"Hah-" The dark clouds obscured the moonlight again, and Mira seized the opportunity to readjust her posture and struggled to her feet against the large wooden winch nearby. The fall just now made her legs and feet a little inflexible, but fortunately, the other party didn't know if she wasn't nearby or wasn't skilled enough, and didn't take the opportunity to knock her down.

"Huh—" she exhaled. Leaning against the wooden base of the winch, he fumbled underneath his hand and touched something cold, and immediately realized that it was a small shield that had just been dropped.

Mira picked it up, then took a cursory look at her surroundings.

Although I had been traveling with the ship for more than a month, this was the first time I had been to the outside of the deck in the middle of the night.

The change in visibility made the overall feeling very different from the daytime, and coupled with the icy temperature, the Luo An girl who was not wearing gloves felt that her hands began to become numb and dull after a while.

Just fix it as soon as possible. She thought that she wanted to get rid of the problem and return to the warmth of the cabin as soon as possible because of all her discomforts, so she just determined the source of the light and began to move on.

The foredeck of the Eastern Moon is 16 meters long and nearly 8 meters wide, so you can see it from a high position during the day.

But in the dark of night, with some debris on the deck, it is very difficult to find out where the other party is.

Most of the place was in darkness, and there were only two sources of light other than the faint starlight - where the helmsman of the taller superstructure behind him was, and the sides of the ship's bow. The blackened anchor chain showed its outline in the firelight, and it was clear that the other party had not fled there. That is, it is possible only in these areas near the mast.

The wind is blowing from the side front, which proves that the ship is sailing against the wind at this time.

This is one of the magic weapons of the Oriental Moon and its sister ships and successors to dominate the oceans, and the longitudinal sails developed and made by the Southerners are more efficient against the vagaries of the ocean than the sails of traditional sailing ships, and can continue to sail even in headwinds. It's just that when driving against the wind, you need the side of the sail to catch the wind, so you have to take a zigzag Z shape to get to your destination.

Still, she was able to shake off pirate ships that were theoretically lighter and faster with their sails.

- So how did the other party get on board, could it be that such a short body is mixed with goods-goods! Luo An girl immediately thought of the big box that contained the clothes before, the box was more than 80 centimeters wide and 40 centimeters high, and the small people could curl up in it, and they were covered by the thick clothes and they were in a hurry to leave without careful inspection.

That's probably why this man didn't have shoes on - he was a pirate, and he was still carrying a knife. Her eyes sharpened, and after judging that the other party was a threat, Mira decided that she could not involve other people who were not good at fighting - she turned her head and made a silent "shhh" gesture to Lisa, who was still looking at the doorway, with another flash of moonlight, signaling her not to alarm too many people, and then patted her chest again, with a "leave it to me" look, which reassured Lisa, nodded and closed the hatch and waited for her.

The moonlight disappeared again, and the Luoan girl, whose eyes had to adjust to the darkness again, stopped in place for a long time. Unlike the inside of the enclosed cabin, the wind and waves crashing on the bare deck were much louder, and she couldn't use the sound to discern her opponent's presence, but thankfully the other party should.

As if she were playing a game of wooden man, she groped her way forward one by one. The moonlight appeared for a variety of lengths, so she always stopped to observe and check her surroundings when it appeared, and then paused to take a defensive stance when it darkened again, waiting for her eyes to readjust to the dish. In the light and darkness, Mira had explored a lot of the area, but she never saw the small pirate invader.

The massive mainmast casts a faint shadow under the faint starlight, and beyond the observation nets on either side of the lookout is the deep black sea that sparkles under the stars.

The waves crashed, and the light frost that melted during the day covered some areas prone to frosting, making the deck even more slippery. The sluggish feeling was accentuated by the thick winter boots wrapped in rabbit skin, and while it was effective in preventing frostbite, the feeling of walking on thin ice made Mira's brow furrow—it wasn't the environment she liked to fight, and even the sword she was holding wasn't the most familiar and familiar with it at the moment.

She began to wonder if her decision had been wrong.

There wasn't a lot of clutter on deck, and there were only a few places to hide. But because of the problem of vision, she couldn't grasp a large area at a glance like she did during the day.

But the other party should be the same - she kept moving her wrist, which felt stiff from the cold, and wanted a quick solution because of the discomfort in all aspects.

"Click, click—" The sound sounded in the darkness of the right front near the side of the ship, followed by the bright moonlight falling at the same time.

Both of them narrowed their eyes at the same time to adjust to the bright light, and Mira saw each other for the first time - it was a girl with black hair and a pointed chin, with the same blue eyes as her, but one eye seemed to be injured and thus covered with an eye patch, a warm turban tied around her head, a cotton jacket wrapped around her body, and her hand in her arms.

