Zugabe Army Of Two

Chapter 723 Zugabe③ [Army Of Two]

Foreword:

I will violate my nature and defy my instincts to love you forever.

--Richard Dawkins | The Selfish Gene

[Part ① Rap Battle]

On the shallow waters of Bay No. 2 in the north, a small boat no more than three meters long was about to carry two unfortunate souls, lonely and sharing the same fate, to realize their wicked dreams once more.

Sirius, clad in salt-resistant plastic sheeting, felt the holy blood within him begin to boil as the sun rose. Without Patriarch Gloria, he was no longer the universally beloved little steward, nor was he protected by Dionysus.

Man Yin Carter, a pure-blooded Homo sapiens, was unafraid of the sun. He carefully tended to his companion, taking up the paddle and rowing with all his might.

"Fate is unpredictable, Mr. Parker," the Manager of the Tequila Sunrise Hotel sighed.

Who would have thought that the masters, who fought each other in life, would have their retainers depending on each other after death.

"Who can I even complain to about this?" Sirius, who had stayed in East Horse Port with Gloria for over twenty years, spoke in a dialect with a southeastern accent: "I just took a look at the flower garden, and then I fainted—when I woke up, everything was gone!"

Man Yin chimed in, "That's right, so fate is unpredictable, Mr. Parker."

The small boat drifted further and further away from the reef area of Bay No. 2. The two men were heading upstream towards the northwest, to another port city to borrow a boat and set sail—back to the Shambhala Atlantic Islands, back to their homeland to find another way out.

"This isn't right! This isn't right?!" Sirius Parker was still unconvinced.

Man Yin tried to comfort him, "Evil