Chapter 59: The ledger
About an hour before Cervantes' ship arrived in Valencia; Rock and his new friend, Alan, talked in their cabin.
- Ok, let's revise the plan. – suggested Alan.
- When Cervantes gets off the ship, I'll go to his cabin. You follow him and, if he tries to come back, you distract him. – said Rock by heart. – Once in the cabin, I'll look for the ledger, read it and copy the most interesting information.
- Well. I'll do my best to prevent him from catching you, but if he does, I have nothing to do with it. Your idea, your responsibility.
- No problem.
- I hope you're right and there's something useful in that ledger.
When the ship arrived at the port, the crew started to disembark.
They saw a woman approaching the boat, so one of them asked Cervantes:
- What shall we do with that woman, captain?
- Nothing. – he ordered. – I'll take care of her.
His men obeyed and left the ship, leaving Cervantes on board.
However, one of them approached him. It was Alan.
- Captain... – he said.
- What do you want?
- Don't you…leave the ship today, sir?
- We have a visitor. – Cervantes answered pointing at the woman.
- Well…I…I think we have a problem in the held.
- A problem? – yelled the captain.
- Yes...one of the powder barrels is pierced. I guess rats are behind this.
- I can't take care of that now. – Cervantes raised his voice. – Do it yourself. Don't leave any of those vermins alive.
- But I…
- Now!
Alan could only follow Cervantes' orders and head to the held, despite knowing there weren't any rats in it.
Meanwhile, the captain decided to check what that woman was going to do on his ship.
She inspected it and all its cabins, with an invisible Cervantes walking beside her.
Finally, the woman headed to Cervantes' cabin, where he decided he would confront her.
However, Rock was still in there, copying information from Cervantes' ledger.
There were some really interesting things in it.
The most interesting fact was that Soul Calibur had been transformed to look like an ordinary sword. Cervantes had discovered it when he had interrogated a warrior named Olcadan.
One of Cervantes' goals was to find and destroy Soul Calibur, in order to make Soul Edge invincible. His other goal was to find Soul Edge itself.
The ledger also said that there was an immortal man looking for the two swords in order to kill himself. On that same page, on the upper right corner, Cervantes had written: "Soul Edge?".
Rock supposed that Cervantes believed that man already had Soul Edge in his power.
He was still reading the book when he heard something behind his back. A woman was approaching him, so he left the ledger on the bed and kept the piece of paper where he had copied the information in his pocket.
He was about to leave the cabin when he noticed that something else was coming: Cervantes.
The woman couldn't see him, but the pirate could, so Rock hid himself behind the cabin's door.
The woman came in and picked up the ledger, but she hadn't even opened it when Cervantes arrived and slammed the door, thus startling her.
Fortunately, Rock was standing behind Cervantes' back, so the captain didn't see him. The woman was looking right at him, but she couldn't see him either because he was invisible.
It seemed like the woman wasn't seeing Cervantes as well.
Suddenly, the captain said:
- Who are you and what are you doing on my ship?
She looked around, confirming that Cervantes was invisible too. She answered:
- My name is Isabella Valentine. Who are you?
Cervantes introduced himself and she gave a jump, so Rock knew that the pirate had just appeared in front of her.
He raised his gun and aimed at Isabella's head, and they started talking.
Rock was scared Cervantes might turn around and see him, but he couldn't leave the cabin without being heard, so he stayed listening to the conversation.
He learnt that that woman was Cervantes' daughter, and they had just discovered it too.
When their conversation finished, Cervantes said that he couldn't let her leave alive, so he wanted her to join his crew despite being a woman.
He was about to shoot her, and at that very moment Rock knew that he had to do something.
Rock pounced on the captain without thinking about the consequences.
Cervantes was pushed at the very moment he was pulling the trigger, so his shot deviated and hit the cabin's ceiling.
Isabella didn't hesitate and left the ship running, without caring about what or who had saved her.
Meanwhile, Rock and Cervantes struggled, the pirate having dropped his gun.
Rock was much stronger than his captain, so he managed to immobilize him.
Soon after, Alan arrived, warned by the gunshot.
- What happened? – he asked.
- New sheriff in town. – answered Rock smiling.