83 – Chapter 29. Spirit and Sea – 4
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Bartiers was locked in his captain’s room for a while, seemingly discouraged.
However, after lunch, he steadfastly went out to post the strategy on the bulletin board, and his subordinates, the spirits of water and land, gathered like a cloud as soon as the operation order was posted, even though he was in control.
In the meantime, seeing Bar Tiers being beaten by spirits, he didn’t even think to laugh.
He thought he was too much for the captain, but even when he asked a few spirits, even when he grabbed his face and made him stare at Bartiers, none of the spirits recognized him.
Except for me and the wind spirit.
Bartiers returned to the captain’s room with a tired expression on his face, lying on his desk and drooping.
“Have you been like that all this time?”
Bar Tiers turned his head to the side and pouted his lips.
“When I first fell here, there were a lot of enemies, so everyone was distracted, and the war was waged by indirectly leaving a message to the superior water spirit who was guarding here.”
Bartier got up and took some cookies out of the cookie jar.
“But the higher spirit was attacked, so I had to protect this area.”
Bartier put one cookie in his mouth and handed the other one to me.
He took it and ate it, and it tasted pretty good.
“All of them are veterans who have been on my ship since the Shinma War, so there was no problem in naval battles, but ships require frequent maintenance on land. If we go out to sea for a while, there are a few islands that we own.”
“Aha.”
The secret of dissemination seems to have been solved.
It won’t be easy to get supplies in the middle of the sea, so maybe it’s a way to bring supplies to a designated island.
Bartiers created a large drop of water in the air and drank it in a cup.
“I cannot give detailed orders such as setting the route to that place, adjusting the supply schedule, locating and eliminating enemies that appear frequently, etc. Everyone below me has the same rank.”
There was a big difference among the spirits according to the upper, middle, and lower classes, but there was no upper or lower rank within the same class.
It is questionable whether there are higher spirits here, but if there are more than two, it is difficult for anyone to step forward and take command.
“If I wasn’t here, someone from the middle class would naturally rise to the upper ranks and take control, or they would lose and retreat.
“Well. So what about Sophia?”
“Oh, Sophia. He was a good man He understood my situation right away and helped me a lot.”
It is said that the bulletin board in the break room was also made by Mr. Sophia, and it is said that he delivered many orders of Bartiers directly or indirectly.
Thanks to you, I was able to drive the enemies far away from the shore, but it was a story that the enemies crawl out again, taking advantage of the gap between supplies far away from the sea.
“The enemy captains retreated to the depths of the land. If I could give orders myself, there would be nothing I could not catch, but as you can see, things are not going well.”
Saying that, Bartiers smiled bitterly.
As he nodded his head and gave a smirk, a question came to his mind.
“Captain ‘s’?”
“Ah, there are two groups of demons over there. Since this is such a key point, it seems that they sent two units at a time. I’m not sure what kind of guys Erif attacked me. Do you remember who attacked you in the forest?”
Following the memories of yesterday, which I do not want to recall, there were definitely two groups in the forest with completely different appearances.
At first, there were guys who saw the dinosaur and ran away, and later there were guys who rode the dinosaur.
“A demon that rides on dinosaurs, a demon that looks like something pointed.”
“You must have seen both.”
Bartiers drank the water like a drink, put down the cup and stole the corner of his mouth with a ‘pu-hah’ sound.
I thought you were drinking.
“Well then, I’m thinking of ending them with your help, okay?”
“Yes. What is the operation?”
Bartiers put some models on the map spread out on the desk.
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Placing a model of a white boat the size of his index finger in the sea, he closed his eyes for a moment, then opened it and adjusted the position of the boat.
“I am passing by here now, so arrive at the next supply site late in the afternoon. Let’s get our supplies from there and attack right away.”
Bar Tiers made a route on the map using his black thread.
It was a simple course that went straight to the mainland after stopping by an island not far from the current location.
In a familiar motion, he laid out small cards with the times written on them next to each route, took out a camera from the drawer and took a map.
Bartier handed over a picture pulled out of the camera.
“Put this on the bulletin board.”
It was a semi-command, but it was hard to say no to it because I remembered the scene where Bartiers was being hit by spirits.
