The night passed slowly, too slowly for Ricardo's liking, his pistol was the only one loaded, and he had to make use of the bullet he was carrying if things got complicated.

The noises of fights and crying were flooding the entire ship, and they did nothing but irritate Ricardo, he had already slept his shift, and unfortunately it passed too quickly, he was very sleepy, and his eyelids were struggling not to close.

Luckily, he had recognized a drug that could help him stay awake, he seemed to care little for the side effects, as long as he managed to survive tonight, the purge was happening behind the wooden door of the warehouse.

The mutiny had long since passed, everything that happened now was caused by being near port, if you need to kill someone, today was your golden day. It was too difficult to find a better opportunity than this, to clear your name or satisfy your obsession, and everyone on the ship knew it.

Already in the port, acting like this would be too complicated. On a ship full of mental patients, everyone could be guilty, but on the island the patients would stand out too much, and it would not be as easy to convince the authorities to let the abuse go, as if it were happening on the ship.

* Footsteps * ... * Footsteps * Footsteps were approaching his room, interrupting Ricardo's drowsiness.

Ricardo, his eyes red from the drug and his hand trembling, raised the gun and pointed it at the door. It wasn't the first time someone had approached tonight, this was a good hiding place and many cowards knew it. But Taras and Ricardo managed to throw out all the intruders who wanted to enter.

*Push* ... *Push* The door was pushed hard.

"She's busy, man, if you don't want a bullet between the eyebrows, you better go to hell!" Ricardo screamed, Taras woke up from the scream and stared at Ricardo in a daze.

"It's me, Ricardo, I came to tell you that the riot is over, Dima told me that the two boys would probably be here" Javier shouted from the other side.

"Well, let me tell you..." Ricardo was going to get up and open the door for her.

Suddenly a hand came out and grabbed Ricardo's shoulder, it was Taras who approached his ear and murmured: "Are you an idiot or are you playing the idiot? ... Not even pigeons are that innocent, boy"

"If the riot is over... Let's sleep in the nets, why the hell sleep uncomfortable?" Ricardo was quite drugged, he did not understand what was wrong with the situation.

"He knows about drugs, idiot! ... You don't see that I mentioned Dima, it seems that the trustworthy grandfather put together a plan with Javier to kill me ..." Taras said, pushing Ricardo hard on a box, pulling out the gun, it was dangerous to leave a drugged young man with a gun.

"Only you? I don't understand why?" Ricardo asked, looking at Taras with red eyes and a dazed face.

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"Moron, you're going to be Javier's new toy..." Taras told him in a low voice.

*Knock* ...*Knock* "Are you going to the cabins or not?" Javier asked from the other side.

But Ricardo had his mouth covered by Taras, while the fisherman murmured some things to the young boy's ear, neither of them answered.

*Push* ... *Push,* The door started to be kicked.

Ricardo and Taras began to position themselves in the warehouse, they already had a barricade set up with boxes and the door was blocked, which gave them an advantage over the enemy who was forced to enter through the only door in the warehouse.

Come on, you can, bearded fish, enter through the door, nothing is going to happen to you' Taras thought, pointing the gun at the entrance, his tactical position was clearly too advantageous.

Taras looked at Ricardo and winked at him.

"Come on, Javier, don't you want to come in and play? ... Ha, ha, ha, what's up, big guy, don't you have the strength to open the door?!" Ricardo began to shout to encourage Javier.

*Push* ... *Push* The door began to be kicked and banged violently, the boxes that held it began to shake

'A good bait, good fishing and here we have a big fish' Taras was excited with a big smile on her face.

"Come on, have you ever tasted a noble, I'm 10 times better than Armin's peasant, it's going to be a unique experience, or do you think you can get better somewhere else?" For some reason in Ricardo's drug-burned head, she took pride in being the victim of a serial stalker.

*Puff!!* ... *Puff!!* The boxes were about to give way and a small opening had formed through which Javier's legs could be seen.

'Not yet, the leg is not enough, you have to be patient... There is little left for the best part...' Taras said preparing body and soul for the fight with the fish in front of him, refusing to shoot the leg of Taras.

*Piuu* A gunshot echoed through the corridor

Javier's body fell lifeless to the ground, from the opening of the door it could be seen that a good part of Javier's head had disappeared with the shot.

*Footstep* ... *Footstep* The person who had fired the shot seemed to be running away from the scene.

"They used us as bait, boy, there is an intelligent fish... Dima" Taras said somewhat disappointed, but satisfied, it seemed that having managed to attract a fish was already quite good.

"Do you think he's trying to get rid of us too?" Ricardo asked somewhat scared, seeing Javier's brains had brought him out of the trance

"I don't know... But if we are useful for the ship, it will continue to take care of us, Javier was a nuisance for many, even though we are insane that is limited to our own obsession" Taras explained also somewhat worried, he didn't want to have to a high position of the ship looking for his head.

"For someone like Dima who became obsessed with painting paintings, seeing a sailor being abused every night these weeks must have triggered the instinct of heroism in him..."

"Or maybe he just wants to correct his past, he was a pirate before he became a true believer of the sea goddess, so he probably sided with the abusers..."

"A Hero, he is as dangerous as a villain for us, Ricardo, never forget him..." Taras said looking at Javier's brain wanting to escape from the skull.

"Anyway, we give the captain the names of the sailors who participated in the mutiny, we have a great favor to collect and also now each one earns 1000 caps per head..." Ricardo said with a smile, having the captain of his side, is having Ron watching his ass and that's having an extra life.

"Yes... also, the captain distributes the salaries and private goods of the dead among all the crew members... I don't know if you knew, it's a common practice in almost all merchant ships..." Taras said with a smile on his face.

"That's a lot..." Ricardo muttered.

"Enough for you to be the captain of your own ship, boy" Taras said with a bigger smile.

"Finally, I'm going to be able to buy the fishing boat I've always wanted, ha ha ha, thanks Lucas, you condemned me to the spirit world, but if I make it out alive, I'm going straight to the blessed land ha ha ha"

"Captain Ricardo Montes Iglesias..." Ricardo muttered ambitiously.