LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 59: Chapter 58
"But... Madam Xia Li is not someone that anyone will meet. She is so famous on Fishman Island that there are many people who want to see her."
Ethan raised his eyebrows. What does this have to do with him?
"Aren't you a clerk here? Please go in and report to her... There is someone outside who wants to see her. If she dares not to meet him, the Mermaid Cafe will be immediately wiped out from Fishman Island by the Divine Emperor Ethan."
"Ah?" Melo was shocked. She didn't expect that Ethan seemed so kind that she wanted to get close to him, but what he said now was extremely terrifying.
She subconsciously let go of Ethan's arm, and even the cute mermaids around her looked at her in surprise.
"You can't be telling the truth..."
Ethan saw her worried expression and laughed dumbly, "What are you afraid of? As long as you convey this sentence, are you afraid that Madam Xia Li won't see me?"
"Ethan is scaring Madam Xia Li!" Luraz on the side showed a wise look and secretly despised Melo.
"That's right..."
Melo was relieved when she heard this, but she really felt Ethan's seriousness in her heart, which frightened her unconsciously.
She couldn't help but mutter in her heart: Is Ethan a very contrasting human being?
Ethan's golden words, of course, can't be a joke. If Xia Li really refuses, he really doesn't mind changing a mermaid cafe for her.
"Go, don't worry, Madam Xia Li will see me. Even if she doesn't, can I really slaughter the beautiful mermaids here? I can't bear it."
This is the truth. Ethan's brother will protest. As for why his brother will protest, don't ask, asking too much will hurt feelings.
Melo nodded, and finally looked at him deeply, and then swam towards the depths of the mermaid cafe.
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Madam Xia Li's room.
Xia Li was sitting comfortably on the bubbles created by bubble corals, holding an ancient book in her hand, which looked like a divination book.
Xia Li, who was studying hard, had no idea that today was the day her fate would be changed.
Just then, Melo finally swam to the door and knocked three times gently.
"Come in!"
Xia Li's cold voice sounded, and the door opened. She looked up and smiled softly.
"It's Melo~ What's the matter?"
Melo rubbed the corners of her clothes unconsciously with both hands, and fine beads of sweat were faintly visible on her forehead. She murmured in a low voice:
"Lady Xia Li, don't be angry about what I'm going to say next..."
"Oh? What can make you so nervous? Do you want to resign and leave the Mermaid Cafe~" Xia Li put down the divination book in her hand with interest.
Melo bit his lower lip and said with a forced smile:
"No... Luraz and I met a human in the Mermaid Bay. He called himself God Ethan..."
"What!?" Melo was interrupted by Xia Li's exclamation before he finished speaking, "Are you okay? He is a wanted criminal by the World Government! The bounty is as high as 300 million Baileys."
"Ah?" Melo was stunned. He didn't expect there was such a handsome and gentle bounty criminal!
"Hey! What's wrong with you?"
Melo came back to her senses from her imagination and hurriedly continued: "He said he wanted to see you... and threatened you that if you dared to refuse the meeting request, the Mermaid Cafe would be wiped out by him."
Xia Li glared with shark eyes and said unhappily: "Ethan actually said that, how can he be so arrogant!"
She said so, but she knew in her heart that Ethan did have the capital to be arrogant.
"Where is he now?"
"Waiting at the Mermaid Cafe..."
"This..." Xia Li was speechless. She quickly glanced at the door behind Melo...
It was half-open...not closed!
I don't know if Melo did it on purpose or because she was nervous. A strong man like Ethan might have heard everything they said.
She sighed helplessly, waved her hand and said, "Go and call him over!"
"Yes! Lady Xia Li!"
"No need. I'm here. Madam Xia Li, I've heard a lot about you."
A flash of lightning leaped in front of Xia Li without any warning. After flashing for a moment, it turned into Ethan's figure. Teleporting through the electric field is his specialty.
His eyes wandered wantonly on Xia Li's body, and he immediately sighed: What a big... body. I'm afraid she must be more than five meters tall when she stands up...
More than five meters made him feel a little uncontrollable. Wouldn't it be even more difficult for him to deal with Shirahoshi's size of more than ten meters?
