The Bizarre Adventure of Pirates

While the two were talking, Escanor was serving wine to the bandits.

The bandits were used to bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Seeing that Escanor looked so weak, they wanted to make fun of him and deliberately said, "Are you the boss here? Why are you so skinny like a chicken?"

The other bandits chimed in: "It has to be the underdeveloped kind."

"Yeah!"

"Haha, stunted, stunted."

Escanor made some incompetent noises out of fear, and said with a cold sweat on his face: "Please don't make fun of me, guests."

"What? You can't even take a joke?" The bandit leader slammed the table and said, "You are so shameless! Do you really think that we brothers are easy to bully?"

"How could it be..." Escanor took a step back and said with a bitter face: "I didn't mean that."

"I think that's what you mean!" The bandit leader deliberately provoked trouble, pulled out a dagger and slammed it on the table, "Tell me, how are you going to compensate us for our mental loss?"

"Mental damage or something." Escanor became even more frightened.

Facing those ferocious eyes, he lowered his head and said, "Today's meal is on me, on me."

"Is that all?" The bandit leader was still not satisfied and raised a finger: "One hundred gold coins, just pretend nothing happened, we'll give it to our friends."

"Eh? I don't have that much money." Escanor waved his hands: "I'm a small business here, I don't have any money."

"No money?" The bandit leader sneered.

After taking a quick look around the store, his eyes finally settled on the one-handed battle axe on the wine cabinet.

"Oh? That thing is in good condition and looks quite valuable." The bandit leader stroked his beard and stared at Escanor fiercely: "Give it to me! I will spare your life."

"No, that battle axe..." Escanor wanted to say something.

I was caught off guard when I heard Meliodas' voice: "Hey, Escanor, come here. I want to tell you something."

Escanor was as if he had been granted amnesty, and he made an excuse to get out of the situation, saying, "Well, I'm busy now, my dear, take your time drinking."

After saying that, he ignored everything and hurried back to the bar.

But he patted his chest and said with a wry smile: "Fortunately, you, the captain, helped me out."

Meliodas sipped his drink and said nonchalantly, "By the way, even you now can clean up those scum, right? Why are you so scared?"

"Captain, you don't understand." Escanor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "By the way, what did you want to tell me just now?"

"Ah, I saw Marin before." Meliodas said pretending not to care.

Escanor's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly, "Ms. Marlene! Is she okay now?"

"Haha, you still care about Marin so much." Meliodas smirked: "No wonder you named this place 'Beautiful Gluttony'."

"No...it has nothing to do with Miss Marlene...it's just me..." Hearing this, Escanor's face turned red.

Even the naive Elizabeth could sense his feelings.

Meliodas then said, "Good, very good, she and her new boyfriend love each other every day."

New boyfriend...

Boyfriend...

friend……

Escanor was frozen for a moment.

The whole person stood there like a wooden stake.

He opened his mouth with difficulty, as if he wanted to say something.

But in the end, not a single word was uttered.

Meliodas didn't mind making things worse, and added fuel to the fire, "You don't know, Marin's boyfriend is tall and handsome, a rare man in the world, and he's very strong."

"Really? He is very strong? Stronger than me?" Escanor's voice changed slightly.

He became less cowardly, and his tone was drawn out, with a sense of transcendence.

Elizabeth couldn't help but get goosebumps all over her body.

If you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to imagine that a person’s temperament could change so drastically in a short period of time!

“It’s hard to say, but anyway, it’s very strong.” Meliodas smiled secretly in his heart.

Although it was not very glorious, it at least aroused the "madness" and "pride" in Escanor's heart.

As for Jon's reaction...

Ok.

We’ll talk about this later.

"Haha." Escanor chuckled.

At this moment, the bandit leader who had been looking for trouble came over with a fake smile. He ignored Meliodas and Elizabeth and said to Escanor, "Don't play dead. Let's continue with our previous topic. Are you going to hand over the axe or not?"

"I'll give it to you right away." Escanor glanced at the bandit leader and turned to touch the one-handed battle axe on the wine cabinet.

Oddly enough, when he turned around, his stature inexplicably grew taller.

Meliodas nodded.

Using Marlene to stimulate Escanor had a better effect than he expected...

"You are such a waste! Good weapons are useless even if they are in your hands." The bandit leader continued chattering.

However, the next second, the axe blade slashed down.

Just one strike, clean and neat.

His entire body, along with the ground beneath him, was cut into two pieces!

"It's so ugly."

Escanor, who had completely changed, raised his head and said, "I don't understand why there are always a group of ignorant bugs who want to provoke lions."

Chapter 725 Buster Prison

The candlelight flickered and the tavern was in a mess.

Meliodas came in with his hands in his pockets and said to Escanor who was lying on the ground, "It's done. I have thrown the bodies of those bandits away."

