Ai Yi flew into the store in a hurry and stood on the handrail of the stairs with his chest puffed out proudly, his green bean eyes rolling around.
The big parrot with colorful tail feathers that followed him also flew into the store, landed on the counter at Duncan's hand, and jumped up and down on the counter, as if he was at home.
Duncan looked at this guy who flew out of nowhere with a look of astonishment. The big parrot also raised its head and looked at Duncan without any surprise. After a while, it suddenly flapped its wings and made a loud and harsh sound: "Ah! Po! profit!"
"Your name is Pearly?" Duncan asked curiously. He didn't expect the parrot to really answer anything. After all, the essence of parrot's speech was just to imitate the tongue, but he didn't expect that the bird actually clicked after hearing his question. He nodded and waved his wings: "Peri! It's Peri!"
Duncan's expression was blank for a moment, and he turned to look at Ai, who was standing on the handrail of the stairs looking proudly at the first floor: "Where did you find this...'friend'?"
"A friend is coming from afar," Ai immediately flapped his wings and looked at Duncan with one eye, while the other eye looked out the window erratically, "They are all here!"
Next to her, Nina immediately asked curiously: "What does it mean?"
After knowing the secrets of the Lost Home and Duncan, Nina of course also knew that Ai could talk. She was very surprised at the time, but now she has calmed down - but like everyone else, she is also difficult Understand the meaning of the strange words this pigeon pops up from time to time.
"Maybe it means that he doesn't know where this parrot comes from," Duncan used his imagination to translate for Ai Yi, then turned to look at the parrot and the pigeons. After holding it in for a long time, he finally couldn't hold it back, "Ai Yi. ...I don't object to you making friends, but have you realized that you two are different species? You should at least find a pigeon..."
"The sea is open to all rivers, and tolerance means greatness," the pigeon spirit tilted his head and shouted with blank eyes, "Tolerance means greatness!"
Duncan: "..."
While talking to Ai, he often thought about life and doubted himself, wondering whether he was communicating on the same channel as this Toriko spirit.
This feeling of seemingly being incompatible with each other but being able to communicate miraculously is not an ordinary subtlety.
At this time, the attention of Shirley, Agou and Alice were also attracted. The three "people" came to the counter and looked at the big parrot that was not afraid of people. Alice even reached out and poked the big parrot's wings curiously. , but the latter just jumped to the side twice to dodge, then tilted his head and stared at the puppet with its big eyes and small eyes.
"What is this?" Alice looked at Duncan curiously, "It looks completely different from Ai."
Shirley said immediately: "Of course it's different. This is a parrot, and Ai is a pigeon."
"What is a parrot?" Alice asked from her soul, "Can it be eaten?"
"No," Shirley shook her head, and then asked the puppet, "Why do you always care about this issue even if you don't have to eat?"
"I'm responsible for cooking for the ship...Mr. Duncan!"
There was a lot of chatter around the counter, but Duncan didn't get involved. He just looked thoughtfully at the big parrot who called himself "Poli". For some reason, he always vaguely felt that the bird looked familiar, as if ...It seemed like I had just seen him somewhere not long ago.
"Where are you from? Why are you here?" he asked suddenly.
In the conversation just now, he had vaguely noticed that this parrot actually had the ability to communicate with people - which obviously proved that its origin was unusual.
The big parrot turned its head and tilted its head: "Perli! Go and send the message!"
"Sending a message?" Duncan was stunned for a moment, and his expression turned slightly serious, "What message is being sent?"
The big parrot tilted its head as if thinking, and opened its mouth after thinking about it for a while. But before it could say anything, it heard Ai suddenly flying over next to it, shouting at the top of its voice: "It's all right." Order some fries!”
The big parrot was startled: "Ah! Purley!"
"More French fries!" The pigeon landed in front of the big parrot and nodded seriously, "More French fries."
"Perley?" "More fries!"
The two birds communicated like this, so much so that Duncan had to interrupt: "Stop—Ay, shut up. Perley, what message do you want to send, and to whom?"
The big parrot was obviously stunned. After being stunned for several seconds, he hesitated and shook his body back and forth: "More French fries."
Duncan: "..."
He suddenly realized something. Whatever message the parrot was trying to convey before, it had obviously forgotten all about it now...
