262 – Smuggling (2)
Monia, who jumped up and jumped off the ground, felt a strange sense of liberation from the act of passing through the cold night air, and had to land calmly. I was looking for a place to do it.
‘Over there.’
She stretched her legs out in front of her, stepped her foot toward the bow stick that was coming in front of her, then jerked her body forward to approach Chester.
Chester also spread her arms, and Monia was still in her chest, and she landed safely.
“Whoa!”
Upon her landing, Monia smiled broadly as she looked at Chester with her face flushed with the excitement of her dangerous act and her eyes twinkling with excitement as well.
“How was I?”
“Wonderful.”
Chester hugged her Monia tightly and kissed her tightly with her on her bow-bar, with the wind blowing in her.
“…… There! I haven’t crossed yet!”
After kissing Senna for a long time until she said so, Chester sent Monia to the lookout first, then looked at Senna and began timing her run.
“…… Now!”
Senna knows how good Chester’s senses are. That’s why Senna didn’t suspect even though Chester shouted a little later than she had measured, and she started running.
With her hop out, she jumped across her bowstring in an instant and landed stably on the bowstock with Chester hugging her as Monia had done.
“…… Seriously, you know what? I think I do too many reckless things because I’m with you.”
“So, don’t you like it?”
“No. Fun. Although sometimes my heart feels like it’s going to drop.”
After a brief conversation, Senna passes by Chester and moves to the watchtower.
After Chester informed Rex below that he had crossed everything, he untied the rope that had tied his body to the pole and arrived at the lookout in the same way.
“What are you going to do now?”
There are many people below.
Of course, since they all monitor incoming personnel from the outside, the inside of the ship was rather a blind spot for their surveillance.
“I have to go down.”
Chester gazed at the people below and determined the timing to go down.
Surveillance is really boring and hard work. Observing animals and even measuring the timing to hunt is boring, but standing still while looking for a target that may or may not come is really something people can’t do.
At first, they stand in a tense state at the thought of monitoring something, but as time goes by, the fact that no one is coming makes them more and more disturbed.
Chester was aiming for that distracting moment.
Chatting with each other, drinking a little secretly, that moment when you pay more attention to things other than surveillance. The moment when the stomach becomes noisy.
“You have to move fast, so be careful.”
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
“Monia, look at me.”
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“Okay.”
Monia’s night vision is worse than Chester’s, but she used Stargazing’s telescope function to examine the ship diligently.
The moment someone yawns, the moment someone gets into a small fight while doing something else with a colleague next to you, the moment someone pays attention to the fight, the moment someone laments why they have to do that, The moment you nag that you have to do it.
As I watched people’s actions in various moments, I discerned their emotions, psychological gaps, and relaxed moments through their atmosphere and the colors that represent that atmosphere.
After putting a piece of leather on each of her hands to help her go down quickly, Monia, who held the leather as if wrapping a rope, put her feet on her mast and stood up as if she was about to go down at any moment. I looked at the boat.
And, in the moment when the colors are entangled in various colors, but the gaps that are not painted gradually increase, shimmer, and change…… She waited for the moment when the color seemed to be empty on the road she wanted, and the moment she thought that moment would come, she went down without a word.
She glides down the rope with her palms protected by a piece of leather.
Chester and Senna followed, and Monia, who was the first to touch her floor, squeezed her hand just before reaching her, increasing her friction and stepping her foot against her mast over and over again. Killed his momentum.
Her momentum that didn’t quite kill her, the moment her feet landed on her deck, she immediately fell to her knees and rolled sideways, releasing a slight fall that killed her sound.
As in Chester, she didn’t jump and fall at random. Instead, she slowed down with a rope, so she landed quietly with only a faint sound left behind in the commotion on the boat.
Chester, Senna landed next, and Monia moved straight toward the opening leading below her deck.
There was a large, thick iron grid at the entrance to the lower deck, especially under the deck where the Chester family kept their belongings.
Usually, the lattice is lifted and opened by a crane provided in the port, and a huge load is moved through this large passage.
A place that cannot be opened by human power. So, Senna immediately took out her Hope and placed her hand on her lattice in a state of strengthening herself, and she began to carefully lift her lattice with unhuman strength.
