The sea is dark green, the sky is densely covered with heavy clouds, and the black shadows cast by the sun are obvious. A small fishing boat with a stowed canvas drifts on it with the flow of the water.

The young man with a messy beard rushed out of the water with a net on his back, and his long years of living by the sea made him look very vicissitudes, and his appearance did not match his actual age. He leaned on the side of the boat with one hand and poured a clump of black sea urchin and other seafood into the compartment of the net.

When he was about to dive down again, he was pulled by the old man who was observing the trawl on the boat, the old man's hair was a little gray, his face was crawling with a beard crawling all over the lower half of his face, and his wrinkles were many and deep, and his skin was as black and red as the sun in the sea.

"Lev, don't touch it anymore, get ready to go back!"

"Grandpa Matvey, there are still a lot of big rocks down there? I also saw a blue lobster, and this time I'm going down to catch it. ”

"Don't be lost in the underwater abundance, Lev, danger is approaching you. Come on! Let's collect the trawl and go back, and the weather will change. ”

The sail with many holes and patches slid down, and with the help of the wind, the drifting boat had the momentum to sail and was moving towards a black spot ahead. Lev and Matvey pulled the trawl back and pulled the ship's winch.

"It's so heavy! Grandpa Matvey, it looks like you've got a big deal today. ”

"I hope so! With or without us we have to go back, and the darkness and storm are brewing far away. ”

After saying that, the two of them turned the rusty winch on the boat vigorously, and the thick rope was tightened and retracted on the winch frame, and the load-bearing old logs creaked and were about to disperse at any time.

Gradually, the trawl net back to the side of the boat netted a large mass of what looked like kelp and seaweed, and some fish and shrimp and things that could not be seen were entwined in it.

"Do you want to pull on the boat and take a look?, there is a lot of seagrass and kelp, it's really strange, and the sea here is not shallow! Where did so many come from? ”

"Let's just open the tie and throw it back into the sea! It's all seaweed, kelp, and so on. ”

"Grandpa Matvey, look, there's a blue lobster in it, it's a big one."

Lev saw that the familiar pliers were desperately trying to squeeze out. So the two of them pulled up a large mass of trawl and put it back into the boat, and the old logs that supported them finally freed themselves.

Untie the trawl net, some unknown fish scatter out, and seagrass and kelp push together. Lev caught the blue lobster, which was slightly smaller than his arm, and placed it in another compartment.

Matvey, who was pulling off the kelp and seaweed, screamed. Lev quickly turned around and found that the kelp seaweed was tightly wrapped in a white cocoon, like a chrysalis, and the silk threads at one end were relatively sparse, and the miserable white and painful human face inside could be vaguely seen, with eyes tightly closed, and hair scattered, which was the part of the seaweed that Matvey had pulled apart.

After the two cleaned up the debris, they also saw the original appearance of this thing, about one meter and seven years long, the layer of sticky white silk thread arched into a chrysalis shape, and the slightly transparent top could be seen wrapped in a black-haired woman who looked about eighteen years old, the appearance was not clear, but it made people feel very beautiful.

"Grandpa Matvey, have you ever been in this situation? Could it be a rich aristocratic lady whose body was thrown by pirates? Lev looked away, and found that the more he looked at the people inside, the more excited he became, and he unconsciously stepped forward.

"It's not like that, looking at such a beautiful woman, the pirate wouldn't just kill the sea. And this layer can even isolate the sea, which I haven't seen yet. ”

"So what to do with this, throw it back into the sea?" Lev asked, and suddenly found that the painful expression of the person inside the white chrysalis had disappeared, and the whole face had changed to a peaceful and sleeping appearance.

"Grandpa Matvey, I see that her expression has changed, is she still alive, how about taking it back for treatment."

"This" Matvey frowned, he also found that something was wrong with the people inside, but he was very embarrassed, the other party was of unknown origin and could actually survive in the sea, he had to worry.

"Grandpa Matvey, in case the other party really falls into the noble lady, so that we can get a relief fee, you know that I am not too young and need money to start a family."

Lev was persuading Matvey, who looked at Levi, who was the grandson of his own brother, and he was indeed not young. And the fishing village on the island is closed, and no one wants to follow you without some savings.

"Do you really want to take it back? Maybe she'll wake up and leave, and end up with nothing. Or, like the legends in the village, disappear one day. ”

"It's okay, it's just saving people."

Matvey went back to control the sails, and he didn't know if he should be ruthless and throw them directly into the sea, he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

"Sister, have you decided that you want to be promoted to Predator Knight? Then you are my sister, or you have become an older brother. ”

"This is the fate of our family, don't you see that Dad is still our Daddy? You'll experience this later, too. ”

"No, I don't want it, sister, you don't want it, you can choose it, you can choose the witch."

