Thanks for the invitation. I'm in Type-Moon, inheriting the legacy of Zi-O.

“…Hmm.” Nian Zhuo also breathed a sigh of relief, putting down the Zi-O II watch he was holding behind his back. “Seeing how miserable you are, I’d better not tell him that Captain Drake’s enemy in obtaining the Holy Grail was Poseidon…”

"In short, we've gained new leverage." Patting the helm of the Golden Deer, Drake was now brimming with fighting spirit. "Alright... I have a small request." Then, taking a deep breath, Drake looked earnestly at everyone below the stage.

"Wow." Orion, who was used to Drake's arrogant and unruly demeanor, looked as if he had discovered a new continent. "Why do I feel a creepy sense of foreboding..."

Then, noticing everyone's gaze had turned to him, Drake slowly began to speak...

—On the other side, aboard the Queen Anne of the Blackbeard Pirates—

The man who had given everyone a major shock to their values ​​was now swaying shyly.

"Hehehehehehahaha..." Her face flushed unexpectedly, as if she were lost in some kind of fantasy and couldn't pull herself out. "Woohoo, hehehe, woohoo, woohoo, waibi waibi..."

"Ah!" Blackbeard suddenly woke up from his dream, his beautiful dream shattered. He shook his head in disappointment. "Oh, I've woken up from my dream. My harem is gone. All that's left here is our teacher and the yuri lovers lost in their own little world. ...However, while I can accept yuri, sleeping alone is just too lonely. (peeks)" His dark eyes, hidden beneath thick eyebrows, darted around, watching Mary and Anne not far away.

"Wow, that's amazing, Annie." After a brief moment of surprise, Mary nudged her companion and pointed at Blackbeard. "This captain is asking for sex."

“Yes, yes.” Anne shook her golden curls, replying with a hint of admiration, “It’s truly admirable that you can still have such thoughts when our feelings for him are already below zero.” Looking at her face, now flushed red from her scolding, Anne tapped her smoothbore musket.

"By the way, we didn't appear in your dream, did we?" He then skillfully unloaded the bullets from the gun and pointed the butt at Blackbeard. "Otherwise, I would have used this butt to beat you until you forgot that dream."

"Heh heh." Blackbeard smiled contentedly and happily, looking completely unconcerned. "There are too many heroines who have appeared in my dreams, I can't even remember them all."

"--Wow, Anne." Just like before, Mary pointed at Blackbeard again with her sharp tongue, and said to her companions, "This captain indiscriminately categorizes us as female extras."

"Hmm~ I guess I should just kill him after all~" After thinking for a while, Annie took out a bullet from her pocket and skillfully cocked it.

However, just when Blackbeard's life was in serious danger, the middle-aged man rushed over again.

"...Hmm?" He first looked in that direction suspiciously and snorted, then after confirming, he came to Blackbeard's side. "Hey, Captain, the enemy seems to have delivered themselves to our doorstep. It's that Francis Drake."

"Eureka, the little cutie, is here too!?" Ignoring Drake completely, Blackbeard's eyes widened instantly as he looked in the direction the middle-aged-looking Heroic Spirit was pointing, his expression one of longing anticipation. "Is the Holy Grail coming along too!?"

"Probably." The middle-aged man laughed heartily, the spear on his shoulder clanging against his shoulder armor. "Oh dear, this revenge war has come much faster than expected."

"Yay!" Blackbeard exclaimed excitedly, slapping the rudder hard. "Guys, get ready to engage!"

"Sigh, there's no other way, let's get to work." Mary drew the short sword from her waist and looked at her companion.

"There's really nothing I can do." Anne put the gun away, but then murmured curiously, "But speaking of which, I'm sure I made a hole in the bottom of their boat... How did that happen?"

"--No, no, no." Interrupting everyone's thoughts, the middle-aged man looked in Drake's direction and smiled. "The most noteworthy thing is why they still chose to sail by sea after suffering such a setback. ...They probably have some kind of countermeasure, but that's beyond my knowledge."

And so, under the watchful eyes of the Blackbeards, the Golden Deer sailed straight ahead without hesitation.

A sudden turn of events

However, even as the Golden Deer grew larger and smaller in their sight, and its distance decreased, there was still no sign of it happening.

"Hmm?" Blackbeard was full of question marks, completely unable to understand Drake's thoughts. "Are they planning to launch a direct frontal assault without any strategy? This is not like the usual style of that shrewd and capable old hag! To adopt such a self-destructive offensive method!" Blackbeard, who had dealt with Drake at the very beginning, still couldn't guess what cards the other party was playing.

(But in fact, Blackbeard's famous battle was actually just ramming the enemy with his ship in history... which means he was also insulting himself lol)

However, preoccupied with wondering what Drake was doing, he inadvertently overlooked the pale purple figure standing at the bow of the ship.

"That doesn't seem so, Captain." Mary nudged her absent-minded black beard and pointed a finger at the bow of the Golden Deer opposite them. "Look, isn't that the Servant you've been longing for standing there?"