"Vinika Tyurosa, Paxi!" Somewhat familiar words came out of the other party's mouth, and her expression was a little impatient and uneasy, especially after seeing the battle posture that the girl Luo An had subconsciously assumed.

"Tsk-" The pirate girl pulled the knife out of her arms, and Mira, who immediately reacted to the threat, decided to strike first.

"Oh——!" she stepped forward steadily, striking her arm with her small shield, intending to disarm before she could use the dagger, and then grabbed the short sword with her other hand, but the end of the hilt struck it.

The advantage of the dual-wielding weapon from both sides made the pirate girl, who had not even taken her hand out of her arms, lose the opportunity and fall into a disadvantage, but this was just Mira's wishful thinking, as the opponent squatted down at an alarming speed to take advantage of his small size to avoid Mira's misaimed shield. Immediately after that, he jumped up and directly hit her sword hilt with his head wrapped in a turban, "When ——, snap, snatch!"

The short sword in Mira's right hand flew out with a whirl, and then nailed to the thick plank under the mast, her movements not as nimble as she had been made stiff by the cold wind without gloves. But what shocked the girl even more was the decisiveness of the other party - this head was made of iron and slammed directly into the hilt of the sword - she was still in this shock, and the pirate girl had already stretched out her hands from her warm padded jacket that had been kept warm by body temperature so they were not frozen.

"Uhhh Mira herself was aware of this, so she immediately reached out her still somewhat frozen right hand and grabbed the other party's warm hand, and then tried to twist her hand with her grappling technique, but this action was also half a beat slower because of the freezing.

"Whoa!" the pirate girl screamed again, and then jumped to her feet, grabbing Mira's hand, and using the momentum to pull her to the ground, who was already standing on the slippery deck.

"Boom! Uh-" The sound of the fall on the deck was drowned out by the waves, and she immediately felt the other man try to remove the small shield from her hand. However, Mira, who was more physically fit, quickly adjusted her position and broke free from the opponent's movements, and the pirate girl immediately left her to avoid being caught by her.

"Ha-he-hehe-" Mira, who got up again, felt exhausted, and it was enough to stand up, but the other party stood barefoot on the frosty deck without being frostbitten, not to mention that she didn't pant for breath after this fight.

—It's not good for herself to go on like this, she thought to herself, when she suddenly felt the moonlight around her begin to disappear again.

And just as she was about to quickly find a place to hide and stay safe waiting for herself to readjust to the darkness, she saw the other hand reach out and expertly change the blindfold covering her face to the place of the other eye.

In an instant, Mira understood.

Her eyes were not injured, and the blindfold was worn because of the change in light and darkness - it takes at least a few minutes for a person's eyes to adjust to light to darkness, but if one eye is kept in the dark by a covering, she can immediately adapt to the darkness by changing the blindfold when the environment gets darker.

Arrogance.

A fine cold sweat oozed from Luo An's forehead - although the other party looked small and smaller than her, he definitely had a lot of experience in all aspects.

Keeping your hands warm in your coat is to prevent you from being frozen, your movements are not sensitive and you can't achieve your desired movements, the eye patches are designed to adapt to the bursts of moonlight, and walking barefoot on the deck is cold but avoids slipping, and you won't get frostbite easily as long as you keep moving.

It's over—she still can't see the environment clearly, but the other party has completed the adaptation to the darkness through the transposition of the blindfold.

Mira held her small shield forward, constantly changing the direction of her defense, and the cold sweat on her face seeped more and more.

The sound of the wind and the waves obscure the possible action of the other party.

She didn't know where the other person was, and her vision was gradually becoming clearer, but not fast enough - the other party knew where she was.

She began to panic.

Lack of attention to her surroundings – she remembered her teacher's previous criticism.

Mira has always known that she has this problem, so she has always been very studious, trying to learn to observe and think in all aspects.

But what she didn't know was that the problem wasn't just about accumulation of knowledge.

In all fairness, the way the sages teach is excellent.

He never boasted about how good his swordsmanship was, despite the fact that it was. But Henry knew that for a swordsman, the most important thing was to feel that his own combat methods were the best in the world. Stay calm and review the situation, nothing can be eaten in one go, and you have to choose the right response to survive.

This is something he has been tirelessly repeating to our Loan Maiden, but as with countless other mentor-apprentice or family relationships.

Language does not occupy all the components of teaching.

Children are like parrots that can only repeat monotonously, obeying the words and words of adults, and more often than not, they will do what is.

- Imitating the behavior of adults.

Henry is strong.

Or too strong.

This allows him to perform feats that turn the tide as if he were an adventurous hero, and to be able to defeat a team of people in a crushing manner. But because of this, he became a bad enough role model.

No matter how many times he said it, when he could defeat an enemy with overwhelming sheer force almost every time he encountered him, this figure would inevitably leave a mark on Mira's heart.

"Teachers are omnipotent. Just as a child looks to her parents, she will inevitably start to learn from his every move.

