"Lord Liyuan, do you... like it?" Bai Xing looked at Guan Liyuan a little embarrassed.
At this time, Guan Liyuan had a "huge shell necklace" hanging around his neck...
That's right, this was Bai Xing's "return gift" to Guan Liyuan, which she made by herself - the fishmen had no taboos about using shellfish materials.
It's just... For Bai Xing, she had tried to make the shell necklace smaller, and each shell was only as big as her thumbnail. However, Guan Liyuan, who was 3.5 meters tall and considered very burly among humans, still had some of Sha Wujing's style after wearing it around his neck - each of them had their own big skull!
"Well, I like it very much. I've wanted to try this style for a long time." Guan Liyuan nodded.
After all, Guan Liyuan estimated that if he showed any embarrassment, Bai Xing would definitely cry in front of him in a minute.
"Lord Liyuan... are you leaving... so soon?" Bai Xing said aggrievedly.
"That's right, because there is something very important..."
Before Guan Liyuan finished speaking, he heard Bai Xing crying: "Wuwuwu... Is it because you hate me... I'm sorry..."
Bai Xing's personality is relatively cowardly, and the special experience makes her heart extremely sensitive and delicate.
"No, no, of course not, otherwise... how could I help you drive away Deacon?" Guan Liyuan said. "
Really? So Mr. Liyuan, you drove away Lord Vander Deacon because you like me?" Bai Xing stopped crying immediately, sobbing and blushing.
Well, although she is sensitive, she is also easy to coax...
"Yes, that's it!" Guan Liyuan said righteously.
Although I feel that Bai Xing's statement is a bit inconsistent, but... In this situation, does Guan Liyuan have any choice? You can't let her continue crying, right?
"I see... But... Mr. Liyuan... I... still need... four years..." Bai Xing said stammeringly.
In Bai Xing's mind, Guan Liyuan had already driven away another suitor, Vander Denken, in order to pursue her!
At the same time, Bai Xing did not say to Guan Liyuan, "You are not my type," but wanted to implicitly express that he was not yet an adult.
"Four years? It doesn't take that long. If everything goes well, we will see each other again soon." Guan Liyuan thought Bai Xing wanted to tell him that they would see each other again in four years.
"No, it doesn't take four years? In this way... is it..." Bai Xing's eyes began to "draw circles".
"Don't you want to see the outside world, see the sun, forests and snow with your own eyes?" Guan Liyuan asked.
Bai Xing was distracted by the topic and asked curiously, "Eh? Can I? Father and brothers said that it is very dangerous outside, and there are many... bad people like Lord Vander Denken..."
"Don't worry, just drive away all those bad guys. One day... the era when humans and fish people can truly coexist equally will come, and this day will come in our generation!" Guan Liyuan said.
Well, if Luffy were here, he might find it strange - why do you call yourself my uncle, but you are of the same generation as the 14-year-old Princess Shirahoshi? How do you calculate it?
"The dream that your mother had back then was not an illusion, right? But back then, Lord Tiger..." Shirahoshi stammered. "
Your mother is right, and the hero Tiger is also right. Not all humans are wrong, but being 'right' alone is useless. We must drive away the 'wrong' guys." Guan Liyuan said solemnly.
From Pierre, Guan Liyuan also learned about the real thoughts of the fishmen on the fishmen.
For most of the fishmen, the "deepest" part of their hearts is to go to the sea to enjoy the real sunshine. Many of the older fishmen are influenced by Princess Otohime, while the new generation of fishmen are mostly curious about all kinds of new things after seeing the human ships coming from the sea.
But this is only the "deep" part!
In fact, the older fishmen were deeply hurt by humans because of the incident between Tiger and Princess Otohime. They longed for the surface of the sea in the "deep sea", but in fact, they were pressed by layers of "vigilance" and "rejection"...
As for the younger fishmen... they grew up with such words as "disobedient children will be captured by humans" and "don't talk to strangers, otherwise you will be eaten".
Therefore, the ordinary residents of Fishman Island are in this critical "swing period"!
In Guan Liyuan's view, Tiger and Otohime's goals are not contradictory. It seems that Tiger wanted to break with humans at the beginning, but his actual actions were not like that. It can even be said that the "striving for peaceful coexistence" on Fishman Island since the Age of Exploration is divided into three stages.
One is that Tiger formed the Sun Pirates, nominally clamoring to "break with humans", but in fact Tiger never killed any enemies, with liberation and freedom as his purpose, and when liberating slaves, he treated all races equally...
The three sisters of Nine Snake Island and Kerla of the Revolutionary Army... were all rescued when Tiger made a fuss in Marijoa.
Rather than saying that Tiger wants to break with humans, it is better to say that he expects a deterrent peaceful coexistence, but the purpose is not clear.
Later, Princess Otohime used her personal charm to persuade her people on Fish-Man Island, and also lent a hand to Saint Musgard who was stranded on Fish-Man Island, and even influenced one of the idiot Celestial Dragons.
Before Princess Otohime was killed by Hody Jones, she seemed to be closer to success than Tiger - she had already lobbied and persuaded the Celestial Dragons, and also accumulated a lot of signatures from the people on the island... What
Princess Otohime pursued was undoubtedly the most gentle, top-down expectation of making humans completely accept the peaceful coexistence of fishmen, although it was positive, it was too idealistic.
As for after Princess Otohime's death, although Neptune said that he was going to inherit the will of his deceased wife, the third stage under Neptune's leadership... can be said to be a negative period!
Only by warmly welcoming the humans who came to Fishman Island and encouraging the powerful fishmen to go out to sea, humans were made to realize that the fishmen living on the seabed were not barbaric people, nor were they "similar to fish", but civilized countries like the countries on the ground.
Passively offset the prejudice of humans against fishmen, and occasionally promote the world on the sea on the island - but because of the existence of the slave-hunting team, Neptune did not promote the sea as a safe place.
If Tiger and Otohime were still alive at this time, Tiger would be outside under the banner of racial equality to intimidate the world government and win people's favor, and Otohime would do positive propaganda inside to eliminate the vigilance of the fishmen, and with Neptune's "display", it might not be long before the fishmen could come to the sea.
But there is no "if"!
The death of Tiger and Otohime almost interrupted the peaceful coexistence between the fishmen and humans, and... because the fishmen did not know the real cause of death of the two, they even "pulled" Fishman Island further back to the deep sea.
It is precisely because of this that Neptune did not give Guan Liyuan a very clear answer before, but only promised that Fishman Island would not take the initiative to be an enemy of the Revolutionary Army under any circumstances. As for whether to cooperate, Neptune could not give a definite answer! Guan Liyuan
could see that Neptune was not worried about sacrifice, but had not yet decided whether to fight once, and was not sure whether it was right to move everyone to the sea... Guan
Liyuan did not force it, but told Neptune the results of the investigation into the cause of death of Princess Otohime - how to reveal it with complete evidence later was Neptune's business.
"Mr. Liyuan, then... it's a promise! If one day, the ideal of the queen mother is realized on Fishman Island, we will meet again!" Shirahoshi said, and pushed a little finger that was so thick and so long in front of Guan Liyuan.
"Yes, it's a deal." Guan Liyuan said as he touched her with his little finger.