It's dawn......

At the slaughterhouse on the shore of Bilgewater's Bone Bay, even if it was still early in the morning, there were no fresh sea beasts slaughtered on the slaughter gallows, but because of the long slaughter over the years, the scarlet blood of a large number of sea beasts had already soaked every reef, every grain of sand, and every drop of sea water in this harbor...... So, the water here always seems to be a miserable red color with that fishy smell?

Of course, after a night of waves washing through the sea, the red water in the docks has been gradually diluted, and it is not comparable to the terrifying crimson color of the peak slaughter.

thereupon

After this red sea water and the red sun rising in the early morning in the distance, it is a red patch as far as the eye can see, whether it is the sky or the sea...... Let the scenery here be weird with a kind of tragic aesthetic that can only be found in a bloody battlefield...... And this 'Bone Harbor to watch the sunrise, blood stained the blue sky is one color', is one of the most famous wonders of Bilgewater!

It's a pity that no one here is going to pay attention to these things now, because this kind of thing has long been a habit in the eyes of the people of Bilgewater.

"Hurry up!"

~( ̄0 ̄)/Speed Speed ~!

"You lazy guys, hurry up and get everything on the boat for me, we're going to be there soon! Also, the bearded man on the shore, look at what, people are talking about you, hurry up! Untie that thick cable under your feet now!! ”

ψ(*｀)

"Hey! Don't you even know if you're a sailor or not, you have to untie the cable before you sail the ship?! ”

s(·｀ヘ·; )

At this point,

In this slaughterhouse, a medium-sized hunting ship swayed in the scarlet waters, and under the control of a group of incompetent, somewhat chaotic and busy sailors, and a certain little captain who commanded and shouted wildly, finally staggered and pulled the dirty sails on three sides, and took advantage of the morning breeze to slowly drift towards the outer shore of the Bone Bay.

Yes, the captain of this ship is Queen Anne, you read that right......

The tattered-looking, somewhat dirty, medium-sized hunting ship, renamed the Greasy, had been bought by Anne from a down-and-out captain who was too poor to pay the rent and drinks in a hotel in Bilgewater the previous night!

And the clumsy crew of the Sea Hunters who were operating on the ship, the reason why they listened so much to a certain little girl was actually because:

What Little Anne spent money to buy last night was not just such a medium-sized sea ship used to hunt giant beasts, in fact, the down-and-out captain also bought one and gave her one free land, and directly gifted her such a rumored to be very incompetent, and went out to sea several times, but failed to successfully hunt any of the deep-sea monsters, and then almost gave their former captain to the bankrupt sea hunter team?!

You know, here in Bilgewater, a hunting ship that has repeatedly gone to sea but has not been able to hunt any prey of giant beasts is easily disliked and ridiculed...... Even, it will be considered an extremely unlucky and unlucky existence? And those sea hunters or other captains who go out to sea to earn their lives often attach great importance to the invisible and ethereal thing of 'luck'!

So

Under normal circumstances, no sea hunter or captain would want to take over this kind of ship!

Had it not been bought by some fearless little girl who was ignorant, it would have ended better than to be taken by someone in the future, and then towed ashore for a house or other purpose at a low price, and its experience engraved on the nameplate on the door of the house as an 'epitaph'......

But

There are some exceptions to everything, right?

No, because a little girl who is rich and extremely confident in her own strength and never thinks about any consequences when she does things meets a destitute captain by chance...... So, after an unknown bag of heavy gold coins was handled, the ship was rowed to Anne's name, and a group of sea hunters who almost starved to death were given for free!!

And this,

It is the reason why Anne was able to command a shipload of more than 20 people at the slaughterhouse today, and successfully sailed her own 'greasy' ship away from the slaughterhouse and away from the shore of the bone bay under the curious or mocking eyes of many Bilgewaters!!

The reason why this wrecked ship is called 'Greasy' is actually because Anne had just used those greasy disgusting things to tease some two bad ass robbers who wanted to kill them for money last night, and early this morning, when she came here to receive it, when she saw this dirty and broken ship, she naturally came up with such a nasty word.

But what about the actual ......

When she started, she was going to call it 'Little Bear'...... Unfortunately, due to the strong opposition of her family's Tiebs, she had to settle for the next best thing, and casually pressed such a strange name, and had its new name written crookedly on a broken wooden board, and nailed it to the sacred position of the original name of the ship on the bow of the ship.

Little Anne never cared much about such troublesome little things, and out of distrust of the new captain, the crew, who also did not have much hope for this voyage, did not bother with the very unlucky practice of changing the name of the ship, and just let such a little girl with money and some strange magical abilities mess around.

（…… ）

(Dear little master, what kind of trouble are you running out to sea early in the morning...... The little one clearly remembers, like this slow-moving sea-breaking ship, you haven't played it before, haven't you played it when you were already in the Caribbean, do you still want to play it now?

