These people fly a black flag with a skull atop their ship's mast. they are criminals who sail the seas in search of plunder. On the Blue Sea below, there are a class of people called "pirates". While the English word "pirate" is derived from the Latin pirata ("pirate, corsair, sea robber") and Greek πειρατής ( peiratēs: "brigand"), the Japanese word for pirate- kaizoku-comprises the kanji for "sea/ocean" ( 海, "sea/ocean" ?) and "thief/robber" ( 賊, "thief/robber" ?), in analogy to such terms as " bandit" ( 盗賊, tōzoku ?).
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