"I don't belong to you, nor do I belong to the ocean. I only belong to my Iberia, my Fool's Ship!"
With that, he waved his arms, like a warrior preparing to hunt, his prey hidden within the ship's hull.
"Hunting? You're hunting Seaborn?" The little bird only now realized the target of his hunt.
Alfonso looked at her with a scoff, "Hunting for sustenance on the land of survival—people have always done this since ancient times. Even if my Iberia isn't large, it's enough to feed my First Mate and me."
Kanna looked up at Alfonso's terrifying body. "Nian said that after The Great Silence, Yan conducted experiments on whether Seaborn were edible, but the conclusion was that unless the Seaborn flesh was roasted into charcoal from the outside in, it was extremely easy to be infected by the cells within and irreversibly transform into Seaborn.
And the environment on the ship… I believe Captain and First Mate should not have the conditions to make fire. After all, even a small flame, over sixty years, would be enough to burn this entire battleship."
"Initially, we could still eat some cooked food, but later, the extinguishing of the flame forced us to eat its flesh raw."
Alfonso was well aware of how terrifying his body was now. Previously, he needed a lot of energy to fight against the mental contamination of the Seaborn, so he often paused and slowed down when talking to Irene. It wasn't until Kanna temporarily solved his troubles that he had enough energy to face Kanna and her group, who had arrived uninvited.
"So! If there's a Valhalla on this land of Terra, I think Captain, you would surely have a place in it. Resisting the Seaborn for sixty years with a mortal body—your story, and that of your fleet and crew, deserves to be sung by every Iberian and recorded in the annals of human civilization."
Kanna greatly admired Alfonso, but she would not offer him aid or take him away from this ocean, because his entire life had been almost entirely dedicated here. His spirit, his soul, had long since merged with the Fool's Ship.
Saving him now would actually be a curse and torment. If the Fool's Ship's destiny was to sink into this great sea, then his choice would absolutely be to be buried with the Fool's Ship, just like the captain of the Titanic who, though able to escape, chose to sink with his ship.
Because this place had become his everything.
In Kanna's view, this battleship had actually reached a critical point; even a slightly intense battle would bring it to its end. So her decision was to watch Alfonso and the Fool's Ship meet their end, and then, with her camcorder, record the final moments of this great Captain facing the sea and the Seaborn with an unyielding spirit, and send it back to Iberia.
She believed that old man Carmen, this "friend" of Alfonso, would value this video and ensure his story was passed down across this land.
"Hahahaha! Little Draco, even if you're praising me, I won't give you any more help! My prey is getting restless. Do you have anyone else on the ship?"
Alfonso first laughed heartily, then, as if hearing something, he asked with a puzzled expression.
"It's the Swordfish. The sea breeze here is strangely blocked. I'm not sure what's happening!" Specter remembered Gladiia, who had gone deep into the ship's hold, and still had no news of her, so she couldn't help but frown.
"Hurry and leave this ship, otherwise, next time, I can't guarantee whether I'll treat you as hunting targets." Alfonso walked towards the door, apparently, this hunt had been long-awaited for him.
"What do we do?" Skadi turned and asked.
"The Stultifera Navis is an important asset of Iberia, and I am an Inquisitor of Iberia. I have a duty to bring it back to Iberia! So I cannot let him continue to damage the ship!" Although even Irene herself felt what she said was like a fantasy, thinking of the tenets and beliefs of The Inquisition she had memorized, she mustered her courage and walked out the door.
"What about you?!" The other two looked at Kanna.
"If you want to hunt Seaborn, go ahead. These Terrorfish taste terrible, I have no desire to eat them, so I'll just rest here for a bit."
Kanna waved her hand, indicating that they should do whatever they wanted and not worry about her.
After everyone left, Kanna jumped to the side of the Golden Throne.
"System, are you there?"
"?"
"Can you help me take this thing away?"
…"If not, a spatial ring, spatial backpack, or spatial satchel will do. Don't you have space to store things? This thing doesn't look big; it should fit in, right?!"
The system did provide storage for some small items, just like the camcorder Kanna had stored inside. It was originally used to record some fun things, but she didn't expect so many things to happen along the way that she forgot about it, only remembering it recently.
"Can't go in! How could it possibly go in?!" The line of text displayed by the system gave Kanna a strange sense of déjà vu. Could this system actually have a flying mini emergency food avatar?
"It's not big, really. Just bear with it, or I can go slower…"
Just as Kanna was about to force the throne into the system, she heard a ding, and the screen in front of her turned blue with a large "error" written on it.
"Stingy!" Kanna knew the system wasn't broken or crashed; it had simply blocked her.
"One pure originium, and I'll get you a ring that can hold this." After a while, the system typed out a line of text.
"Don't be so stingy. Haven't I stored nearly twenty pure originium with you? Just give me ten. I also want to learn from Amiya and become the leader of the Ten Rings… Then, when I'm out and about, I'll change to a cooler name. What do you think, Romani Archaman or Solomon? Oh, and remember to make each ring a different color, and write different Chinese characters inside, like Zhu, Chris, Yu, Qing…"
After hearing the system relent, Kanna immediately started making a whole bunch of demands… "Don't you think your demands are just a tiny bit excessive?" After a moment of silence, the system sent another message.
"Excessive? I pay, you sell. At such an expensive price, it's reasonable for me to make some extra demands, right! Besides, my demands are so simple; I haven't asked for anything like iridescent black or unpredictably changing white… You should praise me as a kind client."
It was rare to be able to get good things out of this stingy system, so Kanna naturally wanted to get as much as she could.
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