41. Self-blame (6k)
"Well danced! Well danced! Win my heart, reward! ”
Looking at the sub-races in the field who were a little unacceptable to even Fisher's aesthetics, Hiiragi, who still looked a little immature on his face, actually looked excited, his alcohol consumption did not seem to be too good, with the wine in the cup that was far less than the alcohol of the later Nari Black Mamba, it was more difficult to get drunk, let alone be a mythical elf.
The old Xiong below wiped the sweat on his wrinkled forehead, and then led Helaire and Fisher and the group into their seats, just opposite Tsubaki, and by the way, he also glanced at the expression on the face of the helpless Tsubaki on the other side, which seemed to be contagious, dyeing the expressions of the two of them into the same.
"Uncle Chun, please give these beauties to me, I really like them, if you have any requests, I will definitely agree to them all."
After the dance stopped, Fisher and the others also sat down, Hiiragi looked at the sub-races who retreated below very unhappily, turned his head to Tsubaki and pleaded, hearing Hiiragi's words, the sub-race women below who were about to retreat did not dare to move their bodies and stood in place, carefully looking at Tsubaki who was sitting on the side.
He smiled slightly when he heard this, motioned for the person serving behind Hiiragi to pour him wine, and then replied,
"I don't have any slaves here, if you want them to go with you, ask them what they want... But don't rush this beforehand, now that the envoy of the Holy Domain is coming to wish the king a birthday, how about we talk about this matter first? ”
But he didn't expect Hiiragi to just glance at Helier casually, as if the others were air, and then he didn't care much about it,
"Who doesn't know that the angels come here to celebrate their birthdays just to go through the motions, and in the past, they just sent something to recite the greetings. Neither side cares, so why should Chun Bo care, let's just leave this matter to the king and the others, what is there to talk about... Hey, what do you want, what do you want, can I share a table tonight? ”
Hiiragi didn't look at the faces of the subhuman women, only looked at the moth pink wings and tapir nose on their bodies, waved his sleeves, and with a breeze blowing, he took out a small branch of some kind of tree from his arms, the branch emitted a blue light, and he threw the tree between the subhuman women, and in their frightened eyes, the tree took root with a terrifying aura, and burst out a little shining metallic sound...
Then, the branches sprouted little by little, but instead of green leaves, they produced all kinds of ornaments made of precious metals, many of which were warlike, and braved the cold to target those subhuman races.
Tsubaki took a deep breath, knowing in his heart that the other party was just joking, and he might not even have real malice, but it was extremely uncomfortable, he sat up a little straighter, looked at the few people opposite, and said,
"Hiiragi, be cautious."
Helaire remained motionless as if he had become a puppeteer, only smiling and pretending to be dead, and Xiong below also looked at Hiiragi, the music was still loud, but the atmosphere was not as relaxed as the music was playing.
Asuka Karasawa, who was sitting behind Heriel, looked at Hiiragi, who was still a little immature in appearance, but it seemed that he couldn't compare him with a human child in any way, so he whispered to Fisher and Hookkiss,
"Hiiragi... Wasn't he reincarnated, why does it feel like he's lived for a long time? And also... This hobby? ”
Hook Kiss turned her head helplessly, and also whispered back,
"This is rebirth, in essence, they are the same person before and after rebirth, and although they have no memory, the things they did in their previous lives will keep coming up. Moreover, the elves love to cultivate history to record what they have done, and the reincarnated elves like to read it, so that they can judge for themselves whether they approve or disapprove of what their predecessors have done. ”
Hearing this, Hiiragi's expression changed, and he gently threw the wine glass with half of the wine on the table, making a crisp sound, he shook his head with some pity, and sighed,
"Uncle Chun, sometimes I really can't figure out what you're thinking. Thou hast abolished the dignity of slaves, and hast sneered at the rules laid down by the king; Now that the king is about to be reincarnated, I am afraid that the old rites will become invalid, isn't that what you want? Now it's like sitting on pins and needles, what are you pretending to be... Forget it, since you want to talk about Wang Shou, I won't stop you, I came today to do business. ”
Hiiragi sat in his position, looking at the trembling non-human dancers below with some pity, unwilling to look away for a long time, and Tsubaki next to him looked a little restless, looking around, and seemed to be a little nervous, which made Fisher, who had been silently observing them, a little puzzled...
Hiiragi supported his body and waved his hand, and the branches of the metal blooming on the ground in the distance shrank little by little, swallowing those precious items back into the trunk little by little,
"I've been busy with other things all these years since I was reincarnated, and I didn't care about the mess left by my predecessor, but now that I'm done, I finally remember something... Four years after my predecessor died, and within three years of my reincarnation, another 1,622 slaves from our Hiiragi country secretly escaped to Tsubaki Province. If I'm not mistaken, it seems that Tsubaki Bo has a covenant with his predecessor, one slave for another?
