Meeting the crew and the escape

'Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run.'

Currently Mizuki and her crew were being chased by almost every guard in the city.

How did they get here? Now's not really the time for a flashback, is it? Maybe one after they escape, but for now-

"Run faster you bloody rascals!"

"Who's fault is this really now 'Ms. Captain'!?"

"And what does that even mean Cap'n!?"

"It's clearly your fault for taking that request! I'm the one who put it up! You had the option to just not take it idiot!"

"Tch."

"And it clearly means run faster! You're lucky I'm not calling you something ten times worse than rascal right now!"

"Now as I said! Run faster if you don't want to be thrown into a cold, hard cell you wankers!"

Okay. Maybe a flashback is necessary, but a fast one.

...

"Mhm. Mhm."

'So any items can be added but only certain items can be removed. It seems items that can be removed depend on the size difference of the item and the ship itself.'

'So coins can be taken and removed, same goes with some food and most bags. For now I'll add a few upgrades that I can install once I get this ship out of here.'

Making some pieces of technology in small batches that can be removed and added at will she placed all of them, one by one under deck.

'And now. For the final touch!'

Constructing a spell between her fingers that was constantly changing colors, she made a small spell that should expand with the ship when it touches the sea. Hoping that all the upgrades she left below deck get up-sized with the ship as well.

'Hm hm hm. Since it's name starts with 'soulless' I'll make it a moon type spell for now.'

'Hmmm. Ok. Let's make it like this. Every person within the area of affect of this spell has their soul locked within the body of it's host and protected by a barrier made of the four natural elements: fire, water, wind, earth.'

'This should do it, I can modify and make more failsafes later when I actually take a step on the ship.'

Making the spell as small as possible, Mizuki tried to shrink it down till it could fit in the middle of the wheel.

When the spell shrank and condensed to the size of the smallest sail, it started shaking. An explosion was likely to occur.

In desperation, Mizuki tried to save the ship by increasing the spells size multiple times till it covered the entire floor of her room.

Sighing and canceling the spell just in case, Mizuki decided to place the spell the moment she steps on the ship, making all the modifications when she knows exactly what curse it is.

Suddenly she heard a large commotion outside. Taking a look outside her window, Mizuki noticed it was early morning along with seeing a multitude of people looking straight at her window.

Not that any of them could see through it since Mizuki still had her light element spell on it, making her window into a literal mirror. Right?

Walking closer, she saw a bunch of guards and a few adventurers closing in on the building.

'Wasn't me. I didn't do nothing.'

'Unrelated...buuut, I gotta run and meet the crew. Yup. Excuse get.'

Keeping the clothes she had on but removing her beanie and skirt and exchanging them with tight black jeans that she happened to buy, Mizuki threw all her items into her storage and used her space element to phase through the back exit and started, calmly, running with wind magic.

'At least got to look good when going out.'

"There she is!"

'They are most definetly not talking about me.'

"She's wearing full grey colored clothes."

'Coincidence.'

"She has three cat tails, she must be the one his highness is searching for."

'.....Nahhh.'

Glancing behind her it seems that her tails had taken an exit out of the back of her hoodie and were now just dangling back there, doing what cat tails do, they were mostly pushing her jeans down a little.

Feeling uncomfortable on her backside and pulling her jeans up some more, she used the wind element to make just the smallest little hole where she fit her tails through so that she would stop feeling uncomfortable and so that she won't have to worry about showing anything private anytime soon.

'Ughhh, I just bought these.'

Running and weaving through the alleyways and streets of the city she ended up running past the front of the church where she saw Will.

Stopping her wind element usage to slow down a bit, she waved to get Wills' attention and said.

"Hey Will, do me a favor will you?"

Mizuki said as she didn't stop running but threw the rapier she got from Borm's blacksmith shop infront of his feet.

"I owe you one Will!"

Not knowing what was going on, Will, seconds later saw a large group of guards running past.

One stopped infront of him and asked.

"Hey, have you seen a cat beastkin with all grey clothes run past here?"

