This place is at the entrance of the ceremonial hall. Those who came early have already arrived, and those who came late have not yet arrived, so the movement here has not attracted onlookers yet.

"What do you think? Do you want me to ask someone to get it for you, or do you want to prepare it yourself, huh?" Ricko looked at Brinberg's pale face and smiled coquettishly.

What is a hair stone? Seeing that Brinbeh could no longer answer, You Ai could only knock on the system.

[Cheche, what is a hair stone? ]

[Hairdish mites are arthropods with calcareous shells that cling to rocks near the sea, often forming dense colonies.]

I still don’t understand.

[In the human world, it's called a barnacle. Here, a stone placed on the back of a high-ranking person cannot be removed on one's own.]

Barnacles!!!

This is a parasitic species that is very feared by creatures such as turtles and whales.

Once infected, there will be endless troubles and she can't get rid of it. It's no use. She has started to suffer from claustrophobia.

No wonder Brinberg turned pale when he heard this.

You Ai pulled her behind him and said, "Your Highness, there is no need to worry about this. We don't need this hair stone."

"I asked you to carry me on your back, and you dare to say no?" Ruiko disagreed.

"We did nothing wrong and do not need to apologize to Your Highness. Instead, we should ask Your Highness to apologize for almost bumping into us. We will not embarrass Your Highness. Just apologize and Your Highness will not have to bear the responsibility of the stone."

"Hahahaha," Ruiko laughed as if she heard something funny.

When they heard the laughter, some people started to notice them, but when they saw that it was the little witch Ruiko, no one dared to get close to them.

"I've never heard anything so funny. You want me to apologize to you?"

Ruiko's tone gradually rose and her expression became more and more ugly. Not only was Youai not scared, but her attitude became clearer and her tone became more resolute.

"Yes, Your Highness was too reckless when entering the ceremonial hall and almost bumped into us. Doesn't he need to apologize to us?"

If you ask Yu Ai if she saw the anger in Ruiko's eyes, yes, she did. Not only did she see it, she also looked straight at her. She was not afraid of her anger at all, nor was she timid.

Ruiko still has three years until she becomes an adult. She has always been raised in the palm of her hand and no one dared to disobey her. Now she has hit a snag.

Her chest heaved up and down because of anger. She had never suffered such humiliation before. She secretly manipulated her spiritual power to attach to the whip around her waist.

Yu Ai saw it, but she didn't expect that Ruiko was also a second-level ability user. Coincidentally, she still had a pause skill that she hadn't used, and now she had the chance to use it.

Rui Kou thought her actions were subtle and said, "Very good, I want to see if it's your tough talk or your body that can resist."

As he spoke, he swung the whip at his waist. Yuai pushed Brinbeh back, used one hand to hold the spiritual power to catch the whip, and with the other hand, he swung the skill towards Riko, hitting her right in the waist.

Then she pulled the whip around Ruiko's body and tied her up. After tying her up, she slapped the whip.

When the pause was lifted, Ruiko found herself tied up.

The onlookers were far away and only saw that Ruiko whipped the man, but the man tied her up in return. They were amazed at Youai's speed and also mourned for her for offending Ruiko from then on.

Seeing that she was tied up by her own whip, Ruiko became anxious and irritated. She swung her tail and tossed herself around in circles.

"Damn it, let me go."

To deal with a naughty child, you must let him know that you are better and more ruthless than him.

"Why, you want to apologize?"

Yuai grabbed the spinning Rika and looked at her with a very sinister smile. At the same time, he saw the mermaid following Rika go out of the door.

"Don't even think about it!" Ruiko glared at her fiercely.

"Oh~ You don't want to apologize," You Ai reached out and grabbed the whip on her body, pushed her lying sideways and walked towards the door.

Ruiko looked up at the door that was getting closer and closer, and hurriedly bent over to look at You Ai and said, "What are you going to do!"

You Ai slowly pulled her along and said, "I'll take you out for a walk. When you want to apologize, I'll let you go."

"No, you can't tie me up like this, and you can't take me with you..."

"Why not?"

You Ai interrupted her and looked straight ahead without even glancing at her.

"You are a noble prince, yet you don't care about your subjects. You immediately want to stone a citizen who has done nothing wrong. You are so vicious. If I don't take you for a stroll, how can I cleanse your filthy and useless heart?"

"We are not as well-off as you, but we survive through our own efforts. Our dignity is not for you to ruthlessly trample on."

Yu Ai's speech was passionate and his voice was getting louder and louder. The mermaids who didn't dare to get close but were always paying attention to this place could hear it.

Although they were not angry with Ruiko at the moment, it did not mean that they had not seen or heard of such things before, and they might even encounter similar things in the future.

So Yu Ai's words made them empathize with her, and although they did not fully support her, they were already on Yu Ai's side ideologically.

Few people had dared to speak loudly to Ruiko in her life, and no one had dared to criticize her with such righteous words. This time, she couldn't find any words to object and could only stare blankly.

You Ai, who had been looking straight ahead, suddenly lowered his eyelids and met Ruiko's eyes. Ruiko was dizzy and quickly looked away and closed her eyes.

That's it? Yu Ai knew that Ruiko's psychological defenses had been broken. She suppressed the throbbing in her heart and said coldly: "What? You want to apologize? I won't accept your apology now..."

Suddenly her voice was so soft that only a few people nearby could hear it.

"What's going on? If she wants to apologize, just let her go? Brinbeh, let me tell you, she looks like she's stuck in her ways. Why are you even thinking about her? Let me take her around Sayinde and show her people that this is a princess who did something wrong but didn't have the courage to admit it."

Riko didn't open her eyes, so naturally she didn't know that this was a play directed and performed by Youai herself, which stunned Brinbeh who was following beside her, but Mai Fei laughed at her performance.

"If she wanted to apologize, she should have said so long ago. How could I really force her to do that? Look at her like this, it's clear that she doesn't dare. She doesn't have the courage to admit it. If she does something wrong but doesn't dare to admit it, she will never be a strong person."

You Ai deliberately spoke the last sentence louder and louder, and sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Ruiko opened her eyes.

"Who said I don't dare?"

Yuai turned her neck back towards Brinberg, frowned and said nothing. In Ruiko's eyes, the one who had just spoken sarcastic words to her had lowered his voice, thinking that she couldn't hear it, but she heard every word without missing a word.

She was wagging her tail and twisting her body to stand up, but You Ai was not paying attention and let her slip out of his control.

Then, the mermaids who followed the ceremonial hall saw from afar the fearless little witch, Riko, bowing deeply to Brynbech and saying, "I'm sorry," in a voice that they could all hear.