23. Preference

"I see, where is Isabel now?"

"They fought in the cabin below deck, and after the confrontation, the rest of the crew pulled Xige out. Isabel didn't let anyone else in, and should have been alone in the cabin. ”

"Well, I'll go talk to her."

"I'll go with you, and apologize to her by the way."

Fisher shook his head after hearing this, glanced at the crew members who were reprimanded by Pahetz, and said with a smile,

"I'd better go alone, she's definitely no match for your crew, and she'll definitely be beaten badly. The ladies of Nari are not as strong as the ladies of the Sardinia women's country, and this is also to take care of their slightly thinner faces. Don't worry, I'll take care of it. ”

In fact, Aragina was also worried that Isabel would say something to Fisher, so she wanted to go to see her with Fisher, and she didn't want to be estranged from Fisher.

But looking at Fisher in front of her, she suddenly didn't believe that Fisher would be gullible because of other people's words, she believed that he had his own judgment ability, and she should believe him.

So, she nodded, stood where she was, and didn't follow, but said,

"Okay, I'll wait for you here."

Fisher waved his hand and stepped into the cabin below the deck, the corridor under the ship was not wide, the walls and doors on both sides were all made of iron plates, and near the staircase connecting the deck, at the door of the room stood Old Jack and the three rat girls who kept sneaking inside.

Old Jack took a lit cigarette in his mouth and snorted in the direction of Fisher's room, signaling that Isabel was in the room.

Fisher didn't respond first, but looked at the cigarette in his mouth and asked with some confusion,

"What brand of cigarette is this, it smells so weird, where did you get it?"

"I don't know what the hell brand is in the north, so I can use it. It was Pahertz who gave it to me, and I wanted to use it to find her. ”

Hearing Old Jack's address to Pahtz, Fisher's face was a little strange, and the idea of asking for one disappeared without a trace, and he patted Old Jack on the shoulder meaninglessly, and knocked on the closed cabin door under his puzzled gaze.

"Knock knock."

"Can I come in?"

Fisher opened his mouth to ask, but it was very quiet inside, and there was no response at all.

After waiting for a second, he didn't wait any longer, and pushed the door open, but fortunately the door was not locked, otherwise he would have violently unlocked it.

The space in the cabin is quite large, originally this cabin was used as a cafeteria for the crew to eat together, although it is not a meal, but the fruit that Fisher and Pahertz collected on the island before is stored in another small room in the corner of this cabin, frozen with ice cubes generated by the Ice Prince.

But at this moment, the outside of the cabin was littered with broken fruits, and even the tables and chairs fixed to the bottom of the room were scratched by the collision, and it was clear that they were in conflict during the transportation of supplies.

Fisher's brow furrowed slightly, and he turned his head to see Isabel in a crew's costume with her hands folded on her knees in front of the wall of the room near the door.

At this point, her cheeks were buried in front of her thighs, and her long blonde hair was hanging down to obscure her countenance, but Fisher could still see a distinct bruise on the little bout of the blonde hair parting from it.

"Isabel."

Her body shook when she heard Fisher's voice, but she still didn't raise her head, still maintaining that position.

"Mr. Fisher."

After making sure that she was okay, Fisher walked over to her and sat down, and asked,

"What's wrong, why did you get into a fight with the others?"

Isabel didn't respond, just gently pinched her pants, and waited until the strength of her fingers deepened before she suddenly opened her mouth and asked Fisher a question,

"Teacher Fisher, do you hate my sister Elizabeth?"

Fisher didn't expect her to ask this question suddenly, he was silent for a moment, then leaned against the wall behind him like her, and replied,

"Hate, I don't hate, but the resentment and non-hatred are not the same, this is a very contradictory thing, even I can't get rid of this entanglement"

He didn't look at Isabel, he just looked at the fruit crumbled everywhere on the floor of the restaurant,

"Your sister is undoubtedly a ruthless person, and she can raise a butcher's knife mercilessly in the treatment of life and enemies, and will do whatever it takes to achieve her ends, which should be the reason for me to resent her."

