"I did hold back. They're not dead, are they?"
The corner of Golden Lion's mouth twitched as he spoke with a smile.
"Cough, cough... Blue Sea People, are you with that bastard Enel too?"
The man Golden Lion had knocked down, who had a strange pattern painted around his left eye, lay on the ground, still coughing up bloody froth as he asked bitterly.
Barn turned his head toward him and shook it before saying,
"Enel? If he's the so-called god here, then unfortunately for him, he's our enemy. Or rather, our target."
"Your enemy? Heh..."
At Barn's words, the man with the strange pattern around his left eye gave a bitter laugh. Then, as though he had made a painful decision, tears covered his previously defiant face.
"This body of mine is finished... I'm begging you... defeat Enel!"
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Barn crouched down and helped up the man, whose face was now streaming with tears, then asked,
"What's your name?"
"My name is Wyper. I'm a descendant of the Great Warrior Calgara! But I'm useless! I can't fulfill my ancestor's dying wish!"
Wyper shouted through his tears, his badly injured body making his voice terribly hoarse.
"Are you the original inhabitants of God's Island?"
Barn asked in a low voice.
"This isn't God's Island! It's our homeland! Jaya!"
Wyper roared again.
"That ignorant god drove us out of our homeland. For hundreds of years, we've been fighting them, all to take our homeland back!"
As Barn listened to Wyper's tearful account, his expression grew darker. He slowly stood and said to Golden Lion,
"I told you to go easy on them. Honestly, now I have to waste more of my life."
As he spoke, Barn waved a hand toward the three people lying on the ground. A soft green glow