Bab 14: Chapter 13 - This is nothing
(Emma POV)
Waking up in the morning, opening my eyes, the first thing that greeted me was a closed pair on a quietly sleeping Robin who was holding me in her arms. Remembering how I acted yesterday after the incident made me slightly blush before I decided to close my eyes and just enjoy my current situation. But because of that, I failed to notice the smile that then appeared on Robin's face while an eye that was on the ceiling disappeared.
After another half, an hour Robin started to stir before eventually unwrapping her arms from around me and slowly getting out of bed trying not to make it noticeable. After she walked out of the room to start her daily routine I finally sat up in bed.
'I was too emotional yesterday, all those isekais made killing look so easy. Shaking my head to clear my thoughts I got up feeling satisfied, then got started on my routine.
Walking into the kitchen I noticed that breakfast for three was already made and sitting on the table untouched while Mom and Robin were sitting there apparently waiting for me. "Good morning Mom, Robin, why are you both waiting to eat, foods going to get cold if act you like this."
After I came to the table and sat down Mom spoke. "We have a lead on the girls we are looking for, the person with the information wants to meet at the docks on the next island we stop at. But they want to meet in three weeks so there is a good chance that they are planning something in that time."
Looking at her in confusion while cutting a piece of the omelet in front of me, I asked. "What does it matter if it's a trap? If the information has a chance of being true then let's just go."
Sighing at me Robin explained. "There's a good chance that any or all of us could be targeted to be either kidnapped or killed to steal from us like what happened yesterday."
After taking a bite I responded with confusion still clear in my tone. "I still don't see the problem."
Sighing at me this time was Mom who had a worried expression on her face. "There is a chance that you'll have to kill again, although I'm sure I can protect the both of you since I'll be by your side the entire time I want you to be prepared for that possibility."
Stopping mid-chew before quickly swallowing the egg and choking a little bit before downing a cup of orange juice Robin handed me. I then tried to reassure her. "Don't worry about that anymore, I was just shocked and then out of it because everything happened so suddenly, but as long as Robin climbs into m-".
However, before I could finish my sentence a pair of arms grew from around me and covered my mouth, not letting me speak. So doing the only thing I could do in this situation to get back to eating my breakfast I licked the hands causing them to fastly disappear at the same rate the blush on Robin's face appeared. Looking at her I teased.
"Sorry, I'm hungry and your hands looked delicious, since they were already by my mouth I decided to give them a little taste." Looking back at me in disbelief Robin responded.
"How is it even possible to say that without showing any signs of embarrassment". Shrugging at her surprised self I plainly said.
"You should have seen the stuff people said and did in my old world. This is nothing." Perhaps not wanting to delve into that topic, my Mom cleared her throat drawing our attention to her before speaking.
"It's good that you're doing well now. We were just worried if you would be able to handle the situation if the worst-case scenario arises." Looking at both of them my heart started to feel a little warm before an unadulterated smile formed on my face.
"It's fine now, thank you both for your concern. I won't fall into a daze like last time so please don't worry." Turning my head to stare Robin in the eyes I asked with some worry.
"Are you going to be able to handle it, Robin?" Staring me back in the eyes for a second before nodding her head she declared in a voice full of confidence.
"If someone tries to hurt any of us, then I have no problem killing them where they stand." Her strong resolve shocked me for a second but thinking about how Robin was in the manga I got over it quickly before murmuring.
"I wonder if she'll become sadis-". To once again find a pair of hands over my mouth before I could finish my sentence. This caused me to nod my head and assume it did carry over prompting Robin to glare at me until Mom laughed at the both of us and changed the subject.
"We'll arrive at the next island in a little less than a week and although it should have already reached that island, we'll still spread the news that we are offering a bounty for information. Then wait on the ship for the next three weeks until the promised date, if they have anything planned we might as well have the home ground advantage." Nodding my head at her I asked a question.
"What if they plan for us to wait on the ship to spring their trap?" laughing at my question, Mom then stopped and spoke in a cold voice while narrowing her eyes.
"That's what I hope they planned for."
(??? POV)
After dealing with my sister by promising to bring her some grapes when I get home I was finally able to leave while dawning a cloak to hide from view I headed towards the docks to wait for the target's arrival.
