Chapter 12: Meals

"Or first?"

As if he hadn't recovered from the conversation he had just had, Klein repeated in confusion.

"Or do you want to go out on deck first?"

Angel replied with a chuckle, capturing the disappointment on Klein's face that even Faceling's abilities couldn't suppress.

He jerked up from the couch.

For a moment, Angel almost thought that the mad adventurer was going to practice the trick here, but Crane just grabbed his suitcase, went into the master bedroom to put his clothes and essentials out and put them away, and then went back to the living room.

"Let's go, let's go to the restaurant."

He said in a flat tone.

How did you change back to Klein mode - Angel communicated his thoughts with his eyes.

"Even a crazy adventurer will show his kindness and gentleness to a beautiful young lady......"

Klein saw Angel's doubts and took it upon himself to add a new temperament to "Gelman".

"Well, beautiful young lady?"

"Ahem, it's a beautiful Ann...... Miss Angelica. ”

Klein hurriedly explained.

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The two of them first walked around the upper deck and became familiar with the environment of the ship, and then slowly came to the luxurious dining room exclusive to the first class, which is located in the best position on the White Onyx, with rows of large portholes on both sides, excellent lighting, elegant environment, and violinists playing melodious music in the corner, making Angel feel like returning to the aristocratic salon of Beckland.

Large and small tables can seat hundreds of people, but only one-third of the seats are occupied by first-class passengers, and there are screens or cabinets separating the different tables to ensure a certain degree of privacy.

Angel and Klein chose a table by the window and sat down, and at the recommendation of the waiter, they ordered pea stewed lamb, red wine baked foie gras, vegetable salad and other dishes.

"I've made this dish before," Klein said suddenly, scooping up a spoonful of simmered lamb and pouring it onto the plate in front of him, "I was a fresh graduate and my family was on Benson's income, and I could only eat meat twice a week, but the mixture of coarse salt, black pepper and lamb was more memorable than any chef's craft." ”

His eyes were a little out of focus, and he obviously remembered the life of the city of Tingen with Melissa and Benson.

"When the problem of Zangweil is solved, we can continue to live together, and I must try the lamb stew you made then."

Angel smiled and comforted, but she knew that the best way to protect Benson and Melissa was to forget about them, and Klein did the same, even when "0-08" had already left Beckland, he suppressed his feelings and did not recognize the brother and sister he met by chance.

I am afraid that the only way to solve such a problem is ......

She slipped some gravy from the fluffy bread into her mouth, forcing herself to turn her mind back to the food in front of her, to forget about the melancholy events for a moment.

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After the meal, Angel, who was enjoying dessert, noticed that the door to the bow side of the boat was opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a dark infrared suit and a boat-shaped hat walked into the dining room with several sailors in formal suits, and came to the center.

"Good afternoon, everyone, I am the captain of the White Onyx, Ellan Kag," the man said in a loud voice, drawing the attention of everyone who was eating or had put down their dishes, "These are my first mate, second mate, and boatswain......

He pointed to the crew and sailors behind him one by one, and bowed with a smile behind him.

"In the next nine days of the trip, I hope that everyone can follow the rules of several boats, spend this not long journey happily, and arrive at the destination safely."

Erlan began to introduce the rules on the ship, such as no fighting, no destruction of public property, etc., Angel thought it was an ordinary meeting, but soon felt that the middle-aged man exuded a faint majesty, and with his loud "rules", people felt that "must be followed".

She immediately thought of the bounty hunter Hugh Dilcha, who was an "arbiter" extraordinaire who had possessed a similar extraordinary ability since Sequence 9, adding submissive power to words and movements.

It seems that the captain has no intention of hiding his status as an extraordinary...... Yes, ordinary people will only feel that he is full of majesty and will spontaneously abide by the rules of the ship, and if there are extraordinary people among the passengers, they can also know that the captain is not easy to mess with, and restrain his words and deeds......

She looked around the dining room and saw that almost all the passengers were listening attentively to the arbiter's words, and even the four members of the family and their attendants who had occupied the entire large table when they boarded the ship stopped their knives and forks and looked at the center of the dining room, and it was clear that Captain Erlan had achieved his purpose.

Sure enough, the competence of the arbitrator is well suited to this occasion...... Hmm, what are you doing? ”

Angel sighed in a low voice, looking at Klein on the other side of the table, only to find that he frowned, looking at the captain who had finished announcing the rules and was about to leave, as if he was in deep thought.

