Miss Zashiki

If Fu Xiaoyue remembered correctly, in his portrait on the arrest warrant, he was wearing red clothes.

That was when she first came to this world. The clothes she wore on this body looked similar to the original skin of Zashiki Doji in the game.She still remembered that in that portrait, even the little red bow tied on the front of the chest was drawn in detail.

——This guy really made it clear!

Realizing almost instantly that the other party probably recognized his identity as the wanted criminal, Fu Xiaoyue went blank for three seconds, then lowered his head abruptly as if fleeing, avoiding the other party's gaze.

——Don't be afraid, don't be cowardly!According to the pharmacist, the guy on the opposite side is dead!So what if you recognize it?What can he do to me! ?

After making psychological hints for a long time, Fu Xiaoyue silently made up a resolution - if the other party denounces her to the two princes in the next second, she must not be weak-legged or show timidity, and must act in a masterly manner, calm and calm Standing up gracefully and calmly, with a disdainful look and a proud demeanor, he smiled evilly at the mortals present:

"That's right, it's my servant. Didn't you expect there to be such a big monster in the world?"

The drug seller at the side put down the tea cup he was holding on to, and when he retracted his hand, he brushed her trembling hands to the desk a few times calmly.

This room, Fu Xiaoyue was concentrating all his attention on the opposite party, waiting for the other party to speak with tense nerves, without noticing his movements at all.

"Your Highness..."

--coming!

Immediately after taking a deep breath, Fu Xiaoyue's eyes were filled with the determination of a strong man breaking his wrist, and the corners of his mouth were tightened, listening to the soft and smiling voice, he continued:

"Since His Highness is traveling this time to find a favorite princess, does His Highness have any preference criteria in his heart?"

——what?

Suddenly, without warning, he was transferred to the set of some kind of strange script. Fu Xiaoyue didn't even hear Prince Yu's answer, and he was stunned for a long time before he barely released himself from the fully armed state.

She quietly raised her eyes and glanced at the opposite side again, and saw that the young man named Kuroba Akito was smiling at Yan Yan in the direction of the chairman's seat, and did not even glance at her.

——What, why doesn't it seem like you intend to report on her?

Doubting himself inexplicably for a while, Fu Xiaoyue's tinnitus caused by excessive nervousness gradually subsided.Then, she immediately discovered that the two noble princes on the chair had started to quarrel again at some point.

"Oh? It turns out that Ya Yidian also wants to find a bride—you can say it? I've never seen such a brazen person! It's really the first time I've seen it in my life!"

"Since Yu Er wants to start a family, how can I be willing to be your successor—hehe, do you think I don't know what my father said the day before yesterday, that the first person to start a family will be the heir apparent immediately? You little mentally handicapped person has a good idea."

Because she was still a little bit afraid, at this moment, Fu Xiaoyue was not even interested in complaining when she heard the two sides' unyielding confrontation, but she found it very strange that:

Looking for a bride...why go to the "Sea of ​​Demons"?It can't be that the taste is strange, and you want to marry a monster...

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After the banquet on the first day on board, Fu Xiaoyue secretly worried for a few days, but everything was calm.

After scaring her severely at the banquet, Kuroba Akito never behaved abnormally again, and even sent her a few sets of clothes that fit her—all red.

Later, she even began to wonder if she was oversensitive and overreacting—maybe that sentence was really just a well-intentioned suggestion?

It wasn't until one night, nearly six or seven days later, that she was awakened from her deep sleep by a deep, majestic bell without warning, and the atmosphere on the entire ship, which had been so peaceful and quiet for several days, was finally broken.

It was not the first time Fu Xiaoyue heard that bell.In fact, since boarding the ship, the sailors would ring the thick bell in the middle of the deck every morning—probably something similar to a wake-up bell.

But this night, the moment she opened her eyes, she quickly realized that it was definitely not the time to get up in the morning.

--What happened?

These days, she has been secretly harboring some inexplicable and intuitive sense of nervousness, and at this moment, she rolled out of the bed without any hesitation, quickly put on her clothes and went out.

The rooms of several of them are arranged next to each other, and they can get together quickly at this time.Fu Xiaoyue saw that there were not many people there, heaved a sigh of relief, and then moved towards the space in the middle of the deck.

The chaotic footsteps along the way, all kinds of exclamations that were hard to discern, all indicated that something unexpected must have happened on this boat.When we got to the middle of the deck, the whole air was filled with an unspeakable tension.

The two princes, Yayi and Yuer, had already arrived at the scene early, and after listening to the reports from the people around them, their faces were gloomy.

——Someone deliberately placed a magnetic block under the pointing compass, disrupting the direction of travel of the entire ship.

"According to the plan, the land should have been visible three quarters of an hour ago, but the surrounding fog seemed to have no boundaries. I sent someone to check the compass urgently, only to find that the situation was wrong." The captain looked nervous and panicked, Sweating all over his forehead: "Your Highness! If nothing unexpected, the place we are in now is probably the legendary 'Sea of ​​Monsters'!"

Hearing this yesterday, Fu Xiao hurriedly looked towards the sea outside the deck, but he couldn't see anything clearly, and he wasn't sure whether it was the night or the thick fog.

It turns out that this is the "Sea of ​​Demons".

well?etc--

After the compass was disturbed, did the ship arrive at the Sea of ​​Demons?

Subconsciously, Fu Xiaoyue whispered uncertainly: "This ship, uh, isn't it supposed to sail here?"

All the sailors were extremely sensitive to this place. Hearing her question, some people shouted excitedly: "Who would want to come to such a ghostly place!?"

——It makes sense.

While Fu Xiaoyue silently agreed in his heart, he felt that the tone of this sentence seemed familiar.

"But......"

