How to become a sea witch

As early as 06:30, the Jungle Bar opens on time.

Just as Rebecca took out the wine glasses that had been cleaned in advance from the cabinet, she turned her head and saw Bernice sitting in front of the counter at some point.

She crossed her fingers and put them on her chin, her face solemn: "A glass of pure milk,? No ice or sugar, thank you."

"Please wait."

Soon, Rebecca brought a glass of milk, put it in front of Bernice, tilted her head and looked at her for a while: "You just came back from Kamchatka, right? Why are you in a bad mood?"

"I'm thinking about one thing, why can't I make a decision." Bernice took a sip of milk, sighed deeply, and began to look in her pocket for change.

"You don't have to give it, just treat it as my invitation." Rebecca said, and took a plate of freshly cut sea urchin as a gift for the other party, "So, what makes you undecided? If you are willing to speak out, maybe I can help you think about it together."

Bernice hesitated for a moment, and asked: "If you received a gift from someone else, then you would definitely send one back to the place, so as not to owe favors, right?"

"Indeed." She nodded, and quickly added, "But it's not necessarily for repaying favors, it's just a reason for people who don't know well. If it's my good friend, then I It's more about making her happy."

Bernice licked the milk stains at the corner of her mouth, her eyes lit up: "Ah, yes! This is what I want to say. A person who had a conflict with you before... um, that is to say, suddenly gave you a gift Here it is, then one must be returned. In this case, what would you choose to give?"

"There have been conflicts." Rebecca tilted her head and tilted her head thinking while wiping her wine glass, her curly black hair fell from the brim of the hood of the red cloak and gently brushed her temples, "It depends on whether you want to talk to the other party or not." Let’s resume the relationship. If you want, you can send something commemorative, such as something related to the beautiful experiences you shared before.”

Bernice stopped biting the sea urchin after hearing her words, feeling that this method is absolutely not feasible, it would be like dancing wildly in Thiago's minefield, and she did it only because she was afraid that she would live too long.

So she put down the fork in her hand and shook her head seriously: "No, I have no such intention at all."

"It's easier if you don't plan to reconcile. Just send anything, as long as it's acceptable to you." Rebecca shrugged.

"But, I just don't know what to give."

Gifting a fish that lacks everything is trouble.It's too good that she doesn't have it, and it's too ordinary to take out.

Bernice drank the milk in the glass depressedly, propped her face with one hand: "I should have known that I shouldn't have wanted that thing. But...ah, damn it! It's so beautiful!"

It's shiny and delicate, and it will reflect the rainbow. The most important thing is that it's so shiny that she can't refuse it at all.

Mermaids are really cunning!

"Then it seems that this is a very suitable gift for you?" Rebecca was quite surprised.She knew that Bernice had a great passion for all kinds of gold and silver treasures, so a gift that could please her so much was definitely of great value.

She refilled the empty glass in front of Bernice with milk, and then asked tentatively: "If this is the case, have you ever thought that the other party may have prepared this gift very seriously, just to reconcile with you?" Woolen cloth?"

"Impossible!" Bernice vetoed the other party's conjecture without even thinking about it, her attitude was never firmer, "If this can be reconciled, I will just go to the sea and catch a turtle and kiss it for three thousand dollars. all over!"

There is no more poisonous oath than kissing one's former natural enemy, Bernice was sure.

Rebecca was stunned by her words: "It doesn't have to be like this, I just said it casually."

During the conversation, many new guests have already entered the bar one after another.

After greeting them briefly, Rebecca took out the laptop under the counter and handed it to Bernice, explaining quickly: "I'm sorry dear, Jack of Hearts and the others are not here today, I have to go and greet them myself. Guest. But if you still can't decide, I recommend you to try the human method, go to their Internet and refer to other people's suggestions, I wish you good luck."

Seeing Rebecca who was already busy between the ordering counter and the material area, Bernice picked up the computer and the cup of milk in front of her, and voluntarily gave up the position in front of the counter, and switched to a Sit down in a quiet corner.

To be honest, she is not very familiar with computer operations, and the functions she can use are limited to the most basic search and time.

Therefore, after staring at the bright screen and thinking for a while, but still did not come up with any satisfactory results, Bernice resigned to her fate and opened the search engine, and began to input keywords clumsily.

What kind of gift should I give in return, delete it.

Human world, delete.

Suitable as a gift, remove.

After going back and forth many times, Bernice still couldn't find any useful content.Just when she was about to log out of the page, her heart suddenly moved, and she tried to search with the keyword mermaid, wanting to find out what strange things about mermaids there are in this world.

After the search was confirmed, dozens of pages of entries popped up.

Bernice looked at them one by one curiously, and the sliding cursor accidentally clicked on a video link floating on the homepage.

