Pirates: It's not a mythical beast, it's a phantom god

La turned his gaze back to the ruins in front of him, gently stroking the severely weathered stone wall, guessing its age in his heart.

“Is this pattern… a cross?

Could this relic be related to religion, or is it simply a decorative pattern with a similar shape?"

His fingertips slid across the cross relief on the stone wall, which looked like a wave at the end. La was surprised to see such a familiar religious symbol in another world.

Following the moss-covered cobblestone road, the two came to a place that looked like a church.

This seems to be the best preserved building in the ruins.

After passing the cracked but still intact gate and stepping into the central hall, before he had time to look around, La immediately noticed something strange under his feet.

"Hmm? It seems like there's nothing down there."

She stomped twice again, and the sound that came back confirmed her guess that there must be a basement or something like that under the church.

It is not uncommon to have underground rooms in this type of church building, but it is rare for them to be placed directly under the main nave.

Just as La was about to look around to see if she could find any people, her pupils suddenly shrank and she immediately ran out of the hall.

"What's wrong, sister? Why are you suddenly..."

Seeing this, Ou Bei, who had been following La quietly, quickly caught up.

When she arrived outside the hall, she saw La standing in the middle of the empty front yard, staring at the sky above the island.

Seeing this, Ou Bei also looked up, and then she saw a scene that made her dumbfounded...

"Oh my god! What the hell is that?!"

Ou Bei opened his eyes wide and looked at the distant sky. A huge object hundreds of meters long fell from the clouds and landed directly on the island, stirring up huge smoke and dust.

“That’s a—a dragon?!

That's a dragon, right? This...

Big sister, what kind of world have we come to?!"

Ou Bei's usual calm expression could no longer be maintained at this moment.

what is this?

It was clearly about survival in the wilderness yesterday, but how come today it suddenly became about science!

La did not answer Ober's question, but rushed quickly towards the direction where the dragon-shaped creature fell.

At this moment, Ober also noticed that the place where the smoke and dust were rising in the distance was near their camp.

"Oh no, Osi!" Obei, who had reacted, immediately followed.

……

New World, Navy G5 branch.

"Oh no! Kaido escaped from prison again!"

As the base alarm wailed, an officer dodged left and right, hurriedly passed the flustered soldiers, and rushed straight to the branch chief's office.

"Hu~Hu~~Ba, Lieutenant General Bartos.

Kai, Kaido has broken into the branch's prison and is wreaking havoc outside!"

Without caring about etiquette, the officer pushed the door open and walked in, then reported loudly while panting.

"Oh~

As expected of a monster from that pirate group, has he treated our navy's base as a fixed cafeteria?

It’s really troublesome~”

Upon hearing this, Bartos, the branch chief of G5, simply put down the newspaper in his hand, slowly exhaled a puff of smoke and complained.

There was no panic or surprise on the face of the middle-aged sailor, and his tone was as lazy as usual.

"Hurry, please give the order to organize a counterattack! Lieutenant General Bartos!" the officer said anxiously.

"Yeah~ Got it~

Order all soldiers to find a place to hide and try to avoid casualties.

Kaido will make a fuss for a while and then leave on his own."

Lieutenant General Bartos's order left the officer stunned.

“Yes…huh?!

Hide, hide well? Aren't we going to reorganize the arrest?

If we allow Kaido to do what he wants, our navy..."

"Lieutenant Gunn, right~

I remember you were transferred from headquarters to G5 branch just last month?"

Lieutenant General Bartos did not allow the other party to continue speaking, but asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

"Yes, Lieutenant General."

Although he didn't know why the other party suddenly brought up his own affairs at this moment, Gunn's serious character made him respond immediately.

"Hmm...did we make any mistakes at headquarters?" Another nonsensical question.

"No, Lieutenant General!

Commander Alberridge said I was brave in battle, a pioneer, and a man of integrity, but I lacked experience, so he sent me here to train me!"

[I don't follow orders, have no sense of teamwork, and don't understand the ways of the world...

Tsk! You left me with this clueless youngster?

Alberic, right? I'll remember you!]

As a veteran, Lieutenant General Bartos immediately understood the official language of his former superior and could not help but curse in his heart.

“Lieutenant Gunn, you’re new here so you don’t know the situation here.

The pirates in the New World cannot be compared with those guys playing house games in Paradise and the Four Seas.

