Shirou and the others met with Giles, the smuggler, again. Before taking them on the ship, Giles once again brought up the previous deal.
The deal wasn't too hard.
First, Giles would let Shirou and the others get on the smuggling ship, but Ruijerd had to go on board as a slave. This was not only to stop people from getting scared by Ruijerd's Superd appearance, but also to carry out his plan to save the trapped people.
As long as Ruijerd went on board as a slave, he would be taken to a similar place. Shirou could then work with Ruijerd from the inside and outside to easily rescue everyone who had been captured by the smuggling group.
After checking the plan again and again, Shirou thought there were no problems with the deal. He even thought it was a good thing to punish evil and promote good.
Although he didn't understand why a smuggler would be so kind, there was no problem since they were willing to trade the right to cross the sea with this condition.
Also, Shirou had full confidence in his and Ruijerd's strength. No matter what dangers and troubles they faced, they could definitely solve them both.
Yes, Shirou didn't plan on calling Eris. He planned to carry out the deal with just himself and Ruijerd.
Eris had to stay at the hotel and wait.
Although Eris wanted to complain about this, neither Ruijerd nor Shirou moved at all. No matter how unhappy Eris was, she couldn't change the reality.
After confirming everything, Giles led them onto the smuggling ship.
Before boarding, Giles tied Ruijerd up and covered his head with a paper bag to confirm his slave status.
"Get on the ship."
The smuggler wasn't Giles' person. He thought Shirou and Eris wanted to smuggle the demon, because Ruijerd was wearing a hood and he couldn't recognize his face.
After getting on the ship, Shirou found a few more people in sacks.
Judging by the size, there were no children, and there were both men and women. They were mostly demons.
The smugglers seemed to be smuggling demons.
Shirou was a little unhappy about this, because he could fully imagine how the smugglers got the demon slaves.
But at least there were no demon children.
After all, if they were kidnapping children, that would be pure crime.
Shirou couldn't stand that kind of crime.
On the other side, after confirming that Shirou and the others were on board, the smuggler signaled to the small boat.
The ship had no oars or sails. The power to move came from a man at the front of the ship using magic. The small boat silently began to sail towards the dark sea at night.
This must be water magic.
Shirou knew some magic. He thought that if he knew the sailing route, he might be able to do the same thing.
…
Time passed quickly after leaving the port.
Shirou would occasionally take off his eye patch and try to use Far Sight from time to time. This was to help him get used to this powerful magic eye.
But it was still very hard to control Far Sight.
Shirou often couldn't see what he wanted to see.
Far Sight would also go out of control.
For example, sometimes he would suddenly see Eris changing clothes and going to the bathroom. Shirou was so scared that he almost poked out his own eyes. He couldn't believe he would do something that went against his role as a brother.
Of course, under normal circumstances, Shirou could still control Far Sight somewhat.
As long as it was within a certain range, he could see what he wanted to see.
He tested it a bit and found that the range was about half the Demon Continent. He could freely observe different areas from different angles and ranges.
But the duration of Far Sight was only a few seconds.
It was fleeting.
Otherwise, it would put a huge burden on his brain.
Because Shirou didn't know many people on the Demon Continent, he didn't use Far Sight often.
Until one time, he accidentally found Roxy on the Demon Continent.
Shirou then realized that Roxy's destination after getting on the ship was actually the Demon Continent. She might have gone home to visit relatives, or she might have arrived on the Demon Continent for other reasons.
But he had missed her.
This unexpected situation made Shirou feel a bit strange. He felt like some kind of fate was affecting things.
But he couldn't change anything, because he couldn't turn the ship around and go back to the Demon Continent to meet Roxy.
While Shirou was studying Far Sight, Eris wasn't idle either.
For example, she threw up into a bucket almost every day.
When she first got on the ship, Eris didn't have much of a problem. But after a few days on the ship, she had obvious signs of seasickness.
Shirou didn't know healing magic, and there were no ingredients on the ship to make medicine to prevent seasickness.
He could only let Eris lie on his lap from time to time and comfort her with a head pillow.
Besides that, Shirou also experienced a fierce battle with monsters on the ship.
It started when an octopus monster tangled around the ship's deck. No one on the ship could solve it. At the critical moment, Shirou had to step forward and kill the octopus monster with one sword strike.
Shirou also revealed the Longsword of Light and Sword Saint's strength.
"I didn't expect you to become a Sword Saint at such a young age. That's really amazing."
Giles praised Shirou with words that might or might not have been sincere.
Shirou didn't respond, but silently felt the feeling of the battle.
From the battle, he realized more and more that he needed to go to the Holy Land of Swords as soon as possible to learn a higher level of Sword God Style. His current swordsmanship had reached a clear bottleneck.
After solving the monster problem, Shirou went back and saw Eris again.
She was so seasick that she was almost out of her mind. She even threw up until there was nothing left in her stomach, only stomach acid.
