Jigoku: The Unknown World

Chapter Nine - An Encounter With Black Jack

The ocean was amazing. The wind in my face, and the water splashing up on the deck. Our ship was amazing! It wasn't the newest or best quality that King Harr had to offer because he needed those to stay there in case he needed them, but even so this one was more than ok. The ship was large, made of wood, and had a floor underneath where storage and sleep rooms were. It had two large masts in the center of the upper deck, with a crows nest way at the top. The Albion flag was flown above, but King Harr told us he'd have some of his craftsmen make us a special Red Dawn flag now that we were a group of adventurers serving him, which honestly some one might complain about someone telling you to serve them but he and everyone in Albion was clearly doing much better than any of us had been, so it's not a bad deal. The ship was painted blue and the trim on the ship was white. there were four cannons stationed: two on each side. Also, there was some boxes of ammo for the cannons and other equipment for it stored at the front of the ship, and two sets of stairs were at the back leading to the ship's wheel. We had been sailing using the spell scrolls for about a day now, and Kilik was the one using them. He was a natural, making it look as easy as Alexander had. It turns out Bono gets a little sea sick, because he spent half the trip so far hurling over the side. It was a peaceful trip, but we were all on edge. Now that we new some crazy powerful enemies were here we were pretty nervous to be leaving Albion and venturing elsewhere.

"Hey Shin, lost in thought?" It was Azala. I had been sitting on one of the ammo crates at the front of the ship, looking out at the endless sea.

"Yeah, you could say that." She came and sat down right next to me. Azala had definitely gotten closer to me since we left the room. She was always pretty stern with the rest of us, so it's surprising to see her  always so much nicer around me. It almost reminded me of someone. Like I knew someone once just like her, but of coarse like anything I tried to remember, I was left with a headache and nothing more.

"Do you think Shank is ok?

"You know as well as me the guy's fine. He could have taken much worse and lived."

"You're probably right. He's pretty crazy, but he's an amazing guy."

"Well he did get hurt like that protecting Hima."

"Yup, and that's why she's working so hard to heal him and return the favor."

"I've been wondering about that. Is healing not magic? If you told me someone had the power to heal someone's wound i'd definitely think it's magic." Azala shook her head.

"No, it's a special skill just for her class. As a beast master I have the ability to tame monsters. It's like a bond or pact I make with them so it's not like its actually being controlled against its will. But that's why I have only mastered taming low level monsters like slime, it's not easy for me to make a bond with something that only thinks about killing me."

"That wouldn't be easy for anyone to do."

"Exactly. But I have more to my abilities than taming monsters. My class if perfected could make me not have to fight very much at all. If I learned to tame multiple beasts at once, and powerful ones too. All i'd have to do is sit back and watch. The class must know that a beast master would probably choose to do that, so I have the skill to heal other things so that way if I tame a monster and it gets hurt I can heal it back to health. It's just our luck that it works on humans too. Hima on the other hand is a monk. Monks are supposed to be peacekeepers that only fight if necessary and trying to help others is their mission, at least that's what Database said. So someone who is meant to mainly support others is bound to have a healing ability or two right?"

"You're right. That's awesome though I didn't know you both could heal!" My face lit up as clearly I was pretty exited to be talking about other's abilities, I don't quite know why it exited me so much though.