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481 – Captain of the Pirate Ship

481 – Captain of the Pirate Ship

The gym, the café lounge, and even the swimming pool.

As we enjoyed the facilities at the hotel, evening had quietly arrived.

Around that time, Hanyeoreum, who had finished preparing to catch pirates, returned to the hotel.

“Ah, shall we eat dinner first?”

“Let’s do that.”

We began our party on the private terrace provided by the hotel, with a barbecue prepared for us.

The main dish was the mackerel that Bomi had caught.

“……”

Saebyeok was staring intently at the mackerel sizzling on the grill.

Her pupils were dilated, perhaps due to her high expectations for the mackerel steak.

I was also curious about the taste of this fish species I was seeing for the first time.

“I hope it tastes good.”

“Yeah.”

I swallowed hard as I looked down at the mackerel cooking.

The fish was cut into several pieces, and there was a bite mark on the dorsal side.

“Saebyeok, did you eat the mackerel raw?”

“Yeah. I bit into it, but it tasted bad, so I spat it out.”

“Huh?”

Saebyeok, who usually loves fish, said it tasted bad.

My expectations plummeted along with my enthusiasm.

It would have been nice if it had tasted good.

Seeing my slightly gloomy expression, Hanyeoreum tapped the tongs she was holding.

“I checked, and it turns out mackerel tastes really muddy when eaten raw. It should be eaten as steak.”

“Ah, I see.”

“I brought the recipe, so could you wait a moment?”

“Sure.”

I wondered if it would taste different when cooked as a steak.

The tail that had stopped moving began to sway again.

While waiting for the mackerel to cook, I glanced at the grill on the side.

It was a grill for cooking meat, not fish.

I wondered if Gaeul would like the meat the most.

Thinking of Gaeul, who was wagging her tail, I was surprised to see that she wasn’t looking at the meat at all.

Chop-chop-

Gaeul was walking around near the grill with scissors in both hands.

Her left and right movements made it seem like she was mimicking a crab.

“Gaeul, are you a crab?”

“Claw···!”

Chop-chop-

While walking sideways and snipping, Gaeul cut off a piece of lettuce from the table.

Gaeul puffed out her chest and cleared her throat, but Sophia poked her cheek playfully.

“Hey, be careful and put down the scissors.”

“Meow···”

Gaeul looked a bit downcast but placed the scissors on the table.

Sophia handed Gaeul the tongs for grilling meat.

“Here, this is also a tong.”

“······!”

Gaeul’s tail, which had been still, started to wag.

With a happy smile, Gaeul tapped the tongs and picked up the lettuce, placing it on Sophia’s table.

“Thank you.”

“Hek···!”

Perhaps pleased by Sophia’s praise, Gaeul began distributing food to everyone.

She gave carrots to Levinas, perilla leaves to me and Saebyeok, and a long sausage that looked like a snake to Bomi.

“Gaeul, aren’t you giving any to your sister?”

Hanyeoreum asked Gaeul while grilling the mackerel.

After some thought, Gaeul picked up a raw garlic and handed it to Hanyeoreum.

“Raw.”

“Is your sister raw garlic···?”

“Claw! Right!”

Gaeul pointed at Hanyeoreum with shining eyes.

It seemed that adults had a mistaken notion that they could eat raw garlic well.

“Unfortunately, your sister can’t eat raw garlic well.”

“Essence?”

“Yeah. Your sister is actually a baby.”

“······?”

Gaeul plopped down on a chair with wide eyes.

The tongs she had been holding while mimicking a crab fell onto the table.

Was Hanyeoreum’s playful remark that shocking?

I tilted my head and fed Gaeul a well-cooked piece of meat.

Gaeul munched on the meat with her wide eyes.

“It’s just a joke, your sister is an adult but can’t eat raw garlic. Could you grill some garlic for your sister?”

“Hek···”

Gaeul picked up the tongs again and placed a clove of garlic on the grill.

She diligently turned the garlic around, grilling it.

“Hehe.”

I was so happy to spend this peaceful dinner time with everyone.

I only wished that tomorrow would be just as happy.

**

The next day.

We were waiting on a boat at the nearby harbor, not on the beach.

This was to move immediately when Jjaekjjae spotted the pirate ship.

After waiting on the boat for about an hour,

“Piiy!”

At the signal from the scout Jjaekjjae, we hurriedly set off.

The one steering the boat was none other than a local fisherman.

“Sir, if we’re late, they’ll disappear, so we have to chase them right away.”

“Got it.”

The fisherman, perhaps harboring a grudge against pirates, drove the boat at a speed that made his hair fly.

“Gyeoul, is this the right way?”

“Yes!”

“Good.”

Hanyeoreum pulled an item out of her pocket.

I didn’t know exactly what the item was for.

“Over there···!”

As we sailed out far enough that the land was no longer visible, we spotted an old wooden ship in the distance.

A skull mark painted on the sail.

The worn wood here and there.

Anyone could tell it was a pirate ship.

Swoosh-

The pirate ship seemed to have spotted us as it gradually became transparent and began to disappear.

