Who Did It?

"Don't you dare harm King Riku!"

A fierce gust from a sword came whistling in. Baby 5 hurriedly turned her head and instinctively raised a hand to block it, her right arm transforming into a long blade—but with a crisp crack, fragments scattered across the ground.

"Ah!"

Her little face instantly went pale from the pain. Baby 5 ignored her severed arm and vanished from plain sight beneath the cover of the shadows.

Kyros, dressed like an ancient Greek warrior and gripping a massive sword, was equally stunned.

"Little girl, what is going on?"

"Kyros, stop! She's a hero who saved Dressrosa, not an evil pirate attacking the country..."

After that rapid turn of events, King Riku was filled with regret. His attempt to stop Kyros had clearly come too late. The child's arm had already been cut in two by Kyros.

"How did this happen?"

When Kyros rushed to the royal capital, the first thing he saw was a figure slowly approaching King Riku with blades drawn from her body.

He had not taken the time to observe the situation around him. Filled with concern, he had immediately connected the blazing inferno with that figure.

As for whether she was a child, both the Marines and certain evil pirate hunters secretly trained young children for assassination work.

Having worked with the kingdom's guard corps for many years, Kyros understood that a bullet fired from a child's hand could sometimes be even deadlier than one fired by an adult.

"There's no helping it. Since the misunderstanding has already happened, we can only apologize to her. We must show the sincerity of the Riku Royal Family and ask the 'fairies' to treat that child's injury."

King Riku spoke heavily. Even so, whether the other side would accept the apology was another