"I'm not sure if the seas are restless, but I did encounter some pirates."
Silas picked up on The Hanged Man's comment and looked his way. "So, interested in helping me cash in some bounties?"
Mr. Temperance has gone to sea?
Audrey thought as she listened to their conversation.
Makes sense.
After causing such a commotion in Backlund, he definitely couldn't stay.
Leaving the capital and heading to sea is a wise choice. Though those pirates might be in for some bad luck.
"Pirates are part of the sea. It would be abnormal if there weren't any," The Hanged Man Alger said with a touch of dark humor.
"Which pirate crew did you encounter? Which pirate did you kill?"
Which pirate crew was foolish enough to provoke him...?
Alger wondered.
Then he heard the answer:
"The 'King of Immortality' Agalito's fleet. I killed his second mate, 'Slaughterer' Kircheis."
As his words fell, the space above the gray fog instantly fell silent.
Aside from the still-flowing mist, everyone else seemed to turn into statues, completely motionless.
"Um... isn't the 'King of Immortality' one of the Four Pirate Kings?" After a moment, The Sun Derrick asked uncertainly.
He didn't understand the situation outside the "Forsaken Land of the Gods" and had only slowly built up basic knowledge from everyone's scattered exchanges.
"You remember correctly," The Hanged Man said, his voice oddly calm as he recovered.
"Can a Pirate King's subordinates really be killed that easily?" The Sun asked again.
Of course not!
The Magician Fors answered in her mind.
The "King of Immortality" had been an active pirate since she was a child. His second mate's strength was self-evident.
But even so, Mr. Temperance had killed him just like that.
After all, Mr. Temperance is the Blood Reverend. He even stormed the palace alone.
What's killing a Pirate King's second mate compared to that?
"I'm currently at sea and can't help you cash in the bounty," The Hanged Man Alger said to Silas after struggling to calm his emotions.
"Same here," Klein manipulated The World puppet to respond as well.
"I see." Silas was somewhat disappointed. Looks like I'll have to use flesh magic to temporarily preserve the corpse.
"How did they provoke you?" The Hanged Man Alger probed tentatively.
He wanted to understand more details of the battle.
"They didn't provoke me. I just came across them and killed them," Temperance Silas recalled, briefly summarizing what had happened, including the adventurers hunting the "Fountain of Immortality" and the thin blood crystals that had dripped from the pirates' bodies after they died.
He conveniently left out the part about being in the Battlefield of the Gods Ruins.
"What do you mean 'just came across them and killed them'…? You make it sound like you were hunting prey…"
The Hanged Man Alger thought, but was quickly distracted by what Silas said next.
"Every so often, news of the 'Fountain of Immortality' spreads across the seas," he said in a deep tone.
"People are always drawn by the legend, gathering a crew to go out... And so far, no one has returned."
"Optimistically speaking, perhaps they've already drunk from the fountain and truly become immortal.
To avoid drawing attention, they deliberately concealed their whereabouts."
He didn't even believe this himself.
Silas thought for a moment and said:
"This should be Agalito's scam."
"Mr. Temperance, why do you say that?" Justice Audrey couldn't help but ask.
"Because there's a high probability that Agalito is a Sequence 4 of the Demon pathway, a 'Devil.'
And the Devil's acting principle is to deceive humans and toy with their souls," Silas answered.
Having already obtained the "Abyss" tarot card, he was very familiar with this pathway.
Hearing him say this, Audrey's eyes flickered slightly.
She thought of her deceased friend, Kons Lierson.
According to post-incident investigations, the Devil who assassinated Duke Negan had impersonated Kons's father, infiltrated his family, and originally seemed to be preparing to digest his potion.
But for some reason, he suddenly changed his mind and forcibly assassinated the duke.
Kons...
Audrey sighed silently, feeling the weight of responsibility on her shoulders even more.
Only by constantly growing stronger can I protect my family in this dangerous world!
"That will be all for today."
After the free exchange segment continued for a while, and seeing that no one had anything more to say, The Fool at the head of the table spoke.
"Your will is our principle."
Silas rose with the others in salute, waiting for the crimson light to flash and return to reality as pure memory.
However, he only saw the figures around him enveloped in crimson and departing, while he himself remained above the gray fog.
What's going on?
He looked up in surprise toward the head of the table, only to discover that Mr. Fool had also disappeared.
"Don't be surprised. I asked Mr. Fool to let you and me stay," came a hoarse voice from below the long table.
Silas looked toward the sound and saw the other person remaining above the gray fog: The World, Klein.
"You have something to tell me?" He relaxed and asked with a smile.
"That's right," Klein said. "Let's sit down first and talk slowly."
"Sure."
Silas smiled and sat back on the bench.
He suddenly had a strange feeling, like they were holding a private meeting after the main gathering.
It's pretty secretive...
"What have you been up to this week?" he asked Klein.
"I went to sea, boarded a steamship and sailed into the Sonia Sea.
A few days ago, I stopped at a place called Bansy Harbor," Klein said, suddenly seeming to remember something.
"Oh, you know what? The people there have a custom of eating Koya-dofu(tofu)!"
When he said "Koya-dofu(tofu)," he used the Japanese pronunciation.
In this world, only in front of Silas, his fellow transmigrator, could he share this excitement.
Tofu?
Back in my homeland before transmigrating, we had this kind of food too.
After hearing this, Silas felt both nostalgic and amused. He increasingly discovered that Klein was genuinely passionate about food.
"Sounds like you had a good time."
"Not good at all," Klein immediately shook his head with a bitter smile after hearing him say that.
"Bansy Harbor is even more dangerous than you'd imagine."
"What happened?"
"You know what? Bansy Harbor's ancient name was Binsy Town."
Klein said seriously.
Silas's body shook, and his eyes instantly widened.
Binsy...
The Binsy that the Red Angel evil spirit mentioned!
At the time, He had mentioned that to find Medici's bloodline descendants, one could try their luck in Binsy Town!
He almost instinctively reached for his chest, afraid that the Red Angel evil spirit inside would hear this news.
But the next moment, he remembered that he was just a virtual personality brought above the gray fog.
There was no shepherded evil spirit in his body at all.