"Steel magnate?"
Aaron nodded, looking somewhat enlightened.
The man's status was undoubtedly higher than the agents controlled by the Green Forest Council. He could even be said to hold the kingdom's lifeblood in his grasp to some extent. Naturally, he had no shortage of enemies—no wonder he traveled with so many bodyguards.
As for Blitz, he had clearly only wanted to sidle up and take advantage of him. Perhaps he had tried before and been mercilessly shoved away by the bodyguards, who found him repulsive.
Blitz looked at Aaron and Helen, his expression extremely ugly.
"Oh, right, Mr. Blitz, when are you planning to repay the money?" Helen glanced at Aaron, then at Blitz, a foxlike smile appearing on her face.
"I told you, there's no debt. This is fraud!"
Blitz's face went white with rage. He straightened his collar and prepared to leave the deck.
Just then, a child in ragged clothes suddenly darted through Egger's ring of bodyguards, made a face at the boy among the pair of children, and slipped into the crowd.
Egger's younger son immediately skipped toward the crowd, still smiling.
The bodyguard beside him hurried to stop him.
But at that moment, a man in a flat cap suddenly pulled a revolver from his coat amid the crowd.
Bang!
Blood seeped from the bodyguard's chest as he collapsed.
The deck fell silent for an instant, followed by women's screams, children's cries, and men's roars...
The vast deck plunged into chaos at once.
Kent stepped forward and shielded Helen, staring at the assassin.
His intuition told him that the other man was not a Beyonder, so he was not overly tense.
Aaron was even less concerned. Like a guest watching a play at the opera house, he calmly watched scene after scene unfold.
Those twisted,