Book 13: Chapter 56
I grabbed the man Nier hung at the front of the ship. Enraged, I exclaimed, “I still can’t see the ship. I suspect you’re lying to me. As that is the case, I’ll throw you down!”
“Don’t! Don’t! Don’t!! It’s because it’s too dark! It’s because it’s too dark! You just can’t see it, because it’s too dark! That ship is definitely here! It’s unmistakably here! Trust me! Trust me!! Give me some more time! Give me some more time! We should see it very soon! We should see it very soon!”
I checked out our dark surroundings. The waves around us had gradually calmed down. The closer we got to my moms, the calmer the storm was. Although the clouds still loomed, the wild whistling winds and violent waves had calmed down. There was no more water splashing, and the unsteady water surface had calmed down a lot. In saying that, we couldn’t see far into the distance due to the darkness. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t tell if I was looking at the sea or sky.
All that was left was the sound of us sailing through the water. The silence around us freaked me out. It really was dead silent around us. Other than the sound of footsteps on timber, there was no other sound. Perhaps we weren’t willing to speak and purely wanted to stay close by, because of the sudden silence.
I asked the commander I captured, “Are you positive this is the right direction?”
“Yes, yes. It is this direction. I guarantee it was this direction. There are no obstacles on the water, either. We just need to keep heading forward. We just need to keep heading forward.”
“Yeah?”
I released him and let him continue to hang there. I then looked to the sky. There was no light in the sky; I couldn’t even tell how thick the clouds were. I took out a remaining bottle of the mana dissolving potion, and then took Lucia’s dagger to make a small hole on top. I then poured it onto his neck: “See this? If I still don’t see the ship by the time this bottle is empty, then I’ll throw you down there, understood?”
“Don’t… don’t do this! Don’t do this!! Don’t do this!”