Chapter 17: The Prison Bird
If you compare Gore City to a woman, it is really the best crown in the East China Sea, with the reputation of "Pearl of the East China Sea", looking at it, in the East China Sea, big islands, small islands, large countries, small countries, big cities, small villages, small villages and small villages are dotted around, but none of them can be more beautiful and neat than her, and can overflow with a dignified and rich state that only the upper class can have.
In addition to the darker border city and the gangsters there, the central street forms a strong inverse contrast with the dilapidated and dirty garbage mountain outside the south city gate, the wide and smooth street, spotless, well-dressed passers-by, even if they are only the lowest commoners, also strive to learn the calmness and elegance of the nobles and lords in the high city.
The astonishing visual gap once made Lasis who set foot here for the first time stunned for a while, he was not a chick who had never seen the world, on the contrary, he had followed the footsteps of the old man to many places, rich and poor, but there was no place where the law of survival of the fittest could be implemented to such an extreme.
Everything that is filthy is to be discarded, including people.
This is where the garbage mountain comes from.
As for the high city, as the name suggests, the high city is very high, it is built on a high ground located in the center of the city of Gore a little east of the city, it can be regarded as an inner city, that is, a city within a city, the superiority of the high level can be very suitable from the mentality to meet the then king's sense of control over his own territory, and as the third princess of the royal family, Evita, with the king's unreasonable favor for it, naturally occupies the most outstanding one, the pattern, lighting, ventilation and so on are all superior.
"Your cottage is really good, and you can see the sea."
Although it is not the first time to sneak into Evita's boudoir, but in the past, he basically acted in a hurry, and he had not felt the luxury of the emperor's house at all, and this time, Lacis, who was going to sneak in for a while, lazily lay on the windowsill, looking at the sea on the other side, and involuntarily sighed.
The time is still short, the luxury has not yet been felt, but condescendingly felt the bird's-eye view of the superior, and it can only be said that Evita is an outlier in the high city, there are not many luxuries in the boudoir, but all kinds of books are neatly placed, from history to modern times, from plants to animals, from cold weapons to * and so on, covering a wide range, not like a nobleman who has always been a nobleman who only talks about it all day long, but more like from a family of intellectuals who are tireless in their knowledge.
"It's just a pretty cage, it doesn't feel a trace of life, it's disgusting!" Evita, who frowned and said, gently put down the black tea in her hand, and the milky white foam suddenly dispersed, and the tea halo rippled.
More than thirteen years old, cardamom tips in early February.
According to Du Shisheng, the age of 14-year-old Evita is almost in the age of cardamom, and the ancient times of the previous life, the children of this era are also quite precocious, it can only be said that this world full of all kinds of strife is easier to catalyze the maturity of the mind, today is still living a small life of oil, rice, sauce and vinegar, maybe tomorrow the hometown will be a group of pirates into a pot, in order to pass on the lineage, it is not uncommon for girls to marry and have children at the age of twelve or thirteen, very real, but also sad, the little people, but also the world.
Evita who lives in the high city, as a royal family, in the eyes of others, it is brocade clothes and jade food, food and clothing are worry-free, basically in addition to sleeping, even bathing that has a large group of servants like dogs saddle before and after the horse, which is enviable, but people often only see the surface of the brilliance, but can not see the sourness behind the light, Evita has never felt the freedom that children of the same age should enjoy since she was a child, she was born to a slave and she was a royal daughter, but she lived a life of being poked in the back and swallowing her anger every day, and she also suffered from the white eyes, It didn't take long for her frail mother to leave her alone, and her only friends were the few books that had long been broken.
Until a New Year's celebration a few years ago, everyone temporarily forgot about work, abandoned their burdens, forgot all the troublesome things, and went out of the house to join the carnival feast, and only Evita was abandoned in the dark corner as always.
But she didn't show a trace of decadence, but there was still a little bit of excitement in her heart.
Except for some soldiers who work overtime and occasionally patrol the passing soldiers, there are only her and a few sporadic servants in the huge castle today.
She can do a lot of things that usually seem far from reality.
For example, the children who learned from the books stepped on the beautiful marble on the ground with their skirts and jumped up the grid.
It's just that she didn't take a few small steps and stopped moving.
"Click, click......"
A series of slippers broke the silence, very abruptly from the corner in front of her, Evita was curious, she clearly knew that on the other side of the corner, except for a few rooms for the servants, there were only a few large polished windows left, and she also clearly knew that the floor she was on was the third floor.
"The whole city is happy on the street, and we can also be happy here~~"
Accompanied by a full childish voice, a pair of strange duos who didn't look very good together appeared around the corner, a small one, a big one, among them, the little one didn't seem to notice himself, with his head held high and the big man next to him wrapped in armor and wide clothes from time to time gesturing something, judging from the figure, the big man who seemed to have an age was very silent, at least so far except for staring at her meticulously moving forward, there was no noticeable action, And the little dot that looks quite frivolous is really small, almost only up to the knee of the armored man next to him, but Evita, with a kind of natural delicacy of a woman, still thinks that the little dot is the one who is in charge.
Apparently the other side ignored Evita's meaning, one left and one right, passing by, Evita noticed that there seemed to be a piece of blue ink on the left neck of the little man that looked like a tattoo.
