10. Cut off the beard (6k)
Fisher squinted at the harbor in the distance, and after seeing many familiar crew members of the Iceberg Queen coming down to carry the cargo, she herself did not stay there for long, but came very naturally with a bag of something, obviously as old Jack said.
Fisher's expression didn't change, but he quickly turned his head to look at Old Jack in front of him, and said in a low voice,
"I'm here to make sure you're doing, I can't stay here for long, especially since Renee is still here... By the way, and Yin Sabel, I don't see her here. ”
Old Jack glared at him speechlessly, and said as he wiped the wine glass in his hand,
"I asked Yin Sabel to stay on the island to help me before, with the blessing of Arajina, it will be safe here, and I'm afraid that after something happens to her, Yin Lizabeth Palace... The Empress will blow this place up. However, she insisted on sailing with Arajina and the others, and had come back once a few weeks before, and they had all tanned, but they had grown up a lot, and they were very different from when they first came out of Nari. ”
He then glanced at Fisher again, waved his hand,
"Everything is good here, Pahertz likes Kalmar a lot, she is a non-discriminatory subhuman who believes in the frost phoenix, although she is a Satinia woman, she is quite careful, she is a good person; Captain Aragina is no longer going to do the dangerous work of robbing ships, and the Black Chief is looking for the stormy sea, and they have been going around the depths of the Eastern Ocean all these days, and they have lived a much better life than they had lived in the fire before; Not to mention Yin Sabel, she is as strong as a little leopard now, I don't know if it's a Nari or a Satinia woman..."
"Now the most critical question is you! You bastard boy, you have been with Her Majesty Yin Lizabeth in Nali before, and you have been dragging it out, and you have been dragged behind and chased by her all over the world... It's not going to stop coming out, Captain Aragina is a woman and so simple, a heart is honestly tied to you, I want to write to you several times and I'm afraid of disturbing you, and now you bring a woman back, when did you meet? ”
Hearing the words of the old Jack in front of him, even Fisher was embarrassed to blame most of the fault on the sub-mother in his arms to complete the manual, he had actually admitted a long time ago that it was his own greed that caused the mistake, and the sub-human mother may have played an indispensable role in completing the manual, but it was mainly his own problem...
In this sense, he is indeed the purest gentleman of the romantic Nari, even if it is mixed with the traditional ascetic blood of Kado.
"In Swali, Aragina actually met her."
"Torture, you are really brave, and you are not afraid that you will be swallowed by Alajina with your hat? Schwali... How long ago was that, less than half a year after you graduated from the Royal Academy? After that, you went to the Southern Continent and just came back from the North, are you going to have sex with a lady everywhere you go? ”
Fisher's expression was blank, but his gaze subconsciously dodged, he stepped back a little away from the table, looked back at Renee, who was very far away from him, and said,
"I know in my heart, don't worry, I'll see Arajina later... But we need to leave now, and don't reveal that Renee has been here. ”
Old Jack sighed and didn't reply, but went on wiping the glass in his hand.
Fisher calmly pondered in his mind, and then came to Renee's side, watching her rub the ears and hair of the three nezumi girls with her hands with great interest, and it was obvious that she was also fond of these lively children.
"Let's go, I'm almost done with Old Jack."
"Huh? Are you going to leave so soon? ”
Renee was a little puzzled, and Karma, the most lively little guy, continued,
"Yes, yes, Fisher, you've been gone for a long time before you come back, you can stay here a little longer... It's been a long time since Grandma Pahertz came back, and it's usually Ah..."
Fisher peeled a candy and stuffed it into Karma's mouth, so that all the words she wanted to say turned into the action of tasting the candy, and he stuffed a candy into each of the other two little girls, and said with a smile,
"We have other things to do, and we'll definitely be back in the future, for a long, long time, how about it?"
"Good!"
Fisher glanced at Renee, she also smiled and nodded, straightened her dress and stood up, greeted old Jack and walked to the door of the store,
"It's just right, the purple electric aquatic plants can't be preserved for too long, it's best for us to set off today, and I can put my heart at ease if we solve your problem early... Goodbye, children, let's go to school, let's go. ”
"Well, goodbye, Renee! Fisher! ”
Renee didn't want to stay, and when she saw that Fisher was showing signs of leaving, she walked out in a hurry, and Fisher followed her in the other direction, ready to go around a little longer before returning to the ship, and then set off in the direction of Renee's destination, and soon disappeared into the crowd.
