Chapter 24 Showdown! The Results of Cultivation!
Kro is the kind of person who plans carefully before acting. Before coming, he collected information on the fish-men and knew that their advantages would be amplified in the sea.
No one can defeat the fish-men in the sea!
Sinking the pirate ship doesn't mean the battle is over; on the contrary, those enraged fish-men will surely launch an attack from the sea.
The battle must be fought by playing to one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses, so one must land before those fish-men sink the armed merchant ship.
As the evening wind swept from the sea to the land, the sails billowed, and with the long oars extending from the hull, the armed merchant ship sped across the sea like an arrow. The fish-men pirates who wanted to attack the ship from the sea were caught off guard and could only watch helplessly as the enemy ship sailed into the shallows and plowed a pit in the sand.
"Grab them! You wretched humans!" Octopus Hachi shouted.
When the fish-men pirates swam to the shallows and stood up, the guards from the merchant ship that Kro brought also disembarked and formed ranks, some with guns and some with knives, looking menacing.
Thanks to Lister's kick that sent the Sea King flying and the sinking of the pirate ship first, the guards were not afraid of the fish-men at all and their morale was high.
"Who are you people? Why are you attacking us?" Octopus Hachi asked, looking at the crowd.
Upon seeing that it was Xiao Ba, Lister had a sudden inspiration and said, "We're looking for our companion, a female swordsman. Do you know where she is?"
Kro glanced at Lister and thought he had asked a stupid question. How could those merfolk possibly answer?
"Oh, a female swordsman?"
Octopus Hachi scratched its head seriously, then suddenly said, "Ah, you're that woman's partners?"
He jumped up and said angrily, "Damn it! That woman killed several of our compatriots. Arlong hung her at the village entrance, but someone rescued her. We are looking for her!"
Kro: "..."
He glanced at Xiao Ba, who had a simple and honest look on his face. "Idiot, right? He must be an idiot. He leaked all the information as soon as someone asked him a question. He has no brains at all!"
"She's still alive?" Lister breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Thank you!"
"You're welcome!"
After Xiao Ba finished speaking, he also sensed something was wrong. He pouted and said, "Why should I tell you? If you are her partners, then you are my enemies. You cunning liars, I'm going to kill you!"
"Only now do you realize it?" Kro seriously suspected that the fishman had been soaking in seawater for too long and his brain had gotten waterlogged.
"Black Cat, this is yours," Lister said.
Chloe adjusted her glasses slightly and said, "No problem!"
"Don't die," Lister said.
"Don't worry, boss, I haven't been idle for the past two years." Kro took out the cat paw.
The sound of artillery fire from the sea had already reached the village, and the villagers were talking about it, wondering what had happened.
Arriving at the village entrance, Arlong, who was about to take his anger out on the villagers, heard the direction from which the sound came and had a bad feeling.
Soon, two mermen came running over in a panic.
"Brother Arlong!"
"Something terrible has happened!"
These two fish-men were respectively the liaison captain of the Arlong Pirates, the carp fish-man Xiao Wu, and the banquet manager of the Arlong Pirates, the salmon fish-man Shioya.
"Huh? Aren't you supposed to be supervising the humans working in the park? Could it be that they've rioted again?"
In order to complete Arlong Park as soon as possible, the Arlong Pirates forced the humans they had captured from various islands to work day and night. If they slacked off even slightly, they would be whipped. Many people died as a result, which made them resentful and led to several rebellions. Arlong was already used to it. In any case, with the strength of humans, such resistance was like children wielding big swords. It was not a big deal. Two mid-level officers were enough to suppress them.
"No, no, it's… it's our ship..."
"What happened to our ship?" Arlong's eyes widened. Arlong Park was not yet completed, and the pirate ship was their only "home"!
"While we were supervising the work on shore, we suddenly heard a burst of gunfire, and then we saw our ship being sunk."
"What?" The surrounding merfolk were shocked.
With a grim face, Arlong asked, "The Navy?"
"No, no, it looks like an ordinary merchant ship. It seems to have docked. I saw that Brother Xiao Ba has already set off," Xiao Wu said.
"What?"
"How is that possible?"
"How dare you, mere humans, defy us?" the fish-men pirates shouted.
Salt-burn frowned and said, "Brother Arlong, I think I saw that ship flying the same bat flag as the merchant ship we hijacked a few days ago."
"Huh? Is he that woman's partner?"
Arlong raised his hand to silence the murmurs, grinned, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth, and said, "Interesting, very interesting. Since humans are not giving up, I'll wait for them here and let them see the difference between superior and inferior races!"
Arlong and his group made no attempt to conceal their voices, which quickly spread throughout the village, or perhaps Arlong did it on purpose.
He wanted to make an example of someone to scare others, to completely crush humanity's hope.
"Brother Arlong, these humans have heard the news of someone's arrival, they're bound to take some action, right?"
"Only by defeating their hope can we make them even more desperate, hahahaha…" Arlong laughed.
On the other side of the coast, Croobi and Chu finally caught up with Kuina.
Kuina gripped the ordinary katana that Ken had given her, keeping a close eye on the two fish-men as she chased after them. The ordinary fish-men were already far behind, and now, as long as she dealt with the two executives of the Arlong Pirates, she would be safe for the time being.
"I thought you were going to keep running away, you wretched humans!" Croobi sneered.
"Escape?" Kuina's expression was cold as she said, "Shouldn't you be the ones running away? Didn't you hear the shelling just now?"
Croobi and Chu exchanged a glance.
"Human, do you think someone will come to save you? Even if someone does, Brother Arlong will definitely defeat them. You haven't come to terms with reality! Humans and fish-men are born different. We have more than 10 times the arm strength of an average human!" Croobi said.
Kuina was certain that the rescue had arrived because she saw the signal flare soaring into the sky, and she was no longer fighting alone.
She calmed her breathing, pointed her sword at Croobi and Chu, and said, "That's just because you haven't encountered any powerful humans yet."
"Hahaha, what an arrogant woman, she's really annoying! Chu! Croobi, leave her to me to deal with," Chu said unhappily.
"Hey, hurry up and take her back, Brother Arlong is waiting!" Croobi crossed his arms and stood aside.
"Aren't we going to come together?" Kuina asked.
"You're badly injured, aren't you? How much strength do you have left? I can take you down with one blow, Chu!"
Chu took two steps, his speed suddenly increasing, and after getting close to Kuina, he retracted his fist and swung it out suddenly.
"One Blade Style Frost Moon!"
Kuina recalled the days and nights she spent wielding her sword in the dojo. As she drew her katana, a crescent moon suddenly flew out, radiating a brilliant, pure white light that enveloped Chu.
The blade's aura was like a crescent moon, more dazzling than moonlight, chilling to the bone.
Two figures passed each other. Kuina landed, slowly sheathed her sword, and behind her, Chu's chest wound burst open, blood splattering out.
"I… I actually lost?!"
Chu fell to the ground.
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