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An endless storm. The Misericordia was exactly at its centre.

Rain and wind blow. The sailors working at the deck are hit by a rainstorm that is too strong to move the ship at last. I was desperate to work while everyone was about to be flown by the wind.

Captain Lambert was no exception. He holds the steering wheel firmly so that he is not flown, and so that the Misericordia does not go off course.

Joe and Raven, who came out on deck, were witnessing a terrible storm surrounding Misericordia. Lambert has survived these storms many times.

It took Lambert a little while to realize that the two of them had come out on deck.

"What are you guys doing out here? Go back to the guest room."

Having confirmed the existence of the two, Lambert said so out loud, unbeatable by the storm's roar. There's no fool out there in a storm like this but them.

……………

Joe gave no ear to Captain Lambert's words.

"Look, the captain says oh too. I'll be right back!

Contrary to that, Raven tried to return to the guest room. Raven pulls Joe's sleeve. Still, Joe didn't make it slight. Joe has no intention of moving the deck. If you're on deck, you can witness something interesting. Joe was driven by inexplicable curiosity.

"Come back soon."

Seeing two people never moving, Lambert shouted as if they were frightened. It's foolish to leave a safe room and come out on a dangerous deck on purpose.

"Captain, you can see the ship in front of you, coming this way at an unlikely speed in this storm!

Hank, who was a watchman at Misericordia, reported the presence of an incredible vessel visible ahead of him peeking into the telescope. This situation reminded Joe of what happened that day.

When Joe stared into Raven's eyes, Raven was also beginning to understand what this situation meant. Would you even say that a reality that you never wanted to admit would be recreated on this occasion?

"Only Misericordia can cross this stormy waters! Isn't that a mistake?

Lambert doubted Hank. Indeed, only one Misericordia vessel can currently navigate the cursed waters of Riorg. Normally, there can be no sighting of a ship other than Misericordia.

"No way......"

Lambert snapped with a suppressed voice. He had an idea, too. to another ship capable of navigating the stormy sea.

Lambert, who was just one captain and came over the storm more than once, allowed to sail the cursed waters. The incredible rumors surrounding the never-ending storm should have reached his ears at least.

"Definitely! The ship is coming this way!

"I don't mind! Never mind, we go our way!

Hank's answer was not what Lambert expected. A being I didn't want to encounter if I could. That's what's looming in front of me now. Regardless of that, we should only think about getting to our destination.

At the next moment, there was also a situation that had to be changed immediately. No matter how much you turn the steering wheel, the path of Misericordia remains the same.

This ship never backed down or moved forward. It's totally stopped on this spot. Out of control. There is no escape from the ship heading this way.

Eventually, Misericordia's crew will witness an impending Burke (a three-mast ship). The looming sail of the ship is worn out and the hull is going to collapse now.

"That's... ⁉"

Hank accidentally lost his word. There was not one other sailor left and he lost his word. Even a ship as sturdy as Misericordia can't move in this storm, but it's fast approaching us as if it's going to sink.

Everyone had stopped thinking. Such absurdity cannot be accepted.

"Is this even what you call a rumored ghost ship..."

Lambert uttered the words that everyone held in the corner of their head.

He's a person on deck now, and only two people actually saw the ghost ship, Joe and Raven.

Joe is driven by curiosity to shine his eyes, but Raven is desperately trying to shake his face to the left and right to shake off an unbelievable reality. If you've only witnessed it once, you still can't clean it up with the word "dream" when you run into it twice.

The first person to witness the captain of a ghost ship was Hank. Hank, who witnessed a captain unlike anything in the world, nailed to it. The captain of the haunted ship was a man who did not think he was alive. Whoever sees it for the first time cannot help but fear.

Soon all sailors were to witness with their eyes the captain of the haunted ship. Now here, the absurd fabrications have turned into the truth. It is the curse of the captain of the haunted ship that appears in this waters that the never-ending storm wraps the Riorg. Such rumors were heard by everyone in Riorg's inhabitants.

When people are frustrated by despair, they can't do anything. I'm less willing to do anything than say I can't do anything. In a totally immobile situation, a terrible presence looms. Do we have to wait for the monster to take our souls away from us in silence?

Unlike the sailor who was solidifying without fear, Joe was rushing out toward the edge of the bow nearest to the haunted ship, from which he embarked himself to observe the haunted ship.

It is as if the events of that day were being reproduced as they were, once they might have escaped. But not for the second time.

To the monster that looms in front of you, there is no art of exchange. What indescribable despair had wrapped Misericordia. Will God ever show mercy to Misericordia, who means mercy?

It didn't take long for the bow of the ghost ship to make contact with the bow of Misericordia.

At that time, I was able to pull away the ghost ship.

But this time I got in contact with a ghost ship.