'It's almost been a week they should show up any time now. Thinking to myself about how to handle this job I scanned all the ships that would show up, waiting for my target's arrival. Waiting for another few hours they finally arrived, on the deck of a ship stood the youngest target with lavender hair and the one my age with black hair.
After another few minutes the oldest target, a woman with blonde hair, showed up on the deck with a stack of papers and parted it into three handing some to both the girls before all of them made their way off the ship and started passing out pieces of paper to everyone they came across.
Taking this opportunity while they were busy I made my way towards their ship and snuck on without being seen by them and then headed for the inside of the ship. Walking from door to door and peeking inside each I finally came across what I was looking for. A room with two beds and separate wardrobes with clothes that would fit the youngest scattered on one of the beds.
Walking towards the cleaned off the bed with no clothes on it I got on the ground, slid under it, and started to wait until the trio arrived back on the ship and for one or both of the younger targets to enter their room so I can finish them off without the older one realizing what's going on before it's too late for her as well.
After laying under the bed for a few more hours someone entered the room followed by one more. 'Perfect I can finish this up quickly.
"Do you think we'll find them on this island?." one of the girls asked.
"Hopefully, we only have half a year to make it to swallow island and I'd like to head straight over the red line after that." That response shocked me before I got mad at the old lady.
'What kind of people was I sent to kill? They can make it over the red line there is no way they're normal.' Thinking about it more, I decided to use my ability to fastly end this to get back to old lady Shetani and demand an answer for sending me to someone like this.
Turning my arm into snow giving it two spears like ends I then pointed at the girls who were now close enough, shooting the snow spears towards their hearts. But before they could reach their target both of the girls dodged to the side and the bed I was hiding under was suddenly floating in the air exposing me.
Before I could react to being revealed and rush the two of them multiple arms grabbed onto me. "Tsk, if you think you ca-."
Stopping my words once I realized I couldn't turn the parts of my body into the snow for the first time since I got my power in the spots being held by the arms. I got ready to attack again by shooting hardened snow spikes from the open areas on my body at the girls but before I could I found myself pressed to the ground unable to move no matter how much I struggled.
"There's no need to try and escape, turning your body into snow won't help you out of this situation even if you weren't currently being restrained." Looking down at me and speaking was the youngest target.
'She saw through my ability already?' Looking at the girl who just talked she proceeded to turn her head away from me, now looking at the older girl, and spoke apologetically.
"Sorry, Robin looks like you won't be able to do what you wanted." Shaking her head the target named Robin then looked at me and replied.
"That's ok Emma, green hair with brown eyes and around my age with the ability to turn her body into the snow. This must be one of the people we were looking for."
Shaking her head in approval the young one exclaimed. "As astute as always, truly much smarter than me."
Sighing while lowering her forehead into her hand answered."That isn't saying much"
Looking taken back the one named Emma spoke in an aggrieved tone. "When have I not been extremely smart?"
Scoffing Robin replied. "When you jumped into the calm belt because you wanted to be eaten by a whale seaking."
Shaking her head with her arms now crossed over her chest Emma denied that statement in the worst way. "It sounds stupid only because I wanted to be eaten by a humpback whale seaking…. if they exist. Not just any old whale type seaking."
"You said you were looking for me?" Cutting into their insane conversation I asked something that had been bothering me since they started their argument and seemingly forgot about me. Pounding the side of a fist on the palm of her other hand Emma answered my question and asked her own.
"That's correct Monet but we are also looking for your little sister Sugar, hasn't the news of someone looking for the both of you reached this island?" At first, being surprised when she knew my name I then narrowed my eyes when she said my sisters as well.
"If you knew our names then why didn't you put them in the descriptions you wrote of us? And why are you looking for us?"
"Artificial suspense" Looking at her in confusion at that answer she then continued while shaking her head.
"Don't worry about that first one, to answer your second question it's because I want the both of you to join me."
"Join you in what? Being the pirate king or something." I asked with suspension and ridicule clear in my voice.
"KYAKYAKYAKYA, nothing so easy. I want to change this entire world from the top down into something that in my selfish opinion is better." Looking at her in disbelief I asked.
"What makes you think we would want to join you?" With a wide smile on her face, she answered.
"I don't know, I figured I'd just hunt you both down and ask since I want you both to join me." Hearing an audible smack I saw Robin with her hand covering her face.
