Drake Pirates VS Blackbeard Pirates
"The Iron Maiden, the mother ship of the Drake Pirates, is really here..."
Mary is astonished when she sees the Drake Pirates' mothership, the Iron Maiden, using a magic telescope that Shiro hastily made.
"That's why I told you! I'm returning from death because of the Ancestor's Ring!"
"I know that. Maybe grandmother entrusted that ring to you, the hero, to help you defeat some strong enemies."
For some reason, Mary seems to be surprisingly able to understand my situation.
If there are too many intelligent people around the main character who returns from death, a time-leap story would become uninteresting, but it's okay because it's reality, but there's only one person who understands returning from death. It seems like it suddenly deviates from the usual template.
After all, Shiro, Mary, and Mylene all believed that I had returned to death.
If this story were a novel, the author must have been in over his head because he couldn't write the most exciting part of the story, such as the protagonist's struggle and agony of not having anyone understand his return from death, which was supposed to happen at this stage of the story.
"So, what are we going to do?"
Mary asks me what's going to happen next.
Well, the best thing is not to fight so as not to antagonize the Drake Pirates.
Probably, if I were to face Drake, I would get furious because Mylene, a dhampir, was killed, and I would end up punching Drake. (I would order Shiro.)
If Drake didn't know about Mylene, it would be easy as I could just use the Concealment skill to manipulate the status, but there is no doubt that Drake knows Mylene.
I heard that before the Mylene Pirates were protected by the Mary Anne Pirates, they were relentlessly chased by the Drake Pirates.
"For now, let's wait for a while."
Well, no matter how you think about it, it's best not to meet the Drake Pirates and Blackbeard Pirates.
As expected, I don't think Drake will stay on Slime Island forever, and if our party doesn't return to the Golden Skull soon, it's natural to think that we were killed by the adamantite slime.
For that reason, we decided to camp at a distance where we could just barely see the Iron Maiden with the telescope.
"Master, they don't seem to be leaving..."
"That's right..."
"I wonder if your sense of time is strange because you are a vampire who lives in eternity."
"I'm a former Japanese person, so I'm pretty lazy."
"Master has just become a vampire!"
"If we live for 100 or 200 years, one or two years will feel like one or two days to us, won't it?"
"Then, the maximum time you can wait for someone is two hours, but do you mean they can safely wait for about two days?"
"That's the thing. I mean, considering Drake's fanaticism towards the Ancestor, I think he'll be fine waiting for about two years..."
"Certainly... the Drake I know would keep waiting for something related to the Ancestor, not just two years, but ten or twenty years..."
"Then, this strategy has already failed!"
Mary heard what Shiro and I were talking about and chided in.
"We'd be lucky if Drake and the others went back!"
"Don't say it's lucky! Use your own strength to manage your own life!"
"Because I couldn't manage it myself, Blackbeard has already killed me twice!"
"When you put it that way, I guess you're right......"
Mary, a single-minded person, is immediately convinced.
When we were talking to kill time,
"Master! There's trouble! The Blackbeard Pirates' fleet is coming!"
Shiro suddenly shouted out loud.
"I mean, isn’t the Blackbeard Pirates coming tomorrow!?"
"I can't see anything with the magic telescope!"
"The magic telescope that Mary-san is using is a degraded version of my clairvoyance, so it's only natural that you can't see it yet!"
"If they're that far away, there's no guarantee that the Blackbeard Pirates will come to Slime Island, right?"
I question Shiro.
"Without hesitation, they are heading straight for Slime Island!"
"I don't think the Blackbeard Pirates' information network is aware of our whereabouts, but they should be aware of the Iron Maiden anchored on Slime Island!"
Mary points out.
Well, if you think about it, it wouldn't be strange for a pirate as big as the Blackbeard Pirates to have someone with clairvoyance among their subordinates, even if they don't have clairvoyance like Shiro.
However, why did the Blackbeard Pirates come to the Drake Pirates?
Maybe they are in an alliance?
"Why, when the Drake Pirates' Iron Maiden is anchored on Slime Island, the Blackbeard Pirates come?"
I ask Mary a question.
"Well, it’s about killing each other, right?"
"But why now? We know that the Blackbeard Pirates are stronger, right?"
"Well, if Blackbeard and Drake were to fight one on one, I think Blackbeard would definitely win, but if it were a battle between two pirate groups, it would be different.
After all, the members of the Drake Pirates are all vampires with titles and are immortal.''
Indeed. I know how strong the Blackbeard Pirates are because I was killed twice.
However, all members of the Drake Pirates are immortal.
We fought against 30 elite members of the Drake Pirates in the Harman capital and won, but the Drake Pirates actually numbered over 200 people.
If we had fought on the Drake pirates' turf at sea, we would not have been able to defeat them.
"Ah! The Drake Pirates noticed that the Blackbeard Pirates were coming!
They're leaving Slime Island in a hurry!"
Shiro reported to us.
"Why does Drake run away?"
"The Blackbeard Pirates are coming with a fleet, right?
Then they'll run away."
Mary says this as if it's obvious.
"How many ships are coming in the fleet?"
"About 40 ships!"
"40 ships! There were only about 10 ships that came to Donut Island!"
"He led his entire fleet in search of the ass-sticking criminals, the Golden Skull Pirates, in the waters controlled by the Mary Anne and Drake pirates, who normally never come here, and they happened to see the Drake pirates' mother ship, the Iron Maiden, anchored alone, so they took the opportunity and decided to fight."
Mary explained it in an easy-to-understand manner.
"Somehow, that Drake guy...... isn't having the best of luck......."
When we met him for the first time, his daughter was kidnapped by us, and I'm sure he was attacked by the Blackbeard Pirates the second time as well, just like this time.
Just as I was thinking about it, the Iron Maiden was quickly captured by the Blackbeard Pirates' fleet and was attacked.
"Namusan."
(TN: Namusan is an abbreviation of the Buddhist phrase "Namusanpo" which means, "Good Lord" or Buddha, please", to seek salvation. It is not necessarily used by Buddhists. Nowadays it is often used by characters in manga and anime. Or people who are well-educated in old words, or fans of anime and games. I will omit some explanation as it will also go to history......)
I closed my eyes and pray.
Well, if it got that far, Drake and the Nem-Ram sisters would definitely be killed.
After all, Blackbeard has Death Scythe, which allows him to kill souls.
Drake's cause of defeat is that he was hanging around with only one mothership, just because it was near their territory.
Even if they crossed paths with the Mary Anne pirates' ship, they would probably not go all out to defeat them because they are from the same clan that worships the same Ancestor, after all.
Even if they seriously fight against immortals, they will only get tired.
In fact, it seems that no one has died in battle for the past 100 years or so.
"Master, the Iron Maiden is on fire."
"Yeah. It's burning..."
"I mean, what will happen to us now?"
"Don't get killed...... because the Golden Skull has already been captured by a pirate ship belonging to Blackbeard's pirates......."
"What should we do?"
Mary also asks.
"If I'm going to die anyway, I'll fight Blackbeard and the others for the sake of the next round!"
"That's the way to go!"
For some reason, Mary is ready to kill.
"That's right. When you fight Kojiro of the Blackbeard Pirates, pull out your sword from the scabbard first!"
"Why?"
"Because, you. During the first round, you lost easily to Kojiro because he didn't let you draw your sword!"
"Whatーー!"
At the sound of Mary's scream, we started running toward the sea in order to recapture the Golden Skull.
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