Elder brother's garrison

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"Ok?"

"This is just my personal curiosity... Even if you don't want to tell me, Miss Loki, it's fine—Miss Loki, what exactly brought you to the land?"

"..."

Loki silently looked at Whitebeard, then raised his left hand, looked at the ring on his ring finger, and finally slowly lowered his arm, letting out a soft sigh.

"……me?"

Zhang Tui's "I Opened a Restaurant in Fuyuki"

It is well known that the Holy Grail War is conducted in secret.

Ordinary people don't know about the Holy Grail War.

Therefore, Shiraishi had no access to the Holy Grail and no interest in it; he only wanted to quietly run a small restaurant with his little apprentice.

To make a living in this peaceful city of Fuyuki.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"So even if you're the King of Britain, you still have to wash dishes if you can't pay the bill!"

Shiraishi looked at the glutton in front of him with annoyance and said.

P.S.: This is a word generator, lots of content, so read with confidence.

Chapter 1629 Ella's Parents

Loki's voice was somewhat ethereal, tinged with a sense of relief.

Hear this.

Little White thought Loki was finally about to say something, so she quickly focused her attention, pricked up her ears, and waited intently for Loki to say next.

However, Loki did not speak first.

Loki first raised his arm towards Whitebeard, then gently rolled up the sleeve of his left arm.

A section of snow-white arm, resembling a lotus root, was thus revealed to Xiaobai's eyes.

"...Huh?" Little White didn't quite understand the meaning behind Loki's behavior. "Miss Loki, why did you suddenly roll up your sleeves...?"

"Guest, look carefully."

Loki, still with his sleeves rolled up, gently reminded Whitey.

"Ah? Um..."

After hearing Loki's words, Little White subconsciously focused his gaze on Loki's bare arm and began to observe it.

Loki is the kind of girl who is quite slender, with a light and delicate figure, which is especially evident in her arms.

Loki's exposed arms were flawless, slender, and supple. On his wrists, healthy veins intertwined, their traces faintly visible beneath the skin.

Arms are not a sensitive part of a girl's body, but Loki's arms are indeed very pleasing to the eye. They are so soft and tender that they don't look like a maid's arms at all, but rather like the arms of a rich young lady who lives a life of luxury.

As Xiaobai pondered, his gaze slowly moved up from Loki's wrist, gradually settling on the back of Loki's elbow.

Ok?

Just now.

Xiao Bai's gaze faltered slightly.

On Loki's elbow, there were several very tiny needle marks that would be impossible to spot without close inspection.

These pinhole marks, like abrupt ink spots on white paper, are subtle, but once noticed, they utterly ruin the appearance of Loki's flawless arm.

“Miss Loki, what are these pinholes…” Little White looked up and asked Loki curiously.

"The guest must have met the young lady and the head of the family underground, right?" Loki lowered his arm, slowly smoothed down his rolled-up sleeves, and asked Little White.

"...Yes, I've met him before."

"Given your status, and the relationship between you and Miss, she must have taken you there once, right?"

Loki asked calmly.

"Where? Where is that place..." Just as Little White was about to ask Loki, he suddenly paused, a look of realization flashing across his face.

Could Loki be referring to the manufacturing room for the nerve agent when he says "there"?

Ella did indeed show Xiaobai the manufacturing room of the nerve potion, and she also enthusiastically told Xiaobai some secrets about the nerve potion.

For example... nerve potions are the most important secret of the Ella family. Nerve potions can only be made on the seabed near the ocean, and due to the unique techniques and scarcity of materials, the production of nerve potions is extremely low. The raw material for nerve potions is the blood of extremely rare high-level deep-sea creatures, etc...

Ok?

and many more.

Blood of advanced deep-sea creatures...

Thinking of this, Xiaobai raised his head in surprise and looked at Loki in front of him.

"Miss Loki, could those needle marks on your arm be...?"

“These are traces from regular blood draws,” Loki said calmly to Little White. “Just as you think, my blood is one of the main ingredients in the nerve potion.”

"...This...uh." Little White was a little confused. She glanced at Loki's arm, which was covered by his sleeve, and stared blankly for a while before finally raising her head and looking at Loki with a dazed expression. "...Miss Loki..."

"What is it?" Loki asked.

