Pirate Enclave…
All the pirates were merrily drunk and ate to the fullest as if this was the last feast that they would be having in this world.
Captain Jack Spawow talked about the old times as he drank with his friends.
"What do you think our chances of surviving this battle are?" Shane asked.
"Do you even need to ask?" Francesca arched an eyebrow as she refilled her mug with rum. "The answer is zero."
Britton and Qing nodded their heads in agreement.
"What do you think, Jack?" Shane inquired.
Captain Jack Spawow drank half of the rum in his mug before answering.
"Well, I don't really think that we have a chance of winning," Captain Jack Spawow said. "But I'm glad that, at least, our Captain's bloodline will not cease to exist. That boy, Baggy, might be a scaredy cat, but he is still the Captain's Grandson. I don't want to see him die anytime soon."
"Heh~ to think that brat managed to survive until now," Quinn smirked. "Talk about luck."
The Pirate Captain, Baggy, was the grandson of their Captain when they were still whalers.
The boy had now grown up to be an adult, but in their eyes, he was still the teenage boy who would accompany them from time to time whenever they went whaling.
He wasn't really part of the crew of the Billy 'O Tea, but the times when he was with them were the times when their stoic Captain would smile a lot.
Just as Captain Jack Spawow was about to refill his mug with rum, Jibbs entered the tavern with a grim expression on his face.
"Captain, we have a problem," Jibb whispered in Jack Spawow's ears. "A very serious problem."
"Are we out of rum?" Captain Jack Spawow asked. "Did the other pirates empty the wine cellar already? This is indeed a problem, Jibbs. Without rum, how can we be sober when the fighting begins?"
Jibbs, who was not in the mood for jokes, told his captain about the serious problem they were facing.
"Captain, the ship is no longer in the harbor," Jibbs whispered. "Someone took it away."
Jack Spawow, who was refilling his mug with rum, looked at Jibbs in disbelief.
Because of this, he didn't notice that the rum had started to overflow from his mug, making his comrades look at him as if he were a wastrel.
Jack Spawow, who seemed to have forgotten where he was, immediately left the tavern in haste.
Jibbs followed behind him, and the two headed to the harbor of the Pirate Enclave.
It was already night, but the full moon illuminated the surroundings.
Captain Jack Spawow looked at the spot where his Pirate Ship was originally docked a few hours ago with a frown.
The majority of his Pirate crew was lying in the harbor, and they were dead drunk.
Those who were sober stared at their Captain with anxious looks on their faces. Clearly, they were still shaken by what happened a few hours ago.
"You, tell me, where is our ship?" Captain Jack Spawow asked one of his crew, who was the least drunk among the bunch.
"C-Captain, the two Baby Slimes hijacked the ship and sailed away," the Pirate replied.
"Hijacked?" Captain Jack Spawow frowned. "Are you talking about Eiko and Fei Fei?"
"Yes." the Pirate nodded his head in confirmation. "It was those two who hijacked our ship, Captain."
"But how?" Captain Jack Spawow asked. "Why didn't you guys stop them?"
"We tried, Captain, but they kicked us off of the ship with ease. We were also too drunk to fight, so we were subdued by their minions easily."
The frown on Captain Jack Spawow's face deepened.
"Are you telling me that two Baby Slimes kicked you out of the ship, and none of you had been able to put up any resistance?" Captain Jack Spawow inquired.
"Captain, she wasn't alone," the Pirate replied. "She summoned these Big Slimes that knocked us out easily. It happened too fast, and before we knew it, we were all lying here on the docks and the ship was gone."
Captain Jack Spawow scratched his head. "This doesn't make any sense. Those two are well-behaved children. They would not do something like this."
"I'm sorry, Captain," the Pirate said. "I'm just telling you what I saw. It really was those two Baby Slimes that took our ship."
While Captain Jack Spawow was trying to make sense of what was going on, their ship was already several miles away from the Pirate Enclave.
"Hum~ Hum~ Hum~"
Eiko hummed as she sat on the steering wheel, navigating the Pirate Ship in the open seas.
Fei Fei, on the other hand, was using a telescope to observe the Pirate Fleet in the distance.
"Wei~" Fei Fei reported.
"Un!" Eiko replied.
Just like what the Pirate had said earlier, Eiko and Fei Fei hijacked the Pirate Ship and pursued the Pirates who had left the Pirate Enclave in order to escape the battle that would happen in less than two days' time.
But the Pirate Fleet was moving too fast, and with just two Baby Slimes manning the ship, their chances of catching up were slim.
Because of this, Eiko decided to call a friend.
A two-meter-tall Skeleton Pirate King, wearing an Admiral's robe and a red Pirate Hat, appeared beside the Baby Slime.
"Help?" Eiko asked.
The Skeleton Pirate King nodded. "Pirate Cruiser Operational."
At that moment, the Pirate Ship that Eiko and Fei Fei were sailing suddenly came to a complete stop.
A few seconds later, it rose from the sea, as something gigantic moved under it.
The waves rose as the Pirate Ship surged forward.
The Pirates, who sensed a powerful presence behind them, looked in the distance with pale expressions on their faces.
Pirate Captain Baggy's eyes widened in shock as he looked at the thing that was approaching them from behind.
"Dear mother of…"
All the Pirate Captains who had decided to leave the Pirate Enclave in order to survive the attack of the Ford Federation couldn't help but shudder as they gazed at the approaching behemoth.
Eiko had a devilish look on her face as the ship slowly closed the distance between her and the Pirate Fleet that she was trying to pursue.
The Skeleton Pirate King standing behind the Baby Slime couldn't help but look at the Pirates, whom his Mistress had set her eyes on, with pity.
Fei Fei, who was right beside her, giggled as she summoned a Blast Bomb in her hand.
Eiko also giggled and did the same.
The two Baby Slimes looked at the Pirate Fleet that was only a few hundred meters away from them and smiled evilly.
This was going to be a night that Baggy and the other Pirate Captains, who decided to escape, would remember for the rest of their lives.
