Shuilonu bought tickets with Yamosa and sat on the platform waiting for the train. Shuilonu asks Yamosa about the lizard cart, "What the hell is that, and why does it take people away?"

"I think it's weird, too. The normal one doesn't take the whole person away. Yamosa said as he nibbled on the chicken thigh, the main dish of the dinner bento.

Dinner in Schuilonu is a submarine fort. She covered her mouth and said, "Can you take it away if it's incomplete?"

"That's not what I said. Pointing to the submarine fort in Shuilonu, Jamosa said, "Just as your bread can be divided into two, so goblins can divide all things, including time. Jamosa paused, "Not everything is divisible to them, but there are many things that are indivisible to humans that they feel they can. Because the goblins are like that, they are familiar with the things that are naturally separated, like do you know the saying 'three souls and seven spirits'?"

Shuilonu nodded.

"Something like that. For them, humans are made up of different parts, and sometimes some parts run away for some reason, and they will pick up those parts and return them when the time comes. 」

Shuilonu took a moment to understand, and then she asked, "What if the time never comes?"

"I thought you'd ask what the reasons for running away, or what the time would be. Jamosa raised an eyebrow and said, "Your question is not the same as that of ordinary people. 」

"Isn't it okay?"

"That's good. 」

"Why did you travel?" asked Shuilono. When buying the ticket, she had already said a lot about her to Yamosa, and it was time for a change.

"Do you think this is delicious?" Yamosa took a piece of braised dried bean curd and put it in Shuilonu's mouth.

"Yes, I like salty. 」

"I don't know what I like. 」

"Do you prefer sunny or cloudy, rain or snow?"

"It's better to have a sunny day, no rain or snow. 」

"Then you know what you like, but you're not picky about food, right?"

"No, it's different. Even if it rains and snows together, I know it's annoying, but I don't really find it annoying. Jamosa said. It was already dark, and at this time, there were fireworks a few streets away, and the two looked up to see the golden-red fireworks exploding in the sky, and the sparks slowly fell and went out.

Yamosa looked at the fireworks and said, "Beautiful, isn't it? 」

It was just a matter of moments, and Shuilonu felt as if Yamosa wasn't here. Sitting next to her was just an empty shell that looked like Yamosa. Something very important in it ran away, far away.

Yamosa looked at the fireworks indifferently, "My colleague at the workplace asked me if I wanted to be his deputy. That guy is a person with a very strong soul, and he reacts twice as much to anything as the average person. He sat down at my desk and talked about how he wanted to restructure the organization and what kind of team he wanted to build, and that's when I realized that I was missing a lot. Although many people say that I have done a good job, and I think I have done a good job, I am neither happy nor sad. 」

"Are you looking for the parts you lost?" asked Schuilonu.

"Sounds like I'm the one who should go to the elf realm. Jamosa laughed.

Shuilonu pretended to be very serious and said to Yamosa, "Didn't you say you liked me?

"No!" Jamosa, "I think I like you." But my mood was like an echo from far away, and I couldn't hear it clearly. 」

Shuilonu knew what was strange about Yamosa. Whether she was smiling or something else, Shuilonu thought it was like a model expression. It was as if she had learned these expressions from other people's faces, and then applied them to the occasion in front of her, not so naturally she behaved. The insensitive would have been deceived by her, but Shuilonu sensed it. Yamosa wanted to react emotionally, but her heart didn't help.

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Serenand and Banatu are talking to each other. Seren's pursuit of Yamosa's hometown, but she did not return.

"I've got her letter of resignation!" Banato said, "it says she's going to find her soul. What's wrong with her head?How can a soulless guy have a holy sword?She has become a knight, and of course her soul is in her!"

"Banner, calm down. Serian said, "I think it's better not to chase her." 」

"What? What do you see in her house?"

"Her family hasn't been in touch with her for more than a decade. She hasn't spoken to her family since she joined the group. 」

"Huh?"

"That home isn't normal. A couple over forty years old, dressed like seventeen or eighteen young people on the street, had a house full of rubbish, and I smelled drugs. Should I notify the police?"

"Notify me. We will not spare anyone, not even the families of our members. Yamosa should have called the police herself!"

"Actually, I've already called the police. Because there are children there, you can't just leave it alone. 」

"Huh, male and female?"

