Chapter 254: Anger
La is a person who likes quiet, especially when eating and talking with others.
Noisy environments always prevent her from fully savoring the taste of the cooking or concentrating on understanding what others want to express about things.
This is impolite, both to the chef who made the cooking and to the person who directed words at her.
So she usually doesn’t go to the canteen during mealtimes, and if she absolutely has to, she gets a portion of food and sits alone in a secluded corner.
Similarly, she won’t engage in verbal communication with others when the surroundings are endlessly noisy.
Of course, if it’s a necessary conversation, she will first find a secluded place before continuing.
However, she doesn’t always passively adapt to the external environment herself; occasionally, she chooses some direct ‘methods’.
For example, making those noisy people or things disappear.
Just like now, as the ‘sun’ sets from the sky and rises from the sea surface again, the world has finally become a bit quieter.
“……”
“Ah……this……”
“Wh……what……is this……”
“This, what the hell is this!!!”
A pirate crew’s captain shouted in collapse.
Less than a hundred meters in front of him, the sea had been melted into a huge bottomless abyss several sea miles in diameter.
And at the location where the abyss appeared, the menacing pirate ships that had been floating there, along with the captains and crew members on the ships, had all sublimated into gas in an instant.
Billions of sea water were continuously swallowed by that pitch-black giant mouth, and as time passed, the backflowing sea water showed no sign of slowing down at all, as if that greedy giant mouth would never be satisfied.
Finally, the pirate ship under the feet of that collapsing, shouting pirate was also gradually pulled into that pitch-black abyss, never to emerge again.
His disappearance made no sound, no one noticed, and no one would come to rescue.
On the Navy side, the pirates who were lucky enough to be one step slower, and the Beasts Pirates in the sky……all fell into an eerie silence.
Now there’s no need to worry about the sound of speaking being drowned out by others.
“Navy Admiral, have you come to declare war on the Beasts Pirates?”
Seeing that the other party didn’t reply for a long time, La repeated her question.
The gentle, light voice clearly reached the ears of everyone present, slightly pacifying their souls and restarting their dazed thoughts.
“Guwu……”
“A-Admiral.”
The deputy officer’s words already carried an unconsciously pleading tone that he himself hadn’t noticed.
Not out of his own will, but based on the instinct of his body, as an organic creature, his most primal and fundamental directive was preventing him from being enemies with that golden figure in the sky.
“Mm……”
Licking his somewhat dry lips, Sengoku was just about to say something, but the earlier roar had made his throat hoarse for the moment, making it hard to speak.
Time passed second by second, and the deathly stillness on the sea surface gradually pressed down until people could hardly breathe.
Clearly, the oxygen concentration in the air hadn’t changed at all, and the airways weren’t blocked, but everyone’s heartbeats were beating faster and faster, and their breathing was becoming more and more rapid.
The situation was developing gradually toward a dangerous direction.
Sengoku understood that he had to respond, or else the fleet he led would face the scene he least wanted to see—rout.
Not an orderly retreat, nor a slightly disorderly defeat, but a chaotic, utterly disorderly terrifying great rout.
At that time, the dense warships would inevitably congest, collide, and crush each other……cannons might misfire, ammunition might go off, soldiers might trample each other, and death would be inevitable.
Glancing at the huge “Justice” on the white sails of his flagship, Sengoku clenched his fist and made up his mind.
“I……”
“We are the Navy, the Navy clad in Justice Coats, fighting for justice! Facing pirates, surrender is never an option!”
“We have of course come to declare war!”
“Representing justice, to declare war on you pirates!”
“Mien! You……”
Sengoku widened his eyes, looking at Mien who had shouted the above words in a loud voice ahead of him.
Even after witnessing such a world-destroying scene of burning mountains and boiling seas right before his eyes, there was not the slightest hint of retreat or fear of battle in the other’s eyes, only anger and unyielding resolve against the pirates.
Wearing his best friend’s Justice Coat, Mien straightened his injured legs and stood tall, staring squarely at La in the sky without retreating.
There are always creatures on the ground daring to face the majesty of gods.
Or rather, every creature harbors the courage to face gods deep in their hearts, after all, the hymn of humans is the hymn of courage, and the greatness of humans is the greatness of courage.
They perhaps just need a trigger, a person daring to stand up first as an example.
Just like now, as Mien’s words fell, the Navy members who had originally begun to harbor thoughts of retreat, or even directly hugged their knees in withdrawal, trying to escape reality, all lifted their heads and stood up again.
『What an incredible young man……Zephyr.』
Looking at the young back figure limping past him to the front of the deck, Sengoku couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
Perhaps Zephyr’s pure justice is the cornerstone that supports every person in the Navy, allowing them all to generate their own justice.
“Impressive Navy.”
“But this diamond-like shining brilliance……feels somewhat familiar.”
?!
Unbeknownst at what point, La had actually moved to face Mien, only a short distance apart.
No one saw how La moved, as if she had been in that position from the very beginning.
“You……!”
This sudden close face naturally startled Mien too, making him instinctively step back half a step.
But it wasn’t over; as if an appraiser carefully inspecting a rare, high-quality gem, La immediately closed in again the instant he retreated.
This time the distance was even closer; Mien could even clearly see that around her crimson pupils, there was actually a circle of tiny golden runes.
『Are these really human eyes?』
“Mien! Dodge!”
Sengoku’s voice came from behind, and Mien instinctively shifted to the left, exposing La in front of him.
“Buddha Shockwave!”
Buzz—!
The pale golden shockwave brewing in his palm was mercilessly slapped by Sengoku toward the little girl before him, its power even greater than the one that had sent Aoxi and the other flying earlier.
With La as the opponent, he hadn’t dared to hold back from the very start.
Tense～
“?!”
Amid Sengoku’s shocked expression, a small hand covered in golden flame patterns directly pressed onto that shockwave about to burst forth, abruptly halting its expansion.
“Mm～Too bad……”
La rarely furrowed her brows slightly, but didn’t even glance at Sengoku in front of her; instead, she turned her head somewhat regretfully toward Mien, who had already drawn his blade.
“Your belief is not pure; it’s mixed with a trace of foreign impurity……anger.”
“What is the source of your anger?”
The girl asked thus.