And it’s the role Sophia originally played, but I guess it’s right for her to take turns with her.
As soon as he accepted the photo, Bartiers made a subtle expression.
“Why?”
“No. Because I’m too sassy It wasn’t like that before.”
“I lost my memory. I thought about you a little while ago, but I still don’t know how things were in the past.”
“Yes?”
Bartiers closed his eyes as if in thought, and laid himself back on the backrest.
When I came back with a picture on the bulletin board, Bartiers was standing in front of the door to the captain’s room.
“Erif. Did you say that you found your memory after making eye contact with me yesterday?”
“Yes. It was the same with Arumanan.”
“It was like that. Follow me for a moment.”
I wondered what was going on because his tone was quite serious, but he kept going down the stairs until he finally reached what was supposed to be the bottom of the ship, so he could guess his intentions.
“Yesterday, when I came into contact with you, my whole body lost strength. You just made eye contact with me and passed out.”
Bartiers stood in front of the place marked ‘Boiler Room’.
“And from yesterday, the wind spirit began to recognize me.”
Bar Tiers turned his head slightly and looked at this side.
“Only the spirit of ‘wind’, the attribute you have.”
“Yes.”
I walked slowly and stood next to Bartiers.
If the wind spirit recognized him after contacting me, what about the spirits of fire, my other attribute?
The name of this battleship was ‘Bartiers’, the same as the humanoid spirit next to me.
According to the story that the Intermediate Water Spirit talked about yesterday, Bartiers says that the Fire Spirit is not armed.
As if there were no water and earth spirits in my helicopter, it seemed that the land and water spirits were in charge of attack and defense.
Then, the only place where there is a fire spirit here is the boiler room.
“Can the fire spirit recognize me?”
He nodded at the slightly anxious voice.
It seems that Bartiers has become a lot more timid than before, but if he is treated like air by his subordinates for three years, his self-esteem will inevitably go down.
Bartier took a deep breath and opened the boiler room.
In the hot boiler room, there were several large boilers emitting steam.
When the mid-level wind spirits with lizard heads wandering there saw us, they stopped one by one.
Among them, a mid-level fire spirit with long scars around his eyes walked out and stood in front of us.
Fire spirits lined up behind him.
Intermediate Fire Spirit glanced at me and saluted Bartiers.
“Win win! Captain Bartiers. Where have you been? Everyone was waiting for the captain.”
Bar Tiers did not speak for a long time, then he squeezed his voice out.
“Am I a little late? Let’s win and go back.”
“Yes!”
After receiving the fire spirits’ salute, Bartiers turned back and stole his eyes gently.
He’s got some tears in his eyes right now, right?
I found a useful joke.
When we got out of the boiler room, we just walked down the hallway without talking for a while.
When we arrived at the captain’s office, Bartiers spoke to me.
“Hey, Erif.”
“Why?”
“For the time being, I think you will have to be captain instead of me.”
“What does that mean?”
Bartier said in a reluctant voice with his arms crossed.
“Now the people who recognize me are the spirits of wind and fire, which are your attributes. Unfortunately, both are not my main attributes, are they? So the delivery of orders is bound to be slow.”
Bartiers brought his navy cap from the captain’s room and put it over my head.
“It’s okay to just follow what I say, so please.”
His expression even looked desperate now.
But I had no intention of acting as a captain.
When the hat was returned, Bartiers was visibly disappointed.
“I have to attack the land myself.”
“It is, but… ….”
“And the fire spirits can communicate with you now, so why not explain the current situation and give them orders on your behalf?”
Bar Tiers shook his head.
“Intermediate fire spirits attached to our ship are more like dispatch than under my command, so the fire spirits are being subtly ignored. Even if they listen to me and say it for me, I don’t think they will believe me.”
“What if I help out?”
“Don’t you think the fire spirits have bribed you?”
“Ah, maybe.”
As the cute children shook his head, thinking that couldn’t be the case, Bartiers shivered slightly and shrugged his shoulders.
“Since it’s so big here, there’s something more like a power struggle than it looks. In particular, there are even cases where spirits with the right inclinations gather to form a force.”
