Miss Kaguya Wants My Surrender

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"It seems we need to find the key first to get out."

Amamiya Natsuki said.

"Maybe you're not strong enough?"

Kitagawa Marin walked forward, rubbing her hands together. "I'm stronger, let me try."

The golden-haired girl gripped the doorknob, took a deep breath, and her cheeks quickly puffed out.

"Ugh—"

A moment later.

"No, it won't open."

Kitagawa Marin let go dejectedly.

Amamiya Natsuki had already started looking for the key. "Come quickly and help find the key."

Hayasaka Ai said softly:

"Um, I'll help too."

…

The three began to search for the key.

The captain's cabin wasn't large, and there weren't many things inside, just a chair and a square long table.

As a Spy, Hayasaka Ai had received professional spy training, and naturally, her gaze fell on the table.

Logbook.

Sextant.

Compass.

Parchment…

"The table has no drawers." Hayasaka Ai mused, "If it were me, important things should be placed…"

The Spy Maid's heart stirred slightly. She subtly reached her hand to the underside of the table and quickly felt a protrusion.

"There really is something."

However, as a newbie, and a newbie pretending to be weak, Hayasaka Ai still decided to disguise herself. Her gaze shifted to Kitagawa Marin.

"Um, I once watched a pirate movie, and it seemed someone would secretly hide things on the underside of the table."

Hayasaka Ai reminded softly.

"Under the table? I'll take a look."

Kitagawa Marin was a super doer; she did whatever she said she would. She immediately knelt on the floor and looked at the underside of the table.

Amamiya Natsuki looked over, his gaze shifting slightly downwards.

The clothes on all three of them were their real-world clothes. Kitagawa Marin was wearing a standard summer outfit of a short skirt and shirt. Now kneeling on the ground, from behind, one could clearly see a faintly visible peach shape.

"There's something on the underside of the table."

Kitagawa Marin's spirits lifted. She quickly fumbled around and, after a short while, cheered and stood up: "I found the key!"

Amamiya Natsuki said speechlessly:

"Look closely, is it really a key?"

"Eh?"

Kitagawa Marin looked closely and realized that what she was holding was actually a strange piece of paper.

"The texture is so strange…" Kitagawa Marin said curiously. "It doesn't feel like ordinary paper."

"Of course not." Amamiya Natsuki reached out and touched it, feeling only a soft texture and comfortable feel. "It should be parchment."

"Eh, eh, is it really paper made from sheepskin?"

"Correct answer."

The golden-haired girl couldn't help but say:

"There's no crab meat in crab sticks, so I thought parchment was a type of paper similar to sheepskin."

Parchment, as the name suggests, is paper made from sheepskin. It is soft, delicate, easily foldable, and if preserved well, can even last for thousands of years.

If there was any drawback, it would probably be that it is super expensive.

"The key might be wrapped inside the parchment." Kitagawa Marin was unwilling to give up. She unfolded the parchment and was quickly disappointed. "There's nothing inside."

"There's a drawing on it."

Amamiya Natsuki took the parchment and observed it carefully.

Hayasaka Ai curiously leaned closer and, using the dim moonlight, looked at the parchment. "…It looks like a ship?"

Amamiya Natsuki said, "It should be the ship we're on."

"The name next to it should be the ship's name, right?" Kitagawa Marin put her right hand on her hip, her tone subtle. "The Flying Dutchman… This name feels a bit familiar. Is it Blackbeard's ship from One Piece?"

It's Davy Jones. Neither in reality nor in the manga does the Flying Dutchman have any connection to Blackbeard.

"It looks like a treasure map?"

On a certain room on the parchment, a treasure chest symbol was clearly drawn.

"Whether it's a treasure map or not, it's certainly not a key." Kitagawa Marin looked around. "Where could the key be?"

Hayasaka Ai, hearing this, slightly furrowed her brows.

She had originally thought the key would be on the underside of the table, but now that it wasn't there, where else could the key be?

"I probably know."

Amamiya Natsuki folded the parchment. "Do you see those two marks on the floor?"

Kitagawa Marin's eyes widened as she looked down at the floor, where she indeed saw two slightly indented scratches, as if left by something that frequently rubbed against it. "...I see them. What do they have to do with the key?"

Amamiya Natsuki reached out and tried to push the table; it was indeed very heavy. "Help me push the table."

"Coming."

"Push it along the scratches."

"..."

The three of them worked together and quickly moved the table. The heavy solid wood table began to move along the scratches, and before long, it reached the wall.

[After careful observation, you discover that the wooden board above your head is very unusual.]

Amamiya Natsuki lightly pushed himself up and jumped onto the table, then reached up and fumbled around, quickly finding a gap at the edge of a wooden board, just wide enough for his finger.

With a gentle push of his finger, the wooden board quickly slid inward, revealing a fist-sized, pitch-black space.

Amamiya Natsuki reached his hand inside, fumbled around briefly, and soon a key appeared in his hand.

"Found it."

Besides the key, Amamiya Natsuki also found a piece of paper.

This wasn't parchment; its texture was quite rough. Amamiya Natsuki unfolded the paper, and on it was clearly a monster.

"Eh?" Kitagawa Marin blurted out, "A dog-headed person?"

That's right.

The monster depicted on the paper was indeed a standard dog-headed person, but its body was quite slender.

"There's a scale next to it…" Hayasaka Ai pursed her pink lips, guessing, "It should be Anubis, Death from ancient Egypt, right?"

Amamiya Natsuki nodded:

"Judging by the appearance, clothing, and the scale, it's Anubis."

Anubis from ancient Egypt, also known as the "Guardian of the Scales," liked to play with scales. He would place the heart of the deceased on one end of the scale and a feather on the other. If the heart was heavier than the feather, the heart would be swallowed whole, and the soul of the deceased would suffer in hell. Conversely, the deceased could go to heaven.

It's temporarily unknown what this thing is for, but the current hint is clear.

[You discovered a hidden hint.]

Unfortunately, the specific content of the hint was not given.

Amamiya Natsuki put away the paper, took the key, walked to the door, inserted the key, and successfully unlocked it.

"Let's go, we're going out."

Kitagawa Marin suddenly had a bold idea: "Wait a minute, for hide-and-seek, if we block the door and hide in the room without going out, pretending no one is in the room, would that work?"

Of course not, how could he let her pass so easily!

Amamiya Natsuki sighed: "If it's a Ghost, it doesn't need to open the door to enter the room."

"I forgot." Kitagawa Marin slapped her forehead. "Ghosts can pass through walls; they don't need to push the door to come in… Hiding in the room is a dead end."

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