24. Late-night communication
"I'm sorry, it's my fault."
On the deck, Isabel, with a swollen face, walked out of the deck generously, decisively bowed her head to the crew who had clashed with her before, and said sorry.
Pahertz glanced at Aragina beside her, with some surprise, and then at Fisher, who had also come up from under the cabin, holding her hands, and after confirming his eyes, she glanced coldly at the crew standing behind her who was being trained, and motioned for her to respond.
In fact, Pahertz's eyes did not reach the eyes of the crew, who looked at Isabel's swollen cheeks in front of him, gently reached out and touched his short hair that had just reached the back of his head, and then said "sorry" with the same unnatural expression.
The writhing appearance of Pahertz was unpleasant to see, and made her roar like a giant bear again,
"What are you talking about so quietly! You're still not a woman?! Tell my wife to speak louder until I hear it! ”
"Sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! ”
After Pahertz slammed her on the back, the force seemed to break through the hidden shackles in the crew's body, causing her to close her eyes and straighten up and shout "sorry" several times again.
In the distance, Fisher watched the atmosphere over there become lively again, but he still leaned against the mast, constantly remembering the words Isabel had said to him before, the hollow gold continued to spread cold in his heart, and he didn't even know when Aragina had come to his side.
It wasn't until a few seconds had passed that he realized that Alagina had been silently watching him by his side, and his thoughtful expression dissolved, and he turned to look at her and asked,
"What's wrong?"
Aragina shook her head, moved closer to Fisher, looked at Isabel in the distance and said,
"Her face was injured, and I asked the ship's doctor to ice her."
"Trouble, I'll carve a healing spell for her later, and tomorrow will be fine."
"You'll have so much"
"It's fine."
Then, the usual dry but not awkward conversation between them paused again, and Aragina shifted her gaze back to him from a distance, stealing a glance at Fisher's palm that had landed at her side.
After that, she suddenly asked,
"Fisher, you're not happy?"
Fisher glanced at the captain next to him, who was slightly taller than him, and he thought that Aragina was upset because he had misunderstood himself and asked Isabel to apologize, so he shook his head and explained,
"Nope. Isabel apologized to the crew for not being forced by me, it was her own meaning and she knew she was doing something wrong"
Aragina still looked at Fisher, and continued,
"It's not this. I feel that you are not happy in your heart because of other women. ”
This moment it was Fisher's turn to hold back, he didn't expect Aragina's mind to be so delicate, that he would actually sense that he was thinking about Elizabeth.
I still remember a joke about the Sardinia country that was often circulated in the past years, which said: if a Nari gentleman decides to marry a lady of the Sardinia woman's country, it is better to learn from the swaggering Schwali people to find a male partner, at least then without going abroad.
The joke is intended to satirize that the ladies of the Sardinia country have a very strong tendency towards "big feminism", probably no different from the traditional gentlemen of Nari, who are known for their straightforwardness and ignorance of human feelings, but this is not the case with the legendary captain of the Sardinia country in front of her.
On the contrary, her mind is actually very delicate.
Thinking of this, Fisher did not respond to her question directly, but mentioned another thing,
"By the way, I forgot to tell you before. In fact, Isabel is the youngest princess of the Godlin royal family, and we did not have the permission of her own sister Elizabeth to leave Saint-Nari this time. Presumably we're being wanted by Nari for a lot of money. ”
"I know that we have received a wanted warrant from you and her, and Elizabeth announced her accession to the throne in St. Nari a few days ago, becoming the tenth emperor and first empress of Nari."
"And that makes sense."
Aragina's gaze went up from his fingers to his side, and didn't stop until she saw his side face,
"Fisher, you're upset because of Elizabeth?"
“.”
Fisher didn't answer for a while, seeing this, a strange bitterness slowly spread in Arajina's heart, but she still didn't continue to ask, just gently stretched out her left hand to hold Fisher's fingers hanging in the air.
At this moment, Fisher suddenly felt a touch of cold fingers slowly interlocking with his palm, Arajina's palm is not soft, you can even touch her calluses caused by holding the sword, but her movements are gentle, very active to wrap you, so from the cold skin out of thin air a little warmth.
After she wrapped Fisher's palm, she exhaled a cold breath lightly, and under the white hair tied into a ponytail, her earlobes were once again dyed cherry color, and she asked,
"That's it. Is it a little better? ”
Emhart, who was sitting on Fisher's shoulder, rolled his eyes and ran in the direction of Karma and the others without knowing what, and Fisher, who was unsupervised, subconsciously swept towards her white neck, and while his eyes moved, he didn't let go of Alagina's palm, and even took the initiative to clench her hand,
"Well, it's much better."
"Hmm"
His sudden force made Aragina a little uncomfortable, and even because of the force he used, the cherry color that was originally in the earlobe spread to her cheeks.
At that moment, her eyes suddenly leaned towards her injured right hand, and it occurred to her that if Fisher touched her injured right hand, it would be very painful, and it would be very painful
In fact, as early as when Nari and Fisher met, she suddenly realized that she had a strange fetish in her, and she seemed to have some pain in her lover.
Of course, it's not that she has a bad brain and wants to deliberately pursue pain, she just likes the pain that her loved one brings to herself.
When she saw Fisher using the magic [Maggot of the Possession] to punish the artificial witch from the Witch Society at the Nari Smugglehead Tavern, she imagined that he also used that magic to punish herself, and even after being separated from him, she often dreamed about that feeling in her dreams.
This little fetish is a little strange to say, but after using the Ice Prince for a long time, the freezing sensation caused by the relic makes her senses quite dull, even the gentle caress and contact of her lover is of course not enough to bring her stimulation, only the most passionate touch can melt the ice, and only pain can smoothly transmit feelings to her heart, so that she can truly feel his presence
That's why she longs for the pain he brings so much, right?
