Edge of the Emerald Star

Little Taidao's face was wrinkled into a ball, and he looked like he wanted to get angry but couldn't help it.

Xinghua thought his appearance was very funny, and walked behind him, giggling.

"Hey! That's enough, untie this thing for me!" Xiao Taidao grabbed the collar and iron chain around his neck, with an expression as if he wanted to bite off the iron chain immediately.

"If you untie it, will you be obedient and not run around?" Xinghua asked.

According to the usual practice, Kodachi should yell, "No!"

But Xiao Taidao, who has suffered many losses, just stood there with his fists clenched, and then said with a blushing face, "Just let go!"

Xinghua thought about it, looked at Kodachi's flushed face, and finally reached out and untied Kodachi's collar.

"There are many Orgs and humans in the place to go in later, don't run around, it will be very troublesome if you get lost."

"I won't get lost!" Xiao Taidao spat, and stood beside Xinghua peacefully.

It seems more or less a compromise.Xinghua thought to himself, and smiled with satisfaction.He patted Kodachi on the shoulder, and asked him to look up.

Orgs and humans on the street are bustling. Compared with the old buildings and dark tones of the Black Waterway, the buildings in this place look like they are all brand new, and they are rich in color. They are like trees with layers of strangely shaped buildings. Layers are stacked.

This is a lively and gorgeous city.

"Isn't it beautiful? This is the city known as the most beautiful city at the southern end—Rouge Forest."

"Pretty or something..." The little Taidao couldn't tell the difference, he just felt that there were many colorful and annoying Orgs and humans in front of him.

Xinghua seemed to be more excited than Xiao Taidao when he met him for the first time. He took Xiao Taidao by the hand and walked forward, looking around.

After being attacked by the black hook, two more trains were sent from Guanghan station to help them from Heishuidao, and they were sent from Heishuidao to the nearest city, Yanzhilin.

Although it is different from the destination Xinghua originally planned to go to, it seems that it is not bad to come to this city famous for breeding play dogs. In addition, the Orgs who control Rouge Forest let the AI ​​treat them eagerly, so he is very straightforward. stay down.

After letting Xiao Taidao fully rest in the rest place, Xinghua pulled him out excitedly. After all, if he doesn't take advantage of this time to take a good look around these strange cities, he doesn't know if he will have the chance in the future.

"These Orgs and humans are so annoying! Can we go back?" Xiao Taidao muttered, because there were unfriendly sights on Yanzhilin Street.

Since Yanzhilin is a city that mainly breeds play dogs, most of the businesses are also set up for play dogs, and the owners come to this place specially to pamper and dress up their play dogs, so most of the people gathered in Yanzhilin at the moment Both are a combination of Org and beautiful toy dogs.

In comparison, the combination of Xinghua and Kodachi seems weird.

Kodachi's appearance can tell you that it is not a toy dog. Both men and women, toy dogs usually have a softer and more delicate appearance. Org likes things that look similar to himself.In addition, most Orgs like to dress up their play dogs and use numbers to show their status, so most of them will bring many beautiful humans with bright clothes around them.

But Xinghua was only accompanied by the hound Xiaodachi. Such a combination came to Rouge Forest, which seemed really incongruous, so it attracted the attention of many Orgs and humans.

Human beings, as play dogs, have always thought highly of themselves because they are favored by the Org.

Kodachi hates the look of a play dog.

"Huh? Wait a little longer." But Xinghua obviously wasn't listening to Kodachi, he held the Kodachi as if no one else was there, looked here and there, and then stopped at one of the shops.

Being pulled into the elegantly decorated toy dog ​​shop, Xiao Taidao looked unwilling. He didn't understand what Xinghua was doing to bring him to this place, and he was not a toy dog.

The black-haired AI in the shop seemed to be taken aback when it saw the pair of master and servant coming in. The AI ​​who had never seen this combination took a few seconds to decipher, but it was still unclear.

"Hello, my lord, do you want to choose accessories or clothes for your toy dog?"

"Hmm..." Xinghua looked at the glass cabinet, pointing to a beautiful silk dress that fit well.

AI showed Xinghua the clothes for playing dogs. Xinghua touched the fabric and nodded in satisfaction.

Xiao Taidao waited impatiently at the side, and when there were toy dogs looking at him, he stared back one by one. When he was really impatient, he urged him.

