I Became an Officer in Another World in Just 5 Minutes - Chapter 101

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Episode 101

Drrrrrrrrrr!

“Oh, it works.”

“Yes, what a relief.”

After pressing a few plausible buttons, the magical device activated and the boat began to move.

“The more I pull this, the higher the output goes. Direction is controlled by the wheel.”

“It seems so.”

“Well, there’s nothing difficult about it. It’ll be easier than driving a carriage.”

A confident voice.

Well, it did look easy to me too.

‘The big thing is there are no obstacles.’

There are no drunk driving uncles, reckless aunties, or young troublemakers here.

You could just call it heaven.

“But I don’t see as many fishing boats as I expected.”

The pier we departed from was the same – there were many fishing boats, but not that many actually going out to fish.

“I heard most of them went down south. It would be quite dangerous to fish here right now.”

Certainly, fishing near the border during wartime wouldn’t be easy unless you had two lives.

“Then we’d have no excuse if we meet the navy, would we?”

“Just because they went down doesn’t mean they all went down. We can just say we came up because the fish down there were all gone.”

“Ah.”

Lieutenant Eden had prepared everything except driving the boat.

“But being out on the sea feels really good. All my worries disappear. Don’t you think so?”

Eden spoke with a pleased expression, but I couldn’t agree with him.

‘My worry is you, so how could it be good?’

Rather, being stuck in this narrow space with no escape, I feel like my lifespan is being shaved away in real time.

“Yes, that’s what the sea is like.”

“Captain, take this opportunity to empty your mind while looking at the sea. You usually have a lot of worries, don’t you?”

The way he talks, anyone would think we came here to have fun.

‘What is this, anyone would think he’s some old man who’s lived his whole life.’

Anyway, he’s just a young know-it-all.

“How about I drive until we cross the territorial waters and you rest a bit?”

“That’s fine. If we’re going to struggle, we should do it together. How could I rest while making only the Captain work?”

I suggested it because I wanted to be comfortable alone for a while, but as expected, he’s a formidable opponent.

“By the way, Captain, do you know how to slice sashimi?”

“Sashimi? Why do you suddenly ask that?”

“Didn’t that guy say he put fish he caught yesterday in there? We should taste it.”

Lieutenant Eden spoke as if it were obvious.

It was surprising, but at the same time I thought it wouldn’t be bad.

‘Damn, I think I’m becoming like him.’

This is really the worst.

“I don’t have experience with sashimi, but I’ll give it a try.”

“Tsk, what did you even do as Mess Hall Captain? Never even sliced sashimi.”

‘No, why would a Mess Hall Captain slice sashimi?’

A company commander is a management position, not someone who cooks on site.

Besides, even if I had cooked, sashimi with its risk of food poisoning would never be on the menu.

“Cooking wasn’t part of my duties.”

“You did your job very carelessly. Just keep holding this. I’ll go do it.”

“Do you know how to slice sashimi?”

“Isn’t that obvious?”

A response as if asking why I couldn’t do that.

For a moment, his voice was so confident that I almost mistook slicing sashimi for common knowledge.

“I’ve noticed since before, but your cooking skills are amazing.”

“If you do it a lot, anyone can do this much.”

Well, that’s not wrong.

‘But this is way beyond the level of living alone.’

Starting with slicing sashimi, unless you’re a YouTuber, who slices sashimi to eat while living alone?

‘There’s definitely something there.’

He seems to want to show off his talent a bit, but he must have learned it professionally for some mission.

“I should try cooking when I have time too.”

“You say you’ll do what you didn’t even do as Mess Hall Captain. Just hold the wheel properly.”

Lieutenant Eden stabbed my heart with facts, then came up carrying a yellowtail.

‘But how is he going to prepare that?’

I didn’t hear that the fishing boat was equipped with sashimi knives.

“The flesh is just right, they put in some pretty good ones. Must have spent some money.”

“I see. But what will you use to prepare it?”

“With a knife, of course. Don’t tell me you don’t even know that.”

Eden drew his sword that was sheathed at his waist.

‘Hmm, he’s going to cook with that?’

A sword estimated to have cut at least dozens of necks.

Of course he would have kept it clean, but I couldn’t help feeling strange about it.

“It was a gift so I don’t know the price, but nothing cuts as well as this.”

‘Of course. It’s a weapon you use risking your life.’

He said something obvious while washing the sword once in seawater and began slicing the sashimi.

Slice, slice.

He removed the yellowtail’s organs and scales with precise movements, and his skill was considerable even to an amateur’s eyes.

“Try it.”

“Uh… yes, thank you.”

Lieutenant Eden put a piece of sashimi cut to an appropriate thickness into my mouth.

“How is it?”

“It’s… delicious.”

Don’t they say the most delicious ramen is seafood ramen eaten on a boat?

It seems sashimi is the same way.

‘What’s with this richness? It’s this delicious even without soy sauce?’

I definitely thought sashimi was eaten for the soy sauce flavor, but this is quite a cultural shock.

“Slicing sashimi personally for a subordinate, where else would you find such a person?”

“That’s… right.”

This time I really couldn’t argue back.

