Legend

"Hmmm, hmm, hmm, hmm"

Ray, coming out of the pirate ship, was singing his nose in a good mood.

Perhaps the pirates will not understand how rare that is.

If it was the Elaine and the others I've always been with, I'd understand Ray being in a better mood than usual.

The rope that Ray pulls like that has the appearance of a man with a tied wrist.

The pirates were largely able to predict who it was.

But...... still, I guess you're right that I still didn't want to believe it.

You're the head of this pirate army, so that's natural.

There's nothing you can do to lower the morale of the pirates whose heads have been captured.

However... Ray is in a good mood so far, not because he captured the heads of the pirates, but because he got the magic items that his head had.

Unfortunately, it is disposable, so it cannot be used over and over again, but nevertheless I have discovered that there are nearly fifty similar magic items left in the ship besides what the man tried to use, which I have already stored in mystering.

The fact that the amount of smoke coming out varies depending on the impact you give means a lot to Ray... and also to Ray on Seto.

Even normal humans get some smoke, so I can't imagine how much smoke would come out if I tapped it all out with Ray's power.

Also, it was completely unclear how much smoke would come out when I rode Seto from an altitude of 100m high... or threw a magic item to the ground from a higher altitude.

It's not a question of whether you can drop magic items from that altitude to the target location.

"My head... we just don't have enough power, sorry..."

"My predecessor, I'm sorry. We couldn't protect our youth."

The pirates look at the man being pulled by Ray and say thoughtlessly to each of them.

Seeing the pirates like that, he stops his nose and turns a frightened gaze.

"If you're a pirate, you'll be caught sooner or later. If you didn't want to get caught so badly, not pirates... that's what adventurers and fishermen should have done."

No matter how many pirates mourn their lack of power or apologize to the other generation who gave their heads to the man Ray is catching, that doesn't make it go away that these guys were pirates.

If you don't like being caught this way, that's what Ray's honest feeling was that you shouldn't imitate pirates.

Most of all, it's too late to say anything now that we've been caught like this.

Do the pirates understand that too, Ray's words and... most importantly, many have a look of despair at the capture of their heads.

"Well, you can store it with this for now."

Whimpering, Ray touches the ship...... the next moment the ship disappears.

"Become!?

The man who was captured by Ray can only be flabbergasted by the sudden sight.

The other pirates who had been captured outside saw the sight of another ship being stored in Ray's Mystering, so I was surprised even in this one case, but still less surprised than when I first saw it.

In contrast, this was sometimes the first time Ray had captured a man whose ship disappeared - stored in a mistering - and he had to look wide open and just flash.

"Look, don't be surprised. You come here too!

Tell him so, pull the rope that's tying the man up.

There is no way he can resist the power of Ray, and the man is pulled with a stunned look on his face.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Seto approached with joy as he watched the pirates toward such a ray.

Naturally, then the man being pulled by Ray will also see Seto... the same or more stunned that the ship disappeared.

"Become, be..."

"Look, you can still be surprised. Come here now."

The man, who was half-forced to pull, finds himself annoyed about it.

Try being a man, it's like being suddenly raided when you're amazing in the boat.

That, too, has already caught all of my own people.

And then all the magic items on the trump card are taken away, and if you tie them to a rope and go outside the ship, the ship you've just been on disappears, and there's a high-ranking monster called Griffon.

If you're surprised by such an impossible event, this is how you're forced to pull the rope.

Not very much, but that was more impossible to say not to be dissatisfied with.

Most of all, no matter how dissatisfied the man was, there was nothing Ray could have done about it.

That's how he takes the man under the other pirates, and when he connects him to the ropes of the other pirates, Ray thinks about what needs to be done next.

(First, secure the kind of treasure these guys are hiding... the question is how to get these guys to that fishing village. You want me to take you to Seto? It's tied with a rope, so if you could hold that rope to Ceto...)

Think so, if you take the pirates with rope tied, naturally the weight of those below will be added to those above who are caught by Seto.

If the weight of nearly dozens of people were added, they would definitely die if they were normal.

(But from here to that fishing village, if it's the speed of Seto, that's the distance it feels like right next door. If that's the case, can't you put up with it...? Yeah, but can you handle a few guys at a time?

In fact, whether you carry this many people to that fishing village or how to deal with it...... tying them somewhere, imitating them to take everyone here at once will undoubtedly confuse the fishing village.

If so, there was no doubt that even those in fishing villages would not be confused if they took a few at a time.

"All right, that's it. It's hard to think about it."

The pirates who heard it tremble for a moment at Ray's words whining.

Because that's how I understood that Ray decided what to do with us now.

"I wasn't sure how to get you guys to land, but I decided to have a few people carry you to Seto one at a time, tied up with rope. I'm glad you've never been able to fly before."

Ray's words are never lies. I'm not lying... there's no way I'd be happy to be told to be happy in a situation like the one I'm being transported to Griffon in right now.

