Dinner Banquet

The banquet held in the Dragon Palace City was very lavish, with beautiful mermaids dancing, pretty mermaids playing musical instruments, and fat mermaids singing.

The banquet also included many delicious foods, such as shellfish, fish, and marine mammals.

However, King Neptune and Shirahoshi not only did not eat the meat of sea monsters, but they also rarely ate fish.

This raises a question: mermaids almost never eat fish, and most can communicate with them, Fish-Man are a small minority who don't eat fish, and most of them cannot communicate with them.

Xia Qiu ate the sea monster's meat, but her expression was somewhat impatient. She looked at Shirahoshi and asked, "What do you want now?"

"Mr. Xia, how come you still have arms and legs?"

Shirahoshi grabbed Xia Qiu's tentacles and examined them from all angles, touching the hooks on them. "They even have hooks! These are the tentacles of the giant squid."

"It grew out of there."

Xia Qiu ate the sea monster's flesh in one bite, then said irritably, "Put that down."

Shirahoshi was holding a thin tentacle in her hand and gently touching it.

"All right."

Shirahoshi put down the tentacles in her hand and slowly floated up again. "Shark's dorsal fin, Mr. Xia, you're really something."

"Just a little bit impressive."

Xia Qiu snorted and said, "Making a fuss over nothing."

"Wow, are these bony plates? And spikes too. Is this a tail? It's different from a fish tail. It has gills, but it also has blowholes, right here." Shirahoshi exclaimed in surprise as she circled around Xia Qiu.

"Don't touch me there."

Xia Qiu pushed Shirahoshi away with her wrists and feet, glaring at her with displeasure.

"Mr. Xia, Mr. Xia."

Shirahoshi suddenly floated in front of Xia Qiu, looked at him and said, "What kind of creature are you?"

What am I?

Xia Qiu looked at Shirahoshi.

Shirahoshi counted on her fingers and said, "You have a crocodile's mouth, but you're not a crocodile. You also have sharp horns, a bit like Fighting Fish. Your forehead is a bit like Flowerhorn Cichlid. You have a shark's dorsal fin, and six legs. It's really strange; I've never seen anything like it before. It does resemble..."

"Like what?"

Xia Qiu looked at Shirahoshi and asked curiously.

Shirahoshi thought for a moment and said, "I remember that in myths and legends, dragons are made up of many parts. Could it be that Mr. Xia is a dragon?"

"A dragon? Oh, not bad."

Xia Qiu felt delighted to be praised as a dragon. The identity of a dragon was fitting for her, especially a jiaolong (a type of dragon).

"Impossible, impossible."

Shirahoshi waved her hands and said, "You can't be a dragon."

Why not?

Xia Qiu asked, frowning.

Shirahoshi patted his chest with one hand and said with a smile, "The one on the Dragon Palace City is the real dragon, but according to the records, how could it look like you? It's not good-looking at all."

At this point, Shirahoshi's expression froze, and Xia Qiu flew into a rage, "Are you saying I'm ugly?"

No, it's not.

Shirahoshi was so startled that she froze and quickly said, "That's not what I meant, Mr. Xia. You, you are very handsome too."

"You're hesitating, aren't you?"

Xia Qiu glared at Shirahoshi, who actually said she was ugly and that she couldn't tolerate it.

"Do you believe I'll eat you?"

Xia Qiu opened his mouth wide, revealing his menacing teeth.

"Sorry."

Shirahoshi said with a mournful face, and seeing that Xia Qiu was still angry, she pouted and burst into tears, "Shirahoshi made Mr. Xia angry."

"Why are you crying again?"

Seeing this, Xia Qiu snorted, withdrew her teeth, and said, "Don't cry."

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said you were ugly."

Shirahoshi was still wailing.

"You..."

Xia Qiu was furious and snapped, "Stop crying!"

Shirahoshi froze, turned her back, and started crying again, "I was scolded, Mr. Xia, please don't scold me so loudly."

"This is so annoying."

Xia Qiu gritted her teeth, making a grinding sound. This guy really loves to cry.

"Mr. Xia, Mr. Xia."

Shirahoshi patted Xia Qiu's forelegs, raised his upper body, and looked into his eyes.

"What's wrong now?"

Xia Qiu looked at her and asked.

Shirahoshi asked curiously, "Mr. Xia, you came from the land, right? You can live on land, can you?"

"Of course, why?" Xia Qiu asked, puzzled.

Shirahoshi asked expectantly, "Have you ever seen all kinds of flowers? And all kinds of furry animals, and green forests?"

"Yes, I've seen it."

Xia Qiu said, "Where I live, there are all kinds of flowers, and I've never seen any of them before. Moreover, there are many islands on the Grand Line with animals. There's an island with a tiger that's thirty meters long and a giant wolf that's twenty meters long. There's another island with dinosaurs. I've heard that on the Calm Belt, there's an island with animals that are hundreds of meters tall. And in the New World, there's an elephant with a city on its back."

"That's amazing."

Shirahoshi's eyes sparkled, and then she said expectantly, "I really want to see it, but..."

"Go see it if you want."

Xia Qiu took a bite of meat and said irritably, "Now that Vander Decken is gone, you don't have to worry about him attacking you."

"No, that won't work."

Shirahoshi shook his head vigorously, saying, "Humans on land are very hostile to Fish-Man, considering us monsters, so it's very difficult for us to go to land."

"Yeah?"

Xia Qiu sighed and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. Humans are always hostile towards other races."

Not to mention other races, even among humans, there is mutual hostility.

Shirahoshi asked, "But what did Mr. Xia do?"

"How was it done?" Xia Qiu asked, puzzled.

"It's about interacting with humans."

Shirahoshi said, "Mr. Xia, you have so many human subordinates, and your relationship seems to be quite good. How do you get along with them?"

How did you get along?

Xia Qiu thought for a moment and said, "You need to have enough strength to earn the respect of others."

"Is that so?" Shirahoshi's eyes immediately dimmed.

Although she is the Poseidon, she has not yet triggered her power a second time, nor can she control it freely.

Her own strength is weak, and more importantly, her kindness will be her fatal weakness.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore."

Shirahoshi smiled and said, "Thank you Mr. Xia, for helping me defeat Vander Decken. Now I can finally leave my residence and go to the Sea Forest to pay my respects to my mother."

"Sea Forest?"

Xia Qiu raised an eyebrow. "Let's park Noah near the Sea Forest."

Noah's Ark, half the length of Fish-Man Island, was large enough to hold him.

Shirahoshi smiled and said, "The Sea Forest is an underwater forest, unlike forests on land. It is mostly made of rocks and is located on the seabed in the northeast."

"Northeast?"

Xia Qiu nodded. She would go take a look before leaving tomorrow, and perhaps she could use Noah as her vehicle in the future.

"Is Mr. Xia very curious about the Sea Forest?" Shirahoshi asked, looking at Xia Qiu.

Xia Qiu nodded and said, "I'm a little curious."

"Then Mr. Xia, let's go together."

Shirahoshi immediately said, "I plan to visit my mother's grave tomorrow morning. I'll take you there to see her."

"Good."

Xia Qiu thought for a moment and nodded.

He wanted to see if Noah's buoyancy device could only be dragged by Sea King and whether it could rise on its own.