"Eureka, my little cutie!?" Blackbeard was taken aback at first, then hurriedly began rummaging through his binoculars, so frantically that he even accidentally dropped them on the ground.

Then he quickly got up and, under Mary's disdainful gaze, eagerly opened the binoculars.

"What's wrong with my adorable Euryale?!" Blackbeard kept scanning the deck of the Golden Deer, eager to see the figure he longed for. "The bow! Is she at the bow?!" Sure enough, the goddess with light purple hair stood at the bow and appeared in his binoculars.

"Wow~ Euryale, my little cutie~!" Blackbeard exclaimed happily, his face turning rosy. "Come and spread your arms wide at the bow of the ship with me—" Then, a golden arrow grazed Blackbeard's ear, nearly blowing his hat off.

"Huh?!!" she screamed.

Meanwhile, at the bow of the Golden Deer, Euryale shook her head as she looked at the people behind her, then squeezed the golden shortbow in her hand.

"Tch, missed." But recalling the other's face, Euryale still felt a chill. "No, I have a feeling I missed. I feel like if I had hit him, it would have tainted my arrow..."

"Excuse me, could you please finish him off in one go?" Mashu thought for a moment and finally found a reason to comfort Euryale. "The arrows are all one-time use, so please bear with it. If we don't finish him off now, Captain Drake and I will have to fight him hand-to-hand!" Even just imagining that scenario made Nianzhuo feel a little scared.

Nian Zhuo had to deal with the enemy's spearman, so the only two left who could engage in close combat were Drake and Mash.

“I understand, but compared to Blackbeard—” Euryale hesitated, then whispered, “it’s better to shoot my ‘arrow’ (Noble Phantasm) at someone else. Look, some people are already starting to climb onto our ship.” Euryale pointed to the bow of the ship, where some enemies had somehow managed to climb aboard.

"Anyway, there aren't many people, so please take care of them quickly." There was no need for Zhang Gong; Euryale was confident that Zhuo and Asterius could handle it.

"Hmm, don't worry about leaving it to us (... um.)" Then, two figures darted out from behind her: Nencho, equipped with the Zi-O basic armor, and Asterios, who was unarmed.

The two figures, like unstoppable chariots, broke through the enemy's formation, and some pirates who faced the two head-on were even knocked into the sea.

While Nianzhuo and his men were fighting the remaining pirate soldiers, Blackbeard's ship was getting closer and closer to the Golden Deer.

Blackbeard stood at the bow of the ship, sending his pirates one by one into battle.

"Hey, comrades!" Blackbeard brandished his scimitar, his tone extremely serious. "If anyone dares to be hit by Euryale's arrow, I'll kill him! So watch out!" Blackbeard muttered this to each crew member he passed.

"Huh~?" Every crew member who heard this stared at Blackbeard in confusion. "What nonsense is the captain spouting now...?" Then, Euryale from the Golden Deer shot him in the chest with an arrow.

“…Ah, ah, ah, ah…” He seemed to have lost the ability to speak and kept trembling. Then, the pirate suddenly stood up frantically, “Ah ...

"You...you! Die for Lady Euryale!" Then, he raised the blade in his hand.

But at the same time, the sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh rang out. The pirate's hand, which had been holding up his scimitar, fell limply to his side. He regained his composure and looked at Blackbeard behind him in bewilderment.

"Huh...?" The pirate clutched his stomach and collapsed, still looking confused. "Captain, why did you... um, uh—" Then, his body turned into spirit particles and disappeared.

"Tsk tsk tsk, his blood has splattered all over my clothes." Blackbeard tugged at his robe, which was stained with a few drops of bright red blood, and looked at his underlings as if nothing had happened. "If you dare to act recklessly! Or if you are as foolish as you were just now, taking an arrow and attacking your own men, will you end up like him (Death)?"

"Yes...yes!" From then on, the henchmen behind her all regarded Euryale's arrows as a monstrous flood.

"Anne~ Anne~" Blackbeard then moved closer to the blonde female gunslinger.

"Can you stop calling me in that disgusting voice?" he complained, but then he still prepared his smoothbore musket and looked at Blackbeard seriously. "What is it, Captain?"

"Hehehe, oh dear, please, darling, shoot quickly." Blackbeard pointed at the Golden Deer with a stern expression, knowing that the woman in front of him was a rare sharpshooter among pirates.

“If you hadn’t been causing trouble here, I would have done this already.” Squatting down, Annie closed one eye and slowly took aim.

"Then I'll leave it to you~" After saying thank you, Blackbeard quickly stepped back, giving Annie enough space.

"Alright, alright." Taking a deep breath, Blackbeard stood at the bow of the ship again. "BBA, you guys must have more than this ability!" He shouted at Drake just like when they first met.

"--That's obvious, you damn captain." Drake kicked aside the pirate underling in front of him and came to the bow of the ship.

Then, the silver arrow suddenly shone brightly in the daytime, and Blackbeard noticed the sound of it cutting through the air.