"You mean, do you have a play dog?"

"Where's your lord's play dog?" Coincidentally, the AI ​​also asked the same question.

"I don't have a toy dog..." Xinghua shook his head, comparing the clothes to Kodachi.

What-what-?

Kodachi looked at the beautiful clothes for toy dogs on his body, and a burst of heat rushed to his forehead.

"Do you want to add a cute bell collar?" Xinghua took the small and cute collar and shook it. The bell jingled. He was about to put it on for Kodachi, but was stopped by Kodachi halfway.

"Stop joking! What do you take me for? I'm not a play dog!" Xiao Taidao grabbed the bell collar and threw it down, stomping on it a few times.

Staring at the crushed bell on the ground, Xinghua shook his head, sighed, and bought the broken thing directly from AI, then gave him the extra green coins and bought another collar.

"What are you going to do?" Little Dao stared at the collar in Xinghua's hand.

"Come here." Xinghua beckoned.

"Never!"

"Come on, you broke a collar, so I had to buy another one. Since I bought them all, of course you have to wear them." Xinghua smiled and walked towards Xiao Taidao.

"Idiot! Who wants to wear that thing!" Xiao Taidao was on guard all over, and took the fighting position.

The AI ​​stood aside and stared blankly. It had never encountered this kind of main pet before, and the data was too late to respond.

When Xinghua tapped to help Xiao Taidao put on the collar, Xiao Taidao went crazy all of a sudden. He pulled off the cap of Xinghua's black robe, grabbed Xinghua's hair and was about to beat him up.

"Xiao Taidao...do you still lack calcium?" However, when Xinghua asked this in a low voice, Xiao Taidao's whole body froze.

He pulled Xinghua's hair, neither to beat him nor to give up.

"If you are still so bad-tempered, I will think about having to 'feed' you a few more times." Xinghua reiterated.

Xiaodachi thought of the feeding scene, and suddenly got goosebumps all over his body. The feeling of being invaded and the weird pleasure mixed together made him feel very powerless. He didn't like his powerless appearance.

Seeing Xiao Taidao's teeth itching with anger, and under his "threat", he had to grit his teeth and let go, Xinghua suddenly had the idea of ​​hugging him, but before he stretched out his hand, something suddenly flew from his ear However, it hit Kodachi directly in the face, and Kodachi fell backwards.

It was a scabbard.

Xiao Taidao covered his face and rolled a few times on the ground in pain, Xinghua quickly pulled him up.

"The hound actually attacked its owner. It really should be punished. I really don't understand what you are keeping him for?" Once the voice intervened among them, it was very familiar.

Xinghua sighed softly, this is the second time that Yuanjialu is narrow, and when he turned his head, the other party was indeed the Org from the middle-end city──Qinghui.

Qinghui was surrounded by five or six toy dogs, and Ron followed silently. Among the two knives on his body, one of the scabbards was missing.

"If my Li En hadn't reacted quickly enough, you would have been bitten by him long ago. The master was bitten by his own hound, and if it spreads out, he will laugh his teeth out." Qing Hui chuckled, and the people around him The toy dog ​​laughed.

Probably the one with the most reserved smile, but also the most uncomfortable one, belonged to Ron.

The force that hit Kodachi on the face was not light, it not only meant a warning, but also a stronger sense of revenge.Ron still remembers the punch that Kodachi gave him before he passed out.

"Bastard...it hurts me to death!" When Xiao Taidao put down his hand, a whole red mark appeared on his face.

"Does it hurt? I'll blow it." Xinghua took the small knife and wanted to blow it on his face.

"Hey, don't be annoying! Don't be like this!" Shaking off Xinghua's hand, Xiao Taidao turned around and said, "Ron... you did it, right?"

Gritting his teeth, Xiao Tai Dao reached out to grab his own two Tai Dao, but found that they were not on his waist.

That's right... That guy Xinghua hasn't returned the knife to him yet.After being force-fed, Xiao Taidao became dizzy, and was pulled out by Xinghua after a short rest. Even he himself forgot about the knife.

"This is the master's order. I just do my job as a hound." Ron smiled brightly.

"Listen to you farting!" Kodachi clenched his fist, it doesn't matter, he can beat people without a knife.

"Want to fight?"

"I can't ask for it!"