No! We must find a way to make it bigger!
Big fruit... San Juan Wolf! It's you.
Ethan made a quick decision and continued to admire Xia Li's beauty:
Short black hair covering the right side of her face, cool blue eyes, rosy lips, inhumanly white skin and a very plump upper body...
A dark purple hoodie wrapped around her upper body, with only the middle button buttoned, revealing her ravine and belly, making people want to find out.
The front half of the tail is dark blue, the back half is white, there is a cute dorsal fin at the lower waist, and a pair of small crescent fins at the tip of the tail.
In just a moment, Ethan took in the scenery Xia Li showed. Xia Li was so generous at home, which was a bargain for him, an uninvited guest.
Xia Li also stared at him blankly. Sure enough, she heard what they both said. She looked Ethan up and down and said coldly, "You are Ethan? You can't judge a person by his appearance!"
"Squaw~" Melo's eyes were full of shining stars. If Xia Li was not there, she would have wanted to poke Ethan.
Seeing Melo's performance, Xia Li supported her forehead speechlessly, "Melo, you go out first!"
"Yes!" Melo retreated angrily and gave Ethan a little "good luck" look before leaving.
Ethan smiled in return, and with a thought, he closed the door.
"Tell me, what do you want to do with me?" Xia Li was frightened by Ethan's aura, and unconsciously straightened her body.
Of course, it's to do... ahem, do some serious work.
Ethan was unmoved by Xia Li's indifference. Being cold is also a kind of fun. He believes that his hot temperature will soften her body and mind.
"What else can I do? It is said that Madam Xia Li's predictions are 100% accurate. I came to you for your divination skills..."
"Madam Xia Li, can you predict my future for me?"
Xia Li frowned. This is indeed the reason why most people come to her, but she has gradually stopped predicting the future because she has seen too many misfortunes.
She responded expressionlessly: "If you are just here for divination, please leave. I stopped divination a few years ago."
Ethan sneered. Is this fooling him?
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Xia Li: A great blue shark mermaid, 520cm tall, super cute when she was a child, and a cold queen when she grew up. Because of her accurate predictions, she is honored as "Madam Xia Li". Now she has fallen into the hands of the protagonist, and this title is well deserved.
If Xia Li had stopped using divination, how could it be so coincidental that she couldn't wait to tell fortunes for Luffy as soon as she saw him? Is it the protagonist's halo? ?
Ethan spread out his right hand, and a purple-black lightning-like "⋚" quietly rotated, with a "hissing" sound coming out from time to time. An invisible pressure spread over Xia Li's chest, making her physically and mentally depressed and having difficulty breathing.
"One hundred percent prediction accuracy... Hehe, this is very difficult..."
"How about this, you might as well predict what will happen if you choose to refuse my order and cause this lightning to fall on Fishman Island..."
"Order..." Xia Li opened her mouth angrily to reveal her small fangs, and a surge of anger surged in her open chest, trying to get rid of the pressure on her body...
Unfortunately, she was only angry for a while, and the pressure Ethan exerted on her could not be broken by her own strength.
Xia Li had no choice but to force herself to use a cold and hard tone to speak soft and frank words.
"Hmph! It's not that I don't want to tell fortunes for you. My fortune telling can only predict things related to me in the future, and cannot predict things for other specific people."
"Oh?" Ethan saw that she didn't look like she was lying. After thinking about her previous predictions, he found that it was true. He pondered for a moment and had to settle for the next best thing.
"It's related to you... Then tell the future of Fishman Island. If that doesn't work, then... Hmph."
"The future of Fishman Island..." Xia Li kept choking. Ethan threatened her like this. She was nothing.
If the future of Fishman Island is predicted to be good, the other party will directly destroy Fishman Island. If it is predicted to be bad, the other party will say that you are right and continue to destroy Fishman Island...
"Don't worry, as long as you agree to the fortune telling and tell me the results of the fortune telling, I will not do anything to you no matter whether it is good or bad for me."
Of course, this is bullshit.
Xia Li sighed faintly, knowing that she couldn't escape today. What kind of ability is predicting the future? Only strength can decide everything.
"Okay! I agree to help you with divination, I hope you won't go back on your word..."
