Chapter 42: Dark whispers

"Where is he?" The Fish-men stood inside Lily's house, their faces filled with looks of bewilderment and shock, but Lily was the most incredulous person of what was going on, she saw Arthur with both eyes fainting, but now he disappeared.

"They searched the house, maybe he didn't completely lose consciousness and hid somewhere here" said one of the Fish-man who looked like a squid, his head was pointed and he also had 4 hands and four legs, he is obviously the strongest person among them because everyone listened to his orders and carried them out without any complaint.

Lily looked at her companions, who began to search her house savagely without saying anything. The reason for her silence was her fear that all the blame would be directed at her. She had a single mission, which was to poison Arthur, but she failed in it.

...

Arthur sat over Lily's House and there is a small smile on his face. he was aware of the reality of what was going on, but he wanted to play with them a little, previously when he listened to their plan, he knew that they would threaten some humans and would prepare a little play in front of him for a beautiful mermaid that some evil humans wanted to steal.

Because of their limited thinking, they thought that Arthur would want to help the mermaid because of her charming beauty, and when that happens, the mermaid will lead him to her house as her savior and then offer him a poisoned drink that makes him paralyzed in the nerves, a simple and well-prepared plan.

"It seems that I was too lenient with them last time, this is not good" an evil smile appeared on Arthur's face as a dense murderous intent spread around him.

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[Few hours later]

Lily sat at her house while the expressions of sadness filled her beautiful face, the broken furniture and the mess surrounded her from every direction, after the failure of their plan, her comrades emptied all their anger on her and destroyed everything that got in their way, this made her feel very sad because she lost the trust of her comrades with whom she worked for a very long time.

Step! Step!

"Who's there!" After hearing the sound of light footsteps walking over the shattered glass, Lily turned and looked behind her to find Arthur standing looking at her with eyes filled with evil.

"What are you doing here!" Lily's expressions changed to incredulous looks at what was going on, but those looks immediately changed to absolute fear when she saw Arthur pulling out a small dagger and calmly walking towards her.

"Get away from me, Beast!" Lily tried to escape, but she was very slow, the mermaids did not have legs, so they put a bubble around their fin that allows them to float on land.

Boom!

Fall!

Arthur burst the bubble, which made Lily fall to the ground unable to move and escape, when Lily found that all her escape routes had disappeared, tears began to flow from her face and she looked at Arthur with a submissive helpless face and began to beg:

"Please forgive me, it was all their planning, they threatened to kill me if I didn't cooperate with them" her pleading words were annoying to Arthur and made him feel disgusted with her.

"Your disgusting figure doesn't fit with that pretty face of yours. "Arthur stood next to Lily, who was looking at him helplessly with tears filling her face, she didn't understand what he meant by saying but she realized that it's not a good thing.

Lily stretched out her hand towards him and wanted to continue her entreaty, but Arthur quickly grabbed her hand and broke it.

"Uaaah!" Lily screamed at the top of her voice, but Arthur put his left hand over her mouth and silenced her, all Arthur's actions were slow and the reason for this was to make Lily feel helpless, Arthur's rule was to make his opponents torture slowly in order to experience the bitterness of physical pain and psychological pain caused by not knowing when their torture would end.

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About half an hour later, Arthur stood in front of Lily, who was lying on the floor with a small blood stained dagger in his hand.

With a sarcastic tone Arthur said to Lily who looks at him with empty eyes like an abyss full of despair:

"Now your face matches your disgusting personality Hahaha!"

Lily's face was filled with large bloody wounds stretching from her forehead to her chin, the wounds were deep and many, even if they were treated, they would leave ugly scars that would accompany Lily for the rest of her life without any hope of being cured.

After Arthur watched Lily for some time and found that her condition was not so serious, he calmly walked towards his next goal and evil glances still did not leave his face.

...…

Fish-men Island lived a bloody night where many of its inhabitants heard strange screams coming from several places.

These sounds were something terrifying for the locals, which made many children have disturbing nightmares the next night, and adults called this incident the dark whispers, which then became a local legend, being told to children not to go out at night.

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Early in the morning Odrick sat in front of the dining table with his face full of worries, he was so lost and confused that he forgot to eat his breakfast, which is now cold.

With a small sigh Odrick looked at the door of the room where Arthur was staying and said to himself:

'Sir gave me one task but I couldn't solve it, even after I talked with some of my acquaintances, none of them are ready to let us sail his ship, and the only person who accepted the task asked for an inflated price.'

All the sailors in this world were afraid to sail in the new world, let alone enter the territory of Emperors like Kaidou, the reason for their fear was justified and logical, so Odrick could not blame them.

The only ships that sailed in the waters of the new world were the ships of ambitious Pirates, most of whom ended up either dying or joining the fleet of one of the Yonko.

The second type of ships are the warships of the world government and the Navy, which possess advanced technologies that increase their survival rates and these technologies are inaccessible to ordinary sailors.

'If I don't find any solutions this month, I think I'll turn to my fellow Sun Pirates.'

Odrik grabbed a fork and took a piece of bacon that had become cold and put it in his mouth, while he was chewing his food slowly and thinking about which person he would negotiate with today, he heard a slight sound of pushing the door.

With light footsteps followed by the sound of some metal clashing Arthur calmly walked towards Odrick carrying a giant bag.

Odrick felt a little confused about what was going on, but he didn't say anything and all he did was watch Arthur, who walked towards him, put the huge bag on the table, and then pulled out a small diary book and put it on the table as well.

Without saying a word Arthur went to his room and locked the door, he was so tired that he fell into a deep sleep as soon as he put his head on his pillow.

Odrick was bewildered by what was happening, cautiously reaching out his hand and opening the giant bag, his expression quickly changing from shock to indescribable happiness, the bag was filled with hundreds of gold coins and a few pieces of jewelry that were shining with the light of the window.

"This money is enough to cover all travel expenses, and more than that, if you add my savings and the money that my master gave me at the beginning, it will be enough to buy an average ship and operate a good crew."

After inspecting the bag Odrick turned his gaze towards the little note, he was aware of the fact that there would be something important in it.

He took the notebook and began to read what was written in it, after ten minutes of careful reading Odrick raised his head and expressions of excitement and enthusiasm filled his face.

Odrick looked at the door of Arthur's room with a smile full of happiness and then muttered in a voice filled with pride.

"My choice was not wrong, I am looking forward to seeing the world you will build, Sir."