Still not exactly knowing what was happening, Will thought for a second.

Seeing him stay silent, the guard frowned and started walking away.

"Wait!"

'I don't really get it but onee-san needs help.'

"Yes?"

"She ran that way."

Will said as she pointed to the opposite direction of the church.

"Thank you. You will definetly be rewarded for this."

The guard ran to tell the main group of the new information while Will closed his book, took the rapier and went inside the church.

'I hope this helps onee-san.'

Meanwhile, Mizuki was running to the docks.

Making her way there, she ran into the one who taught her about ships, Mr. Gregory.

Stopping for half a second Mizuki said.

"Hey Mr. Gregory, Mizuki here. Thanks for the lessons on ships, I aught to give you your salary."

Throwing him a platinum coin, she continued running without even waiting for a reply.

"Ha? What? Wait, this is way too much! Take it back and give me a silver dammit!"

Ignoring the screams of a now filthy rich man, Mizuki headed to the dock to meet the crew.

...

"Hello, you here for the request as well?"

"Hey there, yep. Me and these two are mostly here for the money though."

"Huh. Well I'm Eric. Are you sure you'll actually get it without knowing most of the specifics?"

"It's probably just a noble brat wanting to play pirate. And I'm Mason, these two are Tomi and Maryse. We were part of The Robber request party but well you should know how that ended up."

"Oh so you were part of that? Well I won't pry. Anyway, you know where this 'Captain' is?"

"Nope. Yet to show up, if I'm being honest then I think it'll just be a fat noble from the capital going through a pirate phase."

"Yeah you mentioned that and I have to say that it is a likely possibility. The fact that there wasn't any set amount per person and the fact that it goes from 10 to 25 gold is sketchy."

"If we're unlucky then the noble might just not give us anything."

"That is also likely."

"Besides us four there are a few idiots from tier 2 and 1 that just took the request just to make money."

"Honestly. The request said tier 3 didn't it."

"It said looking for tier 3+ not that they need tier 3+. Lazy writing."

Before Eric could greet Tomi and Maryse along with other 7 or so people in the group, a bell like voice was heard.

"Oi c*nts!"

That bell like voice said some not very bell like words.

The group took a glance and was stunned.

A girl running full speed yelling curses at them. If seen from a 3rd party it would be, pretty funny *wink*.

"You hear me or what, huh!?"

Taking a glance through the group, Mizuki clicked her tongue as she didn't exactly see 9 tier 3s but more like over half were tier 1-2.

"You four! Eric, Maryse, Tomi, Mason! And you two at the back! Salon and Natyr! Congrats you're part of the crew, as promised you'll get 10 to 25 gold based on performance! Now you better follow the captains orders and start f*cking running!"

Yelling out the names of those who were in tier 3 along with those who had an interesting aura, Mizuki ran straight past them but not without throwing each a platinum coin.

"That's your welcome present for proof of crewmanship! If you lose it I'll make you lose your life straight after. Now what are ye waiting for you blithering bufoons?! Run!"

The group looked at their so called captain running full speed towards the beach.

Hearing noises behind them, they turned around to see literally every guard in the city even the gate keepers joined the chase.

Realizing that they are already a part of this and that they cannot escape jail time without running away due to their captains 'welcome gift' the ones who got a platinum coin were now almost crying as they said goodbye to their home to follow a little girl claiming to be a pirate captain.

Mizuki who was nearing the 2 meter stone wall that divided the dock and the beach took out her pirate hat, jacket and bandana as she scaled the wall with a single jump.

A legendary Pirates' hat on her head, a black jacket over her grey hoodie and a red bandana in hand.

Landing on the sand with a smile, Mizuki thought to herself.

'I always wanted to run away from the authorities while looking cool doing it.'

As she continued her sprint, the wind element breafly conjuring discs under her feet to keep her from tripping she glanced behind her as she could see her 'kidnapped' crew scaling the wall 1 by 1.

"Hahahaha! It's a pirates life for me!"