"Hey, hey, hey, what are they doing?"
Jason watched the commotion ahead, eyes wide, a bad feeling rising in his heart.
"Obviously, seeing they can't escape from above, they are planning to leave from underwater."
Medea shrugged and said helplessly.
"Hah? Then hurry up and stop them!"
Jason let out a voice of disbelief, hurriedly commanding.
"Can't stop them. We were so far apart just now. Trapping a ship in stormy weather was basically all due to preparation in advance. Magecraft cast in a hurry can't trap that ship."
Medea felt even more helpless.
"So we can only watch them leave right before our eyes?"
Jason pointed to the Golden Wild Hunt ahead.
"That's right."
"F*uck!"
Jason could only stomp his foot in impotent rage.
Then he watched helplessly as the Golden Wild Hunt, like being flushed down a toilet, was swallowed by the whirlpool and disappeared without a trace.
On the other side.
"Hmm, Darling, we seem to be trapped on this island."
Artemis squatted on the ground, cupping her face and looking at the boundless sea, slightly distressed.
"So do you have any ideas? Darling~"
Artemis's sweet voice reached Orion's ears.
"If I were summoned alone, I could just swim out and check..."
The teddy bear beside Artemis touched his chin, looking thoughtful.
"But, I'm just a plush toy right now. Are you expecting a plush toy to have any ideas?"
Orion spread his hands, giving up.
"Oh my, how can you say that, Darling? I believe in you very, very much!"
Artemis looked at Orion reproachfully.
"Then when I go out to play with beautiful and cute young ladies, can Artemis believe in me like this too?"
The teddy bear rubbed his fluffy hands, his expression suddenly becoming wretched.
"Dame yo (No way)~ Darling can't cheat!"
Artemis grabbed the teddy bear by the throat, interrupting his fantasy, and warned with a smile at the same time.
Dangerous colors flowed in her eyes.
"Woo ah... stop... I can't breathe—"
Orion patted Artemis's hand, his face full of pain.
"Darling, what kind of joke is that? You are just a plush toy now; you don't need to breathe."
"Eh? Is, is that so?"
Orion's expression froze instantly, looking sheepishly at Artemis.
"Of... course."
Artemis took the opportunity to drag Orion and began shaking him violently up and down.
"I apologize, I apologize! So please don't shake me so hard ahhh—"
Orion felt his brains were about to be shaken into a smoothie, hurriedly begging for mercy.
But obviously, Artemis was still angry and didn't listen to Orion's words at all.
Until after a round of apologies, Artemis finally let go of the poor little plush bear.
Orion, having regained his calm, breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the nonexistent cold sweat from his forehead, and said helplessly:
"But anyway, I have no way to get the two of us safely off this island. It's not like a ship will suddenly pop out of the sea... right?"
Before Orion finished speaking, a ship emitting golden light, like a bubble coming out of water, suddenly popped out from the sea surface in the distance.
"...Eh?"
Orion was stunned.
"Oh! As expected of Darling, you predicted this too!"
Taking all this into her eyes, Artemis put her small fist on her chest, looking at Orion with admiration.
"R-Right?"
Orion scratched his head blankly.
"Right!"
"Since a ship is here, let's hurry up and hitch a ride!"
Artemis grabbed Orion and trotted towards the ship.
"By the way, can't you carry me with a hug instead of dragging me—"
...
A ship suddenly popping out of the sea and emitting golden light—what other ship could it be?
Of course, it was the Golden Wild Hunt.
Accompanied by various screams, the Golden Wild Hunt, caught in the huge ocean current, was finally forced up by the buoyancy of the seawater.
It even broke away from the sea surface, paused slightly in the air, and then floated steadily on the water.
"Survived again!"
The pirates looked at the sky in shock, unable to imagine they could survive even this.
Indeed hard to imagine.
Putting down the flag, the exhausted Takumi looked at the pattern on the back of his hand with only one stroke left, unable to imagine he actually used two Command Spells just to escape.
"Phew..."
Takumi exhaled a breath of stale air, throwing this matter to the back of his mind.
Since neither Command Spell was useless, there was nothing to care about.
The scenery in the sea couldn't be called beautiful, especially for them who were flushed down by the "toilet."
In the huge ocean current, the Golden Wild Hunt was like a leaf swept into a river, spinning around with absolutely no ability to control direction.
Everyone could only secure themselves firmly to the ship and go with the flow. Not only that, but they also had to guard against giant rocks they might hit from time to time, as well as various seabed terrains. Bumping around, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were thrown into a washing machine.
Coming out safe and sound was purely dumb luck. Otherwise, under consecutive impacts, even if Takumi used up all his Command Spells, he couldn't save everyone.
There was no scenery to speak of inside the sea either. It was pitch black inside, sunlight basically couldn't penetrate, and nothing could be seen clearly. Moreover, even when they reached the surface, everyone was busy saving their lives; who had the leisure to look at those things?
However, even so, Drake and the pirates, who had recovered, all cheered, celebrating the completion of another great feat.
Beside them, Euryale rubbed her dizzy head, looking speechlessly at the crowd cheering and celebrating as soon as they escaped.
Feeling terrified, she really couldn't understand the mental state of these pirates.
"Hmm? Boss, a strangely dressed beautiful woman is waving at us over there!"
A pirate suddenly saw Artemis standing on the coast waving at them and hurriedly reported to Drake.
"Hah? There are people even here? Coming to hitch a ride with us?"
Drake looked over with a puzzled face.
Takumi and the others also looked suspiciously in the direction the pirate pointed.
"That is... Artemis?"
Seeing that combination of a white woman and a teddy bear, Takumi, who knew their identities, was also shocked.
So running away twice means encountering Servants twice, huh?
Is there such a coincidence?
"Artemis? That Moon Goddess Artemis from the same pantheon as me?"
Euryale, knowing Artemis's identity, was also stunned.
"That's right..."
"Are you sure? It's not strange for a Divine Spirit like me to be summoned, but how could a Divine Spirit of her level manifest just like that!"
Euryale found it somewhat unbelievable.
"That's why she descended by occupying Orion's Spirit Origin. In terms of combat power, the current her probably isn't much stronger than you."
Euryale hesitated to speak, then accepted it.
"Okay, then it's not strange..."