"Sail Master, full sail ahead!"
Beneath blue skies and white clouds, a three-masted warship cleaved through the waves alone across the vast Black Sea. All kinds of seabirds frequently landed and took off from the ship, as though they had made it their temporary nest.
This scene had continued for more than half a month since they had departed the military port. The sailors aboard had long since lost their initial curiosity and grown used to it.
Today was already the third day after the Setting Sail Day Celebration had ended successfully. The group was returning to Gabreid Military Port, but strangely, of the two warships that had come, only the Silver Wing remained.
"Morning! Captain Evan, feeding the seabirds again?"
On the deck of the Silver Wing, Evan was carrying out his daily feeding, training, and intelligence-gathering routine. A handsome young man in a captain's uniform, with short dark-blue hair, seemed to have wandered over by chance and greeted Evan warmly.
"Morning! Isn't Captain Milan in the cabin keeping Miss Ivena company today?" Evan scattered his last handful of bird feed, dusted off his hands, and turned around with a smile.
"Kids are such a pain. It was just a teddy bear left behind at the hotel, yet she's been sulking for days." The young man curled his lip, sounding dismissive of his sister's willfulness. Yet the doting brother who had spent the past few days trying every possible way to make her laugh was clearly him as well...
Needless to say, this dark-blue-haired young man was none other than the gentleman thief, Zorro.
As for why they had appeared aboard the Silver Wing together, that went back to the celebration several days earlier.
After discovering Lion Head's group's plot in advance, no one knew whether the mastermind behind