Xia Li slowly turned around and took out the crystal ball used for divination from the mouth of a large clam behind her.
At this point, things were out of her control, so she decided to give Ethan a psychological preparation first.
"Let me make it clear in advance that although I can accurately foresee future events, I cannot predict the exact time when the event will occur."
"I understand."
"Next, you can choose to go out or stay here, but you need to stay still and don't make any sound or move to affect me!"
Ethan nodded and indicated that he was ready.
Xia Li got up and swam to the table next to Ethan, put the crystal ball on a red cushion, and prepared to start divination.
Xia Li closed her eyes first, took a few deep breaths, and focused her spirit and attention.
After meditating for a while, she suddenly opened her hands, facing the crystal ball with her palms, and entered the divination state.
After a while, Xia Li opened her eyes coldly and stared into the crystal ball.
Countless images and strange symbols appeared in the crystal ball at some point. If other people were to look at the crystal ball, they would only return home disappointed and find nothing.
Mrs. Xia Li concentrated and used her divination knowledge and intuition to interpret the future information. After all the interpretations were completed, her eyes suddenly became dull.
Xia Li's consciousness and vision came to the future, where she saw:
Fishman Island is no longer deep in the sea. It stands quietly in the sky above 10,000 meters most of the time.
The mermaids and the fishmen are no longer closely connected. The original fishman island was renamed Mermaid Island and was full of mermaid girls. The fishmen and male mermaids were arranged by Ethan to another island, named Fishman Island.
As more information was released, she knew the reason. The owner of Mermaid Island became Ethan. Under his divine power, Mermaid Island was controlled by him, floated on the ground, and flew to the sky that mermaids yearned for.
There was sunshine and beautiful scenery there. The beautiful girls of the mermaid tribe played together with joy. The mermaids and male mermaids were willing to dedicate their strength to Ethan because he gave too much.
"Wait!? That's me!?" Xia Li's consciousness suddenly widened her shark eyes and looked at a high point on Mermaid Island.
She saw herself lying on a human taller than her with a happy and satisfied face. Behind him was the shy and charming Princess Shirahoshi, and there were a lot of beautiful people around her... mermaids.
After a closer look, she found that many of the mermaids were people she knew, because those familiar faces were the mermaids in the Mermaid Cafe, and Melo and Luraz were among them, but they were prettier than now.
Xia Li was shocked and quickly looked at the man holding her, and found that his face was actually... Ethan!!
Just when she was overwhelmed by the result of the divination, Ethan in the picture suddenly turned back and glanced at her inadvertently.
Strong fear instantly filled her heart, the picture was shattered, and her consciousness was forced to leave...
"Bang!!!"
The next moment, the crystal ball exploded, Xia Li screamed and instinctively stepped back.
Ethan reacted very quickly and came behind Xia Li in a flash, using his "petite" body and small hands that didn't match Xia Li to embrace her... and hold her jade back.
The crystal ball fragments produced by the explosion were controlled by him to return to their original positions.
"Mrs. Xia Li, are you okay~"
Xia Li seemed not to hear his words, helplessly collapsed on him, holding her head, frowning slightly, as if she was enduring unbearable pain.
"Mrs. Xia Li?" The beauty was holding Ethan but had no ambiguous thoughts. The current in his hand was running, stabilizing Xia Li's mind.
Ethan's operation was effective immediately. After a few breaths, Xia Li lowered her hand that was protecting her forehead. After realizing her situation, her delicate body trembled for a moment, and she immediately struggled to leave Ethan's arms.
Ethan forcibly sent her back to the bubble seat before letting her break free.
"What did you see? It made you so frightened that even the crystal ball of prophecy exploded."
Xia Li remained silent, staring blankly at the broken crystal, and her imagination ran wild:
The rupture of the crystal ball is not a bad thing, it just means that the future after that picture is not something she can peek into.
Her predictions would never go wrong, which was the proof of her past achievements and her confidence as a fortune teller, but...
Doesn't this mean that she will become the... virtuous wife of the man behind her?
Such a nasty man who forced her to do fortune telling in a coercive manner, and her final outcome was to choose to marry him?