And then, Parrot Perley seemed to have retrieved some useful information from the remaining memory. It suddenly jumped up and flapped its wings vigorously: "Tell the captain, tell the captain! Tell...the whole order of fries!" "
Then, the big parrot yelled "The whole order of French fries" while flapping its wings and flew straight to the door. Before anyone could react, it had already rushed out of the door, soared into the sky, and headed towards the city of Pland. Speeding up all the way uptown.
Nina wanted to stop the parrot but was unable to do so. She could only watch the other person's figure flying away with a regretful expression, turned her head and muttered: "Ah, it flew away."
Duncan did not respond - after hearing the words "tell the captain" from Purley, his face suddenly became serious, and at the same time he recalled why he was vaguely familiar with this parrot.
He had indeed seen this bird - in a cabin of the Seamist when the Lost Home and the Seamist passed over each other!
"Ai, catch up with that parrot."
…
"That's pretty much the case."
In a secluded reception room in the Prader Cathedral, the old bishop Valentine in casual clothes said to Tirian who was sitting on the sofa opposite the coffee table.
"The Homeless Ship finally took away the sun fragments, prevented the creeping sun disc from coming, and also eliminated the impact of historical pollution on the city-state - although we are still not sure... your father's intention."
Tirian's expression was a little subtle and a little stiff.
He had lost count of how many years he had not been in this state of astonishment - he could understand every word the old bishop said, but even in his wildest and most bizarre dreams, he had never been in such a state of confusion. Have you ever thought about these things happening!
"The Lost Home really just left like that? Does it look like it came specifically to save the ship?" The famous "Pirate Captain" said in a tone full of disbelief, "It took away the sun fragments...and then what? Is that all? Nothing else?"
Valentin exchanged glances with Vanna next to him, and both of them had a little helplessness and hesitation in their expressions.
Now that things have happened, it is really difficult to say the words "your father robbed half the city of French fries" in front of Tirian.
"...Nothing else." After much hesitation, the old bishop still couldn't tell the matter. He shook his head and sighed, "I know you are confused - Mr. Tirian, we are as confused as you, If you don’t know what your father wants to do, then we don’t know either.”
"Since a century ago, he can no longer be regarded as my father," Tirian slowly shook his head and said in a deep voice, "It was just a counterfeit that was torn apart by the subspace and then pieced together using clumsy means. There is no trace of humanity in the empty body..."
Tirian suddenly stopped when he said this. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the few seconds when the Homeless and the Seamist overlapped, and thought of the cold and distant words he heard -
"I am very busy."
The big pirate suddenly hesitated.
Is there really no humanity inside that body on the Homeless Ship? The voice that spoke to me at that time, and the aura I felt from that figure... were they really just empty and wild echoes in the subspace?
Just when Tirian was distracted, the young judge's voice suddenly came from the opposite side, interrupting his random thoughts: "The question of whether Captain Duncan has 'humanity' is exactly what we want to discuss next. .”
"Huh?" Tirian looked at Vanna in confusion, "What does this mean?"
"In fact..." Fanna hesitated for a moment, then turned to exchange glances with Bishop Valentine, and then nodded gently, "We have had more than one communication with your father recently."
Things related to the Lost Home are considered confidential information, especially the conversation with Captain Duncan. These things should not be said, but Tyrion's identity is so special, these problems are obviously no longer a problem.
"Communicate? You and my father?!" Tirian was really shocked and almost stood up from the sofa, "Isn't this a bad joke?"
"Please calm down, this is a very serious question - no one will joke about this kind of thing after the city-state is almost destroyed." Vanna looked at Tirian calmly, then paused slightly, "Strictly speaking, it's me and you. My father had several interactions, and based on my observations... 'Captain Duncan' no longer seems to fit the description in the information."
Tirian noticed the solemn attitude of the other party. He quickly calmed down and his expression became extremely serious: "Miss Judge, how did you establish communication? Why did he find you? And... what did he say?"
"It was an accident at first... No, now that I think about it, it might have been your father's intentional arrangement." Fanna sorted out her thoughts and recalled, "I came into contact with the 'flame' he left behind, and used it to establish Contacted me. As for why he chose me... Unfortunately, no one knows..."
Vanna concealed the details about being "marked" and "the contamination cannot be removed", but vaguely summarized the process as "establishing a connection", and then told the details of several exchanges between herself and Captain Duncan. The "pirate captain" in front of me.
The man who theoretically knew Duncan Abnomar best.
(End of chapter)
