Surviving a Cruel Fairy Tale

35 – Act 2. Eternal Neverland – Captain Hook (3)

It has been about 15 days since we boarded Captain Hook’s ship.

I have done many things in the meantime, but from a large perspective, the environment is all about supplying and supplying materials, and then distributing them to the residents of the underground water canal.

It’s the same today.

Traveling long distances by boat. After passing through the production complex, which is also the only place in the basement of Neverland that communicates with the ground, it settled down and moved.

In such a situation, Captain Hook exclaims.

“It’s looting! Take everything away!!”

In reality, even though there is a link with these adults who are suffering from forced labor, the process of obtaining supplies is always under the guise of looting.

It seems to be because if they don’t do that, they may get involved in the event of a problem later, but he thoroughly denies that fact.

To be honest, I still don’t know who Captain Hook is.

“Hey, newcomer!!”

“I know.”

Anyway, I’m just doing my job.

As soon as she got off the boat, she nodded at the sound of the call and moved her steps toward the formal route from the underground to the surface.

There are two roles of sailors in the Hook Pirates.

Workers and combatants.

First, workers perform other chores at the same time. Usually, when supplying goods at the workplace, they are in charge of carrying them or distributing them to the people in the underground water canal.

And speaking of combatants…….

“It’s fast too. Guys, prepare for battle! As an adult, shouldn’t we correct the child’s mistakes!!”

Amid the crowd of children descending from the ground, the combatants all stance and move into battle.

The role of the combatants, which include me, Little Red Riding Hood, and Captain Hook, is to deter intervention on the ground.

Neverland is a children’s paradise, but sometimes uses force when necessary.

“The bad guys are coming!!”

The bad boys we met before, including the shepherd boy, or the enforcer of Neverland.

The strength of each of those children was such that it could easily subdue an average adult, and that’s why there was a part where we relied heavily on Captain Hook’s strength before.

But now it’s me and Little Red Riding Hood.

“Huh!!”

“Kyaaa!”

I pushed the approaching girl with a stick with my shield and continued forward.

After Little Red Riding Hood Forest, the mystery within the body has greatly increased, and the vessel has also become wider.

Even if I had to fight again, I wouldn’t have the confidence to beat a strong man like a hunter or a tin woodcutter, but with decent strength, I’d be able to compete on an equal footing.

And Little Red Riding Hood…….

“Die.”

It seems like they are hitting the boy with chestnuts with their small hands, but the child who gets hit falls to the ground without even screaming.

Even though it’s young, Little Red Riding Hood is Little Red Riding Hood.

Although he was sullen, saying that all of his abilities, including his physical abilities, had weakened, he still showed his strength that surpassed me in this area.

Just.

“You can’t kill me.”

“I know.”

Do not kill children.

It was also Captain Hook’s iron rule, that even though bad guys are aiming for the lives of adults, it’s not mature enough to treat a kid’s tricks with sincerity.

I don’t know if everyone in the pirates shares that philosophy, but first of all, I focused on subduing the children according to that request.

In this way, a battle with the bad guys took place every time I searched for a supply jar.

Each child is strong, but it is not difficult to subdue them because they have already experienced something stronger than this.

But even this battle didn’t always go smoothly.

“Patrache! See?”

“Bruise!!”

A bad boy among bad boys.

An entity that was given a name by being entangled in a fairy tale.

Like the shepherd boy we met before, they possessed considerable strength and commanded bad guys, so we were the ones to be most wary of.

“Those adults don’t get tired of it and keep coming. If we don’t scold, the fairy will be angry, right?”

Dog of Flanders.

The protagonists, Nero and Patrasche.

A boy wearing a bread hat painted a pervasive smile on his face as he stroked a large dog that had grown fur.

“Let’s draw a picture! Taking out the intestines of cowardly, despicable, dirty adults and using them with red paint!”

“King!”

“Well then, Patrasche! Kill all those adults!”

At the boy’s words, Patrasche gradually grew in size, and eventually the dog grew to twice the size of an adult man, revealing its sharp teeth.

“Ha, that lunatic is here again.”

In response, Captain Hook wrung his lips and let out a deep sigh.

“Everyone, step back.”

“Captain, are you okay?”

“I’m dead to worrying about rookies who haven’t even gotten a child ticket yet.”

Captain Hook, fixing his hat with the hook in his left hand, steps forward with a wild laugh.

“Then, newbie with a lot of worries. Take a good look.”

Rapier in one hand.

Captain Hook approaches Nero and Patrasche with a confident smile on his shoulders.

“The captain of the Great Pirates. The hook pirate, how great Captain Hook is.”

“Are you Mister again? The fairy is also sad because the old man gets into trouble every time.”

“Does he know anything about fairies?”

The difference in weight class is absolute.

However, without erasing the pervasive smile, Captain Hook approached Patrasche with leisurely footwork.

