Hakai no Miko

From the coast where he was trawling net fishing, the Ethereal Horse, who visited Marman's mansion with his feet, asked to be seen by Olga.

Olga was surprised by this sudden visit. Because of this, you have shown favor here, but you have just conveyed the words of rejection in good condition. Yet face-to-face without setting aside was a bad idea, yet we can't push it back even more. Olga greeted the pale horse reluctantly.

However, in contrast to such Olga, the Ethereal Horse had a grin with Nico.

"I'm going to visit the island tomorrow, so say hello to the Queen"

Besides, Olga clouded her face.

The Ethereal Horse is not a person of Jeboah. As a result, I guess I did not convey the sincerity of the Queen's words that I conveyed and received them on par.

Olga, who thought so, tells him to chew it up.

"I won't say anything wrong. You should give up your sight of Her Majesty."

I personally like the Ethereal Horse for taking pleasure in finding my compromised sister. But Olga is the official and the warrior chief of Marman. Whoever approaches the island without permission must be eliminated.

Olga, not wanting to leave the Ethereal Horse like that if possible, persuaded him to desist from visiting the island while choosing the language.

But the Ethereal Horse has a kerosene look and insists it's okay.

Olga was just as dismayed by this.

Olga is a Merman woman who prides herself on being king of the sea. Moreover, its martial arts are enough to keep the warriors more than the queen. It was an impossible story to say that if that self approached the island without permission, he would be relentlessly driven away, but don't be offended when they say it's okay.

"It would be good. I will welcome you myself!

If you are going to cross the island, it is Olga's declaration that you will stop it and show it to yourself.

"Yes, don't push too hard."

But the Ethereal Horse cared about Olga the other way around, I'm afraid. The Ethereal Horse was seriously worried, but that stirs up Olga's anger even more.

"That would be this dialogue. Since this Olga is an outlaw, the welcome may get rough. Please be careful."

Olga throws up "It's the return of the guest" on the servant and he just goes back inside the office. That was an attitude that Japan would just say, "Sprinkle with salt."

But the Ethereal Horse, who went outside so that he was driven halfway by the servants of the official residence, snaps his neck with a decent face.

"... Did I say something wrong?

Shemr sighed loudly at the pale horse, who groaned in earnest and wonder.

"It's my" you under the umbilical. "You're an unconscious, hurting genius."

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The next morning, the Ethereal Horses were introduced to a single ship in the port of Jeboa, which was taken to Joash.

It is a small sailboat with a single pole that raises a horizontal sail (oohan) in the center of the hull.

However, even when it is small, its total length is also approximately eighteen melts (approximately eighteen meters). It's a uniquely shaped ship like a tub with a taller bow and stern. The water intake was deeper than I thought, and the hull was painted black with turquoise (rake) to prevent flooding.

This is the ship that in future generations is called the Jeboa Round Ship.

In the "Homer's Epic", which is a valuable literature in examining antiquity, there is the following sentence that describes the Jevoeans:

"Here they come (annotation: about the Jeboa merchant). A greedy squid sama master loaded with merchandise all over the belly of a black ship"

The term "black ship" as used here refers to this round ship of Jeboa. It is a sentence that often tells the story of the fact that the merchants of ancient Jeboa used this round ship to build enormous wealth in the marine trade in the Inland Sea of Benes.

And as captain of this ship, Joash introduced to the Ethereal Horse was a rough man who only seemed to be the head of a bandit or pirate.

"I can't say no to a Shapiro Chamber of Commerce boy asking me to. - But, yeah. If it sucks, we're turning back the ship."

"Okay. But I think it's gonna be okay."

As a captain, he showed great threats, but on the contrary, he just laughed and showed that the Ethereal Horse should not worry.

Ugh, not the attitude of the guy who's going to be dealing with Marman in the ocean. How big of an idiot is this guy, or is he a very big man?

The captain, who overweighs the attitude of the Ethereal Horse, is puzzled. But he's the guy who's originally solved things by letting his arms say things rather than bothering him with his head. Immediately, let me try to break it off.

"I'm a merchant, too. Only for the money I get, I'll do it right. But..."

So the captain turns his eyes to his ship. Above the deck of the ship, there were tons of fish on it. That's what Joash said when he heard what the Ethereal Horse was doing, "Then you'd better have a fish to catch," and he negotiated with the fishermen to buy up every net of fish he had just caught earlier this morning on purpose.

"- What are we going to do with so many fish?

"Uh-huh. Is it like a souvenir?

I look back at Marman, who is good at capturing fish, and wonder what he thinks about making fish a souvenir.

But only our own deal is to send them to Merman's Island. Along the way, they also get the assurance that if they get in the way of the Mermans, they can turn back on the spot.

