Pokémon: Hoenen Rage

Chapter 21 The suffering of the world
Seven days later, at home on Pal Island.

Len rolled out of bed and walked to his desk.

Perhaps it is a common characteristic of the world, but people here recover from injuries incredibly quickly. As long as they are not injured or broken, they can almost return to normal in ten and a half months.

Among them, Lai's body seems to be even more special, but in seven days, the wound on the lower abdomen has recovered as before, and the wound that runs through the entire arm has also recovered in sevens and eighties. Although it is inevitable to leave a scar, it is not inevitable. Very obvious.

Rai didn't care at all about this.

"Scars are traces of life and proof of courage." After being told about this, he said.

The fierce battle seven days ago spread quickly in an area through the mouth of the Wudou Town Alliance team.The record of one against five, one captured and four killed triggered widespread discussion, and also caused a special report to be placed on the desk of the command officials.

The eradication of the nameless island pirate group was the beginning of a series of preliminary eradication activities.

More than a dozen such teams relied on advance intelligence to eliminate some small and medium-sized pirate groups that had been entrenched in the southwest sea for a long time. At the same time, they controlled the main routes. Before the two pirate giants, Deep Sea Darkness and Sea Shark, could react, they Dead space to maneuver and escape.

Now, the main force of the Alliance has arrived in the outer waters. Knowing that it is too late to escape, the two pirate groups have united under the pressure of survival and absorbed the surrounding pirate groups who were also trapped. They concentrated on the Dark Reef Island, the base camp of Deep Sea Darkness.

As the name suggests, this medium-sized island located to the east of Wudou Town is surrounded by reefs. The southeastern side is surrounded by cliffs. Only the northwest side needs to be defended. There are many reefs on the west side, so the risk of attack is extremely high. It can be said that it is easy to defend. Difficult to attack.

However, the water sources and products on the island are not rich. Although the dark sea has been operating for many years, it is bound to be unable to hold on for a long time if a large number of pirate groups gather in a hurry.

Therefore, the alliance is not in a hurry to attack, but gradually tightens the encirclement, hoping to complete the victory in one battle and completely resolve the current southwest maritime crisis.

As a young talent who performed outstandingly in the last battle, the order to join the battle signed by the Four Heavenly Kings Genji was now on Rai's desk.

The order requires him to report to the Alliance Center in Wudou Town within fifteen days, along with Yong Ren and Merck, who personally captured the bandit Zhou Zuo.

In the attachment of the order, the rewards for participating in the battle and for military achievements are also clearly marked, and the rewards for the early battles have also been delivered.

"The Alliance is really willing to spend money. A group of pirates can pay such a price." Playing with the pendants and gems on the table, Lai's mind returned to seven days ago.

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"During the last time, the well-informed and well-informed Mr. Soujiro from Zhanlan City, can you clarify my doubts for me who was born on a small island?" Seeing Soujiro's serious grievances in his heart, Lai followed his words and asked his own question .

"Humph, that's fine. Since you are willing to let me live a little longer, let's pass the time, winner."

"In your opinion, a cruel and ruthless pirate like me must die without mercy. Of course, this is not wrong. I also think that I deserve to die. However, no one deserves to die like this from the beginning."

"My home is in Zhanlan City. It's true, but it's not in the city. Just like your Pall Island, my home is also on an island far away from the city. It's just different from yours. We are very poor, poor It would be impossible to become a trainer by staying on the island.

"Generation after generation, if people stay on the island, they have to do the heaviest work and pay the highest taxes; but if they leave the island, other than working for the alliance, they have no other choice but to risk their lives in the wild."

"My father served as a soldier for the Alliance for 20 years and died in the Silver Mountain Uprising. However, until the day I went to sea, I never saw even a single Alliance coin as a pension. On this island, this is not the case. It's not a rare thing." "From the moment I learned about the death, I knew that instead of selling blood and life with the alliance, it would be better to make a career for myself. What about pirates? Being with this group of trash, as long as I can make money It doesn’t matter what we do with money or resources. Anyway, it’s just giving back to others what we received.”

The more he spoke, the more nervous smile appeared on Soujiro's face.Rai frowned and interrupted: "Robbing innocent people is nothing like 'giving back'. You are just pouring your anger on the weaker ones."

"You're right. I can't even deal with a fledgling brat like you, so I'm not qualified to talk about revenge, but this makes me happy. You see, for us who are so dirty and dirty, the alliance has to mobilize its troops, no? Doesn't it make people happy to travel thousands of miles to this ghostly place to mobilize teachers and mobilize people?"

"Where do you think the alliance's military expenditures and rewards for 'talents' like you come from? Is it from Martial Town? Or is it from those big cities that can only suck blood, like Karnaz and Zijin? Or, from an island like yours? Don’t be stupid, kid, I am indeed the scum of the sea, but who am I compared to a real evil spirit?”

The emotional catharsis seemed to take away his remaining physical strength and strength. After a series of rhetorical questions, Sojiro's chest rose and fell continuously.

After a long time, he turned his head and looked at Lai, who was frowning. There was no longer anger, unwillingness and hatred in his eyes:

"I'm willing to bet and admit defeat. I took out all my hole cards and teamed up with the other two trash. In the end, I couldn't take you down, but became your trophy. I have to say, kid, you did a good job."

"I don't know how you persuaded that little devil to deceive us; I don't know if you have seen through us pirates and induced us to kill each other and escape early; I don't know that the young Where did you learn so many dirty tricks and prepare so many weird things. But these are not important. If you win, you win."

"As the winner, you have all the right to interpret. You can step on our corpses and go higher. Everything here is yours, including of course our previous 'win-win'."

He raised his intact right hand with difficulty, motioning for Lai to come closer, wrote a crooked line of words on the sand, and then quickly erased it.

"I didn't say anything and you didn't know anything."

After that, Soujiro didn't say a word.

In the distance, a brave man rushed towards him, and in front of him was an equally eager iron-clawed lobster.

Before being taken away, Soujiro opened his eyes and stared fixedly at Rai, as if he wanted to engrave his face firmly in his eyes.

When Lai turned his eyes to look at him, he opened his mouth and said a word silently:

"Go see the real world."

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Retracting his thoughts, along the window, Rai saw Haruko who was drying gauze and bandages, the magic wall doll who was helping, the bog jumping fish that used its newly evolved hands to loosen the soil of tree fruits, and the fish that flew back again with a fish in its mouth. Long-winged gull.

At this time, there was a knock on the door downstairs.

As expected, the one who came was a brave man.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Lai pretended to be casual and asked Yongto:
"This time the bandits have given so many rewards, and so many trainers have come, where did the money come from?"

(End of this chapter)