"Cover Story Serial: Four Emperors Arc 5: 'The Warrior Spirit Loses Its Luster'"
"With newspapers spread out before her, Yamato spent over two hours reading through them all. Her little face was full of shock. At only twenty years old, he could already fight his own father to a draw?"
"The Marines... Yamato stared at the overly handsome face in the photograph for a long while before coming back to her senses. She clenched her little fists, deep in thought. She did not realize that, before she knew it, Kozuki Oden—the idol she had always admired—no longer held quite such a supreme and lofty place in her heart..."
"No, Captain."
The pirate in the lookout tower stammered, "And... they seem to be speeding straight toward us?"
Several girls who had just been brought onto the deck heard this, and a gleam of delighted hope appeared in their vacant, lifeless eyes.
"Hmph."
The red-haired, dreadlocked pirate captain took in the girls' reactions and snorted coldly.
"Report it to Lady Sophia. Then keep doing what you're doing. Ignore them. I'd like to see whether these Marines really have the nerve to interfere!"
"Yes!"
The pirates continued working away, dragging girls from every alley and street in the town onto the deck. Any men who dared resist were killed on the spot.
In just that short time, another seven or eight girls were brutally dragged aboard, while several more bodies belonging to their family members appeared in the streets.
And at that moment,
the G-5 branch warship entered the harbor. However, it did not fire its cannons, merely pulling alongside the shore and slowly coming to a stop.
"See that, little ones?"
A mocking curve appeared on the red-haired dreadlocked pirate's lips as she turned to the girls. "You didn't really think