69 - Art. 69 Examination Under The Name Of Confirmation Of Current Situation
"Oh no, oh no, don't look at me!"
The woman is still unable to stop the overflowing water. The floor of the pavilion is flooded because of this. When she had calmed down to a certain extent, Quena quickly took care of the situation, and the dirty floor was cleaned in no time at all.
"It's hard to stay here with your clothes as they are, isn't it? Ferris, I'm sorry, but could you lend him some underwear and clothes?
"I still have some brand new ones that I bought........you don't cut them?"
"Yeah, let him borrow it. Please."
I pull her, still wet from the bottom half of her body, up to the transition zone. The woman is very angry as I drag her by force.
"Remember me! I'll never forgive you!"
"What? This is your fault. You didn't answer my questions, so now I have to pee in public when I'm 15 years old."
"..."
The woman returned to the house with us with tears in her eyes.
"I'm going to give you a bath now, are you okay with the boiling water?"
"..."
"I'll take silence as an affirmative."
I immediately heat the bathtub. And Ferris drags her into the bath without question. Mr. Ferris, it's not nice to grab a girl by the hair and drag her in. If your father sees you, he'll be upset.
"Stop it! Please don't!"
"Shut up! You've got to grow up! Yeah! Don! Don! Boom!
"Gear! Caw! Caw! Ow, ow, ow!
"Be quiet! You can't wash it! Uriah! Uriah!"
"Gah! Help! Help! I'm sorry!
Tremendous exclamations echoed through the house for a while. I leave the rest to Ferris. Ferris will not be harmed. There might be a risk that Ferris will kill him, though. After a while the woman changes her clothes and appears in the dining room crying, accompanied by Ferris.
"...I'll do what you say, but please don't do anything awful to me again. I'm really sorry. It hurts.
He holds the head of the apologizing woman from behind and rubs her head against the table. Mr. Ferris, I'm going to be gentle with you, because you'll die if I do it any more.
"I tore the clothes I was wearing when I bathed her, what should I do? It's filthy, so why don't you throw it away?"
"Permission granted. Ferris, let him go first."
A woman is roughly forced to sit in a chair. As she leaves, Ferris murmurs something in her ear. The woman's body shudders and her frightened expression becomes even more frightened. Ferris, what did you say?
"Now, to the rest of your question. What the hell are you doing here on land?"
For some reason, I started crying. Rico hit the desk with a bang! And then he slaps it. The woman shudders and looks at Riko with a trembling body. Rico shakes his chin at Ferris. Slowly Ferris moves closer to the woman. Both of them are expressionless, which makes the scene more than a little creepy and frightening.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no..."
"Yes, Ferris, that's enough. You can go back to your seat.
Ferris bows to me and returns to his seat. He doesn't look away from her for even a second as he returns to his seat. I told you to stop. I'm really scared.
I look past the crying, shaking woman.
"...what, the 217th? How many kids does Poseidon have? Are you still there? Oh, so the mother is human? Hmmm... 217th, so I've only met my father once. He fed you at least once. Well, he's well educated. Yeah? Singing and dancing? ...You were a priestess who sang and danced to the sea god? Well... I don't mind being an a**h*le. Did you want to see the land where your mother used to be? You ran away from home. Aren't the sea gods mad at us? Did you manipulate Esalahar to disappear? And? . ..with a succubus. Oh, that's s*xy. Oh, it's erotic. A lot of Esarahar... out of control and out of control. What are you doing? Pull yourself together! And the succubus didn't know it was out of control. So? ...that they will occupy the sea and fishing villages in Esalahar and we will occupy the land. That's too shallow. Yeah, they've done everything they can. All they do is eat and sleep!
The woman's pupils dilate as she listens to me. And then she just froze.
"By the way, are you sure you don't want to go back to the sea?"
"No, I'm fine. If you bathe once a day..."
"What are you going to do now? Esalahar can't outmaneuver you, can he? I thought you said you couldn't go home."
"That's... But I don't want to go back to the sea castle. There's no place for me there.
"No, you're a priestess, aren't you? Do your duty properly!
"The dancing is... fine, but the singing is... well, I don't like it, it's..."
"What song? Sing it for me."
"No! Absolutely not! People say my singing gives them the creeps! I don't want to sing!"
With a crash, Rico tapped the desk again. The woman gave up and began to sing, crying.
Singing? Well, it might be hard for a girl of her age. Dancing is a fist dance, isn't it? Indeed, it is important to make a fist in enka. But I still need more practice. This is just singing, but it doesn't bring out the flavor of enka.
