Last chapter, Seric went up to the deck of the ship with Popshot and learned that the woman he and Karia escaped from at Vegahold is extremely strong, and one of "The Four Holidays". Now, after waking up in a strange vault he realizes that Karia and King Metallica are about to pull a big heist.

Seric's P.O.V.

I quickly run out of the vault, hopping over the door on the floor. "Wait, wait, wait. This is all just a big
misunderstand-"

*BANG*

A bullet then flies right past my head, and into the steel room behind me making my ears start to ring.

"Catch the scumbags!" One of her men yell as the vast majority of the Long Sleeved Pirates starts to run towards us.

Before I can react a hand roughly shoves itself over my eyes, and soon after with my currently damaged ears I start to hear a bunch of groaning.

"Hell yeah the flashbang worked, let's keep it moving!" Karia says with a grin as she takes her hand off of my face, starting to run ahead past the stunned bodies to the right of the vault with King Metallica who's already way ahead of us.

"Just what the hell else was in that vault?!" I think to myself as I start to run with no way out of this now, looking at all the damage one tiny flashbang caused.

We continue to run through a part of the dark wooden village in the ship that I haven't seen before, running by a bunch of small brown houses until after passing through an alleyway the trashed arena courtyard we were in just last night is in front of us.

"There they are!" I hear from my left, as another bunch of angry men and women with old fashioned weapons and long sleeved shirts are charging at us from the opposite side of the arena and shooting revolvers.

I quickly dive back into the alleyway, bumping into Karia and King Metallica.

"There's way too many of them! Even if I used my Blessing..." I try to find a solution, but I immediately stop as I don't have it in me to hurt these people who only did good for us.

"Here, keep these safe will ya! I'm about to have some good, old fashioned, last-time fun with my old pals!" King Metallica says as he loudly drops the two giant bags onto the smooth wooden floor, rolling up the sleeves of his robe as he walks out of cover.

I'm about to tell him to stop but with Karia being injured I guess we don't have many more options, so I simply peak out from the alleyway and watch carefully.

"I've been wanting to do this for a while you bastard, now I've finally got a real reason to yeah!?" One of the bigger men say with an accent as they push through the crowd, having light skin and brown hair longer than Karia's, as well as an average sized body with a black long sleeved shirt and pants.

"HEY, it's you Gesheda Williad Heartstruck! It's been a while since we've last done some good old roughhousing!" King Metallica responds seeming unfazed by the giant crowd in front of him, who luckily have stopped shooting.

"You... remembered my full name? Ah who cares yeah, no one backstabs the Long Sleeved Pirate's an' gets away with it!" Gesheda says as he reaches back, ripping off pieces of his hair from the back of his head until he finally stops.

"My. Bad. Hair. Day!" The man cries out with enthusiasm, as the pieces of hair start to wrap around his knuckles, until each of them go around every one of his fingers hardening and sticking out from each one, giving him spiked fists.

"Eek! That looks dangerous!" King Metallica says as he dramatically puts his hands over his face.

"That's right!" The man yells out as he charges at King Metallica from across the arena, with the crowd standing behind him. I guess they trust him a lot.

"Yeah, I think I'll pass old pal! I'll show you dangerous first though!" King Metallica says as he raises his arm up, with his palm facing outwards in Gesheda's direction and loud sounds coming from him.

"Oh come on, I know you're hiding in my awesome metallic body somewhere you tiny, annoying little devil!" King Metallica says as he starts to bang his head his other arm, all the while the man is about to punch and puncture his silver face.

*CRASH*

Then suddenly, with a rough screeching sound King Metallica gets stabbed in the face by the spiked hair.

"Ah, there you are!" King Metallica says happily and unconcerned as a loud rolling sound comes from his direction, all the while Gesheda is trying to rip his hand out from King Metallicas metal body and failing to do so.

"Here's my second sphere, "Wait, Dont Go"!" King Metallica says as suddenly his arm is pushed back by recoil and Gesheda is launched diagonally upwards above the crowd behind him, with a small gold ball crushing itself into his chest as he flies in the air.

"My God the force he launched that ball at must be insane to launch someone as big as Gesheda into the air!" I think to myself in amazement and relief as he seems more than capable of defending us.

"Hm... that's awful strange, how come my mouth isn't working right?" He says to himself as he reaches up to his face, feeling around until he finds the giant holes in his face made by Gesheda. A shocked look comes onto his face, and he squeals so loudly it starts to hurt my ears from a distance.

"Ah, don't go just yet, EX friend!" King Metallica yells with what seems to be anger as suddenly the ball starts flying back towards his stuck out arm and open silver palm, dragging a shocked Gesheda with it.

"How about you guys join in on this super awesome fun too, YASHASHASHA now this is a GREAT way to say goodbye!" King Metallica says in a passive-aggressive tone as the ball and Gesheda finally slam back into his open palm, and without hesitation he tilts his arm downwards, and launches the ball and Gesheda horizontally into the spectating Long Sleeved Pirates.

