At sea (4)
A sharp metallic sound rang out.
To be honest, I didn’t think the first attack would work.
I just swung my sword reflexively because I didn’t want to hear him brag about it anymore.
Tug blocked his sword with the long ax handle and grinned, showing yellow teeth, as if he liked it.
“I’m talking about a surprise attack, it’s so wonderful! If you lose to me, won’t you pirate together?”
“Yeah, look around.”
As I said before, there was no time to listen to bullsh*t.
Even in the midst of this, the birthday trip with Rize was running toward the end.
So, I had no intention of matching it to his rhythm.
It wasn’t that he had good information enough to mix things up.
As much as he was carrying around a pirate fleet, he was a pirate by profession, and he had excellent weapons and charisma to control the pirates.
As much as it caused a lot of civilian damage, the navy issued a wanted order to Tug, but later, even one admiral lost his life.
Well, after that, the world was in a mess, so the empire couldn’t afford to worry about trivial problems like pirates.
I also didn’t care what happened to Tug after that.
“Come on, show off your skill at fooling my crew! If you woke me up because it wasn’t fun, shouldn’t you please me!”
“Why are these guys talking so much?”
As well as Karga, who fought before, as well as the storied minorities living in the Endless Forest and Southern Desert.
People who said, “I’m a villain,” all talked a lot.
I wondered if they were fighting with their mouths, but it wasn’t that they couldn’t fight even though they were talking like that.
For me, who hears the same thing every time we fight, that was one of the annoying elements.
Still, it was fortunate that he had no experience fighting Tug.
“Hey, if you’re just going to watch, bring some rum. You still don’t know that I don’t fight without a drink, you nerds!”
Then one of the raucous pirates threw a bottle at Tug, who took it with one hand and drank it down again.
Even fighting was a pirate, he was literally a drunkard.
It was quite difficult to swing the ax while drinking alcohol between attacks, as there was no set method.
Even now, isn’t he swinging the ax as if to stop interfering with his drinking?
“Puha! Other guys frantically try to kill me when I drink, but I’m very relaxed. good, good!”
Tug, wiping his mouth roughly with his sleeve, threw the bottle away aimlessly and pointed at me with a single-edged axe.
“In the pirate world, strong guys are everything! If you want something, win and take it!”
“It’s filthy noisy, really. They just don’t like it when the sea beggars come around.”
He lowered his stance, rushed in, and slashed with all his might from the bottom to the top.
But Tug took a step back and slammed the ax he had lifted into the air straight down, as if chopping firewood.
The floor was dug up, and I kicked the ax shaft and swung my sword at the guy’s face at the same time.
Giving up the ax without hesitation, Tug stepped back, snatched a cutlass from one of his men, and swung it straight at me.
The swordsmanship was also quite fierce, making sharp metal sounds several times.
“alcohol! Bring a drink quickly!”
Even so, I urged the pirates and another shot of alcohol flew in, and I swung my sword and cut the barrel.
As the alcohol sprayed into the air in one gulp, Tug glared at me with wide open eyes.
“This bastard doesn’t even know how precious alcohol is at sea!”
He pushed me roughly as if he was about to headbutt me, then grabbed his ax that was still stuck on the floor.
The ax blade flew towards me, cutting through the wind, and as I ducked to avoid it, a kick came flying.
This is the first attack I’ve seen.
Still, after being bitten by an elbow with no difficulty, I also swung my sword and attacked Tug.
There were dozens of metallic sounds, Tug’s shouts for alcohol, and the roar of broken bottles echoed alternately.
With the game still undecided, Tug glared at me.
“Do you still have something to hide? It’s obvious that you’ve been fighting all this time and haven’t even gasped yet. show me somewhere Or I’ll go first.”
Then, holding the ax with both hands, he set it upright and aimed at it.
My body was tingling with the intimidation that flowed from him, and soon after, Tug spurred hard on the floor and rushed at me.
The ax with such intense power that it seemed as if it would split the ship intact fell like a guillotine.
