The Intruders

Barus watched all this in silence, then suddenly spoke up, "Is this a good thing? Even if she is your master, there's no need to punish her this way, is there?"

Alain chuckled, "There's nothing good or bad about it. It's just a means of punishment. Could it be... Captain, you're feeling a surge of righteous indignation and want to go help her? Well, I have no reason to stop you then."

"... snort."

Barus snorted and said nothing more.

Alain secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was genuinely worried that Barus might cause trouble. Previously, he had also worried that Barus might act out of a sense of justice and obstruct the press conference, which was why he hadn't briefed Barus on the content of the event.

However, this led Barus to a misunderstanding, believing that Dark Shadow was using the ship to conduct a human auction. He had secretly investigated and found that Dark Shadow was only bringing sex dolls onto the ship. Therefore, although he had some suspicions, he did not completely rule it out, but simply increased the intensity of his investigation.

In Barus's view, Toga was a slave who had signed a contract with Dark Shadow and tried to escape but failed. Even if such a person needed to be punished, there was no need to put him in danger.

Moreover, it was precisely because he failed to dispose of the whale that the girl was in danger. Even though it wasn't directly related to him, Barus felt a little guilty towards Toga, thinking that he would rush up and rescue Toga should any unexpected situation arise.

As Himiko Toga drew closer, the whale became even more ferocious, gliding across the deck with a powerful lunge, quickly closing the distance between itself and Himiko Toga.

Perhaps, as Alain said, the sperm whale was truly hungry, and when it smelled Toga's scent, it opened its abyssal maw towards Himiko Toga's body!

Toga tumbled off the rock and yelled, "Is that a whale? I feel like its teeth are even sharper than a shark's!"

"Sperm whales are toothed whales, isn't it normal for them to have teeth?" Alain seemed sleepy, yawned, and called out to Toga in a lazy voice, "This is my chance for you, be grateful. As long as you're still alive after the mission, Dark Shadow will forgive your offense."

Toga's Quirk is the ability to absorb other people's blood and become like them. This Quirk is very useful for infiltration and investigation. However, Toga's tools for committing crimes were confiscated by Alain's subordinates. At this point, she couldn't even use her Quirk and was like an ordinary high school girl with no ability to resist.

"They said they'd let me go, but they had no intention of letting me live..." Himiko Toga, then suddenly turned her head and chuckled.

Now that I've been released, there's no need for me to be bait anymore. Isn't now a good time to run away?! However, since they dared to get me covered in that sticky liquid, I won't get my principal back. Well, let me collect some interest then!

Toga that thought in mind, Toga turned and jogged towards Alain and the others. Behind her was the sperm whale, which had turned its head and opened its mouth again, facing them!

"Trying to shift the blame elsewhere? Just what I expected."

Alain had anticipated that Toga wouldn't willingly act as bait. He gave an instruction to his subordinate beside him, then turned to Barus and smiled, saying, "Captain, did you see that? It's not that I'm not giving her a chance. What she's doing now is threatening the lives of all the crew members on this ship. I should have the right to deal with her, shouldn't I?"

Barus's face was ashen. If no one stopped it, the whale would crash straight into the cabin, threatening the lives of countless people! He had previously considered saving Toga in the critical moment, but her current behavior made Barus completely lose the will to save her.

Barus stepped forward, wanting to intervene and change the sperm whale's course, but Alain reached out a hand to stop him. "Leave this to us, Captain, just rest."

As soon as Alain finished speaking, his men stood in front of them, seemingly both to shield them from the wind and rain and to deliberately keep Barus away.

Barus was somewhat surprised; without realizing it, Alain had taken over the situation, and he couldn't think of a reason to refute it...

Himiko Toga's escape didn't last long; she had only climbed two floors when she was caught by Alain's men and thrown back onto the deck.

Toga's earlier screams were just an act; she wasn't particularly frustrated by the failed escape. But now she was certain of something she should have known long ago: she was completely isolated and helpless, and no one could save her.

What saddened her even more than her failed escape was that the Werewolf who threw her off the ship's side seemed unable to stand her smell, touching his nose with obvious disgust and displaying a blatant expression of revulsion on his face.

Seeing the sperm whale opening its mouth wide at him again, Toga simply gave up resisting, lay on the deck, closed his eyes, and waited for death to come.

Death, ah, I've already shown death to so many people, now it's my turn. I wonder if hell or purgatory awaits me... If I could, I'd love to witness the tortures in hell.

At this moment, Toga even had a smile on his face, it was hard to tell whether he was laughing at Alain who had put himself in such a desperate situation or at his own hopeless state...

However, Toga a few seconds, the scene she had imagined—the whale biting off its own head—did not appear. Instead, a blinding light appeared before her eyes. She opened her eyes in confusion and saw the whale turning its body again, its head facing the light.

Like a shooting star falling from the sky, a dazzling white light appeared from a small platform on the upper deck, where two people whose faces I couldn't make out were embracing each other. Toga noticed them.

The whale seemed to have encountered a mortal enemy whose body parts had been ripped out, and it let out a deep, angry roar. The infrasound waves it emitted made the entire deck Vibrate with its fury!

The light drew everyone's attention. Alain tilted his head back, squinted, and extended his right hand, making a gesture. Soon, a dozen or so of his men, who had been lying in ambush around him, appeared from all corners. The two closest men quickly reached the intruders' positions and simultaneously threw punches at the two people bathed in the light!

However, the intruder simply ducked slightly to dodge the attack. Then, as if their legs were entangled by something, the two Werewolf suddenly lost their balance and were knocked off the platform by the intruder's elbow strikes.

Alain did not send his other men forward, but instead had everyone form a circle around the two men who had somehow managed to infiltrate the area.

Alain waited patiently. After a while, the light gradually dimmed. Looking at the two people whose faces were revealed, Alain smiled, "You've finally appeared. I was afraid you wouldn't come."

The two people on the platform are Robin Hood, who tricked Alain and left him humiliated, and Little Red Riding Hood, the cargo that Alain has been trying to reclaim, or rather, destroy.