And old Jack in the tavern looked at Fisher and they quickly disappeared, thought for a moment and sighed, and said to the Kalma sisters who were still eating candy in front of the table and chairs,
"You've all played all day today, you said you would take a nap in the afternoon, hurry up and rest!"
"Grandpa, after eating this candy, and Sister Arajina will be back in a while, we want to see what gifts she brought for Grandma Pahertz..."
Old Jack said in his heart that if you three little guys with leaky mouths are here, Aragina will definitely find out about Renee in minutes, although Old Jack didn't mean to cover up for Fisher's bad behavior, but objectively, now is not the time to deal with their relationship problems.
As Aragina struggles to get a chance to return to the country of Sardinia, her position in the pirate harbor is on the rise; And Fisher doesn't need to say much, he is still being hunted down by Empress Yin Lizabeth, and if there is one more iceberg queen, I don't know if it can be regarded as "not overburdened".
After all, Old Jack thinks that this problem will definitely be solved later, and he will not care if these ladies want to knife Fisher, but it must not be this time.
"Go, don't make me say it a second time! Pahetz spoiled you, spoiled you to heaven, didn't he? Go to bed! ”
"Oh..."
Under Old Jack's order, the three rat girls finally reluctantly moved to the house, leaving only the upright old Jack alone to continue to wipe the glass at the counter, and by the way, he silently repented for this behavior in his heart.
Fisher and Renee's side, after coming out of Old Jack's Tavern, they began to pace slowly in the other direction, Renee laughing and humming softly in front of her, her eyes constantly scanning the various shops on the street, and behind her, Fisher was thinking about what reason to get out of Renee's for a while.
Aragina is pure but not stupid, old Jack is an upright old man, even if she tries to explain to Fisher, it will not work, she will definitely realize that something is wrong when she comes back, and she still has a messenger in her hand, even if she leaves with Renee, the letter will fly over.
Another reason is that Fisher should go to see Aragina he hasn't seen for a long time, and if he doesn't succeed in getting rid of death, it will probably be the last time he will meet her...
"It's been a long time since I've walked in such a fireworks place with you, and you used to be either writing a thesis or going out to other countries in Nari, and it was useless for a beautiful girl like me to give you a chance."
"These are murderous pirates, and we've been watched since we first came to the island, and we've only been left as we enter Old Jack's tavern. The fireworks you see now are a lot of money when you go shopping, and the dress you bought for me costs less than 300 euros in Nari, but it sells for 1,000 euros here..."
Renee rolled her eyes, turned around angrily and poked Fisher in front of her with her fingers, as if she wanted to pierce him,
"Die, die, die, Fisher! Are you allergic to romance, am I talking about this? ”
"I'm sorry..."
Fisher smiled helplessly, reached out and took her hand to poke him, and suddenly remembered the vision of Renee's voice when he was studying the soul supplement manual in the north, and he continued,
"Actually, I thought about it when you weren't there, if I kept you when you were leaving, and said that my rental house was your home, and that you wouldn't leave if you were stupid and didn't say anything incomprehensible when you were teasing me... I didn't expect to say these words subconsciously after relaxing with you. ”
Renee covered her mouth and smiled, pouted and reached out to hold Fisher's chin in front of her, and said,
"Gentleman Fisher deserves praise for having such an awareness, but you are your nature, and it is not that you don't understand the customs, but you don't understand the customs. I'll have a headache if you take it all... So don't take on other lady's style in the future, otherwise I'll be very sour~"
Without waiting for Fisher in front of her to respond, Renee turned her head with a smile and looked at the afternoon street in front of her, it was a good time for people to take a nap, compared to when they came up just now, it was a little quieter, Renee also stretched as if she was rendered by this situation, and continued,
"Now, I think about it... By the way, I suddenly remembered that there was still a little thing I hadn't prepared, and that even if we flew over the place we were going to, it would be a day's journey, and we had to prepare some supplies; I don't know if the magic materials you bought are enough, I didn't let you spend them before, you can spend them, but now you want to spend them, and you save so much, buy a little more and prepare it... Also, I said that I was going to give Emhart a gift when we met for the first time, and I just bought it for you, and forgot about him, let's go, let's have a look? ”
Fisher glanced at the street in front of him, thought for a moment, shook his head at Renee and said,
"That's too much trouble, or let's go buy them separately, I'll go prepare supplies and magic materials, you take Emhart to buy gifts, and we'll be reconciled on the ship in the harbor later."