Escanor held the battle axe in his arms, his body trembling as if he were sieved. He wanted to speak, but when the words came to his lips he couldn't help but dry heave.

Meliodas scratched his head helplessly, "We can only hold on for a while... There's really nothing we can do. We can only wait until the sun rises."

Not far away, Elizabeth looked a little pale, but her overall condition was still good.

After all, she had seen all kinds of blood and fire along the way.

Even killed the bad guys himself...

At this time, Meliodas came over and said, "This guy is very interesting, isn't he?"

"Ace...Lord Escanor..." Elizabeth spoke worriedly.

Meliodas waved his hands: "It's okay, it's okay. His current state is normal."

He stroked his smooth chin and said with a wicked smile, "But he really is obsessed with Marlene, and the effect is better than I expected."

"Master Meliodas, you are so mean. Master John is not... not Master Marlene's boyfriend." Elizabeth sighed: "When they meet again, Master Escanor and Master John will definitely clash."

"I know that, but what does it matter?" Meliodas said as a matter of course: "Jon is stronger than me, Escanor can't beat him."

After a pause, his eyes became somewhat meaningful: "It's just right for keeping the sword..."

"Ah? Lord Meliodas, what did you say?" Elizabeth asked, not hearing clearly.

Meliodas didn't want to repeat it, he put his hands on the pillow and smiled, "Come to think of it, I'm actually looking forward to that scene. I think Ban will be very happy too."

"Ban... Are you talking about the sin of greed, Mr. Ben?" Elizabeth blinked.

Meliodas nodded, "Now that we have found Escanor, our next step is to go to Bast Prison and pick up Ban."

"Bast Prison... is very dangerous, right?" Elizabeth looked worried. "I heard that only serious criminals are imprisoned in that prison, and there are many paladins guarding it for a long time."

Meliodas disagreed.

Suddenly, Escanor, who had recovered from his shock, spoke up, "Wait."

Meliodas and Elizabeth turned their heads at the same time.

"Captain... I've just thought about it carefully... I'd rather not go with you..." Escanor staggered to his feet: "Well, I still have a store to take care of..."

"Hey, hey, hey, where's the energy you had just now? You have to pick it up." Meliodas was quite helpless.

But he did not force it, he just said to Escanor: "Don't worry, I won't force you to do anything, but you are in a bad condition now, so, take a nap first, and we will talk after you wake up."

Escanor opened his mouth.

But when he met Meliodas's eyes full of kindness and concern, he still said nothing, turned silently and entered the independent room at the back.

Meliodas snapped his fingers: "Done."

Elizabeth looked thoughtful and said, "Lord Meliodas, do you plan to...take advantage of the opportunity to invite Master Escanor to join you while he regains his confidence?"

"As expected of Elizabeth-chan, you're really smart." Meliodas yawned, "I've been busy all night, and I'm sleepy too. Let's go back to the Pig Hat first and come back in a few hours."

Elizabeth: "Yes, Master Meliodas."

Time flies.

After a good rest, the two returned to "Beautiful Gluttony".

They were greeted by a tall, muscular man with a gentle face.

He was sitting at the door holding a one-handed axe and a golden sword.

"Good day, Captain." Escanor naturally raised his head and looked down at Meliodas and Elizabeth: "We can set off at any time."

"I knew you would make the right decision, Escanor." Meliodas said, winking at Elizabeth cryptically.

Elizabeth could only smile.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have believed that the oppressive big man in front of you and the timid tavern owner with a mustache last night were the same person?

can only say--

The human body is truly amazing.

……

……

after one day.

Bast Prison.

"Ha~"

The man with white hair and beard and scarlet eyes yawned in boredom.

In this dark cell, the only pleasure is the routine torture by the jailers.

"Isn't it time yet?" the man muttered to himself.

Soon, the shirtless jailer opened the heavy iron door and walked in, holding an iron whip and grinning, "Ban, happy hour has begun."

"You're just here. I can't wait any longer." Ban smiled, not taking the other person's words to heart at all.

He possesses the power of immortality and will recover even if he is seriously injured.

The reason why I stay in this prison is simply because I am too bored and choose to imprison myself.

The jailer ignored Ban and just dipped the iron whip in salt water as usual.

However, just as he was about to execute the sentence, a paladin wearing a flat round helmet suddenly appeared at the door: "Wait a moment."

"Ah, Lord Spider." The jailer stopped immediately and saluted respectfully.

The 'Terrible Fang' Knights are the strongest force guarding this place. There are four members in total, but their specific names are unknown and they refer to each other by code names.

The one in front of you is the 'Spider' who can control poisonous insects.

"Today's interrogation will be postponed. You have nothing to do here." Spider said calmly, his tone full of unquestionable meaning.

The jailer did not dare to disobey the order and quickly left the cell with the whip in his hand.