129 – Touch from outside the sea (6)
“Damn it. You made a mistake.”
Chester clicked his tongue, feeling the arrows lodged in his shoulder and back.
The attack was carried out in the same way as before, but there was a calm and strong-minded person on the side of the sailors who were attacked, so he quickly rectified the crew’s confusion and responded to Chester.
Thanks to this, I had to fight for a long time using the corpse as a shield to block and avoid the arrows, and in the gap where my body was dull from exhaustion, I was hit by two arrows and a knife.
Fortunately, the blade hit the top of the leather suit Monia made, but Chester was not hurt because the fur and thick leather blocked the blade well.
It is hard to cut a piece of black paper that has not been well maintained and has not been properly wielded.
Furthermore, thick leather is much sharper than general swords and is a strong material that should be handled with a special knife that is easy to concentrate power on because it is small in size.
A knight-level skill might be able to cut leather even with a sword, but the people here are sailors.
They usually work with knives, not long, cumbersome cutlasses. No, I don’t even drive. just throw it in storage
He was busy handling and protecting himself against the rough sea, so how could he carry a long piece of metal around his waist that would get in the way?
The cutlass was carried only to intimidate the pirates so that they could not recklessly attack them, and to protect themselves against the pirates who attacked them without any threat.
Monia thought that the knives carried by sailors were familiar tools, but in reality, they were unfamiliar tools.
‘As long as it doesn’t fit the skin, I don’t think the knife is dangerous.’
Chester, who grasped this fact, thought that it would be okay to fight while blocking the sword properly with his clothes, and cut the bow rod with a knife.
“… You are really sharp.”
To test the hidden ability of the ore that Monia had told me about, I vibrated the knife and cut the bow, and the bow cut lightly like butter melting in hot weather.
‘This should be enough to easily cut thin bones.’
Monia lightly sliced through the skull with a vibrating machete.
‘Depending on the amount of ore, does the intensity of vibration change? My knife doesn’t vibrate more than Monia’s machete.’
Monia’s machete vibrated to the extent that Chester was frightened to see it, and it lightly sliced wood, but the knife did not vibrate so violently.
Chester thought of how to exploit this other ore’s ability to vibrate when in contact with it.
‘If I had something like a ring, I’d be able to use it easily.’
It’s like holding a knife in both hands and using it by bumping and vibrating every time. Chester fiercely avoids situations in which both hands become inconvenient at any time and under any circumstances.
“I guess I’ll have to give up using it now.”
“Yes? If the machete vibrates, I can easily cut people with my own power, so I think it will be useful.”
“Monia, it would be okay to vibrate before you ambush.”
While talking like that, the two lightly filled their stomachs with the preserved food they brought from home.
“You have to keep moving, so don’t eat too much.”
“Yes.”
Even while the two of them were lightly filling their stomachs, Ant kept track of the crew’s approximate location by constantly sniffing them.
those close to them.
those far away from them.
Those who only have a faint reverberation of the smell.
At first, Ant was not very wary of ‘unknown smells’, but after ignoring them and getting severely burned several times, he developed a habit of tracking the location of unknown scents without even realizing it.
It was exerting great power now.
On this large island, you can locate the sailors who may be anywhere as accurately as possible and head there with less energy consumption. There you can unilaterally ambush your opponent.
That alone gave a vague glimpse of the end of this grueling and difficult hunt, unknown when it would end.
Hopeful.
“Are you getting used to the bow?”
“yes. It’s different from the bow I made, so it’s hard to pull it, but I think you’ll be able to aim.”
Monia said that and showed the bow she took from the sailors. Among the bows they had, they brought only items that Monia could pull.
“How is Chester?”
“yes. It’s easy to shoot, so it’s easy to aim. I think I will get used to it soon.”
Although he had never used a crossbow, Chester was able to hit even more difficult catapults or throws close to 100 times with his senses and experience. It was not difficult to learn to aim the crossbow.
“great. So, let’s do this from now on.”
Chester said with a crossbow and a bow in hand.
“Let’s start by reducing the number of people to three.”
* * *
How long has it been since you landed on the island?
Based on the lights he saw last night, Rottin, who had been moving in the direction of his search toward the top of the island, stopped searching and took a break.
“Ugh. We landed on land, but eating is no different from eating on a boat.”
