Chapter 10: Teenagers Want It All, Adults Can't Handle It
"Meh!!"
The sheep-headed sea beast, after spitting out Buggy, opened its huge, sharp-toothed mouth, raised its head, and roared. Its lower body emerged from the sea, revealing its full form.
This creature was about ten meters long. Its upper body was that of a sheep, and its lower body was a fishtail. It was a standard sea beast.
Sea Kings and sea beasts were easy to distinguish.
Sea Kings mostly looked like non-mammalian creatures: fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, etc., with a wide range of features.
Sea beasts were more uniform, with the upper body of a mammal and the lower body having fish-like characteristics.
The sea was a magical place. Although Sag knew about the existence of sea beasts and Sea Kings, he was still surprised when he first encountered them.
The sheep-headed sea beast, leaping out of the sea, opened its sharp teeth and lunged straight at Sag.
"Sag!!"
Not far away, Lily exclaimed, drew her rapier, and, like a swimming dragon, swiftly dashed across the water.
No matter what, this was the captain she had just acknowledged. He couldn't be hurt!
"No need."
Sag directly stopped Lily. His body erupted with a splash of water, leaping out of the sea. As the sheep-headed sea beast lunged, he stepped on the air, using Geppo to dodge to the side.
*Boom!!*
Huge splashes of water erupted below him. Sag, as if stepping on stairs, crossed his legs and rose higher into the air. From the splashing water, the sheep-headed sea beast emerged again, opening its large mouth and biting upwards.
Its speed was not slow, and its leaping speed out of the sea was enough to make an ordinary person unable to react. But its sharp teeth suddenly stopped when they touched the soles of Sag's feet.
It wasn't high enough...
Sag looked down at the rapidly approaching sheep-headed sea beast, a cold smile appearing on his lips.
A creature of this size was comparable to a ship, but on the sea...
"It's just a small sea beast!"
Facing the sharp teeth, Sag's feet flashed with a series of afterimages, sending out a series of light blue slashes, falling downwards like rain.
"Rankyaku: Ran!"
The Fist of the North Star also had methods to defeat this kind of sea beast. His pressure point strikes, after years of practice, weren't limited to humans. All things had pressure points. For non-humans, with some close combat and careful observation, he could also detect their pressure points.
But if he had Rokushiki, why bother with all that?
*Chih chih chih!!*
"Meh!!"
The light blue slashes sliced open the body of the sheep-headed sea beast, revealing deep gashes. Its blood splattered everywhere, and it let out a pained cry, its outstretched body heavily slapping the surface of the sea, and it floated.
Sag then descended, stepping on the sea beast's body, and said to Lily, "Come up, Lily."
Lily swam over and climbed onto the sea beast's body. The seawater soaking her made her blonde hair stick to her neck, and even her wide skirt clung tightly to her body, outlining her long, straight legs and perky curves, not to mention the grand narrative of her upper body, which trembled with her movements.
Truly *golden-haired, big, wavy*.
A sixteen-year-old girl...
Sag glanced at her, then immediately looked away. "Lily, cut off some meat. We'll have some seafood."
The creatures in the sea could naturally all be considered seafood. Even this kind of sea beast, with its upper body resembling a sheep, could be eaten raw.
Lily's sword should be a famous one, exceptionally sharp, gleaming with a cold light in the sunlight. She was just about to stab it in when Sag said, "Don't take the upper body. Cut the waist and abdomen. That's the junction of the beast body and the fish body. It's soft, elastic, and tastes very good."
Lily followed his instructions and moved the sword down, cutting open the sea beast's skin and pulling out a piece of meat. She threw it to Sag.
Sag caught it, took a bite, chewed a few times, and swallowed. He said with satisfaction, "Hmm! Excellent!"
Lily once again used the blade to pick up a piece of meat, but instead of using the meat like Sag, she gently bit into it with the help of the blade. Then, her eyes widened, and she began to eat quickly.
It was very elastic, but not difficult to chew. It was full of fresh tenderness.
Lily quickly ate the piece of meat on the blade, picked up another piece, and handed it to Sag, then continued to eat heartily.
Only after a large portion of the sea beast's waist and abdomen had been dug out did Lily stop. She looked at Sag, who was still eating, "Sag... I don't understand."
"Hmm?"
Sag sat cross-legged on the sea beast's body, taking large bites of meat. "What don't you understand?"
In terms of appetite, the people of this world were all large eaters. Even Lily had eaten a small half. Of course, Sag would take care of the rest.
Since he had been practicing the Fist of the North Star, from childhood to now, his appetite had steadily increased.
"You're so strong, why are you so fixated on that dream? If you're a pirate, shouldn't you be aiming for One Piece?"
"Because the house prices in my hometown are too high," Sag sighed.
"Huh?" Lily didn't understand.
Sag shook his head and smiled.
How to explain it? People from his hometown had a natural obsession with land. Who wouldn't want to own a huge piece of land and a big house? After transmigrating here, he also had this dream, and it even grew deeper, becoming an obsession.
As for why...
Bad luck!
If he had had these things from the beginning, perhaps he wouldn't have had so many obsessions. But it was precisely because he had never had them that this obsession grew deeper and deeper, even becoming abnormal.
"They don't conflict!"
Sag swallowed the meat in his hand and clenched his fist. "Since I'm a pirate, I'll be a dedicated one. No one said the Pirate King can't own property! I want to be a landlord, and I also want to be the Pirate King!"
A teenager's choice is to have it all, but only adults know they can't handle it. However...
A man remains a boy until death!
"Let's go. We need to find an island to rest."
He had eaten his fill and rested for a while. Sag stood up from the sea beast's corpse and said, "If we don't leave, the smell of blood will attract more sea beasts."
He didn't dare stay here for long. The sea beast's corpse would sooner or later be torn apart by more sea beasts. Before that happened, it was better to find an island to rest.
Grabbing Lily's collar, Sag used Geppo, kicking the air and heading towards the direction Buggy had pointed out earlier.
He didn't believe in his own luck, but he had to believe in Buggy.
Just because Buggy had allowed him to catch a fish, he would absolutely believe him.
And this time, his belief was not wrong.
Just as night fell, and the stars began to shine in the sky, he actually discovered the outline of an island. This made Sag's eyes light up, and his speed increased even more, bouncing in the night sky, approaching the island.
This way, he could rest at night!
As they got closer, Lily suddenly froze, pointing to a landing point on the island. "Sag, there's a ship."
A ship?
Sag followed Lily's finger and looked, and he really did find a ship on the landing strip.
A small boat, similar to the one Lily had used before, perhaps a little larger, because there was a small cabin on the ship for one person to rest. Next to the cabin hung a black sail, painted with a white skull with an hourglass on either side.
A pirate ship!
Sag subconsciously looked towards the center of the island. At this distance, he could still see the firelight emanating from the island's center.
"Great!"
He laughed, "Looks like tonight we not only won't have to sleep in the open, but we might even be able to eat something warm and have a drink."