In fact, the purpose of our G5 branch's existence is not to capture pirates in the New World but to serve as a symbol.

Um... you know what scarecrow is, right? Our G5 branch is the scarecrow that the Navy has erected in the New World."

Bartos made his point directly. He knew that if he spoke a little more tactfully to someone like Gunn, the other party might not understand.

“I don’t understand, sir.

Isn't the purpose of the navy to catch pirates?

The pirates are out there, I can't just turn a blind eye!"

The navy named Gun still stood tall and did not give in at all.

[Sure enough, this guy is such a hassle.]

Bartos' eyebrows twitched at the other party's typical speech of a hot-blooded new recruit.

But considering that the other party is already a lieutenant at this age, he must be the son of a senior official in the headquarters, so it is not easy to offend him.

There was no other way, Bartos could only sigh and said seriously:

“Okay, I’ll go organize the arrest right away, and you stay here and report to headquarters.

Oh~ right.

The magnetic field in the New World is chaotic, and the Den Den Mushi may be affected. If you can't get through, remember to call a few more times.

Make sure to report the situation here to headquarters. This is your mission, understand?"

As he said this, he took out a peculiar-looking Den Den Mushi from his pocket and handed it to Gun.

"This is a dedicated telephone line for contacting headquarters. Don't use your own or any other telephones. They might be tapped."

After patting the other person on the shoulder, Lieutenant General Bartos quickly left.

"Yes! Promise to complete the mission!"

Lieutenant Gunn solemnly took the Den Den Mushi and saluted him with a standard military salute from behind.

[By the way, are Den Den Mushi affected by magnetic fields? I didn't learn that in the training class...]

Without thinking any further, he immediately called the Navy Headquarters.

"Moshimoshi, this is the G5 branch. Moshimoshi..." *n

……

In the office next door, Lieutenant General Bartos leisurely lit another cigarette, took a puff, and slowly blew out smoke rings.

"Troublesome guys keep coming one after another~

Kaido is such a fool. If he wants to eat, he can just eat on the warship. Why come to the base?

I had to catch it again because I was watching from above.

Oh~ what a hassle~"

"Hurry~Hurry~Hurry~Hurry! Um~"

Outside the base, Kaido, who had caused a big commotion, fell to the ground drunk and began to sleep soundly, but no marine dared to approach him.

"Hey, he seems to be asleep. Should we arrest him again now?"

A navy soldier hiding behind the wall whispered.

"And then he wakes up and finds himself locked up and starts making a scene again? Besides, the prison on the base is gone now."

Another obviously older soldier squatting next to him replied unhappily, then lit a cigarette and started smoking while leaning against the wall.

"Then wait until he wakes up and leave by yourself?"

The young soldier also squatted against the wall like his predecessor.

"Speaking of which, senior, give me one too."

"Yeah. That's fine. It's been like this the last few times anyway, so just keep an eye on it..."

Hmm? There are only two left, I'll give them all to you."

The older sailor rummaged through his pockets, threw the entire pack of cigarettes that had been crushed to pieces to the other man, and then took a deep puff of the cigarette in his mouth.

"Alas~ I have to work overtime to clean up the base again tonight."

"Yeah, ah~"

……

Time passed minute by minute, but Kaido still showed no signs of waking up, which made the navy soldiers around him who were always on edge a little unbearable.

Just when some soldiers could no longer hold on and were about to relax, a black shadow suddenly appeared on the horizon at an extremely fast speed.

The shadow was getting closer and closer, and the shape was becoming clearer and clearer.

"That's... a bird?!"

A soldier rubbed his sore eyes, trying hard to see the other person's appearance clearly.

“No, not a bird!

That's a pterosaur! A black pterosaur! Is it a person with special abilities?!

Coming for Kaido?" Another soldier wearing glasses recognized the incoming creature.

"Sergeant Major, what should we do?"

"This, I..."

The situation had taken some unexpected turns, and he was hesitant about whether to risk being discovered and inform the branch chief.

But before the sergeant could make a decision, the black pterosaur had already landed on the ground.

After landing, the pterosaur's size gradually became smaller, and finally turned into a man over three meters tall, wrapped in black leather clothes, wearing a fully enclosed mask, with wings on his back and flames burning.

The man was holding a life card in his hand.

"Hmm~ Um, it's Jhin?

Why are you here? "Kaidou sensed the other party's breath and slowly woke up.