Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 176 Uninhabited Island

After seeing off "Hermes", Adele and her friends had a pirate-style dinner in the restaurant on the "Black Death".

In this era, the food on pirate ships was not as luxurious as imagined. After all, fresh-keeping technology was not yet popular. After a long voyage, even the pirate general's fleet often had to feed on moldy flour and rice, pickled cheese, hard bread, and dried peas.

Fortunately, Tracy's fleet had apparently just completed replenishment some time ago, so the dinner was quite sumptuous, at least worthy of the set of luxurious tableware on the "Black Death".

After enjoying chicken salad, chili spinach soup, crab meat baked with cheese, and Fenapote pasta with squid ink, Adele, Winata, and Tracy strolled around the deck of the Black Death.

"Annie's cooking skills are pretty good, aren't they?" Tracy said with some pride. "As a former believer of the earth, she enjoys the process of growing crops and cooking them, and is especially good at Feynaporte-style cuisine."

"Also, she seems to be good with kids."

Ignoring a certain Earth believer who suddenly felt guilty, Adele looked at Anne who was playing with Sophie in the restaurant in the distance. "Although it's not polite to say this, it doesn't seem to match her image."

"This is also their doctrine." Tracy sighed, and then looked at the sparkling sea. Not far away, the sailors on the "Little War Horse" were still busy. The deck was brightly lit, and sharks were swimming around the somewhat damaged whale beside the ship. The dorsal fin reflected a faint fluorescence under the red moon.

After Audrey left, the pirates also evacuated the Little Charger, and let the sailors sail towards the Nameless Island under the influence of psychological suggestion, with the Black Death following behind them.

"She is different from me. She is just a ship doctor on my fleet and has never done anything bad."

Tracy said to Adele behind her. Although she didn't turn around, Adele knew that the words were directed at her, but she was a little confused as to why the pirate general suddenly said that.

"If there is anyone on the Black Death who should not be hanged, it is her." Tracy emphasized, "She even saved many injured prisoners. She is my most trusted subordinate, no doubt about it."

"I don't quite understand what you mean." Adele replied calmly, "But I think that as a pirate, she is unlikely to be happy to hear your comments. After all, it is not the duty of a pirate to treat prisoners, unless it is to keep them alive in exchange for ransom in the future."

"Is she a pirate? Do you think she's a pirate?"

Tracy's voice rose slightly, but she soon noticed her own gaffe and lowered her voice again.

"No... She is just an adventurer on a pirate ship at most. She was not involved in anything I did. She was just a maid following me. She doesn't even have her own bounty order... Do you know what this means, Adele?"

Tracy turned around, and something strange rose in her sad blue eyes.

"Her resume is clean..." Adele responded in a low voice, and then she suddenly remembered something and asked: "Do you want her to..."

"Yes, I want her to be my representative and cooperate with your newly established company." Tracy replied, "She meets all your requirements, and she needs such an opportunity to remove the mark of her pirate life."

"I think she might not be willing."

Venata suddenly interrupted and said, "I don't believe you can't see her feelings. Compared to a legal identity and a stable life, she wants to be by your side and take risks with you."

"As long as I tell her to do so, she won't refuse." Tracy looked at Vinata meaningfully and said to Adele, "She is just a girl with an adventurous spirit... I always feel that landing near Feynaport to resupply that day was the most wrong decision I have ever made in my life."

"If she hadn't met me, she might have become an outstanding traveling knight, praised by the local people, and her name would have been pronounced as a saint in the Mother Goddess's canon. This is the ending she deserved, not being an unknown ship doctor on the ship of a witch who brought disaster."

"…Since you think so, I will naturally help."

Adele was silent for a moment, then nodded. "But did you know that she is helping you find Elaine?"

"She actually asked you to do this..."

Tracy smiled bitterly and shook her head. "She did say that to me before, but I didn't take her words seriously at the time. After all, under my deliberate protection, she had almost nothing to do with pirate-related matters, and she had no corresponding channels."

"So? Should I still help her find Elaine? ...Or do you still like that Elaine?"

Adele sighed and leaned against the railing, waiting for Tracy to make a decision.

"Of course I like it...but I don't know if I should stop Annie."

Tracy's body trembled slightly, as if she was suppressing some emotion that was about to burst out.

"I've been thinking recently whether my previous decision was correct... Before, I was able to say something like giving Elaine freedom, perhaps only because I didn't have the ability to find her back. And now, you've given me hope again, but I don't know what to do."

"Okay... I'll help her investigate, but I won't tell her right away. Once you have the answer, I'll tell you Elaine's information directly."

Adele held out her hand to Tracy: "Where's your pipe? Lend it to me."

Tracy was stunned for a moment, then casually threw the white ivory pipe over. There was still a hint of Tracy's black lipstick on the mouthpiece.

Adele took it and lit the tobacco with black fire. The tobacco seemed to have spiritual materials added to it, which could calm the user's spirituality and could be directly ignited by the witch's black fire.

After just one puff, Adele was choked by the pungent smell and started coughing. She quickly handed the pipe back. Tracy forced a smile and asked Adele, "Do you have any other questions? If not, I'll go back and rest... I feel a little tired."

"last question."

Adele also stood up and left the railing, and Vinata followed her silently.

"You know she can hear what we said just now, right?"

Under the dark sky, a small black dot gradually appeared on the distant horizon. It was Adele and her group's transit station - an uninhabited island with mineral veins.

(End of this chapter)