The Scholar Who Didn't Know Murder Was a Crime

Vikingham, a scholar who spent his entire life in the Holy Land, grows up utterly unaware that murder is illegal. When he joins the Roger Pirates, he believes he is a weak academic who cannot even kill a chicken. Five years later, he is begging his crewmates to leave enemies for him so he can test his new technique on them. By his tenth year, he has become more ruthless than his captain, ready to turn anyone who crosses them into a bloody mist. After arriving at Laugh Tale, Vikingham sees the truth of history as just a beginning, not an end. Refusing to let the crew disband, he argues that the true path forward is to defeat every rival and cement the Pirate King's legacy through force. Twenty years later, the student surpasses the master; after all, if his captain was the Pirate King, then his own ambition must be to reign over the entire world.