"Where are the beautiful merpeople?"
She hurriedly craned her neck, looking all around below.
Just then, she suddenly felt weightless, and her body plummeted. "Aaaaaah!"
An entirely black sailing ship appeared out of thin air on the sea. It was the Black Tulip, which Edward had previously seized from Admiral of Hell Ludwell.
He had originally planned to sell it, but he had never expected to end up using it himself two hundred years in the past.
"Aaaaaah!"
Accompanied by her shrill screams, the two floated gently down onto the deck. Edward lightly tapped Bernadette on the head as she screamed with her eyes shut. "All right, keep screaming and I'll confiscate your mouth."
"Ah... mmph!"
She hastily covered her mouth, then carefully opened her eyes, only to discover that she was standing aboard a ship. "Huh? What's this?"
She looked up at the flag fluttering in the wind. "...A pirate ship?"
"You're a pirate?!"
Edward gave an affirmative hum. "That's right. I'm a pirate, the great pirate Jack... Mr. Klein Sparrow."
"Ooh~"
Bernadette let out an "ooh" and trotted over to the deck railing, gazing out at the distant blue sea.
"Hehe, Daddy's been saying he wants to go on a sea voyage for ages. Bet he didn't expect me to get out to sea before him!"
She ran back and forth for a while. When she was slightly breathless with fatigue, she asked curiously, "But weren't we here to see beautiful merpeople?"
Edward walked over and said in a profound tone, "Beibei, often, the journey matters more than the destination. Seeing beautiful merpeople is the result, but the process of searching for them is even more interesting."
"Really?"
She looked at Edward doubtfully. "But I only want to see beautiful merpeople."
"Don't rush. You'll see them."
"You don't