Chapter 118: A One Sided Deal

Chapter 118: A One Sided Deal

Late Evening - Early Winter : Northeastern Space Rune

*Vwoosh*

Dashing forward ahead of everyone, I quickly made it to the island.

As I got close, I changed to my humanoid form and grabbed Ilios.

"Brace yourself Ilios, it's gonna be a hard landing!" -Sh*t.. I'm going way too fast..-

*WHAM*

Slamming into the beach, the sand beneath my feet turned to glass and shook the entire island.

-Ow..- I meant to slow down far more than I did so the impact ended up hurting my knees a fair amount.

-But nothing is broken! It should be fine.- I quickly set down Ilios and brushed myself off.

Looking over at the ship, I noticed it was in rough condition and had a tattered black flag with a white cat insignia.

-That's definitely a pirate ship.. But what's with the flag choice..-

Although I was a bit curious about the inside of the ship, with a quick scan with aura I noticed there wasn't anything interesting. Most of the valuables and resources have already been taken.

-But.. Where are the pirates?-

I quickly looked around the beach and saw nothing except some tracks leading down a trail into the forest.

"Well, let's see where it takes us!"

Darting down the trail, it didn't take long till we came up to a large clearing full of tents and bandit looking people.

Of those people, there was one that stood out.

It was a tall, lean-muscular woman with messy brown hair and an oddly familiar black cat on her shoulder. -I must be imagining that though..-

Of the bunch, she was definitely the cleanest and most good looking by far. -She'd turn out really good with a bit of polish..-

As soon as she saw me, just like everyone else in the clearing, she froze.

Not long after I got back to shore, everyone finally made it to the island.

"So did you find the pirates?" Mother was the first to ask.

"Yeah, they're just in the forest. I had a short talk with them. They seem to want to settle here."

Father grimaced.

"I figured it was a good opportunity so I said they could as long as they followed some conditions."

"What conditions did you set?"

"That they protect and not touch the temple, give me 10% of taxes once they get there and give me complete power to control them if I wish."

Father looked at me with unbelieving eyes. "Haah.. Vasilias.. settling a nation is much harder to do than just proposing the idea. The chance that a band of pirates will be able to do that is.. unlikely at best."

-I honestly don't see them getting that far either.- "But! If they do manage to do it, I will make a huge profit. Even if they don't and they die trying, it doesn't matter to us."

Father looked at me with wide eyes. "I guess that's sound logic.."

"Of course it is! Did you think I was stupid?" I puffed up my chest and showed confidence.

"Well how about you take me to them, I'd like to talk to their leader to clarify some things." He turned back to Mother and Krystallo. "Go ahead and go to the rune, I will meet up with you there."

Giving a light nod, Mother took off again with Krystallo following suit.

After that, I took Father in his humanoid form to meet Abbie.

Their talk went alright.. Abbie was still terrified of me and was shaking while she talked to Father, but they seemed to get things worked out in the end.

At the end of their talk, Father gave an intimidating look and said, "Just a little advice. If you betray my son, no one will be able to save you."

Pushing away Father, I looked down at her. "I don't like to rule in fear so I tried giving some favorable conditions. I'm not that scary so long as you don't make enemies with me. I'll pay a visit in a few months to see how you all are doing so.. be ready then."

Abbie looked up at me and gulped hard.

Seeing she understood, I turned around again and dragged Father away. "I'll take care of it, Father. You don't have to help me with this.." I looked at Father with a grateful smile. “I'm very thankful that you want to help though.”