episode_0562

─Ouroboros.

Its true identity is a giant worm.

I don’t know much about earthworms.

It looks creepy, digs, and fish love it.

It’s not just me.

Who on earth would like something like a worm?

However, I ended up getting eaten by that worm.

Shoot ──

As the ship moves forward, the cluster of stars floating on the sea begins to sweep back.

The deep-sea fish below the surface swam with all their might to survive.

But it is calm on the water.

The shipyard director raised his head and looked at the Horus flag hoisted atop the main mast.

I followed his gaze and looked at the flag.

But why?

The flag doesn’t move.

─As if it had stopped.

This meant that the Ouroboros in the deep sea had begun to suck in water.

‘We have to find a way.’

It was then.

“It’s heavy! ship! Put it down!”

A combination of paragraph words.

I understand what you mean. Since the ship is heavy, the trade goods must be abandoned.

However, this sailboat has a three-story structure.

Heavy cargo is placed at the bottom of the boat.

Moreover, the loaded load is in the tens of tons.

How can you throw that away in such a short period of time?

‘There are too many.’

“Impossible. There are too many.”

The shipyard manager opens his eyes and glares at me.

He went on this crazy voyage for me and died because of me.

“···I’m sorry.”

How should I apologize to my wives?

To my wives, who will die together in the middle of this hellish sea.

I took my hand off the wheel.

Because I had to apologize to them.

That moment.

“Don’t give up.”

One word catches my attention.

The shipyard director was looking straight at me.

Then he turned around and stood on the deck.

“Because I can.”

The shipyard director said that and closed his fists.

Bang───!

Hit the bottom of the sailboat.

That alone caused the floor of the ship to shatter.

The boat is overflowing as if it has been overthrown.

Kwasik! Kwazizik──!

The shipyard superintendent tears apart the deck of the sailboat and digs inside.

In front of that primitive power, there were no concepts such as ‘walls’ or ‘roofs’.

Break it. Break it. Break it.

When the ship reached the cargo hold, the shipyard manager began throwing all the cargo into the sea.

Quack! Quad deuk!

The sound of the entire inside of the ship collapsing is heard.

The sailboat was too narrow for the shipbuilder Ogein to fit in.

─Kwaaa?!

Shir screams.

Both Anne and Seth were screaming.

Still, I had to hold on to the wheel.

I looked up, stayed on course, and looked at the Horus flag atop the mainmast.

The flag begins to flutter little by little.

By the time the shipyard manager had thrown away all the cargo, it was even faster.

The shipyard superintendent clatters out of the sailboat.

─The ship is moving forward.

That’s when I was sure I could get out.

A cluster of stars in the sea draws a whirlpool.

The guy starts drinking seawater in earnest.

The ship, swept away by the whirlpool, began to deviate from the track.

Soon the speed of the ship began to decrease.

‘You just have to go a little further…!’

It’s just around the corner. All you have to do is go a little further!

But right in front of your nose…!

The bottom of the ship is used as a cargo compartment.

This is because the cargo carried under the ship acts as a weight for the ship.

Therefore, the ship, going against the current without any weights, was very unstable.

The shipyard manager hangs on to the main mast, looks around, and approaches holding a rope tied to the wheel rail.

My heart beats coldly.

Because the heaviest cargo on this ship remained before our eyes.

─If that rope is cut, the shipbuilder will fall into the sea.

Then we can survive.

My heart is pounding.

Because Ghaul was a pitiful person.

know. he is a good person Straight-hearted and kind.

─But my wives are also nice.

They, my wives, ended the conflict in Pangea and developed the world.

They created a world without war!

If I were to die, if it could be resolved by my death, I would offer it right away.

But I know there are things more fearful than death.

What I fear more than death is losing my person.

I’m so scared of that.

My heart feels numb and my breathing becomes heavy.

My limbs are shaking as if I will faint from extreme excitement.

Even if I cut that rope here, no one would say anything.

None of the wives know about this situation.

Suffice it to say that it was swept away by the waves.

‘Just cut that rope and it’s over.’

I quietly placed my hand on the dagger.

─By the way.

The shipyard director.

Ghaul was looking directly at my actions.

He stops as if he is surprised.

Just for a moment.

Ghaul smiles at me.

Those eyes conveyed only one message.

─Do it.

I was so scared that I put on a fake smile.

“······?!”

I felt a sense of shame at that sight.

Still, the fact that I had to do it brought tears to my eyes.

─Can I trample on innocent people for my own happiness?

Everyone lives to be happy.

The world is inherently cruel and is made to survive only by sacrificing others.

What protects human dignity is material.

Human beings transcend and go beyond the laws of nature?

It’s bullshit.

Humans are also beasts and only compete with humans, not other beasts.

─I know everything.

I pulled out a dagger.

Ghaul was still looking at me.

Don’t even run away.

If he runs up and grabs me, I will be crushed and exploded in an instant.

I raised the dagger.

The moment I hit the rope tied in front of me.

Time stretches. Like taffy.

“Aaaagh—?!”

I screamed and slashed my dagger toward the rope.

That fleeting moment.

