2 – Helping those who help themselves (2)
Daham The Port Security Force’s daily routine begins at dawn.
This is because most of the fishing boats departing around this time.
And dawn is also the time of day with the most stowaways.
For this reason, the port management office and security forces go to work very quickly compared to other occupations in line with this situation.
It was just as the east dawned blue, Einer and his Joe strolled along the wharf, checking the list of docked ships.
When docking at Daham Port, you must report to the management office and pay the dock fee, which is determined by the size of the ship and the date of docking.
However, the cost is rather high, so it often happens that the ship is intentionally shortened and reported, and the ship is secretly hidden somewhere, or a sign with a different name engraved on the bow is attached.
Ay you and his crew are trying to catch those illegal anchored ships today.
Just in time, I saw a ship on the other side that was about to leave after unhooking the rope at the mooring post.
Einer, contrasting the name engraved on the player and the fluttering flag, pointed that way.
“Catch that ship.”
Toby shouted loudly through the loudspeaker as the boat slowly pulled away from the pier.
“Stop! Stop! Build the boat! Don’t leave!”
Soon afterward, a gruff-looking sailor stepped out onto the deck railing.
“What?”
“You reported the berth until yesterday, so why are you leaving now?! Go to the management office, report again, and pay the additional fee!”
“Pay extra money? Damn you!”
The sailor spat.
“Why didn’t you say anything when you didn’t go out yesterday, and now you’re going to f*ck?! If you’re going to do that, you should have kicked it out yesterday!”
“Why blame us for that? That doesn’t mean we didn’t have another day at the pier, so let’s disembark when it’s nice to say it!”
Toby also responded strongly without losing.
Nearly all sailors are ignorant, rough, and often ex-convicts.
Even those who don’t have to if they want to survive long on board.
For this reason, the security guards who crack down on such people also have to be similar types of people when they work.
For this reason, Daham’s port security forces are notorious throughout the continent for their intolerance and roughness.
“If you don’t get off the ship right away and report it, you will be forced to moor!”
“Forced mooring? Damn you! Anyway, you bastard guards are doing their job recklessly. f*ck you. Can’t you see they’re leaving?!”
Einer, realizing that he was trying to get away without paying the daily fee, took over the loudspeaker from Toby.
“Your mother’s dick? Is there a case where the father and mother have a dick!”
“What?!”
“Does your mother have a dick? Or did the two men meet eyes to give birth to you!”
At Ainor’s vicious remarks, the crew members of other ships who came out to the deck to watch burst into laughter.
“Wake up you captain! Choose whether to pay for last night’s lodging or to be moored and executed!”
“I’m the captain, you bastard!”
“Then get up and jump out right away! Go to the management office, report it, and pay the additional fee! You’re a bastard who was conceived with a ball sac and was born with a urethra!”
“hahahahaha!!”
The sailors and security guards around Ainor’s tremendous expression grabbed the boat and laughed.
The insulted captain turned red in the face and raised a bloodstain around his neck and shouted:
“That b*tch! You’re waiting right there! I’m going to chop off the head right now and use it as a bow ornament!”
“Come on! Come on! Let’s see who’s head gets caught!”
Einer and the captain poured out abusive language toward each other without hesitation.
However, the two could not fight on an equal footing in the first place.
Einer, a seasoned veteran who has dealt with sea men for the past few years, was so eloquent that the captain quickly lost his initial momentum.
The crew hesitated, unable to move the ship any longer, as their captain heated up fighting the security guards.
In the meantime, a surveillance boat belonging to the port security force quickly approached from the other side.
“Captain! Lookout ships are coming!”
The captain, who finally looked back at the sailor’s cry, looked at the guard ship that had already blocked the escape route, and glared at Einer with a feeling of regret.
Having achieved his intended purpose, Einor stopped swearing and smiled at the captain.
“That’s just a few bucks, tsk tsk.”
It wasn’t because Einer had a bad personality that he grabbed the captain and engaged in a verbal battle full of curse words.
No matter how much the port security forces fly and crawl, they cannot physically hold a departing ship.
That’s why I deliberately made the captain stretched out in order to delay the arrival of the harbor patrol boat.
If the captain had been a little more rational, he would have ignored it and left the port.
But like most people, the captain was a bad-tempered sailor, and that’s why he couldn’t just ignore Einor’s indiscriminate insults.
How did you know the captain had a temper?
You can tell by the mottled, dirty sails and the filthy hull, covered with barnacles.
It was Einor’s judgment that a guy who manages his ship like that couldn’t have a normal way of thinking and communicate.
“Is this the end?”
“Yes, captain.”
“Then let’s go back and have breakfast.”
After completing their mission, Einer and his crew moved to the port security headquarters.
“By the way, what’s on the menu this morning?”
“I don’t know, but it’s probably fish porridge made with leftover fish from yesterday’s meal. When I came out earlier, I looked toward the kitchen and saw that they were stirring the same gomt pot with a ladle.”
Lamentation and dissatisfaction erupted among the crew.
The cafeteria of the Port Security Force is famous for its tasteless food.
