into a lost one, and he leaned back in his chair and looked at the ceiling.
"Gloria Jackson. ”
He said the woman's name again, it was the first meeting, and it was the last meeting, the kestrel was leaving by boat tomorrow, and so was the woman, and they didn't leave any contact information before parting...... Except for this fish.
"Do you think she'll like me, though I've only met once, though I'll probably never see her again. ”
Kestrel looked at Lorenzo and asked, his face was sad and trance-like, which made Lorenzo stunned, and then Lorenzo scolded.
"You've only met for the first time, and you're just a stranger to talk to, would you propose to a passer-by? just because you talked well?"
Lorenzo retorted, and he began to suspect that the kestrel had entered puberty, an adolescence that was belated for an unknown number of years.
"Maybe she's forgotten about you, after all, we see many, many passers-by every day, but there are few who can leave an impression on our memory. ”
Lorenzo couldn't remember any of the passers-by in his mind, they were all gray and part of the background.
It's true that you see a lot of people every day, but there are very few people who can actually connect with you.
Humans seem to be hilarious, but in reality everyone is lonely.
Listening to Lorenzo's words, the kestrel looked more and more worried.
"Please pour me a drink. ”
The kestrel said to Eve, looking at him like a dying patient, Eve didn't say anything and poured him a full glass.
"Do you want to commemorate my fleeting love with me?"
"You're just just lust and the disillusionment of lust. ”
Eve said with a poisonous tongue.
"Did you say it was love at first sight?"
The kestrel asked Lorenzo again, only to see that Lorenzo had already walked to the table and grabbed the fat dead fish.
"I just think that you may have been with the demon for a long time, and your brain is a little abnormal. ”
Lorenzo grabbed the fish with one hand and drew his folding knife with the other.
"Put it down!"
Kestrel screamed, but it was clear that he couldn't beat Lorenzo, and what followed was a terrible scene.
Everyone gathered around the table and looked at the hot grilled fish differently.
"You've killed my love!" the kestrel continued to scream, but he couldn't change anything.
"But your love is really delicious, do you want a piece?"
Lorenzo picked up a piece of fish and placed it on the kestrel's plate.
The kestrel stopped screaming, he looked at the hot piece of fish, for a moment his expression was wonderful, and after hesitating for a long time, he picked up the fork.
"How does it taste?"
"It's smelly. ”
......
That's probably it, Lorenzo neatly ended the love story of the kestrel, to be precise, the story was not opened at all, it was just the kestrel himself suddenly obscene.
Lorenzo turned his head and whispered to Eve beside him.
"Is there a psychiatrist in the purification agency? I suspect there may be something wrong with the kestrel brain. ”
"How?" asked Eve.
"Think about it, fighting and killing demons all day long, there is no normal life at all, and even ......" Lorenzo turned his head and glanced at the kestrels, "Sometimes I feel that life is a bit outrageous, and I need something to vent, I feel that the kestrel has probably reached that extreme." ”
"Then why is it now? Isn't he usually good?"
I haven't known Kestrel for too long, but in Eve's cognition, Kestrel is quite normal.
"Probably this overtime work became the final blow that broke him. ”
Lorenzo analyzed.
"Lorenzo, you still have a chance to let me go now, I think I'm almost there. ”
At this time, Hercule, who had been silent and constipated, spoke, and Lorenzo remembered that there was another one by his side, and his face was pale, as if he was sick.
"What's wrong with you?"
"I hate the sea. ”
Halfway through, Hercule finally couldn't take it anymore, grabbed the railing beside him, and vomited towards the water below.
"What kind of disease is this?" Lorenzo was curious, he thought it was better to care about Hercule first than the kestrels, "seasickness, or sea allergies?"
"Sequelae. ”
Hercule wiped his mouth and said weakly.
"What after-effects?"
"The aftermath of the shipwreck...... You know, it's the first time in so many years since I came back alive on the ocean that I've stepped on the waves again. ”
Hercule looked at the blue ocean in the distance, and his mind couldn't help but think back to the shipwreck that changed his life.
It was this shipwreck that created the Rat King, made Hercule inhuman, and he got a lot of ...... Nothing seems to have been lost.
Since then, however, Hercule has only had a deep fear of the sea, and one of the main reasons he has not returned to his hometown is that it is so far away from Invig that he has to take a boat.
"So Lorenzo didn't lie to me, did you?"
Hercule asked suddenly, grabbing Lorenzo's clothes, and he was a little sick.