Recalling when she first came to the new world, Bernice once firmly believed that the airplane was the greatest invention of mankind.

However, it turns out that her imagination is too poor. In front of the Internet that carries the vast universe, the charm of airplanes is not worth mentioning at all.

After experiencing a series of curiosity, doubts and confusion, Bernice finally reacted in the second half of the video.Obviously, what I clicked was a scientific research action film about "How Humans and Mermaids Communicate Harmoniously across Species".

After reading it, she immediately felt that the whole jellyfish had been sublimated, and it was already different from the inside out!

However, this video has nothing to do with gifts, it is simply meaningless.Do you want her to abduct a human girl to clean up and send Tiago to bed?

Ah, it seems like it's not impossible... I just don't know what he would like.

Just as she was thinking, she suddenly noticed a strange place on the screen.

At this time, Rebecca just came over with a glass of green tree juice, put the drink in front of the elf at the table next to Bernice, and looked sideways at Bernice who was meditating on the computer screen: "How is it? Look Anything interesting?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the bar door opened again.

Rebecca habitually turned her head and wanted to greet the person who came in to sit down, but she was slightly taken aback when she saw the person clearly.

"Indeed I saw it. But..." Bernice stared at the screen, her eyes were dull after receiving too much information, "Why do mermaids have two sparrows?"

As she spoke, she pushed the computer in the direction where Rebecca was standing, turned her head and was about to say something more, but saw that the other party was looking at her in horror, and even the wizards and elves around her also jumped at her. Step back and isolate her in a completely blank area.

The line of sight continued to shift, and Thiago, who just came in from the door, was standing silently behind her, looking slightly sideways at the computer screen, his platinum-blonde long hair slid down his shoulders, and the color was too similar to the sunlight outside the window, making him For a moment, Bernice couldn't tell whether it was the bright light or his hair that shone into her eyes.

But that's beside the point.

The point is, she actually fell down twice in the same place and in the same way!

Realizing that Tiago was looking at the freeze-frame picture on the computer screen, Bernie closed it forcefully without hesitation. At the same time, she wished that the computer in her hand could have some kind of self-explosion/device, as long as she pressed it, she and All witnesses to this unprecedented disaster died together.

The white-clothed young man in front of him still had a calm expression on his face, and his azure blue eyes, which were dazzled with light, looked at her without blinking, and said in a clear voice, "I didn't know you were still interested in mermaids."

... Is it too late to jump up and poke his eyes out now?

Or poke yourself blind.

As long as I can't see, danger can't come near me.

Bernice took a deep breath and tried her best to respond in a calm and composed manner: "Things are not what you imagined." Listen to me.

Thiago nodded cooperatively, and said to Rebecca with a smile: "A glass of sea salt water with ice, I'm in trouble."

"Ah, good... yes, no trouble, please wait a moment, Your Majesty." Rebecca hurriedly bent over and bowed to him, then quickly left, and quickly brought a glass of sea salt water with ice cubes floating in her hand.He walked around the square table, sat opposite Bernice, stirred the liquid in the glass with a straw, and when he looked up at her, there was a half-smile in his eyes.

Without giving the other party any chance to raise a death question, Bernice preemptively said: "Actually, it's all because I drank too much, and I knew I shouldn't drink milk. You may not have experienced it. Once drunk, , your whole body will be unconsciously out of your control, so it is easy to do something that goes against your conscious will..."

I don’t know if it’s because sea witches and mermaids have inherent insurmountable thinking differences or what, Bernice felt that she was clearly trying to explain (blindly) explain (break) why she clicked on this video, but when it came to Tia It was a completely different situation in Goliath.

Listening to Bernice's explanation, he picked up the glass to drink water in the middle of the action, and suddenly stopped, looking at the other party with some surprises and concluding: "So, you want to watch these when you're drunk?"

Bernice: "...I'm not, I don't."

"Then what were you looking at?"

"I……"

She hesitated for two seconds, and quickly chose the latter between "I was regarded as a perverted fish lover, so I must be punished and never be cleared" and "Be honest": "I just want to see what kind of It would be better for you to give the gift to Your Majesty, but in the end..."

"Why do you want to do that?" he asked.

Bernice found that Thiago sometimes looked at the key points of things really strangely, it was just a gift, why is it important?

"This is what it should be. No matter what, you should return a gift after receiving it, shouldn't you?" She simply changed the topic to the gift, trying to make the other party forget what she just discovered, "So, Is there anything you want, Your Majesty?"

Although he doesn't look like he's missing anything.

She felt that she was asking sincerely, but found that when she said the phrase "what do you want", the expression on the other party's face suddenly changed very subtly.

I can't tell whether it's because of the similarity in color between the two or other reasons, but every time Bernice and Tiago look at each other, they feel as if they are looking at the sky through the sea.