“I want to eat something greasy. I’m tired of fish.”
“Is the captain all right?”
“Are you okay?”
Rotin sighed and ate his meal.
Of course, it is rare that an incredibly delicious fish, also called a delicacy, is caught while fishing occasionally.
However, it is always occasional, and most of the meals in life on the ship are poor dishes made with tasteless ingredients for the sole purpose of preservation.
Sailors huddled together in a corner of the floating island, holding back the crunchy and hard texture of the preserved food that had blown away all the moisture, forced it down their throats with rum.
“By the way, Captain, did you see the light properly?”
“Oh, I saw it.”
“I mean, is there any chance that it could be someone other than Miss Monia?”
“Well.”
“Honestly, it’s hard to say that the house on the seashore was made by an aristocratic lady… … .”
“That certainly is.”
Rottin nodded coldly, acknowledging their point.
Certainly.
It was more realistic to say that Monia was dead and someone else was living here than to say that Monia had survived nearly a year on this island.
“I know that I am most likely dead. I still want you to be alive.”
The last time Rottin saw Monia was as a child, before leaving home and embarking on a journey.
One night, the face of that doll-like girl whom I could only catch a glimpse of from afar because of the difference in social status.
The moment he saw that face, Rotin knew that there were real angels in this world. To that extent, Monia in her childhood had an unrealistic beauty that did not feel the slightest bit of reality in the eyes of boys of her age.
Monia captured the hearts of the boys who were about to burn hot at that time, and Rotin was among them.
However, many of those children would have given up on Monia because of the difference in social status taught by their parents, and those who had not yet given up would have given up on Monia as the engagement ceremony between Monia and Prince Jordi was held at the next ball.
However, even though he got to know many women while wandering around the world, Rotin, who did not feel the feelings he felt from Monia, could not give up his feelings for Monia at all.
Rotin is smart. He knew very well that his ability was excellent, and that if he stayed in the kingdom as it was, the family would become confused, and if the family became confused, the ruling territory and the lives of the people living there would become difficult.
Also, Rotin is passionate. Normally, knowing such a fact, he would have chosen to simply go into hiding, but he did not stay in the kingdom and went out into the world.
Traveling around the world, learning various languages and cultures, making various friends, obtaining various knowledge and information, and passing it on so that families and people can live happily.
Because he was such a rotin, he knew that his feelings were not rational at all, but at the same time, he knew that he could not be controlled no matter what.
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Love.
That irrational feeling that can bewitch and destroy even a man who started from the ground with his bare hands and rose to become a famous colossus in the kingdom of Gearco.
Rotin was moving with that feeling now.
He knows he’s not rational, and he knows that’s why some of his longtime traveling companions have left.
But there were no regrets whatsoever.
A life always lived for others. If so, wouldn’t it be okay to burn it unreasonably for yourself for a while?
Just as Rottin was thinking about it, the bush suddenly shook violently and a sailor jumped out.
“Captain! Captain! Tea, I found it! finally!!”
No matter how much he had wandered through the woods, his whole body stained green and brown, bruised and torn in places and bleeding like a beggar, he sat down relaxed as soon as he saw Rottin.
Then crawled up and approached Rotin, trembling and said,
“cannibals… !”
“what?”
“There are cannibals on this island! Cannibals! Those bastards ate all of our teammates!”
He only killed, he didn’t eat, but he sincerely believed that Chester and Monia were cannibals, and that their companions had already been eaten.
“Wait, calm down. huh? Calm down and explain.”
“That, that, that! that is! So!”
“Now, drink this.”
The sailor, who gulped down his rum, slowly began to explain what had happened to him.
And at that time, Chester and Monia were annihilating the ‘fourth’ group of sailors.
“I think it’s better to catch three people with arrows at first. right?”
“Yes. Much better than Chester rushing recklessly.”
“ha ha ha. Still, I’m not used to bows, so it’s hard to kill. If you put it in the right place, it’s okay because there are many kids who can’t move after being hit by an arrow.”
“Isn’t that why it’s strange that Chester can move normally even after being hit by an arrow?”
The two flirted and moved on to their next target.
And then.
Taang!
“yes?”
“uh?”
From somewhere far away came a noise that neither Chester nor Monia had ever heard before.
It was a signal to gather all the sailors who participated in the search to the shore.