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The Freedom.
At the stern.
Everyone aboard stood there, staring at the cruise ship behind them in astonishment.
They had never felt such intense anger from Kuta before.
Kuina stared at the cruise ship, her eyes cold.
She didn't know what had provoked such murderous intent in Kuta, but something must have pushed him beyond his limits to make his emotions surge so fiercely.
His anger even seemed to distort the space around them, creating an illusion.
That alone showed how furious Kuta was.
When the cruise ship began to slow, she could wait no longer. She kicked off the deck, leaped into the sky, and raced toward it.
"Hey! No need to rush like that!"
Ahua watched Kuina go, pushed up his glasses, and muttered.
"Would you dare say that to Kuina's face?"
A-Luo turned and stared at Ahua.
"Nope!"
Ahua answered without a hint of shame. He backed down so promptly and completely that A-Luo swallowed everything he had been about to say.
"You..."
Before A-Luo could lose his temper, A-Tao grabbed him. Whenever Kuina wasn't aboard, those two could start arguing at any moment, or even come to blows.
"Enough. Let's stop the ship and go see what's happening!"
"Fine. For A-Tao's sake."
Ahua and A-Luo exchanged a glance, and the urge to fight faded from their eyes.
If they went a day without fighting, they got restless.
They would use any excuse for a match.
Before long, the Freedom stopped ahead of the cruise ship.
From the stern, everyone could make out several figures standing at the cruise ship's bow.
Since its deck stood higher than the Freedom's, they had to jump aboard.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
That was the Ahua Trio landing.
Squeak!
Just then, a sound utterly unlike their landings rang out.
Everyone