"Jamosa's brother. 」

"Yamosa never said anything about it. I know everyone else who has problems in the family, why did she never mention it?"

"That's why I said it was better not to chase her. Let her go. Her life needs to be lost this time. 」

Banato was silent for a while, and then said, "Do you understand?"

"You don't understand if you have too little trouble. 」

"I've got a lot of troubles!" Banato looked at his itinerary, the meetings that should be held were all over, and the documents that should be signed were almost processed, "You wait for me, I'll go meet you." 」

After hanging up the words, Seren walked out of the booth and recalled his impressions of Yamosa as he walked to the police station. Bannatu has a heroic friendship with Yamosa, so he thinks about Yamosa's shortcomings much more often than other people who are higher than him.

Yamosa is a "knight with a mage's license", this kind of person is in the minority of the Holy Shield, and most of them are also a bit of a loner, but Yamosa does not.

There are many weirdos around Bannato, and there are many talents with particularly outstanding individual abilities like Akouer. When these people are reprimanded, most of them have a tendency to take the scolding of high-ranking knights as the croaking of frogs on a summer night, and fall asleep with their eyes open. Things like running away, acting on your own, and making important decisions on your own are not uncommon on Banato's side. The reason why Banato's evaluation is very high has to do with the fact that he can actually bring these people together into a team. In a situation where almost everyone has the root of disobedience, it is really remarkable that they can complete the tasks one by one. According to the old knight, his surroundings were more akin to the early days of the Holy Shield.

In comparison, Yamosa's group is larger than that of Bannatu, but most of the members are not well-known in the group (both in terms of good and bad), and it is normal to say that it sounds good, and to say that it is mediocre to say that it is bad. But fighting as a team under Yamosa, the unbreakable unity is very strong. According to the group, Yamosa is "close to the people" than Bannatu, but Bannatu said that she is "not picky". The outside world usually likes Yamosa, including some domestic units that cooperate with them, as well as people abroad, who feel that Yamosa is more friendly and reassures them. It's just that Banato never takes "friendliness" as a compliment.

According to the bamboo shoots, here in Bannatu, if she doesn't hear him curse all day, it's going to rain red, and on Yamosa's side, if she doesn't say a good word to anyone all day, the sun will come out of the west.

Having worked on both sides, he felt that the two men had completely opposite leadership styles. Banato sparks fly, but Yamosa is like a big family.

But sometimes he feels wrong. Probably because he's seen too many weirdos next to Banato, he's especially aware of what is unusual about others. Yamosa was always a little slower to be amused by the joke than the person next to her. It's as if she didn't know that she was going to find it funny at the time, and didn't notice until someone else laughed.

Seren, it was as if Yamosa hadn't shown his true face yet. Just like a metal brick plated with other outer layers, no one knows whether the material inside is gold or silver. Even she didn't know. The knight who is kind to everyone, always smiling and welcoming, full of tolerance and gentle encouragement to his subordinates, is not really her. Serenia thinks that the reason why Yamosa has caused a runaway incident that is not like her style must be because she noticed it.

After seeing Yamosa's family of origin, Seren's reason was understood. It is taught in the compulsory course of knights that in the face of great stress and psychological trauma, human beings will isolate their hearts from the outside world in order to protect themselves from collapse - Yamosa has a situation of dissociative loss of self. Even if she had the holy sword, she still had to recover from the dissociation on her own. It's been a long and important journey.

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Rick liked the way the elves handled the fish, sprinkling slices of flesh on the outside of the fish and baking them together. He ate a lot of fish and meat, but the taste in his mouth was fragrant.

Ami sings while paying attention to everyone's eating.

"In the time that does not exist, the Heart of Eternity fills the rift.

"Don't give it to the king lizard's tail, the cat flutters at the feathers that have fallen off.

"The grassroots are great warriors, and the seeds pass on wisdom.

"If you close your eyes, you can see that there is humanity everywhere in the world.

"An obscure scroll that depicts the present kingdom.

"We flourish in the shadow of the wind, and thrive in the light of the water.

"We count the moment when the world will open and wait for the wheel of time to turn. 」

I don't understand the lyrics at all, but there should be many allusions in fairy culture.

After Ami finished distributing the food, she walked to the window to look, and suddenly, she smiled brightly: "Children, come and see, the Gu Shen Whale is next to us!"

