"Here we are."

After entering Dragon Palace City quite smoothly, Qiu Bai thought about it and finally gave up his plan to wander around and rely entirely on himself to find the hard shell tower.

Because he suddenly remembered a simpler way, someone would provide him with a "guiding light" to go to the mermaid princess, and the problem Qiubai faced was nothing more than the length of time he waited.

Now the "guiding light" he asked for had just arrived: a huge axe blade pierced the water curtain on the outskirts of Ryugu Castle, and then swept in an extraordinary arc in a certain direction.

A certain Erqi who has been staring at the princess is not only a pedophile but also a pervert, and he proposes to the young princess and expresses his "love" by throwing various heavy cold weapons at regular intervals every day.

Because of its special ability, no matter how far it throws the weapon, it will be precisely aimed in the direction of the mermaid princess, just like a cruise missile. So if you follow this thing, Qiubai will naturally be able to find the mermaid princess.

"Is there anyone else eyeing the princess...... After all, is it always a special ability that attracts people more than appearance and identity? Qiubai sighed.

He cautiously followed the Tomahawk cruise missile, and at the same time he was fully open to avoid running into anyone in Ryugu Castle.

However, it is not accurate to describe the princess with special abilities, her psychic skills are the ability to destroy the world, and the "ability to destroy the world", that is, the ability to rule the world, is inevitable.

"Found it!"

With a "boom", the axe smashed into the outside of a building with precision, and in addition, it was already densely packed with various weapons.

This is undoubtedly the hard-shell tower that Qiubai is looking for.

"One, two?"

Qiu Bai's movements hesitated slightly, in his perception, there seemed to be more than one person in the hard shell tower, was there anyone accompanying the princess?

King Neptune?

No, then Qiubai found out what was accompanying the princess, so he no longer hesitated, and reached out to push open the door of the hard-shell tower.

With a creaky sound, the heavy door was gently opened a crack in the door, and this "door crack" was proportionally enough for Qiubai to lie down and roll in.

The door was closed again, and an uninvited guest slipped into the completely private space that belonged to the princess.

"Right Minister? No, who are you? Naturally, the princess noticed the sound of the door being opened.

If she looked at Qiubai's body shape from the perspective of a princess, she thought that it was the right minister of Dragon Palace City who came in, but as long as she was not blind, she would immediately find that Qiubai looked a little different from the seahorse.

The princess's voice is nice, it sounds like Teresa Testarosa, but what attracts more attention than this is the size of the mermaid princess.

The ten-year-old six-year-old princess is already a "giant" with a height of eight to nine meters.

"This ...... Uncle is worried about your future. ”

This sentence involuntarily blurted out, the marriage problem of the world's first beauty in the future is a big problem...... The officially defined number one beauty in the world has not yet looked like what it will look like in the future, although this is a bit weird, but it is the truth - the ten-meter princess still has a little baby fat.

Immediately afterwards, Qiubai gave birth to a second emotion, "Princess Otohime is indeed a great mother. ”

Regardless of what Otohime did, the mere fact that she could give birth to Shirahoshi was great enough.

Princess Otohime is a goldfish-type mermaid, and her height is lower than that of the Osaka River and higher than Tanejima Aspen, about 145cm, and then look at the princess in front of her, the forehead is ......

May Princess Otohime rest in peace in Heaven.

The princess was all pink, from her hair to her scales, and she looked quite weak on the outside, and she didn't have the kind of queen who could destroy the world in a minute if she didn't get along at a glance, and after a complete stranger broke into her room and "turned a deaf ear" to her inquiry, her reaction was no different from that of a shy and timid little girl, that is, ......

Cry.

"Slow down, Princess Shirahoshi, my name is Qiu Bai and I'm an adventurer." Seeing a bucket of water brewing in the eyes of the mermaid princess, Qiubai hurriedly introduced herself.

Of course, this is idle talk, the Adventurers' Guild says that they have never had such a membership, but if Akibaku introduces himself and says, "My name is Kudo Shinichi, and I'm a pirate", the princess thinks that there will be a downpour immediately.

Then her cry will attract the garrison in Dragon Palace City, and then it will be Qiubai's turn to cry.

"Adventurer?"

"Yes, part-time magician." As he spoke, Qiubai stretched out his right hand, rubbed his thumb and index finger lightly, and a crystal branch suddenly appeared, and then, the branches bloomed with colorful petals one by one.

Then the flower turned into a butterfly.

The butterfly flapped its wings twice and then eventually turned into a shark.

"Megalo, it's Megalo!"

Princess Shirahoshi finally exclaimed, and more importantly, the tears in her eyes receded...... I just don't know how the "righteous partner" who originally used this projection magic will feel when he sees his magic being used to coax children.

Hawkers, there's no way around it, "cuteness is justice", that's why he has to be a partner of justice, isn't it?

The princess was happy, but Qiu Bai was in pain, and the projection of other items in the non-sword series was a high-consumption action for him, and these three or two times were more laborious than projecting three A-level treasures.

Megalo is the third living creature in this room after the princess and Akiba, a shark and Shirahoshi's pet...... Was, is, and will always be, the only one who has been staying in the hard-shell tower to accompany the child.

The princess picked up the shark figure made of Qiubai like a grain of rice, and in a sense, children are still easier to deal with, which can arouse their curiosity and dispel their wariness of strangers.

While carefully observing the gadget, as if trying to find out what it was different from the real Megalo, the princess asked, "But why did the adventurer-sama Qiubai come to my room?" ”

"This ...... I guess it's part of the adventure. Qiubai explained dryly.

To venture into the little girl's room, what kind of style is this? Is this idea risky and dangerous enough in itself?

No, more precisely...... This should be a "genuine" crime.

"You see, it's easy for humans to wonder what Her Royal Highness the world's number one mermaid princess looks like." He explained it in a nutshell.

But the princess, who is not familiar with the world, seems to really believe this statement, "Lord Qiubai is a human being? So where have you ventured? ”

The princess who has been locked up in the hard shell tower for some time, the princess who has been in the deep sea since birth, is of course curious about the outside world.

Qiu Bai lowered his head slightly, and after a slight pause, he said meaningfully, "My adventure...... Recently, it should be a place called 'Umi no Mori'. ”

The three words "Sea Forest" made Shirahoshi's movements and even demeanor freeze all at once.