Reborn After A Death March

Chapter 55

"...Lalakie?"

"Yeah, that's what the Skeleton King on the ghost ship said,"

Satou passes on the information he learned after the battle with the ghost fleet ended to Arisa and me. The skeleton leading the enemy was a powerful monster known as the 'Skeleton King', who escaped the slaughter at the last minute.

"That name sounds familiar... Wait, didn't the ghost captain of that blue sunken ship say the same thing?"

"He may have come to search for the 'key to Lalakie' in the ruins of Nonolie because I deactivated the anti-magic trap,"

"So, do you have it?"

"Nope,"

"Didn't Captain Ghost say something about keys and coffins and stuff like that?"

Arisa was right. He did say something like that. The last words the captain said before he died were... "The key to Lalakie... Stolen. Now Lalakie...can no longer fly. All that remains is to bring the Coffin to His Majesty the Emperor in the Room of Reality..."

"All this happened a long time ago, so it probably reached this 'emperor' after that,"

"I guess so,"

Arisa nodded in agreement, and we put the subject of Lalakie to rest.

"Master! There's someone on the beach!"

When we returned to the deck, Lulu pointed back toward the water's edge as she called out. I could only barely see her, but it looked like it looked to be a woman with long white hair with the tips dyed blue.

"Oh no! We have to help!"

Arisa was the first to give the order as she ran to the ship's railing to get a better look. Once we were roughly three hundred feet from the shore, Satou used the 'Magic Hand' spell to lift the woman onto the deck. She was a pretty woman with dark-brown skin, but her face was pale and looked like she was in pain. Lulu produced a blanket from her Fairy Pack and covered her with it. Her hair ornament caught my eye. It was a key-shaped ornament that was some kind of magic tool.

"Master, this woman...!"

"I know,"

Satou is a perverted idiot with an eye for only one thing when it comes to women. I made no moves to stop Arisa from smacking him on the head when we all noticed his gaze. So what if that woman has a chest large enough to rival Karina's? There is more than those lumps of fat to a woman.

"Hi-ya!" Arisa's tiny fist bopped my head. "Judging by that face, you're not thinking what I'm thinking at all, are you?"

"What...?"

It looks like he finally cleaned up his dirty mind to notice what Arisa meant. The woman was a half-ghost. Since half-elves didn't exist in this world, seeing her race was quite a surprise.

"She's level one with only one skill, so maybe we shouldn't pry about her race?" Arisa suggested.

"What's wrong, Tama, sir?"

Turning at the sound of Pochi's voice, I saw Tama lurking behind the mast, glaring at the unconscious woman. Her tail was puffed up, and she clawed at the mast, growling a little. Maybe she is scared of ghosts.

"Satou,"

"Don't assault her!"

I can't take my eyes off Satou for a second. When I turned back to him, I found Satou leaning closer to the woman with his hands on her hip.

"I'm just checking her pulse," Satou said, passing a hand over her skin.

"How is that checking a pulse?!"