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"System, can I bestow the Yae Miko template to Carina now?"
[Notice: It's currently not possible to bestow the template to Carina.]
"Wow, so it means Carina doesn't really intend to become my crew member, huh."
While murmuring to himself, Arton shook his head and said to Carina:
"Thank you for your 'sincerity,' Carina."
"By the way, do you know how to navigate?"
Carina nodded and said:
"To be honest, Captain Arton, I am quite confident in my navigation skills."
"Since you don't want me to be the musician of the pirate crew."
"I can be your navigator."
After speaking, Carina even gave Arton a big smile.
"A navigator, huh? Sadly, I also have an excellent candidate for that role."
"You already have someone for the navigator role?"
"Yes, you might know this candidate as well."
"How could that be? It can't be such a coincidence in the world."
Carina laughed awkwardly.
But thinking of Arton's knowledge of the world's history, she felt it wasn't impossible for him to say.
Since Arton wants to recruit the best musician, he would naturally choose the best navigator he remembers.
Carina thought about this, guessing the excellent navigators she knew.
"The one with excellent navigation skills... Arton couldn't possibly mean Nami, could he?"
"Since he knows me, he must know Nami too."
"But, Nami's navigation skills aren't necessarily better than mine."
Carina thought to herself.
"Um, Captain Arton, if you won't let me be the musician or the navigator."
"What role should I play in your pirate crew?"
Carina pouted, showing a wronged expression to Arton.
"How about becoming my maid, Carina?"
"You seem quite adept at taking care of people."
Arton pointed out, referring to the fruit Carina was offering to him.
"A maid, huh? Captain Arton, you really know how to enjoy life."
Carina couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth.
Hearing the word "maid," she inevitably thought of the doujinshis drawn by Arton, where she, dressed in a maid outfit, knelt before him to… comfort him...
Instantly, a blush spread across Carina's cheeks.
'Hmph, to think he would draw me in that manner.'
'Don't blame me then for stealing your treasure.'
Carina sneered inwardly, slowly firming up her intention to leave Arton's side.
Of course, her face didn't show any dissatisfaction.
Instead, she pretended to be shy and said to Arton:
"Now that I am Captain Arton's maid."
"Let me do something a maid ought to do."
"Captain Arton, how about lying on my lap?"
While saying this, Carina put down the fruit plate, knelt in front of Arton, and patted her smooth thighs under her short skirt.
"Then I won't be polite."
Arton's lips curved up, and he agreed without hesitation.
He knew Carina was acting, but since she was offering a favor, he saw no reason to refuse.
In an instant, Arton lay down, burying his face into Carina's lap from the side.
"Uh, Captain Arton, are you lying down the wrong way?"
"For a lap pillow, shouldn't it be the back of the head that's down?"
Feeling Arton's breath on her skin, Carina couldn't help but twitch her mouth again.
She had seen such a scene in her comics.
And in the following plot of the doujinshis, it was her turn to blush and slowly submit to Arton because of his actions.
Once again, a blush appeared on Carina's face.
And with it, a bit of worry.
She was concerned Arton might actually continue along the plot of the drawings.
In that case, she might not be able to resist Arton.
"In my hometown, this is how we do lap pillows."
Arton's muffled voice came through.
"This... Okay then." Carina, hearing this dialogue that was exactly like the one from the doujinshis, quickly changed the subject and said:
"Captain Arton, you asked me earlier if I knew how to navigate. Are you planning to go somewhere?"
"Yes! I do have a place I want to go, but before that, I want to make a trip to a nearby town."
"A nearby town?"
"I don't understand navigation, nor can I make much sense of these nautical charts, so I'm relying on you, Carina."
"I understand. I'll help you, Captain Arton, reach the nearby town."
A gleam flashed in Carina's eyes, her mind already plotting how to escape from Arton once they reached the nearby town.
Now, she was genuinely worried that if she continued to stay by Arton's side, the events from the doujinshis would actually come to pass.
Just then, she received another prompt from her journal.
'What is he recording now?'
'Wait, he didn't upload my photo now, did he?'
After glancing at Arton, who still had his head buried in her lap, she quickly opened her journal.
'This, he really did upload it.'
Carina saw the photo of herself smiling while providing a lap pillow for Arton and nearly couldn't resist pushing him away.
[Photo: Carina's Lap Pillow!]
[I didn't expect that things from the doujinshis with Carina would happen in reality.]
[Carina's lap pillow is quite nice.]
[That pretty thigh skin seems to reflect sunlight.]
[Burying my head down and feeling the flesh on those thighs slowly indent under the pressure is a pleasure to describe.]
[This makes me look forward to some of the subsequent plots happening.]
Seeing this, Carina's body couldn't help but shudder.
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