I'd Prefer Your Defiant Spirit

Half a day later, the pirate ship of the Wolf Pack Pirates slowly sank into the sea. Yaen maintained his fishing posture the whole time, casually picking up the glass of juice beside him and taking a leisurely sip.

Only then did Yaen turn to look at the one-eyed man being held down on the ground beside him by Major General Hope. Pushing up his glasses, he asked,

"You're the captain of the Wolf Pack Pirates?"

The one-eyed man looked at Yaen with an exhausted, despairing expression. But perhaps determined to preserve the last shred of a pirate's pride, he raised his head slightly and showed no intention of answering Yaen.

However...

"Smack!!"

Major General Hope ruthlessly slapped the back of the one-eyed man's head and shouted, "Lord Yaen is asking you a question. Speak."

Yaen raised a hand slightly, stopping Hope, and said, "Hey, Hope, abusing prisoners goes against justice."

"Yes, Lord Yaen." Major General Hope quickly acknowledged him.

Yaen then turned his gaze toward the pirate captain before him once more, a hint of interest flickering in his eyes.

To be honest, although Yaen was a Marine and understood the pirates' ways of thinking, styles of conduct, goals, and ideals very well, he had rarely interacted with pirates in the past.

Recently, as Yaen's mindset had undergone some subtle changes, his view of pirates had changed slightly as well.

No matter how one looked at it, pirates were ultimately an enormous group on this sea. Their overall numbers might be ten times, or even dozens of times, greater than those of the Marines.

In the end, how to view and deal with this group would naturally become an issue Yaen had to consider.

Yaen pushed up his glasses, a gentle smile appearing on his face. "Hope, bring this