"Originally, I didn't plan to settle this account with Uncle Chun, so I gave Uncle Chun a welcome gift when I was newly born. But this time I wasn't very happy, I was very annoyed... However, I can't bear to row more than a thousand zhang to me. It's not as good as this, I heard that Chunbo Shangqingxiong intends to accept the deer breeder Qingqing Lu'an as his righteous son. I'm ashamed to say that I haven't seen a deer since I was born, so why don't we make a deal, Tsubaki? ”
Hiiragi smiled and waved his hand, and the branches on the ground in the distance spread out little by little, turning into the top of the erected swords, guns, swords, and halberds, spreading the entire ground densely, he rubbed his hands, and seemed to have a clear understanding of the situation of Xiong and Lu'an, only to hear him speak,
"Bring the daughter of Lu'an to dance for me, and I will write off the matter. The deer race... Oh, you see, the deer's hooves and tail, fluffy, very good-looking, dancing down, dodging this dangerous sword, how dexterous and beautiful... Let her come up, I can't wait. ”
Hiiragi's seventeenth-order life level was basically unmatched in the field, but the only one who was equivalent to his rank was hanging up, even more Tang Ze Asuka than Tang Ze Asuka next to him, looking weak and pitiful and helpless.
Xiong and Tsubaki's faces changed slightly, but unlike Xiong's appearance of not daring to speak and dare to be angry, Tsubaki seemed to come back to his senses and began to chew on the other party's words.
Cut another thousand zhang of land?
It was impossible for Lu Ming to agree without Chun Bo deciding Xiong, so he immediately stood up and prepared to get up to find Lu An and ask him to bring Lu Ming, but obviously, with Lu Ming's timid and fearful character, it was impossible for her to dance on the sword soldiers under the gaze of the mythical species...
Tsubaki sighed, looked at Hiiragi, and asked,
"Why do you have to do that, Hiiragi?"
"Land or slaves... Oh no, descendants of slaves? ”
Hiiragi still didn't give up, he poured himself the wine, and the extremely young and extremely beaten appearance made Tang Ze Asuka itch his teeth, and he couldn't even look at himself and wanted to escape, how could the deer race dance on the knife?
"Perverted..."
She scolded, Hiiragi's ears moved slightly, obviously hearing the little girl's whispered curse, the terrifying pressure spread instantly, Mihayel's prosthetic body was pinched tightly, and Hook Kiss hurriedly sat up straight and looked at Heriel, but she was still motionless, like a sculpture and kept a fake smile hanging up, and she was about to have a cerebral hemorrhage when she saw Hook Kiss.
Just as Hiiragi was looking at this side with terrifying pressure, Fisher, who was sitting in front of Asuka Karasawa to the left, suddenly sighed hard,
"Hey."
“... What do you sigh for, human? ”
Hiiragi glanced at Fisher, who was sitting, and the idea of settling accounts with the little human girl couldn't help but froze when the contempt "inadvertently" revealed in the corner of the human man's eyes, and he frowned and asked.
Fisher looked at him, then at the subhumans in the distance, then shook his head and sighed,
"It's nothing, it's just that when I first came in, I felt that I had met a fellow practitioner, and I originally wanted to talk to one or two, but I didn't expect Hiiragi to not know how to appreciate it at all, so I felt a little pity. In my opinion, Hiiragi Hou should not invite the deer race to dance first, and it is not too late to find out the concept of liking the subhuman race first. ”
Hiiragi was slightly stunned, also turned his head, and quickly understood what Fisher meant by "not understanding appreciation", and then stood up quite annoyed, and said angrily to Fisher,
"You say I don't know how to appreciate? What are you? Since my reincarnation, I have seen and understood any race in my country, even if I came to Tsubaki Country this time, I have made advance preparations and have a deep understanding of the endemic sub-race in this place, you say I don't know how to appreciate it? ”
Fisher was not in a hurry, and asked rhetorically,
"Hiiragi knows a lot about the three sub-people in the audience?"
"That's nature!"
Fisher stood up and walked to the table under the terrifying pressure of Hiiragi's anger, of course, in the eyes of Asuka Karazawa, Hook Kiss or Mihayel, all of this was like a momentary attempt by Asuka Karasawa to bear the consequences, in order to prevent Hiiragi from making trouble for Asuka Karasawa.
Tang Ze Asuka pursed her lips, feeling a little self-reproachful in her heart for a while, her fingers tightly grasped the white robe on her thigh, and Hook Kiss and Miha'il also kept looking at Fisher, who walked to the table to confront Hiiragi bravely, and admired his courage in their hearts...... Only Heriel, who was on the side, smiled slightly, got out of the idle mode, and looked at Fisher at the table without knowing what he was thinking.
