Kaguya-sama: Love Is War wants me to turn myself in.

After a while.

"No, it won't open."

Kitagawa Kaimu dejectedly let go of her hand.

Amamiya Natsuki had already started looking for the key. "Hurry up and find the key."

Hayasaka Ai whispered:

"Um, I'll help too."

"..."

The three began searching for the key.

The captain's cabin wasn't large, and it didn't contain much. Apart from a chair, there was only a long square table.

As a spy, Hayasaka Ai had received professional spy training, so it was natural for her to focus her attention on the table.

Nautical log.

Sextant.

compass.

parchment……

"The table doesn't have drawers," Hayasaka Ai said thoughtfully. "If it were me, important things should be kept in..."

The spy maid's heart skipped a beat. Without making a sound, she reached behind the table and quickly felt a protrusion.

"There really is something."

However, as a newbie, and a newbie pretending to be weak, Hayasaka Ai decided to keep up the act and turned her gaze to Kitagawa Haimu.

"Um, I once saw a pirate movie where someone would secretly hide things behind the table."

Hayasaka Ai whispered a reminder.

"Under the table? Let me see."

Kitagawa Kaimu was a super pragmatist; he did what he was told to do. He immediately knelt down on the floor and looked behind the table.

Amamiya Natsuki looked over, her gaze shifting slightly downwards.

The three of them were wearing real clothes. Kitagawa Haimu was wearing a standard summer outfit of a short skirt and a shirt. Now, kneeling on the ground, her peach shape could be clearly seen from behind.

There's something on the back of the table.

Kitagawa Kaimu perked up and quickly began searching. Before long, he cheered, "I found the key!"

Amamiya Natsuki said speechlessly:

"Take a closer look, is it really a key?"

"Eh?"

Upon closer inspection, Kitagawa Kaimu realized that what she was holding was actually a strange piece of paper.

"It feels so strange..." Kitagawa Kaimu said curiously, "It doesn't feel like ordinary paper."

“Of course not.” Amamiya Natsuki reached out and touched it, feeling its soft texture and comfortable feel. “It should be parchment.”

"Hey, could it really be paper made of sheepskin?"

"correct answer."

The blonde girl couldn't help but say:

"There's no crab meat in the crab sticks. I thought parchment was a kind of paper similar to sheepskin."

As the name suggests, parchment is paper made from sheepskin. It is soft, delicate, easy to fold, and if preserved well, it can even last for thousands of years.

If there's any downside, it's probably that it's extremely expensive.

"The key might be wrapped inside the parchment." Kitagawa Kaimu refused to give up and unfolded the parchment, only to be quickly disappointed. "There's nothing inside."

"There are paintings on it."

Natsuki Amamiya took the parchment and examined it carefully.

Hayasaka Ai curiously leaned closer, and by the dim moonlight, looked at the parchment. "...It looks like a ship?"

Amamiya Natsuki said, "It should be the boat we're standing on."

"The name next to it should be the ship's name, right?" Kitagawa Kaimu said, his right hand on his hip, his tone subtle. "The Flying Henan Man... This name feels a bit strange. Is it Blackbeard's ship from One Piece?"

It's clearly Davy Jones; whether in reality or in the comics, the Flying Dutchman has absolutely nothing to do with Blackbeard.

"It looks like a treasure map?"

On a room in the parchment, a treasure chest symbol is clearly drawn.

"Whether it's a treasure map or not, it's definitely not a key." Kitagawa Kaimu looked around. "Where could the key be?"

Upon hearing this, Hayasaka Ai slightly furrowed her brows.

I thought the key would be on the back of the table, but it's not there. Where else could the key be?

"I probably know."

Amamiya Natsuki folded the parchment. "See those two marks on the floor?"

Kitagawa Kaimu opened her eyes wide and looked down at the ground. Sure enough, she saw two slightly dented scratches on the floor, as if they were left by something rubbing against them frequently. "...I see them. What do they have to do with the key?"

Amamiya Natsuki reached out and tried to push the table; it was indeed very heavy. "Help me push the table."

"coming."

"Push along the scratches."

"..."

The three of them worked together and quickly pushed the table. The heavy solid wood table began to move along the scratches and soon hit the wall.

After careful observation, you discover that the wooden plank above your head is quite strange.

Amamiya Natsuki gently pushed herself up onto the table, then reached out and felt around, quickly discovering a gap in the edge of a wooden board, just big enough to slip her fingers inside.

With a gentle push of the finger, the wooden board quickly slid inward, revealing a dark space the size of a fist.

Amamiya Natsuki reached in, fumbled around for a bit, and soon a key appeared in her hand.

"found it."

Besides the key, Natsuki Amamiya also found a piece of paper.

This thing wasn't parchment anymore; it had a very rough texture. Natsuki Amamiya unfolded the paper, and there was a monster on it.

"Huh?" Kitagawa Haimu blurted out, "Kobold?"

That's right.

The monster on the paper is indeed a standard dog-headed man, but it is quite slender.

"There's a Heavenly Rank one nearby..." Hayasaka Ai pursed her pink lips and guessed, "It should be Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death, right?"

Amamiya Natsuki nodded and said:

"Judging from the style, clothing, and the scales, it's Anubis."

Anubis of ancient Egypt, also known as the "Guardian of the Scales," loved to play with a balance scale. He would place the heart of the deceased on one side of the scale and a feather on the other. If the heart was heavier than the feather, it would be swallowed whole, and the soul of the deceased would suffer in hell. Conversely, if the heart was heavier, the deceased could go to heaven.

I don't know what this thing is for yet, but the prompts in front of me are clear and easy to understand.

You have discovered a hidden hint.

Unfortunately, no specific details were provided in the hint.

Amamiya Natsuki put the paper away, took the key, walked to the door, inserted the key, and unlocked the door.

"Come on, let's go out."

Kitagawa Kaimu suddenly had a bold idea: "Wait a minute, when we play hide-and-seek, we can block the door, hide in the room and pretend no one is there, right?"

Of course not! How could we let you pass so easily?

Amamiya Natsuki sighed: "If it's a ghost, there's no need to open the door to enter the room."

“I forgot.” Kitagawa Kaimu slapped his forehead. “Ghosts can walk through walls and can come in without even pushing the door open… Hiding in the room is a death sentence.”

Chapter 125 As the captain, recruiting crew members isn't unreasonable, is it?

Amamiya Natsuki pushed open the door, carefully surveyed the corridor, then turned and whispered:

"You can come out now."

Two girls followed behind Natsuki Amamiya, tiptoeing out of the captain's cabin.

"The corridor is so dark."

Kitagawa Kaimu muttered to himself.

Like the captain's cabin, the entire corridor was dark and cold, with only the pale moonlight shining in at an angle.

"According to the parchment, this ship has three decks, and we are currently on the lowest deck..."

Amamiya Natsuki looked around and quickly determined his surroundings.

The bottom level is obviously not a good environment. Once a monster attacks, it's like being trapped in a jar, with nowhere to hide.

Therefore, the most urgent task is to get out of the bottom layer first. If conditions permit, it is best to explore the entire ship and find the most hidden hiding place to complete the game of hide-and-seek.

"Let's go up."

Natsuki Amamiya pointed to the top of the stairs.

The three of them held their breath, tiptoed, and carefully made their way up the stairs.

Upon reaching the second level of the ship's cabin, Natsuki Amamiya cautiously glanced down the corridor before abruptly stopping in her tracks.

“Natsuki…”

Kitagawa Kaimu instinctively wanted to ask a question, but before she could speak, Amamiya Natsuki quickly covered her mouth.

"Don't say anything, we're 'lucky' to have run into you like this."