At this rate, it would vanish before we could reach it.

“Gyeoul, want to shoot a strong one?”

“Yes!”

I nocked an explosive arrow onto my bow and applied a growth spell.

As I pulled back the bowstring, Hanyeoreum activated the item she was holding.

Swoosh-!

The giant explosive arrow, charged with the item’s energy, struck the pirate ship.

Boom-!

With a massive explosion, one side of the pirate ship’s deck blew away, and the invisibility was lifted.

“Now’s our chance!”

We sprinted towards the pirate ship at full speed.

Hanyeoreum jumped onto the pirate ship, and Marin created waves to help the others up.

“Levinas Pirate Crew, engage!”

Levinas, who had climbed onto the deck, raised her staff high.

The pirates we faced were···

“······!”

Skeletons revealed through rotting and torn skin.

Some didn’t even have eyes, resembling zombie pirates.

Levinas, who had raised her staff, lowered her ears and covered her eyes.

Gaeul seemed quite scared as she buried her head in my clothes.

Although my spirit had risen from recently facing ghouls, the zombie pirates looked even more horrifying.

They were said to be ghost pirates.

Their appearance was quite grotesque.

The fortunate thing was that even if we were scared, there were people to fight in our place.

“Ugh···”

As the ghost zombie pirates approached us, Hanyeoreum appeared behind them.

Whoosh-!

With a large horizontal slash from left to right, the pirates in the range were split in half.

Splash-!

A water bomb that flew from the sea hit the pirates, and Saebyeok fought bravely, seemingly unafraid of the pirates.

I also needed to fight hard instead of just standing around.

The moment I drew my bow, Bomi’s Black Mana engulfed the nearby pirates.

“I made them not scary! Let’s fight together!”

At Bomi’s shout, Levinas and Gaeul showed their eyes.

The pirates touched by Bomi’s Black Mana took on the appearance of goblins.

“Whoa! Goblins aren’t scary at all!”

“Majyo!”

Thanks to Bomi’s support, Levinas and Gaeul were able to break free from their fear and engage in battle.

Lemons flying in the sky, white flames, and vines growing through the deck.

It was initially difficult to catch such elusive opponents, but winning the fight wasn’t that hard.

“I got it!”

With Hanyeoreum’s shout, the zombie pirates turned to dust and scattered.

It seemed that the zombie pirates kept appearing, but there was a trigger that made the subordinate pirates disappear once we defeated the boss.

“Our little ones took care of the minions, so we could comfortably take down the boss.”

“Minions? What are minions?”

“Oh, the subordinates.”

Hanyeoreum was holding the pirate captain’s hat as loot.

Seeing this, Levinas’s eyes sparkled, and she put on the pirate captain’s hat.

“It’s Captain Levinas.”

“Yeah! Now this ship belongs to Levinas!”

Although the ship bore the traces of battle here and there, it felt even more like a pirate ship because of it.

“Now we just need to return the stolen valuables to complete the mission.”

“Right, I found out that the valuables are in the captain’s quarters.”

Levinas’s ears drooped at Hanyeoreum and Sophia’s conversation.

She seemed to hesitate about something.

“Levinas, what’s wrong?”

“Levinas wants to keep playing pirate…”

Ah, I see.

She wants to play on the pirate ship a little longer.

Understanding Levinas’s feelings, Hanyeoreum looked around and said,

“Then how about playing here for a bit? I’ll go inform them.”

“Wow! Can we really do that?!”

“Yeah. Since we’ve already defeated the boss, it shouldn’t be particularly dangerous.”

At Hanyeoreum’s words, Levinas jumped up with joy.

Gaeul and Bomi also seemed to be looking forward to it, wagging their tails gently.

“Then I’ll be back shortly. Could you wait here, Sophia and Marin?”

“Sure.”

“Yes. I’ll stay close.”

Hanyeoreum returned to the hotel on the fishing boat that had been waiting far away.

We decided to stay on the pirate ship and play pirate for a while.

“Cannon! There’s a cannon here!”

We ran around the pirate ship, playing.

We spun the wheel aimlessly and lowered the sails of the ship.

There were so many fascinating things on the ship that I was touching for the first time.

“What’s this, a jujinmu-yak?”

“This looks like an anchor.”

“Dock? Cock-a-doodle?”

“No, it’s not a chicken…”

Just as I was about to explain the anchor to Gaeul,

Boom-!

The ship shook with a loud impact.

“Yack!”

“Ugh!”

Trying to maintain my balance on the shaking ship, I turned to look at the source of the impact.

On the deck there, the adventurer we had seen yesterday jumped up.

“We got them! We caught the pirate bastards!”

“Don’t get too excited, kill the captain first! If the captain is alive, it’s meaningless!”

The captain?

I naturally turned to look at Levinas.

Levinas, who had just become the captain of the pirate ship, began to tremble.

A word from the author (Author’s Note)

Thank you so much for reading today, PIA1747014585384!

Thank you for the comments and recommendations as well! They always give me strength!

Captain Levinas is in big trouble…!