Location: Northwest coast
The biggest port town in this “alternative sea”. The group set anchor there and rested for a short while.
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Captain! I tried to make a navigation plan, what do you think?
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Ahab looked at the sea chart spread on the desk and snorted.
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…You made this?
You didn’t force someone to do it, right?
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How rude! I can do something like this before breakfast!
I didn’t ride the treasure ship for nothing after all.
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I thought you were just a brat,
but unexpectedly you did a good job. I changed my opinion about you.
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I’m not just a brat, it’s Benten.
If you’re the captain, at least remember my name.
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…Well done, Benten. Is this enough?
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Yes, yes. That was a bit clumsy, but it was ok.
Make sure to remember it.
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Captain! I finished tensing the sails.
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Hmph. Didn’t you became a bit capable, Eita?
It seems you learned the basics to move this ship.
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Hehehe,
I wonder if at this rate I could become an attractive man of the sea like you, Captain?
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…Hmph. Don’t say such stupid things Eita.
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Is not stupid, Captain!
I thought it since I arrived to this sea.
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I want to become a splendid man of the sea sailing into the ocean just like my old man and you Captain!
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I love this sea, where many people live.
I want to go——to different seas!
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When I said “stupid” I wasn’t talking about that——well, it doesn’t matter.
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Enough with the chit-chat.
If you have the time to open your mouth, help me. There’s still a lot of work!
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Hey, Typhon. You still haven’t finished your work?
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Ah, aaaaah… I’m very sorry Captain!
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Making such coward face.
Do you hear me? I hate sobbing sailors.
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——Hey, (Player)! Help him with his work!
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After you finish, clean the cabin!
If you don’t end quickly, you won’t have free time!
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| 2 options (Same Response)
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| Yes sir, Captain!
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Understood, Ahab-san
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I’m sorry (Player)-han…
I’ll treat you with something later, so I’m counting on you.
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| 2 options (Same Response)
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| All right, the cleaning is finished!
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Good work Typhon.
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Y-Yes… Thanks, (Player)-han
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| 2 options (Same Response)
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| You kinda look depressed…
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Did something happened?
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…Oh, are you worried? You’re really… kind.
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| 2 options (Same Response)
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| Could it be that you had a fight with someone?
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Like being bullied by the captain.
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No…you’re wrong. …That’s not it.
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Let’s see… could you… hear me for a while?
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If it’s you… I have the feeling I could talk about it.
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After riding this ship——
and meeting you, a lot of stuff happened.
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Everyone really nice.
I’m really grateful for spending time with you together.
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(Player), of course you too.
You’re always kind to me——someone who is always scared.
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Because of that——it’s hard.
I’ve messed up in the past.
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I was summoned to a Tokyo where nobody know about me,
I thought I could fix thing up.
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In fact, I had fun.
I even forgot about the horrible thing I did.
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| 2 options (Same Response)
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| What in the world… happened?
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What did you do in the past?
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…I, destroyed the world——my hometown sea.
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Even though there was many people living there just like in this sea.
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In fact, I had fun.
I even forgot about the horrible thing I did.
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At that time, mysteriously I didn’t felt guilt.
I obeyed just as I was being told.
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…However, after spending time with you, Eita and Benten-chan——I understood.
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I——did something unforgivable.
There may be possible that someone like you could be there.
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But now——I can’t know.
However…I was always thinking about that, it can’t be helped.
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…I wonder why did I came to this sea?
If I wouldn’t have come here, I wouldn’t’ have remembered it after all…
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Hey, (Player)-han.
Have you… experienced something like that?
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Doing something that cannot be undone…
have you… experienced that?
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You don’t know? Oh, what an odd answer.
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| I don’t have memories…
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I see… you don’t have memories.
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I understand that it quite troublesome——
But sorry… I’m a bit envious of that.
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…Thanks for listening my story.
Thanks to you, I feel relieved a little.
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Well then——thanks. I’ll go to rest in my room a little.
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| 2 options (Same Response)
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| ……………
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………Hmm…
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The sound of the waves at night resounded calmly. ——Then suddenly, the sound of a biwa could be heard.
(Player) kept walking… like if they were charmed by that sound.
There was——Benten, playing the biwa in the middle of the night darkness.
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What’s wrong?
Didn’t everyone go to the town to eat dinner?
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| 3 options
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| Ah, Benten.
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What’s wrong?
Did something happen?
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What about you?
What are you doing Benten?
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Not me, but you.