My father’s old admonition flashes through my mind.

[Courtesy, duty, and patience.]

[A person must have these three things.]

Deep!

“Kuh?!”

The dagger, which suddenly twisted its trajectory, stabs my thigh.

Reason screamed.

That’s stupid bullshit!

The trolley dilemma.

There is something called the train dilemma.

Ultimately, all choices involve sacrifice.

Still, someone can be saved.

But if we keep the status quo like this, we will all die!

Moreover, in that dilemma, what if it is my family that is tied to the tracks?

I must unconditionally save my family.

There is nothing to see. Everyone around the world would say the same thing as me.

···however.

“Haha…!”

I also can’t trample on innocent people.

How stupid is this?

I lowered my head in disappointment.

Hell, who took his eyes out from the stigma, was looking up at me.

─I understand you.

I laughed at the strange tone of voice.

I never thought the day would come when I would hear these words from hell.

‘You understand me?’

─Because you are a human being worth understanding.

Worth understanding?

There is nothing like that. It is right for humans like me to become extinct through natural selection.

-I knew you couldn’t have done this in the first place.

It was then.

The eyes of hell split into grins.

─But I can do it.

Hell leaps out of the back of my hand.

Then it pulls out its sharp teeth and rushes towards the rope.

“──────?!”

It happened in an instant.

But not for people like me.

I let go of the wheel, turned around, and fell to the floor of the deck.

Then he pulled out his dagger and struck the brand.

Sigh!

Hell stepped away from the rope and glared at me.

─You stupid bastard! What are you doing now?!

─I will sink in that dark sea! They’re getting eaten!

Hell.

Hell, the intersection of the already dead, was terrified.

─Go! Go cut the rope! right now! You crazy bastard!

─Don’t you feel sorry for your wives?! Sur! Jules! Isabelle! Sets! Edeline! Ella! Anne! Everyone is looking at you!

─Please stop! Please hang up!

─Please stop────!

Hell screams desperately and sheds tears from dozens of eyes.

He sees the world through me.

That’s why I was terrified.

“People will die someday.”

─···It’s not too late.

“···It is up to us to decide whether we will die as an animal or as a human.”

─It’s not too late!

Charrr!

The wheel I let go spins as it pleases.

The ship has already begun to fall into the whirlpool.

At that moment.

Pop!

It stops with a sound like a broken wheel.

The shipbuilder’s finger was hanging on the wheel.

“Trust me.”

And then he gently broke the wheel.

In tune with the flow of the vortex.

There was no time to stop him from being so powerful.

We started to fall into a whirlpool like ants caught in a drain.

‘Believe it?’

It looks like it’s going to get sucked into the drain and flow into the sewer right now?

When you look to the side, the reality of the bottomless pit behind you is revealed.

─It was sucking up the sea.

In this situation, even monsters weighing hundreds or even tons of the deep sea are being sucked in.

Nevertheless, the shipyard director does his best.

“Body. Tie it.”

As if possessed, I tied myself to the railing with a rope.

The shipyard superintendent seized the main mast sail.

“Sea route. Maintain.”

As we follow the flow, the ship accelerates at a tremendous speed.

I held the wheel with one hand and opened my eyes.

It’s still too early to give up.

You must not give up.

‘If you have regrets, you can die and be reborn.’

The shipyard director told me.

─It’s not that it doesn’t exist, it’s that you don’t know.

So, you have to do something when you have time to regret.

The shipyard superintendent was hanging ropes around his body and the main mast.

The ship that has begun to be sucked into the vortex moves at tremendous acceleration.

Almost like a car driving on the highway.

This was because the speed of the whirlpool and the steamship’s propeller rotated together.

As the speed increases, you are liberated from gravity.

This means that the surface area of the ship submerged in water is reduced.

This means that the ship’s stability to float on the sea is poor.

If I turn the wheel just a little bit wrong, the boat itself will tip over in an instant.

The shipyard director moves his feet with his characteristic weight and acts as a weight.

So I just fixed the key.

Just for a moment.

“Shock──! Prepare───!”

The shipyard director shakes his body back and forth while holding the main mast.

Rattling!

Someone jumped out of the cabin.

It was Lexi. In an instant, she embraces me with her wings and hands and wraps the rope around her body.

At the same time, he held onto the railing tightly with his wing hand and held me with both hands.

“It’s inside!”

“Shut up───!”

As if I knew what was going to happen.

The shipyard superintendent raises his huge feet high.

Boom───!

Push down on the sailboat with all your might.

A sailboat weighing tens of tons lost gravity due to sufficient acceleration and fell into the sea.

So much so that the deck filled with water.

Just one stomp!

It was only after I felt the consequences that I understood the reason for his actions.

The ship, which had lost gravity due to acceleration, received a heartfelt stomp from the ogre as it reached tens of tons.

If it had been a dirt floor, nothing would have happened.

But the sea is different.

The buoyancy lifted the bottom of the boat like a spring and the boat floated up.

Just as a small high-speed yacht bounces on the water even in small waves.

But the ship is tilted.

