I Own A Brothel In Another World (Ch. 1-196)

Chapter 164 - Quick Swap

After a calm night, we gather together for a delicious breakfast to start our day just the right way. Though, before we get to enjoy the various meals often prepared by the ship's cooks, I'm personally requested to visit the galley for some reason so I kindly oblige and follow the messenger. Well, it turns out that the ladies there would also like to start their day just right and I end up giving them a helping hand for a little bit. Though, mine is kneading something else than dough.

Thankfully, they are more than capable of working under the influence of various external forces that could potentially throw them off balance thanks to their experience on the sea. Therefore, my requested interference doesn't slow down the master chefs and their assistants as they do their job while I do something else. Quite a lot.

About fifteen minutes later, I leave the galley alongside a few girls that still bring the food out to the mess hall and rejoin my group of companions. They have already picked a few dishes and set them down for all of us to consume together. From the numerous smirks and grins of my beloved wives, I realise that the galley might not exactly be completely soundproof and smile at them wryly.

Cornelia doesn't let go of the chance to tease me and constantly makes jokes about the food, often mentioning which one might have been filled with my love. I decide to give her a break this time and not bully her back since I did technically earn it for making the kitchen quite hot and steamy. Besides, I love when she puts up her teasing smirk and tries to taunt me with smart remarks.

We chat casually amongst ourselves while filling our bellies with various incredible foods, mostly based around fish and sea animals. It makes me wonder how we are doing on supplies since it's been a while already. Lianne agrees that we should speak with Alyssa about it soon, even though she believes that we are still in the green or else the wise and experienced captain would have told us.

Therefore, we wrap our breakfast quite soon and move to the captain's quarters. We find Alyssa inside, talking about something with one of her officers. Not wanting to disturb them, we wait outside of the room until they are done and then take our turn.

From what we learn during our brief discussion, the supplies are still at a safe level for us to continue and have enough to return after our mission is done. She keeps an eye on our location on the sea and constantly checks how close we are to any ports where we could resupply if the need arises.

Supposedly, there's a quite big island not that far from our location right now. It definitely is closer than our initial starting point. A small noble family rules over it, still serving under Ross, of course. From what Lianne tells me, they grow some special fruit there that can only exist in the island's ecosystem.

So, all in all, we do have an emergency plan.

But, since you never know what might happen, I bring up the suggestion to resupply right now. We are setting off onto the last straight leading to the main goal of our journey and things can get dicey at any moment. We've long sailed into the enemy's territory and the further in we go, the higher chances of being spotted, surrounded, or locked down, unable to escape until the army holding us in place isn't dealt with. If that happens when we are low on rations, things won't be pretty.

Naturally, Alyssa has no idea how we are supposed to refill our supplies in the middle of the sea but I just smile at her knowingly and explain the bright idea I've come up with.

The first step is to contact someone who is back in Evaneheim to make the purchases in our name. This part is childishly easy with my abilities. I can just ask any of the girls that are registered as my Partners to take care of that task. Elea or Ria might be the best choice since their talents fit the area pretty well.