Aragina thought.
Thinking of this, Arajina's lips opened slightly, and her always slightly cold expression was also blown away by the heat escaping from her heart.
I want him to touch his right hand hard.
Just as Aragina was about to stretch out her bandaged right hand towards Fisher, the whole ship suddenly trembled slightly, and Osie, who was at the top of the mast, stood up and looked away from Aragina and Fisher.
"Boom!"
"The steam engine is fixed!"
"Finally, I thought I was going to tear it down and put it back in again."
As the hull quivered, a thick black smoke erupted from the chimney above the power room, symbolizing the heart of the Iceberg Queen starting to beat again, and many crew members cheered and shouted at the crew working in the power room below on the deck.
"Looks like the steam engine has been repaired, and we can get back on our way today."
The sudden sound interrupted Arajina's thoughts, and she gently lowered her right hand, and Fisher let go of her left hand, which was linked to her, for Pahertz was already running towards them with great excitement,
"Captain, I thought it would be a few days before it was repaired. If we leave tonight, we'll have enough food to get to the next supply point, so we'll be able to get back to Pirate Harbor sooner. ”
Aragina took one last look at Fisher's finger at Pachtz's gaze, and the shyness in her ears gradually subsided and gradually changed back to her normal posture.
As she had promised Fisher before, Aragina did not want to rush or force him in the process of pursuing him, but somehow, when she remembered that Fisher was thinking about Elizabeth just now, she was a little impatient.
A little incomprehension flashed in her blue eyes, but she just nodded and ordered to the first mate, Pahertz,
"I see. We immediately set off and headed for the supply point at the link between the East and South Seas. ”
And at the mast above deck, with the roar of the steam engine, Osie, who was startled by the vibration, saw that nothing else had happened, so she straightened her cloak again, and subconsciously touched the place beside her, but did not touch the parrot steel knife that had been there all along.
She was slightly stunned by the expression hidden under the cloak, and then she swept around, and only then did she see the steel knife playing with Emhart and the others on the deck near the captain's room.
“.”
Looking at the parrot that was playing with the rat girls, Ossie's hand hidden under the cloak was gently put to her mouth to make a whistle gesture, but there was no whistle to call it up.
After waiting for a long time, Osie silently lowered her hand again, and sat back in the place where she was used to be, becoming a permanent sight on the mast of the Iceberg Queen.
Only this time, her eyes couldn't help but look in the direction where Alagina and Fisher were holding hands just now.
Osie's figure remained motionless, which made her figure a little lonely.
The Iceberg Queen, which had resumed its voyage, soon left the island as a reference and sailed into the same vast ocean as before.
The weather was bad tonight, the wind and waves were strong, and the ship was quiet, except for the crew on duty, most of the rest went back to their rooms to rest.
As the night deepened and the shadows completely covered everyone's vision, Fisher ran to the kitchen alone, looking at the powder of magic materials on the table with a great headache.
After eating, Isabel, whose face was still swollen like a pig's head after applying the ice, really didn't have the face to stay on deck, and went back to her room early to shrink in, and gave Fisher a pitiful look before entering the room, apparently waiting for him to engrave her healing magic.
But it was a good promise, but now when it was time to do it, Fisher realized that there was a serious problem, that is, there was no carving tool engraved with magic on the Iceberg Queen.
Originally, I asked Aragina if there were any similar tools on the ship, and there were originally such items as daggers, but they fell into the sea, and if they wanted to use them, they could only use the scary-looking scimitar.
Aragina originally wanted to use the Ice Prince to make him an ice blade to engrave, but the ice blade was still melting as she carved it, and it would make his magic material powder sticky and impossible to make it at all.
Then, in no way, Fisher had no choice but to ask their ship's cook for a kitchen knife.
The kitchen knife of the Sardinia country is very strange, it is a kind of knife similar to a square blade, a knife can handle all kinds of ingredients in the north, from boneless, chopping meat and other links can be perfectly used is a little strange for engraving magic.
Fisher pinched the kitchen knife in his hand, looked at the iron plate on the table that was used to engrave magic, and for a moment it was a little difficult to start, he changed a few engraving movements, and he didn't feel that something was right.
"Whew."
The galley was located on the lower deck, but it was more remote, closer to the stern of the ship, further down the dining room, and at night there were hardly any crew members here, either at their posts or on the lower level of the dormitory.
Tonight, there was a strong wind blowing on the sea, and Fisher could hear the fierce wind outside through the first layer of windows, and even the entire hull began to shake slightly, making it more difficult for Fisher to engrave magic.
"Hello."
"Hello. Hello"
Just as he was looking at the iron plate in front of him and worried, in the quiet restaurant next door, I don't know when there was a subtle, small sound, and after the first sentence, another familiar parrot sound sounded again.
Hearing the voice, Fisher, who was holding the kitchen knife, raised his eyebrows and looked in the direction of the dining room next door to the kitchen.
He gently put down the kitchen knife and came to the wall in the corner of the kitchen, mixed with the sound of the wind whistling outside, and the subtle female voice next door became more and more obvious,
"Hello. My name is Ossie."
"Osie. Ossie"
"No, you should say. Nice to meet you. ”
"Goo. Goo"
"I'm sorry to forget that you were just a parrot. Let's do it all over again, okay, as I said. ”
Osie?
The voice of the conversation next door is quite recognizable, just by listening to it, you can tell that it is Ossie and her pet steel knife, but strangely, the content of their communication seems to be a little strange.
"Hello. My name is Ossie. ”
"Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. ”