Seeing this, Guardian Knight Bruh, the most adept at reading situations, certainly wouldn't linger and be a nuisance, so he quickly gestured to the pirates around him.
The group immediately covered their mouths and silently withdrew.
"Hmm? What's the problem?" Byron turned to the apparently nervous girl behind him.
Violet, who had grown quite a bit taller during this time, stood before Byron, tilted her head up to him, and finally mustered the courage to ask the question she had been holding back for a long time.
"Good citizen sir, would you like to become a true, permanent citizen of Iron Anchor Bay and be my... first mate on the 'Flame Rose'?"
That was a close one; I almost blurted out "you are a good person."
Others might not resist this temptation, but he could.
However, even if it were not the situation he had imagined, he still couldn't accept the position of first mate.
It was for no other reason; he was simply afraid this Bay Citizen Princess wasn't resilient enough!