"Of course, I owe it to you, and I can still trust that. ”
The two spoke words that Eve didn't understand at all.
Hearing Lorenzo's affirmation, Hercule felt as if he had made up his mind, and he struggled to pick up his strength and move on, as the road ended in a bad ship, and what awaited him in the next was a bad journey.
But Hercule didn't care about that, such as the one that Lorenzo had promised him, and these difficulties were obviously not so difficult.
"[Gap] ......"
Hercule whispered the unfamiliar words, and he felt a trembling joy at the unknown of the world again, like a sick madman.
But the joy did not last long, and Hercule, who had just regained his strength, walked two steps and threw himself on the railing, vomiting vigorously.
"Is there any seasickness medicine?"
Although not yet on board, as if to comfort himself, Hercule asked weakly.
Ignoring the conversation between the men in front of him, Haybold looked at Hercule, and after realizing that the guy was not a threat, he gave up his observation.
Lorenzo initially thought that Hybode would strongly refuse, but he didn't expect that Hybode didn't care about this, he said that the command of the actual operation was still in Lorenzo's hands, and as long as the work could be completed, he didn't mind Lorenzo's various behaviors.
Hybold cared more about something else than Hercule.
His eyes fell on his side, and the kestrel looked dazed, maybe all this passed too quickly, so that this guy still can't accept it.
"It's just a woman. Haybold said.
The kestrel turned its head stiffly and said slowly.
"Yes, it's just a woman, it's not really any lewdness, it's anything, it's just that I feel lucky...... Just, suddenly found a good fit. Kestrel said.
"She also likes to read these books, and she also likes to fish, and we have so many similarities that we are like bosom friends, and even say another female version of me. ”
Kestrel was still a little reluctant to give up on that person and woman, "After all, my job is too bad, and I also want to develop some office romance, but before I remember the name, everyone died, and batch after batch was replaced." ”
"Would you like to be with her then?" asked Haybold again, the Viking wondering why he cared about it.
The kestrel shook its head dryly, then smiled.
"It's just talking, just like Lorenzo likes to talk badly, I'm just trying to have fun. ”
"Tu Yile?"
Kestrel nodded, then patted Haybold on the shoulder vigorously.
"Yes, I'm a kestrel ah, a high-ranking knight of the purification mechanism, and we're going to rob people from the Iron Law Bureau next, and even if I come back alive, my job is to chop demons and stuff like that. ”
Kestrel became serious, as if all the reluctance he had just given up was pretending.
"My life is actually quite abnormal, I may have used up my luck that time, and then become the dead in other people's mouths, which is a little too irresponsible for an ordinary person, or even a lover. ”
The kestrel's expression changed again, and after being serious, he cried and mourned.
"So, the best solution is still office romance! But this is a high-risk industry! Maybe it will die again. ”
Kestrel concluded.
"Endless loop!"
"There is no need to force this kind of thing, maybe one morning, you will suddenly find your beloved, leave desperately, let go of all the restraints. Haybold said.
As the sun shone down, Haybord's figure became unusually tall at this moment, like a pious priest, holding the Gospel in his hand, and was solving the puzzles of the bewildered lamb of the kestrel.
"Ah...... I don't see that you're a Viking who is quite romantic. ”
The kestrel cried and mourned, and when he heard Hayboy's words, he didn't expect this Viking to look rough and his mind to be so delicate.
"No, it's written in the book, I just think it's appropriate. ”
Hybold flipped the book over and let Kestrel see the line of text.
Kestrel froze.
The sudden change in mood made the kestrel not know what to say, he actually thought that this rough man would say such a thing, maybe Lorenzo was better than him, what was he expecting.
"Forget it, let's go. ”
Kestrel urged, not wanting to say anything more on the subject.
For Kestrels, his life was a bit bad and a little dull, so at this point he agreed with some of Lorenzo's behavior, telling bad things and telling strange jokes to make the bad atmosphere easier.
It was just a wonderful encounter, a perfect afternoon, but you can't always be in it, and the kestrel has a lot to do.
Everyone continued to talk about the kestrels' obscenities, and the kestrel continued to wail, looking happy, as if these people were really preparing for an interesting trip, instead of grinding their teeth and sucking blood, preparing for the next one, or countless fights and fights.
The melodious whistle echoed over the port of Rendona, and the steamer moved slowly, stirring up heavy waves, and it sailed away from the port of Rendona towards the other end of the White Tide Strait.