Chapter 84
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"Johnny! Get your arm out somehow!"
"Damn it, how am I supposed to get it out when it won't come out!"
"Cut off your arm! You'll get dragged in and die!"
At that moment, Scarlett, who had been trembling in the corner, rushed over in a daze.
She clung to the engine and shouted.
"Get me a toolbox!"
"There, there's nothing like that here!"
"Then make one and bring it!"
Scarlett shouted and tore off a piece of wood from the old wooden wall. Then, she handed the piece to the young man through a small gap in the grinder and said.
"Stick it in the white-painted spot up there."
"Yes, yes!"
The young man hurriedly hammered the wedge into the white-painted spot. Thanks to that, the turbine rattled and slowed down a little.
However, it didn't stop, and the screw that had gone to the front was slowly returning to where the young man was.
Scarlett shouted.
"I told you to make a tool and come!"
"I, I brought it!"
The young men rushed out and fortunately obtained a toolbox from a nearby store. Scarlett thought they might have stolen it, but she had no time to think about that.
She opened the toolbox and quickly disassembled the engine. Then, she began to repair the engine that had been damaged by the hay earlier.
Scarlett always became serious when she started working with machines, and her concentration greatly increased. She knew that was her greatest talent.
With quick hands, she pulled out the hay that was stuck, and in the meantime, she touched the wires that had been cut off by the heat. Then, sparks flew.
Scarlett said.
"Turn off the switch."
Harold hurriedly turned off the grinder's switch, and at the same time, the grinder, which had been running with a loud noise, stopped.
"I, it stopped..."
"Damn it, Johnny! What are you doing! Get out quickly!"
As they shouted from outside, Johnny, who had been trembling and crying on the floor of the grinder, hurriedly grabbed the screw blades and climbed up.
As soon as he barely got out of the grinder, Johnny crouched on the ground and began to cry. The other pirates also collapsed in their seats.
Sean, who was sitting with his face covered with both hands, said to Harold.
"...See? If I hadn't kidnapped that mechanic girl, this whole factory would have been blown away."
"Is that something to be proud of, you bastard!"
Harold slapped Sean on the back of the head with his hand as big as a pot lid and got up. Then, he walked towards Scarlett and saw blood dripping from her hand. She had injured her hand while tearing off the wedge just now, and it seemed that she had been injured here and there in the process of urgently repairing the engine.
"M, Mechanic girl! Blood!"
Scarlett belatedly saw the blood on her palm and muttered.
"I'm suddenly tired..."
With those words, Scarlett collapsed to the floor.
*
When she regained consciousness, she immediately recognized where she was lying. It was in the huge pot where she had seen them roasting grass earlier. There was still heat left, so it was warm.
Scarlett propped herself up, touching the floor, and then found the bandage wrapped around her hand. And she had no strength to move, so she lay down again.
At that time, a girl about her age jumped in. She also had golden eyes.
"Miss, drink some water. You'll get dehydrated."
Scarlett reached out a little and took the water cup. When she heard them talking earlier, her name was Aisha.
Scarlett took a sip of water to moisten her parched lips, and Aisha said.
"Viktor Dumpfelt has sent his men, and they're negotiating outside."
"Ah..."
Scarlett replied and took a sip of water, which was very cold and sweet.
Aisha, reading her expression, said.
"It's water from our island. This water has power too."
"The water is very delicious."
"It's good for healing wounds."
Aisha showed her hands opening and closing.
Scarlett held the water cup with both hands and said.
"There are so many amazing medicines on the pirate island..."
"Speaking of pirate island, Miss. It's hard to say this after kidnapping you, but do you know why we became pirates?"
Scarlett shook her head, and Aisha said.
"Most of us lived on the islands south of Bestina. But the Bestina guys occupied all the southern islands and enslaved the people who lived there."
"Ah..."
"The people who escaped from there came to the islands of Salantie, where the navy was weak... After that, it was just constant war. Between the islanders who lived there and the outsiders."
Scarlett nodded.
Aisha continued.
"Then, when we were about to die, we created an enemy in a foreign land. If the men went out to sea to pirate, there would be less fighting."
"Um..."
"That's not to say I want you to understand the piracy."
Scarlett smiled and asked.
"What about that guy named Johnny earlier?"
"Ah, he's fine, thankfully. He lost two fingers, but considering he almost got ground to death, that's pretty good."
"That's a relief..."
"For your information, he's my brother."
Aisha said awkwardly.
"He's not very useful, but thank you for saving him anyway."
At her words, Scarlett smiled weakly and lay down on the grass again. Feeling the cozy feeling, Scarlett asked.
"What kind of medicinal herb is this?"
"Ah, this..."
Aisha cleared her throat and said in a small voice.
"It... gives you some strength."
"What kind of strength?"
