"If you want to follow us, you'll have to learn some basic etiquette." Mr. William, my father's subordinate, said during the meal.

I looked at Alice. She had just cut off a piece of beef, dipped it in the sauce on the side, and was about to stuff a whole piece of food dripping with the sauce in her mouth, when she stopped and looked at us as if we were speaking a foreign language she had never heard before.

"I'll teach her to learn slowly." I said, looking at Alice, thinking that my family must not be able to stand the table manners of my new friend.

"Luna, I have to tell you, that it may be all right while she eats dinner on this ship," said Mr. William, merrily, "and you must know that she will not be able to do so if she goes to a secret tryst. ”

I looked at him in annoyance, "I'm not going to a secret tryst!" ”

He grinned, "Luna, whatever you say, we need to teach her how to behave in public." First of all, she had to start learning honorific titles, and she had to learn more about etiquette and etiquette. ”

"Yes, yes, thank you, Mr. William," I said solemnly, "but I think I can teach her table manners myself." ”

"Whatever you want, though, I want you to remember to take your hat off when you eat later before educating others." He said, grinning.

"You ......," said William, who was about to complain, gagged me with bread and said, "Please slow down, miss." Then he got up and walked towards the captain's quarters with a bottle and a few pieces of parchment.

Speaking of William, he is about the same age as my father, Gu's father said, he is a lawyer, I admit that he is a good person, but he often ironically refers to me as "Miss", and from time to time he grins and smiles, which makes me a little unhappy, but as a friend of my father, he is really a good man who values love and righteousness.

"By the way, miss," said William, after a pause, "what is wrong with your right eye?" ”

"My right eye?" I realized that my right eye was still injured, and I hurriedly said, 'It's all right,' and waited for William's figure to disappear into the noise of the captain's room.

I touched my right eye with my hand, where the patch still hadn't been removed, and I gently pulled it off, and then I made two discoveries: the wound was not completely healed, and the patch was attached to my right eye like tape.

However, when I found out all this, I knelt on the ground, and to put it bluntly, I knelt on the ground in pain. Seeing my appearance, Alice hurriedly leaned over and helped me up.

With Alice's help, I returned to my chair, but at this moment, I was still in too much pain to speak. The pain reminded me of the events of that day, who was the one who came to help?

When dinner was over, Alice and I went back to the other deck on the lower side of the flight deck to make our beds. In the night, Alice leaned her back against the glass on the side of the second deck, quietly looking out the window. At this moment, I can't help but wonder what Alice is thinking at this moment, what kind of experience she has had before.

However, the next day, I realized that our destination was not Sova'o, because it was too long.

The next day was spent on the voyage, and Alice retrieved two slender iron rods from the shelves on the flight deck and practiced her sword with me. I danced on the deck, occasionally striking her iron rods.

In this way, I gradually picked up the swordsmanship that I had long been unfamiliar with. I could tell I was impressing her. As a sword-practicing opponent, she is more approachable, but also more deviant.

After dinner that day, we went back to the "cabin below deck" to rest, and this time I didn't hold back my inner doubts, and I asked Alice about her past.

At first, Alice didn't speak, she was stunned for a long time, an hour, two hours, just as I was about to put on the quilt and go to bed, she spoke.

Alice, like me, was a nomad, but she was worse off than me, and when she was five years old, her parents died. In order to survive, she travels to Whartont to find her last living relative, her aunt.

Alice wanted to live with her, but her aunt sold her to traffickers. Over the next few years, Alice was bought and bought, and she was abused, spurned, and almost supposed*. At that time, despair filled the girl's heart.

She had walked up to tall buildings several times, walked to the middle of the road, expecting death, but the Grim Reaper would not accept her.

According to the older generation, silver-haired people are the children of demons, and like the black-haired Grim Reaper, such people exist like the monsters released in Pandora's box, hated and spit on.

I understand Alice's feelings, because I really wore a beret to hide my black hair.

"And then?" I asked.

