My Sponsored Orphans Became Pirate Kings
“My lord, here is the pirate’s head I brought back as a gift!”
My escort knight smiled as he thrust forward the severed head of the pirate.
The fear from that day was still vivid on his face.
His eyes had stayed wide open.
His mouth hung agape.
And it smelled salty… like it had been dusted with salt.
“...Yeah. Good work, Ann.”
“H-Hot! Thank you, thank you!”
She hid her expression and forced out a praise.
“And letters have arrived for the children who have risen.”
“Letters?”
“Yes. The usual raid reports.”
Raid reports.
My head began to throb.
Did this word really come from my lord’s escort?
The letter’s contents were even more ridiculous.
[Hello, Lord. Today I casted my defiance against the will of the gods into the sea again. All of it thanks to your grace, my lord.]
[Lord! How are you? Our pirate crew has become the biggest pirate crew in the world! You should come visit us and spar, right?]
[Good work, Lord! Today I shot down the eyes of the enemy pirates as you said! Everything is exactly as you said!]
[Hello, Lord~ Today I sank two ships. Praise me~]
“...”
Children raised with love and affection.
All of them had become pirate kings.
“How proud you must be. The people call my lord the Pirate Emperor now.”
And I was the Pirate Emperor controlling them from behind.
My dream had surely been to live on the peaceful ocean, sipping honey.
‘Why did all the children I sponsored end up as pirates?’