"...Up there!?" Having narrowly dodged the arrow, he quickly looked up after realizing its source.

“That’s right~” Then, Artemis descended from the sky with a smile on her face, still holding her silver longbow.

"An angel...an angel has descended..." Looking at Artemis's goddess-like face, Blackbeard couldn't help but fall into a daze again. "Even though an angel has descended...who exactly are you!?"

“…A Servant!?” Mary stared intently at Artemis as she descended from mid-air.

"I am Orion." With just a few words, Artemis drew her bowstring again. "I will shoot down everyone here~" Her words, spoken in an incredibly cute tone, were like sharp, silent arrows. In a short moment, three arrows shot out.

"Ouch!?" The pirate, who was locked in combat with Drake, was struck in the back.

"Ah!?" The pirate who was fighting Mashu was shot in the abdomen.

What, you're asking why there's no mention of Nong Zhuo and Asterius?

Oh, they've already started their sweeping attack and are currently wreaking havoc among the pirates.

"I'll go, Anne, keep firing!" Knowing that only Servants could stand against her, Mary gripped her scimitar and charged forward.

"Understood!" Annie replied simply, then aimed again and fired, successfully taking down yet another pirate from the Golden Deer.

"...Seriously, this is too much torture for a doll..." Orion complained incessantly, but he didn't stop his actions. "Heave-ho, heave-ho, heave-ho." His small body pushed a black cannonball that was more than twice his size.

"We're almost within range of the cannonballs!" a pirate shouted, urging the other pirates who were free to "go and get all the usable reserve cannonballs from the ammunition depot!"

"Alright, alright, just lead the way for me..." Orion pushed the cannonball to an unknown location, looking like he couldn't be bothered to listen to them.

On the other side, the silvery-white moon goddess's harvest continues.

"Hey, ya, ho!?" As expected of a goddess, her combat abilities are on a completely different level from Euryale's. Artemis even had a secret technique of throwing her longbow like a boomerang.

"Wow!?" Of course, each attack meant one less person on Blackbeard's ship.

"Whoa...! Damn it!" Watching the battle unfold, Blackbeard, as the commander, stomped his foot angrily. Looking at the silver-haired girl beside him who had been repelled once again, Blackbeard nodded solemnly, "Mrs. Mary, I'm counting on you!"

"I don't need you to remind me!" Then, Mary, wielding a scimitar, appeared above Artemis and launched an attack.

"Oh dear, human lady." Artemis wielded Marie's dagger with apparent ease, adding with a teasing tone, "If you want to fight me in close combat, I'll have a lot of trouble~"

“After all, you look like an Archer…!” Mary’s words were somewhat halting, but her scimitar never stopped.

(An unknown red archer: ? A blond man who can fight swordsmen: ?)

"So, I'm going to make my escape~" Of course, this was still unexpected. Artemis dodged to the side without hesitation, looked at the arm that Mary had almost slashed, smiled slightly at her, and flew into the sky.

"You bastard, wait...!" Just as she said, 'Miss Human' Mary wouldn't back down. She could only watch as the other person's figure disappeared from her sight, and stomped her foot in resentment.

However, what happened next was even more unexpected.

A small brown bear suddenly stood on the bow of Blackbeard's ship, shouting loudly and waving at the departing goddess.

"Artemis!" It must be our Orion! "Tell everyone we're ready!"

"Darling! I know~~~~!" Artemis said, touched. However, she still clearly remembered what she was supposed to do and shouted towards Drake, who was fighting on the Golden Deer, "--Captain!!!"

"Alright!" Drake nodded to Nian Zhuo, who had silently knocked away all the pirates in front of him, and then looked at the helmsman who was steering the ship. "Helmsman, hard to port! Control the angle! Charge at the helm and smash their hull!"

“…Huh?” Nian Zhuo couldn’t help but reveal a look of surprise on his face hidden behind the mask, because Drake’s decision was indeed somewhat beyond his expectations.

The Drake Golden Deer is smaller than the Queen Anne's Revenge, which gives it an overwhelming advantage in speed and an overwhelming disadvantage in firepower. However, these are not important in actual close combat.

The ram, which Drake had carefully enhanced, was able to ram into the hull of the enemy ship, taking advantage of the Golden Deer's smaller size.

The opponent's size also became a limitation at this moment; at least, their attacks were completely useless.

"Roger that, boss!" The helmsman quickly called to her assistants to grab the helm and shouted, "Hard to port!!"

At this moment, Blackbeard was simply moving around on the ship, trying to find out what the teddy bear that had flown off had done to utter the words "ready".

Then... he saw a small wooden rope, and sparks that were getting brighter and brighter in his eyes.

"Oh my god!!!" Blackbeard shouted without regard for his image, and hurriedly patted the deck, "Everyone, prepare to be hit!" Then, Blackbeard could only watch helplessly as the sparks on the rope were about to burn out, and ran out without a second thought.

"It's going to explode! Aa ...

"Huh—?" Mary, who was still searching for Artemis's departing figure, turned her head.