Pirate: I am a logistics person, what the hell is the emperor

Chapter 105 The Fate of the Merry
Under the azure blue sky, the weather was sunny and the cool breeze blew across the sea, creating gentle waves.

The sun shines on the sea, sparkling with dancing golden waves, and seabirds fly by from time to time.

In Yanchang Bay, the beaches here are all exposed rock surfaces, scattered with patches of moss, like a huge sapphire inlaid in emerald green.

The Merry swayed gently against the shore, and directly above it, a falcon spread its wings and soared, blocking out the sunlight.

The falcon slowly descended to the deck. Reiner and his companions arrived first, and the undead guarding the ship were all retracted when they approached.

"Great, Merry."

Usopp was filled with excitement, dancing and shouting on the deck: "We have found a great shipwright to come and take a look at you. He will be able to give you a major repair soon."

"Okay Usopp, don't get so excited."

Nami laughed unhappily, "This is a ship, not a person. I told you it's as if the Merry had become a spirit."

"What do you know, Nami? I saw it before."

Usopp stood under the mast with his hands on his hips. He was about to retort but didn't know how to say it. "Forget it, forget it. You won't believe it anyway."

"You mean that night?"

Reiner looked at Usopp strangely and asked tentatively, "The night before we returned from Sky Island?"

"Hey wait a minute!"

Usopp immediately ran forward, his face full of surprise, "Could it be that! Reiner, you saw it too, I knew it was real, I wasn't sleepwalking!"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

Nami looked at him with a puzzled look on her face, "The night before we came back from Sky Island, the night we watched the stars?"

"Well, let me think about it."

Reiner tapped his temple with two fingers, recalling what happened, "You took my cigarettes, and then I went to the warehouse on the first floor to get another pack."

"Ok?"

"Ahem, listen to me first."

Reiner scratched his blond hair, smiled and waved his hand, "Then I heard some noise on the deck outside, turned around and saw Usopp was about to go down to the dormitory.

"But, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a blue translucent figure sitting in Luffy's special seat. When I rubbed my eyes and looked again, the person had disappeared."

Reiner recalled the scene at that time and told the story. In fact, his first reaction at that time was: What the hell?!
Male or female?

Then he realized that the other person's appearance matched the ship spirit in his vague memory.

"That's right!"

Usopp waved his hand in agreement, "I was out trying out the Sky Island shells I had harvested to research new weapons, and I saw it on my way down to the dormitory on my way back to the ship."

"Wait, wait, wait a minute!"

The more Nami listened, the more panicked she became. Her face turned pale with fear. "Your description! That's like seeing a ghost, right? Doesn't that mean there's a ghost on the Merry?!!"

"What? No way!"

Usopp retorted loudly, "As for ghosts! They should be white, and ghosts are light and fluttery, they don't have feet!"

Hearing this, Reiner couldn't help but look strange, and looked down at Usopp.

Precision strike???

At this time, on the terrifying three-masted sailing ship wandering in the Devil's Delta.

This place is shrouded in darkness all year round, deep in a gloomy and terrifying forest, in a girl's room in an ancient castle.

"Hero Hero~, Kumasi~"

A loli girl with pink twin ponytails is sitting on the bed, holding a huge, patched up stuffed bear zombie in her arms.

"Ah chirp!"

"Ah!" Perona wiped the tip of her nose with her delicate fingers and murmured inexplicably, "Strange, the weather is not cold?"

"Never mind, come and play with me, Kumasi~, hehehe~"

The scene returns to the Seven Water City, where the Merry is docked on the rocky beach outside the city.

pat!

Plop! Two figures landed on the deck. It was Luffy who came back with Kaku.

At the same time, as soon as they settled down, two groups of four consisting of Zoro and Sanji also appeared. It turned out that they met them when they came back.

"Zoro! Sanji! Chopper! Robin!"

Luffy shouted loudly, waving his hands while standing on the guardrail, and shouted with a smile: "You are back just in time, we brought a shipwright to check on the ship."

"Oh! That's just right."

"Here we come!"

Hearing this, several people responded and quickly jumped onto the boat. Kaku also rolled up his sleeves and began to prepare for work.

"This is the ship, right? Let me take a look first."

He raised his head and started from the lookout, scanning the main mast from top to bottom, and then looked left and right to take a general look.