"Does it hurt?" Xiaobai asked.

“…” Loki looked at the earnest and concerned expression on Little White’s face, then lowered his head. “…It doesn’t hurt.”

"Oh……"

"Moreover, the intervals between blood draws are not long, and each time only a small amount is taken, so it won't affect my daily activities. Therefore, if you think of this as regular blood donation in human society, there shouldn't be any problem." Loki explained to Whitey, seeing that the worry on Whitey's face had not yet faded.

"Oh...I see..." Upon hearing the words "regular blood donation," Xiaobai immediately felt a little relieved.

“The main ingredient of the nerve agent is a high-level deep-sea creature. Generally speaking, it should be at least close to the life level of the Deep Sea Dean,” Loki said to White. “If we rely entirely on capturing them at sea, it is difficult and unstable for humans to obtain blood from such creatures, which is not conducive to the mass production of the nerve agent. Therefore, the laboratory needs me to provide some Deep Sea Dean blood regularly.”

“…I see…” Little White nodded, then looked seriously at Loki’s calm face, thought for a moment, and cautiously asked, “Then… so, Miss Loki, are you… actually someone the Ella family captured from the sea and brought ashore to provide you with deep-sea blood regularly?”

If Loki was not acting voluntarily, but was passively captured by the Ella family and brought to the shore, then that might explain why she left the Deepsea Dragon without saying goodbye.

but……

If that's the case, then Loki's current attitude is really a bit strange to Xiaobai.

From the brief interactions between Loki and Ella, as well as Ella's grandfather, it's clear that Loki's relationship with Ella and his relationship with Ella's grandfather are not bad.

At least in the eyes of Ella and her grandfather, Loki should be a reliable deep-sea maid whom they can entrust with their trust.

But Loki was captured by the Ella family and brought to the surface to regularly supply their laboratory with deep-sea blood—he was a Deepsea Dean! In other words, he was a prisoner. Deepsea Deans are all proud and arrogant; none of them could tolerate being treated like that. So how could the Ella family have such a good relationship with Loki…

Seemingly sensing the question in Little White's heart, Loki closed his eyes, thought for a moment, and then spoke to Little White.

"What the guest said is only half right."

Which half?

“The first half.” Loki paused for a moment, then slowly spoke to Whitebeard, “Initially, I was indeed captured and brought ashore as a provider of high-level deep-sea blood, but things were a little different later on.”

"Oh..." Little White nodded, his big eyes blinking as he waited for Loki's explanation.

Seeing the expectant look on Little White's face, Loki looked helplessly at the sea at the end of the pebble beach.

"...If you don't mind, I can take ten minutes to explain it to you."

"Really!" Xiaobai quickly pulled out a folding chair from the ship's equipment space, spread it on the ground, and sat down properly on the folding chair as if in class, looking at Loki with seriousness and anticipation, waiting for Loki to speak.

This enthusiasm.

That attitude.

All that's missing is a slice of watermelon in his hand.

Loki silently looked at Little White and sighed softly.

"...I came to land before Miss was even born."

Loki spoke to Little White.

"Huh? Ella?" Xiaobai asked curiously. "I remember Deepsea Dragon said that Loki, you've been missing at sea for over ten years, right?"

“Miss is only nineteen years old this year.” Loki said to Little White. “I don’t know about Long Xiang’s situation, but the number of interactions between the Deans of the Deep Sea is calculated in years. She probably only realized I was missing four or five years after I left. As for the more than ten years she mentioned, it should be counted from when she started looking for me.”

"Uh... I see." Little White nodded, signaling Loki to continue.

“About twenty years ago, because I was getting a little bored at sea, I left my relatively safe deep-sea home, which was safer for the Deep Sea Dean, and came to a safer area closer to human homes,” Loki said to Whitebeard.

"...Didn't Yamato-neechan say that you veteran deep-sea deans wouldn't easily leave your deep-sea territory?"

“I am not the ancient Dean of the Deep Sea,” Loki said.

"Oh...I see." Xiaobai nodded. "Did Miss Loki encounter a fleet of ship girls in safe waters later?"

