In Basra, on the Persian Gulf, Abraham Evin Wuddin of the Wuddin Company and his fleet of enormous Arab ships had been waiting in the harbor for a long time.
In fact, they had gathered at the port of Basra on the third day after a certain little girl Grand Admiral led her Li Family Exploration Fleet south. It was a large fleet consisting of fifteen enormous Arab ships and several vessels that used both oars and sails, and it had already been fully supplied and readied for departure.
And they waited like that for a full half-month.
It wasn't until today, half a month later, that the Wuddin Company finally received the latest news from the East African coast, from Mogadishu, the port city closest to the Arabian Sea.
"!!"
"What did you say?"
"They defeated the Espinosa Company fleet off the coast of Mogadishu? All twelve of their large Spanish square-rigged ships were sunk?"
"Then they bombarded the port of Mogadishu, forced the city to submit, and drove out the Espinosa Company?!"
"That's impossible!"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!"
After hearing Hashim read the report sent by their Wuddin Company intelligence station in Mogadishu, Wuddin, who could hardly believe it, sprang up from his seat. He hurried over to Hashim, snatched the document from his hands, and began skimming it himself.
"This..."
"This!!"
However, after reading it for himself, Abraham Evin Wuddin felt as if the world had turned upside down.
He had assumed that the little girl and her five large ships could never be a match for that Jernimo de Espinosa. After all, that evil company was the most powerful European force in East Africa, an opponent even the Wuddin Company had to treat with caution!
But who could have expected...
That Li Family Exploration Fleet was actually