"What are you doing? Hide inside!

Raven rushes to pull Joe out of the edge. It wasn't easy to keep him off the edge, completely obsessed with ghost ships.

"You idiot! You want to die!

Raven dragged him to the rear of the deck, pulling Joe away at last with his thoughts as he silently grabbed onto the edge of the bow. If you stay on deck like this, your life is in danger.

"Gentlemen, hurry and hide aboard! I feel something bad will happen!

Raven called on the sailors desperately. If it stays on deck like this, what happens? Neither Raven nor Joe could tell that.

But it was better for everyone to know. You cannot escape this scene with a ship. Drop the ship, run off to the sea but just drown to death. Then the only escape is on board.

The sailors, who understood Raven's words some time later, fled aboard in a hurry.

In exchange, Lambert never left the front of the steering wheel.

Captain, what are you doing?

Raven yells at Lambert, who never tries to move.

"I will perform my duties as captain. I have a responsibility to watch what happens to this ship."

Lambert's words were very powerful. Raven felt that everyone respected him and could see why he was the only one who could sail the ocean he could never cross.

"Come on, let's get out of here."

Raven, who remained on deck, Joe tries to take him aboard.

But Joe doesn't move. A curiosity that no one could stop was keeping him on deck.

"Damn, I don't know what else to do!

Accepting that Joe wouldn't move, Raven decided to keep an eye on the terrible events that are about to happen to this ship now with Lambert, and Joe.

"Coming."

Lambert, who was in the closest position to the Ghost Ship, had the best idea of the Ghost Ship Captain's trends. Apparently, he's going to make contact with the bow and get into Misericordia.

Raven imagined the worst. I was going to be a millionaire, and now I'm going to lose my life on the sea of Riorg.

The three remaining men on deck watched the captain of the haunted ship coming this way, sipping solidly.

Gradually the figure comes into view. The air gets even colder every time he approaches, freezing the spines of the Lamberts, although it's cold as if he's already on a snow mountain on the deck.

Slowly, slowly the alien captain moves on. That was steadily approaching the three of us. When he stepped onto Misericordia's deck, I felt like I had no heart or Misericordia cursed too.

He starts by staring at Captain Lambert. The blue-white eyes that still seemed to pop up caught Lambert. They're going to eat me now.

The alien captain drifts starchy air around him and proceeds with a firm foothold. It was the appearance that made him look extremely skinny, like he couldn't possibly be alive, but his footsteps were solid.

From that foothold, you can glimpse the daily phantoms that would once have been admired from around you, like Lambert, and crossed the world's oceans.

Lambert had no fear of a being that was not of the approaching world. It's a situation that makes everyone want to escape, but the three people left on deck right now will never try to escape.

Not long ago, the alien captain approached Lambert's present. Its body has little meat on it. I don't care what you think, I'm not human. As Ruth put it, the expression demon would be more correct.

……………

The mysterious captain did not utter any words. I'm not saying anything, I'm just staring at Lambert, twisting my neck disgusting. It's like a carnivore after his prey.

There is little meat in his mouth and his dirty, worn teeth are peeled out. Seaweed, shellfish, etc. were attached to the body. It showed wandering the ocean for so long as it was uninterrupted.

The alien captain stared at Lambert for a long time.

But he finally left before Lambert without doing anything. Speaking of Lambert, I felt safe stroking my chest down on this. Of course, that's not the end of fear.

Leaving before Lambert, he next approaches Joe and Raven. The first time I saw him, Joe felt he had seen him. I felt like they knew it existed.

The alien captain slowly, firmly, and walks forward, leaking his creepy exhale. Apparently, rotten exhalation is leaking out of the mouth that never closes or the worn skin around it.

Jirrigiri and impending fear. To its force, Raven inadvertently lagged behind. Do you have the guts, or are you just stupid? Joe doesn't make it faint.

Captain of a ghost ship, like a messenger of hell. That comes close to the sight of Joe and Raven. Raven, who could not stand the impending fear, fled to Lambert leaving Joe behind. I was tempted to get away from here, but I really shouldn't miss what's about to happen. Raven felt that way.

Finally, the alien captain came in front of Joe. Just like when he came before Lambert, the monster approaches Joe with his face twisted. Very creepy. Everything was uncomfortable with its appearance in sight, the sound it emitted from him, and its smell that made me want to block my nose unintentionally.

Joe looks intrigued, staring at the captain of the haunted ship. The alien captain and Joe were staring at each other. A very strange time flowed between us.

The alien captain understood that Joe was showing an interest in his existence. I understood that I was not like any other human being. I wonder what kind of person this era is, if you look at the captain of this ghost ship, you will be afraid.

