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"Ha-" Severe tinnitus.

So bad that even my breath sounded like it was about to leave.

Unable to control his hands and feet as he pleases, they twist like puppets, making it difficult to even stand up.

This lasted about a minute and a half.

When consciousness returned, the first thing she felt was the spicy and choking taste in her nasal cavity:

"Ahem, ahem—" The girl immediately pulled up her collar to cover her nose, but she was still choking on tears. The sunlight projected through the cracked hole shone on the ground, and the powder scattered in the air made the pillar of light stand out in the darkness. Spices were still leaking from the barrel next to it, which had been pierced by a huge whaling fork—it was very distressing that such an expensive thing had been wasted like this, but she didn't have time to think about it right now.

"Ahem—" Mira stroked her head to check for signs of bleeding, slamming into the inner load-bearing pillars of the hull, making her feel uncomfortable, but thankfully she had hit a relatively flat surface and was not really seriously injured. "Knock—" She stuck the tip of her sword into the thick plank and helped it to its feet, her eyes red and tears streaming from the sore nasal sensation. The blurred vision was unsettling, but she struggled to overcome it, even harder to close her eyes so that tears could wash away the spices from her face, and to adjust to the dim view of the interior of the cabin.

"Hiss-" The breath is unconsciously held, which is a normal human reaction when they are afraid, but as a swordsman, you need to overcome it to avoid your own lack of physical strength due to uneven breathing.

"Whew-" She began to breathe through her mouth deliberately, quietly and evenly controlled. While waiting for his eyes to regain vision, he began to use his keen sense of hearing to capture his surroundings - "Cut the cable, cut the cable!" A few meters behind him, through the fence vents, someone on the deck outside was roaring in Laman, the sound of footsteps "knock knock" intertwined back and forth, many people were moving backwards and forwards, in addition to the occasional "clanging" sound of gold and iron intermingling, accompanied by the release of the crossbow machine, the crisp "pop" sound of the wax-soaked thick string bowstring.

The battle was still raging, and a moment of listening was enough for her to tell, but it wasn't the sound she was looking for.

'Where's that man?' Mira listened with her eyes closed, and in the dark silence she could even feel the whaling fork snapping onto the hull of the ship pulling the pirates' clipper as it sailed, a slight "creaking" from the extra traction.

But she couldn't hear the other person's voice.

The voice of the dwarf pirate who had met her in the cramped cabin and wanted to destroy the rudder of the Eastern Moon and bring the great ship to a halt.

She couldn't hear it.

Where is he?

During the confrontation, the pirate shot a whaling fork to keep the ship from being thrown off, and many of the storage barrels that happened to be in this position were washed away due to the huge kinetic energy. Mira was hit in the body, hitting her head on a pillar and causing ringing in her ears, but the moment she fell, she grabbed the debris next to her and shattered the lantern in the cabin. The already dimly lit cabin had little to do with light other than the few rays of sunlight shining in from behind, and this clever reaction bought her time for herself.

But she still needed to know where the man was.

Mira had no idea if her opponent had also been hurt by the splash of debris. Her current situation is very bad, fighting in the dark is not her strong point, coupled with the complex and narrow terrain in the cabin, the slender blade of the long sword in her hand that was originally an advantage has now become an obstacle.

The sound of "knock-knock" footsteps echoed on the deck as the entire ship was in battle. The cacophony drowned out the same type of sound, making it impossible for her to tell if the other party was walking in the cabin.

"Whew-"

But something else sounded, very subtle, but it was so unique that it was caught by the ear.

It's like the sound of feet on the beach and sand rubbing.

She reacted immediately.

It was the spice powder that had just been spilled on the ground—— so the other party was—"Ding—" She drew her sword from the board of the boat, and strode out in a big way, not using a slash to avoid being blocked by debris, but instead of using a slash, she used a stabbing blow to move forward, and at the same time opened her eyes, which were still full of tears, to make sure that she could take the next step after the opponent avoided the attack.

"Uhhh And this man was tall, and it was obvious that he was a passenger of Suomir origin, not one of those diminutive pirates.

