novelraw Chapter 261: Heliana
Chapter 261: Heliana
Arinur, freed from the restraint of Weaver by Fisher, shrank in the corner of the room. With a tear in the corner of her eye, she cast a glance at Fisher, who stood by the window evaluating the broken machine, and cursed him in a low voice. She clearly felt Fisher did this on purpose.
To think a human would do such a thing to a demi-human... truly a pervert.
At this moment, the maid outfit on her body was cut with obvious gaps by the threads, exposing the milk-like skin and beige underwear suspenders inside. There were so many gaps that no matter how she tried to cover them with her hands, it was impossible to cover them completely. Instead, it even revealed a bit of a pretending-to-refuse-while-welcoming implication. At the same time, the short tail behind her also curled up vigilantly, just like an antenna sensing danger.
"Arinur, put on my clothes first..."
Seeing this, Blair had no choice but to helplessly take off his barista attire and put it on Arinur. But as the swallow-tailed coat was taken off, the tail behind him with its tip burned bald became extremely conspicuous. It looked just like a corncob with its top half eaten, appearing quite comical.
"Hear that, Fisher? She said you're an old pervert who can't walk when seeing a demi-human girl..."
"Shut up."
Fisher didn't look at their situation to avoid embarrassing them. However, Eimhart by his ear acted like a fly buzzing around, adding quite a few modifiers to Arinur's original words. It seemed only in this way could that young girl's evaluation better match the evil image of Fisher in his heart.
At this time, the damaged mechanical core by the window had already been hollowed out from the instrument by Fisher. He carefully evaluated the core component in his hand that had already lost its original luster. He only saw that the originally precise parts inside were completely burned by the released electrical arcs. Besides a pile of pitch-black carbide, he couldn't find anything.
According to Blair, within the Snow Cloud Commandos, they normally called this type of device [Wisdom Machine]. The reason was that this machine was like a sentient relic; it could conduct simple conversations with them and execute corresponding missions according to their instructions.Although extremely practical, its corresponding price was also not cheap. Even within the entire agency, there were only a few. To bring this chunk of True Ice back to Mya, the Snow Cloud Commandos could be considered to have bled heavily. In the end, before the mission even started, a scouting Wisdom Machine was blown up by Fisher. This made Blair already start considering how to write the report when he got back.
But the equipment damage was already an established fact. Focusing on the current mission was of the utmost importance.
Thinking of this, Blair looked at Fisher and cut into the topic of wanting to reach a cooperation with the Iceberg Queen.
"The Phoenix Knights of the Sardin Matriarchy secretly stayed somewhere on the island long before you landed. The Nazarene Development Company also only arrived here yesterday... The equipment we brought can't deal with the people from Naris and the Sardin Matriarchy at the same time. Therefore, we need you to stay on the island and have the Phoenix Knights focus their gaze on you."
Fisher cast a glance at him, shook his head, and said.
"We have absolutely no need to take the risk of agreeing to start a war with the knights of the Sardin Matriarchy. The way I see it, an ad-hoc dispatched agent team like yours probably also doesn't have the authority to promise cooperation terms to the Iceberg Queen on behalf of Mya..."
Although Fisher himself was extremely interested in both the Cloud Cat-kin and those machines from the Completion Handbook, right now he wasn't making decisions solely for himself. Once he agreed to their cooperation request, what would be wagered was the safety of the Iceberg Queen. To them, there was only harm and no benefit. Fisher couldn't do this.
Although Blair was very handsome on the outside, and coupled with his fluffy ears it was easy to give people a gentle, harmless-to-people-and-animals image, one definitely shouldn't be fooled by such an appearance. His temper was as hot as the cigarette butt that lit his tail.
"Fuck, I shouldn't have discussed this with you; you completely don't understand the situation! We have to wait for Alajina to return. If she can still return, she will definitely agree to the terms of cooperation, and she also knows that the Phoenix Knights who came will absolutely not let her leave!"
"I'll only tell you once, just once! Listen up, the commander of the Phoenix Knights who came to Patlusion Island this time is none other than Alajina's own elder sister!"
Own elder sister?
Right, he seemed to have heard Alajina say before that her mother was a feudal tyrant who frequently abducted decent men. Besides Alajina, she should have given birth to other offspring. It was just that after she gave birth to the children, she also seemed to quickly lose interest in those men whose bodies she toyed with... except for Alajina's father.
"It's Heliana... Heliana Hammond! Fisher, I have to rush to Alajina's side right now. She, Pakhz, and the rest are very likely in danger!"