"Then I was saved by a benefactor," said Alice, "who taught me many ......"

"And then?" I asked.

"On my fourteenth birthday, she was gone...... "Alice curled up, buried her head between her knees, and I could faintly hear her sobbing in the silence of the night.

Her later experience, although I did not dig into the roots, but I know very well that the girl in front of me does not want to lose anything, because she has lost everything.

I walked over to Alice, unfolded the quilt around us, and sat down on the floor.

As we sat on the deck railing, watching the moonlit waters lap against the hull of the ship, and feeling the silence of the night around us, I felt a sudden feeling of homesickness, the strongest of which was for Mira.

Slowly, the night became hazy and my vision blurred......

The sunlight slowly shone through the mist on my blurry sleepy eyes, and I slowly stood up from the ground, blocking the sunlight with my hands, and as I became conscious, I realized that the sun had just come out.

I looked to the right, and sure enough, Alice was no longer around, where was she going?

I looked around and saw that she wasn't on this deck, so I looked for her somewhere else and finally found her at the very front of the first deck.

"Alice," I called.

Alice turned around, raised her saber, and her expression became serious, "Let's get started." With that, she hooked the hilt of my sword with the tip of her sword, and then brought it to my hand.

I was a little overwhelmed for a moment, but Alice didn't hesitate, and she posed as a sword fighter.

"Alice, what ......are you doing?" before I could finish speaking, her sword came up, and I hurriedly dodged, occasionally blocking the attack with the sword in my hand. But even so, I couldn't dodge her scalpel-like blade.

Knife by knife, knife by knife, the blade only cut through my clothes, but it did not hurt my body.

"Alice, wait...... Wait a minute......" I said as I dodged her sudden blade, "can you wait a minute, my sword hasn't ...... yet"

"Do you think that when you fight, the enemy will wait for you to lay out your sword?"

"No, but......," I continued to hide, "we're not enemies." ”

Alice didn't stop her movements, and continued, "Have you fought with the man you want to hurt you?" ”

"Nope."

"Have you ever drawn a sword in self-defense?"

"Yes."

"How many times."

"It's been a lot of time."

"It shouldn't have been as smooth as you thought it would be, right?"

"Yes."

"And why do you think that?"

"I know why," I said, blocking her attack with my sword, then pressing forward, jamming her sword, "but I think a veteran like you should know better." ”

"Tell me about it."

"Because I hesitated."

Alice nodded thoughtfully, then slid the blade to the right, sending mine downward, then lifted her foot and kicked me hard in the abdomen, I took a few steps back, half-crouched on the ground.

Alice didn't stop, she lunged at me, then without hesitation swung her sword at me, and I hurriedly rolled to the right to dodge her attack.

Then I immediately got up and swung my sword at her, but I suddenly realized something, and my movements slowed down.

This was a good opportunity, Alice took the opportunity to swing her sword to the right, and my sword burst into violent sparks, and at the same time, my sword flew out,

"That's your problem." Alice said, pressing the tip of her sword against my neck, "You know, you almost got kidnapped when you ran into those scoundrels in the sewers. You should know what they're going to do to you after they take you out of the corner, you won't have a chance to fight me here......"

I bowed my head, she was right, if she hadn't shown up at the time, I would have been ...... by those scoundrels

I was a little confused, I looked up and said tremblingly, "So what should I do?" ”

Alice put away the sword in her hand, and she continued, "I don't know what you're afraid of, but you must remember that the sword is not used to scare people, once you draw the sword, you must use it well, and if you can't beat it, remember that you have to run." ”

With that, she stepped aside, picked up my sword, and handed it to me, "There are many purposes for killing: duty, honor, revenge. All these reasons will make you hesitate and think. After killing, you will have sin, but you must remember that when you kill in the name of protection, you don't have to worry about that at all. With that, Alice smiled and held out her hand to me, and I took her hand and stood up.

The battleship slowly broke through the fog and sailed into our destination: Cagalli.