"I thought you said you were sure they would join us, I figured you had something planned." Scratching her head Emma then replied sheepishly.
"Well I do for the other people I want to join our crew, but honestly I don't know very much about Monet and Sugar so I can't easily convince them."
"Then why pray to tell? Did you want them to join us so badly? If you say it's because you like the way they'll look in the futu-" shaking her arms violently in defense of herself before the sentence could be finished Emma quickly cut off Robin.
"No no no no that's only the case for Mon-." Getting glared at violently caused her to stop mid-sentence and change her words.
"I mean It's because I think that Monet's abilities will be very helpful in the future, I mean controlling snow is pretty cool right? Like you could form artificial snow caps and walk on the sea." Still not fully believing her words, Robin's gaze became colder before asking.
"And what about her sister? Why do you want her to join the crew?."
"Well, I doubt that they would want to be separated if given the option, plus recruiting the both of them should hopefully buy us some time to save an entire kingdom in the future." Raising her eyebrows in suspicion at that statement the same as I did, Robin motioned for her to continue.
"We can talk about that later since it won't happen until we are in the new world and right now I think we have more important matters to attend to." After finishing their conversation Emma then turned to look at me and once again asked.
"Do you want to join my crew to change the world? I don't know what to offer you to join us but I can at least guarantee that you and your sister will be able to stay together as long as you want and that the both of you will become some of the strongest people in the world in the future if you join me. Also, you'll become rich." After her question all the pressure still holding me down vanished and then after motioning her arm to Robin all the arms holding me vanished as well.
"Ok." I honestly answered her.
"Still not enough eh? Well, then I can al-" Stopping mid sentence again and looking at me in pure disbelief Emma asked.
"You said yes?" Nodding my head to her I explained.
"It's clear either of you could have killed me if you wanted to given my current situation and all, besides it wouldn't be weird if you held a grudge against me since I just tried to kill you yet instead you gave me an offer that is nothing but upsides instead." Still in disbelief Emma asked again.
"Going against the world is an upside?" Laughing at her expression for a moment before the back of my neck felt cold even though I shouldn't be able to feel cold I hurriedly stopped and responded.
"I really don't care about the world, it's not like I have ever helped out in any positive way. As long as my little sister is safe and happy then going against the world is fine with me." shaking her head Emma murmured still loud enough for me to hear.
"I didn't think you would be a sis-con much different than what I thought I knew." I was about to ask her what she meant before Robin asked me something.
"Why did you want to kill us though, I don't think we have done anything to you and if you just wanted to steal from us then you wouldn't have waited for us to return." shaking my head before sighing I answered.
"I don't have many ways to support my sister and I so I do the only thing I can really do and that is kill people for berries." While Emma had a look of realization on her face for some reason Robin inquired further.
"So that means someone wants us dead, I assume it's an old lady?" Nodding my head I asked.
"How do you know that?" Chuckling for a second Robin then responded.
"That would be because she was going to sell you and your sister out in a few weeks for the 5,000,000 berries or that's what we were told anyway though it was obviously a trap. I assume she thought that you could just get rid of us fast and easy before reporting to her so that she could come and take all the berries we have on our ship." Looking at Robin in anger I tried to calm myself down before asking.
"She was going to sell me and my sister out?"
"Yeah and since the information wasn't completely false we decided to trust her regardless of the dangers and good thing we did. All in all the search for the both of you ended a lot faster than I thought it would." After she said that another question popped in my mind temporarily replacing the anger with curiosity.
"How did you hear about my ability? It doesn't seem like she told you and my sister and I have never told anyone either not to mention anyone who has seen me use it is now dead." Joining in the conversation Emma raised her one arm waving it slightly in the air while jumping up and down for a second before answering.
"That would be me, although I won't tell you how I know yet one day when you come to learn just how great I am then I'll tell you." Understanding that I wouldn't get a straight answer to my question I decided to just drop the matter for now.
"What are you going to do about the old lady who hired you to kill us?" Asking me this Robin tilted her head and Emma chimed in by nodding her head and looking at me.
"She has been really getting on my nerves recently and since I don't need her anymore I might as well get rid of-" Cutting me off was Robin
"If you don't mind then can I do it?"
"What."
"What." Emma and I said at the same time while staring at Robin.
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