Hakai no Miko

"All right, pull it up. - Damn!!"

When Zoan and the others pulled their strings together on the deck, a round, swollen net (ami) was raised from the sea.

Inside that net is a large quantity of fish that has been smashed into pieces. He's smashing the freshly fried fish this morning and throwing it into the net, tying its mouth.

Something popped up by putting it down a beat over a net pulled up from the sea, trying to chase it, cracking the surface of the sea.

(10).

The total length is about six to seven melts (one melt is about a metre). Besides, it's not one of them. If you look around the ship, you will find a number of spines protruding from the waves.

"This is the guy named Sashimi...!

Even the most powerful brave man on the plains and the famous Gallum were nervous enough to reverse their whole body hair.

Whatever the carnivore that inhabits the Sorbiant plains, it is a species of wolf or bobcat, no matter how big it is, it is about two melts. However, even the smaller ones, or the bigger ones, the eight melts, are huge enough to travel around the ship. I couldn't help but be nervous without a gallam.

The Ethereal Horses raise their voices to such Zoans and give them instructions.

"Be careful not to be eaten through the nets! Because if they take away the bait, it's ruined."

And it was the blood and fat of the fish that gathered them together. They were gathered and scattered in the sea when they smashed the fish into the nets. And the blood and the fat scattered in the sea rode upon the sea currents, and drew forth the flocks round about.

It was the Ethereal Horse's maneuver to guide the collected bamboo with bait suspended on the bow and to go for the island while pulling it around the ship.

"Hey, Soma. Really, now the Merman guys can't get close to the ship?

Shemr questioned the still anxious gaze at the squirrels roaming around the ship.

Speaking of Marman, he is the king of the sea. Because I didn't think the king of the sea would be afraid of creatures living in the same sea.

Besides, the Ethereal Horse laughs back.

"But even Zoan is called a plain champion or something, but he's afraid of wolves."

"I'm not scared!

Shemr, who has roughed up his voice about it, but soon changes his tone.

"Not recognizing something dangerous as dangerous is what a fool pretending to be a brave man does. - I see, that's the same thing. Yeah, I'm convinced."

Of course, the Ethereal Horse did not gather the scythe just by unsolicited guesses. As one of the causes of the disappearance of the child, Olga had raised the possibility that he had been attacked by Tsubaki. In other words, for Marman, it is an operation with the certainty that a scythe hits a wolf, a tiger, or other beast that strikes a person.

The situation of a ship with its bloodthirsty twins roaming around it is still like a car tour in Safari Park. If you think a beast, such as a lion or a tiger, that you thought could be fed, is swarming around the car. If in that situation, even if they told me to scratch the Beasts and flat my car tires, I'd be sorry if I was you.

Hopefully, the Mermans will think of approaching the ship the same way.

The Ethereal Horses worry about Olga and Marman.

I told Olga not to push it, but if he gets attacked by a mole trying to make a hole in the bottom of the boat when he's mean, it's not a sleeping thing for Ethereal Horse.

"Mr. Olga, I hope I don't have to..."

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Olga, not knowing he was worried by the Ethereal Horse, was raising his anger.

"Them! I've gathered all the pigeons around here!

Because I found myself diving into the sea and not even being able to get close to the boat on which the Ethereal Horses would board the too much of the mushrooms gathered.

For Marman, the scythe is a natural enemy. He was a mareman who named the king of the sea and raved that he could not beat any man in the sea, but that was only a word against other races living on land. If the other person is a creature of the same sea, the story is different. Some of our fellow countrymen have lost their lives because of these birds.

As the Ethereal Horse thought, for Marman, a beast was a fierce beast.

Besides, he said the squirrels collected around the ship were terribly excited about the smell of blood, and some of them even started eating together. In the midst of such a flock, there is no way that we can stop the tail and make holes in the bottom of the ship.

It's suicide through danger no longer.

"Do you want to?

Aside from that, Olga shook her neck to the side of the woman warrior, who asks with the temper that if you had orders, she would risk her life to make a hole in the bottom of the ship.

"Stop. This is nothing but Her Majesty's play. You can't let a capable warrior die for that."

If you seriously refuse to visit the island, you can say so clearly. It was the Queen's play that made the challenge impossible without doing so. No way would you tell the Queen and the warriors who matter about such things to put their lives on hold.

"All responsibility, I take. Somebody, I'll show you, so send a signal to stop the ship once. The people will be annoyed if they take the pigeons to the island."

Then some time later, one of Olga's life-taking female warriors waved a flag in front of the ship that meant a ceasefire and waterfront guidance.

Olga shapes her lips into a grin as she looks at it.

"That's the Son of Destruction. Aren't we going to..."