You are a terrible singer. I'm not a good singer myself, but I sing like this.
I cough and start singing the 18th verse of my father's karaoke song.
"In the valley of the waves, two flowers of life are blooming side by side..."
"What is it? Now that's a creepy sound!
Peris and May enter the dining room at the same time. Rico and Ferris are frozen. Gon is stunned. The woman looks at me with her eyes wide open, and then suddenly starts to get down on her knees to me.
"Please let me call you master! It is the very song I was aiming for! Please pass it on to me!"
No, I was just imitating my father. Really? Was my father really that great?
"The path of the arts is a hard road. Are you willing to go to any lengths?"
"Hi! I'll follow you until the day I die!
I've got an apprentice. Well, for the time being, we'll keep her for a while and eventually let her become a priestess again.
We are now back in the transfer warding and have returned to the mansion in Krumfal territory. I am wondering about the fishing village. Agriculture has collapsed in Krumfal. The only industry in the territory now is fishing. The fishing industry is said to have been devastated. I couldn't just stand by and watch. Gon, Gon, Ferris and Ruara went to the town of Kailik, a fishing village about 20 kilometers away from the pavilion. Ruara can't fly, so Ferris carries her. Several times we hear Ruara's screams from behind us, but we pretend not to have heard them.
The town of Kairiq is a small city surrounded by stone walls. We told the gatekeeper that we wanted to speak to the man in charge of the town and asked him to show us around. He seemed to have a lot of distrust for the person in charge of this territory, judging from the way he was treated by him.
We soon found the mayor's mansion. Entering through the gate, one has a panoramic view of the town. The biggest building in the town is the mayor's mansion. The town is deserted and inactive. People seem to live in the town, but there are hardly any pedestrians. Soon we arrive at the mayor's house. The mayor comes out of the house, a man who looks like a half-fish, but his skin is covered with fish scales. He later told me that he was a member of a tribe of sea people.
"I am Marcel, chief of the Sea Peoples. Have you changed lords again? You must be in a lot of trouble.
Yes, it's been hard. This territory has been riddled with problems since the moment I arrived. I have to solve them one by one.
I hope so.
In the meantime, could you tell me about the situation in this town?
"I don't think talking to them is going to change what's going on right now.
But please.
"We are a people who go into the sea to fish. But for the past two months, we have not been able to go fishing. The reason is a fish called esarahal. They are abundant and when we go out to fish, they attack our boats and fishermen with their sharp teeth. In fact, several boats were sunk. Esalahar is edible, but it rots quickly and cannot be taken out. Somehow we have managed not to starve, but if this continues, it will be very difficult."
"So we just get rid of that esarahar?"
"It will be difficult, too, because there are so many of them. And that's not the only problem.
"And what do you mean?"
The farmers are starving because their land has been destroyed and they cannot produce any crops. We tried to provide them with our fish, but by the time it arrived, it was already rotten. Because of this, most of the farmers have turned into bandits and are attacking our villages and towns. Our village was attacked just the other day. To be honest, we don't trust the people very much.
"Okay. You've got a point. But we killed all the bandits. Maybe we killed most of the peasants. I'm talking to myself.
"Did you kill all the bandits?
"Yes, we took them all down."
"..."
"I know that the agriculture in this territory is in ruins. I know that the agriculture of this territory is in ruins, and if the fishing industry is also devastated, it will be the end of this territory. We must stop it at all costs."
"...The entire sea of towns and villages with sea people is occupied by Esalahar..."
Let me see what the situation is like first."
We headed out to the sea, guided by the chief.
"Wow, this is a terrible situation!
The sea was black. Esalahar has really taken over.
"With this many fish, if there were corals on the bottom of the sea, they would have been destroyed.
"The bottom here is rocky, so there is not much life. If you go offshore, you can catch an abundance of squid and other fish, but we can't go offshore in these conditions."
"Can you show me Esalahar?"
The chief pulls out a line from his pocket and throws the tip into the sea. Immediately a large Esarahal was caught with the end of the line in its mouth. It certainly has sharp teeth.
"May I try this fish?"
We went to a nearby fisherman's house to borrow a knife, and the chief handled the Esarahal with such skill that the sashimi was ready in no time. I tried it, and it was indeed delicious. I have a memory of this taste.
"Marcel," he said. Esalahar, maybe we can work something out?"
"You must be joking. If you could do such a thing, the sea people would be loyal to you forever.
"It can be done, you know. I have a plan to save the day.
I knew it myself. I knew I was talking about this with a pretty bad look on my face.