"Do we have a choice"

"Mom has changed, are you going to change too?"

"Since the fall of our ancestors, our family has become more and more difficult, and my father has not seen him for a long time, we are just people who can't help themselves in the torrent of the times."

The girl in the dream cried to a woman with red hair and a heroic appearance, and hugged her as she spoke, and the red-haired woman stroked the girl's same red hair.

The dream picture is constantly changing, there is a picture of being naughty and punished when I was a child, there is a picture of riding a horse with red hair, and the figures inside are constantly overlapping and frozen.

"Sister, I didn't expect you to come."

In front of him, a handsome red-haired man with a bayonet sword pointed at the girl who was sitting on the ground, her hair had turned black, and looked at the man in front of him with a little weakness.

"Let's go! The enforcers are coming. The handsome man urged the girl on the ground with an expressionless face

"Sister, can I still come to you in the future?"

"No, since you have made your own choice, you will have to bear the corresponding price. Go quickly, or you won't be able to go. ”

At this time, Hermione's memories were all mixed together, and she kept going through her life over and over again in her dreams. Sometimes peaceful, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes crazy.

The village of Maggiore, where Lev and Matvey are located, is a small island with cliffs on one side and steep slopes on the other, and the main part of the village is built on one side surrounded by sandy beaches. Belonging to the small semi-autonomous Principality of Faro, which separated the coastline of Rune and Fenerport, the small states, dominions, and free cities here were militarily united and joined the common defense led by the Marcew, and remained politically independent and self-governing after the division of the southern states.

Fishermen who came back from fishing carried their nets and fish home to dry, or carried fish to the docked boats in exchange for supplies and common currency, and the metal currency of Rune and Fenerport also had some circulation.

"I heard that Lev boy picked up a beautiful woman and came back."

"Which Lev? There are so many levs in the village, just like your raff. And when you see a woman who says pretty, how can I believe you. ”

"Lev of the Dori's house, it's true, I peeked at it, and lay on the bed inside the house, wrapped in layers of white things."

"You say it's wrapped in things, how do you know if it's not beautiful, and you have the time to touch a few more fish and earn some money for your children to go to the church in town."

"So that's why I already have a child and you don't have a wife yet."

"You owe it, don't you?"

Two men in linen tops and baggy brown pants scuffled as the crowd cheered.

Above the steep slope of the village, there was a yard surrounded by a few trees and sticks, and trees and fruit trees on all sides, except for the wooden houses that were next to each other on the side of the road. The view here is wide, the terrain is high, and you can see almost half of the village.

In front of several connected wooden single-storey buildings, an old woman with gray hair is sewing fishing nets, and many of the fish that have been cut and crushed flattened are dried in the yard.

Lev shouldered the sack, carrying a mesh bag, which contained some cheese, kale, beets and other vegetables that had been exchanged. Matvey carried his things back to the courtyard in the lower left corner.

"Mom, I'm back, I'm back with a bag of rye flour."

Lev talks to his mother in the yard about today's events. Lev's father and grandfather all died in the storm of the sea, and he and his mother were the only ones in the family, and with the help of Matvey, life was quite passable.

"Lev, are you sure the woman you picked up is still alive? She hasn't eaten in the past few days, is she really human? ”

"Mom, she's really a person, since I picked her up, there's nothing I can do, I can't throw people back into the sea."

"Be careful, if it's a kraken, our village will be finished. And this woman is so bewitching that she is not suitable for our family, let's send her to the church in town! The one in the village who was not credible, Vasily was not a servant of God at all. ”

Mrs. Dory feared that disaster would come her way, and the charm of the man lying inside fascinated those who saw it, and they unconsciously fell into it.

"Mom, don't say any more, these things won't happen. The chief of Vasily is a man who knows money but not God, so you should say less, lest he come and put little shoes on us. "Lev went in and put things away.

In the next room, the white chrysalis lay there quietly, and the silk threads became more crystal clear, making the people inside clearer. The shirt and coat on the chest seemed to have been violently torn apart, the two buttons under the collar of the shirt were gone, the remaining threads proved that they had existed, and the chest occasionally shone with a blue light, and was covered in black and white lines.

Lev walked up here and tugged at the white thread without loosening it in the slightest. He tried to cut it with a knife, but the blade was erased instead, and looking at the sleeping beauty inside, he couldn't help himself, how to wake up.

"Lev, didn't you notice? She was atrocious and dumped at sea, so let's put her back in the sea! Otherwise, what if her enemies find here? ”

Mrs. Dory also saw the change, and saw a little more clearly inside, she was devout in her own beliefs, and was obviously not very receptive to foreign objects.

"Say no more, how can we be like pirates."