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The island of the Marmans is a large island located four kilometers (roughly twelve kilometers) southeast of the port of Jeboa. Its island, in the form of an ellipse slightly longer north and south than east and west, covers an area of approximately one and five square kilometres (approximately twelve square kilometres). If you metaphor this to modern Japanese style, it is about the same area as Chiyoda-ku in Tokyo.

More than five thousand mermans lived on such islands. Other than that, he also lived in slaves of other races brought to assist Marman in his land life, but that number is by no means high.

The reason for this is that the island is an inconvenient land for non-Marman races to inhabit in large numbers.

The island was originally created by the underwater volcanic activity of Tai Ancient, and is a basalt rock that almost all of its area was stripped out. The greens found slightly above the island are also mostly lichens, and of course few plants can be seen that can be called grass.

The beauty of the sea was abundant, but the island, which had to rely on imports of other foods from Jeboa, had a limit on the number of people who could hold it every second.

"This is the island of Marman..."

The Ethereal Horse, who looked over the island shoulder to shoulder with Shemr on a ship led by Merman's Woman Warrior, leaked an exclamation.

Merman's island is just an odd victory today. In the distance, there appear to be countless vertical stripes in the wall, but that is not a formation or the like. If you stop nearby, you'll see it filled in amazingly with stone columns like they were carved out with people's hands.

It's called columnar manipulation.

When hot lava cools and solidifies, the shrinkage in volume that happens with it creates a regular crack as if it were made at the hands of a person - the maintenance. Among these manipulations, those that are so thin and long broken as columns are called columnar manipulations.

Often forgotten, he was a pale horse looking at the natural artwork made by this lava, but I could hear him meeting something with Cancun in his ear. When I looked at you, there was a Merman woman with her head out of the sea about to break a large shellfish in a meeting with stone. When she breaks the shell and mouths herself inside the removed, the woman, who notices the ship on which the Ethereal Horses board, rushes to hide in the sea.

Shemr speaks to the blue horse who feels that he has been surprised.

"Soma, look! There's plenty of Mermans."

It was on the coast where the cliffs were broken off that Shemr pointed out so that he could get himself out of the boat. On the rocky reef coast where the rocks were stripped, there were many Mermans looking at this one.

"What would that be?

What Ethereal Horse pointed to was a neat line of Internet cafe private rooms or capsule hotels behind the Marmans.

It is a pile of stone about the height of the human hips in a U-shaped shape with depth, which is covered with wooden planks, seagrass, etc. On the side facing the sea with its U-shaped mouth open, it draped a number of seagrasses as if they were warm curtains.

"That's where the Mermans live."

It was the captain who told me so.

The captain's tone was soothing when he sailed. Only a man of the sea who knows the horrors of Marman seems to have held a tribute to the pale horse who gave that Marman a bubble.

"The Mermans, oh well, build a wall on the coast and make it their home."

The Ethereal Horse and Shemr nod and show.

In Marman, whose lower body is tailed, it will be difficult to travel to the hinterland of the island or cut out lumber to build a house. Still, if you want to build a house, you'll have to build an affordable size stone on the coast. And if you can't get up, it's natural to be a wall like a tall compartment like a private room in an Internet cafe. For that reason, it would be Merman's bedding without the eel's bedding.

"Well, you can see human beings, too."

Following Gallum's gaze, whining with slight surprise, a human figure was seen wearing armor with a spear in his hand on the coast. From where you are armed, it's probably a guard that prevents you from entering the island.

"Hey. There's a human figure over there, too."

That being said, it was a slightly higher hill on the north side of the island that Zug pointed to. On the road from the hill to the coast, there are many human slaves and pontificate men who have grabbed barrels.

"Mr. Doverlyn, hey"

The pale horse, pinned by the sight, called Dvarin, asked him that there was. In the middle of the deck, it was a doverlin who kept praying like a Buddha, but you can't ignore it if you're called out by an Ethereal Horse. When I look up in such a way as tannic, I check the condition of the island, and then I stroke my jaw beard.

"Well, there's nothing I can't make. We need to make it sturdy or we need to do something about it."

A boat carrying a pale horse satisfied with Dvarin's answer was taken to a cliff on the north side of the island.

I wondered if I could be grounded on a cliff exactly, and what the Mermans guided me through was a cave that was snugly empty at the root of that cliff.

The cave, which is large enough for a sail-posted round ship to fit perfectly, is a sea erosion sinus that has been eroded by waves over the years.

When the sail-folded ship slowly entered the cave scratching the water with a twist, it waited there with a mysterious sight.

The walls of the cave, filled with columnar manipulative rocks, just like the cliffs, are like buildings made by well-armed masons. It creates a fantastic sight as if it were an ancient temple, as if it were reflected in the sea and illuminated by a slightly blue light.

