The Worst Fruit Among Pirates

Aboard the Don Quixote,

"I think we're still missing something."

Dover, who was sitting on the oak barrel, pushed up his sunglasses with a serious look on his face.

"Yes, it's a burning question."

Opposite him, Vergo, who also wore square sunglasses and had a piece of bread on his cheek, nodded.

"···"

The honest man Pika sitting next to him scratched his hair and finally decided not to express an opinion on this issue.

"What are you discussing?"

Rossi, who was sweating profusely and had just finished sword practice with Diamanti, came over.

"Now that our Don Quixote family has been established, we naturally need a logo and a pattern——"

"Yes, this is a serious question."

···

"Understood,"

Although he didn’t go to sea as a pirate, everyone still wanted a unique flag.

But... Rossi touched his chin. He remembered that the logo of the 'Don Quixote Family' in his previous life was a clown-like skull?

"That's it, let's all draw the mark you like and then vote."

"Okay, that's the decision."

Dover thought this proposal was good, and even Torebol and Diamanti gathered around.

Although in Rossi's opinion, Torebol, who was sweating profusely and almost turning into slime, just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to fish.

"let me!"

Diamanti looked enchanted and confident, "Hey hey hey, I was almost [-] million points away from being admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts."

Torebol was not to be outdone. The appearance of the two of them frightened Dove for a moment, but Vergo and Pika, who had known them longer, had already tilted their heads.

Half an hour later:

"I'm so stupid, really..."

Dover was already autistic, and Rossi picked up the flag drawn by Torebol and Diamanti, frowning.

"Diamandi, this painting of yours is really 'destructive'..."

"Uh-huh, don't make me look like a genius."

? ?

No, no, no, I'm afraid that if I hang this flag up, my enemies will laugh to death first.

Diamanti's painting... I don't know where it was from the indigenous art. It looked like a sunflower or a chrysanthemum. After taking a closer look, I could barely make out a human face.

Although it can be seen that Diamanti has tried very hard to express an "evil" expression in the picture, his kindergarten painting skills are really embarrassing.

As for the other one:

"Torre, your failure to get admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts is definitely a big loss to the other party."

No, this stream of consciousness painting style has made it impossible for Rossi to distinguish what is on the flag.

"Is this... a toilet?"

"This is a mountain, a mountain peak!!!"

Torebol's whole face was pressed against Rossi's body, and he was furious.

"The foggy mountain top reaches into the sky. On the top of the mountain, the homes of the gods are bathed in the sun. - This is a poem describing a holy place! Also, you got it wrong!"

"Oh, sorry, sorry."

Rossi, whose tone was calm, turned the painting over in his hand. It seemed, seemed, maybe...

Does it look a little bit like the Red Earth Continent?

"Dover, look—"

Rossi, who really couldn't comment on the 'crouching dragon and phoenix' pair, handed the two flags to Dover. Even Dover, who had always been calm, looked away.

If such a flag is hung out, how can one show such shame in the sea?

clap clap,

Dover's eyes lit up as he looked around, he stood up and clapped his hands.

"There is a pirate ship approaching us at six o'clock!"

"Ready to fight--"

???

In this way, the question about the flag was fooled by Dover, and the dissatisfied Torebol and Diamanti could only prepare to vent their anger on the pirate ship behind them.

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Onboard the Toothed Shark,

"Boss, it's a fat fish!"

"Oh oh oh, after finishing this job, we will be able to live happily for a long time -"

On the pirate ship that caught up behind them, a group of ragged pirates opened their chests, hung on the cables, or threw themselves on the side of the ship, howling excitedly.

"Humph,"

As the captain of this pirate ship, Clifford, who had a clean captain's coat, glanced disdainfully at these arrogant subordinates.

A group of trash who only know how to eat and drink, and consume all Bailey on bad wine and women!

I don't even want to dress properly, I just have the word 'cannon fodder' written on my face.

The reason why this ship was able to catch up with the giant merchant ship in front of it on the sea so accurately was not due to the navigator who talked about it, nor was it the 'gift of the sea' that other pirates thought it was.

But because someone sent him information!

Just like Rossi once said, as long as they are around, the managers of the factories in Spida Maluz and the managers who run the pubs and manors will never dare to have any objections.

"And the premise is 'we exist'."