Therefore, even if it floats, it is still like wandering in a whirlpool.

It was almost simultaneous.

Flap!

The shipyard manager straightened the sail.

Boom!

For a moment, the boat floats further due to the tremendous air resistance.

“──────?!”

Thanks to this, my body was thrown into the sky.

But thanks to Lexi’s persistence, I was able to face the situation.

The shipyard director was pulling only one side of the sail rope held in both hands.

On the opposite side of the vortex.

The sail also bends in the opposite direction of the vortex, reducing air resistance by half.

As a result.

A ship was flying in the sky.

However, there is no way the sails could withstand a ship weighing tens of tons.

Waddeuddeuddeuk───!

In less than a second, the foremast and main mast shatters.

The shipyard director gritted his teeth and did not let go of the rope, but it only lasted for a few seconds.

After that, the rope could not hold up and broke.

When one breaks, the other breaks in succession.

Puck───! Burbubbubbuk!

The burst rope violently hits the shipyard director.

It was so powerful that even the hard plate skin of the auger was torn.

If a human had been hit, the body would have been split in two.

But the shipyard manager does not fall.

He holds on to the bare mast and, with his eyes wide open, runs across the deck to find the optimal center of gravity to prevent the ship from capsizing.

I also looked at the location of the whirlpool.

I couldn’t waste even 0.1 second, so I turned the wheel in advance.

thud! Bah!

The impact of the boat landing in the sea caused him to hit his head on the wheel.

Thanks to this, my forehead was torn, but it wasn’t a big deal.

After the shock came once again.

But we were still on top of the vortex.

Nevertheless, at least maintaining the ‘status quo’ was possible.

Just for a moment.

Suddenly, an ominous thought comes to mind.

I fixed the wheel with a dagger and quickly ran into the steam room to replenish fire spirit.

That huge thing sucked in its prey to the extent that it created a whirlpool in the sea.

‘And then?’

I’m going to spit out the water I’m holding in.

A huge bubble will soon form.

When a monster like this spits out bubbles, the water density decreases and ships cannot float on the water.

─If you don’t get out of here, you’ll just sink.

The ship, completely devastated, began to move forward with all its might.

But the boat, with all its load thrown out and made of light wood, went fast enough.

It was then.

“No…! If the water dries up, the steam engine will explode…!”

I heard an ominous sound.

‘The ship explodes?’

It was Edeline who suddenly appeared.

She grabs my arm with a pained expression and tries to snatch the sacred item I am holding.

But I couldn’t bring myself to give it back.

If I don’t get out of here now, I’m sure I’ll die.

─That intuition screams at me.

“If Ouroboros spits out the water he drank… bubbles will rise.”

“···Yes?”

“If you stay on top of it, the water density decreases and the ship will sink.”

Edeline opens her eyes and looks at me.

I hope so for a while.

Edeline, who was thinking about something, begins to operate the steam engine.

“At least fill it before the water completely dries. If you are even one second late, your organs will melt and melt!”

In that case, you will die on the boat.

Soon the ship began to move at an even faster speed.

It was only natural that I boiled more water than I had.

We filled the water supply with water and stood in front of the steam engine, trying to push the steam to its limit.

and.

Bogle─

The sound of a huge bubble bursting clearly heard from somewhere.

Bogrrry!

My stomach is shaking wildly.

It was no different from an earthquake on the sea.

‘If the boat falls here, we’ll all die!’

The shipyard director widens his eyes and uses his own weight to compensate for the ship’s lack of resilience.

The steam engine’s temperature gauge had already reached the end, a point where guessing was impossible.

Even if you are just one second behind, you will die on the sea, and if you add water, the steam engine will cool down and its speed will drop.

─You must succeed unconditionally.

I listened to the steam engine and the sound of water evaporating.

The sound of bubbles can still be heard.

But at some point, I ended up turning the valve on the safety water supply.

─Despite the fact that we have not yet escaped the bubble zone.

Nevertheless, the reason I opened the water valve was because I followed my intuition that the water had dried up.

Wow ────!

The water added to the steam engine makes a rough, splashing sound.

But Edeline’s eyes were nailed to the dashboard.

Just for a moment.

“···The pressure builds up again. The temperature also went down.”

“What happened?”

“······It’s not broken.”

Edeline smiles.

Even though the words were good, it felt like my heart stopped.

The dizziness is like a rage.

I collapsed on the spot, and only then did I realize.

The wound on my thigh was surprisingly deep.

‘Is he really an asshole?’

I can’t believe I hurt myself and fell down in this situation.

“Are you okay?!”

“Yes. It’s because I’m a little relaxed.”

If I wake up now, I will pass out due to barometric hypotension.

I lay down, stopped the bleeding in my thigh, and looked at the shipyard manager outside the door.

He is still struggling to prevent an upset caused by the bubble.

In the meantime, Lexi, who was drenched, lifted me up.

“···You shed a lot of blood.”

“A little bit.”

“Take a rest. We’ll take care of the rest.”

“···Yes.”

I was picked up by Lexi and taken to the cabin.

I trust that the remaining work will be done well by my wife and the shipyard manager.