After the storm on their first night, Koujiro and his crews sail on the sea heading south for two weeks with a clear sky.
During those two weeks they encountered all kinds of ships, they met pirate ships, mercenaries, passenger ships, and they plundered them and sank all the ships leaving no survivors to tell the tale, they either joined the crew or killed then dumped into the sea.
After two weeks of plundering and recruiting the lucky souls who survived the battle, the Queen Anne's Revenge now had fifty people on board including the first eleven crew members Koujiro, Jin, Robert and the rest of the goons. The nine goons who joined with Jin become the senior among the lowly crew members including Robert as the Sailing Master.
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Jin Mini POV
Jin was woken up by the bright sunlight hitting his eyes, he had been sleeping on the crow's nest for the past week because he got tired of climbing up and down the crow's nest to sleep on his hammock on the lower deck, he instead stayed there for 24/7 unless Koujiro looks for him.
Taking a sip of whiskey after he woke up, he then took his binoculars to scout around for any ship nearby, squinting his eyes because he's looking towards the east where the sun is rising, he noticed a green ship with big 'Marine' written on the sails.
Immediately jumping down from his spot, he ran towards the captain's cabin to tell Koujiro about the Marine ship, because they never encountered a single marine ship on their two weeks of journey, so Jin didn't want to make a decision before asking Koujiro first.
*KNOCK...KNOCK...KNOCK*
Jin knocked on the door.
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Koujiro POV
*KNOCK...KNOCK...KNOCK*
Koujiro was reading a handbook that he got along with the flintlock pistols he just bought this morning when he heard a knock on his door.
"Come in."
Koujiro said still reading the handbook because he knew, the only people who dared to knock on his door was either the cook who was carrying his food or Jin.
"Have a seat, no need to rush."
Koujiro said again after seeing Jin opened the door, he put away the handbook after Jin seated in front of him.
"Fancy seeing you here on the deck instead of up there Jin."
Koujiro grinned mocking his first mate's newfound habit.
"Haha, funny capt."
Jin talked back to his captain.
"So what do you want to talk about? Is it another brig?"
"No capt, it's the marine, there's a marine ship east of us a few clicks away, while I can take on the marine captain myself, I can't say the same with our crews, the marines are trained soldiers, while our crews are just some thugs swinging around their sword."
Jin said calmly because if his captain joins the fight, their victory was absolute.
"Ooh yeah, we haven't met any marine ship for the past two weeks, haven't we? It's the perfect time to weed out the useless crew actually, I'll just observe the fight as always, and for you Jin, don't kill the marine captain, just shoot down some other marines, I'll handle the captain myself when it's the right time."
Koujiro told his new idea that he just got, having too many crews that can barely fight is just wasting food and booze, he thought.
"Alright, I'll get back to my post then capt."
Jin said while walking out of the room.
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Marine POV
"Sir, there is an unknown vessel coming from the northwest, sir."
One of the officers reported to the marine captain.
"Is it a pirate?"
The captain asked while closing his newspaper.
"No sir, the ship doesn't have a Jolly Roger, but it's certainly not a merchant or passenger ship, sir."
The officer said while handing out his binocular to the captain.
Looking through the binocular, the captain saw the black ship with black sails heading towards them at a fast speed.
"Hmm, they're coming in fast, tell the men to standby and ready for battle, they might just be hiding their Jolly Roger to trick the civilian ships, from the looks of it, it's most likely a pirate ship."
The captain concluded after seeing the ominous-looking ship.
"Sir yes sir."
The officer did a salute then headed back to his station.
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Walking out from his cabin wearing his usual white silk shirt, tailored pants, and a pair of boots, the Sword of Triton hung on his left side belt as usual.
"I'll take over for now Robert, gather everyone on deck."
Koujiro said, taking over the helms.
"Listen up! We're approaching a marine ship right now as we speak! You all know the rules here on this ship, we plunder every ship that we found! No exception! I know some of you pussies are afraid right now, but all of you already know, on this ship, either you die fighting the enemy or die by my hand! So prepare for battle!"
Koujiro yelled at his crews making sure all the crews knew what the consequences would be if they tried to run away from a fight.
Hearing the captain's order to prepare for battle, the crews scrambled and unload all the cannonballs, hooks, guns and swords from the storage on the lower deck.
Speeding up the ship's speed using the sword, Koujiro and his crews approached the marine ship in no time. Lining up with the marine ship, the crews who manned the cannons immediately blasted down the marine ship mast.
All hell broke loose after the marine ship mast collapse, hooks flying towards the marine ship then pulled both ships closer, planks were placed to bridge the crews between the two ships, both sides began their attack with both sides boarding each other's ships.
Sounds of guns blasting and swords hitting each other filled the sea, both ships got fifty crews on them, on paper both sides were equal, but actually, the marines were currently winning, some of the pirates who can't fight properly got cut down easily by the trained marines.
Seeing his men were winning, the marine captain just stood on the stern of the ship watching his men.
After half an hour of battle, the crew who were still alive got pushed back to the Queen Anne's Revenge with the marines following them into the ship.
Seeing the useless crews already killed and the one who can decently fight still alive, Koujiro ordered them to retreat to the ship which was a bait for the marines.
Once most of the marines got on board of the ship, the ships came to life and attacked the marines, in seconds all the marines who boarded the ship got captured and hanged upside down while the marines on the marine ship also got captured and hanged upside down including the captain.
Lining up the marines while still hanging upside down, Koujiro approached one of the marine officers.
"Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape."
Koujiro as always quotes Davy Jones signature line which is now his without the tentacle costume.
"Go to hell you pirate scum!"
Barked the marine.
"Wrong answer."
Koujiro said then cut his neck then the rope that held him threw him into the sea.
Doing the same to the rest of the marines, he left the marine captain for the last.
"Well...well...well captain, I'll save the bullshit for you, how about sailing under my flag?"
Koujiro said to the marine captain with blood all over his body after cutting quite a few of the marines who were too prideful to become a pirate.
"I will never join a cruel pirate like you, I would rather kill myself than joining a scum like you!"
The marine captain yelled at him.
"Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?"
Koujiro smirked feeling good because he got to say another Davy Jones famous line.
"Never!" *PTOOEY*
The marine spat on Koujiro even though it missed.
"You made your choice."
Koujiro said after dodging the spit then cut the marine's neck open spraying blood everywhere.
He left the corpse hanging on his own ship.
"Alright gentlemen, welcome aboard to the Queen Anne's Revenge!"
He welcomed the new recruits who were the marines just minutes ago.
Out of the fifty crews including Koujiro and Jin, thirty were dead, but out of the forty marines that got captured, ten of them joined the crew, making the crew reduced in size by twenty people, but increased its fighting capability by a lot.
Today shopping list:
1.Flintlock pistol (6): ¥. 270.000 (45.000 each)
2.Six pistols leather holster: ¥. 6.000
Total: ¥. 276.000
Remaining Money: ¥. 1.591.778.000