At this time, Aoxi, who was sitting on the bed, stood up with a slight change in expression. This was the first time Fisher had seen the expression on her face change so drastically, as if that name had awakened dusty memories in her mind.
Clearly, Aoxi had an extremely profound impression of this elder sister of Alajina's.
After hearing Aoxi's words, Blair nodded and fished out a cigarette of an unknown Northern Border brand from his coat. But very quickly, he seemed to think of something; his tail, whose fur was burned off by the high temperature of the cigarette behind him, twitched, and he stuffed the cigarette back into his coat.
"Right, exactly, it's Heliana. Back then, when Alajina launched the rebellion to murder her own mother, she happened to be heading to the Co-Ruler's capital to be knighted as a Phoenix Knight. I can't clearly say whether her leaving the Hammond Fiefdom back then was a good thing or a bad thing for your captain. But unquestionably, the two of them absolutely deeply hate each other."
"Heliana is ten times more brutal than her mother, and the men she's toyed with outnumber your fingers and toes combined... If there's any shining point on her, it can only be that she highly values the glory of the Hammond family. Hah, a knight elder sister who wants to sweep away the family's disgrace, and a pirate younger sister who wants to settle scores with the Hammond remnants. Doesn't it sound very interesting?"
"The reason I said our cooperation is a win-win is because Alajina needs to settle accounts with her elder sister, and definitely doesn't hope the damned Naris people will interfere... don't misunderstand, I mean that group of completely scum from the Development Company, not you. Similarly, we only prepared equipment to deal with the Naris people, and don't have time to deal with the people from the Sardin Matriarchy anymore."
"Telling you this now is to communicate with you in advance, so we can arrange the timing of our actions. If you truly love Alajina, you should tell her the current situation and let her decide what exactly to do... unless you want her to die."
Speaking to the end, Blair cast a pointed glance at Aoxi. He was unsure of Fisher's attitude in his heart.
In case this damned Naris paramour truly got together with Alajina's Second Mate and disregarded her life or death... this would simply be as ridiculous as a dramatic plot staged in an ethical opera.
Although Fisher felt the Snow Cloud Commandos were not reliable, no matter what, reminding Alajina to pay attention to safety was always right. Thus, he looked at Aoxi beside him and said.
"Aoxi, go find Alajina, tell her the situation here, and ensure her safety."
Aoxi nodded and hurriedly ran towards the doorway, deeply afraid that Heliana would find Alajina a step ahead.
Although she did harbor a tiny bit of complaint towards Alajina in her heart, she was always Alajina's most loyal guard, and always viewed Alajina's safety as more important than her own life. These two did not contradict each other.
It wasn't until Aoxi reached the doorway that she suddenly thought of something and turned back to look at Fisher in the room.
She opened her mouth, and only after a second did she softly exhort him.
"Fisher, you have to be careful yourself too."
After saying that, she walked out of the room without looking back, rapidly charging downstairs.
The room door was suddenly closed. But both Blair's and his sister Arinur's expressions were somewhat peculiar, as if they had witnessed a vivid drama of infidelity from VIP seats.
The silence didn't last long. The cloaked Arinur turned her face slightly and spat softly.
"Scumbag."
"Scum... hey hey hey, don't get physical, ouch ouch ouch."
Eimhart also wanted to curse a sentence, but before he could open his mouth, his body was pinched by Fisher again. The pain made him hurriedly beg for mercy.
At the exact same time, on the most bustling street of Patlusion Island, inside a brothel with a deep blue flag hanging at the entrance. Even though it was daytime, the atmosphere in the dimly lit hall within was gloomy, dark like a lake covered in ice.
In the traditional legends of the Northern Border, beneath lakes covered in ice in the wilderness, nameless monsters generally lived. They specialized in hiding in the dark to drag pitiful passersby down into the cold lake water and divide and eat them...
It was unknown whether this brothel catering to Northern Border guests drew inspiration from the legendary mythological stories by arranging the rooms like this. But the boys working here were not as hideous as demons; they possessed the most lovable appearances and the most innocent expressions... It was just that it was hard to say whether their venomous hearts greedy for wealth and attention could rival those non-existent demons.
But today, this group of "demons" faced the most difficult challenge in their employment history.
In the hall of the shop, two tall figures wearing armor entered from the main entrance and walked towards the room deep within the second floor.
Under the dim lighting, the armor on their bodies flickering with silver light appeared so dazzling. It caused the boys on both sides of the path to unavoidably look towards them, attempting to use their gazes to entice these heroic matriarchy knights to draw near and enjoy themselves together.
But clearly, they didn't have such leisure right now.
