It's dawn...
At the slaughter pier on the shore of Bilgewater, even in the early morning, no fresh sea beasts were slaughtered on the slaughter gallows. However, due to the long slaughter over the years, the scarlet blood of the sea beasts had already soaked every reef, every grain of sand, and every drop of sea water in the harbor... So, the sea water here always seems to be filled with the stinking red color?
Of course, after the waves continued to wash away all night, the red sea water in the dock has been gradually diluted and cannot be compared with the terrifying dark red color at the peak of slaughter.
then,
After this red sea water and the rising red sun in the distance, looking around, whether it is the sky or the sea, it is a red area... The scenery here has a tragic aesthetic feeling that only exists in the battlefield of bloody killing... And this "seeing the sunrise in the deep harbor, blood staining the blue sky in the same color" is one of the most famous wonders of Bilgewater!
Unfortunately, no one here will be distracted from these things, because in the eyes of the Bilgewater people, such things have long been accustomed to them.
"hurry up!"
~(￣0￣)/speed speed~!
"You lazy guys, hurry up and carry all your things onto the boat, we'll get it soon! Also, the big bearded man on the shore, look at what he is talking about, hurry up! Unlock the thick cable under your feet immediately!!"
ψ(*')
"Hey! Are you a sailor? You have to untie the cables before driving the boat. Don't you even know this?!"
s(·｀ヘ·;)
at this time,
In this slaughtering pier, a medium-sized hunting ship swayed in the scarlet sea water. Under the operation of a group of incompetent, somewhat chaotic and busy sailors and a small captain who was commanding and shouting randomly, he finally shakingly pulled up the dirty sails on three sides, and took advantage of the morning breeze to slowly float outside the shore of the coronary shore.
Yes, the captain of this ship is Queen Anne, you are not mistaken...
The medium-sized hunting ship, renamed the 'Greasy', looks ragged and dirty, was bought by Anne last night from a down-and-out captain who was so poor that he could hardly afford rent and alcohol at a hotel in Bilgewater!
And the clumsy sea hunter crew operating on the ship listened so much to a little girl because:
Little Anne bought it for money last night, in fact, not just a medium-sized sea ship used to hunt giant beasts. In fact, the down-and-out captain also bought one free land and gave her a rumored incompetent sea-hunter that had been out of the sea several times, but she failed to successfully hunt any deep-sea monster. Then she almost played their former captain with a bankrupt sea hunter team?!
You should know that in Bilgewater, a hunting boat that goes out to sea but cannot hunt any prey of giant beasts is easily disliked and ridiculed... or even considered an extremely unlucky and unlucky existence? And those sea hunters or other captains who go out to sea to earn their lives often attach great importance to "luck" and invisible and intangible illusory things like "luck"!
so,
Under normal circumstances, no sea hunter or captain is willing to take over this kind of ship!
If it weren't for the fearless little girl of ignorant people, it would have never had any better ending except being attracted to someone on one day in the future, and then dragged it to the shore at a low price as a house or other purpose, and engraved its experience on the nameplate of the house's door as an "epita"...
but,
There are some exceptions in everything, right?
Just because a rich girl who was extremely confident in her own strength and never considered any consequences in doing things by chance met a poor captain... So, after taking care of a bag of unknown heavy gold coins, the ship was rowed to Anne's name, and a free group of sea hunters who almost starved to death!!
And this,
It is the reason why Anne was able to command more than 20 people in the slaughter wharf today and successfully drove her own 'Grey' ship away from the slaughter wharf under the curious or mocking eyes of many Bilgewater people!!
The reason why this broken ship is called the "Greasy" is actually because Anne just used those greasy and disgusting things to tease two bad guys who wanted to make money and kill him. Early this morning, when she came here to receive it, when she saw this dirty broken ship, she naturally called such an annoying word.
But in fact...
At the beginning, she planned to call it the "Bear"... Unfortunately, due to the strong opposition of her family's Tibers, she had to settle for the second best, and casually pressed such a strange name, and wrote its new name with a broken wooden board, and casually nailed it to the sacred position of the original ship name on the bow.
Little Anne never cared about such a troublesome little thing. Out of distrust of the new captain, the crew members who did not have much hope for this trip to sea naturally did not take care of the very unlucky way of changing the ship's name. They just let it go and let such a rich and strange little girl do whatever she could do.
(…)
(Dear little master, why are you doing something when you ran out of the sea early in the morning... The little one clearly remembers that you had played with such slow sea-breaking ships like this before, when you were in the Caribbean, do you still want to play now?
(●￣￣●)
Tibers felt very puzzled about a bad little master who didn't sleep in the luxurious room of the hotel for the first time, but came to play this kind of game of going out to sea early in the morning!