Those floating halos were too elusive, making it impossible for her to guess what the other party's true feelings were.

After a while, Thiago smiled slightly, and asked gently as if teasing: "Will you give it if I tell you?"

It took Bernice a little effort to swallow back the conditioned "Of course not", and instead expressed it in a more euphemistic way: "Tell me, if it's something I can do, then of course I will Do your best to do it."

But if she doesn't want to, then she has more than enough heart but not enough energy.

Thiago understood what she meant, and looked from her light green eyes to her slightly red fingertips because she pressed too hard on the table, shook his head slightly, and smiled lightly: "Forget about today." .”

"Eh?"

Does that mean I still have to owe it?

Numerous previous experiences told Bernice that defaulting in arrears means long nights and dreams, and it means being passive in the future.

So she pursed her lower lip, and began to tentatively guide the other party to just make any request.

"That's the case." Thiago considered for a few seconds, his eyes fell on the other party's exceptionally dark long hair, "Can I have a strand of your hair?"

"Hair?" Bernice was at a loss for a moment, and then became a little nervous, "Why do you want this kind of thing?"

This kind of thing that wants to be related to a specific creature, especially hair or scales and feathers, is generally not a good thing.Because this kind of item from others is often the best medium to cast a curse or make a contract.

But having said that, I also have the other party's scales in my hand, even if I really give Thiago's hair, it will be an equivalent exchange at best.

Nothing to lose.

However, if he really planned to use her hair to bind her with a curse or a contract from the beginning, then there is no need to exchange his scales, he obviously has other means.

So what the hell is he trying to do with his hair?

She looked at the young man in front of her puzzledly, and heard the other party reply: "Because it is related to you, so I want it. But if you find it inconvenient, it's okay."

"Ah, it's not inconvenient." Bernice finally picked up a strand of her long hair, and the green light on her fingertips condensed into a thin blade to cut it neatly, tied it with a strand of light and handed it to the other party. , "I just didn't expect that you would want this. In fact, you can choose other things, such as better and more useful ones."

"It's good enough." He held the strand of black hair and stroked it gently with his fingertips, as if he was treating a precious and fragile treasure, with a gentle smile on his brows and eyes, "Thank you."

So, the mermaid's thinking really cannot be understood by the devil.It's just a strand of hair, why does it look so genuinely happy?

Before she could finish thinking, Thiago suddenly changed the subject and said in a light and natural manner: "By the way, the setting of that film is obviously incorrect. Mermaids are like most creatures. , there is only one."

Bernice: "...Thank you for your popular science."

Thiago: "You're welcome, it's good to know more."

Who wants to understand such strange things! !What's so good about knowing it? !

She picked up the milk in her hand and drank it all in one breath, and soon felt that her entire vision was blurred into a ball.

In the next few days, Bernice didn't dare to come to the Jungle Bar again, lest she meet Tiago again, or be regarded as the object of constant attention and discussion by other creatures.

I don't know what's going on, but every time she happens to be doing something related to him, but it's not so positive, she will always be executed on the spot.

"Maybe it's just a coincidence." Rebecca tried to comfort her, "However, His Majesty has always had a good personality. Since he didn't say anything, doesn't it mean that this matter is over, and it doesn't matter."

"Agreed." The Cheshire cat walked slowly behind Bernice, raised its long gray tail on her shoulders, its smile was as weird as ever, and there was a look of narrowness in the eyes of the blue cat, "Actually, you can also try to go Think about the benefits, for example, your survival record has been refreshed again. So even if you die immediately, it is already a happy death in the Eastern human society."

Bernice paused for a few seconds, then slowly turned her head and stared at the other party with a pair of bright green pupils: "Thank you, congratulations."

After finishing speaking, she quickly grabbed the tip of the Cheshire cat's tail with her backhand and dragged it out of the swirling air.

The Cheshire cat meowed and screamed in horror and jumped up and down in the bar, stepping on those transparent and fragile tall glasses with its furry paws as if there was nothing to escape: "You know how hard it took me last time to get me Is your hair back to normal?! You furious jellyfish that doesn't grow any hair!"

"I don't know, but I will find out soon." Bernice said, raising a light net to completely envelop the Cheshire cat, leaving only a fluffy tail exposed.

The cat tied up by the five flowers was trying to die, but after finding that it was useless, it decided to use the final killing move.

"Meow——" He looked at Bernice pitifully, his gray tail wagging, and his big eyes full of obedience.

"Sorry, I don't have a heart." Bernice said blankly, and slapped the Cheshire Cat on the face.

The author has something to say: Bernice [Everything about human beings is really a lie. ]

Thiago [That's right, some things you have to try to know. ]

Bernice [You are wrong! ! ! ! ]