But here is a human being who shows no fear at all even with it in front of him. The alien captain was slightly pleased with the fact. For so long as there was no way out, for so long as man could not imagine, he had come to be feared by man. Not to mention that even its existence has come under suspicion.

Few witnesses witness him, and rumors about the captain of a ghost ship passed down to the mouthpiece change shape and become something different as he goes through to many.

That's how those stories are cleaned up as just fabrications and delusions. But not this boy in front of you. The alien captain was feeling it.

He reaches out to Joe with his almost boned right hand. Terrible sight from anywhere, but nothing Joe feared, at all. The object of curiosity is now approaching me. Instead of being afraid, he even remembers the excitement.

"You monster! Get away from Joe now!

Raven shouted courageously at the alien captain, who was still likely to touch Joe. It was Raven who wanted to break in between and pull Joe away from that monster, but he couldn't do it.

The alien captain looks back at Raven and glances at him with a big, big eye, but reaches out to Joe again, as if nothing had happened.

Joe responds to that. Joe also began to reach for the alien captain. It's a very strange and horrible sight.

Joe is being invited by the Dark Messenger. Joe will be taken away somewhere as he is. That's what Raven thought.

Soon Joe's hand was held by the captain of the haunted ship. The hand is firmly gripped. As before, the mysterious captain utters no words. All you can hear is the sound of breathing that keeps leaking constantly. Joe stares into his eyes and is definitely trying to find out what he's thinking.

After a while, the captain of the ghost ship let go of the hand he was holding. To a sudden event, Joe can't hide his surprise. The same was true of Raven and Lambert, who could not hide their surprises. Everyone here thought Joe was something to be taken away from, but he wasn't.

"... run away... I think you can run away..."

It was the captain of the haunted ship who said that in an unwieldy manner, very unnaturally, with a noisy mixed voice that could not be overheard. He finally opened his mouth when he never spoke a word before.

Don't think you can get away with it.

What the hell does that mean? When Joe thinks what it means, the alien captain flips himself and starts walking in the direction of his ship. The walk seemed heartless or lighter than when I came to Misericordia. No one could swallow this situation. What the hell was his purpose?

Did you get aboard Misericordia just to tell you a few words earlier? This event, which was too unrealistic, was like a bad dream, as Raven put it. I say it's a bad dream and cleaning it up comes tighter. As if nothing had happened, the alien captain returned to his own ghost ship.

So much so that I lost sight of any ghost ship. Shortly afterwards, the steering wheel, which could not be moved at all, had also become easy to move.

"... gopher. Bring back the sailors."

Lambert, distracted by the distant events, returned to me.

Then again, the voyage of Misericordia proceeded without delay. We had some difficulty until we got past the storm in Riorg, but after we got through it, we went smoothly, comfortably.

Since breaking through the storm, Joe and Raven have been out on deck. Sailing the sunny waters was a long time ago. Nostalgic, loving. Such emotions struck two people. It's as if the horrible events that happened earlier were lies.

"Joe... what the hell happened earlier?

Raven wasn't worried about Joe. With that experience, I would have run away from that horrible captain myself.

"... I don't know. I just felt something so big. I don't know how to say it."

It was Joe who acted like a sitting liver, but he doesn't seem to know exactly what he was doing. Joe was feeling something invisible, something that words couldn't describe at that time.

"What's that? Anyway, I admit that monster exists in reality. I'm not saying it was a bad dream anymore. I was willing to believe that Ruth and all that bastard stuff."

Raven finally admitted the existence of a captain of a ghost ship who had either said he had previously denied it head-on or was about to deny it. Because where I denied it, it really exists.

I was over the telescope then, but not this time. I did see it in his eyes, and I saw it in front of him. That was an undeniable fact.

"Whether you deny it or not, it's none of my business. There's no denying my interest in the captain of that ghost ship. I don't know what it is, but I have a lot of potential for it."

Joe was really fascinated by that captain. It's a dangerous temptation. Raven, who's been spending a long time with me, couldn't agree with this opinion at all.

"Certainly there are things we don't know, things beyond our imagination. That is the only indisputable truth. But I don't even want to get involved in that."

Raven expressed his opinion honestly. Everyone would think so. Except for freaks like Joe.

"We'll get to Brace River soon. Look, I see a big harbor already."

Hank, whose work had also settled down, appeared before Joe and Raven again. Hearing those words, the two confirm the port of Brace River, which looks far away.

"I was wondering what would happen for a while, but you're going to make it to Brace River safely."

Raven smiles and tells that, now that he's overcome one major crisis, he can finally tell a bright story.

"Oh, right. Honestly I thought everything was over when I saw that ship, but now or in front of me, I'll forget about the Brace River!

Hank felt the same way as Raven. I witnessed the captain of a ghost ship, and no one wanted to think about it anymore, such as that monster boarding this ship.