"Please don't engage in hound wrestling in the store." The black-haired AI hurriedly stopped it, but Kodachi and Ron both looked ready to go.

Ron turned his head and glanced at the master, thinking that the master would let him give that proud hound a good lesson, but Qing Hui just shook his head at him.

Seeing an opportunity to take advantage of, Xiao Taidao grinned and rushed forward to beat him up, but just as he took a step, his neck was strangled and he was pulled into his arms.

Xinghua pressed the little Taidao, and let him make a fuss in his arms, but didn't let him make trouble.

This is the second time, the second time Xiaodachi was stopped by Xinghua, he couldn't help but blushed and his neck was thick, but he couldn't break free from Xinghua's embrace.

"let me go!"

"The AI ​​said so, let's stop messing around in the store, okay?"

"If you want to wrestle the hounds, you can consider moving to the street, or the famous wrestling city." AI dutifully provided the information, and the other Orgs and dogs in the store cast sideways glances at Xinghua and the others.

Xinghua pulled up his robe and hat, and he whispered to Xiao Taidao's ear: "Don't make trouble, everyone has stopped, it's not good to take advantage of others' danger."

"I don't care what he is taking advantage of!"

"Deal, be good, I'll take off your collar." Xinghua flicked the bell of the katana a few times, which caught Qinghui's attention.

"You actually let the hounds wear collars for toy dogs? Master Xinghua has really unique taste." Qinghui smiled, and Ron next to him also laughed, not to mention the loyal toy dogs beside Qinghui.

A hound is completely different from an appreciation dog. Xinghua didn't know that what he did would be a kind of humiliation to the hound. He just thought it was cute.

It was only when ridicule was heard everywhere that Xinghua really realized what he might have done.

Little Dao blushed and didn't speak, he stopped struggling, he really wanted to rush up and beat up the person who laughed at him, but he couldn't... It should be said that Xinghua didn't let him do it.

──Damn Org!

Xinghua said nothing, he pulled the little Taidao behind him, and then untied the collar around his neck.

Because Xiao Taidao looked so angry, Xinghua couldn't help touching the other person's head, and comforted him: "Let's not go shopping anymore, shall we go back?"

"Go back and return the knife to me immediately!" Xiao Taidao folded his arms around his chest, desperately suppressing his emotions, and now he has no good results in confronting Xinghua.

"Okay, definitely."

Then he would stab Xinghua several times with a knife, even if he committed suicide by the way, it doesn't matter!Kodachi thought to himself.

Xinghua smiled, ignoring the gazes of others, and was about to leave with the little Taidao, but a card was placed horizontally in front of his eyes.

Qing Hui was twisting a card in his hand, it was an invitation letter.

Xinghua received one this morning, but he was too busy "interacting" with Kodachi, so he ignored it at all.

"Here, will you go?" Qing Hui asked with narrowed eyes, as if he was testing.

Xinghua tilted his head: "I haven't seen this invitation letter yet."

"I thought you had seen it, so I took your only pet to the street to pick out accessories and dress up..." Qing Hui snorted softly, and threw the invitation letter on the display cabinet: "This is from the Org who controls Rouge Forest." The invitation letter from him probably wants to invite us Orgs who have died to sit down and fulfill his obligations as a host."

"is it?"

"You don't seem very interested?"

Yes, Xinghua does not have such a great interest in the same kind.

"The Org who controls Rouge Forest is famous for producing toy dogs. His residence is equivalent to a large-scale toy dog ​​production facility. I thought you would be interested." There was a bit of sarcasm in Qinghui's words.

But Xinghua's eyes really brightened.

"Will you go?" Xinghua asked.

"The master of Rouge Forest is an Org with a weird personality. To some extent, I think it is very similar to you. You might as well go and take a note, and maybe you will find a close friend. As for me... forget it, I don't like being polluted by humans. It's too serious to be with Org." Qing Hui tapped the invitation post on the desktop with his finger, meaning to ask the AI ​​to deal with it.

Xinghua was silent, he was thinking about Qinghui's words.

Seeing Xinghua like this, Qinghui laughed contemptuously, and he asked Ron, who was half kneeling on the ground, to get up: "Let's go to another store and don't disturb Master Xinghua to choose cute clothes for his "hound" .” He deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the word hound.