Descending Tiger ...... of Kolber Hill
Evita, who stayed with the servants more than her peers, had heard a little about the tiger cub, and she understood their intentions, and her feelings were to take advantage of the absence of tigers in the mountains to engage in some stealing and stealing dogs.
If it weren't for the sudden thought of Lassis at that time, perhaps the lifelines between them would have been parallel forever, and they would not have intersected into a commendable bond in the future.
"Ahh That's right! Little sister, this castle is too big, like me, a small citizen in the market really doesn't have the heart to go around in circles to appreciate the luxurious artistic accomplishment of the nobles, can you take a step and lead me directly to the king's room? ”
Lacis's milky childlike voice made Evita want to laugh, but due to upbringing, she just smiled very implicitly.
Evita is very tall even among her peers, coupled with the characteristics of the girl's natural early development, she stands out more and more, although it is not worth mentioning in front of the majestic height of the armored man, but it is still more than 2 or 3 heads higher than that little one, little sister? Exactly what it is called.
Evita didn't refuse, eat inside and out? She didn't understand, she only knew that when her mother was dying, as long as her father, whose outline was a little blurred in her impression, could generously give a little mercy, there would be no yin and yang separation between their mother and daughter, a little revenge? Maybe.
However, Evita's cheerfulness surprised Lassis a little, and he was suspicious that he carefully scratched a small scratch on the wall with his finger every time he walked a certain amount of distance as a landmark.
The next story can be regarded as each needing, Lasis and his gang got the treasure, and Evita also took a small revenge, and obtained some morbid satisfaction from the psychological aspect, the only place that can be counted as a joke is that Lasis found a devil fruit that is not recorded in the illustrated book in the royal family, it is a pity for Lasis to make it tasteless and discarded, it is very hot, there is no way to sell it, eat? Lassis is already a powerhouse, Soria? Lasis was really curious about what effect the fish-man would have if he ate it, but apparently he wasn't so stupid to do such an experiment, and in the end, in order to show his generosity and popularity, Lasis casually threw it to Evita as a reward for leading the way, and she also understood that if she wanted to change her situation, she could only rely on some external forces, so she consumed it on the spot, unambiguously.
That burglary, because the culprit could not be found, was quickly covered up as a royal scandal, and no one would suspect the princess who didn't know where to live, and as for the lifeline of Lassis and Evita, they began to meet from that moment.
At first, Lassis was obviously with a strong sense of purpose, and every now and then he came to ask about her abilities, and every time he would bring some shabby books from outside to get some strange sense of distance, some vulgar and some esoteric, so superficial attraction fell into the eyes of the lonely Evita but became a delicate performance.
As for him, she lied, deliberately concealing the progress of her ability, she was afraid that the tiger cub who had received the answer would not come again, and she clearly remembered what the big man said when she swallowed the devil fruit without hesitation.
"Do you want to steal her powers?"
She didn't know what it meant, but she knew that in order to ensure her worth, it was not easy for her to find someone who could speak, and for Evita, sitting at the desk with her cheeks on her cheeks and waiting for the balcony to enter was a must-do homework for the day.
Over time, when it comes to maternal love, they have a strong resonance, and it is logical that they have become one of the few friends with each other.
Originally, Evita, who wanted to rely on the Devil Fruit to break and then break and improve the pursuit of a life, broke into her father's eyes through a chance encounter that she didn't know if it was fortunate or unfortunate, a long golden hair that showed nobility, as she grew older, her delicate figure, coupled with a charming face between maturity and childishness, has great lethality for most men with normal sexual orientation, father and daughter? In the emperor's house, the drama of father and daughter is not uncommon, and now Evita has a lot of say in the council hall with the support of the king and her outstanding knowledge, and it is indeed very luxurious compared to the previous poor days, but whenever I think of the old man's carnal eyes and the pair of salty pig hands that have withered, I can't help but have goosebumps, and I can't bear it, and finally pulls Lasis to think about something.
"I'm like a bird in captivity, except for this room, as soon as I go out, a large group of people will follow, if I talk a little longer with someone of the opposite sex outside, someone will immediately report to the old pervert as a way to promotion, and the reason why this room is safe is because of the old man's exclusive desire."
Spreading out the books but thinking about the others, Evita routinely opened her mouth and complained, these words Lassis heard calluses coming out, what can he do, at best, he is a small citizen in the market, at most like the last time he and Ace sneaked in and put a secret gun, openly fighting with a country? Joke! Behind the Kingdom of Gore is an alliance of 170 countries, and one person drowns with a spit, and in the final analysis, he has no power in his hands.
Lacis, who didn't expect a wry smile, to say something beautiful, said to himself: "It is definitely impossible to escape, first of all, there is no strength to live on the sea, and the only place that can go is not an ideal place in front of the power of the country, let alone assassination." Seeing that Lasis lying on the windowsill listened carefully, Evita elegantly took a sip of black tea to moisten her throat, and continued: "I already have a preliminary plan, the royal family has reached a contract with the Blujem Pirates, and Broujem will start to burn the garbage mountain, which can be regarded as a preparation for welcoming the Draco people, and as a reward, Broujem will be given the status of a nobleman, as for my plan, ......"