It’s written in huge letter on your face that you’re worried about something.
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Hm, the sea was really pretty…
So I ended playing the biwa. Is that a bad thing?
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——So, what?
You completely have a face like if you were worried about something.
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Here, sit down. Come on, sit! Quick!
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Now, talk about it.
I can listen if that’s the only thing I would have to do.
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…It seems you and Typhon have lived a hard life despite your appearances,
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Amnesia and a past about destroying the world, huh…
It sounds awful and dramatic. Like a movie.
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Well, you don’t have to worry about it.
Everyone has something like worries or a painful past after all.
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| It was stupid to consult you Benten…
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I’m really worried you know?!
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Like I said, I’m telling you this seriously!
What?! Do you think I’m just messing around?!
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For your information! I don’t mess around!
I always do my best! Full throttle!
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No matter the scale or the seriousness,
worries are worries. There’s no mistake on that.
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…Even me. I’ve lived to this year and many things have happened.
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I had friends from a band that broke up due to artistic differences,
there also was a friend who broke off relationships due to the amount of “likes” on the SNS.
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From the eyes of other people, it may look stupid.
But——either of them were serious worries for me!
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However, if it’s about a useless past… just forget about it.
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It’s not like the past could change if you keep worrying about it after all.
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——I-I know!
There may be times when you want to scream after remembering about an embarrassing past.
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However! That‘s what being alive means!
It can’t be helped to live full of wounds and covered in bandages!
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You always have to live however you want to live!
Go to wherever you want to go!
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| Honestly, that’s too crazy.
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Uh, I frequently being told that…!
It’s fine! As long as your soul fills with emotion!
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| 1 option
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| But, you encouraged me.
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W-Who would do something as bothersome as that?
I’m telling you this because I wanted to.
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| 1 option
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| …Thank you Benten,
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W-What are you saying?
I’m not that kind of optimistic girl!
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I-I was in debt with you…
I was returning the favor! That’s right! Just that!
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| What do you mean by debt?
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I’m talking about me! You saved me, so…
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| You don’t have to think about it as a debt.
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It may be fine for you, but not for me!
I refuse to be in debt to someone——
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| Because you’re an important friend, Benten.
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Because I like you, Benten,
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……! You’re saying… that I’m your friend?
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………! W-What are you saying so boldly…?!
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What’s with that face?
Did you think I would be upset?
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You’re too naive!
Because I suspected it from before!
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Do you hear me? Prepare yourself!
Don’t think you would be unharmed if you walk next to me!
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…Fufufu. That’s all, just that.
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Ah, this is where you to were.
The wind of the sea at night is cold, be moderated.
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Makara-san!? What are you doing here?
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I was looking for captain Ahab.
He didn’t return even though it’s already the time.
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I’m sorry (Player),
but could you please look for him in the port town a little?
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I would like to go myself,
but there’s no other person who could take care of the ship.
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I think he may be port town’s bar, be careful and go.
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Oh, isn’t it (Player)?
Hahahah. What’s wrong? Are you lost?
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What? You were looking for me?
I see, I see. You have a cute side, don’t you?
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| 2 options (Same Response)
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| How are you Captain?
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Didn’t you drink too much?
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Don’t be stupid, I can drink more than——whoops!
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| That dangerous?!
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Gueh. too heavy!
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Hahahah! Thanks!
I’ll rest a little——Oof.
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Uhm, my pipe, my pipe, my pipe.
Huh, where did it go?
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| Isn’t it in your mouth?
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Whoops, that’s right.
I can’t lose it! Hahahah.
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Uugh…Hic. Ah, the night wind feels great…
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We’ll arrive to the northwest waters soon.
There, It would be the farewell.
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| What do you mean by farewell?
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You have a place you have to return.
I don’t have one. That’s it.
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…I’m jealous.
No, I don’t have the right to be jealous.
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| You don’t have——a place to return?
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Did something happened in your past, Captain?
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…Stop, stop.
It’s just a worthless story from the past. There’s no point in hearing it.
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| There’s no worthless past.
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…or that’s what a friend told me.
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Good grief, what a curious fellow. …*Sigh*
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Fine, I feel talkative today.
Think it as a worthless chit-chat and listen.
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In the past, there was a great being referred as “a god”,
a country that worshiped it and one foolish king.
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The foolish king didn’t believe in that being called “god”.
Therefore, he received a punishment from that “god”.
