"I always felt like someone on this ship was hostile toward me."
Carrying his suitcase down the gangplank, Klein frowned and quietly spoke to Angel beside him.
She turned back to look at the Red Haired Woman, but only saw the sailors busy unloading cargo on deck, Sailor Chief William directing them, and the somewhat weary Helene, who kept yawning.
"Could it be Helene?" She withdrew her gaze and tried to analyze the situation. "Perhaps she thought it was an affront when you used her appearance to sneak onto the Black Death and tried to ambush Tracy last time."
"It wasn't her." Klein shook his head, continuing onward as he pondered.
A moment later, he turned back as well, his gaze swiftly sweeping across the deck.
"Who is that new Sailor Chief?"
Having found his target, he asked.
"'Lucky' William? He's a Beyonder recommended by Dominic, a 'Robot' of the Monster Pathway. He used to be a pirate and is familiar with shipboard affairs, so I had Helene recruit him."
Angel explained.
"A pirate? You even recruit pirates onto your ship?" Klein was somewhat astonished and could not help glancing back again. "Is he Lucky William, the one with a 2,800-pound bounty on the wanted posters? Aside from Helene, he was the only one secretly watching me just now. The others all..."
"Just a namesake. That valuable William already died aboard the City Breaker. More coincidentally, before that, the third Lucky William was mistaken for him and captured for the reward."
Lucky Nick, Lucky William—sailors, pirates, and Adventurers who roamed the seas all had, more or less, this kind of superstition.
Though Angel most often saw that name on wanted posters and Death Lists.
"Besides, he retired from Iceberg Admiral's Golden Dream. Other than occasionally liking to mutter to himself,