"No... nothing, Captain Arton."

  "My stomach hurts a bit."

  "I'll leave first."

  a shook her head and immediately turo run toward the dire.

  While running, a also g the tent on her diary copy.

  'It's over!'

  'I should have thought of this earlier.'

  'He clearly used a sword teique ed in fmes when dealing with the Giant Tiger Pirate Crew.'

  'He's using Tsugikuni Yoriichi's power.'

  'What to do, he knows I'm lying!'

  'Could it be, he's been pying along with me all this time?'

  Thinking this, a grew increasingly worried.

  At that moment, she notiew tent on her diary.

  [Hehe, a actually wants to bey singer voluntarily.]

  [Too bad, the singer in my heart is Uta.]

  [But speaking of which, a doesn't truly want to be my partner, does she?]

  [Most likely, she wants to secretly steal the treasures that now belong to me from the Giant Tiger Pirate Crew.]

  'He knows! Was he really pying along with me?'

  a's eyes widened, and she nervously looked back at Arton.

  Arton, notig a's behavior, responded with a big smile.

  [Photo: a, who seems a bit nervous.]

  [Hehe, a seems a bit nervous.]

  [So, she's already pnning to steal my treasure?]

  [But if she does that, it means she's making an enemy of me, right?]

  [If that's the case, I 't just let it slide without a proper "punishment"...]

  a, seeing the tent in the diary, involuntarily shivered.

  Then, she withdrew her gaze from Arton, not daring to make eye tact with him any longer.

  The moment she saw the new photo Arton took, she realized she had shown her vulnerability due to being overly nervous and worried in front of Arton.

  'Arton's rule is to repay kindness and seek revenge.'

  'So, if I really did steal the treasure...'

  'He would really punish me, wouldn't he...'

  'Could it be, he would make me do those things painted in those doujinshi?!'

  Thinking this, a blush once again appeared on a's face.

  Obviously, even she felt shy about the explicit doujinshi Arton had painted.

  After all, even though she had lived at sea for many years, she was still a girl untouched by romantic affairs.

  'Keep calm, a, things haven't reached that stage yet.'

  'It seems Arton ot see the diary copy in my hands.'

  'This is an opportunity.'

  'As long as I take appropriate as based on the tent of Arton's diary.'

  'I won't bee his enemy.'

  'Then, he probably won't do anything excessive to me, right?'

  'Wait, does my deceiving him just now t as being enemies?'

  At this thought, a's emotions, which had just calmed down, started to bee tense again.

  ...

  Elegia Ruins

  "Pnning to invite me to be a singer, huh? Well, that shows some taste."

  "But, I'm not going to be a pirate crew's singer again."

  Uta sat on the ground, pouting angrily at the diary copy in her hands.

  It's no woa was so angry.

  After all, Arton had written about his iion to bee a pirate in his diary.

  And not long before, Uta had successfully found photos and doujinshi created with her as the female protagonist in her own diary copy.

  "It's too much, with that kind of drawing skill."

  "Why draw such pictures?"

  "Really a bad kid, si's a bad kid, a lesson must be taught."

  Uta pouted, and while speaking, she had already begun to ceive a pn on how to teach Arton a lesson in her mind.

  However, sootention fell ba the new tent that appeared in the diary copy.

  [But, inviting Uta to bee the pirate crew's singer will probably take some effort.]

  [Right now, she must still be in a stage where she despises pirates.]

  [That's not surprising, sidering her father, Red-Haired Shanks, abandoned her when she was still young.]

  [However, even if Shanks has cut off tact with Uta now, if I want to ia to be a crewmate, I still o get past Shanks first.]

  "He actually knows this?"

  "Does he really know the past?"

  Uta's eyes widened, paying more attention to the diary copy floating in front of her.

  Gion furrowed her brows, equally incredulous as she looked at the diary copy:

  "Red-Haired Shanks has a daughter?"

  "And he abandoned her?"

  "Why exactly?"

  As a member of the Navy, Gion fully uands what Red-Haired Shanks implies.

  If Uta is indeed Shanks' daughter, and Arton happens to ia to bee a crewmate,

  Then her idea of inviting Arton to join the Navy might have to be abandoned.

  Not only that, but the power of the Red-Haired Pirates would also be signifitly strengthened.

  "Anyway, we ot allow Arton to establish a e with the Red-Haired Pirate Crew."

  Gion looked determinedly towards the distant sea.

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