Chapter 10
Chapter 10
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 10
Chapter Title: The Elf of Massacre
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RUMBLE—
The world was shaking.
"Gasp... Gasp... Gasp."
Somewhere on Planet Bluerobic.
Beneath a crimson sky, an elf holding a greatsword, bleeding blue blood, struggled to her feet.
She barely managed to lift her face, her thick eyebrows twitching.
Beside her was another elf, aiming a large rifle at something.
The muzzle of the rifle was pointed at the empty, crimson sky.
Her face, too, was covered in blood.
Looking closer, bloody tears streamed from both her eyes, as if she had seen something she shouldn't have.
She muttered in an unknown language.
"Gelusniu. Opunaiseu. Mineatsuu'a. Jimanuitu. Nachiahwichahoa."
The elf with the greatsword felt a sinister, chilling aura.
She snapped her head up, staring intently at the empty space in the sky.
Her eyes narrowed.
A purple smoke grew clearer, and a massive silhouette began to appear.
Suddenly, the crimson sky split open, and an unidentified shape shot toward the ground at an incredible speed.
Before she could even identify what it was, the elf with the greatsword instinctively sprang into action.
She began to run at an immense speed, positioning herself between the rifle-wielding elf and the unknown object.
The elf with the rifle adjusted her stance and tried to take a targeted shot at the object hurtling toward her.
A golden bullet fired from the massive rifle flew toward the unidentified object at a terrifying speed.
But the object showed no intention of dodging the bullet, continuing its descent straight toward her.
Bloody tears welled up in the greatsword-wielding elf's eyes, glowing blue.
Her mouth opened wide, and a roar like that of a monster erupted.
"FUREEEEN!!"
SPLAT—
Dark blue blood splattered before her eyes.
"Gah!"
Sharin's eyes snapped open.
The interior of the Beherit was shaking violently.
Feeling the vibrations, Sharin sat up and turned her head toward her throbbing left shoulder.
There was nothing there.
She gripped her greatsword tightly with her right hand and instinctively scanned her surroundings.
Spotting the iron bars in front of her, Sharin pressed her lips together and narrowed her eyes.
Meanwhile, Bed-O, the first division executive of the Shark Tooth Pirates, and Double, the fourth division executive, happened to run into each other while searching their respective areas.
Bed-O glanced back, just in case, and asked.
"See her?"
He saw a man and a woman holding a large bazooka.
A Siamese twin alien with one lower body and two upper bodies.
A male in the front, a female in the back.
And upper bodies that could rotate 360 degrees.
Double, the fourth division executive and gunner of the Shark Tooth Pirates, answered, alternating between the two.
"No. She would never."
"Leave."
"A trace."
KABOOM—
Bed-O and Double whipped their heads around at the sudden explosion.
"Aaargh! Wait! Just spare me!!"
Far off to the left, around a corner, the shadow of someone collapsing was cast on the wall, accompanied by a red light.
The shadow desperately tried to stop whoever was approaching, extending a trembling hand forward.
Suddenly, something like a massive greatsword flew in and pierced straight through the fallen shadow.
CRUNCH—
As the greatsword impaled the body and struck the floor, a powerful shockwave reverberated.
"Guh... Gack!!"
Hearing the gruesome sound of flesh being torn by a cold blade, Bed-O and Double turned pale and tensed up.
Bed-O clenched his right fist and took a fighting stance.
His fist, a mass of rock, began to grow rapidly.
Double also raised their respective bazookas.
They advanced with their bazookas at the ready, not letting their guard down.
Double muttered softly.
"That voice just now."
"Wasn't that Salamanda?"
Salamanda was the third division executive of the Shark Tooth Pirates.
Bed-O's expression turned grave.
"Damn it... Salamanda's dead."
"Guh... Gurgle..."
The shadow that had been pleading for its life with an outstretched arm soon became one with the floor.
The shadow of the sword, standing tall while embedded in his body, resembled a giant tombstone.
A moment later, the shadow of a one-armed human figure appeared and pulled out the sword.
SHIIING—
Moments later, purple blood flowed from around the corner, soaking the floor at Bed-O and Double's feet.
The two swallowed nervously, their faces tense.
Soon, a woman appeared before them.
Raging back muscles and a severed left arm.
"Hahh... Hahh..."
Her breathing was heavy, like a beast's.
The two instantly realized.
That she was Sharin Tankobichi.
Bed-O unknowingly uttered her name quietly.
"Sharin...?"
Sharin quickly lifted her head.
Bed-O and Double flinched.
Thick eyebrows and a sharp gaze.
The image of a fully enraged berserker.
WHOOSH— WHOOSH—
Sharin began to skillfully spin the greatsword with one arm, and a blood-colored ripple, along with a chilling resonance, spread from the blade.
She approached them wordlessly, step by step.
"Sh-she's coming."
"This way?"
THUD—
"Watch out!!"
With Bed-O's cry, Sharin instantly appeared in front of Double.
"!!"
Startled by her speed, Double's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
CLANG—
Suddenly, a clear ringing sound echoed.
CRACK, CRACK, CRACK
Someone suddenly appeared between Sharin and Double.
The second division executive of the Shark Tooth Pirates.
Java-Tamao, with her six dagger-wielding arms, had barely blocked Sharin's attack.
Sharin grinned as if she found it amusing.
SHATTER—
The six daggers soon shattered into fragments and scattered in the air, and at the same time, two of Java's arms were severed.
She couldn't hide her horror as she watched her own arms disintegrate before her eyes.
"Hahahahaha!"
Sharin laughed heartily and prepared her next attack.
Java could feel the shadow of death looming right before her.
She screamed.
"Everyone, abandon the ship and run!!"
Without a second glance, Java turned and fled.