Rather than say it here anyway, the captain, who had just decided to get the job done, gave instructions to the Ethereal Horses to board the ship.

And Joash speaks to the pale horse who tried to board the ship.

"Now bless you, Master Soma, Merine"

Sure, Merine's Blessing is the word I was taught the other day when I was watching her trawl net fishing. Joash explains to me what the hell it meant to be on my face.

"Merine blessings are meant to pray for abundant fishing, but they are now also used in the sense of good luck in the ocean in general."

So Joash smiles bitterly.

"But if you tell Marman this, he'll laugh at you."

Current fluctuations in the seabed, which people on land do not know, are also a natural phenomenon that they realize is natural for the Marmans who live in the sea. Naturally, I also know that the gathering of fish is not due to the sacrifice of the maiden Merine, but to this fluctuation. They make fun of the ignorance of people on land calling such a natural phenomenon a blessing and exaggeration of Merine.

"Dear Soma, I am counting on you. If you're at sea, you'll break Merman's tall nose columns, whispering that you can't beat those on land."

And it came to pass, when Joash lay his hands upon his chest, and bowed his head lightly, that the ship that carried the pale horses sailed loosely.

As the ship moved far from the harbor, the reactions of the Zoans, who had gone out to sea for the first time, polarized.

On the other hand, those who, fearing the invisible depth of the bottom and its vastness, are solidifying themselves in the centre of the ship in an attempt to steer them away from the sea a little. At the heart of the Zoans, which, by the way, solidifies themselves together, is Dvarin, who closes his eyes long after sailing and prays like a Buddha.

And on the other hand, they are excited and squeaky, as opposed to Dvarin et al.

The representative of the latter is Zug, without mention.

"Oh! Wow, you really don't see the bottom!

The red-haired giant, who sparkles that one eye with curiosity, is desperately peering into the ocean below from the boatyard. Normally, Gallum, who was supposed to look down on it, looked down at the sea all together at this time.

"Oh. Totally. How deep is a guy called the ocean?

Behind the two I returned to the child, Shemru was good at it, sniffing his nose.

"There's even a place called the ocean where all the mountains sink deep."

And Zoog said, "Oh!," he cheered and admired, but Garam said with an abominable look on his face.

"Anyway, it would be Soma's takeover and sale"

It is a picture star. Shemr didn't even make a sound.

The captain speaks to the Ethereal Horse, who was trying to laugh at such exchanges between the Shemls.

"Hey, Guest. It's time to get into the Mermans' realm."

If that voice caught me and I looked forward to the ship, I was a lot closer to Marman's Island. The island, which looked small from the harbour, was so small that it had to move its neck to the left and right to see its full width.

"Okay. Stay around here, once you have a boat."

In response to the words of the Ethereal Horse, the Captain gives instructions to the sailors. Then the sailors rushed around on the deck, sliding the swollen sail in the wind, and threw down the octopus wrapped around a large stone.

Come on, let's get ready.

In a word of the Ethereal Horse, the Zoans who were on the deck begin to move. As the proponent of the measure, the Ethereal Horse wanted to show him where to take the initiative, but Shemr, who stood before him, pointed to the edge of the deck.

"You're in the way, stay there."

"Out of the way... That's not what a proud warrior would say to you under his umbilical cord."

A protested Ethereal Horse, but Shemr moans and shows in an exaggerated gesture.

"Oh, that's lamentable. My" You Under the Umbrella "was a fool to forget his own grace."

So I peeled my fangs off and laughed and showed them.

"Any objections? My" you under the umbilical. "

"... None"

The Ethereal Horse, overwhelmed with protest by Shemru, sits in a sports seat in the corner of the soaking deck. In front of you, even that Marco is "wasted, wasted" complaining about crossing Zoan, who wields a mountain knife and performs the work, but joins the work. Though it doesn't help, as Shemr says, there's no place for you just to watch.

So I asked around to help me with something, but as everyone indicated, "Watch quietly because I'm in the way," but the Ethereal Horse messes with me.

"Hey, Soma!

Shemr calls for the Ethereal Horse, who was messing with the words "of" on a black board painted with asphalt blue. When the Ethereal Horse looked up, there Shemr opened his eyes wide, and his whole body of hair was turned upside down.

"What the hell is this?!"

The voice also feels faint tremors because of nervousness.

Besides, the Ethereal Horse, finally realizing she was ready, got up completely.

"All right! Let's go then!

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"Dear Olga, What are those guys doing?

A lady warrior of her subordination asked Olga, who looked out from the sea surface in a standing swim and stared at the ship on which the Ethereal Horses would board.

A ship carrying the Ethereal Horses departed from the harbour of Jeboa was immediately conveyed to Olga by Marman's warriors who were monitoring the harbour.