"I, I feel so bad… Brother, where are you…"
Eris looked for Shirou's embrace in a daze.
"Eris…"
Shirou rarely saw the girl so weak. He strangely remembered Miyu when they first met. The complex feelings made him immediately hug Eris, and he found that tears were streaming down the girl's eyes.
"Will… I die…"
"Of course not. I will definitely protect you."
Shirou tried to comfort Eris with words.
Although he himself thought that Eris was making a mountain out of a molehill, and that people wouldn't die from seasickness, Eris had clearly lost her will to the point where she couldn't take it anymore.
However, words clearly couldn't provide any comfort.
Helpless, Shirou simply took out Avalon and activated the protective barrier of healing magic within it.
Although this would further consume the magic power in the degraded version of Avalon's magic stone, and the sword sheath's protective barrier might fail at a critical moment in the future, it was definitely worth it if it could make Eris feel better now.
"Huff… huff…"
After Shirou opened the sword sheath, Eris's appearance improved as expected.
She then showed an uneasy expression and murmured, "This thing must be very precious. Is it okay to use it to treat seasickness?"
After regaining some ability to think, Eris immediately realized how wasteful Shirou's actions were.
Shirou said casually, "If I can't protect the people I want to protect, then no matter how precious the item is, it's meaningless. On the contrary, as long as it can be useful to important people, it has value."
"Important people…"
Hearing Shirou's words, Eris's face suddenly turned red.
It even reached the tips of her ears.
"Eris, what's wrong?"
Shirou thought Eris was feeling sick again and quickly asked with concern.
"D-Don't, don't look at me!!"
Eris forcibly drove Shirou away.
With the help of Avalon's barrier, Eris did feel much better.
Shirou was relieved and simply left the cabin and went outside.
For some reason, a clear look of disappointment appeared on Eris's face when he left. Thanks to Far Sight, Shirou could see these small details more clearly.
He couldn't understand why, but he didn't pay too much attention to it and quietly left.
…
The ship sailed for several days and finally arrived at the Millis Continent.
As soon as she got off the ship, Eris cheered up and shouted, "It's finally over! I never want to take a ship again!"
"No, we have to take another one from the Millis Continent to the Central Continent."
Shirou poured cold water on her from the side.
A clear look of sadness appeared on Eris's face.
By the way, Eris had used up most of the magic stones inside Avalon in the past few days to treat her seasickness.
Shirou couldn't even activate Avalon's barrier for a short time.
He would probably need to replenish the magic stones on the Millis Continent later.
Thinking of this, Shirou was looking forward to the towns on the Millis Continent. After all, this was human territory. If he could find a branch of the Asura Kingdom's bank, Shirou could take back his large fortune directly.
That way, he could not only replenish the magic stones for Avalon, but also repair the almost broken Sword of Promised Victory and even make weapons for Ruijerd.
"Let's go."
With a rare sense of anticipation, Shirou headed towards the town.
The town was called Zante Port.
It had street scenes very similar to Wind Port.
The town also had many slopes, and the port was also more lively than the city center.
However, there were also differences from Winn Port. First of all, there were more wooden buildings here than in Winn Port. There were rows of street trees in the town, and looking out of the town, you could see a dense forest in the distance.
Also, because they had left the Demon Continent, there were finally no demons on the streets, but there were still not many humans.
There were all kinds of races here: beast people, long-eared people (elves), mine pit people, and small people… The number of each race was about the same, and no one race was in the majority.
Shirou and Eris first looked for a place to live, but found that most of the hotels were already full.
The reason was that the large forest in the middle of the Millis Continent had reached the rainy season.
The so-called rainy season refers to the unique weather in the central forest region of the Millis Continent. It is said that there will be heavy rain for about three months.
The large forest would flood, and of course the roads would be impassable.
Therefore, many guests would stay longer during this time.
Also, the floods would cause monsters to riot, and the monsters that appear during the rainy season would also stray into the town. Therefore, many adventurers would stay here for a long time during this time.
This resulted in Shirou and Eris not being able to find a suitable place to stay.
"It seems we can only live in a poorer place."
As Shirou spoke, he found a dilapidated village similar to a Migurd race settlement. After paying the elves in the village a fee, he got a place to stay.
When he saw the elves, Shirou couldn't help but think of Sylphy and Sylphy's father, Laws.
He once tried to use Far Sight to find news about them, but he couldn't find anything.
Shirou had to prepare for the worst, assuming that they had all been killed.
To be honest, Shirou was very depressed at that time, and even Eris noticed that something was wrong, but Shirou covered it up.
In any case, after finding a place to live, Shirou could finally start thinking about the deal with the smuggler Giles.
To complete the deal, Ruijerd was taken as a slave into the smuggler's organization. He was probably locked up in a prison now.
Shirou had to quickly meet up with Ruijerd and rescue him and the many others who were imprisoned.
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