novelhk Chapter 294 How many floors does it take to carry a bag of rice?
Chapter 294 How many floors does it take to carry a bag of rice?
"What?!"
Koby instinctively asked a question, his face completely blank.
"I don't want to say it again!"
Kyle spoke calmly, his tone even and without much fluctuation, yet it sent a sudden chill through Koby.
He glanced instinctively at the pirates around him, then fixed his gaze on Kyle. His pupils were still slightly constricted, and his chest heaved as he spoke with difficulty:
"But...but I feel that although they made mistakes, their crimes don't warrant death. Is it necessary to kill them all?"
Kyle's expression remained unchanged as he continued speaking:
"If that's your mindset, then I don't think you need to join the Navy!"
"The Navy doesn't need soldiers with warped values!"
"If these guys hadn't killed any civilians, I might spare them, but don't you know whether they've killed ordinary people or not?"
Koby was stunned and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Because he knew perfectly well that each of the pirates in Alvida's crew had the lives of more than one ordinary person on their hands.
As a pirate crew that is arrogant and domineering in this sea area, how could these people not have the blood of ordinary people on their hands?
Koby glanced at the pirates again, but they didn't dare utter a single word.
Even though their lives are now in the hands of others.
If it were before, they might have dared to fight Kyle fearlessly, but Alvida's fate just now made their fear of Kyle reach its peak.
They didn't dare to lay a hand on Kyle at all.
"But...but I'm no match for them!!"
Koby spoke up again, saying that he was just a weak and helpless servant, how could he possibly be a match for these vicious pirates?
The deserter king at this time was not the one who gradually gained confidence after being rescued by Luffy in later years; at this point, he was just a coward.
When one is weak, one's courage is also ridiculously small.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure they're no match for you!"
Kyle spoke calmly, and before he finished speaking, wisps of fine purple lightning suddenly burst forth from his body, surging towards the pirates.
As lightning flashed, the pirates all went limp and collapsed to the ground, their eyes filled with fear and horror.
As their perspective shifted, they desperately tried to speak, but found that apart from their eyes, nothing else in their bodies seemed to belong to them anymore.
To be even more precise, they can no longer feel their bodies at all.
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"Now it's time. They've completely lost the ability to resist and have become lambs to the slaughter!"
"You now have the ability to kill them!!"
As he spoke, Kyle raised his hand, and an ordinary naval standard longsword appeared in his hand, which he then threw at Koby.
"Come on, use this knife to kill them!!"
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Koby glanced instinctively at the long sword not far from his feet, then at the pirates on the other side, his body trembling uncontrollably.
He started panting heavily, and as time went by, his breathing became more and more intense and louder.
Large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, and his face turned deathly pale.
Although his lifelong dream has always been to become a naval officer who punishes evil and upholds justice, he's not quite ready to actually kill pirates yet!
He used to be afraid even of killing a chicken when he was still at home, let alone killing a person now.
Koby was struggling internally, constantly trying to mentally prepare herself.
This time, Kyle didn't interrupt or urge him immediately, but just watched quietly from the side.
For a coward like the deserter king, it's not easy to overcome his mental block and kill someone. Giving him some time might be a good idea.
Kyle believed that, given the deserter king's cowardly and selfish nature, he would ultimately kill those pirates for his own future and life, and Kyle had no doubt about that.
It may take him a little bit of time to get him to complete this mental preparation.
Compared to killing the deserter king directly or causing him physical pain, Kyle felt that this approach of causing him inner turmoil and fear would make him feel even worse.
Kyle's primary objective in coming here was to make the deserter king even more miserable.
He wouldn't let the deserter king get away with it so easily; letting him die so quickly would be too easy on him.
What he wanted was for the deserter king to fully experience psychological torment; secondly, this was also necessary for him to complete his mission.
He remembered that the rewards for dealing with the deserter king were based on the degree of completion of the mission.
Then he would have to make the deserter king fully experience the pain, carrying a bag of rice up several flights of stairs!
After a while, Kobi finally prepared himself mentally. Although his face was still contorted with difficulty, his gaze gradually became more determined.
He crouched down, picked up the standard longsword, gripped it tightly in his hand, and then walked step by step toward the pirates.
His head was slightly lowered, making it impossible to see his expression or what he was thinking.
Before long, he stood in front of the pirates.
At this moment, all the pirates in Alvida's crew stared at Coby, who was holding a long sword, with utter terror in their eyes.
They weren't afraid of Koby as a person, but of death itself.
At the same time, they never imagined that one day they might be killed by Koby, the kid they had always looked down on.
If someone had told them this result before, they would most likely have taken it as a joke.
Who is Kobina?!
How could a cowardly, timid, and submissive coward possibly have the chance to kill them?
So even now that this moment has actually arrived, they still find it somewhat unbelievable.
While they were looking at Koby, Koby was also looking at them.
Looking at these pirates he had spent some time with, Coby felt no sympathy for them. His hesitation just now was simply due to his fear of killing.
But after some thought, he also realized a very important truth.
That means if he really becomes a naval officer in the future, he will inevitably encounter such a situation sooner or later.
So, since we'll have to go through this sooner or later, it's not a bad thing to go through it now. And the key is that Kyle is here now. If we perform well, we might even gain his appreciation.
It is precisely because these possibilities have been clarified that Koby is now prepared, or at least that's what he thinks.
Once he overcomes his fear of killing, killing these pirates who have completely lost the ability to resist will not be difficult for him!
Call ~
Koby exhaled deeply, gripped the long sword in his hands, and slowly raised it, stopping just above his head when it was fully vertical. After a moment's pause, he brought it down with a mighty slash...