You and me under the world tree

Eggers is certainly not the kind of person who gets angry easily, and Hodder's first impression of her is that she is warm and cheerful.

But that doesn't mean she's weak in character.

If she didn't have a little level and strength, the two giant wolves couldn't be so docile.

"So how did you come here?"

After appeasing her two wolves, Eggers repeated her previous question.

"No way, I just came out of Utgarde."

"Ah."

In fact, Hodder's response was hardly an answer in any way.

He didn't follow the question to answer the reason, he just said where he came from.

More importantly, there is no certain connection before and after his answer.

But at this moment, this answer is just right.

Because all intelligent creatures can think, and they naturally have a certain liking for them, Eggers quickly found a reasonable explanation for Hodder.

"That's right, you have to go back to the hotel after all."

She just muttered like that.

"However, you should actually spend the night at Utgarde."

Over there for a night in Utgarde?

What a joke.

Not to mention the question of whether to rest assured, he still has a partner waiting at the hotel.

Thinking of this, the corner of Hodder's mouth twitched.

"It's not necessary."

He didn't say anything nutritious, Hodder just denied and shook his head again.

"I'm not interested in sleeping with him, not to mention that we haven't talked about the house yet."

"what happened?"

"It's nothing, he said that I don't have land, so I can't build my own house, so I guess I have to visit Gloria tomorrow."

"You can live with me."

"It's not good to bother you all the time."

Hodder's answers on this front have been spot on.

But soon, he couldn't help frowning.

"However, you seem to have something else to say before?"

Preconceived and completely pulled the topic away.

And Eggers obviously didn't react in the first time, so he couldn't help but follow the words.

"what?"

"No, it's what you said before, is there any problem with the city of ash at night?"

First change the subject, and then ask your own questions.

This is actually a common practice in speech.

However, it is worth mentioning that Hodder himself is indeed somewhat curious about this aspect.

Eggers' attitude did make him aware of the message in this regard.

What to say?

It feels like humans shouldn't be outside.

It could even be a little more brutal.

"Could it be that the laws in the City of Ash Trees will be invalidated at night? Are human beings walking on the streets not guaranteed safety?"

Although the topic is sensitive in nature, it may be that what Hodder said is too outrageous.

Instead of having any worries, Eggers rolled his eyes.

"How can there be such a thing, let's not talk about other things, murdering you is not good for us giants, so we won't..."

She obviously saw through what Hodder wanted to say, after all, she was not stupid.

But just when she was about to explain something, her own voice was cut off so abruptly.

"No what?"

"Won't……"

All of a sudden, Eggers hesitated, obviously without that kind of confidence.

"That is to say, that kind of thing actually happened here?"

Howard just narrowed his eyes.

"There are always one or two scumbags who don't respect life."

Agather really can't lie.

So I can only express this fact frankly.

However, she still wanted to save something after all.

"But you can rest assured that there are actually no casualties, and those injured humans are all fine."

Giants are omnipotent in terms of magical attainments.

For example, the "spare life" that Utgard showed before, even though the flesh had been beaten to a pulp, his servants were quickly revived.

So it doesn't seem surprising that giants can keep humans alive?

But, there is a problem here, that is, the giant's human servants are actually different from ordinary humans.

Those servants of the giant have been shrouded in magic, and their bodies can retain a glimmer of life even when they are beaten into mud, and finally have enough time to change their bodies.

But ordinary humans are different. If they are killed, they will definitely go to the land of death.

and so……

"Torture."

"..."

Agather suddenly lost his voice.

"Even if they are intact, I don't know if they will leave a shadow in their hearts."

They are all still alive, and there is only one answer, that is, they did not leave any fatal injuries.

Or some giants didn't think about killing at all.

But as mentioned before, they don't respect life, so what they do is almost ready to come out.

"Torturing life, getting a sense of accomplishment from abuse, this kind of thing..."

"Magic can make them forget this memory."

Suddenly, Eggers raised her voice, and she couldn't help interrupting Hodder's words.

However, she probably also understood that her words were untenable, so her voice became lower and lower.

"In short, Gloria issued a ban on humans."

She quickly skipped the topic and said the last important point.

"Humans are not allowed to go out at night."

"To humans? Not to giants?"

Chapter 22: Restriction, Protection

Originally, Eggers wanted to say something else.

Whether it was an explanation or an excuse, she just wanted to explain all of this kind of thing clearly.

This city is already full of crises for humans, and the racial gap between giants and humans is really difficult to bridge, no matter in terms of personal strength or size.

It's not that Eggers himself doesn't understand this.

But she actually didn't want to see the gap between the two parties getting deeper and deeper.

In her eyes, there was no need for this at all.

She didn't want to see giants oppressing humans, but she also didn't want to see humans hostile to giants.

Not to mention, the human being in front of him is still his friend.

But the problem was that she had just started a conversation, and Huo De's seemingly random question made her scalp tingle.

How should he respond to this question?

For a moment, Eggers felt that his head was empty, and there was nothing.

"actually……"

Eggers was just stuck there, anxious and helpless could not help but appear on that pretty face.

What should I say now?

No, what should be asked is, what can be said now?

The more she tried to explain, the more she found herself speechless.

"But that's all there is to it."

Just staring at the scrambling giantess, Hodder spoke again.

He could tell that Eggers was a good person, and because of Utgard and Hela, he didn't think about making the relationship deadlocked.

"After all, this is the world of your giants, and it is normal behavior to restrict outsiders."

Strictly speaking, this is indeed the case, and Hodder understands this very well.

"Punishing lawbreakers is one aspect, but to control the chaos that will occur at night, we can only start from the source."

And there are two sources of so-called confusion.

One is a giant, and the other is a human being who is the victim.

But as Hodder said before, this is the world of giants.

Even though the city of ash itself is located on the border of Jotunheim and is the first big city that can be encountered after coming out of the Iron Forest, it is still a city of giants.

Even a trading city that is open to the outside world is also a trading city for giants.

Maybe no one usually pays attention to this prefix, but it is actually very important, because it itself represents a kind of bias.

Gloria herself is also a giant, and she has no problem with her brain, so she will inevitably impose restrictions on humans.

"One size fits all, this method is still very useful in terms of solving the root cause of conflicts."

Just looking at Hodder's calm expression like this, Eggsor's breathing became rapid.

"not like this."

she whispered.

In fact, Huode himself didn't use a single dirty word from the beginning to the end, and his tone can only be described as calm.

But Eggers suddenly had such a strange idea at this time.

Compared to this terrifying calm, she hoped that the person in front of her would lose her temper.

In short, it's better to be a little excited. In that case, she might not be so restless in her heart.

But now, she even felt a little uncomfortable.

Statements that are clearly stating certain facts may be more damaging to her ears than that straightforward insult.

As for why, it is probably because the central figure of this topic is not herself.