"The strength of your lower body, I guess."
"Lower body?"
Scarlett tilted her head, and Aisha said.
"Anyway, it sells pretty well."
"Ah... The medicine my brother used doesn't sell well?"
"It's not like many people go blind."
"I guess... What other medicines are there?"
"Well, there are many. There are Hallucinogens, sedatives... There's also medicine that helps with memory."
"...Memory?"
Scarlett paused and asked.
"It helps with memory?"
"Yeah. If you take it, you remember everything you've forgotten."
At those words, Scarlett's face brightened.
"I think I've taken that medicine before."
"Really?"
"Yeah! One day I lost my memory and woke up, and suddenly I remembered everything from my childhood in detail."
"Ah, losing your memory is a side effect of that medicine. You took too much."
At Aisha's words, Scarlett made an indescribable expression. She said.
"There's medicine like that..."
"Yeah. There is."
Scarlett recalled the fact that she had no memory of being at the Royal Police Headquarters and that her childhood memories had suddenly come back to her in detail, and she was convinced.
She asked.
"Is there a way to check if I took that medicine?"
"Um... I don't know the details. Do I need to know?"
"I want to know."
Then, Aisha scratched her neck as if it were a hassle and said.
"I'll say it again, my brother is a useless guy who can't do anything. Look at him stupidly crawling into the grinder without knowing anything."
Then, with a somewhat embarrassed face, she continued.
"But my deceased Mother would have been grateful, so I'll repay you. How about it? Is the information about that medicine what you need as repayment?"
"Yeah. It's information about that medicine."
"Okay."
Aisha readily replied. Then, she lightly stepped on the wall of the tub and ran up to get out of here.
Scarlett's eyes widened at the sight, and she tried it herself, but it was slippery and she couldn't climb up at all.
Aisha, who had escaped from the tub, took out a dagger from her waist and said.
"That mechanic girl is the one who saved my family. If anyone lays a finger on her, be prepared to lose your head."
Then, she dragged Johnny, who had bandages wrapped around his fingers, to the front of the tub and made him sit down.
Johnny sat down in front of her and said.
"You'll have to fight me."
As the siblings said one word each, the pirates retreated. Fighting these siblings was more trouble than it was worth.
Meanwhile, Sean, who had ordered Scarlett's kidnapping, had a complicated mind due to the unexpected variable. Now that he had brought her this far, he couldn't easily send her back. He couldn't predict what Viktor Dumpfelt would do after sending Scarlett back.
Sean recalled Viktor Dumpfelt, who was gesturing for the navy ships to dock at the pirate ship with an indifferent face.
He didn't know what he was thinking, but he didn't want to know. The pirates, who remembered Viktor Dumpfelt when he was on the sea, felt great confusion when they encountered him after he got off the ship.
They thought he couldn't be called a proper human being. But when he was in the capital, he was extremely gentlemanly. It wasn't clear what kind of relationship he had with his everything, but it was clear that he was closer to her than his parents were to family.
Even if she was a woman who had betrayed him, he was sure that he wouldn't pretend not to know, considering his honor.
In the first place, when Sean saw Scarlett's face in the newspaper and kidnapped her, he was planning to kill her in front of everyone. And he had a mind to take revenge on Viktor Dumpfelt, the captain of the Rubid Ship, who had driven his clan to death.
But Harold was right. If he messed with Scarlett, there was a risk that even the remaining pirates would be annihilated by his hand.
Sean regretted kidnapping Scarlett on a whim, but in the current situation, he had to somehow create the best possible outcome.
Sean, who was watching the situation from outside, saw the navy surrounding the factory in an instant. The gunners of the Rubid Ship were aiming their guns.
Sean cursed and said.
"Bring Scarlett Crimson first."
"Aisha..."
"Bring her somehow!"
As Sean shouted, the young men hurriedly ran into the factory. But persuading Aisha was no easy task. Johnny's heart was also instantly drawn to Scarlett, who had saved his life just now.
The young men who followed Sean said.
"We just don't touch that mechanic girl."
"That's right, Aisha. Sean said he'll just negotiate and send her back. What do you think Viktor Dumpfelt will do if we kill that girl in the first place?"
"If we don't negotiate now, you can't go back and you have to stay here. The mechanic girl wouldn't want that."
"We can treat her well."
"Then are you saying we should stay here? Ask her."
Then Aisha frowned and asked, banging on the tub where Scarlett was.
"Mechanic girl! How about living here forever!"
"I'm sorry, but I can't..."
Aisha made a dissatisfied expression at Scarlett's answer. But as they said, she didn't want to keep Scarlett here if she didn't want to.
Aisha frowned and said.
"Take her. But if you do anything, I won't let you get away with it."
At Aisha's threat, Johnny nodded from behind.