Chapter 306 Lord of Pirate
?"What... What... What is that thing!?" The pirate captain lost his mind, shouting at the scene of carnage. His instincts, honed by countless dangerous situations, screamed at him to run away. The pirate captain, wise enough to trust his instincts, quickly retreated from the battlefield without warning his subordinates.
He fervently prayed that their lives would buy him even a second longer to escape from the demon in human skin.
Daniel, ever observant, noticed the captain's retreat and heightened his killing capabilities. His left hand deftly throwing daggers at any pirates who dared obstruct his path as he pursued the fleeing captain.
The rate at which the pirates met their demise increased, and the pirate captain finally reached his jetski.
"F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!!! Start! Start! Just START UP! YOU DAMN MACHINE!!" The pirate captain shouted in Japanese, growing more panicked with each passing second. As all his subordinates neared death and Daniel closed in with murderous intent, the captain desperately tried to start his jetski.
For Daniel, capturing or killing the pirate captain was crucial to ensuring the safety of the two women. At this moment, he didn't know where the captain had hidden them, and he was too occupied to check the information the spy metal scarab had sent him.
Originally planning a stealthier approach, Daniel's cover was blown when a pirate idiot released a yellow laser at the bush where he was hiding, leading to the current dire situation. As a result, he didn't even have time to check the latest information from the metal scarab.
"Helppppp! Someone! Anyone! Please Help!" A desperate cry for help reached Daniel's ears, a voice he recognized. Emma ran toward him, tears and snot on her face, and knelt down.
"Please! Please help! My lady is about to die!" Emma pleaded with Daniel, who was momentarily stunned. He considered asking her if she was no longer concerned about owing him a favor, but he suppressed the thought; now was not the time.
He quickly rushed toward the plane wreckage cabin and found the blue-haired lady lying on her stomach, a gunshot wound in her back near her spine.
"Shit..." Daniel uttered as he quickly checked the girl.
He observed that the girl had indeed survived the shot, but her spine was significantly damaged. Aside from her head, she couldn't move at all. Moreover, he needed a clean place to extract the bullet from her spine.
Daniel felt frustrated. If he weren't here, he might have been able to do something. With his knowledge as a Grand Alchemist, he could easily put the girl into stasis and find a way to help her with an elixir. However, as long as the bullet remained lodged in her spine, the diluted elixir of immortality wouldn't be able to heal her.
But the moment he crushed or opened the mana vial, it would immediately be drained by the mysterious forces on this island.
Right now, there were two choices to help this blue-haired girl. The first one was to create a sealed environment that could protect against the mana-draining effect on this island. The other was to bring her to another island or another place where this island's mana-draining effect couldn't affect him.
No, there was actually a third choice. The last one was that he could just claim this island for himself by using the location claim card, and the island's power would not affect him, his people, or anything he wished to remain unaffected.
He remembered that the claiming process was not the usual magic that used mana; it was like some kind of power that bound the location and siphoned its power to him. The only thing that prevented him from claiming it was that this island seemed to have an owner.
Daniel kept these considerations in his mind. He then called Kato, who was waiting for him not far from here.
"Yes, boss. I'll go there immediately," Kato replied.
After Kato arrived, he arranged for him to take care of the two ladies and cook, as he found out that the plane cabin refrigerator still had some food.
"Kato, do you know who owns this island?" Daniel asked in case Kato might have an answer for him, but he didn't count on it.
"I don't know, but my best bet is that the lord of the Ryukyu islands, Yarimasa Kuroda, owns it, and he's one of the most powerful people in the Ryukyu islands. There are also some rumors that he's the one who controls these pirates, and all of the pirates rampaging around here send a lot of tribute to him," Kato explained.
"In other words, he's like a local mafia boss who controls the sea around here, and anyone wanting to make money in his territory needs to give him a cut?" Daniel interpreted it in a way he understood.
Hearing this, Kato made a complicated face. "Well, to put it bluntly, it is something like that, but he's not a mafia boss because he also has a lot of authority bestowed by the shogun, and he also needs to answer to the shogun's authority too," Kato explained once again.
"I see," Daniel nodded in understanding.
"If he's ruling the area around here, including this island, then why hasn't the rescue team arrived yet? It's been more than a day since our plane crashed," Emma asked the question to Kato.
Kato, looking at Emma in confusion, then looked at Daniel as if asking if it's okay for her to ask him. Since Kato is working for Daniel right now, he needs permission from Daniel to answer.
"I'm also curious about that," Daniel nodded and asked about it.
Kato nodded and started to explain. "You see, this island is not exactly on the map of Japan. Lord Kuroda owns this island, that is true, but unless something major happens, he will not come here, and any pirate who dares to build a base here will get a death sentence from him. Their entire forces will also get destroyed. I don't know why, but that's what it is," Kato explained.