Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Like a gust of wind that passes right through you.

The two pairs of eyes looked at each other, and they both read certain information in each other's eyes.

It's not an illusion, it's real...

“Something is on its way.”

The Lost Tale: A Young Man's Spirit: Chapter 177 The Ghost Ship

"Captain, radar has detected an approaching vessel."

"Which direction?"

"To the east, it's only about three kilometers away from us."

"Three kilometers should be within sight." The captain frowned, picked up his binoculars, and looked in the direction the sailor had pointed out.

Today was a bright and sunny day with very few clouds in the sky. The sunlight shone on the sea, creating a shimmering effect like fish scales. A sweep of binoculars revealed the entire sea surface in its entirety.

But he saw nothing.

"Are you sure it's this direction?"

"I'm very certain, and we're still getting closer."

"Could it be a radar malfunction?"

"It was checked just before departure, it can't be."

"Tsk." The captain chewed on his cigar and then picked up his binoculars to take another look.

"Could it be a mine that wasn't cleared back then?" the sailor asked.

"Do you even have a brain?" The captain slapped him on the head. "How could something from eighty or ninety years ago be floating and detectable by radar? And even if we take a step back, do mines grow legs and swim?"

"Well..." the sailor scratched his head, looking confused, "It couldn't possibly be a submarine, could it?"

"Do you think this is a war? If it's a submarine at a naval base, they can't possibly not send us signals."

"What could it be?"

"I don't know." The captain took a drag of his cigarette. "I have a bad feeling."

squeak-

Just then, the cabin door was pushed open.

A petite girl with a single ponytail walked into the cabin.

【Boss.】

"Jing? What are you doing here?" The captain felt his bad premonition was about to come true.

There's something going on.

Google's voice echoed in the control room, and the voices that were speaking stopped abruptly as Google's cold tone became more pronounced.

All eyes in the control room were on the short magical girl.

"Are you sure?" the captain asked her earnestly.

The girl nodded.

The old people around the captain all knew that Jing was no ordinary person. These "people," known as magical girls, could see things that ordinary people couldn't.

If she says there's something going on, then it's not a normal situation anymore.

The thing coming right up from underwater isn't a living creature.

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—"An emergency notice is now being issued. According to the weather forecast, this ship will be entering a storm area. All passengers are requested to return to their cabins and await further instructions."

—"Just to reiterate, an urgent notice is now being issued..."

Ai Yin pushed the lamp's shoulder, leading her and the crowd into the cabin.

"It's a perfectly sunny day, how could there be a storm?"

"I do not know."

"I was sunbathing, and then suddenly..."

"They've issued an emergency notice, so it must be true."

Such sounds kept ringing out around Ai Yin. Everyone was puzzled by this inexplicable announcement. Fortunately, most of the people on the ship were students, who naturally obeyed such announcements. Even if they didn't understand what was happening, they obediently followed the crowd and returned to their cabins.

Just because most people don't know what happened doesn't mean Aine doesn't know.

Not long ago, Deng said she saw something. Combined with the notification from the cruise ship and the inexplicable sense of oppression in her heart, even if Aine is stupid, she knows that something is approaching the cruise ship.

"Aine, I don't think I saw it wrong just now," Light whispered in Aine's ear. "There really is something approaching."

“I know, I felt it too.” Ai Yin swallowed. “But the cruise ship reacted so quickly, they must be experienced. It’s better if we don’t get involved.”

"But......"

“Maybe if we get involved, we’ll just be causing trouble for others, don’t you think?” Aine said.

“…Hmm.” Deng nodded weakly.

"Then let's go back first and follow the others."

Ai Yin pushed Deng's shoulder, but before they could take more than a few steps, she caught a glimpse of a blue streak flashing against the current out of the corner of her eye, and Deng stopped in her tracks.

Aiyin bumped into Deng's soft back with a "plop".

The people around them were still walking forward, and the two girls who suddenly stopped only made them take a slightly longer route.

The lamp's pupils shrank to a black dot, and the people around it seemed to flash by like slow-motion shots.

That figure just now...

"lamp."

Aine had a pretty good idea of ​​what was going to happen. She gripped the lamp's shoulder tightly and steadied herself in the ever-flowing crowd.

She knew who the blue light she had just seen was, and she also knew how the light would react.

This kind of thing must not happen.

It absolutely cannot happen now.

"Don't go out," Ai Yin said.

However, the hand that was gripping her shoulder was still broken.

Perhaps the lamp never heard Ai Yin's words. The moment that blue glint appeared in her eyes, she knew she could never follow the crowd.

"Hey!"

In the blink of an eye, the lights disappeared into the crowd.

"Ugh, so annoying! Why did I have to meet such troublesome people!"

Ai Yin stomped her foot angrily, turned around, and squeezed out against the crowd.

