Hotel on the mountain

North Noah wanted to set off back to the Old Continent after meeting with Jetro, but he learned that the ship returning to the Old Continent would only arrive in a few days, so he planned to take these few days to give himself a holiday. ——He traveled around almost all year round, meeting and talking with various people. He also had to study various homework in his free time. His body and mind were already exhausted from the busy work. At this time, after being recommended by the hotel front desk, he Come to this hot spring spa that is open for trial operation.

The feeling of soaring in the sky on a huge basket held by a fire dragon made him so excited that when he landed, he showed a slightly childish look and couldn't wait to run to the service front desk of the hot spring pavilion. Under the guidance of the waiter, he arrived Men's locker room.

"North? North?! North Noah?!"

A voice that sounded familiar to North sounded behind him.

…

"Selena, I know it's not going to be easy, but I'm going to make it happen."

Jetro invited Selina to walk forward again. They stepped on the plank road made of wooden planks, and when they walked through some fragile places, they made a creaking sound under their feet.

"Well, then I believe you." Selina smiled brightly, "Is this the same as your previous dream?"

Their guards were stationed near the entrance and did not hear their conversation.

"Before?" Jetro didn't understand.

"Dao'er told me that what you most want to live in is a world without psychic powers and monsters, where no one will discriminate against each other. So you came to the New World because you want to create an equal society so that everyone can live freely and with dignity. ”

As a member of the royal family, Selena did not feel the slightest discomfort when repeating this sentence. Perhaps she herself did not realize that the class she was in was at two extreme opposites to the sentence she just said.

Jetro thought for a moment and responded: "Selena, the Colosseum is a plan purely related to profit."

Selena listened.

"According to reliable sources, the Pandora Conference will be suspended in the short term. The wealthy people who originally arranged their schedules for the Pandora Conference will have a blank consumption period. I want to accept them and become My guest." Jetro opened his arms and pointed to the egg-shaped building where they were standing now——

"I want to create a unique Colosseum among empires and let them come across the ocean to consume. Selina, do you understand the most exciting part of this plan?"

Selina opened her mouth slightly in surprise and shook her head again.

"That is, I will imitate all the entertainment activities in the Old World that attract powerful people. And then - I will go their way and leave them with nowhere to go."

Jetro was very much like a religious leader. He promoted this idea enthusiastically and confidently, only to receive a kind smile from Selina: "I understand, that is a big ambition."

"Haha." Jetro laughed at himself, "Yes, this is a very lofty ambition. But my ambition of 'let everyone live with dignity' is even more lofty. I Allowing the people in this hotel to live with dignity is already my greatest achievement. If I still have any extravagant hopes, I hope that the people who come here as guests can also choose their own lives with dignity."

As Jetro said, he cast his gaze on Selina's cheek. The latter looked at each other for a short moment, then turned her head away in a hurry.

…

North Noah turned around and saw a fair-faced man wearing a white bathrobe standing behind him. The man's middle hair was tied up with a hair tie. North Noah recognized it at a glance: " Raphael?"

"North! It's really you!"

Raphael St. Rigg walked over and patted North on the shoulder, and said excitedly: "I haven't seen you for many years, you have grown so tall!"

North didn't like Raphael patting him on the shoulder, but considering that the other person was the eldest son of the Boyero Holy Family, he allowed him to put his hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, it's been a long time." North smiled, moved a step to the side, and shook off the hand on his shoulder.

Raphael withdrew his hand, put it on his waist, and said with a smile, "Are you coming to soak in the hot spring?"

"Uh, I'm still thinking about it." When North saw Raphael, he suddenly lost interest in relaxing here. He was thinking about finding an excuse to leave here.

"Oh? Why are you still thinking about it?" Raphael took another step closer to North, and he put his hand on North's shoulder like a brother, "Let's take a bath together. Remember when you came to Boyero? We had a lot of fun in the swimming pool, didn’t we?”

North could only laugh twice. Raphael had unusual habits and he didn't want to stay here for a long time.

"I still have homework to study. The butler is waiting for me. You know he is very strict."

"He's just a servant." Raphael waved his hand nonchalantly. His eyes scanned North's figure from top to bottom, and he used his hands to unbutton his clothes. His tone was ambiguous, "North, you have to change into a bathrobe when you come in. Let me help you."

The service staff on the side quickly lowered their heads and looked at their feet, pretending not to know anything.

…

"You don't know anything." Selina said softly, "Jetro, I can't be free."

"Before I came to the New World, many people thought it was impossible for me to come." Jetro responded softly.

"It's different, Jetro, it's completely different."

They walked out of the hole of light illuminated by the sun and began to stop on the darker plank road.

"My marriage is politics. And your development is entirely your own freedom. Politics and freedom cannot be equated." Selina continued, "Jetro, I I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, I can’t escape.”

Her tone was low, just like the calm river in the egg-shaped building.

"Why? I want to hear it." Jetro felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Selena's sad face.

"Jetro, what lies to the east of our Hebrew Empire?"

Selina looked at Jetro's face, who showed a thoughtful expression.

"The Boyero Empire."

"What about the east side of the Pojetro Empire?"

Jetro pondered for a while.

"A vast land."

"What's to the south of the Hebrew Empire?"

"The endless desert."

Jetro had heard Feifei Bird tell her about the southern border. In the entire southern border, only the narrow strip along the coast could develop cities.

"Do you remember my brother Orhan?"

Of course Jetro remembered that Orhan Alexander and Selina were both members of the royal family, and they came to the New World together. When he first came to the New World, he colluded with the gathering of spiritual people, and was eventually deposed by the king.

So Jetro nodded and remained silent.

"His behavior made my father realize how big the contradictions exist within the royal family. And my father believes that only by expanding outward and striving for more development opportunities can the family remain united and his family can be saved. The throne."

Jetro understood that this was because the empire's cake was only so big, but there were many royal family members. If some ambitious people could not get the cake they wanted, they would naturally threaten the empire and the throne. The best way to satisfy these ambitious people is to open up more territories - to make the cake bigger.

"The New World was excluded from the development plan first." Selina told something that Jetro found very puzzling.

Jetro frowned - why? Why was the New World excluded by empires eager to develop? Could it be that there is something hidden by the empire in the New World?