I dodged the attack pretty narrowly and threw the sword at Tug… … Instead of facing, he turned around and swung hard towards the back.
“It’s cool?! uh, how… … !”
“well.”
On the other side stood a fierce pirate with several scars on his face holding his chest.
“Scar! You, this baby! ”
He was a second-in-command right below Tug, and his speciality was to surprise him in this way when the fight was prolonged.
I got hit once at first.
It was a mistake to focus only on Tug while watching the subordinate pirates who were quietly waiting for a fight unlike pirates.
So from then on, I focused on the game after drawing out scars. As you can see from using this kind of ambush, there was a reason why Scar was good at running away, so he wanted to finish it off before Tug.
Even if I missed it, it was a small thing compared to Tug.
That’s why it’s less than an hour.
“You won’t need to control your strength anymore.”
With his eyes on Scar as he fell to the floor, he lunged at Tug and swung his sword.
Even though he was angry, he calmly swung his ax to block my attack, and I turned around and… … Transformed the sword into an axe.
“What?!”
When the opponent’s weapon suddenly changed, Tug was also taken aback. He’d never faced a shape-changing weapon before.
I walked with the blades of the ax and pulled him toward me, then punched him in the face.
“Kuh! What are you doing?! Kill this bastard!”
“Ooh!”
Tug, who had stepped back a few steps, screamed hysterically, and the pirates, who had been far away, attacked again.
As if he was going to lose his stamina, Tug was drinking from a bottle.
Drinking even though the vice-captain is dead, I wonder if he’s taking it easy, but to him, alcohol was far from that kind of thing.
To be honest, I thought he would attack in desperation, but it seemed that he had other plans.
I hadn’t fought Tug too much, so it wouldn’t surprise me that he had some trick hidden.
So I’ll have to kill it before that.
[Breaking the limit]
Like when he flew while stepping on a shell, he moved at a tremendous speed and fired straight at Tug, clearing the pirates in his way with an axe.
“Kuh, I didn’t think I would be writing this here… … !”
He said that and took something out of his pocket.
Oh, you know that.
“Search!”
Qurrr!
In an instant, the lightning that exploded around Tug drew a circle and swept all over the place.
Without knowing what it was, the pirates who were caught up in the vicinity couldn’t even scream and fell to the ground as their bodies turned black.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! Ungainly! It must have been very nicely browned! Damn, if I had known it would be this powerful, I would have used it a long time ago. No, as expected next time, with a trump card like this… … .”
“It is disposable.”
As I commented, Tug raised his head and made an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
After looking back and forth between the marble he was holding and my face several times, he opened his trembling mouth.
“Uh, how… … ?”
“well.”
What he used was a magic tool called the essence of lightning, and it was to release the lightning stored inside in an instant.
As we just saw, it was capable of knocking out quite a few people, but the downside was that it was disposable and could be avoided as long as you knew the timing of its activation.
If it wasn’t for breaking through the limits, I might have tanned my hair.
It’s a later story, but I wondered if he might have used this to defeat the admiral.
Although now it has become an impossible future.
After cutting the head of the devastated guy, I returned the ax to the form of a sword, and suddenly saw the guy collapsing.
Perhaps because of the shock, a piece of paper was sticking out.
When I unfolded it slightly, it seemed to be a sea chart, so I took care of it. If it was a treasure map, I wondered if I could explore it later with Rize.
After finishing his errands, he turned around and saw the pirates in silence.
“Now, what about you?”
I caught the captain and vice-captain, and the gunners were also scolded.
I had to see that there was no need to catch these guys because they were so hard. Still, it’s just like leaving it alone… … .
As I was thinking about it, the pirates hesitated and did not know what to do.
It might have been a continent, but it was a vast sea here, and no matter how good a swimmer, I didn’t know if they could safely get to the island.
Among them, there were those who were prepared to die and looked determined in their eyes.
Hmm, annoying.
It was a moment when I wanted to break all the masts and leave.
Wow!