Xiong on the other side raised his hand in a panic, and Chun Bo also looked at him with a different color.
Of course, what no one knows is that after hearing Hiiragi's answer in front of him, the illusory subtitles in front of Fisher's eyes lit up little by little, and the Asian mother in his arms became a little hotter after finishing the manual, and three new columns soon appeared in the invisible place,
【Tapir Race】
【Praying Mantis Species】
【Moth Species】
[Number of studies that can be bound: 0/1]
[Bindable object: ......]
Below, several sub-human female names that could be bound popped up at once, and Fisher randomly chose three objects to bind without looking at it, filling all the places of the three sub-races, and before the pain came, he said to Hiiragi in front of him,
"I want to hear about it."
That contemptuous, school-taking gaze suddenly made Hiiragi stunned in place, although the rank of the human man in front of him was only about the thirteenth rank, but it seemed that at this moment, in the field of subracial women he was interested in, the man in front of him seemed to be the authority and seemed to have an unquestionable status.
I still remember that when Hiiragi just walked out of the giant tree of reincarnation, he saw a chaotic country, many slaves who had been oppressed by him had fled, and many nobles had also fled, leaving him alone; When he was first born in this life, a strange subhuman butterfly species that he had never paid attention to once in his previous life helped him and brought him out of the sacred tree of reincarnation.
By the way, the butterfly species is in charge of the history of Hiiragi Country.
The subhuman species of the butterfly species has a strange appearance, and the wings behind it, the large antennae on the head and the big eyes on the eyes make other subhuman species stay away, and the aesthetics of the elves are far from it, but somehow, it makes the reincarnated Hiiragi still remember it deeply.
So, in the face of the advice of the historian butterfly species, he accepted it for the first time, and he did become a different elf from his brutal predecessor, but he also had a very strange habit.
He began to pay attention to the sub-races that are different from the elves, the more different and weird the better, of course, this difference can also be compared to the difference with humans, because the appearance of elves and humans and most sub-races is similar...
To this day, he was surprised that his interest, which he had always felt quite complacent, was questioned by this guest from afar, and he was eager to convince the other party at once, and asked him how he dared to say that he did not know how to appreciate it.
Hiiragi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and pointed to the subhuman dancers in the distance, first of all, the tapir, a subhuman race with a face covered in short hair and a long, retractable nose, and a relatively short appearance,
"The tapir race, a subhuman race whose male is good at talking and her female is good at singing, with a short-gray-brown nose on the face and a short-haired head covered; Women reach adulthood at the age of fifteen, and when they become adults, they are good at singing, and hearing voices can make people fall asleep and make people forget their troubles. Especially their short noses and hair, which delight me, with short tails behind them and fine hairs at the ends..."
He crackled and said a lot, Fisher stood in place, binding three subhuman races at once, and the pain was multiplied by three at once, even Fisher, who was already used to it, was a little unbearable, and endured the pain until his brows furrowed slightly...
Hiiragi in front of him looked at Fisher and frowned a little as he listened, as if he didn't hear what he wanted to hear at all, his confidence retreated a little, but he still went on to say the characteristics of the other two subraces.
Praying mantis is good at predation, has a strong body, and I heard that it likes to use spears as weapons very much, and as it grows older, it will grow wings, and its body is slender and fit; As the name suggests, the female moth species has a fluffy mass on her body, as if she is wearing a sweater woven with fine hair, and the wings behind her do not move often, and there is moth powder attached to it to keep the wings hydrated...
Hiiragi said that the more uncertain he became, because he didn't seem to see a little recognition on the face of the human man in front of him, and only kept a little bit of suffering on his face, as if everything he said was staining his ears and making him feel uncomfortable.
It wasn't until everyone present listened to Hiiragi Marquis say such a lot of amazing insights that they came back to their senses a little, and it is estimated that even Chunbo didn't expect that this Hiiragi Marquis next door would know so much about subhuman races.
And at this moment, Fisher's expression after suffering also eased a little, he breathed a sigh of relief, and wrote down a lot of what Hiiragi had just said, as the knowledge about these exotic subhumans flowed into his mind, the subhuman mother in his chest also became hot little by little, proving that the progress of research has risen.
But on the face, he just looked at Hiiragi Hou and replied,
"That's all?"
Hiiragi opened his mouth, exhaled with a mouth full of wine, and replied,
“... That's it. ”
"In my opinion, Hiiragi's attitude towards the subhuman race cannot be called appreciation, perhaps only an appreciation of its special parts."
“... Isn't that right? ”
Hiiragi replied incredulously, his tone full of surprise, but with a little imperceptible excitement and anticipation.