"Hide—" She opened her mouth to warn, but she forgot that the dust on the ground had caused her to slip on the soles of her feet before she could even retract her sword.

'It's over—' the girl thought, when she saw the man pick up a broken plank from the ground with his toes with great speed and kick it between them.

"Bang!" the tip of the sword pierced in a little, and then because of the weight, the unbalanced Luoan girl fell forward, and the tall man in the darkness reached out at the right time to stop her waist and pick her up with one hand.

"You don't pay enough attention to your surroundings, you still have to fix it. Henry said this softly, and the Luoan girl breathed a long sigh of relief as if she had found a life-saving straw, but then opened her mouth because she suddenly remembered: "Teacher, there are others here-"

"Whoa—" It's late—

The reason why the other party didn't make a sound understood in an instant - the short but extremely athletic pirate climbed to the top of the cabin holding the pillar.

He was also adjusting to the suddenly darkened cabin, but he was far more alert than her, and he only started to do so after he had pulled away and found cover.

And the two people who made the sound and movement at this moment were undoubtedly pointing out the direction to this person.

He leapt down and slashed at Henry's head with the short knife in his hand.

"You know what. And the sage said in a calm, albeit rapid, tone.

"Orthodox sword teaching will teach you to avoid jumping, even though it's often seen in adventures. ”

"But it's stupid to jump at every turn, for a reason. ”

"When—smack—" He picked the sword in Mira's hand with his foot, then took it, and pointed at the leaping pirate with a plank still attached to the tip of the sword.

"Bang-" "Ahhh

The pirate struggled like a mouse bitten by a cat, but the movement only accelerated his blood loss, and he quickly crooked his neck.

"This kind of thing will happen. The sage held his sword in one hand and the pirate was still on it, and he threw him to the ground as if he didn't feel the weight at all, "Bang!!" The pirate slammed his body into the ship's plank, and Henry kicked away the short knife in his hand and shook Mira's long sword.

"Smack—" Blood splattered on the inside of the cabin, a handsome gesture that would have been complained by the sailors who cleaned the cabin afterwards.

The sage then looked at the sword in his hand, which, despite its excellent use, still bent a little as it was used roughly.

Henry shrugged his shoulders, then stepped on the ground to make it straighter a bit: "You're going to get a new one anyway," and handed it to Mira. And the white-haired girl, who had finally managed to adapt to seeing in the dark, pulled down her collar and gave him a roll of her eyes: "Mr. Sage is really a-ah-ah-"

"Ahh This is advantageous in situations such as fire escape and cargo handling, but when you're surrounded by several pirate ships and they're boarding from all directions, it's harder to keep them out of the cabin than if you only had one exit.

That's why Miss Luo'an is fighting alone, but there's nothing to worry about now.

Her breathing was even, her pace was steady, and her judgment of her surroundings became calm and quick.

This strength and clarity of mind comes from a sense of security.

Henry is coming.

Then there's nothing to worry about.

"I didn't expect these guys to use a bed crossbow, but luckily you didn't stick to the outer wall of the cabin. The sage looked out through the hole in the thick planks that had been pierced by a great whaling fork, and a large pirate clipper was hanging behind the Oriental Moon, and he could see from afar that the people on board were trying to shorten the distance with their winches, but they were being tossed around all the time because of the high speed, which was not so effective. Nearby, several boats that had been placed on them were also hooked on the side of the Oriental Moon with their claws, and the pirates forced their way up from the climbing nets attached to the hooks during the voyage.

The reason for such a sudden encirclement began three days ago, when the Eastern Moon, which had left the West behind, was heading southwest for the rest of its voyage. However, before they actually entered the sea area named the Great East Sea by the Lamanites, they encountered a mirage caused by the temperature difference at the place where the two ocean currents meet.

The floating icebergs and islands were dreamlike, and it was not clear whether it was true or not, so Captain Francisco ordered to slow down the speed just to be on the safe side, and it was such a decision that gave these northern pirates the opportunity to surround them.