“… Okay?”
I’m a little awake.
The image of the intermediate water spirits inside me has been downgraded a bit.
“Then what if I add one of my subordinates instead of the fire spirits?”
If someone similar to you has resistance to giving orders, wouldn’t it be okay if you were a representative of an outsider who was the same as the original captain?
Bar Tiers pondered for a moment, then nodded his head.
“If it’s your direct subordinate, I might be able to present myself as an agent to convey my words. But will you believe me right away? ….”
“That’s it.”
I turned my head to the lounge where the spirits were gathering and looking at the operation bulletin board.
Bartiers also looked in the same direction as me.
“You have to cover it with good acting skills.”
The battleship Bar Tiers anchored on an island above his Elemental Realm.
We gathered all the spirits of fire and wind among the spirits who were carrying supplies from the large warehouse on the island and clearing out the abandoned barracks.
Some spirits who had not met Bartiers before were very surprised, but after calming them down, they asked for their cooperation.
“Of course I have to help.”
Anyway, Bartiers is conducting, and my subordinates only act as speakers.
Once I emphasized that point, I moved on.
And for a kind of smoke, we headed to the empty lot in the middle of the island where the spirits of water and land were crowded together.
I have a broken communicator I found in a warehouse.
The exterior looked fine after wiping it hard.
“Are you ready?”
The spirits, including Bartiers, nodded their heads.
I climbed up on a large rock in the corner of the vacant lot with an intermediate wind spirit on my side.
“Everyone. Please pay attention.”
The spirits of water and earth began to look at this side one by one.
After confirming that the spirits of wind and fire were mixed between them, he raised the intermediate wind spirit in his left hand.
“Communication has been established with your captain, Bartiers!”
There was silence for a while, then murmurs were heard everywhere.
“What did the captain say?”
The fire spirit whom I had already tuned in shouted, and I put my ear to the communicator and pretended to listen to Bartiers.
“According to the news, it is said that due to circumstances, he cannot appear right now. Thank you for carrying out the orders you have given me through documents or bulletin boards, and now I am going to help me in the final battle, so I ask you to carry out the orders through the communicator.”
Most of the spirits who heard me were happy or wept.
There were, however, some who walked out in front of the rock with serious expressions.
From among the spirits arranged under the rock, one intermediate earth spirit and two intermediate water spirits came forward.
It was highly likely that these were the ‘forces’ Bartiers spoke of.
It was a little shocking that there was also a rabbit-eared water spirit who guided me.
“Can you communicate with Bartiers-sama? We want to hear it too!”
“That’s right! Would you like to hear it for yourself?”
“I will take orders directly from the captain.”
At first glance, he seemed to be showing his loyalty to Bartiers, but he was indirectly saying that he didn’t believe me.
The sea I had already expected.
He came down from the rock and handed the communicator to them.
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Putting the communicator to their ears, they listened to only the noise that came out for a while, then twisted their expressions and asked me.
“The communicator is broken.”
“Miss Fire. Did you deceive us?”
After I retrieved the communicator again, I repeated the words of Bartiers, who was standing right behind me.
“Periann 32.”
“Yes, yes?”
The spirit with rabbit ears looked at me in surprise.
The words that came out of Bartier’s mouth were delivered through my voice.
“‘I am well aware of your loyalty, but there is no need to doubt it. You made me cookies in the past, and I opened the kitchen…….'”
“Stop!”
The rabbit-eared spirit bowed her head with red ears.
“I will believe it. Misfire-sama is communicating with Bartiers-sama.”
She raised her hand and declared her surrender.
Following Bartiers, he turned his gaze to the next target.
“Chiburk 17,”
“Yes.”
An earth spirit in the form of a dwarf warrior with a stature resembling a dwarf answered.
“‘You don’t have to feel guilty about your subordinates. Have you not forgotten that all spirits are reborn in the spirit world?'”
“… Of course.”
“‘Then, isn’t it the only way to get back to your subordinates by reclaiming the Spirit Realm and this place as soon as possible?'”
Intermediate Earth Spirit bowed his head without saying a word and stepped back.
The remaining intermediate water spirits stood slumped with an anxious expression and then quickly fled.