Seeing Java's actions, Bed-O instinctively hoisted Double up.
"What."
"Are you doing!"
"We can't beat her! We have to run!"
Bed-O slung Double over his shoulder and began to run at incredible speed with his massive body.
Meanwhile, even in that situation, Double twisted their upper bodies and fired their bazookas wildly.
BOOM—!! KABOOM!! BOOM!!
With thunderous explosions, the surroundings began to blow apart.
Soon, a bazooka missile flew straight at Sharin.
The male and female voices overlapped.
"Die!!"
SHWING—
Sharin casually sliced the missile flying toward her in two.
"...!!"
As the missile was torn apart like paper, Double's expression turned to one of utter shock.
A moment later, the Beherit's rear escape hatch came into view for the running Bed-O.
"We're almost there!!"
BULGE—!
In that instant, Sharin's right arm swelled with muscle.
Immediately, the greatsword was shot forward like a bullet.
Just before the greatsword reached Double's face, Bed-O twisted his body and threw himself into the escape hatch.
CLANG—
The greatsword missed them and lodged itself in the rear wall of the Beherit.
Sharin pulled the greatsword from the wall and looked down at the dark blue sea.
She could see Bed-O and Double flailing about, trying desperately not to sink.
After watching them for a moment, Sharin seemed to lose interest, turned, and walked back into the Beherit.
Bed-O and Double were swimming in the dark blue sea.
Suddenly, the sound of a lifeboat engine was heard from a distance.
Bed-O and Double turned their heads simultaneously.
Before them stood an armed Enri, holding a police baton.
Her glasses glinted brightly, reflecting the sunlight.
"Dam!"
"mit!"
Double raised their bazookas toward Enri and pulled the triggers.
CLICK—
CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK
Unfortunately, the waterlogged bazookas remained silent.
Bed-O raised both hands, signaling his surrender.
"We surrender! We surrender!"
With a blank expression, Enri looked down at Bed-O and Double, then moved the boat toward them.
A moment later, Bed-O and Double struggled onto the lifeboat.
"Gasp... Gasp..."
Bed-O turned his head to thank Enri, hoping to put her at ease.
He intended to smash her face with his rock fist the moment she let her guard down, but.
THWACK—
Bed-O's vision spun, and soon he was staring up at the sky.
Enri had knocked Bed-O out with a single blow from her police baton, made of dragon bone.
She looked down at the 3-meter-tall giant with cold eyes and muttered.
"Who do you think you're fooling?"
Then she turned and raised her baton high toward Double.
"Wait!!"
"We really surrender!! Surrender!!"
"W-we mean it!!"
Double extended their four hands, front and back, as if begging Enri to arrest them.
And they gave a servile grin.
"Hmph."
Enri sighed, lowered her baton, and cuffed their hands.
And so, Enri succeeded in arresting the executives of the Shark Tooth Pirates.
Behind Sara, the Bluerobic refugees were huddled together inside an iron cage.
Having already anticipated that her executives would be no match for Sharin, she had made her own preparations for battle.
She had planted a bomb on one side of the cage, just in case.
She intended to use the refugees as hostages to confront Sharin.
She put on her trademark steel-toothed mask and raised her dagger 'Caliburn' and her ray gun 'Taledvolt', trophies from her time in space.
Sara was certain that the warrior woman would come this way to save the refugees.
A moment later, Sharin's silhouette appeared up ahead, a greatsword resting on her shoulder.
As the shadows on her face lifted, Sharin's bored expression was revealed.
Sharin walked silently and deliberately toward Sara.
Each of her steps was a heavy pressure on Sara.
For a moment, Sara forgot why she was even standing there.
Her mind grew complicated.
Why was she trying to fight a battle she was bound to lose?
Was it simply for her pride as a captain?
Perhaps.
Ever since she was young, Sara had been taught that a captain must never abandon their ship and flee, even if it meant being crushed by the enemy.
And crucially, Sara needed money.
There was 'a certain being' she had to purchase at a cosmic auction house.
For the sake of that being, Sara could not back down.
But in this situation, money and everything else had gone up in smoke.
Sara looked at Sharin with a rather serious expression.
Then, pretending to be at ease, she tried to provoke her with a flippant voice.
"Kekeke, I've been watching you, and you don't seem as strong as I thought."
Sharin smiled faintly at Sara's provocation, as if finding it cute.
"So you're the captain, huh? Your courage is admirable."
WHOOSH— WHOOSH— WHOOSH—
She began to spin her greatsword.
And charged straight at Sara.
Sara also smiled triumphantly.
Her sharp teeth stood out.
"If I can't have it—!!"
A laser beam shot out from the muzzle of the Taledvolt.
But the laser wasn't aimed at Sharin.
Sara shouted.
"I'll destroy it all—!!"
The laser flew toward the bomb planted on the cage.
At Sara's unexpected action, Sharin's eyes flashed.
KABOOOOM—!
At the sudden sound of the explosion, Silver, who was outside playing tug-of-war with the Beherit, widened his eyes.
Beyond Silver's back, the flaming Beherit could be seen plummeting into the sea.
Silver quickly unhooked the grapple from the Beherit's teeth.
Enri, on the lifeboat, was also watching the scene unfold.
Silver circled around the crashed Beherit in the sea.
As he was observing the situation, someone floated to the surface.
Sara, captain of the Shark Tooth Pirates, was spread-eagled, looking up at the blue Earth sky.
Her whole body charred black, she looked up at Silver floating in the sky and spewed a stream of curses in an unintelligible alien language.
Meanwhile, realizing the situation was resolved, Silver nodded, took out a pair of handcuffs, and prepared to make an arrest.
Silver recalled a Korean proverb he had learned recently.
He looked down at Sara and muttered.
"So this is what they call solving a problem without lifting a finger."