Or rather, only the Vinsmokes were tense,
while Nara Dan watched Reiju and her people, who stood ready for a fight, with a faint smile. Meru, meanwhile, curiously studied Reiju, as if she were observing how this human seemed different from the ones she had seen before.
"Is this how the Vinsmokes do things?"
"Are you always this overbearing?"
Nara Dan smiled faintly, ignoring the silent killing intent of the many Artificial Human Soldiers, and took a light step forward.
That step seemed to set off some kind of deadly trap.
"Click!"
In an instant, almost as one, the Artificial Human Soldiers behind Reiju raised their High-tech Firearms and aimed them at Nara Dan and Meru.
If Nara Dan made a single suspicious move, a Metal Storm would rain down on them.
"Father God."
"These people have no manners at all..."
"Should I kill them all?"
Meru suddenly spoke, her clear, girlish voice echoing across the sea and making the already strange atmosphere even more ominous.
But since the Vinsmoke Family were all unnatural Androids, none of them reacted as if anything were amiss.
Meru looked utterly innocent, yet her resolve was absolute when she talked about killing them.
And she meant it. If Nara Dan gave the word,
Meru was confident she could kill all these seemingly unusual people within a minute.
Including the woman leading them.
Though the woman's aura smelled much stronger than the captain's had—three or four times stronger, perhaps—
to Meru, there was no fundamental difference. This time, she didn't need to worry about damaging the ship, and those giant snails were no different from food in her eyes.
Reiju, for her part, noticed the unusual way Meru addressed Nara Dan.
'Father God.'
In Reiju's mind, only ignorant villagers in remote places called certain natural