Ankan Samaritan thought back.
Long ago, he had lost his entire family at once.
It had been revenge carried out by people who held a professional grudge against him.
And so he lost his only daughter and the wife with whom he had promised to spend his life.
The head of a household who lost the two women he loved most in the world overnight threw everything away and became a pirate then and there.
Unable to bear the longing, he carried around bags upon bags of his daughter’s and wife’s belongings, and at some point, rumors began to spread that he dressed as a woman.
People laughed at him and called him insane, but the man, a capable businessman possessed of cold rationality, had in truth failed even to go properly mad.
And he hated himself terribly for that.
Perhaps this is better.
Point at me more. Curse me more. Laugh at me more.
His imitation of a madman grew more and more extreme.
Until now, exactly two people had noticed that he was merely a man pretending to be insane despite never truly having lost his mind.
His vice-captain, Salva Gaspar.
And one other.
「Never seen a fake pervert before.」
She had heard the entire story from Salva, and she had also heard that, for Salva’s sake, they had no choice but to travel together……
She was a girl around his daughter’s age.
Living together with her…