Chapter 90: Unexpected Plea For Help (part 2)
“Mm~ Pfft… Cough! Cough cough!”
“Brother Skipgate, are you okay!” The squad leader saw that Skipgate had finally woken up and quickly asked.
“You, you’re the captain of the combat team under Boss? What is this… Right! What about Boss Foll? How is he?”
After waking up, Skipgate immediately sat up and quickly asked about Foll’s situation.
“Uh… Sorry, we got separated from the boss because of that storm just now.”
“Now we plan to head back to Fenrir Island first, then figure out a way to contact Boss Foll.”
“Storm… separated… No, no! We can’t go back!”
“We must find Boss right now, we can’t let him go to Hachinosu Island!”
Hearing this, Skipgate immediately said anxiously.
Having come back from the gates of hell, Skipgate had figured it out—he couldn’t let his own boss throw away his life in vain.
“Ah? Why?”
“Fenrir Island has already been occupied by the Beasts Pirates, going back would be no different from suicide!”
“And Hachinosu Island is currently under siege by the Golden Lion and his group, going there would be extremely dangerous too!”
“We need to quickly find Boss Foll, escape together, cough cough cough!”
Because of his inner anxiety plus the damage from Burufaruto’s punch, Skipgate started coughing violently.
Seeing this, the squad leader immediately stepped forward and gently patted Skipgate’s back to help him catch his breath.
“Brother Skipgate, don’t worry first… Right, I remember you have a Den Den Mushi, we can contact Boss Foll now.”
“Right, right! Den Den Mushi! Cough cough~”
Hearing this, Skipgate immediately pulled out the Den Den Mushi, but to his surprise, the Den Den Mushi had been soaked in the sea for too long and was now unconscious.
“…”
“Cough cough cough cough cough!”
Seeing this, Skipgate was immediately overcome with anxiety, his injuries flared up, and after a fit of uncontrollable coughing, he passed out again.
And when he woke up again, it was already the third day.
…
“Brother Skipgate, you’re awake!”
“Hey! Come quick, Brother Skipgate is awake!” The Third Child who had been watching over him saw him wake up and immediately called the others.
The group of pirates immediately gathered around upon hearing this.
“Brother Skipgate, how are you? Do you still feel unwell anywhere?”
“Want some water?”
“Food is prepared, do you want to eat something first?”
…
“Alright, quiet down first!”
“Cough cough~ How long was I unconscious? How’s the Den Den Mushi? Did you contact Boss Foll?”
“…” The pirates fell silent upon hearing this, and the squad leader stepped forward again.
“Brother Skipgate, you’ve been unconscious for almost three days.
As for the Den Den Mushi, it woke up not long ago, but it’s very listless, and it wouldn’t work no matter how many times we tried.”
“What? Damn it! Cough cough, cough cough cough!”
“Brother Skipgate!”
“Bring the Den Den Mushi! Let me try.”
Skipgate covered his chest with one hand and reached out to the squad leader for the Den Den Mushi with the other.
Half an hour later…
After repeated attempts by Skipgate, they finally connected to Foll’s Den Den Mushi.
“Boss Foll! Are you okay?! Cough, cough cough…”
However, what came from the other end was not the vigorous voice of Foll that Skipgate had imagined.
“Brother Skipgate?!”
“Hm? Who are you? How is my boss’s Den Den Mushi with you!”
Hearing this unexpected voice, Skipgate immediately became tense.
“Brother Skipgate, it’s me, Wright!”
Hearing this name, Skipgate finally calmed down a bit.
Tranels Wright, this was the name of the first mate on Foll’s flagship.
“Wright?! Why is it you? Where’s Boss Foll?”
Hearing this question, Wright on the other end fell silent.
“Brother Skipgate, Boss Foll, he, he…”
“What happened to him?”
Skipgate suddenly had a bad premonition.
“Boss Foll was killed by that guy John!”
“!”
At these words, Skipgate and the group of pirates on this end of the Den Den Mushi were struck as if by lightning.
“What happened?!”
“Explain clearly, why did that guy John kill Boss Foll! Wasn’t Boss going to save him?!”
Skipgate came back to his senses and immediately shouted into the Den Den Mushi.
“It’s, it’s like this…”
The choked voice on the other end told Skipgate the process of how Foll was killed.
“John!!!”
Hearing that his boss had been killed for such a reason, Skipgate’s anger was instantly ignited.
“That guy! That guy!! Boss was clearly risking his life to save him, and he actually!!!”
“Brother Skipgate?”
Wright’s voice from the Den Den Mushi carried a trace of worry; now that Foll was dead, Skipgate was their pillar of support.
“Hoo~ I’m fine, cough cough!”
“Wright, listen up, I must avenge Boss Foll! As for you all, find an opportunity to leave John right now!”
“We can’t, Brother Skipgate. That guy John won’t let us go.”
“Besides, I already have a plan, and if everything goes smoothly, we can kill that guy John and avenge Boss Foll.”
