Yoshiyuki inserted the wooden knife into his waist, walked out of the teaching building, and returned to Erina and Hime-chan.

Feeding the fish is over.

Now, both mother and daughter are looking at the goldfish fighting for food in the pool, showing happy expressions.

Especially Xiaoji.

There was a hint of relief in her smile.

It can be seen that Demon Sword Girl likes these fish very much. She probably cares about them a lot.

Thinking about it from this perspective, Yoshiyuki suddenly felt that there was another reason why Arisa didn't go here to fish and eat.

That was because he was afraid of angering Xiaoji and then being hacked to death.

Although he didn't know what the black and white cat was, Yoshiyuki felt that she probably couldn't beat Xiaoji.

He will be sent away quickly by Huangquan swordsmanship.

"Oh, you are back, servant!" Erina turned to look at Yoshiyuki, and her attention quickly returned to the goldfish. She pointed at them and shouted excitedly: "Look! These goldfish look good when they eat.

Cute! So cute and cute!”

"Indeed." Yoshiyuki looked at the fat goldfish opening their mouths to inhale the fish food, and couldn't help complaining again: "But it feels like they will suck in the one-yen coins at the bottom of the pond accidentally... Is that okay?

?”

"It shouldn't matter." Erina said enthusiastically: "I'm thinking, it would be nice if the pond was bigger! In that case, there might be a fish king."

"If the Fish King appears, this will no longer be a wishing pond, but will become a lake!"

The so-called king of fish is the largest and strongest fish in a body of water.

Basically every big lake has one.

Generally speaking, the king fish is carp.

Some of these Magikarp have spiritual powers. They are not useless creatures who can only splash and jump, and they do not need to evolve into Gyarados to have powerful power.

Some giant fish kings with particularly strong magical power even have the ability to control wind and rain in certain areas, so they will be sacrificed.

There is a king fish in the lake in Yitian Village. It looks like a giant golden-red carp with long tentacle-like tentacles and gorgeous scales. It can speak human language.

Its voice is inexplicably close to Grandpa Erina's, but it has its own echo and is extremely low-pitched, making it very high-pitched.

The tribute requested by the fish king was a dumpling made with a giant earthworm as the main ingredient and a large amount of sugar. It smelled of earthy, bloody and sweet mixed. Erina secretly ate one and almost vomited her stomach out.

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These fish dumplings are specially offered to the King of Fish. When paying tribute, they are pulled directly to the lake on a cart and then poured in.

In exchange, it protects Yitian Village from droughts and floods. It has always been effective.

The three of them watched the goldfish fight for food for a while.

As Yoshiyuki looked at it, he suddenly felt the emotion of life in his heart.

These fish seem to be very leisurely every day, just swimming here, eating and waiting to die.

But in fact, their lives are also full of undercurrents.

The sprinkled fish food is eaten first by the strongest goldfish first. The weaker goldfish cannot squeeze through at all and can only wait beside and below. Before the strong goldfish are full, they can only share the food and drop it.

of residue.

Therefore, those fish that use force to seize the most food will become stronger and continue to have the advantage the next time they eat, creating an infinite cycle.

Fortunately, the fish food given by Xiaoji was enough for them to eat.

Otherwise, there would not be a large pile of goldfish whirring in the pond, but a few fat fish and a large number of lean fish.

Erina looked at the goldfish pond and also fell into thinking.

Of course, it was always difficult for her to bear the feeling of thinking alone, so she mentioned it like this.

"Hey, Yi Xing. What do these goldfish think of these coins?"

"I think they will only classify the things put into the pool into edible and inedible categories." Yi Xing thought for a moment and said: "So they probably think these coins are annoying and not food, so it's best

Don’t surrender.”

"That's true, but that's not what I'm asking." Erina asked seriously: "I want to say, how do they understand the falling coin?"

"Miss, what do you mean?"

"That is to say, when Xiao Ji throws the bait, the goldfish will know that food is coming. And realize that occasionally food will fall to the water for them to eat. Right? But when the coin falls, these people don't know that humans are making wishes.

How would a goldfish understand this phenomenon?"

"I understand." Yoshiyuki understood what Erina was thinking and was a little surprised: "Miss, you can actually think about philosophical issues."

"What do you mean? You look down on people, don't you?" Erina rubbed Xiao Ji and complained: "I also think about such and such things every day! It's no less than you think!"

"Yes, yes." Yoshiyuki said with a wry smile: "I feel that the fish do not necessarily understand the reason why the coin fell. They may not actively think about this issue at all. They just regard this as a natural phenomenon that occurs occasionally.

Just treat it. It’s no different from rain or something.”

"After all, this kind of ordinary goldfish can't think like a human being. So from our point of view, we will indeed come to this conclusion." Erina thought for a moment and said again: "But I think goldfish can still be aware of coins.

It was thrown down by someone."

"The coins may hit them and they won't be able to eat them. Thinking about it this way, will the goldfish think that the person who throws the coins is some kind of evil existence? And the little Ji who gives them food is a kind existence?"

"It's possible. Fish can also recognize people." Yi Xing thought for a while and said: "Don't we have a fish tank at home? When the person who always feeds it approaches the fish tank, the fish will swim over and lean on the fish tank.

He sticks to it."

"Yes! This is the key!"

Erina said enthusiastically.

"So what if goldfish also regard evil beings and good beings as evil gods and good gods? Then will they respect Xiaoji as their gods and pray? If there are enough goldfish, then believers

Wouldn’t it be possible for Xiaoji to gain divine power with his thoughts? By then, Xiaoji will not only be Demon Sword Girl, but also Goldfish Girl!”

"No, no, Miss, it's impossible! The faith of a low-level intelligent creature like a goldfish is completely useless!"

Although his first reaction was to correct his mistake, Yoshiyuki was momentarily shocked by Erina's brain circuitry.

What shocked him was that Erina reminded him of a fact that he had rarely realized before.

That is - human beings' fear of many evil gods and strange phenomena is actually the same logic as goldfish.

These gods and the sources of strange phenomena may not have any malicious intent at all. They just inadvertently do something similar to "tossing a coin", which makes people fear them and even presuppose that they are evil.
Chapter completed!