It was late in the night, and while Wille and Elettair were talking in the hut, Hierro took Ollie and Pease on a raft and stopped at the side of an island.

"How's it going, have you learned?" Hierro sat on the ground, tightening the two logs tied to his broken leg to make his movements look more normal, and after the bumps on the water, Hierro already knew how to master his balance.

Pease crossed his fingers, silently counting something, and looked up at Hierro. "Hmm...... It seems to have learned. But...... Captain Hierro, I look at the sea, as if there is nothing different? ”

Hierro raised his head and looked at the sky, "A little more practice will be enough." ”

"There's a fire ahead......," Ollie pulled the raft hard onto the gravel-strewn beach. Looking back into the depths of the island, a red fire flickered in the center of the island, above the bushes.

"It's a pirate stronghold." Hierro said, "Do you see the traces over there?" Let's go over and see. ”

Hierro gestured to the nearby beach, where there were many broken wooden crates and fragments of blades.

Hierro limped there, with Pease and Ollie following behind, Hierro picked up a blade and scraped the rust with his hands. "It's been a while, and it looks like it's supposed to be a sentry island with not many people."

"Wow~ It's very powerful~ You can see it with just one blade!" Ollie looked excited, "So we're going to conquer this place?" ”

"Even if it's a sentry island, we can't force our way in, what's more, what we have to do is not just to take revenge, we need to live."

"The power of unicorns is fearless!" Ollie was saying something he didn't know why.

"But, Captain Hiero, how do you see that?" Pease followed, picked up a hilt from the ground, and looked closely, but saw nothing of value, only some beautiful patterns except rust.

"Very good, always paying attention to observation is the most basic and important skill." Hierro smiled and threw the blade in his hand on the ground, "But the quality of the blade is not the reason I can see it." ”

Hierro walked slowly in the direction of the fire on the island, and in a slanting step, he said slowly, "The water here leads to the sea, and it is impossible to keep things from this shore unless you have come here deliberately." ”

"But you see, there's so much stuff here, it's not going to be a town, because then it's going to be a lot of people who need it."

"Moreover, the rust on this also shows that these things have been left here for a long time."

Pease thought for a moment, "That is, the one who will throw something valuable in the corner of the island is what a pirate would do?" ”

"No......" Hierro shook his head.

"Wow~ Pease is stupid." Ollie's tail shook and patted Pease on the shoulder, pointing to a wooden pole hanging beside him. "I know that they are pirates because the pirate flag is hoist~"

Pease turned his head and saw a broken flagpole standing in the middle of the pair, and a pirate flag torn in half hung from the ruined wooden box next to it.

"Hahaha......" Hierro laughed, "pay attention, this is the most important thing for a seafarer to pay attention to." ”

Pease nodded as if he didn't understand, and continued to follow Hierro.

"Where are we going now?"

Hierro pointed to a small slope next to the woods, "Let's go there and have a look." ”

"Huh~ Are we going to start scouting the enemy? Ollie was starting to get excited. ”

"Shhhh ~" Hiero walked over to a tree, clinging to it, then let out a boo, reaching out to keep Pease and Ollie out behind him. "Someone."

Hierro saw a figure in the woods, a pirate, with a short sword, looking towards the place where Ollie had just spoken.

The moonlit coast is not so dark, and the whole coast looks bright under the silver moonlight, at least, walking and observing are not a problem.

The man did hear some voices, and he turned his head and walked in this direction.

Hierro hid behind a tree, Pease held his breath, and Ollie's eyes reflected in the moonlight.

The pirate heard a short noise coming from the rubbish shore outside the woods, some like foxes, but others like someone talking.

I thought someone had sneaked to the island, or some drunken bastard was doing something, but when I turned my head, I didn't find anything 'moving', only the quiet waves and the moonlight.

Curious, curious to know if what happened...... Of course, that's the pirate's duty here.

Although pirates...... It's not like that, discipline, but what should be done, when forced to do it, or when it's boring, I will still do it.

This is the case with the pirate, the trees rippling slightly in the sea breeze, and the fallen leaves under his feet are even more crisp in the winter breeze.

He took the sword and slowly came out into the woods.

"Ah, the moon in the sky is so round." As soon as he looked up, the pirate fainted and fell to the ground, and then the pirate's feet disappeared to the ground beside him.

After a while, behind the bushes, a pirate came out.

"It's not bad." Hierro brushed the corners of his clothes, a little short, but enough to cover his body.

Pease looked into the bushes behind him, took another handful of grass from the side, and placed it on it. "That way he won't be too cold."

"How about him, he won't wake up until tomorrow." Hierro straightened his clothes again, "Alright, now we should take a look at their stronghold." ”

"My buddies and I are ready to make a big fuss!" Ollie licked his lips excitedly, and his ears stood up.

"No, not this time." Hierro put the short sword at his waist into the sheath and pointed at Pease, "After all, there is still a chick here, and we don't necessarily know what will happen in the chaos of the war." Don't take any chances. ”

"Whew~ Okay, for Pease!"

"Follow me...... Be quiet. ”

The figures of the three of them gradually disappeared into the bushes.

……

There aren't a lot of pirates stationed on this pirate outpost, only some guys who want to retire in the Wolf Pirate Corps stay here.

To the south of him is a small isolated mountain tip, and there will be some red sharks wandering from time to time nearby, and then to the south, there is the endless sea, and the sea on both sides is not very suitable for boating, after all, too big a ship, more or less will touch the reef under the surface of the sea, there are few ships that pirates here rob every year, and the ships that are 'picked up' happen from time to time.

Moreover, in order to prevent some of the Astral Spirit's armies from coming here to make a roundabout, the pirates had to make a few outposts here, but, as mentioned before, there were few people here, and they were very loose.

How loose is it? The pirates did not look at the observation on the small slope, but held a bonfire in the middle of the island, between some wooden houses.

This party is not without reason, that is, Wolf Boss has gained something in the Endless Sea.

Of course, in the case of pirates, I am afraid that there will be no elegant party.

Alcoholism, promiscuity, fighting, name-calling, complaining. It's the leitmotif here.

Brawl is a stage play staged here.

The inferior ale is the most 'best-selling' drink here, even though no one pays for it.

They're pirates, so things have to be robbed.

Hierro stood in the sentry tower on the hillside, watching the dry and thin old man who was lying on the ground drunk with a bottle of wine in his arms, and watching his intermittent breathing, Pease was even afraid that he would choke in the next breath.

"Huh~ how's that? Need help...... It seems that there is no need to sigh~" Ollie observed carefully, slowly came in from the outside, and by the way, pulled in a pirate who was also full of alcohol. "There's no one outside."

"Drink...... Drinking......" The old man on the ground woke up when he heard someone's voice, but in a daze, he saw Hiero as a pirate, after all, Hierro was wearing the same clothes that they knocked out and was still in the bushes.

"Yikes!" Pease exclaimed, looked at Hierro's cold face, and slashed the old man with a familiar hand knife.

"He's fine, he's just drunk." Hierro helped the old man up and placed him on the cot in the house where he could rest temporarily. "It looks like these pirates are a bit loose...... Exactly, it's good for us. ”

"Wait a minute", Hierro's eyes fell on the old man's bottle, and the smell of inferior liquor 'polluted' Hierro's nose.

"Perhaps, in a little while, we will be able to do something."

Hiero came to the window of the observation room and looked over the crowded campfire.

"Drink, drink." Hierro's eyes flashed a bright light behind the window.

"You're all drunk."