Rossi pointed at the pursuers behind him and turned around to explain to the others,

"I can guarantee that these pirates have received the information coming to Spida Maluz. They even know the number of goods and personnel on our ship."

If the top brass of Don Quixote's family died in the vast sea, wouldn't the wealth they left behind...

So on the Don Quixote, Rossi was not surprised by the two pirate ships chasing behind him.

That's right, in addition to the Toothed Shark, another pirate ship also jumped out from the horizon next to it and quickly attacked the Don Quixote.

This would be an absolute disaster for a normal merchant ship, but for Rossi, who had been prepared for it, it was just another exercise.

"The other party is a pirate who kills people and sells goods. He has no complaints as an opponent."

"The next step is shooting training, loading the artillery——"

Long and heavy cannons were pushed onto the deck one after another. The weapons themselves were superior to the opponent's.In addition, the loaded gunpowder was mixed with low-quality explosive rock, so:

Boom boom boom boom! !

While the two pirate ships were still chasing at full speed, the merchant ship they targeted suddenly spewed out a cloud of white smoke.

"Haha, what are you doing?!"

"Hey, hey, hey, isn't this the first time these guys have gone to sea?"

The sailors on the two pirate ships chasing after him were stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

This distance was still hundreds of meters away from the maximum range of their artillery, and the opponent had already opened fire.It’s time to fry the fish——

boom,

wow,

A column of pure white water suddenly exploded ten meters in front of the toothed shark. The splashing water splashed over the heads and faces of the excited sailors, suppressing their shouts and making Captain Clifford narrow his eyes.

The range is so far!

"Go at full speed and stick up!"

For pirates, artillery combat is actually not something they are good at:

On the one hand, it is impossible for them to obtain powerful artillery and explosives like regular armies and merchants; on the other hand, their purpose is to plunder, not to blow their opponents to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.

Melee fighting is their specialty!

After discovering that the merchant ship's artillery was very sharp, the two pirate ships unanimously chose to accelerate their charge.

"Tsk, it seems that artillery skills cannot be mastered in a short time."

Although they clearly had advanced artillery and explosives, the two ships behind them continued to catch up despite the bombardment.On the one hand, it is naturally because the power of artillery in this world is limited, and on the other hand, it is also because everyone's artillery skills are incompetent.

"It's okay, take your time."

Anyway, Rossi didn't expect anyone here to suddenly awaken the 'sniper' talent.

When it comes to sex, practice makes perfect.

Time continued to pass, and the pirate ship behind him was getting closer and closer.In the end, we could even clearly observe the impatient pirates on the opponent's deck, and some pirates even directly raised their flintlock guns and fired at them.

Of course, the hit rate depends entirely on the sky.

"Hey, hey, this distance -"

Seeing that the two ships had reached a certain distance from each other, Torebol was eager to give it a try.

Regarding the development of his slime fruit, Rossi's opinion is: throw it out and attack it from a distance.

"Slime·Meteor Hammer!"

Create a ball of slime, then rotate like a meteor hammer to accumulate kinetic energy, and then suddenly cut off the slime connection.

call out--

A large ball of slime drew in a long arc, flew across the distance between the two ships, and landed on the other's deck with a loud thud.

"Grass!!"

"What the hell is this?"

"Quick, pull me out—"

At first, the slime shocked the sailors on the deck, but after discovering that it was not corrosive or toxic, and was just very 'sticky', a group of pirates yelled and cursed the people who were stuck by the slime. Companion pulled out.

"3, 2, 1..."

Among the slime, an inconspicuous metal cylinder suddenly expanded, and terrifying high temperatures spewed out from it.

bang,

In an instant, flames soared into the sky!

The blazing flames continued to spread along the slime, turning into a fire storm that swept across the deck.The pirates who had been stuck with the slime before, and even their companions who helped pull them out of the slime, were immediately spread by the flames.

"Ahhh~~"

"Help, help me -"

"Don't run around, calm down, calm down!!"

One by one, the pirates were ignited into torches. Their survival instinct made them run wildly on the deck, and then they lit other things on fire, causing the deck to plunge into a sea of ​​fire.

"Hey hey hey, I am the number one gunner of the Don Quixote family!"

Faced with Torebol's announcement, Rossi shrugged.

as long as you are happy.