Chapter 315 – 13. Regina, the Vicious Outlaw of Wedgetooth Harbor

– Kagak!

A flying hook was lodged in the mast.

“Come on, let’s move on!!!”

A pirate clinging to the end of a tight rope! When I found him clinging to it with a shout, I immediately cut the rope.

“Kiyaaaaah”

-With a plop

“It sucks.”

The pirate, who had been flying like Tarzan, fell into the sea looking unsightly when the rope broke. As I laughed at that and raised my sword, the pirate who had been striking down the sailor looked at me and shouted.

“Here, a strange bastard?!”

Fuuk, the sword stabbed diagonally was lodged between the forehead and pierced the back of the head. Purureuk, before the blood flowing through the crack splashed, Pukuk kicked the ship and blew it away at the reeling pirate.

“Thank you!”

“If you get hurt, you fight like crazy.”

When I told him to back off because his arms were wobbly, the sailor looked at me with a moved face and ran away.

When I was gagging at the young man’s moving face, Arsil, who had her hood pressed down tightly, raised two daggers and stuck next to me.

“Even if there are injured soldiers during battle, it is wartime now.”

“Can’t I just do it for two people?”

“… I will believe you.”

– Wedge juice!

While chatting with Arsil, a heavy weight flew at me. I dodged lightly, but the pendulum at the end of the chain slithered like a snake and hit me once on the way back.

“Oops, I got kicked.”

“What is a puck?”

“This is it.”

Rattling, I picked up the hook that had fallen on the floor and looked at the pirate who was collecting weights by turning it lightly. The pirate, who had laughed at the hook drawing a circle, looked blankly at the hook that flew with the sound of the wind slicing.

“How about this street-!”

Kwajik, his nose collapsed and his teeth splattered everywhere. The pirate who had been beaten by his colleague’s teeth looked at me in horror, but I responded, pulled the hook, and I explained to Arsil while shaking off the blood stained at the end.

“This is bullshit.”

“… I hope you hit it hard. I will go to Captain Barkmun.”

“Take care.”

Fluttering, flapping her wings hidden in her robes briefly, I watched as Arsil ran away. I confirmed that she had completely disappeared and ran to her tardak, the pirate ship connected to the ship.

“As expected, robbing the base of anything will end the fastest.”

***

“Lord Cassano… “

Feeling the weight of a fleeting life hanging from the tip of the sword and dagger, Arsil watched the man running across the deck of the pirate ship in the distance.

Peruk, release the hook to break the skull and throw the knotted rope around the pirate’s neck.

He kicked the pirate with a hook in his skull and threw him into the sea, and the pirate tied to the rope was sucked into the sea like a criminal to be hanged.

“What do you do with that crazy bastard!”

“Look over there, it’s Shark Butcher Markel!!!”

Knock, Knock, Kwajik! Breaking the deck with an anchor, someone approached. Markel, who was covered in tattoos and had a fancy tinnitus, looked down at Cassano.

Arsil remembered the name Markel and involuntarily jumped up and shouted at Cassano.

“Markel is a foreigner with a bounty!!! Be careful, he’s notorious for 30 gold!”

“What a cute voice, it’s the perfect voice to wear in shackles and hear chirping every night.”

When the warning for Cassano was over, Markel glanced at Arsil with his long tongue sticking out. Her soggy, disgusting eyes made her queasy, but Arsil swallowed her curse and looked at Cassano.

‘The fighting ability is definitely excellent, but it may not be enough against wanted criminals… ‘

“I don’t touch other people’s co-workers.”

“Haha, don’t install it just because you’ve killed a few thugs, a guy like you-“

Squeak.

Peit, a solid line was drawn around Markel’s neck, who laughed sinisterly. The solid red line drawn on the dark skin pierced, and the moment it got darker, the heavy head rolled across the deck and fell at Cassano’s feet.

“Disgusting bastard.”

Fuck, Markel’s kicked head hung on a rope and collided with the pirate who was shouting, “Hey!” Cassano, who watched the two idiots drop into the sea with a splash, turned to Arsil and closed one eye with a wink.

“Can I get a bounty for this?”

The fact that the bounty is 30 gold means that the opponent is not an opponent to be ignored. The average cost of living for an imperial household was 3 gold, so it was a sufficient indicator of how much notoriety Markel had in the nearby waters.

“… Most bounties are paid for the head.”

“This.”

That man is trustworthy. Arsil, who for the first time let go of his distrust of humans, stared at Cassano with eyes like constellations reflecting the ocean.

***

Let’s cut off the hair or something, the spirit of the pirates who ran like crazy was completely broken.

“You fucking bastards!”

“If you’re going to come over, why don’t you put a hook on the mast and fuck it, fuck it!”

Pyo-eok, pyo-eok, the sailors who beat the pirates’ skulls tied with ropes, and the sailors who couldn’t get enough of them ran around the deck, clearing out the corpses.

“Ha, surrender. Take me to the port please… !”

