Chapter 18: Test Island (middle)
Boom!!!
A wave of heat directly blasted away the crowd of nobles and ministers in the banquet hall, and King Idit III was even roasted half-cooked.
“Tell Sain to get out here, or I’ll burn this country to a crisp along with him!” Kaido’s highly piercing voice spread across this small island.
The residents on the island saw Kaido’s massive body and were directly scared limp on the ground, with the more timid ones fainting outright.
“Ah!!!”
“Ya!!!”
“Quick, quick, save me!”
Screams, shrieks, and cries for help mixed together, turning the royal palace into instant chaos.
Servants, maids, nobles, and royalty scattered like rats whose nest had been overturned.
“W-What is that monster!” a noble attending the banquet said in a trembling voice.
“Quick, quick, have the army come protect us!”
“The king ordered the army to loot the families of those resistance members at will, so there’s not a single soldier left in the royal palace!”
“Then, then quick go contact the navy!”
“No use, we’re not an affiliate country of the World Government, the navy won’t care about us!”
“I heard that monster shout Sain’s name! It’s that Sain who brought this trouble!”
“Quick find Sain! We’ll hand Sain over!”
The eldest prince recalled Kaido’s words and quickly grabbed a trembling maid, making her go find Sain.
Under the other’s gaze that seemed like it wanted to devour her, that maid gritted her teeth and set off stumbling.
Kaido continued circling in the sky, his gaze constantly scanning below.
At this time, a young maid tremblingly walked out of the royal palace and said to Kaido in the sky: “L-L-Lord, w-we will bring Sain right away, p-please don’t attack the r-royal palace anymore.”
Her parents’ lives gave the girl courage beyond everything, letting her finish this short speech.
“You can only hide behind women? As expected, so-called nobles are all irredeemable scum!”
Ignoring the nobles’ pleas for mercy, Kaido directly erased the entire royal palace with one bite, leaving only the little maid who had exhausted her courage and collapsed on the ground.
“Didn’t expect you to be pretty gentle~ Boss Kaido.”
Aoxi’s words were somewhat unexpected, and Kaido snorted upon hearing them.
“Gentle? I just straight-up killed everyone in the royal palace! Red-haired brat.”
“But you spared that maid who was forced to come negotiate, didn’t you?
Also, I’m Osiris, remember that! If it’s too long, you can just call me Aoxi!”
“I spared her only because she had the courage to face me directly. She’s stronger than everyone in the royal palace behind her! And the strong have the right to live.”
Completely ignoring Aoxi’s complaints, Kaido stated the reason he spared that maid.
This was the rule he followed, a very simple value system of the survival of the fittest.
“Aoxi, you don’t seem to care about those people’s deaths?”
La interjected from the side and asked. She noticed Aoxi’s personality seemed different from what she had imagined, which made her, who was sensitive about such things, quite concerned.
“Huh? Why should I care, Sister La? I don’t even know them?” Aoxi was somewhat puzzled.
“Big Sister means, aren’t you being a bit too indifferent about so many lives suddenly dying?” Obei understood La’s meaning.
“Uh… They’re not people I killed? And I’m not completely indifferent~ At least I’m happy that little maid survived.” Aoxi added.
『Looks like the previous guess was somewhat wrong. Both of them have been more or less influenced by the divinity too, just that this influence is very subtle, and neither showed it before.』
『Who knows what will happen in the future.』
La thought about it, then set the issue aside for now. After all, it wasn’t anything important.
As an outsider, she still held the attitude that it didn’t matter what happened to this world.
“But now you’ve killed all these people, where do we find that Sain, big guy?” This time it was Obei’s turn to ask, and her question was as pragmatic as ever.
“You two learned the common tongue pretty fast, but at least call me captain! Rude blue-haired brat!”
However, seeing Obei, who had been ignoring him, finally talking to him, Kaido was quite pleased inside even if he didn’t show it.
“If that guy Sain doesn’t want to come out, this marginal little country has no way to force him. What I’m doing is just forcing him to show himself.”
“We’re so blatantly attacking a country, won’t that World Government do anything?” Obei asked again.
“Uro-ro-ro-ro~ The World Government won’t care about the life or death of non-affiliate countries.
If anything, they’d be delighted if these countries get destroyed, so the other non-affiliate countries will be more eager to join them and then be at their mercy.” Kaido revealed the cruel truth.
“For a small island country like this with no resources and no important location, they’re probably no different from roadside trash in their eyes.”
……
Meanwhile, while Kaido and the others were chatting, a sneaky figure quietly crawled out from an unremarkable corner under the outer wall of the royal palace.
“Tch, so tight! Didn’t they consider the size of carrying data when digging this tunnel? Ow~”
Finally, with a “Duang~”, that figure bounced out carrying a round bulging big box.
This was a very distinctive man, wearing black-purple sunglasses, purple lip gloss, draped in flame-shaped golden long hair, and big earrings, with a very lean and fit build.
This person was none other than Sain, a weapons researcher whose appearance had nothing to do with a researcher and instead looked more like a vicious pirate.
“Didn’t expect it to be this guy. I thought the World Government was finally ready to move against MADS.”
“Looks like I can only abandon this test site. Well~ Anyway, the plague bomb research is about done.”
Sain lit a cigar and took a puff, then stealthily looked up to observe Kaido in the sky.
But just as he looked for a bit and prepared to shift his gaze to escape, Kaido suddenly turned his head and stared at Sain’s location.
『Finally decided to come out, huh? Sain.』
After finding his target, Kaido dispersed his dragon form, transformed into human shape, and landed directly in front of Sain. The three little ones also landed following Kaido.
“Uro-ro-ro~ Long time no see, Sain!” Kaido laughed loudly and greeted Sain.
Seeing that Kaido had discovered him, Sain gave up on escaping.
“So it really is you, Kaido. Didn’t expect you actually escaped from the Punk Hazard laboratory. As expected, that navy couldn’t hold you.”
“How’s leaving MADS? The World Government won’t keep letting organizations like MADS exist. In a few years, they’ll make a move.
You probably guessed this too, which is why you’ve been searching for hideouts in the Four Seas these past few years, right?”
Without extra nonsense, Kaido directly extended an invitation to Sain.
“Join me, become my subordinate, and no one will dare touch you. Sain!”
Looking at the wolf fang club in Kaido’s hand, then thinking of the World Government’s faces.
Sain took a deep puff of his cigar but shook his head in refusal: “Not yet. My child was born three years ago, right in the South Blue. He’s still too young now. At least wait until he can live on his own.”
“Hm?”
“Uro-ro-ro-ro~ Didn’t expect a guy like you to have a child. Gulp gulp gulp~”
Not getting the answer he wanted, Kaido burst out laughing instead, then untied the wine gourd from his waist and chugged it down. After flying all the way, he was long parched.
“In that case, I’ll wait for you! There’s a spot for you as an executive in the Beasts Pirates too. This is my life card. Just come find me when the time comes!”
After saying that, Kaido surprisingly just lay down on the ground and started snoring loudly. Clearly, the days of travel had tired him out a bit.
Sain breathed a sigh of relief. The other being so straightforward had saved a lot of trouble. Honestly, if Kaido had come hard, he really wouldn’t have had a way.
Putting away the life card, Sain prepared to leave this country.
He had the weapons data in hand, and with the huge commotion Kaido caused, the World Government might send CP to investigate.
But just as he prepared to return to the secret passage to pack up the remaining experiment equipment, he suddenly noticed something, then was startled…