When Renee heard this, she immediately took a step back with her chest covered her chest as if she had been abandoned by her lover, and sobbed in a tearful voice with tears in the corners of her eyes.
"Woo woo, isn't it... Could it be that Fisher is tired of staying with me for less than a day? Anyway, after all, it was disappointed. ”
"Renee..."
Before the eyes of the islanders who were just about to take a lunch break came over and Fisher's face darkened a little, Renee laughed heartily, and took out a bag of Kado silver dollars from her pocket and put it in Fisher's hand, while reaching out and pulling out Emhart, who was constantly giving him a look in Fisher's arms.
"Alright, okay, let's stop making trouble, then we'll meet at the port in a moment... Let's go, Emhart, what do you want to buy? ”
"Whatever, it's best to see if there are any books I haven't read..."
Floating in mid-air, Emhart looked at Fisher for a while, and then at Renee who was smiling beside him, and only after making eye contact with Fisher did he fly over with Renee without love, apparently knowing that Fisher was going to take advantage of this time to meet Arajina...
Fisher took the money bag and glanced gratefully at the book knight, who had sacrificed himself, and then went not to the road they had taken from Old Jack's tavern, but to the market they had been to before, and he was going to make a circle back to Old Jack's tavern.
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Aragina rushed to his tavern with the fish that Paherz had brought to Old Jack as before, and it stands to reason that this kind of replenishment work did not need to be done by the Iceberg Queen as the captain of the ship, and she obviously had other things to do.
I still remember that when I was in the Southern Ocean before, she had been subjected to the information magic of the pirate harbor, and thus learned that Fisher was being wanted by Nari overseas, but this kind of news transmission at sea is all about the distribution of tasks and major events, although the pirate harbor has also established an intelligence network for various countries, but after all, the miscellaneous information has nothing to do with the mission of most pirates, and it is impossible to send it to the pirates at any time with information magic.
So, in order to stay up to date with news from the North, she would often come back in person to check on the newly acquired information from the Pirate Harbor, usually once every two weeks.
Of course, she can also write a letter to Fisher, after all, the messenger that Fisher gave her special contact is always on her body, just like some kind of talisman, but after all, she is not a woman who is good at words, and she can only write the words "I miss you" for a long time when she lifts her pen several times, completely ignoring any literary nature, and is a little worried about whether she will appear too "manly" and too childish...
So after weighing it, she just came over to secretly look at the situation in the north to guess the current situation of Fisher, and this time was no exception, she first brought some gifts for her old tree blossoming first mate Pahertz back to old Jack,
"Old Jack, this is a gift from Pahertz, and she greets you."
Aragina pushed open the door of Old Jack's tavern and greeted him with a blank face as usual, but she soon realized that it seemed that the atmosphere was not quite right.
"Ahh Captain Arajina, just put it there... Well, how are you sailing these days, and are you still safe? ”
First of all, Old Jack, usually he nodded casually and passed, but today he asked them unprecedentedly and somewhat strangely about their voyage in search of the Storm Sea, and his eyes were not very natural...
Alagina, who was born in the women's army, quickly sensed that something was wrong, she keenly swept around Old Jack, and while thinking in her mind, she replied,
"It's okay..."
"Mm-hmm, that's good."
Aragina placed the fish on the table and chair at the door, and instead of seeing the usual three noisy rat people, she saw a chair pushed out in front of the table next to her... The chairs in the tavern were quite high, and Karma and the others were very short and didn't like to sit, and they couldn't sit just one, and there were two bags of opened sugar on the table, and there were discarded candy wrappers on the floor...
"Karma... What about them? ”
"Oh, they're taking a nap, they just fell asleep, and they're tired of reading this morning."
Aragina stared at the candy wrapper on the ground and did not reply, and after a moment of silence, she suddenly said,
"Old Jack, have you heard from Fisher?"
“... No, didn't he go to the North? If you're worried about him, write him a letter... I mean after. ”
"Well, I will... I'm leaving. ”
Aragina nodded at Old Jack as if she hadn't noticed anything, and then slowly pushed open the tavern door and walked out, much to the relief of Old Jack, who was standing behind the counter for the first time doing such a bad thing...