According to the warrior, only one small merchant ship comes to do it. Besides, Olga was outraged that we were licked too. It is only a ship. If you're going to sink that, it's enough for one of you. But Olga dared to bring twenty warriors, and to wait for the ship on which the Ethereal Horse would ride in all his stature.

However, the ship that finally arrived docked in front of Marman's realm and did not attempt to move forward.

"I don't know either. But it's what keeps me on a boat where I don't like it."

Olga spilled along with her tongue pounding.

Now the ship is staying at a critical location in Marman's realm, as stipulated in the covenant with Jeboa. I could have gotten my hands on it if it would have entered Marman's realm more clearly. However, there is a risk of later being attributed to Jeboa's Merchant Guild. or too close to ignore at all.

"Anyway, don't get distracted. Where we were alarmed, it might be a way to get into it all at once"

That being said, Olga thought it was quite unlikely. No matter how fast the ship is, it doesn't extend to Marman swimming. Even if we temporarily slipped through our own line of alert, we would soon catch up and be able to make holes in the bottom of the ship. You can't possibly know about that.

Watching what the hell you were thinking, there was movement on the ship. Tensions run between the women warriors of Merman, wondering if they are finally forcibly breaking through their own defensive lines.

But in the distance, I'm just doing some work on the deck, and there's no sign of the ship moving.

"Are they spreading poison?

Yes, the female warrior pointed out that from time to time, she used a bucket from the top of the deck to sprinkle something like liquid on the surface of the sea.

Olga laughs at that with her nose.

"If so, what a waste."

Sprinkling poison on the sea to defeat Marman is a classic measure used by those on land. But what works is more closed waters - limited to coves and bays. Even if you sprinkle poison in a place like this, it will just be diluted quickly by the current.

"Apparently, I was buying the Son of Destruction."

As Olga mocked herself, she saw new behavior on the ship again.

Now it looks like it's near the bow, putting something down or up in the ocean repeatedly. It's not clear in the distance, but it looks like a net with fish in it.

"Are you even fishing?

Even though I say so myself, I think Olga is "such an idiot".

Indeed, the sea around here is a rich fishing area with many rocky reefs and lots of fish. But I don't know why I'm suddenly starting fishing here, having declared that I'm getting on Marman's island.

No way, I gave up crossing the island, but I let the ship out because of it, so you want me to at least catch fish and go home? Or are you still going to force us to break through after letting us think so and keep this one alert?

Olga couldn't read the thoughts of the Ethereal Horse and got confused.

A woman warrior under her command shouted to cut off such Olga's perplexity.

"Master Olga! The ship is lifting the gills!

As the female warrior put it, at the rear of the ship, the sailor was about to raise the yttrium he was throwing in.

"Be on your guard! We're looking for a breakthrough!

Heavy and low vibrations were transmitted to Olga's body immersed in the sea, wondering if several female warriors who had been instructed had dived into the sea.

That is the voice of vigilance raised by the female warriors who dived earlier.

The Mermans utilize vibrations that are made by shivering the entire throat with the air circulated in the body, allowing easy transmission of will even in the water.

"It's something that licked us a lot"

You must have noticed this one's already on alert. Yet Olga leaks her tongue when the ship moves toward the island.

Besides, are you inviting this one, or are you underestimating it again, or are you slowly moving the ship forward?

Nor does Olga allow the warrior to hold his hand until this point. Out to hard means at once.

"Hit him on the bottom of the boat! If you still don't turn back, make a hole in the bottom of the ship!

Among the warriors brought, he sent them to the ship on which the Ethereal Horses would board, especially when he chose the one with whom his arms stood.

"Now the shellfish will swim"

When attacked by natural enemies Hitode and others, there are scalloped shells that swim and escape with the momentum to open and close the shells, but similar shells exist in this world. This rhetoric of "shellfish swimming" was Merman's own rhetoric of turning from there and "escaping like no other" or "escaping desperately".

If you're a Jeboa sailor, if you want Marman to slap you on the bottom of the boat yourself, that's for sure what happens.

That's what Olga thought.

By the way. There was a voice in the sea that continued to mean vigilance and evacuation. All that or even the warriors who were supposed to have headed for the ship turned back.

"Master Olga! No! I can't get close to the ship!

A woman warrior with her head out on the sea shouts in desperate shape.

"What?! What does that mean!

It is an unforgivable story to be a warrior of Marman, king of the sea, such as not being able to stop each ship.

Says the female warrior as she blues her face to Olga, who grows furious when she is impudent.

"That, Master Olga. Better than them..."

The female warrior set aside for a beat and said:

"We're gathering a bunch of scissors around the ship!