The sailors went to bandage themselves and, with Dima's help, luckily not all of them were as bad as Ricardo and none of them fainted like he did. But all of them had their hands quite shattered, not only from fishing, but from the accumulated work of so many days, if they wanted the ship to move forward they had no other option but to sacrifice their own bodies to achieve it.

"Is everyone taken care of? If so, get to work and arrange the fish, follow Taras' example, look at that spirit, it seems that he doesn't plan to stop until everything is done" Said the captain looking at the sailors on the deck.

"Dima, go see the ritual in the box and tell me what you think of it" He gave another order and went to accommodate the fish together with Taras

"What do we do with Calix, Captain?" Ron asked, sneering at the sailor he didn't want to work with.

"Give him 10 lashes, if he doesn't settle the fish after that, whip him until he does, but don't kill him... we need him alive... for now" Wiliam replied as he arranged the fish, as if without give importance to the punishment of the sailor who had lost the will to live.

Ron picked up the whip and went to give Calix the punishment, in a way Ricardo's fainting was the fault of this bago that he expected to get out alive at the expense of others,

"Why didn't you obey when asked?" Ron asked, looking at the sailor on the ground, who was looking at him with hate.

"..." The sailor didn't answer, he just continued to glare at Ron and from time to time looked at the whip in his hand.

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"Answers!!" Ron yelled, giving the first lash, drawing blood, in the sailor's cheek.

"..." But Calix was still silently looking at him with even more hatred.

"I... told you... that... you will answer!!" Four lashes hit the sailor on the ground in the arms.

The sailor winced as he was whipped by Ron, but still didn't scream, when Ron finished giving him the four lashes, he met Ron's eyes looking at him with more hatred.

Ron raised his arm to fire another whip but was stopped by someone, he turned to see who dared to interrupt the captain's punishment, and it was the captain himself.

"It's enough?" Ron asked, looking at Wiliam with his hand on the whip.

"Yes..." Wiliam said with a calm hand, taking the whip.

"...it's enough of the useless, who don't obey orders... Go and tie the useless to the mastiff's back, I'll give them the last 5 lashes" Said the captain looking at the unfortunate.

Violently from the resisting sailor's struggle, Ron ended up dragging him to the mastiff and tying him on his back.

The captain looked at the sailor's back, then at the whip in his hand, and then at the sword, finally he said violently he said:

"When a man...!!"

* AHHHHHH * Calix yelled, as the clothes on his back were ripped apart and blood began to stain them.

"... loses his fear!!"

* AHHHHHH * Calix yelled crying, while he struggled to untie himself from the mastiff and escape, on his back a large wound began to drip blood.

"... of death!!"

"Please stop!!" Calix yelled crying, trying to move to avoid the whiplash as best he could, another large wound formed on his back

"... it must!!"

*.....* Calix had fainted from the pain, but pieces of meat fell to the ground from the whiplash.

"... be returned!!"

* .... * Another lash fell on the unconscious Calix, but this time it went straight to his feet, completely tearing through the palms of Calix's feet.

The captain was finally able to complete the sentence, 'When a man loses his fear of death, it must be returned', the rest of the men stared in horror at Calix's back.

"You better not let anyone follow in his footsteps, because the next punishment is not going to be whipping !!" Wiliam yelled to the sailors on deck, then stepped to the rail, threw the whip across the deck and watched it sink.