Because, this kind of thing that comes from the sun hits the west really makes it feel quite rare...
Well, Mr. Tibers Bear almost forgot again. This is not any Earth plane. If the sun hits the west, it doesn't seem too strange?)
"Of course I'm going to hunt!!"
(>)
"That huge sea beast is so delicious, so big and so cruel. People must have to grab a few to eat!!"
(`)
When she thought of the piece of meat she ate yesterday, Annie couldn't help but thrust the corners of her mouth.
That kind of delicious food is not something that can be sold every day...
Moreover, those best things are said to be specially tributed to the gang leader and smuggling tycoons in this city... They were kept by the people above. Even if she had money, she might not be able to buy those special supplies!
Besides, the harvest at the slaughter wharf today was a bit bad. Early in the morning, until the sun rose, I didn’t see any sailboats coming back from the sea hunters. So, today, Bilgewater must have no fresh giant meat, and Anne, the ordinary sea fish, didn’t like to eat it!
so,
After having a not-so-good breakfast, Annie decided to use the medium-sized sea boat she bought last night to hunt and catch the big fish she had eaten!
Moreover, she decided:
She will definitely not use her powerful abilities easily. As long as there is no particularly powerful monster, she will only use the power of this ship and the stupid sea hunter crew members, relying on these to fight the sea beasts she wants, envying those guys who laughed at her on the dock when she set out for a voyage!!
Of course, if she really can't catch it, maybe... maybe... she would really cheat secretly?
(Hmm...Master, just be happy...
Anyway, it can't be stopped. Anyway, the ship is gradually moving away from Bilgewater. Anyway, I don't really think about the crew members who are unable to even drive the boat. Tibers, who has the ability to catch big fish, does not intend to talk more, and let a little master who is probably only three minutes hot, look around the bow of the boat, looking at the surrounding rugged sea surface and the seabirds flying out to prey early in the morning.)
“!!”
∑(△)?!
"Hey! It's driving very well, why did you stop suddenly? Didn't you eat in the morning? Hurry up, speed me up, go forward at full speed with the right rudder!!"
('　へ)ノ
Anne went to sea to hunt today, not to go to sea to travel!
If she could, she would have to fight a big enough beast today, just like the big octopus-like giant beast I hit in the Caribbean. So, she felt very dissatisfied with the crew's behavior of slowing the ship without her consent and floating slowly on the sea!
If they had been floating like this, they would probably not be able to reach the nearest deep-sea hunting ground until next month, and they would not even want to catch those hideous and terrifying super sea beasts!!
“…”
"That...dear captain, we didn't stop the ship on purpose...we just wanted to ask, have you paid the 'tith tax' for going to sea?"
The one who came over and nodded and asked humbly about the little girl was a legendary harpooner named Lars who was extra recruited by Little Anne!
Generally speaking, Harpoon Hand is the soul figure in a team of sea hunters. They are mainly responsible for shooting with harpoons or using other weapons to dive into the sea to hook and try to kill those huge prey in the sea!
Such veteran harpooners are often the most critical and core figures of a boat or a sea hunter team! There is no doubt that many harpooners are shooters who are always shot, or brave and fearless free divers! Without a qualified harpooner team, they will definitely not be able to hunt any prey. This is the real reason why little Annie spent a lot of money to recruit the other party after hearing the advice of the down-and-out captain.
“Pay tax?”
∑(￣□￣;)?
"Oh, why do you Bilgewater have to pay taxes? Isn't you Bilgewater a free port here? Then why do you need to collect taxes? Are you trying to deceive your captain and then do the kind of corruption that deceives your superiors and subordinates?"
"I tell you, I hate this kind of person the most. Do you want me to burn you right now?!"
(ψv)
The reason why Little Anne was able to successfully recruit the legendary harpoonist Lars in front of her and the command that had no future in life, they all began to do the crew members who cheated and killed people and robbed in Bilgewater City and listened to her honestly. In addition to the kind of gold coins offensive, she also appropriately disclosed that she was a tall spellcaster!
So, now, after hearing that the other party wanted to fool her into paying taxes, she stared at the other party's big beard without any hesitation, and grabbed a small fireball emitting orange-red light and terrifying heat in the palm of her hand.
These guys, don't think that Queen Anne knew nothing when she was young!
If they thought they could deceive her unscrupulously when they ran to the sea, they would be very wrong!!
"this……"
"My Captain..."
"All people who go out to sea have to pay taxes. Don't you really know? In Bilgewater, that's what everyone knows... As the saying goes, 'Don't pay tithes, the sea boils and mountains are shook', that's not a joke, that's very important, more important than whether our ship can hit those deep-sea giant beasts!!"
because,
If you don’t teach taxes, it will be fatal!