But she clearly remembered that the medicine seller said at that time that this ship "will go" to the Sea of ​​Demons.Could it be that he knew in advance that someone on board would tamper with the compass?

Who would that be?

Yayi pondered for a moment and said: "Since the daytime sailing is correct, it means that the perpetrator took action shortly before night—who has been close to the compass before?"

"Several sailors on watch at night have been guarding this area and have never left. Before dinner, when they checked the compass for the last time, they did not find any abnormality. After that, the two Highnesses were here... There was a little dispute; afterwards, Yakuro-sama stayed on the edge of this deck for a while, but did not get close to the compass; and, Akido-sama once walked by here, and he said that he wanted to go to the other side of the deck to see the scenery—the rest There is no one waiting anymore, and I have been nearby."

Hearing these names, Fu Xiaoyue's first suspicion was of course Kuroba Akito.From the very first day they met, this guy seemed suspicious to her.Moreover, she found that the pair of Heiyu brothers were not present yet.

Thinking about it this way, a warm and familiar voice came from behind him: "Ah, have you reached the Sea of ​​Demons yet? Bi Xiaosheng thought faster."

Turning around, I saw two silver-haired figures, one tall and one short, slowly approaching from the corridor. Unlike the chaos of the crowd, the two of them were very calm.

Hearing the words just now, Yayi's eyebrows frowned, and Yuji's face sank instantly, and he shouted: "Akito! What nonsense are you talking about!?"

"Well, Your Highness doesn't need to look at me like this, although I really want to make trouble..." Stopping at the end of the corridor and not approaching any further, the young man in a scholar's uniform tilted his head slightly. The exposed corner of the mouth curled up with an inexplicable arc, "However, before Xiaosheng acted, someone else made the move first. It's a pity."

——This guy really has a problem!

Fu Xiaoyue secretly raised his breath in his heart, his original words were not just accidental.

——But, it wasn’t the compass he disturbed?

For the sake of this, there should be no need to lie. Fu Xiaoyue personally tends to believe what Akito Kuroba said - but if it wasn't him, who else could it be?Among the others, one of these panicked faces was fake?

The two princes have quarreled here... Since this trip is Yuji's plan, he shouldn't commit suicide, right?Is that Yaxia's hand?Deliberately trying to trick my younger brother—but if that's the case, he himself is also on the boat, and it is too far-fetched to harm others and himself.

The captain and the sailors...these people have always been the most afraid of the so-called strange stories in the sea area. Even if they want to conspire, they probably won't adopt this method, right?

——Then there will only be a drug seller left.

Fu Xiao went all the way through the investigation yesterday, and was almost amused by the final conclusion. Suddenly, he secretly glanced at the drug seller beside him a little embarrassedly—fortunately, he just thought about it, and he would definitely receive tons of ridicule if he said it.

However, looking at the past, he saw that his gaze was not on the people on the deck at all, but was staring at the thick fog outside without blinking. There was an inexplicable focus in his eyes, as if he was watching or waiting for something.

Touching that subtle expression, Fu Xiaoyue was stunned for a moment, and then felt his heart skip a beat, a thought popped up without warning.

if--

If it was really made by a drug dealer——

So what is he thinking, what is he trying to do?

——By the way, he said that he wanted to go to Rose Island.

Fu Xiaoyue looked up at him in a daze, and was stunned by a series of thoughts subconsciously popping up in his heart for a moment——

Is it possible that from the very beginning, she completely reversed all the logical causal sequences.

Is it possible that it’s not a mess of “because this ship will go to the Sea of ​​Demons, so he’s going to Rose Island”, but—just because he wants to go to Qiangwei Island, he deliberately leads this ship to the Sea of ​​Demons. ocean.

Is it possible that in his plan, he even deliberately failed to pass the luthier's test—or at least prevented others from passing the test—and then he could use this to go to Rose Island.

"Those who go to Qiangwei Island will never return to this world."

Fu Xiaoyue remembered what he said at the time.

So—the people on the boat will not live to return to the shore——

Is it possible? What this sentence means is that he has already arranged a plan to send these people to death.

She stared at him so stupidly, not sure how long she stared at him, the other party finally seemed to notice something, looked back from the thick fog outside, lowered his eyes to meet her gaze -

That kind of cold background, which is clearly familiar, actually gave her a bit of chill in her heart for the first time.

Looking at those calm eyes that were no different from those in the past, Fu Xiaoyue inexplicably had a very strange thought in his heart - this drug seller...is there something wrong with this drug seller?

Under the excessive impact, she even began to feel the nerves in her head throbbing and throbbing.

In the next second, she watched the corners of the other party's mouth with lavender curves slowly open slightly, and the cool voice floated quietly in the night wind: "Here we come."

what?

As if responding to her doubts, the crowd behind them also suddenly exclaimed: "There is something in the fog! Something is coming! It must be that one! The legendary luthier who helped guide the way!"

——Is there really a demon luthier?

Fu Xiaoyue tried her best to look outside in a helpless manner, and she really saw a vague human figure coming towards this side—although it was strange why the demon luthier was in such a place, she still recovered from her previous sluggish mental state. Feeling more excited, I looked at the figure approaching with some expectation.

However, as the outline of the opponent's body gradually became clear, Fu Xiaoyue began to feel more and more weird.I'm not sure if it's her illusion, but this "demon luthier" seems to be a little "round"...

With the exclamation on the deck, the figure finally showed the whole picture: the long fish tail hanging under the robe, the short and stocky torso, holding a pipa in his hand, and then up—two staring round The dead fish eyes, two drifting "fish whiskers", two plump and everted fish lips - what a genuine fish head.

Fu Xiaoyue: "..."

For a while, she couldn't tell which was more painful, her head or her eyes.