"Isn't this just right?" Rico looked at Hesta, "Since she wants to be the adjudicator, why don't you just leave all this work to her? Anyway, we are all on the ship now, so it doesn't affect you to watch these things. People then 'play games'——"
Hesta looked away, "No."
"Why not."
"If we had done nothing from the beginning and allowed Gobelin to arrange everyone's itinerary, there would have been very few thorn monks left on the ship by now. When all the male passengers are killed, the game will If it ends directly, then we will see nothing - the boycott of the monks, Roboglier, Eden, the fifteenth district, the "Collection of Divine Ballads"... We have no way of knowing these things."
Rico was silent for a while, "...so among the three of us, I am the only one who is too lazy to care about these things?"
"Thank you for your hard work." Si Lei said sincerely.
"But I think we will all feel much more relaxed in the next period of time." Hesta said softly.
Li Ge was noncommittal: "...are you sure?"
"I feel the same way," Si Lei said softly, "Looking back... the night banquet should be a key node.
"When Gobelin was the adjudicator, everyone invited to the night banquet was a male passenger. Except for Gustav, the remaining few people were killed; but after Jane became the adjudicator, the guests invited to the night banquet were male passengers. To be a woman - me, Helen, and today Tasia... it's almost a turning point from death to survival."
"The night you went to the banquet, we were almost trapped there." Rico reminded.
"...I have a few guesses," Hesta looked at her, "You are being besieged, maybe because Si Lei is not your guardian, maybe because you are not a passenger with a ticket to board the ship, and maybe because you two asked to go without permission. Met Robbeglier – that last point is the most likely.”
"I have thought about this too," Si Lei said. "After all, compared to the previous thorn monks who received invitations to the night banquet, my entire banquet process was very smooth."
"Indeed," Hesta agreed, "those Thorn Monks had no way of survival from the beginning - they chose the wrong guarantor to die, and the wrong accessories to die. Even if they chose the right accessories, if they failed to find them in the end, The gem brooch is still going to die. Not to mention what will happen to them as potential risky passengers when they go to the banquet alone..."
"How many female passengers are there on our ship now?" Si Lei asked.
"There seem to be five or six." Hesta counted, "You and me, Tasia, Helen, the person whose jewelry was robbed by Rene before...and, um..."
Li Ge frowned: "Is that all there seems to be?"
"No, there are two more," Si Lei suddenly remembered two people, "Agnes and Meyer—both of them came up seriously with their tickets."
Hesta was stunned for a few seconds.
Oh yes.
I talked to Anna about them last night...
"And Anna," Hesta said suddenly, "Anna is also a ticket holder on board the ship - she is also an official passenger."
"so……?"
"It's nothing, I just suddenly thought of this," Hesta whispered, "Then, the guardians will only be born from these few people."
"Speaking of guardians," Si Lei paused, "it's time for you to pick up Bernhard..."
"Ah." Hesta was startled, "I forgot."
…
"Helen!"
In the corridor of the second deck, Tasia finally waited until she saw the two familiar figures - Helen was coming down the stairwell with Gustav.
"First help me take my things to the front desk and wait for me there." Helen told Gustav.
"OK……"
Soon they were the only two people left in the corridor.
"What's the matter," Helen said with a smile, "Would you like to find a place to sit down and chat?"
"I...I want to ask about that brooch." Tasia's eyes always fell on the ground, "Did you...really lose it?"
Helen looked at Tasia for a long time, and then said, "Yes."
"I don't believe it..." Tasia tightened her sleeves, "You must still have the brooch..."
"Who said that, Hesta? Si Lei?" Helen tilted her head slightly, "They kept you here just to tell you this?"
Tasia raised her head, "You don't need to mention them!"
"...Ouch, why are you so loud?" Helen smiled and covered her ears. "What did they say to you?"
"They asked me to... find a risky passenger as a guardian as soon as possible."
"I've told you before, but if you don't believe it, you have to force them to talk about you -"
"What should I do to make you willing to lend me the brooch?" Tasia took a step forward, "Or I can be your risky passenger -"
"Stop talking nonsense, Tasia," Helen's face suddenly turned cold. "If you leave the guardian alone and become a risk passenger, what's the use of having you as a risk passenger?"
"Then I'm going to find someone today, and I'm going to find a way to be a guardian today - but can't you really lend me that brooch? I will definitely return it to you when the banquet is over!"
"...So anxious?" Helen chuckled, "Didn't Hestad say today that she had other options?"
"She didn't...she just told me to become a guardian as soon as possible. If I become a guardian and attend the night banquet, nothing will happen." Tasia's voice was very low, "But you and Si Lei both wore brooches. If I don't Dai, I'm afraid of what might happen..."
"Fortunately, it's not too stupid." Helen interrupted Tasia's whisper, "Listen, I can lend you the brooch."
Tasia's eyes lit up almost immediately.
"But there are conditions."
"I can agree to any conditions!"
"Don't respond too early," Helen crossed her arms, "...if you need it, give me your ship card."
Tasia opened her mouth slightly and didn't speak for a long time.
"What's wrong? You don't want to?"
"But...the iron law says..."
"I just said that you are not stupid," Helen shook her head, "Don't you understand? Hesta can't come up with a new brooch now, which means that Si Lei has already gone to the second level before. "Details" It was posted by Hesta, do you know how many things she made up in it?"
"...But the boat card," Tasia's gaze fell again, "Can't we change other conditions?"
"Don't even think about anything else except handing over your boat pass."
"Then...can you let me go back and think about it?"
"No, let's decide here." Helen raised her chin slightly, "If you say you don't have the boat card with you now, then we have nothing else to say - I don't have much time to waste with you, now, Just give me the answer.”
After a long silence, Tasia finally murmured.
"……Can."
Helen smiled.
Tasia gritted her teeth and said after a while: "But... I also need to confirm your ship card first."
