chapter 15

I woke up early in the morning feeling remarkably refreshed as I thought about what happened yesterday after miss jones had left.

After finishing my drink and leaving the bar, I could not bear it anymore. I felt my iron would finally fail me as I made a beeline straight into the direction of the town's brothel.

After living an entire year in isolation, without being able to see even the hint of a woman, I had finally snapped.

As I reached the brothel, I burst through the doors; ignoring all formalities, I took a five thousand belly note and shoved it in the hands of the brothel's madame, which seemed to be the right choice as she seemed to have understood my urgency. And so she brought me to a room with several girls and told me to chose.

I didn't even have the willpower to go over them all as I grabbed the first girl I found pleasing to the eye and led her to one of the empty rooms and kept going at it until the poor girl seemed to be on the verge of fainting.

Once the deed was done and I felt satisfied, I stuffed another five thousand belly bill into the girl's hands, wore my clothes, and left without saying anything.

I then made my way to the ship, and after greeting Wilson and telling him that I'd inform him of my discoveries tomorrow, I just threw myself at the bed and fell asleep almost instantly.

Finally finished spacing, I made my way out of the cabin after having a quick breakfast.

It didn't take me long to spot Wilson, who was lazing about in his usual spot, looking around the ship. So I made my to him and sat down in front of him.

"Alright big guy, look alive we can't keep lazing out here," I said as I unfurled the map on the surface of an empty barrel separating us.

"it's not that I'm lazing around, I'm simply guarding our luggage, besides we had to have some information before acting, and that's your job you can't really expect a gorilla to do that kind of work," he said while nodding his head sagely and arrogantly as if he was a philosopher preaching some great wisdom to the unwashed masses.

"you fucking lump of muscles you only remember you're a gorilla at times like this when it suits you the most. ugh, whatever I don't have time to becker with you so just shut up and listen if you're not gonna say anything useful," I said in an irritated tone of voice, to which he snorted derisively.

"the Island we are currently at is a desert Island called the ballywood kingdom. it has several towns and villages scattered across its borders with a big city at the center of the Island acting as the capital of the kingdom, it's also known for importing bally wood, a kind of wood that is very suitable for building ships, " I said while pointing at the map with my index finger.

"We are inside a town situated on the west shore of the island that is called silver town courtesy to the silver mines located at the hills near the town," I said as I gestured with my index finger at the dot in the map that represented the location of the town.

"We currently only have enough food and drink to last us for two weeks tops, maybe three if we ration which we both know is impossible. and the amount of money we have will only be able to extend that by a week if we use it to buy more rations," I said again, pointing at the barrels which we used to store our food and drinks. And finally noticed a look of worry on Wilson's face at the Idea of not having enough food.

"Our top priority right now is to get another, bigger ship and to secure more rations, to secure more rations and get another ship we need to gain money, and the only way for us to gain money right now is stealing or doing some bounty hunting," I remarked as I took a bundle of folded yellow papers. After going through them, I took one out and placed it above the map.

"We can't go around robbing people because it would clash with some of my bigger plans, but luckily for us this island is teeming with all kinds of outlaws, and one of them just so happens to operate near this town," I said plainly as I pointed at the yellow wanted poster, which I had placed above the map previously.

"sam bass, a former resident of the silver town, he used to make a living as a soldier only to defect later and start his own gang, bounty: 5400000 belly, wanted dead or alive for murder, rape, armed robbery..etc. this is our target, for now, once we take him out and claim his bounty, we'll go to the capital by train to buy some bally wood which this kingdom is known for and named after, as it's said to be very good for making ships." I said as I removed the wanted poster and started gesturing at the map again.

"once we have the wood we'll haul it to this town at the eastern shore of the island called shipwrights town, once there we'll make a down payment for building the ship and I'll snoop around for any bounties there for us to claim," I said and raised my head to take a look at Wilson to see if he was still with me.

"All alright seems simple enough, but more importantly, is this sam guy strong or what?" Wilson said with an expectant smile as he seemed to look forward to the fighting part of the plan more than anything else.

"probably not, he's something of a monster to the locals here but that's only because of this place's low standards. though that doesn't mean we should lower our guard when going after him," I said in a purposefully grave tone to make sure that I was clearly understood.

"Okay, okay, I get it geez, I just have to be careful right?" Wilson said in an annoyed tone but nodded in agreement nonetheless.

"as long as you understand that then it's fine, make sure you're ready in one hour as that's when we'll go out on our hunt," I said as I got up and started to make my preparations.