Yes, the reason why Fisher dared to stand up so directly to cover for Tang Ze Asuka was because he had discovered through his observation just now that the elven race in front of him was really interested in the subhuman race and not asked Tsubaki for it under the guise of asking Tsubaki.
He kept looking at those subhuman dancers when he asked Tsubaki to ask... A part, of course, and a look of great dissatisfaction; And all he said when he mentioned the deer race was the non-human part, enough to see what his real interest was.
"Of course not, doesn't the Marquis think that your approach is too superficial? In my opinion, your interest and exploration of subspecies is undoubtedly holding on to sesame seeds and losing watermelons. What is the difference between simply liking the appearance of the so-called sub-human race, but ignoring the different inner aspects of their unique physiology, and simply liking things? ”
Hiiragi opened his mouth and looked at the few subhuman dancers in the distance in a daze, and it was only under the prompting of Fisher's words that he suddenly realized that in the face of the pressure of his rank and identity, the subhuman races of several races in the distance had completely different reactions.
The tapir was so frightened that its nose was raised, and its eyes were rolling, as if it were about to pass out... But it's not like this, they seem to be ordinary and sleepy, and the kind of sleepy and sleepy appearance is actually very sober at this moment.
It's so astringent...
Looking at the praying mantis species again, facing their own gaze, most of them looked at themselves with their heads held high, combined with their slender and well-defined bodies, they looked beautiful and high-pitched, as if they liked to look at themselves condescendingly, and they were very scornful of the treasures and everything they gave, and the feeling of disgust was so real that it could not be faked.
It's so astringent...
Look at the moth species again, fluffy and fluffy, as if most of their women have a little baby fat, and the wings behind them will flap slightly when they are nervous, but they seem to like things that are shining, and when they saw the wooden branches and metal they threw out just now, their eyes also seemed to glow, and their steps leaned towards that side uncontrollably, but they stupidly controlled themselves to stand in place.
It's so astringent...
It was just that in this trance, as if a brand new door had opened in front of him, Hiiragi finally withdrew his gaze uncontrollably, and immediately came to Fisher's side from behind the table, grabbed his hand in the surprised gaze of everyone behind him, and asked sincerely,
"Dare to ask, what is your Excellency's name."
Grabbed by the existence of the mythical rank, Fisher unnaturally wanted to withdraw his hand, but he couldn't move it, and he couldn't take it back.
“......”
The look of withdrawing his hand made Hiiragi think that Fisher was disgusted with his previous foolish way of appreciating the subspecies, and he immediately and sincerely pulled him back to his table, and took a wine glass and poured it for him.
"Listening to your words today really made me feel like an initiation, please don't care, I was abrupt before. I'm Hiiragi, the monarch of the Hiiragi country next door, if you want to go to wish Wang Shou what you want to know, and if you need my help, just ask, that... What do you call it? ”
"Fisher Benavides."
Fisher sighed and looked at Hook Kiss and Asuka Karasawa in the distance, a little worried that this overzealous guy would affect his reputation, but found that they were all looking at him with admiration.
Or in their eyes, Fisher is just a scholar who knows a lot about subhuman races, but in order to save Asuka Karasawa who lost her words just now, she had to stand up heroically, pretending that she has the same strange hobby as Hiiragi, and wronged herself to resolve this dangerous situation...
Xiong on the side looked at Fisher with a grateful face, and Tsubaki Bo also kept looking at him, meaning a little unclear.
Only Heriel, who was behind the table, clutched his stomach and snickered, and he was about to hold back his laughter, as if he had seen a very, very interesting thing.
"Mr. Fisher, this is really... Confidants meet late, don't be in a hurry. I was offended before, I didn't even understand the concept of liking subhumans, but I only knew how to watch them scratch their heads and gesture on the surface, and now I feel that I have lost so much, it's a pity... Have you met other subhumans before, can you share your views and opinions with me? ”
The corners of Fisher's mouth quivered, and under the worried or encouraged gaze of Asuka Karasawa, under the grateful gaze of Xiong next to him, and under Heriel's expression of smiling and about to fly, he gently pinched the sake handed over by Hiiragi, and the sake in it set off a little ripple, reflecting his calm face.
It doesn't matter, anyway, this is the case, and it is just in time to get more specific information about the three subspecies from Hiiragi's mouth to complete the research progress of the manual.
So, he opened his mouth and replied,
"I know a little bit about it."
No one expected that the atmosphere in the hall would be eased in such a dramatic way, and everyone was happy because of Fisher.
Maybe only Asuka Karasawa doesn't think so, right?
It seemed to her that Mr. Fisher had been forced to do so out of her own excitement, so she felt quite remorseful and uncomfortable when the others looked at Fisher, who was easily talking to Hiiragi.
The young traveler from another world pursed his lips again, unconsciously clenched his robe again, and was a little afraid to look at Fisher's expression in the distance.