The bright golden light that shook from the bow of the ship shone in the sparkling dark river, shattering into countless pieces of gold.

Strangler stood outside the cabin, looking up at the night sky.

Yongquan Island was so far away from the sky that even the dim moon was blurred because of it. It's like a street lamp in a drizzle of algae, and it spreads a faint halo of divinity at the base of the pupil.

The obviously inferior man is in danger and needs his help.

I don't know why......

Feeling the slight shaking of the hull, feeling the early hours of mid-May, the cool breeze soaked with water blowing his fluffy white hair, Strangling felt the peace from the bottom of his heart.

Because this atmosphere made him too comfortable, he wanted to choose to escape instead.

"Hey, I said ........"

Breaking the silence of the night, Strangler asked in a deep voice.

Behind him came the sound of running water.

Xiao Ya swam from the living pool in the center of the cabin, and folded her arms together on the edge of the pool, like a good student listening carefully.

"What's wrong, Mr. Strangulation?"

Her polite and gentle voice came from behind the strangulation.

This made the strangulation subconsciously tense his back full of muscles, and the hands in front of him clenched instantly.

With the character of strangulation and his usual experience...... He never allowed others to approach behind him without permission.

Scammers will always consider whether others are cheating themselves, while killers will suspect that everyone wants their lives. And strangulation is a natural betrayer, so he is also wary of every backstab.

He never gave way to his back.

- However, Miss Xiaoya doesn't understand my rules.

Strangling said to himself in the bottom of his heart, and chose forgiveness on his own.

Or, in other words, it is another kind of exhortation to oneself to warn oneself not to do superfluous things.

"No, it's fine."

After a long silence, Strangulation still didn't say what he wanted to ask.

He paused, and without looking back, he said, "May I smoke?"

"Ah, please."

Xiao Ya said gently, "The aluminum can at the bow of the ship is an ashtray. If you can, please refrain from bouncing the soot in the water. Although the water body has a strong purification ability, it can also cause harm to everyone's body."

"Thank you. Excuse me."

The strangler replied briefly, and pulled out the half-smoked cigar from his bosom that had been placed in the moisture-proof jar.

He took the cigar out and turned it upside down. As the damp-proof jar fell like a knife, the cigar was cut off with its damp and blackened head.

"Ah..... That's a cigar."

Seeing this, Xiaoya swam out of the pool and rummaged through the cabinet next to her, "If you have a match, ...... here."

"No need."

Strangling lit it directly with a lighter and held it to his mouth.

He turned around and happened to see Xiao Ya, who had just found the match, holding the matchbox in both hands and looking back happily.

Strangled for a moment of silence, walked into the gloomy cabin, bowed his head and crouched down on one knee.

Biting his cigar, he mumbled, "I'm sorry."

"Why apologize?"

Xiao Ya just put away the match, leaned back slightly, and pressed the weight of her upper body slightly on the fishtail.

Strangling always has a slumped back on weekdays, but he is also more than 1.85 meters tall. The muscles of his arms are even a few circles thicker than ordinary people's thighs, and his back is so thick and powerful, giving people the illusion that "you can't hurt this guy with a knife".

Even when he squatted down, he was still taller than Xiaoya.

So he sat cross-legged on the boat like a swordsman, his back slightly bent. And at this time, he was barely at eye level with Xiaoya.

Watching the strangulation, Xiaoya repeated, "Why does Mr. Strangulation always have to apologize?"

」..... I'm it

I rarely apologize. 「

Strangled was silent for a moment, then let out a low, magnetic voice that would make people's hearts tremble slightly like a lion's roar: "Actually, I am a self-serving, pretentious, fool with no one in his eyes."

"There is no such thing."

Xiao Ya defended him, "Isn't Mr. Strangled a hunchback?"

"yes, it's ugly, isn't it?"

"No, it won't. Hunchbacked people are gentle. 「

The girl with long wavy blond hair and dark blue pupils retorted without hesitation.

"You're laughing at me." The strangulation didn't take her words to heart at all.

"Nope."

"Why?"

"Tall, hunchbacked people bend their backs because they want to be able to look at others equally when they speak."

Xiao Ya looked at the strangled eyes.

His pupils were as dark as the gold that had not yet solidified after being burned, giving the impression of being hot and unapproachable.

"It's hard to bend over all the time. After getting used to it, you can't get straight anymore, and you will be ridiculed.

"But in the beginning, I didn't want to be too high, so I chose to bend down."

The girl said.

Strangulation's breath froze for a moment.

The cigar he held to his lips burned quietly, emitting a faint red glow in the dim cabin. Like a fire that once burned, but was extinguished.

「....... Novel answer. 「

After a long silence, Strangler replied in a low voice, "I have never heard such an explanation.

He took off his cigar and stared at it. Avoided Xiaoya's gaze.

The boat was still rocking along.

"What about you?"

After a moment of silence, Strangler suddenly asked.

"What?"

"How did you become a ***?"

Strangling looked at Xiao Ya and asked in a calm tone, "I see that you have a good relationship with many people, not only ***. Even passers-by know you and know your name."

Hearing this, Xiaoya rubbed her temples with a headache, and said helplessly, "Strictly speaking, I'm not a *** person."

"Oh, no wonder."

"Because I'm just an orphan."

Xiaoya replied briskly, "When I was a little fry, my parents died. Because of a demonic event, they became two of the names in the news."

「....... I'm sorry."

"Nothing. I was only three months old that year, and I hadn't started to remember, so I didn't have time to grieve. 「

Xiaoya smiled, "Moreover, I don't have any adoptive fathers and adoptive mothers. It's not so much that I was raised by *** people, but by the grandparents in this street."

"Old people."

"Yes. At first, it was because I was very hungry, so I didn't let go of the legs of the old man who sold fried milk. So he was fed food. When you're full, you'll wander around the streets. When you are hungry, you ask someone to give you something to eat. After eating, I said thank you earnestly and continued to walk outside. 「

"I'm lucky I wasn't kidnapped. Or rather, because the street is all recognized.... No one can take me away under everyone's gaze."

Xiao Ya whispered, swimming around in front of the strangulation.

She was only one step away from stepping out of the cabin, but her whole body was hidden in the shadows. But this angle is also enough to see the moon.

Strangler followed her and turned away, hiding in the shadows and watching her back.

"Later, it got cold. By the time December comes....... It's snowing.

As she spoke, she suddenly turned around, "Have you ever seen snow?,

"Nope."

Strangulation

He replied, "I used to live in Downtown."

"Downtown?"

"It's just below the empty island, and when you look up, you can see the sea. I never saw what the weather was."

"Isn't that just a plop and a fall?"

"The gravity of the lower city is inverted, which is why the empty island can float in the air."

Strangulation barely explained.

He thought to himself that if Miss Xiaoya asked again, he would not be able to explain.

After all, he didn't go to school either. Can he know that this inverted gravity has something to do with the levitation of the Sky Island, or because the Godfather and the ale's chat are secretly remembered by him.

"Anyway..... The snow is beautiful, but it's also cold."

Xiaoya whispered, "I almost froze to death in the river..... Or rather, I had passed out and lost consciousness."

"And then?"

Strangler asked in a low voice.

"Of course I was rescued," Xiao Ya laughed, "Otherwise, how could I tell you a story here?"

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