- A certain Captain of the goddess squad POV
Some time ago, when Anna had just entered the town...
On a river, there is a ship with a green flag bearing a shield with tree ornaments sailing in the river middle of the forest. Inside the ship was a man around 30 years old with chocolate hair and a sturdy body also thin beard.
"Captain...kill me..."
No, no!
"Captain... Help me..."
LEAVE ME ALONE!!
"Captain...run... Run please..."
STOP, STOP!
"Captain Dun... I still love you even-"
EVAAA!...
After shouting like that, I started to come to my senses and looked around. A quite small wobbly wooden room with shaped like a box with a door, bed, small table and chair while on top table is a bow and arrow as well brown robe with green patterns followed by ornamen of trees
At the end of the corner of the room then, was a pile of my knight armor set with a small green shield emblem overlaid with a picture of a tree on the armor's left chest.
Ah... Those nightmare again.
I Putting on my gear and armor then walked towards the door and opened it, I saw a wooden hallway with quite a lot of identical doors on either side. At the end of the hall I saw a stairs leading up and down. I then headed upstairs and looked at the view around me.
Hah... Fresh air at dawn, especially on a ship.
The view around me was still dark but I can see the sun starting to rise shines on our ship. I then walked towards the captain of the ship, and there was a slightly large man with average black hair and quite visible muscles sitting with a scar like lightning strike on his right hand, he was busy enjoying eating bread.
"It looks like you really enjoyed this trip, Sven." I said to the man who was eating
"Oh, Captain!?... You surprised me, you know"
"Heh, it's your own fault that you're too busy eating so can't see it"
"Yeah, I guess so. I mean, Who isn't bored? When you just continously watching the direction of the ship and sails, accompanied by the sound of the wind and the sound of night insects in lonely river here"
"Yeah, that's it very boring... Anyway, I want to sit over here Sven... Is that okay?"
"Just sit down, Captain. Are you having nightmares again? If so, this is the second night you've had a nightmare Captain..."
I then sat in the chair next to Sven while looking at the surrounding scenery
"You know Sven... I still can't forget our previous mission, on Worthwood Fortress. A mission that cost us 40 lives troops and... and..."
"Captain... That's enough. If you want to cry, go ahead. There's only me, your vice-captain Sven here..."
Sven's words seemed to have become the main trigger for my feelings. I started to feel tears falling from both of then
Eva... why, why do you have to be a victim too!. Even though we promised to get married and live together...
The sound of crying with a murmur as if screaming regret is fill the quiet morning on the ship for a while...
"Sven... Please wake up the other troops with ''that method''. I will be finished in a moment..." After a while, I started to prepare myself
"Just take your time Captain, I'll wake the others first."
Sven then pulled the wooden lever next to the ship's steering wheel. Next moments later, the ceiling right above the bed in the entire cabin room began to appear blue and white magic circles and finally. Splash!... Heavy water falls on the mattress, whether there is someone there or not.
Then... After quite a lot of shouting cursing and commotion in Inside the ship's cabin. Around 18 people's started appearing on board the ship with several people in wet clothes.
"Good morning~ my fellow friends. It looks like some of you guys have finished showering? Wow, very diligent. This is something to be proud" Sven said in a loud voice and gave a thumbs up sounded like a mockery to them
"Are your eyes blind? Do we look like we just finished showering to you!" The female knight with red hair coming to Sven while clenching her fists
"Sis, Sis Lara. Come on, just relax... Okay? Captain need to called us all immediately, otherwise I wouldn't have used this method again" Sven said in hastily followed by sweat flowing as he looked pleading at Captain.
"Captain... Is that true?" Lara, who was about to beat up her younger brother Sven, then stopped and look Captain
"That's right"
"Sigh... Alright, I thought it was Sven's prank again." Lara then moved away from her younger brother while glaring at him because Sven was mocking her by sticking out tongue
"So Captain... What made you call like this again? Are there any signs of enemies nearby…” The sharp voice of a fairly skinny black-haired knight in a green hooded cloak
After that knight spoke, I saw the rest of my troops starting to frown and grip their weapons and equipment tightly
"Haha... Just relax Smith and your all. I just want to see your all faces going wet and messy." The Captain's words stunned the entire squad, even Sven, who was still mocking his sister, stopped and turned to the Captain...
"""........"""