As a woman, physical strength is naturally weaker than that of men, and the body is still very young, and the body has not yet been fully developed. Ideally, she would be more flexible, using her knowledge and solid foundation to deal with her enemies and take advantage of their vulnerabilities to fight back.

It's like what the pirate girl is facing at this moment has done.

But that's not the case with her.

The battle in which the pirates boarded the ship before is an example, and there are many more times ahead. When faced with a battle, Mira will always subconsciously choose to go head-to-head with the opponent, trying to break the opponent with faster speed and stronger strength by taking the initiative to attack.

Henry's unrivaled display of overwhelming strength and skill has become the direction she has been pursuing.

But blind aggressiveness can sometimes bring bitter consequences to oneself.

This lesson was not taught to her by a sage.

"Stepping, Stepping—" The voice of '——! in the back' rang out just over a minute after the darkness had been plunged, and she hadn't been able to fully adjust to the darkness, but she still reacted decisively, changing the way she held the shield in her hand, and then punched out.

"But, it didn't work—

The sound of "stomping" continued to sound, hitting Mira's shin as she adjusted to some of the darkness and saw that it was clearly a lemon on a ship—

That is to say, the other party deliberately threw the elastic lemon on the deck to make it make a noise to make her mistake it for footsteps, then it was followed by-

"Whew!" the little figure rushed from the side and crashed into Mira's arms after waving the shield in her hand forward, causing her whole body to crash into the side of the ship, and the small shield in her left hand immediately flew out, and fell into the sea with a "boom-" sound, and the pirate girl then stuck her leg between Mira's feet with great skill, and then pulled her other hand and threw her whole body to the ground.

"Boom!" "Wow-" The girl from Luo'an, who had fallen into a mess, was still waving her hands and trying to fight back, but her hands were quickly grabbed by the other party and twisted to the side, holding her back.

She lost her breath because of the panic, and she couldn't exert her strength to resist in time because of the fall, so she was awkwardly pressed on the deck by a same-sex opponent who was smaller and less powerful than herself.

"Ahem, ahem—" The Roan girl with her face against the deck quickly melted the frost due to her body temperature, and her white hair was wet and clung to her forehead because of this.

The uncomfortable and awkward feeling is secondary, and more is regret for his behavior.

She had a chance to fight back just now, and if she had another weapon at the moment she fell to the ground, she could use it to force the opponent back to buy time for herself.

But she didn't even have a second weapon on her, and she didn't wear any armor, so she could have been more daring if she was wearing a plate armor and didn't have to worry about the knife in the other person's hand. But she didn't do that, and when she woke up, she was dazed, just wrapped up a little warmer, and ran out with a small shield and a short sword.

Stupid.

Stupider than Kaleva, thought the girl.

The moonlight fell again, and the whipped face of the intruder girl, who was only about one meter four high, was clearly visible at close range, and she calmly looked directly at the Luoan girl who was crushed under her with emerald blue eyes, but just as she opened her mouth to say something to Mira, the whole ship suddenly moved-

"Da?" the pirate girl looked a little panicked, and Mira immediately realized that this was an opportunity - it was a turn! She remembered, because it was headwind, the Eastern Moon would turn every other distance, she rose to fight back, but ignored the frost on the ground that had melted her body temperature, causing her to slip and fall directly to the other side of the deck.

"Boom!" This time, she slipped out several meters away and hit the barrel with a greater impact than the previous times, but the pirate girl, who was panicked about the situation, reacted in time and held on to the guardrail next to her without losing her balance.

"Ahem-ahem-" The dizzy Luoan girl couldn't get up again for a long time, and after a few minutes had passed, she finally regained some strength, and under the bright moonlight, the pirate girl slowly walked in front of her.

"Whew—" The girl sighed in resignation, and then as she thought about the fact that she would desperately inform the rest of the ship even if she was killed, she saw the petite girl in a coat with a rather ethnic pattern, put the knife back, and then stretched out her hand towards her.

"Van Pamoqi?" the other spoke again, and this time Mira finally understood what she was saying.

“...... Do you mean, do you want to help (help Pamothy)?" Mira looked at each other with puzzled and confused faces, and the moment she repeated the sentence, the pirate girl nodded sharply, and then happily removed her blindfold.

"Monignecapane, Haraxiu!!" she said aloud, and began to dance and explain something in a series of words, but a dull-faced Mira just froze in place.

She said.

It's in Luoan.

Although the intonation and pronunciation are different, this girl from Luo'an is not spoken no matter how you look at it, it is indeed Luo'an.

"Da?" Mira tilted her head, and the crew, who had finally noticed the movement, also duly popped out of the upper floors with lanterns.

"What's going on?" The bewildered sailor and the bewildered Roan girl looked at each other, only the pirate girl, whose face was red from the cold, gave a big smile and raised her hand.

"Halahu!"