"I'm wondering what I should do if I want to achieve the same effect, to shock the audience and make them do what I tell me to do," Crane said, turning back and lowering his voice as well, "like taking a pistol and shooting it at the ceiling, or making some exaggerated noise?" ”

"Then the whole restaurant will run out in an instant, like opening a can of wolf fish."

"That's what I said......"

The "crazy" adventurer nodded in agreement, and his gaze returned to the plate in front of him, but as if intimidated by the word canned wolffish, he hesitated for a moment and put down his knife and fork.

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After lunch, most of the passengers in the restaurant came to the entertainment room on the same floor, where there were common entertainment activities such as billiards and playing cards, and passengers who knew or didn't know each other quickly mingled through these games.

But billiards?

By this time, the White Onyx had left the shore after several hours of travel, and the gradually increasing wind and waves caused the large ship to shake slightly, which was not seasick, but it was probably devastating for the experience of billiards that required precise aiming......

Curious, she approached the table and researched it, and soon found that the table was much thicker than what she usually saw, which would reduce the distance of the ball rolling, but also effectively prevent the wind and waves from distracting, and several men were interested in this fresh experience and quickly occupied both tables.

When Angel returned to Klein, he was surprised to find him talking to a man in his thirties in a long trench coat.

It's the bodyguard of that family of four...... Angel recognized the man's identity and did not bother them, but secretly listened to a conversation and found that the two were communicating with each other...... Adventure tips?

Crane talks less and listens more, and the former adventurer and current bodyguard named Cleves is a bit talkative, and he takes the initiative to approach Crane, a somewhat dangerous looking fellow, because he is worried about his employer's safety on the ship, and now he keeps telling about his adventures, which makes Angel a little suspicious of his purpose.

Seeing Crane's gaze, she nodded and paced to the side, not disturbing the conversation between the two adventurers.

However, this Cleves does not seem to have noticed that in addition to "Gelman Sparrow", there is another dangerous person on board......

She stood still by the porthole on one side, looking at the blue sea outside the window, but she felt a little embarrassed in her heart.

Two days ago, she was promoted to the "Witch of Pain", which not only enhanced Angel's previous extraordinary abilities such as Frost, Black Flame, and Curse, but also gave her a completely new ability - disease.

This allows her to take herself as the center, and make all living things get sick quickly within a fairly wide range, at first it is just itching, fever, cough and other symptoms, if you don't leave in time or deal with it accordingly, it will become a serious disease such as severe pneumonia within a minute, and at most three minutes, you will die of myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis and other fatal diseases.

To be precise, with her full force, all creatures within a radius of 50 meters will die in an instant, and if you are in a relatively closed building, this speed will be further accelerated.

Now in the middle of the White Onyx, if this ability is activated, except for Klein, who can escape from the ship with a fire jump, everyone else is afraid that they will not be able to escape death, and in less than five minutes, this ship full of hundreds of passengers and sailing on the sea will be turned into a large coffin...... As far as she knew, it was impossible for any other Sequence 5 to achieve such a high killing efficiency......

Angel thought a little gloomily, and there was a hint of impulse to "try" in her heart.

After being forcibly promoted in the eastern side of Beckland, the ability to control this ability caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract non-lethal itching and pharyngitis under the magnification of the sapphire ring, allowing her to play the sequence of "pain" in advance, so that a small part of the potion had already been digested, if the ship actively used the epidemic to kill hundreds of people......

No!

Angel quickly extinguished the dangerous thought.

Even in Sequence 9, she didn't try to harm innocent people's lives to digest potions and speed up her promotion, not to mention that she had already made it to the point where she was in Sequence 5.

After suppressing the instinctive temptation brought by the potion, she felt a little lighter in her heart, and felt that the sea outside the window was much bluer.

"Sister, it's dangerous by the window, be careful not to fall down."

A slightly innocent voice sounded beside her, and Angel looked sideways to see the little boy he had met at the gate of embarkation, wearing a child's tuxedo suit that he shouldn't have worn at this age, and looked up at Angel curiously.

"Denton! Be careful! Her sister, the girl who was about the same age as Melissa but had a completely different personality, quickly stepped forward and pulled Denton over and protected her, "Her expression just now was so terrifying!" ”

(End of chapter)