"""CAPTAIN!!""" As if coming back to their senses, they all started shouting at the Captain
"HAHAHA... THIS IS FUNNY. I didn't expect you to have humor like this too, Captain." Sven laughed so hard he was holding his stomach because he hurt it while laughing too much
“Captain… You... You're not under the influence of that brat over there, right? If yes, let me make my beloved brother aware again~" Lara smiled kindly and her hands clenched tightly again followed by veins forming in her head and walked towards Sven
"Sis?, Sister Lara... Why me?! That's the Captain's doing, so why are you walking towards me!" Sven was about to run away but suddenly his shoulder was grabbed tightly from behind by Lara who suddenly disappeared in front of him
"Oh~ Don't worry, I don't mind that. I just wanted to take issue with you mocking me earlier..." Lara held his shoulders tightly and then started raising her fists
"Sis, sis Lara.... Forgive me ok, i am sorry okay?.... I AMMM SOWWWRRRYYYY..." Sven's screams and Lara's anger combined to produce a strange but also common sight in this troops
Seeing this scene, I smiled slightly then looked at my troops, some of whom were still annoyed by before.
"alright guys, as an apology for before. I'll treat you all meal in Woods Town later"
"""HOORAYY!! BEST CAPTAIN"""
Not long after, they arrived at the port of Woods Town. There many people flocked to see the Goddess's knight,
"Alright, now all of you prepare yourselves. Our stop at Woods Town arrives, we will stop briefly to restock food and weapons first before going into next mission in Timberpeaks Town next days. For those of you who want to go around the Town are allowed before we meet again here in afternoon. Alright, Now please disperse, all of you!!"
My troops starting to scatter and getting busy as I had previously ordered. Whether it's preparing food or equipment.
"Sigh... By the way Smith, where is Saintess Olivia?" I asked Smith who I Saw he was cleaning his two dagger
"Oh Olivia, she went down to storage foods again, looking for snacks."
"alright, thanks for the information Smith"
"yeah, no big deal anyway"
I then went down two floors into the ship, where I am currently in the food storage area. While there, I saw Olivia Sitting on one of the food wooden boxes while eating bread with milk.
"You really like eating huh... If I don't keep an eye on it, I guarantee our stock will disappear."
"Come on Captain, using magic requires a lot of energy you know right. Moreover, if it has something to do with the Goddess, it will definitely use a lot."
"Yeah, I got it... Now tidy up the remaining food in your purple hair and also your knight armor, there's something I want to discuss." I sat on the stairs while waiting for Olivia to finish eating and cleaning up.
"So... What's wrong?" Olivia sat neatly and elegantly on the food box
"Currently, the goddess doesn't provide any recent information anymore. Right, right?.." I asked with my heart beating fast
"For now... Nothing new. Goddess Terra wouldn't be that cruel...Yet" Olivia's face looked really troubled after saying this.
"At least... We are still notified by the Goddess Terra if we are in danger with her power." I stared at the green oak tree symbol on her forehead
"But yeah... That power It hurts, you know? The saintess' power feels more like a curse than a blessing..." Olivia touched her forehead with her hand and then made an ugly face as if reminding her of something painful...
Suddenly...
"CAPTAIN! EMERGENCY!!" Smith's screams were heard from above where he was seen appearing on the stairs in front of them.
"What happened?!" I asked he in a hurry after seeing Smith pale face like corpse.
"Marco, our new man... He's gone INSANE!!. Please hurry Captain!" Marco pulled his captain's hand to follow him
"Olivia! Are you sure there was no notification from the goddess Terra?" I asked anxiously as Smith led me to Marco's location.
"No... I swear to the goddess, I didn't get any notifications" Olivia said in a heavy tone and a troubled facial expression.
"AHH... FUCK YOU... goddess... Isn't it enough for her to see us all suffer?" I said furiously and my blood feels boiling where I then saw Olivia's expression looked heavy and full of pressure.
After a while, we then arrived at the city gate of the port area. There I saw the knight screaming hysterically on the ground with his eyes red and wide open, tears flowing, and his saliva flowing too... As if he had just seen something teribbles while the surrounding knights tried to calm him down.
"What happened!?" I asked one of the knights around Marco.
"I don't know Captain, Marco suddenly screamed hysterically while saying " get away from that girl, that girl, get away from that shop..." He kept saying that"
"which store?!" I turned my head to him
"The Store over there, store for bakery." Marco's subordinate pointed towards a bakery not far from the gate.
"Olivia! Is there no more information from the goddess?" I turned to her with a face full of veins.
"Unfortunately... There is no goddess giving any information at all." Olivia said with a heavy and gloomy expression
"AH SHIT!... Olivia and Smith. You two come with me, let's go to that shop!"
""YES CAPTAIN""
But unfortunately, it turned out to be the beginning of our nightmare...