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He was shot by that “god’s” arrow
and was exiled the Eden, from the world Then——
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His appearance was changed to the beast
which the golden idol the foolish king believed in was shaped——
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And the foolish king lost his form,
the kingdom where he ruled——and his place to return.
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The foolish king lived while being wrapped on madness in a new world.
And then that man obtained a new place to live——it was the sea.
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There was a powerful enemy in that place.
Even if he fought it, he was no match, and it took his leg.
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The foolish king——challenged it again,
he gathered new servants and kept fighting.
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——But, that ended without succeeding.
The young lives regrettably just scattered in the sea.
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| Do you regret it?
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Regret it? There’s no way I wouldn’t.
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Living means, in other words,
to pile up regrets. That was what made the current “me”.
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But don’t misunderstand, (Player).
For your information, I have no regrets about my own way of living.
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…(Player). Let me ask you one more thing.
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Do you have a place to return?
A place you think you want to return——
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…Then, you have to return.
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For the sake of my cute sailors who wanted to return,
but they couldn’t, scattering on the sea as well——
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Well then——it’s time for brats to go to sleep.
Return to the ship. We’ll get up early tomorrow.
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I’ll return after taking one cup more.
Tell that to Makara. ——farewell.
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After saying that, Ahab disappeared in the night port town. The melancholic sound of the sea——oddly remained in one’s ears.
Then, the last stop ended. The ship surpassed the waters of the mermaids, finally crossing to the northwest.
Those waters——had already changed to an abnormal view
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…What is this?
The flow of the currents became crazy…?
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Big sis Benten!
Isn’t this like that time——
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No, that’s wrong!
It’s bigger and more ominous than that time——
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This flow is weird!
And the clouds on the sky——there’s a limit of how abnormal it could be!
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Captain Ahab.
It’s coming, something huge——
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Everyone, hold on something near!
A huge wave is coming! Don’t get throw off!
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——It already changed to a storm.
This is a way too abnormal view.
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Buhiiiiiiiii?! L-Look! O-Over there…!
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That——appeared accompanied by a storm.
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Wait…what? What is that?!
This can’t even——be compared from before!!
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N-No, Big sis Benten!
Is not even on the dimension to compare!
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Even the word huge would be lukewarm. That presence was overwhelming.
Huge like mountains. “An unknown unparalleled monster” everyone could understand.
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Fu… Hahahahah…!
I see. This is the “black storm”.
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In the middle of the ship where everyone were pale, just one person, Ahab was laughing showing his teeth.
Then——there was one more person. A man glaring at the catastrophe in front of him.
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I… I… recognize that. I recognize it!
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| Typho-chan, what’s wrong?
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It’s dangerous, hold onto something
properly Typhoon!
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——That’s “me”! There’s no mistake! I know!
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Why “I” am there?! Who are you?!
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Demon Typhon:( face)
There… you are. ——Typhon.
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Demon Typhon:( face)
I was looking for you,
searching, searching, searching——devastating many seas.
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Demon Typhon:( face)
I hate—— I hate you “Typhon”.
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Demon Typhon:( face)
A foolish that gulped the world just like “god” created you,
just like you were ordered.
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Demon Typhon:( face)
Bringing countless tragedies without understanding anything,
you only used innocently the power you were born with
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Demon Typhon:( face)
I have to destroy you.
I have to destroy. Uh… Uooh——
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Demon Typhon:( face)
Just bow your head and receive the judgment.
Just obey, perish——
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Demon Typhon:( face)
Uooooooooooooh!!!
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An imminent disaster. Just when everyone was stupefied waching that——
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——What are you doing just standing like idiots?!
Move already!!
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Ahab’s exclamation blew away the stagnant atmosphere that was coveting the ship.
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Don’t be overwhelmed, my sailors!
It’s not like yourselves to lose against something like this, right?
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——Show it! Your real strength!
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Eita and the others embraced those words and began to fulfill their duties.
Ahab pierced the floor of the ship with his prosthetic foot, and while adjusting his body, he glared at the “calamity” in front of his eyes.
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Ahab:(sas face)
…”obey without resisting and be destroyed”, wasn’t it?
How dare you to thow up those lines in front of me.
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You’re not the “enemy” I’m chasing.
Therefore. I thought I could ignore you——
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Now that you talked about it,
I can’t let you go! I’ll beat the “human” way of battling in those bone and flesh of yours.
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I’ll make you to no throw such nonsense never again!
Now, it’s a challenge! You——damn monster!
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Quick turn!
Dodge that monster’s charge by a hairbreadth!
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