He jumped up the stairs, went to the stern deck behind the living room, looked around for a while, then came back and said slowly:

"Well, the situation on the surface is already very bad. At least a layer of skin needs to be replaced. I don't know if you can understand this."

"I think I can understand it."

"That's true." Everyone nodded in agreement.

Even if you don't have any professional knowledge, you can feel that the surface of the ship is dilapidated from the constant creaking of the wooden boards when you walk.

"I took a quick look and this ship has been sailing for quite some time." Kaku looked around the ship from beginning to end, then returned to the middle deck and said to everyone:

"There is a lot of damage on the surface, and the two most serious places are the main mast. I am afraid that if there are a few more storms, it may break directly."

They could understand the mainmast because when they were on the island, they were riding on the strong ocean current, relying on the wind from bottom to top brought by the ocean current, and rushed up to a height of ten thousand meters in one breath.

That kind of operation puts a huge strain on the mast and sails, so it's understandable that they were severely damaged, but if it was just two places...
Reiner asked him directly: "Besides the mast, where is the other place?"

"The poop deck."

"Hmm?" Reiner was puzzled. "That's where Zoro and I often hang out. I don't see anything unusual there."

"Please trust my judgment."

Kaku raised his hand and pointed to the back, "I am the carpenter foreman of Dock No. 1. I just knocked on them and found that the wooden boards are on the verge of collapse.

"It just so happens that there is a tail sail at that position, and the surrounding hull structure is still strong enough to support it. In fact, there are obvious signs of heavy pressure there."

Hearing this, Reiner was shocked!
Damn it! I am the culprit!

"Nani! I knew it!"

Usopp bared his teeth and roared at him and Zoro: "You two bastards! How can the Merry withstand such exaggerated training!"

"Oh my, but don't worry."

Kaku raised his hand to stop Usopp and consoled him, "Anyway, the surface needs a major overhaul, so just replace it all at once, including the main mast, which also needs to be replaced entirely."

"Okay, that's no problem."

Reiner was also a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that he would be blamed for this. He said awkwardly:

"In that case, I'll pay for half of the repair costs for the Merry this time."

"That's pretty much it."

Nami rolled her eyes at him unhappily, put her hands on her hips and looked at Zoro, "What about you? Don't you want to show your appreciation?" "Uh!" Zoro's old face suddenly turned red, he didn't have that much money!
As soon as I had money, I spent it all on wine!

Zoro could only look embarrassed and yelled at Nami and Usopp: "Wait! I trained and became stronger to protect you, why do you think this is my fault?"

"Really?"

Nami hugged Reiner and pressed her body against him, showing a sly smile to Zoro, "Isn't it always Reiner who protects us?"

"Damn it! You stinky woman!" Zoro gritted his teeth and didn't know how to refute.

Only Nami and Robin can make Zoro so frustrated.

"Hey~~, that's enough Nami."

Reiner sighed, "Don't you know whether Zoro has money or not? I will cover the cost of repairing the ship this time."

"Hehehe, that's great." Nami smiled cunningly.

"The atmosphere on your ship is really good."

Kaku smiled and said, "The next step is the key point. I want to go into the cabin to check out the keel and main structure."

"Okay, trouble."

Reiner pointed to the place where the mast and the deck meet, "You can go down there. It's the boys' dormitory."

"Yeah." Kaku heard this, lifted the wooden board and walked down the ladder.

"That's great. If Reiner covers all the repair costs this time."

Nami couldn't help but think of the gold she had just exchanged. "Nine hundred million berries, divided equally according to what each of us stole, and then used to supplement the ship's expenses."

Nami began to count on her fingers.

As pirates, there are naturally rules for dividing the spoils. The situation of each ship is different, so the rules will naturally be different.

Among them, in small-scale pirate groups, like theirs, there are generally only a few that are applicable.

1. It is done by the captain. Okay, we can rule this out now.

Second, whoever robs gets it, and everyone takes out a portion according to proportion as public funds on the ship, and the rest is their own private money.

three,
They used the second option, which was proposed by Reiner at the beginning, and everyone agreed, but Reiner regretted it.

All the treasures collected by others combined are not as much as what he took out as public funds, and!

Luffy can eat a lot!!!
It basically became that he had been using his private money to support everyone, and in the end, except for Nami, everyone else had given up and was just waiting to ask for money!