At the dock set up in the cave, the ship carrying the Ethereal Horses was grounded with a light impact. While the sailors and the slaves who were at the dock cooperated to moor the ship, the Ethereal Horses crossed a handover plate and descended into a narrow passage like a catwalk that shredded the walls of the cave.

Olga, who had come to the dock one foot earlier with such pale horses, is greeted by a human male slave.

"Welcome to our island." Son of Destruction, "Lord Soma Kisaki. - Let me show you to Her Majesty the Queen."

Following Olga, held by slaves, he is guided in front of a hole emptied in the rock wall.

The hole is only tall enough for a person to pass slightly backwards, but it appears to be wide across and loose uphill inside.

Joash had heard that Marman's royal palace was in a cave, but Aoima guessed that perhaps this was the passage from the dock to the royal palace.

But it is nevertheless an odd passage. There's a round ditch just about the width of each person on the floor, and a small amount of water is constantly flowing down from the top. That was like a water slider in a pool facility.

"It's a lot different from the land ones, but before that, it will be our royal palace."

Put Olga, who explained so, on a shell like a large chakogai where slaves were placed in front of a hole. And when you slap the wooden plate with a wooden hammer that was suspended on the wall, the rope that was passed through the shell is pulled sully into the aisle, and every Olga shell that was on it is pulled up.

The Ethereal Horse was convinced that it would be.

This waterslider-like passageway is a passageway built with Marman's body in mind without legs. When you go up there, this is how you get them to pull you up on the shells and slide down exactly like a water slider when you go down there.

The Ethereal Horses also go up the hill, as they follow after Olga. On both sides of the ditch was also secured a path for pedigrees with legs to ascend, so they did not wet their feet.

"This is the 'Queen's Room' where Her Majesty is. - Please don't be rude."

Just through a passage that turned into about two of those slopes, I quickly reached before the queen.

Nevertheless, the Ethereal Horse also worries about how easy it is to get to a place where there is a Queen who rules Marman. But when I think about Marman, who is also sloppy to travel on land, I reconsider that it would be the result of prioritizing normal convenience over the danger of intruders who don't know when they will come.

"Your Majesty. We have guided you to the Son of Destruction, Lord Soma Kisaki."

The Ethereal Horses also continue after Olga, who pushes the ground with both hands and slides his body forward into between the queens.

Then, the first to welcome the Ethereal Horses was the reflected light of a large bronze mirror placed on the wall directly in front of the entrance. A mirror is set up to reflect the light entering the queen's chamber from a light collection hole provided near the ceiling.

There is also a theory that the Queen of the Evil Horse Taiwan, Mirage, supposedly in ancient Japan, used mirror reflections to create the power of the witch of the Sun God, but it would have a similar purpose.

The Ethereal Horses stepped between the queens as they narrowed their eyes to the eyelids, finally opening their open eyes free from the eyelids even wider this time to surprise.

Occasionally wet from the cracks near the ceiling with water that flows down with increased momentum to pulse is a wall made of the same columnar manipulated rock that served as a docking ground. At its roots were piles of glittering gold and silver treasures. It is the beautiful princesses of Marman who wake up with their hands there and stare at this one with a glimmer of curiosity.

And it is the Queen Tateus who greets the Ethereal Horses with a golden tin cane in his hand, with a golden forehead decoration that mimics the crown with a coral throne that overwhelms the beholder.

"Welcome to my island. The concubine is the queen of the island."

First of all, when Ethereal Horse said a greeting introducing herself and a word of appreciation for welcoming her to the island, the Queen nodded to Eagle Deep before waving her hand.

Then the slaves laid on the floor a plank of wood like a scabbard. Between the queens, the sea water accumulates, although shallow enough for the candles of a man's feet to soak. If you lower your back to that place, you'll get wet all the time. This wooden plank would be a consideration to keep the clothes of visitors from land from getting wet.

The Ethereal Horse, who had fallen asleep on a wooden board as she was beckoned by the Queen, was wondering how to take the story to the content of her quest for friendship with herself. But before that, the teeth open their mouths.

"First, let me give you an unmistakable compliment. The courage and wisdom of breaking the protection of the concubine warriors and visiting the island by boat is exactly what we deserve to call the brave. I am very happy to invite such a brave man and my concubine."

In front of a pale horse who feels the illumination in the words of praise, Tateus hits two hands. Then, from a different entrance than the Ethereal Horses came in, the human slaves came in with basins and plates in their hands, and arranged them one after the other before the Ethereal Horses.

…… This...?

And the pale horses peeled their eyes in the basin, and in that which was on the plate. Then he turns his eyes to those close to him, floating with the colour of confusion.

The glossy (ah so) and ragged lips of the teeth shape the laughter at the reaction of those pale horses.

"Come on, brave men who visited the island. Don't hesitate, take all the hospitality of a concubine's heart."

Regardless, I won't allow you to refuse, Tateus had told me otherwise.