“Is this bastard the captain?”

“Mr. Cassano.”

After looking at the cleanup, I slowly glanced over at the middle-aged man kneeling in front of Bakmun and Arsil. A rag-like uniform, a skimpy pirate hat and yellow teeth. Still, seeing the best color, the captain seemed to be right.

“Thanks to Cassano-sama’s handling of Markel, it was easily resolved. Thank you for your effort.”

“No, I’m insulting Arsil, but I have to do that much.”

“… You are kidding.”

“I’m not kidding.”

Arsil flinched, shrugged his shoulders, glanced at me with orange eyes, and turned his head away. I couldn’t understand the sensibility of looking at the sea out of the blue. For a moment, Bakmun with an excited face grabbed my hand.

Oh, the man suddenly shook hands.

“You really worked hard! As expected, he is the best talent that Arsil said he can trust. Really, I feel confident about the voyage ahead!”

“No. I’ve been through this kind of accident, but seeing that there are no problems, the captain’s skills have become more reliable.”

Haha!!! To say such a compliment, I am not gay.”

“Neither do I.”

I overheard the out of focus joke and threw the tied up pirate captain to the crew. It seems like a lot of people, but the bounty is 40 gold, so sweet profits made me salivate.

“Hey, Arsil. Is the original bounty spread like this?”

“It’s not like that. Markel and that captain were wanted robbers who persistently robbed only merchant ships, and the empire and the kingdom were eagerly awaiting them, so the amount was high.”

“Ah, but I was too weak to go through that.”

“… The Mane and Beard Pirates, which Markel has been involved in, are among the upper-middle-class pirates in the nearby waters. Of course, as our ship is supported by the Empire, there are many excellent sailors, especially… “

Glancing at me, Arsil sighed and turned his head.

“Anyway, it was great. I thought he was just throwing a silly joke… “

“Haha, I was just trying to lighten the mood. And what’s wrong with being cute?”

“… Three wives.”

Suddenly, Arsil, who took a step back with a familiar movement, squeaked and leaned against the fence.

Watching Bark Moon controlling the steering wheel and the sailors running around, I quietly stood next to Arsil, and hearing the sound of squeaking and wood, Arsil, who flinched, took out his dagger and began to trim it.

“By the way, how old is Regina?”

“Regina, you mean?”

“How does it compare to that size? Have you seen it?”

Arsil, who was wiping the dagger with a cloth, quietly nodded at my question.

“There is also a record of flying alone on the ship I was riding in the waters of the Empire.”

“Oh, is that enough?”

“… Regina’s Blue Tide Pirates are the strongest and most coherent of the pirates in the nearby waters. In addition, Regina has the ability to use her mana freely.”

“Aha.”

“But I think that with Cassano-sama’s skills I’ve seen her, she can beat Regina. “

“That conch and coral-covered cutlass?”

“Come to think of it, you said you met.”

“Yes, was that a weapon?”

“It is said to be an armament made in the ancient maritime kingdom. It is a fantasy weapon that is rumored to have been processed and fixed with various magic, mysterious metals, and a conch that appears only once in a thousand years.”

“Hey, I’d be comfortable with something like that too.”

“Regina is an unusual pirate from her background. Although it is a rumor… Rumor has it that the child was harvested by the sea witch.”

“A sea witch?”

“It is said to be the guardian of the sea worshiped by mermaids and sirens, but no one has ever seen it. The story of the sea witch is that Regina, who was drunk, talked about it in her tavern and wandered around the harbor.”

“Then it could be just drunkenness.”

“The Empire already thinks so and is not investigating further.”

“Oh, was it the intelligence service?”

When I asked again, remembering the facts I had forgotten, Arsil’s eyes pinched me.

“Regina, Regina… I guess I’ll have to try it once to figure it out.”

Scratching her chin, I thought about Regina, but I couldn’t easily imagine it. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to win, since it’s an ancient weapon with skills similar to mine, but I had to confront it first.

“Oh, I see the harbor.”

“How do I handle the bounty?”

“As the prince promised in advance, he said that half should be split evenly between the crew and the captain, and that Lady Cassano and I should keep the half.”

“… Aren’t you cheating on me?”

“Huh, did you get caught?”

“Really?”

When I looked at Arsil in surprise, a fluttering, strong wind blew off Arsil’s hood.

“It’s a joke.”

Arsil, who had a soft, gentle smile, looked at me with friendly eyes and quietly whispered.

She felt the wind as she enjoyed the afterglow of her first voyage, which ended without much trouble. The wind and the sweet smell of the sea wrapped around her body. There’s no way I’ll adapt to it because I’m leaving soon, but it was very sweet to think of it as a fleeting entertainment.

-So it’s been 15 days.

“Ha, fuck, are you fucked up?”

She sighed as she stroked the bristly beard that covered her chin and philtrum. Not even Regina, not even a single strand of her hair to be found.

I’m so fucking pissed off.