‘Maybe he’s not such a bad person after all.’

For a moment my evaluation of him almost changed, but I shook my head vigorously.

‘Get a grip, what are you, a child getting happy because someone gave you food?’

No matter how delicious the sashimi is, I shouldn’t be swayed.

“If this wasn’t a mission, we could have a drink too. What a shame.”

“Ha… haha.”

A truly regretful expression.

I thought he had forgotten we were on a mission, but fortunately that wasn’t the case.

The tension relaxed a bit while eating sashimi, but it didn’t take long for it to tighten again.

“Hmm, this is an emergency.”

It had already been an hour since we entered the Adits Empire’s territorial waters.

Lieutenant Eden, who had been surveying the surroundings with binoculars, frowned.

“Don’t tell me it’s an enemy warship…?”

“No, it’s just a regular fishing boat, and it’s coming this way.”

At Lieutenant Eden’s words, I also raised my telescope to check.

‘It really is just a regular fishing boat.’

A boat that looked much the same as ours.

Here, there were two choices.

Either just quietly allow their approach, or run away.

“Let’s try to act like fishermen well.”

“Understood.”

Lieutenant Eden decided on the direction of making contact with the approaching fishing boat.

‘That’s the right choice.’

If we ran away for no reason and they reported us to the military, it would become quite a headache.

Swoosh.

As we busily cast our fishing nets, the distance quickly closed and the fishing boat approached right in front of us.

“Hey there, are you catching well here right now?!”

About five people were aboard the boat, and among them, a man who appeared to be the captain called out to us.

“Not as much as usual, but we’re catching a decent amount.”

“But which village are you from? Looking at your boat, it doesn’t seem like you’re from around here.”

A quite tricky question.

I turned my head and looked up at Eden.

‘Bro, you can answer that, right?’

Firm trust.

Fortunately, even if he didn’t know how to handle boats, Eden was near perfect in handling such variables.

“We came from Galrot Village.”

“Galrot Village? Are there fishermen there?”

“There aren’t many, but there are some. Our village has to eat fish too, doesn’t it? And where are you from?”

“Where else, Ris Village right up ahead. More importantly, did you get permission from the village chief to fish here?”

“Permission?”

Eden tilted his head at the unfamiliar story.

“Oh my, this fellow. Are you catching fish right now without even getting the village chief’s permission?”

A man boldly claiming ownership of the sea.

Setting aside the mission, it was absurd.

‘What, does he think he’s a lord?’

I could understand if he asked whether we got permission from a lord.

But why was a village chief suddenly brought up?

“Both our village and Ris Village are under the same Lord of the Chamber, so is there a need to get permission?”

I don’t know how he knew even such details, but professional place names came from the lieutenant’s mouth.

“This fellow, we manage these waters, so naturally you need to get the village chief’s permission. Don’t you know that?”

Didn’t he think of a rebuttal?

The expression of the man who had been speaking good-naturedly became distorted.

‘What is there to manage in the sea anyway?’

Do they fertilize it, or do they hoe it?

It would be fortunate if they just didn’t dump trash, but management?

It was just nonsense.

“This is the first time I’m hearing such a story. Well, I understand. For today, I’ll go back and visit the village.”

Since we wouldn’t be coming back anyway, Eden took a step back.

But they weren’t as reasonable as we thought.

“Before you go, I need to see how much fish you caught here.”

The man said this while making a move to cross over to our boat.

‘What an annoying person.’

Eden seemed to feel the same way as me, as his expression wasn’t very good either.

“Should we just deal with them?”

A small whisper only loud enough for me right next to him to hear.

Obviously, if he set his mind to it, it wouldn’t take even a minute for their lives to disappear.

‘Dealing with them would be easier.’

But the reason we were putting in this much effort was naturally to avoid creating any disturbance.

“Do we really have to go that far? I’ll go back, sort things out, and stop by Ris Village.”

“I just said I’d take a look, so why are you being like this? I need to know how much you caught in our territory. Or what, did you catch some treasure?”

An unreasonable man.

It seemed like there was no answer other than dealing with him to change his mind.

“Hah.”

In this hopeless situation, Eden sighed and took a step back.

“Fine, come and check. Treasure, what treasure? It just smells fishy.”

“You should have said that from the beginning. Boys, come over.”

They brought their boat alongside, and not just the man alone, but everyone except one person came over.

“You came out to sea with just two people?”

“Hiring people costs too much money, so I just bring my nephew along.”

“True, labor costs are no joke these days. The warehouse is over here, isn’t it?”

“That’s right. Open it and look as much as you want.”

With Eden’s generous permission, the man raised the corners of his mouth and lifted the door leading to the warehouse.

“Wow! You caught quite a lot.”

Perhaps more than expected, the man opened his mouth wide in admiration.

Meanwhile, Eden quietly placed his hand on my shoulder.

“Nephew.”

“Yes?”

A terrible form of address as if we had become blood relatives.

It was a setting we had to maintain during the mission.

“Go over to the boat on the other side.”

Lieutenant Eden whispered, bringing his mouth almost to my ear.

What he wanted to say was simple.

“Deal with the remaining personnel.”

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