The terrible experiences of the past have long made Lars understand that tithings must be paid whether they go out to sea or when they return to the voyage with full load... If he had not seen the captain paying the tax with his own eyes, he would never have continued to walk into the deep sea, or he would never have easily approached the Python Islands, a place closely watched by the bearded lady.
Anyway, if the little captain in front of him does not listen to the advice, even if he unilaterally terminates the employment relationship and jumps into the sea to take risks and swim back, he will do whatever he wants!!
“…”
(_)
"I have never heard of any messy tithes, people have never heard of it!!"
s(·｀ヘ·;)
No one has ever dared to collect taxes on her Queen Anne, whether it is a passing tax or anything else!
She really never thought that her ship came out of a free port and did nothing, and she had to pay taxes first... There is really that kind of outrageous thing in this world?
Let's talk about it,
Paying taxes or something, but now it is above the sea, and there is not a single ship around, who will you pay to? And, if she doesn't pay, what can these people do to her?!
“…”
"Captain, that's the tax paid to the bearded lady in the sea..."
At this time,
Lars seemed to remember that this little girl mage was probably not a native of Bilgewater, because the commission paid to them seemed to be gold coins from Noxus, not the unique golden sirens in Bilgewater?
So, although he thought the other party was probably an unreliable guy, he still patiently explained this to the little girl.
"Ms. Bearded?"
(=w=)o?
"Oh... are you talking about that big octopus? Where is it now? It doesn't have to spend money on such a monster, why do you have to pay taxes to it?!"
(●'●)
Anne has heard of Ms. Bearded and so on many times, and also includes its other names, such as: Gods representing life, growth and eternal movement, snake mother, sea beast, big octopus, etc.?
and,
Since the other party is also a big sea beast...
This made Anne's heart unable to help but have a crazy idea... She thought, would it be sensational if she could find it and catch it back to Bilgewater for slaughtering? And that the entire Bilgewater City would know her reputation as Queen Anne?!
When someone else caught a sea beast, she caught an indigenous god and went back. That kind of thing was a bit exciting to think about...
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"Captain..."
"This is not why... because everyone has to pay taxes... people who don't teach taxes are dead and dragged down from the sea by the deep sea Titan..."
"Especially...when you catch prey and return?"
"I used to be a harpoon. I saw with my own eyes that the 'Snake' was dragged down from the sea by it... Everyone was dead, and I almost couldn't come back alive..."
Lars slowly explained with a hint of fear that Titanotirus of the abyss was deeply terrified. No one would be his opponent in the sea!
Even though the little girl in front of her seemed to have a terrible flame trick, he didn't think that when she was in the sea, she could defeat that kind of monster like a demon in the deep sea, the bearded lady's "tax officer"!
“…”
(`)
Anne doesn't actually want to pay taxes, but...
"Tell me, how much tax is required?!"
(,,.,,)
Although he was a little reluctant, Anne asked impatiently in order to make these hired bastard sailors work quickly and catch the huge sea beast as soon as possible.
"Now you need at least one Golden Siren or equivalent property!!"
Lars stretched out a finger and said that it is necessary to pay taxes, and everyone must pay taxes!
Because even he always had a golden sirens in his pocket, which was his lucky sirens coin. When he was in the most impoverished, he did not exchange it for wine... But if he needed it, he would definitely use it to exchange for his own chance to survive!
"oh……"
(.)
Annie didn't have any. She only had gold coins from Noxus and gold Gallon from Gringott Diagon Alley, or something like an industrial gold ingot that was different from the gold sir... So, she didn't know how many gold coins she should throw, so she simply took out an ordinary magic gem from her pocket and threw it into the sea water far away.
Plop!
With a light sound, all the sailors, including Lars, who spontaneously advised their captain, were sure that they saw their captain paying the tithes to the sea and to the bearded lady.
"Here! You can drive the boat now?!"
s(·｀ヘ·;)
Annie secretly decided that after returning, she would not pay taxes. At that time, look at the "bearded lady", or the deep-sea titan, or what can she do with her?
(!!)
(Dear little master, this is the sea. At that time, don’t expect the little one to come out and fight with the enemies you provoked!!
Whether it is the bearded lady, the abyss Titan, or other indigenous gods, it is not timid! However, the premise is that it must be on the shore, and the enemy cannot fly and run faster than it?
But if it is the sea full of sea water in front of you, I'm sorry, it will definitely not come out to fight the enemy, because it is a veritable "land duck". Not only can it not swim, but it is also a little afraid of water...)
"Of course, the great Captain, let's go and drive the ship now!"
Chapter completed!