Kotachi gave Qinghui a hard look, but when Qinghui left, he didn't even look at Kotachi, leaving only the lingering sound of ridicule.

"Go back! I want a knife!" The enraged little Dao could only growl at Xinghua with a livid face.

Xinghua nodded with a smile, still acting as if he stayed out of the matter.Xiao Taidao dared to swear that when Xinghua took his hand, he almost pinched the opponent's hand and broke his own hand along the way.

Xinghua was immersed in the pool, and the sun shone down from above.

He is replenishing energy, which is called eating according to human parlance. Org can replenish energy with clean water and sunlight, and does not need to live entirely on food like humans, as long as there is clean water and sunlight.

Although Org looks like a human being, its life style is more like a plant.

Xinghua opened his eyes, water waves and sunlight swayed above.In the stories he had read about man, the planet called Earth was a place full of water, and they called it the ocean.

I wonder if the feeling of soaking in the ocean is the same?

Green sea water, dazzling sunlight, and then a solar eclipse-like... black shadow?

"Hi! I'm talking to you—Hi!"

Xinghua was pulled out of the water, and it was his newly adopted hound, Kodachi, who pulled him out of the water.

"Well, I heard it, what's the matter?" Xinghua got up, the mouthparts around his ears were blooming for the moisture of the sun and clear water.

"Where's my knife? Didn't you promise me to return the knife!" Xiao Taidao pulled Xinghua's hair, because the other party was naked and had no clothes to pull.

Org, who had promised to return his knife, left him behind as soon as he returned to the resting place, and went into the strange room alone.This room is like a greenhouse, the top is full of glass, there are no walls, the sunlight is so strong that people can't open their eyes, and there is a hollowed out circular space in the middle, filled with clear water.

Xinghua just left him like this, and then kept closing the door, soaking in the water, until he kicked open the door and rushed in.

"Didn't I say I would return it to you? Just wait a little longer and let me eat..."

"Give it back to me!" Xiao Taidao yelled loudly while sitting on Xinghua's body.

"Okay, don't be in such a hurry, look at you, you're all wet." Xinghua picked up the little Taidao, but the other party punched him and fled away.

Kodachi already knows how to control strength, and when beating him, he will ensure that the strength is retracted and released, so as not to hurt him or himself.

"Come here, let me wipe it for you."

"unnecessary!"

Kodachi hid in the corner alone, dripping wet, with wary eyes.Sometimes Xinghua really wonders when his hunting dog will change his look at him.

"I just need my knife, and..."

"Huh?" Xinghua sighed softly, and kept the towel for himself.

"And..." With a grunt, Kodachi's stomach growled.

Xinghua tilted his head and glanced at Xiao Taidao. The other party was blushing, and then the gurgling sound was still screaming.Let him think about it, that sound should be the sound of gastrointestinal motility.

Oops, what an incompetent master he is!Xinghua had forgotten that in the two or three days since he claimed Xiao Taidao, he had hardly eaten food for Xiao Taidao, and the "feeding" not long ago was only a little bit.Although Xiao Taidao soaked in the nutrient solution several times because of his injury, he should have all the nutrients he should have, but his stomach will always be hungry.

Because Org doesn't need to eat like humans, and it's the first time for Xinghua to raise hounds, so he doesn't care about it at all.

At this moment, Xiaodachi probably planned to ask him because he was starving, but asking him for food seemed very embarrassing to Xiaodachi. After talking about the word "and" for a long time, he didn't see anything.

Xinghua nodded, okay, let him fulfill his duty as a master!

"I'm sorry, are you hungry? Let me feed you." Xinghua walked towards Xiaodachi, twisting the mouthparts around his ears with his fingers.

"You, you, what are you going to do?" Xiao Taidao tensed up all over, feeling that the other party was going to stuff that weird thing into his mouth again...

Xinghua approached step by step, but Kodachi retreated rarely, with panic on his face.

Xinghua smiled, then retracted the hand touching the mouthparts of the ear, and covered the head of Xiaotai with the towel in his hand.

"There is nothing to do, just dry yourself first, then come out, I will return the knife to you, and then I will give you some delicious food."

The little sword with its back against the wall stared blankly at Xinghua, and suddenly slipped a little.

Xinghua just patted Kodachi's head, smiled without saying a word.