"If I had never been in love with her, if she had not taken off her guard against me when I fled from her, if she had been able to resent me the same for my negligence over the years, she probably wouldn't have the contradictory concerns I have today. In the final analysis, all her tenderness is left on me and you, and those who enjoy preference are not qualified to talk about objectivity and fairness. ”

"So, for me, to say that I resent her, not her, is to say that I resent myself, I resent my debt to her, and I resent that I didn't find her mistakes earlier."

Isabel pursed her lips, and a little crystal tear slid down her cheek until she fell to the ground,

"Me and me too. In the past few days, I have often dreamed of how my sister raised her sword and killed my brother and father, and how hideous their expressions looked at me. But sometimes I often think back to how she stayed by my bedside when I had a fever, how she encouraged me to go to university and study, how she encouraged me to make friends and hang out with people who were not noble."

"I've been wondering, what would I have become if I hadn't had my sister, would I have been as happy as I was before, and I didn't know anything like before?"

"Teacher Fisher, you are a very talented person in the eyes of most scholars and magicians in Nari; In my eyes, you are an unattainable mountain. But you are such a good person, and your brother's achievements are far inferior to yours, but they look down on you very much."

"What you don't know is how angry my father and brother were when my sister announced the 'universal request' to the whole school in the griffin race, as if my sister was their property, as if they had lost their face by doing so. I don't know who they want to marry my sister and me to, or what they're getting in exchange."

"I'm just obscured by my sister's figure and there are too many invisible pickles, so I really don't know, for my father, for Godlin, what is my sister and me?"

Fisher's eyes were a little empty, and he seemed to recall Elizabeth, who stood in front of the whole school and announced the "almighty request" with a gentle smile, the eldest princess who seemed to have infinite scenery,

A fatherless and motherless orphan of Nari, a penniless poor boy, but favored by the princess of a country, simply meets all the preconditions for the stereotypical tragedy in the play.

But Elizabeth did not believe in tragedy, rules and conventions were only shackles to her, so she used her own will to forcibly twist and destroy the railroad tracks that led to tragedy.

As Fisher said, people who enjoy favoritism are not worthy of objectivity and impartiality, and this is the source of the contradiction of thoughts.

"So. I'm just, just resentful of myself, resentful of myself for not being able to do anything. ”

"Actually, just now, those female people just said a little ridiculous words, just. It's about my family, so I grabbed her and beat her like I was out of control. Actually completely. It's completely unnecessary, it's my fault that I want to vent my inner boredom too much. ”

She sniffed, then lifted her face, her beautiful cheek was swollen in large swells, her right cheek was at least a little swollen compared to the left, and her left eye was completely covered in bruising, and she could only barely squint a slit to look at Fisher.

Obviously, the delicate lady of Nari would never be a match for the soldiers of the Satinia country, let alone the jewel of the perennially delicate Godlin.

The face was only scraped twice, nothing happened, Isabel was about to be beaten into a pig's head, this was the result of being pulled away by the other crew members just after the move, and it is estimated that Isabel will be demolished in a few more moves.

Fisher's look at Isabelle's face-wrenching expression made the tears fall from her eyes even more, and she covered her face with some sadness, but suddenly she ran into a swollen wound that hurt her while inhaling cool air, not to mention how miserable it was.

"Woo. Teacher Fisher, don't look at it, it really hurts. ”

Fisher couldn't laugh or cry, and then took out a jar from his bosom, which contained a lot of powder made from magic materials, or wool from the rich woman of Valentina.

"Don't cry, I'll carve you a healing spell later, and it'll be fine in one night."

"Really?"

"I'm a student of Grand Wizard Haytham and the youngest senior member of the Nari Magic Society, do you think what I'm saying is true?"

Seeing Isabel being hammered and nodding stupidly, Fisher wanted to laugh a little, he shook his head, got up himself, and walked to the door,

"Alright, I'll help you carve magic later. By now, you've been woken up and realized how vulnerable you are. If you want to do more and don't resent yourself in the future, let's do it, after all, we all have a lot of room for improvement, don't we? ”

I couldn't tell if the previous sentence was said by Fisher to himself or to Isabel, after he finished speaking, he thought for a second, but he couldn't come up with an answer, so he had to say something more definite to Isabel,

"By the way, if you know it's wrong, go and apologize to the crew member who beat you up."

Isabel pursed her lips aggrievedly, and although her face hurt badly, she still nodded and said,

"Hmm!"