“…… !”
When it was lifted somewhat, Chester also helped raise the lattice using the principle of a lever by inserting Anubis, which was hidden wrapped in black cloth in the gap between the lattice and the deck.
“Ugh…… !”
I slowly raised the grating with enough force that my face turned red as if it were about to explode.
However, this is the center of the deck. A dangerous place that no one can help but be caught the moment they turn their eyes.
It was so hard to do it quickly and quietly so that the hard work would not be discovered, even if it was done leisurely or with spirit.
“Huh…… !”
Once wide open, Monia went straight through the lattice, climbed onto the nearby stuffed load, and pushed the lattice upwards from the inside.
“Sena, go in!”
Chester pressed Anubis with all his weight and strength to keep the grid open.
Raising from the bottom to the top is much easier because you can add strength to your legs.
The moment the grating was wide open enough for Chester to enter, one of the sailors started talking and turned her head away.
Kooung.
Monia and Senna set her grating down shortly after Chester threw Anubis into her and then threw himself into her.
I heard the heavy sound of the grating falling, but no one could have imagined that it was the sound of people huddled together opening and closing the grating.
“What are you talking about?”
“Well?”
“I thought I heard it from above the deck.”
“Ah, no way. Where is there to make a sound here?”
“Isn’t it?”
“Yes. Besides, no one broke in. It’s just an illusion, an illusion.”
“I guess so.”
Beneath the deck they were talking, Chester, Monia, and Senna lay on their backs gasping for breath, exhausting all their strength in lifting the grating.
“De, I came in.”
“My heart is about to explode! I thought I was going to die because I was afraid I would get caught!”
“Monia, be quiet.”
“Yes.”
After resting for a while, the Chester family moved around below deck and arrived at the area where the cannons had been set up beforehand.
After loosening the fixation of the cannon so that it does not move inside the boat shaken by the waves, carefully push the cannon inside, and Rex enters through the window where the cannon was sticking out.
Rex came inside using his huge body flexibly, grabbed the cannon with one hand, pushed it back to its original position, fixed it, and hugged Chester, Monia, and Senna.
“Dad! Mom! Sena! All right!”
“Yes, yes.”
“Rex, didn’t you have any difficulties?”
“Yes! No!”
“Really? I’m glad!”
“The cannon is handled with one hand. Rex It would have been easier to lift the grid if you were there.”
After congratulating everyone on the successful entry into the ship and chatting with each other, the Chester family returned to the loading area.
“Rex, why are you taking the cannonball?”
“I’m going to make a new one out of my mace! Iron is better than stone, right?”
“That’s right. Yes, one cannonball will go undetected.”
After entering a luggage compartment full of natural resources brought from the Tongdan Continent, they moved the luggage appropriately to make a decent place for the four to hide, then filled the luggage around it again and hid it from outside.
“Yes, Rex. Would you like to give me your luggage?”
Next you need to prepare for escape. Three things are important in smuggling.
One is to not get caught sneaking on a boat.
Another is not to be caught sneaking on a boat.
The last thing is to sneak off the boat without getting caught.
When Rex handed over the luggage, Chester took out the planks from inside the luggage and began making a box by clicking on it, imitating the boxes around him.
“When I get off, I will get on and off. The moment they move the box to the storage room, they open it and run away.”
“I think it will be fun!”
“I think it will be difficult because I am narrow. Wouldn’t my armor get in the way?”
“Don’t worry, I’ll make it a generous size. That armor is like memories of your life as a knight.”
Even if it’s a place you abandoned yourself, there are things you want to remember.
Senna carefully stroked the armor Rex handed her and nodded her head.
Proof that you helped, protected, or saved someone. Proof that you have been respected by someone. Proof that a woman who wandered around as a traveler lived a life that everyone could say was valuable and respected. After stroking the armor, Senna approached Chester.
“Chester, let me help you make the box.”
“Yes. Thanks. Wait, let’s light a fire before that. Rex, can you give me the lantern?”
“I need to pack my things too. If you want to stow away a little more comfortably, you should organize your place.”
After successfully boarding the ship, the Chester family began to build their secret base in the corner of the ship.