“What plan? Don’t act recklessly! With your strength, you can’t possibly be John’s opponent.”
Hearing this, Skipgate also became anxious; he knew John’s strength, and for his brothers to kill John would be no different from suicide.
“Don’t worry, we don’t plan to clash head-on with John.”
Hearing the anxiety in Skipgate’s voice, Wright told the other side his plan.
“Golden Land?!”
Skipgate was somewhat surprised to hear this name; after all, it was a fairy tale heard by countless pirates and adventurers, though few believed it.
Now learning that the glittering legend might be real stirred some ripples in his heart.
But Skipgate quickly suppressed the shock in his heart; now was not the time to think about gold.
“No, too dangerous.”
“Not to mention whether those two will fight each other, even if they do, he won’t be John’s opponent.
John will definitely kill you all and take the gold for himself.”
“Don’t worry, that guy John seems injured, I think we can take a shot!”
“But…”
Skipgate wanted to persuade further, but the other side interrupted directly:
“Brother Skipgate! This is our only chance, once that guy John recovers, we’ll have no moves left!”
Hearing the determination in the other’s words, Skipgate fell silent for a moment.
…
“We will avenge Boss Foll.”
After saying this, the other side was about to hang up the Den Den Mushi.
“Wait!”
Skipgate looked into the distance; because of fear of discovery, during his unconsciousness, the squad leader had ordered the ship to a more remote spot in the sea area.
And the direction Skipgate was looking now was exactly where Fenrir Island used to be.
As if having made some resolve, before the other side hung up, Skipgate said:
“I have another way.”
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Time returns to now—
“So you want to borrow our power to kill John and avenge Foll?”
After hearing Skipgate’s story, Burufaruto said this.
“Yes! I want to ask Lord Kaido to take action and kill that bastard John!”
“Don’t joke, why would Mr. Kaido help you.”
Hearing Skipgate directly ask Kaido to take action, Ember drew the saber at his waist and was about to chop off his head.
“Wait!”
“We have clues about the ‘Golden Land’, if Lord Kaido is willing to act, whether or not he kills John, we will hand it over with both hands!”
At these words, the people present were all somewhat shocked.
“Hey! Hey! Brother Gate, even if you want our help, no need to use a story from a picture book to fool us, right?”
Burufaruto spoke first, his tone full of dissatisfaction at being treated like a fool.
“Saying that kind of legend that fools children, are you trying to mock us one last time before death?”
“Your last words are really boring.”
Ember could no longer hold back his killing intent.
Kaido remained silent, just staring at Skipgate on the ground.
“Absolutely true! It’s a navigational log that one of my brothers accidentally obtained, and it records the location of the ‘Golden Land’!”
“Oh? Since you know where the ‘Golden Land’ is, why didn’t you go yourselves before?”
“You wait until now when begging us to use it as chips? You really have patience~”
Seeing Skipgate still spouting nonsense, Burufaruto no longer cared about past ties and sneered, about to drive him away.
Seeing Burufaruto already grabbing his collar to drag him away, Skipgate hurriedly explained:
“Because that log was written in a special script, and it was only recently deciphered…”
Hearing this obviously made-up reason, Burufaruto also got annoyed.
“Enough!”
“You guy! I was kindly going to let you off, and you’re still here babbling, do you really want to die here!”
With that, he stopped directly, grabbed the struggling Skipgate, and threw him in front of Ember.
“Ember, I don’t care anymore, kill him!”
Seeing this, Ember unhesitatingly swung his blade toward his neck.
Skipgate’s subordinates around saw this and all stood up, rushing forward desperately to stop Ember.
But Ember’s speed was too fast, too fast for the naked eye to catch.
The slash tore through the air, in an instant about to cut Skipgate’s throat, and Skipgate instinctively closed his eyes awaiting death.
“Brother Skipgate!”
『Am I going to die again? Well~ that’s fine, I can see Boss again.』
『Too bad I couldn’t avenge Boss, but with his personality, he wouldn’t blame me~』
『Damn, I haven’t even traveled the world yet.』
『”Golden Land”… I really want to see it, is the whole island really made of gold~』
『That bastard Fish-Man Burufaruto, really ruthless~ too bad I didn’t get a punch in before dying.』
『Well~ whatever, that bastard’s not a bad guy.』
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『Hm? Why… is my death lantern lasting so long this time? Do others experience this before dying?』
Due to not feeling anything unusual for too long, Skipgate tried opening his eyes, and unexpectedly, it really worked!
Light appeared and flowed into his eyes; standing sideways before him was a radiant Golden Girl.
Whether it was the sunlight being too glaring or something else, for a moment he couldn’t clearly see her face.
But just from that blurry outline, Skipgate felt she must be beautiful beyond belief.
Just that long hair occupying most of his vision, flowing like liquid gold, had already surpassed the most beautiful treasures he could imagine, dazzling as if it shouldn’t exist in this world.
『Angel, they really exist?』
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