I cleared my throat and climbed up the rock again.
“It has been confirmed that the messages sent through this communicator can only be heard by me, a humanoid spirit like Bartiers. So it would be nice if I could deliver his orders through this communicator, but I’m playing an important role in this operation.”
I lifted the intermediate wind spirit that I was wearing on my side.
He declared solemnly, holding his communicator.
“Hello. This is Sirin 33, an intermediate wind spirit, a direct subordinate of the former General Misfire and the current Erif. If Erif-sama shares Bartiers-sama’s orders while conducting the operation, I will listen and inform the ship.”
The vacant lot was noisy for a while, and all the spirits, including the fire and wind spirits, started to salute me.
I slowly retreated behind Bartiers, and naturally the spirits’ salute was directed toward Bartiers.
Bartiers responded with a slightly moved eyes.
Even if there aren’t many people to watch it.
“I’d like to share more details about your memory and my cognitive problems, but let’s get out of here and think.”
“Yes. I know very little, too, so I’d be better off asking Arumanan or Chromanium.”
Since each other’s thoughts about the future plan were in agreement, the story naturally moved on to the operation.
“So, what do these guys say about dinosaurs?”
“Mitztar tribe. Among the demons, they are exceptionally crazy, but they are well-versed in breeding demons.”
“Are they here?”
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Pointing to the top of the mountain at the edge of the land on the map, Bartiers pointed to the forest next to it.
“The mountains are their domain, but the boss will probably be over here.”
I took a picture of the location with Bartier’s camera.
“Are the others osparts?”
“Yes. They are from here to here.”
It was towards the forest on the opposite side of the mountain from those who rode the dinosaurs.
There was a large lake, so it was easy to pinpoint the location.
“Some of the dinosaurs they ride are capable of aerial attacks, and those that fly are quite strong.”
Bartier pointed towards the sea.
“The Osparts originally attacked here with naval power, but I destroyed them all. That’s why I’m ripping off the ship’s weapons and hiding in the woods.”
“I guess that’s what happened to me.”
“Yes.”
It was in a unified state, but for the fact that the ship’s cannon was hit directly in the side, I should be happy that it got better soon.
“Can I deal with them alone?”
Bar Tiers shook his head.
He pointed to a point on the map with serious eyes.
“I am not alone. If we lure them to this point, we can finish off with a coastal shelling.”
It was a location that had to come out quite a bit from the forest or mountain to the coast.
“It will not be easy.”
“Yes. It won’t be easy. But I appreciate your ability alone.”
I didn’t like Bar Tiers’ words, so I narrowed his eyes and looked at him.
“Do I have to express it that way?”
“Otherwise you’ll be too arrogant.”
Shrugging, Bartiers put my subordinate, the Wind Spirit, on his shoulder and began to write something on his paper.
“But don’t the spirits cleaning here think it’s strange?”
“That’s right. I was surprised too. It was as if the traces I had been on didn’t think it was strange. There was no response at all when I contacted them directly.”
We’ll have to find out what happened later, but in any case, to solve the anomaly he’s experiencing, you have to get out of here.
Bartiers checked the microphone installed in the captain’s room.
Even if he speaks, the spirits of water and earth cannot hear him, so my subordinate, the spirit of the wind, will eagerly deliver his orders.
I’ll have to go soon.
As he left the captain’s room, he slightly waved his hand.
“I will go.”
“Yes. Request.”
Closing the door to the captain’s room, I went up to the deck through the break room.
“Unsynchronize.”
I put my feet on the silver helicopter protruding from the dog tag, and instead of the missing wind spirit, I loaded lesser water spirits to help me.
As I was about to start the engine and wait, an intermediate water spirit standing in front of the helicopter waved her hand.
“Let’s go.”
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The helicopter rose with the sea breeze.
After moving to the side to avoid the bridge, I observed the battleship Bartiers.
The four main guns of 12 guns and dozens of secondary guns were aimed at one side at once.
I turned my nose in the direction the gun was pointing and headed for the land where the dark red sky was small.
The battle to save the commander who is ignored by the attacking spirit world and his subordinates has begun.