“Hmm.” Loki nodded. “Back then, I was not as experienced as the veteran Abyssal Dean in terms of ship equipment strength, combat skills, or even target acquisition ability. Not long after I arrived at that sea, I encountered a well-trained fleet of ship girls. After a day and a night of continuous fighting, I was exhausted and inadvertently fell into their trap, which they had set up in advance, and was defeated by them.”

When Loki said this, his expression didn't show much regret; he remained calm and composed, as if she wasn't talking about his past, but about someone else with the same name.

"After losing my ability to fight, I thought I was going to be sunk on the spot by the ship girl fleet," Loki said. "However... soon I found that after the ship girls defeated me, they did not continue to fire on me while I was incapacitated. Instead, after a heated discussion, they decided on some things, then put me in shackles and took me ashore."

"...What did they discuss?"

Xiaobai was curious.

"I couldn't understand human language at that time."

Loki replied.

"Uh...right."

Xiao Bai shrank his neck.

"I only found out afterward that the safe sea area I went to twenty years ago was actually a private resort. At that time, a high-ranking couple was vacationing on a nearby island with many powerful ship girls as escorts. They only launched an attack after sensing my aura as the Dean of the Deep Sea."

Loki said.

“…Uh.” Little White looked at Loki with a helpless expression. “Miss Loki, you…you really are quite unlucky.”

Loki closed his eyes, but didn't offer any explanation.

“Speaking of which, you should have guessed by now who that couple is,” Loki said to Little White.

"Hmm." Xiaobai nodded. "That couple who went on vacation to the island, if I'm not mistaken, should be Ella's parents, right?"

“…Exactly.”

Chapter 1630 The Greatness of Humanity

"Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever met Ella's mom and dad even once," Little White said to Loki.

“The young mistress and the young patriarch do not have the talent to use runic languages, so they represent the family in other cities to conduct research on runic languages ​​and rarely come back,” Loki said.

“Oh…no wonder.” Little White nodded. “So, Miss Loki, you mean that twenty years ago, you just happened to run into Ella’s parents who were vacationing on an island?”

“Exactly.” Loki nodded.

"Oh haha."

“Because of the young mistress and the young master, the ship girls guarding them knew something about the nerve agent and the difficulty of obtaining high-level deep-sea blood. So when they saw that I, as the head of the deep-sea academy, was confused and weak, they didn’t kill me. Instead, they tried to capture me and take me to the island for the young mistress and the young master to deal with.” Loki paused here. “So… at that time, I had already lost my ability to move, so their ship girls dragged me ashore, handcuffed and shackled me, locked me in iron bars, and sent me to the young mistress and the young master.”

"...And then?" Xiaobai listened intently.

“Although the young mistress and the young patriarch do not possess the talent to use runic languages, as heirs to the family, they are still extremely concerned about the family's construction and development, and of course, they are aware of the rarity of high-level deep-sea blood,” Loki said. “After I was defeated by the ship girls and brought ashore, the young mistress and the young patriarch were very happy to see me. They did not harm me, but instead kept me locked in the iron bars, providing me with food and drink regularly, and finally waiting to take me with them when they left the island.”

"...They didn't continue to hurt you, did they?" Xiaobai asked.

“No.” Loki shook his head. “The young mistress and the young master were kind to everyone. Although they initially treated me as a mobile blood bank for the Deep Sea Blood, they did not bully me because of it. Because I was naked from fighting with the ship girls, the young mistress instructed the ship girls to give me clothes that fit me. They would also regularly bring me food and water every day. When the sun was scorching, they would put a parasol over the iron railing. Occasionally, the young mistress and the young master would come to the iron railing to visit me and speak to me in a language that I could not understand at the time with gentle expressions.”

"Oh, oh..." Xiaobai nodded.

"However, because of my situation at the time, I was only thinking about being captured by humans. Out of the hostility of blood ties, as well as the hatred and anger in my chest, whenever they appeared in front of the iron bars where I was imprisoned, I tried to attack them with my body that had lost its ship equipment power."

Loki said.

“…Hmm.” Xiaobai scratched his head. “It’s…a normal reaction.”

The deep-sea amphibious ships' hostility towards humanity is not something that disappears so easily.

Moreover, according to Loki, at that time she was still a rather ignorant abyssal dean, who had not yet fully awakened her intelligence. Attacking humans and ship girls did not require thought; for her, it was almost an instinctive behavior.

What happened next...?