Chapter 45: Go Die With Me!
Perhaps it was because they were too shocked by his appearance, but the slaves who were working didn't speak, they just stared blankly at Sag.
"There!"
Not far away, a group of guards holding guns ran over from the other end of the bridge.
Sag just glanced at them, and a pale blue slash flew from his leg, passing through the bodies of those guards, creating a gust of wind.
*Chih!*
The guards' bodies froze, and they collectively burst with blood, falling to the ground.
*Boom!*
A laboring slave loosened his grip, and the building materials he was carrying crashed to the ground. The stones scattered on the bridge, and the sound also brought everyone back to their senses.
One of the sturdy men said incredulously, "Are you... are you here to save us?"
"Save?"
Sag grinned, revealing a ferocious smile. "Those who become pirates can be happy, can be unrestrained, can vent, but there's no such thing as saving! I'm not here to save you, I'm here to take you to your deaths!"
"Follow me, and maybe you'll die tomorrow, buried at sea. Don't follow me, and you'll stay here forever!"
Sag extended his hand to them. "Choose! Stay here, repeating endless labor until death, or go to sea and follow me... to die!"
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"Can Sag recruit subordinates smoothly? They're a group of slaves, slaves for seven hundred years. Are they suitable to be pirates?"
On the black ship, Renettia sat on the ground, inspecting the small tool hammer in her hand.
The small hammer had its hammerhead disassembled, revealing the precise parts inside, densely packed, making one dizzy just looking at it.
If someone who understood mechanics came to see it, they would clearly find that the mechanical structure of this hammer could not be driven at all. Except for a miracle, there was no way.
Lily stood beside her, carefully wiping her rapier with a cloth. Hearing this, she paused, looked at the huge bridge above, and said淡淡ly:
"People must rely on themselves. Only by awakening oneself can one freely control one's destiny. Sag brought an opportunity, but this opportunity is not a handout, but a choice. Those who always yearn for the sea and freedom need to be prepared to die."
"You're quite the royal, Lily. I can't say such things," Renettia said.
"It has nothing to do with royalty, it's just a principle I realized after a long period of hardship. You'll understand when you grow up, Renetti."
Lily smiled slightly, flicked the rapier, and its blade gleamed golden under the increasingly dim sunlight, and then she sheathed it.
"Hmm, grow up..."
Renettia secretly glanced at Lily's chest, which was shaking like jelly because of the flick of the rapier, and clenched her small fists, firmly saying, "Yes, I want to grow up!"
"Then you have to eat well. Only by eating well can you grow up quickly. Your diet is very irregular, Renetti," Marika walked over with a gentle smile.
"If only the warship over there could share some ingredients with us, but it's probably impossible. But as pirates, we can grab some. Leave enough ingredients for them to eat, and the rest is ours," Marika looked to the side, smiling gently.
"Warships, of course, will have sufficient ingredients... Warship?"
Lily nodded in agreement, but halfway through, she suddenly froze, and subconsciously looked in the direction Marika was looking.
"Lady Lily! Lady Renettia! Lady Marika!"
The terrified voices of several pirates sounded from the lookout post on the mast. "A warship is coming!"
Renettia put the tool hammer together, twisted the handle using her ability, and the handle lengthened. She carried it on her shoulder, stood up, and bared her little tiger teeth:
"Just a warship, what's there to be so panicked about? Haven't we robbed them before..."
Her voice also choked. She stared blankly at the dog-head warship approaching, and the smart eyes in her pupils quickly contracted.
"Ma, Marines..." she stammered, unable to speak.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked in confusion.
Although encountering a warship was surprising, it wasn't that big of a deal. They had robbed warships before.
At first, it was just a broken ship. In order not to be sunk, they didn't entangle with the Marines.
But now they had changed ships. The cannons on the ship alone were enough to suppress a single warship, even if the warship coming from the sea was much larger than the ones they had encountered in the East Blue.
"It's not that simple..."
Marika's voice also became low. "Lily, you were trapped in the palace since you were a child, so you don't know. That ship is not an ordinary Marine warship, that's..."
Anyone who could normally receive information would not be unfamiliar with that dog-head-marked warship.
The newspapers often published it, that was this extremely iconic warship, and the owner of the warship...
"Marine Hero!" Renettia finally shouted out. "It's Garp!"
…
On the bridge, Sag's words caused people to fall into a brief silence.
After the silence, a man suddenly laughed, "What are you talking about? How could I possibly want to die..."
But before he could finish speaking, he stopped on his own, staring blankly at the fallen guards, as if he had lost his voice.
They were arrested and brought here as slave laborers, enduring inhuman treatment. But even so, they still wanted to live.
Because they wanted to live, they gritted their teeth and persevered. Over time, they had become numb to this slave-like encounter, just working day after day, feeling that living another day was a day.
After all, no one wanted to die.
But now, a man suddenly barged in and told them he would take them to die. Of course, no one would agree to such a joke-like statement.
But when the words reached his lips, he couldn't say them.
Sag's wanton face gave them an inexplicable touch.
It was like running freely by the sea when they were children, fighting with other children for a girl they liked when they were young, or fighting with someone over a quarrel.
It wasn't that these memories were good, but the...
Freedom.
At that time, they were free, and they could freely decide what to do.
Death was indeed terrifying.
But...
The man subconsciously looked at the shackles on his hands and feet, and then turned to look at the wide sea beyond the bridge.
That was the sea!!
*Clatter...*
The sound of shackles dragging attracted everyone's attention. They saw a strong man with a height of three meters, dragging the shackles and walking towards Sag.
The scars on his face made this man look very fierce.
But they all knew that when this fierce guy first came, he was just a fair-skinned young man with a gentle smile.
Those scars were beaten.
Even...
The strong man opened his mouth, revealing a half-missing tongue, and raised the shackles on his hands.
The meaning was simple.
Cut it off, I'll go with you.
"Easy."
Sag reached out and sliced, his hand cutting through the shackles like a knife, completely severing the thick iron chains on his hands and feet.
The strong man showed a touch of excitement in his eyes, and then ran straight to the sea.
"Hey, what are you doing!"
Sag grabbed the strong man's clothes and pulled him back.
"You don't need to jump into the sea. At this height, without some skill, even the sea will kill you. If you go to die, it's not dying now. Just follow me, and I have a way to get you down from here."
Sag said, and looked at the others, "So, is anyone else willing to go to die with me?"
"If you have a way to get directly out to sea from here?"
One person looked at the sea below, puzzled, "But even the cannons of a warship can't blast through the bridge."
Sag clenched his fist. "Of course warships can't blast through the bridge, but I... a warship?"
What does it have to do with warships?
He remembered correctly, he had already changed ships?
Sag subconsciously looked to the side. On the sea under the bridge, he saw his black ship sailing outwards at high speed, and behind the black ship, there was a huge dog-head warship chasing it.
At the same time, Renettia's familiar voice seemed to be amplified by some loudspeaker, coming from the black ship.
"Sag, Garp is here, run!"
*Boom!!*
A huge impact hit Sag's location, directly knocking him out. The impact landed, smashing a dent in the bridge floor, raising a cloud of smoke.
"Pwahahaha!"
In the smoke, a broad figure with his head raised in laughter was reflected, as well as that bold voice, "Want to take away the people of Bridge-Top Kingdom? Good job, Sag little ghost!"
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