For Einer, who has been working as a kitchen slave since she was very young and learning to cook, eating at the cafeteria was quite a chore.
But it’s working time and I can’t go home and eat, so I can’t help it.
I want to take the crew and go to a restaurant near the market, but a complaint came in the other day, so I have to keep an eye on it.
Einer cautions that no matter what happens, you must eat your meals.
This is a habit and creed of her life that she has followed her mother and worked as a kitchen slave for an aristocratic family.
“My stomach is upset after eating only fish porridge for days and days, but I start to miss the chef’s cooking.”
Einer smiled at Marco’s words.
A couple of times a month, there are days when all the members of the group are off work, and on those days, Einer invites everyone to his house and treats them to a meal.
It was because of his personality that he likes to cook for others.
“Let’s catch me next week or so.”
“Good!”
I was just about to go into the headquarters kitchen with a smile, but Hadun, the head of security, walked out of the management office, saw Einer, and screamed.
“Hey man! Einer! You just arrived!”
As the name suggests, he is a dwarf.
A person with an unusual career who left the mining city due to various complicated circumstances and flowed here to Daham and somehow rose to the rank of security chief.
Einer sighed when he saw Hadun squealing with his hand on the heavy iron club on his waist.
That dwarf poop bag is going to do something weird again this time.
“You guys go first.”
Einer, who sent the crew, approached the security chief alone and asked.
“Why? What else are you trying to order in the morning? To someone who hasn’t eaten yet.”
At Einor’s question, Hadoon looked up at him and laughed.
“It’s a very important and urgent task that only a competent port security officer can do.”
The moment he heard that, Einer had a hunch that he would be taking on a very troublesome task.
“A cargo ship docked in the port last night lost a piece of merchandise.”
“So, did you get a report to find it? What is it?”
“Woman slavery.”
“A slave? Hmm, then it would be more accurate to say that it was a flight, not a loss.”
“That’s right. But, strictly speaking, slaves are treated as objects owned by individuals, aren’t they?”
Since he was a former slave, Einer did not answer that question.
Hadoon, who had no way of knowing that, continued to speak.
“Have a quick meal, take the kids out, and search the area in charge.”
“Oh, Captain. How do you find a slave who has decided to run away in this vast and complicated port city? Besides, since when were we free enough to look for lost items?”
“Hey, you bastard! Crave! I don’t want to waste time and manpower for just one slave!”
“Then don’t look for it.”
Ah, at your simple answer, Hadoon shook his head while tearing at his beard.
“The ship owner is a parling trading company that you can’t even spit out.”
“Oh.”
It’s properly twisted.
Einer thought so.
The Paling Caravan, which conducts ultra-long-distance trade across the continent, wields a powerful influence based on enormous capital.
This is Daham, the representative port city of the Principality of Jahelin, where the grand dukes are merchants and aim for thorough capitalism.
In a place where money is power and power, there is no need to explain how strong the influence of the paling corps is.
Since such a large customer’s cargo has disappeared, it is only natural that the Port Authority and the security team step in.
“By the way, Captain, how do you catch slaves in this vast and complicated place? Wouldn’t it be faster to find a camel in the sea?”
“It’s a demon.”
“Yes? What?”
“It’s a demon, you bastard! Find the b*tch with horns on the head and it will be an easy solution.”
If it’s a Demon, what about the Demon King?
A few years ago, the demon king’s army was completely destroyed?
I heard that there are some surviving demons in the northern part of the continent, where the Demon King’s army was mainly active, but there are demons even here in the southern part of the continent….
No. It must have been captured from the north and passed through here to another place.
Ainor looked down at the calluses and scars on his palms without realizing it.
Several years ago, they were obtained by killing countless demons.
Hmm, demon slaves….
“Einer! Did you understand!”
“Ah, yes. Let’s eat and look for it. Please tell us what you look like.”
“It’s got horns!”
“Then, can I catch even an inexperienced dragon in Southern Musuga or Polymorph?”
At your joke, Hadoon stopped betting and laughed loudly, revealing his uvula.
Then he told me the impression of the runaway slave.
* * * * *
He had messy black hair down to his waist and dark brown eyes.
When they fled, their clothes were shabby rags, and they did not wear shackles to prevent injury to their bodies.
The face is small and pretty, and the height is at the level of an average adult woman.
Its characteristic is its large breasts.
It’s too ordinary.
Doesn’t she look just like the woman who pickedpocketed Taeyang’s meat the other day?
She said she had horns, so she’s a mess.
Anyway, since the paling party is entangled, you should at least pretend to find it.
“Toby and Marco are over there, Kira and Ryan are over there, and I’m over there.”
Einer gave the crew roughly the direction of the search.
“I’ve been caught searching all day today, so I won’t come back for lunch and eat outside.”
At her words, the crew openly liked and applauded.
“Where are you going? Last time there?”
“Yes. It would be nice there. When the bell tower rings, everyone gather there.”
“Yes! Well done!”
After parting with her crew, Ainer moved her strolling steps toward her market, where she had decided to go.
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