Surrounded by announcements and other noises, Ai Yin felt as if she had gone through countless hardships before finally squeezing to the very edge.

A sea breeze, thick with moisture, swept over us.

Ai Yin clung to the railing, leaning her upper body out and staring wide-eyed.

"Eh?! Is this true?!"

Just as the announcement had said, the sky outside turned from clear blue skies to pitch black, the oppressive darkness making it seem as if rain was about to fall at any moment.

The calm sea became turbulent, and even standing on such a large ship, one could feel a noticeable rocking motion. Waves crashed against the sides of the ship, and the spray even jumped onto the deck.

What's going on? It's only been a short time, less than two minutes, and everything has suddenly changed!

Fortunately, the light was not far away, and he trembled as he gripped the railing by the swaying boat.

"lamp!"

Aiyin ran over, steadied the lamp, and shouted loudly.

"Hurry inside! We can't stay outside anymore!"

Even if one were to shout, it would sound particularly weak amidst the sound of the waves crashing against each other.

The lamp hugged Aine tightly and nodded.

She was too afraid to speak.

boom----!

At the same time, a ship's prow, carved with a one-eyed skull, pierced the surface of the sea and rose from below the horizon.

As the bow appeared, thunder began to rumble and rain started to fall, with large raindrops pattering on the deck.

Seawater, bubbling with white foam, flowed down through the holes in the hull, revealing the wooden hull, the mast that was more than ten meters high, and a dozen or so cannons that extended from each side of the ship, aimed at the hull horn that was dozens or even hundreds of times larger than itself.

Although the size of the wooden hull seems somewhat comical compared to a cruise ship, no one who sees it will underestimate it because of its size.

That wasn't a ship operated by humans; rather, it seemed more like a legend that had been circulating at sea for centuries.

Ghost ship. (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated to the initial statement.)

The Lost Tale: The Spirit of Youth: Chapter 178 We're Gone!

The ghost ship surfaced, casting out several ropes that caught the cruise ship, which was dozens of times larger than itself, and held tightly together with it amidst the raging winds and waves.

The captain, with his personal guard, had been waiting for a long time at the place where the ghost ship had appeared.

"Isn't that fishing boat one of those pirates' ships?" the captain frowned. "How did it get so close?"

In his eyes, the suddenly appearing mast sailboat still looked like a fishing boat.

Be careful, that's not a fishing boat.

Jing had to turn her phone volume up to the maximum so that people around her could hear what she was saying.

The ship emanated magical energy belonging to a witch.

"Hehehe! This little girl has a really sharp sense of things!"

The sound came from below.

The captain looked down and saw a limping figure walk onto the deck of the fishing boat.

With one hand and one foot missing, an eye patch over one eye, a thick beard, and dark skin, this guy... was indeed the one who had been chased away before.

He walked to the base of the mast, grabbed a rope, drew his knife from his waist and cut the rope. He was lifted onto the mast and brought to a height almost level with the cruise ship's deck.

In the captain's eyes, the mast of the ghost ship was actually the crane of the fishing boat, and the pirate leader "jumped" onto the crane of the fishing boat out of thin air.

“We meet again, ‘Snake’.” He stood on the mast and greeted the captain. “Let me introduce myself. We are the pirates ‘Melka’. I am Aden, the leader of the Merka. Please take care of me in the future.”

Because they were pirates from Africa, the pirate captain practically learned Japanese after arriving in this sea area.

"Your Japanese could be improved a bit more," the captain replied in a nonchalant tone, a cigar between his fingers.

"Damn it! I've only been here for less than three months, and I'm already pretty good at this level! As a pirate, I'm practically the kind with a lot of professional ethics!"

"Pirates have professional ethics?" the captain asked in surprise.

"That's obvious. Haven't you ever seen business being discussed when you were on a ship? The guys who go ashore first."

The crew of the Scroll were mostly mercenaries, not much different from pirates, which is why he called them "the guys who came ashore first".

What Aden meant by "doing business" was the main means of livelihood for modern pirates: armed robbery followed by ransom. After being robbed a few times, most merchant ships learned their lesson and began to pay protection money to pirates to ensure their safe passage through the area.

Therefore, pirates who have mastered multiple languages ​​have a significant advantage in "doing business." This is why pirate leaders choose to learn Japanese after arriving in the Sea of ​​Japan, rather than living the life of looting and plundering that their predecessors lived two hundred years ago without needing to communicate through language.

The captain of the String was certainly aware of these unspoken rules of the sea route, but...

"Sorry, but no one has ever stolen my ship." The captain flicked his cigarette ash in a sarcastic tone.

"You're absolutely disgusting!"

The pirate captain stood on the mast, drew his scimitar, and pointed it at the captain's nose.

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