"What the hell are you trying to say?" The young man interrupted him, raised his chin slightly, and looked arrogant and cold.

"Look at me." The man pretended to pat his head, "That's all this nonsense." ”

"Nothing else, but the captain wants to see you-"

"Really? But I didn't really want to see him. ”

"Ha, then it's up to you!"

As he spoke, the man pulled out the knife behind his back and slashed at it.

Noah didn't panic and avoided it lightly, and the man was annoyed and spit out the cigarette in his mouth, more serious than he had just been.

An Ning Ning stood aside, his whole heart was pinched, maybe what Noah had said was the truth - his swordsmanship was good, so that he could continue to dodge without panic when the other party was unilaterally using a weapon.

But even that – this one-sided situation – didn't last long.

She hid in the corner, shuddered and pulled out the pistol in her coat pocket, and looked at the man with a slight tremble.

- This small pistol is more difficult to aim than a foreign gun.

When she and Frank burst the bollard, she fired several shots.

The two men were inseparable—or, more appropriately, Noah had been rolling and dodging under the knife, while the pirate, as if playing some kind of trick, made sarcastic remarks and deliberately teased and provoked twice.

"Bang!"

The pungent smell of gunpowder and the loud noise echoing through the alley all indicate what had just happened.

"." The man held his bleeding shoulder with one hand, slowly turned around, and looked at her with a cruel look in his eyes, "I forgot about you." ”

She bit her lip, trying to stop her hands from shaking so much, and fired another shot.

The man seemed to see her intentions, sneered, and in this narrow alley, he strode over in three steps and two steps, carrying a knife, and reached out to snatch her pistol away.

And yet—

Noah is faster!

Even as the man subconsciously slashed at his back, the boy still grabbed her hand tightly and took her pistol.

"Noah, you won't-"

She said hurriedly, but unexpectedly, the young man's movements and posture were unusually standard, and in such an urgent moment, he still accurately aimed at the man's chest and abdomen, and calmly pulled the trigger-

It all happened so quickly that before she and the pirate could fully react, they heard gunfire again.

- The man died.

The girl looked at the corpse lying on the ground in amazement, and then felt her body tighten, and then she was pulled into an embrace filled with the smell of fresh and good-smelling ink.

The boy's hands pressed tightly against her back, and she could even feel the boy's chest heaving from the shortness of breath, and he rested his chin on her shoulder, and the breath hit her neck, staining her crimson.

"It's okay, it's good that you're okay."

The young man muttered, with infinite joy and fear, and then she noticed that his hand pressing against her back was trembling a little.

Almost immediately, her heart softened.

Slowly, the two hands that were originally frozen at his side also slowly lifted and gently hugged him back.

Long.

"This time, I saved you."

She buried herself in his shoulder, muffled.

He was stunned for a moment, and then laughed softly again, causing his chest to shake slightly.

"Yes."

His voice was slightly hoarse.

"I'm glad you saved me."

"Annie."

"I—I'm happy."

He repeated in a low voice, again and again, like an oath, whispering in her ear.

All grievances and misunderstandings disappeared in his words, and she choked and bit her lip, tears silently slipped down her face, soaking his clothes—

"No!" She whispered, looking at the blood on her hands in alarm, "Noah, you're hurt. She tried to look behind him, but he caught her hand.

"Nothing."

"Annie, Annie—you listen to me." He forced her to look at him, and when he met the girl's moist eyes, his voice softened again.

"Annie, don't leave in the future."

He looked at her so deeply that she almost indulged in his gentle blue sea.

"Actually, I seem to have forgotten to say the most important point that day." He looked at the girl's eyes, which were somewhat evasive from the memory, and smiled softly, wrapping her loose hair behind her ears.

"I saved you - my luck"

"I mean, Annie, I'm so glad I saved you and met you."

……

A secluded bay mouthpiece.

The medium-sized sailboat looked as good in the morning sun, with its waxed decks reflecting the light and its white sails as beautiful and white as the wings of a seagull.

Frank sat at the bridge, eating the food that Ives had bought, and looking into the distance.

"Eh, Avis, how long do you think they'll be back?"

“…… I guess it's going to take a while. "After all, it takes some time to clear up misunderstandings.

Ivis held the grass in his mouth, tilting his head and trying to remember the situation when he had dealt with the ladies before, and nodded affirmatively again.

He couldn't help but glance at the little fat man again, and only felt that the other party was stupid - if he didn't say it, this guy would never know that Ann really wanted to leave, I'm afraid that by now he still thought that Ann really went to buy food.

Avis couldn't help but snort softly.

He had already seen that Noah and Ann had a contradiction, not to mention that the two had nothing to do and always stayed together, but there were so many things in the past two days, but she was the only one alone, and secondly, he said that the bad girl, who was usually so worried about Noah, because of this, he was claimed to be "the bastard who involved Noah", and he was chased and killed by her with flower scissors, but this time, along the way, he was not even mentioned.

And remembering the nervous look on the young man's calm face when he met Noah in the early morning, but looked behind him from time to time -

Hey, he's Avis, when did you see a bad eyesight?

"Ah, the sun is so big." Frank finished his food, patted his stomach with satisfaction, yawned, and lay back on the deck, "When are we leaving, the morning is almost over." ”

"Our captain hasn't come yet." He said.

Yes, he seized the time to coax while there were only two people in private, and decided on this unlucky bag that had a lot of troubles to deal with, whether it was negotiating business, contacting sailors, and dealing with a lot of trouble.

"Avis, would Ann be happy if she found out that our ship hadn't left yet, and that she was still the captain?"

Frank asked simply.

Ives touched his hooked lower lip, quite meaningful.

"Probably—I'm going to get angry."