He was just a bystander, but his heart was beating fast for Fisher's lie, and he didn't know how Fisher's guy managed to be calm in the storm, was it his own courage?
Old Jack in the shop stood a little restless and thought, didn't wipe the cup again, but he didn't know that Alagina who had left the tavern door was standing at the entrance of the street and stopped, she frowned slightly and glanced at the street left and right, guessing that there was someone who Old Jack knew very well just now, otherwise he would never allow the outsider to bring candy to his favorite Karma and their food...
Old Jack is from Nari, and Aragina doesn't know much about his specific relationships, but she knows from Pachtz that all his relatives have died, and she only knows Fisher in Nari... Then, there is a high probability that the identity of the person who came has been finalized, and no one else will come all the way to the pirate harbor in the depths of the Eastern Ocean.
Can... If it was Fisher, why didn't he come and let Old Jack tell him?
Could it be that something happened to him that he didn't want to worry about?
Yes, even so, the first thing that came to Arajina's mind was whether something would happen to Fisher and she didn't want to worry about herself.
But no matter what, she wanted to see Fisher, and this growing thought made her heart beat faster and faster, so that she quickly took out the messenger she had given to her from her pocket, on which Fisher's handwriting was still clearly visible, writing "My Queen".
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During this period of separation from Fisher, Aragina carried it with her at every turn, as if it were her own talisman, because she felt that her feelings for her lover would turn into luck to protect her.
So, at this moment, when she was apprehensive to test her conjecture, she used magic to activate the letter in the shape of a paper airplane in her hand and threw it, the paper airplane swayed in midair, and then did not point in the direction of the far north, but quickly reversed its direction and staggered away in one direction on the island.
Fisher is really on the island!
Aragina's breath froze slightly, and many thoughts came to her mind that were difficult to repeat, but the only thing she had to do was to follow the messenger to Fisher.
She took a deep breath, adjusted her expression, and quickly ran quickly in the direction of the paper airplane.
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At this point, Emhart, who was floating beside Renee, was simply confused, and seemed to have no idea what the current situation was like.
It was clear that Renee had said that she wanted to buy herself a gift, but after separating from Fisher, she didn't ask what she wanted, she just took herself around the place where they and Fisher had just separated, looking at the shop for a while, and then watching the ships sailing out of the sea.
Renee's silence made Emhart, who had already made enough preparations and vowed to sacrifice himself to get through for Fisher, seem a little overwhelmed, obviously not knowing what the sudden appearance of Fisher's old friend in front of him meant.
He looked at Renee, who was carefully observing the jade sold by the vendor in front of him with his hands behind his back, and finally couldn't help coughing and said,
"That's... Miss Renee, you haven't asked me what I want? ”
"Huh?"
Renee turned her head in surprise to look at Emhart floating in mid-air in front of her, as if she suddenly remembered that she was still with him, that unexpected expression made Emhart want to get angry instantly, this was the first time that the great Emhart was ignored so completely, but when he thought of the great task given to him by Fisher, he still held back his temper and said nothing.
"I'm sorry, Emhat, I forgot I was here to buy you a present... What do you want, I'll take you to buy it when it's done here, books or decorations? ”
Finish?
What can be done here?
Didn't she just bring herself to buy gifts, or was she waiting for Fisher to come back after shopping?
No, didn't Fisher say to meet at the port? There's no point in her waiting here, huh?
As smart as Emhardt, he didn't follow Renee's words for a while, but he had a faint sense of foreboding in his heart...
Sure enough, the next moment, Renee nodded her red lips, and then suddenly reached out and made a move upward, and a rickety paper airplane flew into the palm of her hand.
Renee didn't speak anymore or wandered around, as if unexpectedly, she took apart the paper airplane in her hand little by little, and the clear line of text on it was so striking and even glaring.
"My... Queen... Huh..."
The moment he saw the words on the paper airplane, Emhart's chill instantly rushed over his head even if it was a book, apparently he also recognized the paper airplane as the messenger that Fisher had written to Aragina earlier...
He trembled with fright, looked at Renee with a dangerous smile holding the messenger in front of him, and then immediately turned his head to look in the direction where the messenger was flying.
"Boom!"
The sun was shining, but a thunderclap exploded in Emhardt's heart, making him faint and die.
And Renee, who strangely cut off the messenger's beard, also straightened out her black dress, and looked back at the frowning but still menacing Alagina in the distance.
A big war, on the verge of breaking out.