Old captains sometimes capsize, and the seas are full of dangers – and although they are technically the result of the greed of their fellow human beings, it remains unchanged that they need to work together to overcome it.

"What are you going to do, do you want to cut off the whaling fork directly, with Kramer, or just dismantle this part of the hull?" said Mira, and then turned back in confusion as Henry had not answered for a long time.

“...... Do you have any misunderstanding about me. The sage sighed helplessly: "This thing." He flicked the rusty whaling fork with his fingers: "But if you can hold up a whale weighing dozens of tons and struggle, even my sword can't cut it." ”

"And the hull of the Oriental Moon is 20 centimeters thick, and it is all high-quality planks, and even the whaling fork fired from the heavy bed crossbow can only barely pierce it after bending its head, do you think I can dismantle it with my bare hands? ”

"Yes. "Miss Luo'an is categorical.

"Obviously not. And the sage shrugged.

"Cut. Mira smacked her tongue, and Henry picked up the sailors' flutes that hung around her neck for help.

"Beep-" He blew it, a high-pitched voice easily piercing the thick plank, and Captain Francisco and the others above immediately noticed the signal.

"Lower the sails, slow down!" the captain made a quick decision, and the passengers and sailors in front struggled to launch a wave of counterattacks to buy time for the men behind to manipulate the winch.

"Hold it tight, hold it tight!" roared the first mate, and instead of holding the lowered sails in place, the sailors tightened the cables and supported them with their strong bodies.

The sage looked out of the breach with his excellent eyesight, and the speed of the Eastern Moon gradually slowed down, and when the straight rope became weak for a moment—

"Whew—" He exhaled, then pulled the whaling fork stuck in the hull of the ship with one hand.

"Bang!!!" sawdust flew around, and more sunlight poured in from the hole that had lost the blockage.

"Beep-" Henry blew his flute and cut it with his dagger at the same time, as the twine that followed him entered.

"Raise the sails!!" the captain roared as he pricked up his ears to listen to the signal, and then the sailors re-set sail, and the huge wind immediately made the mainsail of the Oriental Moon bulge, and the re-accelerated ship immediately opened some distance.

The thick hemp rope lost its whaling fork as an anchor point, and as the ship pulled away from the breach and fell into the sea, the pirate ships behind gradually began to be thrown away, and the pirates who had already boarded the ship still resisted.

"Settled here, go up deck. The sage spoke, and Mira nodded and ran with him with her bent sword.

"Beware of glare eyes. Henry confessed, and the girl of Loan, who had run from below deck to above, was a second late, and in an instant blinded again by the dazzling sunlight outside. The Sage held her behind her with one hand, and then she heard the familiar sound of Kramer's hand colliding with the hook as he unsheathed.

Followed by.

It's a one-sided battle as always.

With the sailors' accurate crossbows under the cover of barrels, the pirates' daggers did not do much of a difference. The Eastern Moon is large and has a large deck that can accommodate short-range projectile weapons, which is obviously different from the opponents these pirates usually encounter. And the small boat that they were the first to hook up was also overturned by the waves carried by the big ship's sailing, and the total number of people on board was only slightly more than the sailors and passengers on board, and it did not form an absolute advantage.

The captain of the rival ship was obviously also an experienced man, and after realizing that his clipper would be thrown off by the large sailing ship, he ordered the whaling fork to be launched, and after fixing it to the tail of the Oriental Moon, the winch on the ship could close the distance between the two ships, allowing more people on the pirate ship to board the ship.

But this was solved before it could be achieved by the cooperation of the sage and the captain.

"Whew-" The rest of the battle lasted only a very short time, and the wind-swept Oriental Moon rushed out like an arrow from a string. The pirates on board laid down their weapons with weak feet after seeing the overwhelming power of the sage's sword and man.

The sailors and passengers, on the other hand, were vomiting, staring at the blood and entrails that were strewn everywhere on the deck, and at the sage who had bounced his fingers off someone's ears on his shoulder, still with a breezy face.

"It's better to flush the dirt off the deck than to become dirt on the deck, hahaha. Captain Francisco hugged the kitten and laughed heartily, ending the conflict.