"Hody Jones of the Fish-Man District is dead. I heard you did it?" After hesitating for a moment, Neptune chose to speak frankly.
When Yuu heard that this was what it was about, he merely smiled. "You could say that. That guy was too stubborn, and he didn't even have any good wine, so I killed him."
Yuu spoke as though it were nothing.
In truth, another reason Yuu had killed Hody Jones was the mission issued by the system. Of course, since there was such a mission, he had simply killed him.
He was just a minor character, after all. It was no big deal.
But while Hody was a minor character to Yuu, he was not one to Fish-Man Island or the merfolk as a whole.
Humans had always feared fish-men, largely because pirates like Hody Jones existed.
Hody Jones's influence was considerable.
Perhaps all the merfolk would be grateful to Yuu.
When the merfolk learned that Hody Jones was dead, Neptune's eyes widened.
Both the spies he had planted in the Fish-Man District and the guards he had sent there to investigate had reported that Hody Jones was dead.
Moreover, his death had been particularly gruesome. He had been killed by an outsider pirate.
Yet Neptune had remained tense until Yuu personally admitted that he had killed Hody Jones. Only then did Neptune relax slightly.
Today was his daughter Princess Shirahoshi's birthday banquet, and he knew that Hody Jones would launch his all-out attack then.
Neptune had been deeply troubled by this.
Although they had been making defensive preparations,
what if they failed to hold them off?
Over the past few years, Hody Jones's influence had grown greater and greater, and his strength had also increased. Neptune had truly been worried all along.
"Thank you, young friend