Everyone including Rick crowded to the window, and Nick saw the narwhal flying in the sky eating black letters, its kind now flying parallel to the lizard cart, about thirty meters away from them. It turned out that it wasn't a hallucination of Xike.

Rick saw a bunch of pigeons perched on the whale's back. He thought that the people on the ground should see the pigeon folded its wings and stop in the air at this time, but he had never heard of such a sighting, so when the pigeon rested on the whale, it would become invisible to ordinary people along with the whale?

The white-gold boy Lala Ami said on his sleeve, "I want to go and step on the whales. 」

"Go ahead. Ami laughed.

Hearing this, the curiosity that had been suppressed by him overwhelmed his reason again, and he raised his hand: "I, I'm going too!"

"Come on!" the white-gold boy held out his hand to Rick, who grabbed it.

The white-gold boy ran to the door at the bottom of the carriage and opened it, and behind it was a white space, with only a metal spiral staircase with a wooden texture in the middle, from which they climbed to the top of the carriage. The white-gold boy stood in the middle of the flowers, and Rick was a little worried about his feet, so he squatted. The boy glanced in the direction of the whale and, as if jumping over a small ditch, jumped out of the roof of the car.

Nick saw him jump onto the whale's back in a near-horizontal parabola that defied the laws of physics.

The boy reached the other side and beckoned to Rick, "Jump here." 」

"Won't it fall?"

"No, it won't. 」

Nick still had a spell in his hand, just in case. Then he learned the boy to jump forward. He felt as if something was holding his feet and hands, lifting him to the whale's back and lowering him.

The monster whale stepped on it as if it were on a hard leather cushion. It is estimated that it was twenty-five meters long and covered with barnacles on its back. Rick looked down and saw that the city below had changed, the street trees had turned into giant aquatic plants, the street lamps had turned into coral, and passers-by had bubbles in their mouths when they spoke. A passer-by is supposed to be leading a dog for a walk, but the dog turns into a fish.

Rick couldn't figure out what the magic effects were. He had seen a lot of pigeons before, but when he stepped on it, he saw a bunch of jellyfish floating around. Because it seems to be a non-toxic variety, Xike pokes it with his hand. As soon as the jellyfish touched his fingers, it quickly floated away. Rick felt as if he had poked a feather.

He looked back and saw that the lizard cart was gone, and the whale flew higher and higher, and when it reached the clouds, the sunlight suddenly disappeared, and a large pile of jellyfish floated in the same direction in the moonlight. The translucent body reflects the moonlight, which at first glance looks like countless paper lamps, flowing along the surface of the water that does not exist.

"We're safe with the Gu Shen Whale, don't worry. The boy said.

"Is there any danger?" said Rick was alert.

"Haven't you touched those things? 」

"I've seen it once. Rick remembered the man he had seen before he got into the car.

"That thing is a human who ran out like us, but they want to make others like them, we don't want to. 」

"You look human, but he doesn't look like he's. Rick sat down next to the boy. Observe the crabs around the barnacles.

"We are part of humanity. The boy looked at Syk and said, "You are whole. 」

"Probably. Rick said. At least he didn't realize what he was missing, except for money.

"I couldn't protect the others, so I escaped. The boy said.

For a moment, Rick saw him look like a big boy, still with long, untrimmed hair, but turning a dirty gray. He was wearing a school uniform of unknown origin, skinny as wood, and his eyes were sharp, like sharp cones piercing the heart.

"So you're—" Rick hesitated to pick up the word. Reason, conscience, sensibility?

The boy put an index finger to his lips and made a "silence" gesture and said, "Don't try to describe something like this, as soon as you name it, you don't mean what it was." What we really are, we can only understand, not say. He glanced at his feet, "The Gu God Whale will protect us and eat those things. The lizard cart finds us and contains us until the time comes. 」

"What would have happened if I hadn't escaped?" asked Rick.

"We may be destroyed and replaced by that black goosh. The boy spread his hands and walked on the slope behind the whale that almost made people slide down, "There are a lot of humans trying to make this happen. 」

The Gu Shen Whale burrowed into the clouds, and the surroundings became dark, but Xi Ke did not feel alarmed, and the whale under his feet made him feel reassured.

Rick heard the little boy's voice, "I can see that you have also faced the dilemma of whether to let yourself escape, you did not let yourself go very far, he will soon come back and face everything with you. Some people run too far and can't go back. 」

The clouds cleared, and Rick saw the blinding lights of the city.