The figures of these two were both extremely tall, surprisingly much taller than men from other countries. Their shoulders and backs accentuated by the armor were broad. The milky-white cloaks behind them split into two sections from the middle, fluttering in mid-air like the backwards-spread wings of a Phoenix.
Various characteristics proved the identities of these two. They were Phoenix Knights from the Sardin Matriarchy.
The two didn't wear helmets. They merely used their left hand to single-handedly support the mithril helmet resembling a bird's head and placed it under their chest. Meeting the surrounding gazes, whether intoxicated or reverent, they drew closer and closer to the room deep within the second floor. The passionate sounds of contact within the room also became increasingly obvious.
The sounds in the room did not come from a single person. The undulating sounds were like a symphony being performed in an elegant opera hall, and also like artillery fire that would sound on an intensely battling battlefield. But no matter how one used these vocabulary words to describe the sounds emitted by human bodies, it didn't seem excessive, because the atmosphere inside would only be a hundred times more scorching than what was heard outside.
The two Phoenix Knights didn't rashly enter, but rather stopped at the doorway. One of them swallowed a mouthful of saliva, raised her palm covered in armor, and placed it on the door.
"Knock knock..."
Deeply afraid that the people fiercely battling inside wouldn't hear, that knight knocked forcefully on the door. But after waiting for several seconds, the "symphony" inside grew louder and louder, yet no sound of someone responding to the knock ever came.
Just as that knight extended her hand again preparing to knock once more, the high-pitched sounds inside reached their peak, and then very quickly came to an abrupt end. Like the end of a song, only a bit of ambiguous echo remained.
But the next second, a somewhat stern female voice rang out forcefully, tearing that ambiguous atmosphere apart alive, leaking out gusts of bone-piercing cold wind from the Northern Border towards the listeners.
"Come in."
"Yes."
The two knights gently reached out and pushed open the door before them, revealing the chaotic interior of the room.
On the floor, on the sofa, on the table, working boys lying without a single shred of clothing were everywhere. A bizarre odor permeated the entire room, to the degree that just inhaling a breath would make one feel chest tightness.
Right in the center of the room, a robust woman with a cigarette dangling from her mouth sat on a circular soft bed.
In the dim shadows of the room, the silhouette of that woman looked more like a giant bear draped in frost and snow rather than a human. She took a light puff of the cigarette and looked at the two before her. Behind her, quite a few boys lay prostrate on her back, feeling her dangerous, berserk, yet alluring aura.
"...What is it?"
"Heliana, this morning, the Iceberg Queen landed on the island."
"..."
The woman on the bed didn't reply, but the speed at which the cigarette in her mouth burned abruptly more than doubled. As her breathing gradually grew heavier, the woman named "Heliana" shuddered and stood up, simultaneously throwing off the boys behind her.
Heliana's height of up to two meters and twenty centimeters was quite oppressive. But the two matriarchy knights could only see the cigarette burning before her mouth, that head of snow-white long hair, and that pair of azure irises identical to Alajina's.
If Alajina's irises were a frozen sea surface, then Heliana's irises contained only wildly howling and roaring giant waves, unceasingly wanting to thoroughly devour anyone who gazed at her.
"Alajina ah... Heh, running at sea like a stray dog for so long, I finally bumped into her today. How many years has it been since we last met? Five years, six years?"
Heliana reached out and pulled on an outer coat grabbed by a working boy beside the bed. While expressing her "longing" for her younger sister, she picked up the strong liquor at the head of the bed and took a few fierce gulps. But she didn't want to drink that strong liquor; she swished her mouth as if using mouthwash, and subsequently spat all that liquor onto the boy beside her.
"Woo..."
Looking at the brothel staff member beside her, who couldn't react in time and lowed his head in pain with his eyes soaked in strong liquor, the two Phoenix Knights couldn't help but purse their lips, appearing somewhat uncomfortable with such a brutal act.
But who asked her to be their superior, the Great Knight Commander personally knighted by the Co-Ruler?
Even such subtle movements of the two knights could be sharply detected by Heliana. Carrying the liquor bottle, her tall body pressed over like a mountain peak, only barely stopping in front of them.
"What, sympathy? Or getting turned on?"
"No, it's just..."
"Tsk, Britney, Aretha, the purity of you two as women is still not enough."
Her condescending, plain tone didn't sound like a reprimand, but more like the simplest and most straightforward contempt.
"Yes."
Heliana curled her lips disdainfully, ignoring their reply. She merely placed the strong liquor she drank from into the hand of one of the knights, revealing disappointment. Subsequently, covering her face, she said.
"Alright, before making a deal with that group of Naris monkeys, how about we first go see how Alajina has been doing recently? I really miss this dear younger sister of mine."