In an instant, the ship rocked violently with a great shock.
It was such a big shock that even the pirates couldn’t properly balance it.
I also stumbled once, then jumped up from the spot and climbed onto the deck to look around.
I was worried that something might have happened to the ferry.
However, contrary to my worries, Rize, the first thing I saw from the passenger ship that got a little closer, was smiling broadly.
“Kyahahahaha! Wow!”
Rize raised both hands and screamed as she watched them swim between the passenger and pirate ships.
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“It’s a whale!”
Chow ah!
As if waiting for that sound, a whale jumped out of the water and laid its huge body back down, creating a raging wave.
Whales were not all alone.
As if all the whales in this area were gathered, numerous whales were circling around the passenger and pirate ships.
Among them, there was a whale that touched the pirate ship and went.
Do you think this is the enemy?
I heard such questions, but I wanted to finish what I had to do, so I transformed my sword into an ax again.
When the smaller of the two masts was broken first, it fell over like a tree and broke without mercy.
“Uh, that bastard has a mast!”
“Hey, hold on! Wanna die?!”
“Will you save me if I see you like that?”
I even smashed the main mast vigorously while watching the pirates who jumped out from below with a murmur.
It’s going very cool.
I nodded my head in satisfaction, put the returned sword into the scabbard, held onto the railing, and looked at the passenger ship.
“dad! are you okay?!”
“okay! Daddy’s done!”
Whose daughter is it? Her voice is booming.
After waving his hand in response, he briefly estimated the distance to the ferry, but it was a bit too far to go over at once.
But it’s a bit difficult to swim, so I was a little worried about whether I should wait for the passenger ship to come or look for a small boat in the pirate ship.
However, whales were still swimming everywhere, so it seemed difficult for the ferry to approach.
Why are there so many of them gathered?
As I pondered such a question, the sea beneath me suddenly gushed up.
It rises to a height similar to that of a pirate ship, and it is the nose of a whale… … Should I say, it was the part close to the back.
While bewildered by the sudden situation, the whale lightly bumped into the pirate ship.
It’s light from the whale’s point of view, but in reality, I had to keep my balance because the boat was bouncing around.
“You want me to ride?”
I didn’t understand the situation, so when I talked to myself like that, I heard the whale’s low cry as if it was answering.
I was puzzled, but I didn’t know what to do and carefully climbed onto the whale’s back.
Then, as if waiting, the whale began to swim with its back on the surface of the water.
The direction, of course, was toward the passenger ship.
When I rode the whale, the crew and passengers went into a frenzy.
I didn’t do it to get this much attention.
“Wow! dad! Sisters, look! Dad is riding a whale!”
Still, since Rize was so happy, I wondered if it was a good thing.
Soon after arriving at the passenger ship, the whale raised its body a little higher, and Rize, who leaned against the railing, greeted me.
“Dad, that’s really great! It just flew like this, and it just flew over there… … !”
“Rize, come here.”
After stopping Rize for a while, who was talking excitedly, instead of going up, I lifted Rize and put her on the whale’s back.
Then he leaned down and patted the back of the whale with the palm of his hand and spoke.
“I’m sorry, but if it’s okay, could you give me a little more ride? My daughter loves whales.”
“Uh huh?”
Rize blinked in panic, and soon the height slowly lowered along with the cries of the whale.
I wondered if it was going to go into the sea like this, but the whale started to swim with its back slightly sticking out like before.
“Ahahahaha! Wow! dad!”
Rize immediately cheered and expressed her happiness with her whole body.
Who could have imagined the line of riding a whale in the sea?
Thinking that this would be the best birthday present for Rize this time, she raised her eyebrows.
Then, suddenly, his gaze turned downward.
Many whales were swimming together, with the whale we were riding at the head… … .
“dad? what’s the matter?”
“huh? no, nothing.”
At Rize’s call, I raised my head and brushed off what I had seen for a very short time.
Than a whale the size of a passenger ship… … It seemed that there was a bigger shadow, but it must have been my mistake.
right?