The little boy stood next to Rick and pointed to a fairly modern building and said, "There are a lot of humans in there who are all black and slimy, and they are flying around in famous cars and private spaceships, and something will definitely happen in the future. 」

Xi Ke looked down and saw that the black words that came out of it were particularly dense, floating all the way to the sky, and then he was sucked into his mouth by the Gu Shen Whale, like a black river. Xi Ke stared at it for a long time, and the signs and posters there were painted with a large group of smiling people, clearly full of excitement to the point of overflowing. His Lamb was not good at speaking, he couldn't read what was written on it, and he only recognized two words: we, friend. These two words appear at the beginning and end of almost every paragraph, and are sometimes enlarged, and seem very important for those articles.

Xi Ke felt that the act of deliberately letting the black paste spread sounded more like the actions of demons, but there should be no demons in the current battlement. "Why did humans create this situation?"

The boy said, "If there is no love, we cannot know for whom we should sacrifice, and if there is no hate, we cannot judge what is tolerable and what is not. So those who want others to endure their evil deeds and sacrifice for them will distort love and rebuke hate. They also distort happiness and rebuke sadness, distort friendliness and rebuke loneliness, distort approval and rebuke disapproval, distort enthusiasm and rebuke calmness, distort trust, rebuke doubt...... Words are used to replace life itself. 」

At the very least, he knew that the little boy was no ordinary being, because he was more intelligent than he could have at his age, and even adults could not necessarily think like him.

The boy said, "In order to keep humans from discovering this, they will try to make every human being just like them – no longer human. 」

The little boy spoke in the Aytaro language with a foreign accent, but the last phrase, "Becoming no longer human", was spoken in the goblin language.

Rick guessed that his last sentence, "human", should be defined by fairy culture. For goblins, "humans" are not directly related to "humans" or even "goblins", which is also very rare in the culture of the world. Rick had seen the example in the book where a goblin took an orange and said it was a person, but another said it was not a person. The researchers put both oranges away, and the human one didn't go bad for a few days, and it was delicious. The one that wasn't human was moldy the next day.

The author says that how long it is until it becomes moldy is definitely not the basis for judging whether it is human or not. Because there was a batch of fruits that were overproduced and unsalable in a good year, they were spoiled after being left for too long, so they had to be buried in the soil as fertilizer, and the goblins also said that those fruits were people. The only thing that is certain is that the goblin is said to be the seed of a human being, and the vitality is very strong, and there will be no problem of not germinating if you take care of it normally.

As for animals, the standard of being human or not human is very strange. When it comes to humans, humans simply don't know how they judge. The same are the hawkers who set up stalls to hide from the police, some are not human, some are also athletes who inspire people and overcome the difficulties of physical disabilities, some are also human and some are not; philanthropists who are often praised are said to be not human, and soldiers with bloody hands are said to be human...... Even when a bunch of people get together for the same special event or parade and protest, and the homogeneity should be high, they often say that some people are and some are not.

It was once said that only a goblin dressed in human skin could understand the definition of "human" in goblin language.

Usually, when both elves and humans speak in public, they will avoid using the definition of "human" in goblin culture to avoid embarrassment, so the outside world will not hear this usage, let alone understand what the standard is.

"I'm Rick, what's your name?" He thought the boy was like a whale in the sea, and he was a human who could only live on the surface of the sea. Only when the whales surface to breathe, or jump up to play, can they see a part of them for a short time, and never see the whole picture.

The boy said a name, but Rick couldn't remember it. He didn't know if the boy remembered his name.

The lizard cart appeared in front of Gu Shen's whale, the little boy took Xi Ke's hand, and the two of them jumped on the spot, crossed a distance of fifty meters, rose ten meters, and jumped back into the car.

After returning to the car, Xike looked out the window, and the time returned to daylight.

Ami washes the dishes in the drawer, and Rick goes over to help, and sees a pool of water in the drawer with fish swimming. The fish will swim out of the wall of the drawer where there is no room and disappear through the other wall. The water in it is also very icy like a stream and flows in the same direction, and it is living water. Xi Ke washed it, and a black-scaled fish bigger than a drawer appeared in it, bumped the bowl in Xi Ke's hand and swam away, but fortunately Xi Ke didn't drop the bowl, and he suspected that he would not be able to pick it up after that.