(●￣￣●)

For the first time in the world, a certain bad little master did not sleep in the luxurious room of the hotel, but came to play this game of going to sea early in the morning, which really made Tibbs feel very, very puzzled!

Because, this kind of thing where the sun hits the west really makes it feel quite rare......

Well, it almost forgot that this is not any earth plane, and if the sun is coming out in the west, it doesn't seem too strange? ）

"Hunting, of course!!"

(><)

"That huge sea beast is so delicious, so big, so ferocious, people must go and hunt a few to have a good time!!"

(`)

As soon as she remembered the piece of meat she had eaten yesterday, the corners of Anne's mouth twitched.

That kind of delicious food is not sold every day......

Moreover, the best things are said to be paid as tribute to the gang leaders and smugglers in the city...... It was the people above who named her to keep it, and even if she had the money, she might not be able to buy those special offerings!

Besides, the harvest at the slaughterhouse was a little bad today, and early in the morning, until the sun rose, there was not a single sailboat back from the sea hunters, so there must be no fresh meat for the beast to be sold in Bilgewater today, and Anne the ordinary sea fish did not like to eat it!

So

After a not-so-good breakfast, for the sake of her stomach, which was likely to be hurt day by day, Anne decided to go out to sea with the medium-sized ship she had bought last night, and hunt and catch big fish for herself!

And, she also decided:

She will never use her powerful abilities lightly, as long as there are no particularly powerful monsters, she will only use the power of this ship and those stupid sea hunter crews to fight the kind of sea beasts she wants, and envy the guys who laugh at her on the docks when they sail!!

Of course, if you really can't catch it, it may ...... Perhaps....... she will really cheat secretly?

(Uh-huh...... Host, it's good to be happy with yourself......

Anyway, it couldn't be stopped, anyway, now that the ship was gradually moving away from Bilgewater, and anyway, he didn't think much of Tiebers, whose crew couldn't even drive steadily, had the ability to catch big fish, so he didn't plan to talk any more, and let some bad little master, who was probably only three minutes hot, look around the bow of the ship, looking at the surrounding sparkling seas and the seabirds that had been flying out of the sky early in the morning to hunt. ）

“！！”

∑(△｀)？！

"Hey! It's so good, why did you suddenly stop, didn't you eat in the morning? Hurry up, give me an acceleration, the right full rudder is moving forward at full speed!! ”

（｀へ）ノ

Anne is going to sea to hunt today, not to play!

If she could, she would have to fight a huge beast big enough today, like the one she had caught in the Caribbean! Therefore, she was very dissatisfied with the behavior of the crew to slow down the ship and float slowly on the surface of the sea without her consent!

If they keep floating like this, I'm afraid they won't be able to reach the nearest deep-sea hunting ground until next month, and they won't want to catch those hideous and terrifying super sea beasts!!

“……”

"That...... Dear Captain, we didn't stop the ship on purpose...... We just want to ask, have you paid the 'tithes' for going to sea? ”

This one who leaned over and nodded his head and humbly asked the little girl was a legendary harpooner called Lars, who had been additionally recruited by Little Annie!

Normally, the Harpooner is the soul of a team of sea hunters, who are mainly responsible for diving into the sea with harpoon shots or other weapons to hook and kill the huge prey!

This kind of veteran harpoon player is often the most critical and core figure of a ship or a sea hunter team! There is no doubt that many harpooners are shooters or fearless freedivers! Without a team of sea hunters with a qualified harpooner, it must not be able to hunt any prey, and this is the real reason why little Anne listened to the advice of the down-and-out captain and spent a lot of money to recruit the other party.

"Pay taxes?"

∑(￣□￣; )？

"Well, why do people pay taxes, don't you say that Bilgewater is a free port here, so why do you collect taxes? Are you trying to deceive your captain, and then you can do that kind of corruption and fraud? ”

"I'm telling you, I hate this kind of person the most, do you want to burn you right now?!"

(ψv)

Little Anne was able to successfully recruit the legendary harpooner Lars in front of her, and the crew members who had lost their lives and began to do those tricks, kidnapping, and murder in the city of Bilgewater, and listened to her honestly, in addition to the gold offensive, she also appropriately disclosed her identity as a high-ranking spellcaster!

Therefore, now, after hearing that the other party actually wanted to fool herself into paying taxes, she glared at the other party's scumbag beard unceremoniously, and angrily grabbed a small fireball emitting orange red light and terrible heat in the palm of her hand.

These guys, don't think she, Queen Anne, doesn't know anything when she's young!

If they think that they can deceive her with impunity when they run away to sea, then they are very wrong!!

"This ......"

"My Captain......"

"Everyone who goes to sea has to pay taxes, don't you really know? Here in Bilgewater, that's a ...... that everyone knows, as the so-called 'tithe doesn't pay, the sea boils and the mountains shake', that's not a joke, that's very important, more important than whether our ship can hit those deep-sea monsters!! ”

Because

If you don't teach taxes, you'll die!