Finally, this time on Sky Island, they saw the hope of getting rich, and each of them was motivated to collect money.

They were happy because they finally had their own little treasury, and Reiner was also happy because the kids knew how to earn money on their own.

"This will increase the ship's expenses by nearly 200 million Baileys."

Nami counted on her fingers and said, “If Reiner pays for the ship repair, the money will last us a long time;

"The rest will be divided according to the share we got. 200 million Baileys will be shared by the seven of us, and 500 million Baileys will be for Reiner."

"asshole!"

Nami pointed at his nose and yelled, "Why were you able to grab so much?"

"Well, there are only seven of you after all."

Reiner spun his finger in a circle and then returned to himself, "I have over a hundred undead."

"How can you do this!"

"That's it!"

"This is cheating!"

Facing the anger of the crowd, Reiner didn't care at all and said calmly:
"If I don't take more, the treasures will just stay on Sky Island and won't go into your pockets. Why are you so jealous?"

"Emm, that's true."

"What's yours is ours anyway."

"That doesn't matter."

"Please remove the second sentence. Thank you." Reiner was speechless.

——Squeak~~
At this time, Kaku opened the deck of the Merry and walked out of the cabin.

"Guys, I have good news and bad news."

Kaku patted his cap to shake off the dust, and said seriously, "Which one do you want to listen to first?"

Seeing Kaku's appearance, everyone was a little stunned, including Reiner, because he and Usopp had checked the keel of the Merry two days ago.

They didn't quite understand it, but they were sure that it was not broken!
"I want to hear good news!!"

Luffy spoke loudly and directly. Of course he would not listen to bad news first, or he never wanted to hear bad news.

"The good news is."

Kaku paused, without a smile on his face: "With the keel as the center, the main structure of the entire ship is not damaged.

"That is to say, the main repair work is on the surface, and we just need to replace a few pieces of severely worn wood inside."

"great!"

"yeah!!"

"Long live the Merry!!"

Everyone jumped up excitedly, unable to stop cheering. Even the usually steady trio couldn't help but smile.

but
"So, what about the bad news? Isn't this already pretty good?"

Reiner regained his serious expression. The good news about Kaku meant that the Merry could be completely saved, so why was there still bad news?
Hearing this, everyone fell silent and looked at Kaku, and began to worry about the Merry again.

Because all the good things have been said, there is only one piece of news left, a piece of news that has only bad news and will definitely hit everyone!
"Emm, this one."

Kaku looked troubled and pondered for a while, "Seeing how happy you were just now, it's a bit hard to speak now."

Kaku looked around at the eyes that were cast upon him, and said with a stiff face, “We have to face it eventually, so I won’t be polite;
"Even if the repairs are completed this time, the life of this ship will not be very long."

wow~
Splash~, the waves still gently hit the Merry. A red fish floating on the water surface dived into the seabed with a thud, leaving behind circles of ripples.

There was a sudden silence on the boat, and everyone looked at Kaku blankly until...
"Hey, you guy!"

Usopp's eyes widened, and his voice became louder. "What do you mean by lifespan? Are you saying that the Merry is dying? Explain clearly!"

"You didn't misunderstand me, that's what I meant."

Kaku looked indifferent, and said something that sounded like common sense, yet extremely cruel:
“A ship naturally has a lifespan. The main structure of this ship has been obviously worn out. Just because it is well preserved does not mean it can be used forever.

"As long as the ship is sailing, even if it is always idle and never sailed, wear and tear and aging are inevitable, just like people, who are destined to grow old from the moment they are born."

"This is an irreversible process. It's the same for any ship, and your ship is no exception."

Whoosh~ A cool breeze blew, making everyone feel cold.

"But! But,"

Usopp was getting more and more anxious as he spoke, "Merry! It's only been a short time since we set out to sea. How could a ship be so fast?!"

“It’s a multifactorial problem.”

Kaku pondered for a while, organized his words and said: "For example, although this ship has just been out to sea for a short time, it is not newly built;
“Not to mention that this type of ship is retro, in fact, some of the signs of aging inside existed before you went out to sea, I can still see that;

"Besides that, the maintenance of the ship is also a problem. Judging from the condition of this ship,
"There has never been a professional shipwright on your ship."

(End of this chapter)