“You are such a mean person.”

“Then are pirates good? Do pirates look funny just because they tamed a mutt well?”

“Patrache is not a mutt!!”

“I see. Come to think of it, that bastard is likely to eat just about anything.

Can’t stand that twisted laugh, Nero loses his temper, so Patrasche rushes at him with his bloated body.

“Oops.”

“Patrache! Tear them all up and kill them!!”

“There is nothing I can’t say.”

A playful movement or a few light steps frees you from a fierce charge.

After that, he stabbed Patrasche’s left leg lightly with a rapier. It didn’t stop there, and the motion of slapping the inside of the leg joint with a soft motion was even deliberately elegant.

Movement connected at once without superfluity.

Even as an outsider, I could see his strength at first glance, but I wondered if I was the only one who thought that way, so I talked to Little Red Riding Hood, who was sitting next to him.

“What do you think?”

“…… I like the move. Even if I predicted it, three times in an instant. You stabbed it properly.”

“Three times?”

To my eyes, it looked like he had been hit twice, once to the leg and then to the inside of it.

“Didn’t you only attack the legs?”

“Once on a boat. I think I stabbed it properly, but the knife was thin, so it shouldn’t have been fatal.”

I thought I had developed my own discerning eyes, but it’s still a long way from this.

Still, it seems certain that Captain Hook is strong.

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“Then… ….”

“Huh?”

“No, no big deal.”

I was about to ask him how he compares to Little Red Riding Hood himself, but he shook his head.

This is not something to ask the young woman who is already young.

Remembering how you blamed yourself for not being able to help me, you’d better refrain from such nonchalant questions.

So she took a moment to look away and watched Captain Hook’s battle.

All the sailors who fought against the bad guys in Neverland kept a certain distance and watched the captain’s battle, but no one stepped forward.

In this way, time gradually passed, and the movement of the huge beast that had been rushing at it began to gradually slow down.

“Patrache!!”

“How did you think you could do me, the captain of the Great Pirates, with this puppy?”

Captain Hook sneered at Nero, who was crying, with a big smile on her lips.

“Ten years, no, a hundred years is too early to challenge adults with this! Ha ha ha!!”

“…… Profit! You are a bad uncle!”

“Then pirates are bad or good?”

“Two, wait and see!!”

He did not pursue the fleeing Nero.

The bad guys in charge of Neverland’s enforcement also saw their leader, Nero, run away and ran after them, and Captain Hook looked back at him as if nothing had happened and shrugged his shoulders.

“What are you doing? Without packing.”

Captain Hook and his crew do not kill children.

Fortunately, no one died during these 15 days with them, but I heard that quite a few people died after being mistakenly caught by the bad guys.

Still, Hook played with Nero and Patrasche perfectly, but did not kill them in the end.

“…… Aren’t you going?”

“Oh, I’ll go.”

When I was lost in thought for a moment, Little Red Riding Hood pulled up his sleeve, nodded, and moved on.

Do the crew really sympathize with Captain Hook’s policy?

No matter how young they are, they are an enemy that threatens their survival. Even if Captain Hook is strong and okay, what about the other crew members?

I don’t know.

* * *

The center of Neverland.

In the castle that occupied a large part of the island, Nero, who had just returned, was crying and bowing her head.

“Are you crying again?”

“Yeah, but fairy! Patrasche is injured. Did that wicked pirate man just, just bully Patrasche?”

“I always cry.”

Nero collapses on the floor and bursts into tears.

Patrache looked sullen and stayed by his side, and the pink-haired girl who had been watching all of this slowly approached and ran her finger through Nero’s tears.

“Are you Captain Hook?”

“Ugh, yes! Just say the captain of the pirates, and our Patrasche…….”

“Anyway, stupid adults don’t know how to learn.”

If it hadn’t been stepped on in the snow, there would have been nothing to clean up.

The girl called Fairy let out a deep sigh and rose into the air flapping her wings on her back.

“I have to kill you.”

“Really?”

“Neverland doesn’t need unauthorized adults, right? Such impurity only pollutes paradise.”

It was a car that always bothered me.

The time has come to cut ties with the rat that has been hiding from prying eyes many times.

Like that, the fairy, Tinkerbell, smiled and nodded her head.

“There must be a lot to prepare for in the future.”

Clean up maggot burrows.

To protect the eternal children’s paradise, Neverland, Tinker Bell was willing to do anything.

“Let’s get blood on it.”

“A lot?”

“Yes. Loads.”

Let it go underground where children can’t see it.

The bright red blood will soon become a motto, and a warning to those who disturb the paradise.

Let’s kill, let’s kill.

Let’s engrave bright red letters.

The sign of the eternal child’s paradise. Let’s paint the taboo of Neverland that doesn’t allow adults with blood.