Chapter 129: Son
“Name.”
“Hmph!”
“Ah!!”
Seeing this, Em directly stabbed another knife harshly into Zannick’s hand.
“Father!”
Yuta, who was tied five flowers big bind to the mast, saw this scene with eyes splitting, struggling desperately.
“Name.”
Em still asked with a dark face.
“You bastards let go of my father!”
“Ugh!”
Em stabbed another knife, but this time Zannick was prepared and forcibly held back without crying out.
As a proud Shandia warrior, he could not submit to the opponent’s martial prowess, let alone show weakness in front of his son.
“This is the last opportunity. Next time I will chop off his neck!” Em said coldly.
“Name!”
“Yu, Yuta.”
The young man tied to the mast looked at his father’s miserable state and the opponent’s words that didn’t sound like a joke at all, finally speaking tremblingly.
“Yuta! You can’t yield…”
Bang!
Em directly kicked toward Zannick’s head, who was still trying to struggle, knocking him out.
“Na… cough! Who are you? Where are you from? What do you want with him?”
Em, who almost followed Aoxi and said it smoothly, quickly changed his words and directly asked the more important question.
The Shandia young man saw Em being so rough and wanted to say something more, but seeing the opponent directly place the knife on his father’s neck, he forcibly held back.
“I… I am a Shandia reserve warrior, from Cloud Village. I came because there is an urgent matter in the village, so I came to find my father to return to the village.”
“What urgent matter?”
“The sky people’s god led those God Squad to the village again.”
“But the village’s White Sea patrol team sent out has lost contact, and Father’s squad came out to search for them and has not returned for a long time.”
“So the chieftain asked me to come look.”
The young man named Yuta told everything in detail.
After all, he was just a thirteen-year-old child. Even though he had aspired since childhood to become the greatest warrior in the tribe like his father, in front of a pirate like Em who rolled out of iron and blood, it was still not enough.
Moreover, the chieftain had repeatedly instructed him before departure to make Zannick return immediately after finding him.
Now the village’s warrior numbers are seriously insufficient, and facing those fully armed God Squad would be very dangerous.
However, Em was not interested at all in these messy things like “God Squad” and “village,” but seeing that the other side had started to cooperate, he directly asked the most important question.
“Golden City—Shandora, do you know where it is?”
Hearing the name “Shandora,” the Shandia young man’s pupils suddenly contracted, and this scene was exactly caught by Em.
“Speak.”
The sharp blade cut open the young man’s father’s skin, and strands of blood dripped down the blade onto the deck. Em was stimulating him in this way.
“I’ll talk!”
“Shandora is our Shandia people’s former hometown! But hundreds of years ago, it was occupied by those sky people!”
After the young man shouted, he urgently looked toward Em, while Em looked toward Aoxi.
“Mm, this brat is not lying.”
Little Aoxi nodded, then came to Yuta’s side and untied the ropes for him.
“See, if you had cooperated earlier, it would have been fine. You made your old man take so many knives for nothing.”
“Also, Em, I’m telling you, why do you always like these bloody violent scenes? Look, you’ve scared the child.”
The young man who regained freedom gratefully looked at this girl who was even smaller than himself but unusually beautiful, then hurried to his father’s side.
“Hmph! Since we already know ‘Shandora’ really exists, you people are useless. Just kill them all and throw them off the ship.”
Em was still speaking coldly, scaring the young man to quickly shield his father behind him.
Aoxi also followed him in front of Em.
“So I told you, it’s not easy for people to grow up this big. Don’t always kill this and kill that at every turn.”
“Every life is a unique miracle. Can’t you respect it a little…”
“Your naive thinking will sooner or later cost you your life!”
“I’m not a fool. These eyes can still tell which ones cannot be spared and which ones can be let off with a life.”
For example, the man in the pool of blood in front of him. Although the opponent attacked him first, he was not some heinous person.
On the contrary, he was a brave warrior who would risk his life to protect his homeland.
For people with shining souls like this, Aoxi naturally would not kill if she could avoid it.
While Aoxi and Em started arguing due to differing ideals, Obei, who had been studying those weapons nearby, took the initiative to come to Zannick’s side and used bandages to stop his bleeding.
“Lift his hands high. For this through-and-through wound, stop the bleeding first and then fix it. I’ll bandage him now. Later, find two wooden boards.”
“Oh, oh, okay!”
The young man, who was originally somewhat at a loss, saw someone come to help bandage and quickly did as instructed.
Obei first bandaged the shallower wound on his neck, then used the shield fragment the young man found to fix his palm.
“Alright, there won’t be risk of excessive blood loss for now. The rest needs rest.”
After packing up the bandages and alcohol, Obei stood up to leave. At this time, Yuta noticed that her hands surprisingly had not a drop of blood on them.
“Thank you! You, what’s your name?”
“Obei.”
Obei replied in her somewhat mechanical voice.
“And the one you should thank is not me, but that red-haired idiot over there.”
“Your father attacked her first, but she decided to let you off. Otherwise, all of you would die here today.”
Upon hearing this, young man Yuta glanced at the girl who was still saying strange things to Em like “people are born from their mothers…” and decided to properly apologize to her on behalf of his father later.
“Uh… Yu, Yuta.”
At this time, Zannick had groggily woken up. It must be said that as the strongest Shandia warrior of this generation, his physical fitness was truly remarkable.
After enduring so much torment from Em, he still woke up earlier than the other Shandia warriors captured with him.
“Father, you’re awake! I’m here!”
“You…”
Zannick wanted to say more, but Em and Aoxi, who were debating, both noticed him at once.
“Yo~ You’re awake?”
“The surgery was very successful. You are now a qualified girl.”
“Ah?”
Zannick, who had already become vigilant and wanted to shield his son behind him, was stunned upon hearing this, then immediately reached toward his crotch, but felt nothing due to the splint on his hand.
“Pfft~ Just kidding.”
“Alright, by the way, your village is called Cloud Village, right? It sounds like it’s full of big brown guys…”
“Take us there now, right now.”
“Wh-what are you saying! How could I take you dangerous guys back to the village!”
Hearing that the other side wanted to go to the village, Zannick immediately stood up regardless of the pain.
“Is that so? But your son just said your village is currently being invaded by those ‘God Squad’ people, right? Is it really okay to keep stalling with us like this?”
“What? Those sky people came again?”
Zannick anxiously looked toward his son upon hearing this.
“That’s right, Father.”
“Chieftain Lord asked me to bring you back as soon as I found you! The village’s defensive strength is very weak now.”
“Damn it…”
Zannick immediately fell into a dilemma.
Cloud Village’s population was not large to begin with. Now with him, the warrior captain, and two guerrilla squads all missing, those sky people would likely seize the opportunity to wipe out the tribe in one go.
“Well~ Choose.”
Aoxi sat on the ship’s railing, looking down at the two with a giggling smile.
To clarify: The name “Cloud Village” wasn’t made up by me. The sky people in those Shandia people’s life cards list their birthplace as “Aerial Holy Land Cloud Village.”