Those terrible experiences have long made Lars understand that whether it is when he goes to sea or when he returns with a full load, tithes must be paid...... If he hadn't seen the captain pay his taxes with his own eyes, he would never have gone any further into the depths of the sea, or would never have easily approached the Python Islands, a place closely watched by the bearded lady.

Anyway, if the little captain in front of him doesn't listen to persuasion, even if he unilaterally terminates the employment relationship without authorization and jumps into the sea to swim back, he will not hesitate to do it!!

“……”

(_)

"What a mess of tithes, people have never heard of it!!"

s(·｀ヘ·; )

No one had ever dared to collect taxes on her, Queen Anne, whether it was a toll tax or anything else!

She really never thought that her ship would come out of a free port and not do anything, and she would have to pay taxes first...... In this world, there really is such outrageous things?

Besides,

Pay taxes or something, but now on the sea, there is not a single ship around, who do you have to pay it to? Moreover, if she just doesn't pay, what can these people do with her?!

“……”

"Captain, that's the tax paid to the bearded lady in the sea......"

Then

Lars seemed to remember that this little girl mage was probably not a native of Bilgewater, because ah, the commission paid to them by the other party seemed to be gold coins from Noxus, not the unique gold siren of Bilgewater?

Therefore, although he also felt that the other party was likely to be an unreliable guy, he still patiently explained this to the little girl.

"Lady Beard?"

(=w=)o?

"Oh...... Are you talking about the big octopus? Where is it now, and its kind of monster doesn't cost money, why pay taxes to it?! ”

(●｀●)

Lady Beard or something, Anne had heard it many times, and it also included its other names, such as: God representing life, growth, and eternal motion, Mother Serpent, Sea Beast, Great Octopus, etc., etc., etc

And

Since the other party is also a sea beast......

This made Anne can't help but have a very crazy idea in her heart...... She thought, if she could find it and take it back to Bilgewater to be slaughtered, wouldn't it be a sensation, and let the whole of Bilgewater know about her reputation as Queen Anne?!

Others catch sea beasts, and she catches an indigenous god back, that kind of thing, it's a little exciting to think about it......

（…… ）

(●￣￣●)

"Captain, ....."

"That's not why...... Because all the people have to pay taxes...... The non-taxing people are dead, dragged down the sea by that deep-sea titan......"

"In particular...... When you catch your prey and return home? ”

"I used to be a harpooner, and I saw the Serpent dragged down the sea...... All the people died, and I almost didn't make it back alive......"

Lars slowly explained with a hint of fear in a trill, the horror of that abyssal Titanor Tileus, he deeply understood, in the sea, no one would be his opponent!

Even if the little girl in front of him seemed to be able to do a little great fire trick, he didn't think that when she was in the sea, she would be able to defeat that monster like the god of the deep sea, the 'tax officer' of the bearded lady!

“……”

(`)

Anne didn't really want to pay taxes, but ......

"Tell me, how much tax do you have to pay?!"

(，，.，，)

Although there was some reluctance in her heart, Anne asked impatiently in order to get these hired bastard sailors to work quickly and catch the huge sea beast quickly.

"At least one Golden Siren or equivalent is needed now!!"

Lars stretched out a finger, paying taxes is a must, everyone has to pay taxes!

Because, even in his own pocket, he always had a golden Siren, which was his lucky Siren coin, and when he was in the most destitute, he did not exchange it for wine...... However, if he needs to, he will definitely use it to exchange it for his own chance to live!

"Oh......"

(.)

The Golden Siren or something, Anne didn't, she only had gold coins from the Noxus side and gold Galleons from Gringotts in Diagon Lane, or industrial gold ingots that weighed the same weight as the Golden Siren...... Therefore, not knowing how many gold coins to throw away, she simply took out an ordinary magic gem from her pocket at random, and then threw it far away into the sea.

Poof!

With a soft sound, all the sailors, including Lars, who had spontaneously marched to their captain, were sure that they saw their little captain go out to sea and pay the tithes to the bearded lady.

"Whoa! You can sail now?! ”

s(·｀ヘ·; )

Anne secretly decided in her heart that when she returned, she would not pay taxes, and when the time came, look at what the 'bearded lady', or the deep sea titan or something, could be done with her?

（！！ ）

(Dear little master, this is the sea, when the time comes, you must not expect the little ones to come out and fight with the enemies you provoke!!)

Whether it's the Bearded Lady or the Abyss Titan, or some other indigenous deity or something, it doesn't intimidate Uncle Tiebus Bear! But what if you are on the shore and that the enemy can't fly and can't run as fast as you?

But if it was a sea full of sea water in front of me, then I am sorry, it will definitely not come out to fight the enemy, because Tiebus is a veritable 'landlubber', not only can it not swim, but it is also a little afraid of water...... ）

"Of course, Your Excellency the Great Captain, we will go and sail now!!"

With that, Lars staggered away from the bow of the ship and ran towards the position of the mast behind him, intending to continue his work and direct the sailmen to set sail towards the deep sea where the sea beasts were hunting. 2k reading web