"Wait! Wait! He said he'd keep taking you!? If you imitate that, if you do poorly, you'll die!

"Then try not to die. Humans, you can do whatever you want, but you can do it, right?

The man Ray captures screams, but Ray returns that lightly to it.

It's not a joke or anything, and you must have understood that Ray meant what he was saying. The man pulls his cheeks and wonders if Ray can somehow compromise.

I've already given up becoming a slave more than I've been a pirate.

But still... I wanted to do something to imitate that I couldn't even be a slave and would die for nothing.

(Can't you handle it? Somehow... somehow... you can't let the people you've served since your father's time kill you for nothing. somehow......)

The man, desperate to think, remembers and screams that Ray was in a very good mood, inadvertently holding the magic item he had.

"Deal!

"... a deal? Now what kind of deal are you going to have with me? You've decided to be sold off as slaves, haven't you?

If you only listen to that dialogue, it's clear that Ray is nothing but a villain.

But despite that situation, the man opens his mouth dignified towards Ray.

"More than you've defeated us, the treasures we've saved will naturally be transferred to you."

"Well, yeah"

The treasure the bandit had is taken ownership by those who crusaded the bandit.

Negotiate buyouts as a matter of priority, of course, as far as the original owner knows, but that is rarely the case.

And more than pirates are also a form of banditry, the ownership of that treasure is a crusaded figure...... needless to say it is in Ray in this case.

What do you do with treasure in that situation?

That's right, Ray asked with a gaze, but the guy doesn't look like he moved at all even with that gaze pointed at him.

(Are you the type of person who's better at negotiating than fighting? Well, still strong enough to get the pirate's head)

Ray observes the man as he waits for the man in front of him to open his mouth.

I don't know if you checked it out, but I didn't hide any treasures in the house we live in.

"Right. From what I saw, there was nothing."

There were many kinds of household goods to be exact, but there was no such thing as treasure.

"The treasure is hidden in various places. I don't think it's easy for you to find Griffon. But... if, when you take us, you carry us by moderate means, not by abusive means like you said, I'll tell you where that stash is. What do you say?"

"Even if they say so.... To be honest, transporting you guys by moderate means stinks a lot. If you take your time pointlessly, that could be the way you're gonna get away with it, right?

Here, if a man doesn't run away! And even in his mouth, if asked if he could believe it, Ray would immediately say no.

"I know what you're worried about, but if you let us use our ship that you turned off somewhere, we can all travel to land without any problems. Of course, you can rope a piece of your body so we don't run away."

"... if you did that, wouldn't you be able to move the ship in the first place?

Part of his body, the man says, but if he were to tie it with a rope, it would be possible to think about things like feet or arms.

There is no doubt that if you tie your arms, you will interfere with the operation of moving the ship, and if you tie your legs, you will be wobbled by the waves of the sea and very dangerous.

But the man even laughs proudly at Ray's words and shows them.

"You think we can handle this to that extent? Even if it looks like this, I'm confident in maneuvering the ship."

The way I told it didn't seem like a lie at all from Ray's point of view.

Of course I don't mean to believe all the pirate language, but if I could still do half what the man said, I wouldn't have had that much difficulty traveling to the fishing village.

(What do we do? I would like to collect the treasures while I can. But trust me on that... no, as far as the other pirates are concerned, I'm not absolutely loyal to this man... but I'm pretty sure they're deciding that we have to protect ourselves. then......)

When he quickly sums up his thoughts in his head, Ray smiles and speaks to the man.

"Okay. Fine, but you'll always have me in a position to kill you, right? Naturally, if you imitate badly, you have no life. Is that okay with you?

The man nodded instantly at Ray's words as he told him so with a lightly murderous gaze at the man.

"Okay, that's fine"

With that said, I can confirm firmly from Ray's eyes that the man's knee is trembling so much that he can't even hide it.

And as a matter of course, such a man looks like the other pirates...

"Young, you shouldn't. Eh!

"Yes, you shouldn't imitate depositing a young man's life with a guy like that. Eh!

Beginning with that voice, the other pirates scream at the man as well.

(This, from the side, I'm the bad guy, right?... Me, the guys from the fishing village just asked me to come and crusade the pirates)

If you look at yourself objectively now, if you don't know what's going on, most people will see you as a villain.

Though he thinks that way, Ray opens his mouth.

"Well, that's fine if you're convinced.... Tell you what, don't think you can imitate running through my gaps? Even now, you're the one with the arms."

Ray's skill in standing up for his arm is also highly understated.

But there's more to what you're saying than a certain amount of strength, and it's never wrong.

"... ok. That's all right. You guys take care of yourselves. I'm the head of this pirate gang, and I'm leading you. If there's more we can do for you than that, we need to do something about it.... understand me."

The others can say nothing more to the words of the man who tells them so.

Thus the story was settled, and Ray decided to swallow the man's suggestion.