The way Kodachi eats can only be described as gobbling.

He must have been hungry for too long, and when he saw a table of delicacies being served, Xiao Taidao stared at the food closely, his eyes lit up.But maybe because he was worried about himself, he glanced at the food and at himself, but he didn't do it for a long time.

Xinghua smiled, reached out and grabbed a piece of cake and stuffed it into Kodachi's mouth.

This kind of sweet food called cake is probably never eaten by Kodachi. When the hounds are in the training center, they usually eat relatively rough food, as long as they can fill their stomachs.

Sure enough, Kodachi had a strange expression when he was eating the cake. He didn't know whether he liked it or hated it, so he swallowed it after a few mouthfuls

Xinghua licked the cream on his fingers, it was very sweet, and there was a pile of cream on the side of Kodachi's mouth, he wanted to reach out to wipe it off, but Kodachi definitely didn't want to.

Xiao Taidao began to bury his head in his mouth and began to eat fiercely. The food in front of him was something he had never eaten before. It was very delicate and delicious. It was the first time he ate this kind of food, and his tongue was almost spoiled, even though his mouth was already stuffed. It was full, but he kept stuffing food into it.

Xinghua looked at such a small Taidao for a long time, and then got up. He found the invitation letter that he had forgotten this morning on the table.

Xinghua opened the invitation letter, but didn't read the content in detail, he only noticed the name of the property.

──Moon Twilight.The name of the master of Rouge Forest.

According to Qinghui, Yuemu's residence is equivalent to the largest breeding ground for toy dogs in the city. He can meet all kinds of human beings there, and maybe he can find something as special as Kodachi... Xinghua Glancing at Kodachi, he shook his head, maybe he couldn't find "so special", but he was still very interested.

"Say, let's go here and have a look?" Xinghua shook the invitation letter in his hand.

Xiao Taidao kept stuffing the food, his cheeks bulged like a chipmunk, he ignored Xinghua at all, anyway, it wasn't his decision in the first place.

Xinghua accepted it as a little dagger. He walked to the cabinet with a combination lock, unlocked the code, and finally took out the thing that little dagger had been thinking about day and night.

"Come on, I said I would pay you back."

Those are the two knives of Kodachi.

The little Taidao who had been gobbling hungrily stopped his hand and mouth movements. When he saw the two knives in Xinghua's hand, he wiped his mouth and rushed forward to snatch the knives back.

Xiao Taidao looked at his own knife to make sure there was no damage, then pulled out the knife again, checked it carefully, and waved it around.

Kodachi with a knife looks like a cat with whiskers, it looks more energetic, and of course, it is also more dangerous.

Xinghua was silent at the side, the little Taidao happened to meet his eyes, and there were extremely sharp double knives in his hands.

"You know I can cut you in half right now." Xiao Tai Dao grinned, and he licked the blade with a murderous look all over his body.

"I know." But Kodachi would not do this, because doing so would be tantamount to suicide.

Seeing Xinghua's still calm expression, the smile on Xiaodachi's face collapsed, and he knew that Xinghua was not affected by his threat at all.

"Listen, it's not that I don't dare, it's just that I don't want to suffer that loss." Xiao Taidao put the knife into the sheath.

"Yes." Xinghua understood.

"You said that when the journey is over, you will terminate the contract with me and let me go. Is this true?"

"It's true, I promised you that I won't break my promise, did you get the knife and food by being here first?"

Kodachi glanced at the knife in his hand and the food on the table.

"Then, if you don't do it then, I'll kill you with these two knives!"

"What about yourself?"

"I'd rather cut myself in two than spend my whole life with Org." Kodachi said, and he sat down again, hiding the knife behind himself.

"Yes, so you decided to cooperate?"

Xiao Taidao remained silent and continued to eat, Xinghua accepted as Xiao Taidao, and he sat down opposite Xiao Taidao, looking at him with a smile without saying a word, thinking seriously in his mind whether to dress up Xiao Taidao grandly Then bring the invitation of Fu Yuemu.

Of course Xiaodachi had no idea what Xinghua was thinking.

"By the way, what is the purpose of your trip? Can we end it soon?" Xiaodachi suddenly remembered that he didn't ask this important point.

But Xinghua just raised his head and answered his answer: "Secret, secret!"

──Damn it, he should have known it would not be this easy!