"GWAAAAAAAAAH!" Gesheda coughs out as King Metallica uses him to mow over a huge chunk of his comrades, causing people to be launched into the air left and right.

Seeing Gesheda be completely overpowered, the rest of the unscathed crowd charges towards King Metallica, but before they can come any closer he speed walks backwards, and once again the now unconcious body of Gesheda and the ball start flying back towards him, crashing through the people nearing King Metallica from behind and knocking them to the side.

"It sure was worth it to win the tournament, huh Kari- AGH!" I'm interrupted as something crashes into my shoulders from above, pinning my body down to the wood beneath me.

Before I can even react an insanely hard hit smashes my head into the floor, and more and more hits slam into my dazed face until the wooden floor is broken beneath me and my entire head is a complete mess.

"How could you, I trusted you! After all we did for you this is what you give back to us!?" A voice yells overtop of me, but my eyes are too watery and I can't focus enough to remember who it is.

Luckily though suddenly the attacker jumps off of me for whatever reason, as a giant red blur flies over my face and a second later disappears.

I hear yells in the distance, but I'm still far to disoriented to realize what's even happening.

"-ic! Se-... -ready! Seric!" I start to hear the voices now and the first I finally hear is Karia's.

"Oh... Karia..." I respond weakly as I start to recover while continuing to lay on the floor.

"You mind healing a little faster, I dont know how long I can last against your little friend with one arm here!" Karia responds as I hear feet moving across the wood and heavy impacts behind me, and as I open my eyes looking upwards I can see the darkness around us and the two wooden buildings on both sides of us that make up the alleyway.

"You're not going anywhere!" The voice responds and I sadly realize it's... Popshot. As I bend my head to look up behind me he's running towards me at a quick pace and seems to be getting ready to jump and finish me off with a kick from above.

"Damn it Karia, I'm so sorry Popshot! But I've... I've gotta move!" I try to snap myself out of my sadness to save my skin, but I still barely have the strength to move.

"TAKE THIS YOU BASTARD!" Popshot roars as he's just a few feet away from me now after lunging towards my malfunctioning self.

"Come on!" Is the only thing I can think to myself as I panic and start to frantically try to move my body which starts to work.

*CRUNCH*

A second before Popshot lands his foot on my face, I have just enough strength to quickly roll out of the way which causes his foot to slam through the wooden floor. I'm guessing this worked due to Popshot being disoriented once again.

"I see that our training for YOU paid off huh?!" He tries to guilt me which stings quite a bit, as I quickly stand up being as recovered as I need to be to move around a little.

"Listen man, this is all just a stupid mistake Karia and-"

"Yeah right, you expect me to believe you?" He responds seriously as he finally rips his foot from the wood and continues to stare me down.

"If you just let me explain-" I try to reason further but he starts to run at me at a crazy pace in strange patterns that I can't comprehend.

*POW*

Popshot quickly closes the gap, running and slamming a punch into my chest which knocks the air out of me.

While I'm recovering he positions his arm underneath my chin, throws it up a bit but stops halfway through the motion.

"Oh no-" Is the only thing I can say as I know what's coming, and soon after I'm right.

*POW*

The motion continues a few seconds later as using his Blessing he launches a crazy strong uppercut into my chin, launching me far up into the air just below the height of the two buildings next to us.

"How'd he get so much stronger?!" Is the only thing I can frantically think to myself as I start my fall back to earth- or wood.

Looking down as I fall with flailing arms and teary eyes Popshot already seems to be preparing a kick of sorts as he stands straight with one leg and raises and pulls back the other.

"If you couldn't tell, I'm not holding back anymore!" Popshot says with pride as I'm about to fall towards the ground in front of him, with Karia being nowhere to be seen.

He kicks his leg out, stopping the motion as his leg is only stretched out halfway, and as I wince my eyes with the force of a thousand suns being about a foot from the ground, his Blessing activates with perfect timing and hits my chest.

*BOOM*

His foot crushes into me, and continues to do so until the force of the insane impact makes me black out and sends me flying way past the alleyway, and through a few wooden buildings until I finally stop after crashing into an anvil in someone's house.

"Augh, ow......" I think to myself in a daze as I lay on the floor and the world around me is spinning.

Before I have time to recover, Popshot runs over to me and yanks me up by my damaged shirt, drags me out of the house and stands me up on my feet.

"Looks like you didn't learn anything after all!" He says in an angry tone as I try to keep standing but only to get my legs swept from under me once again, but even being in a daze on instinct I remember how to balance myself a second later, and just like I thought he's once again charging an uppercut with his Blessing, making him unable to move.

He only looks at me with fear, but being more recovered now I'm able to immediately throw a moderately strong jab towards his face with my right arm.

"This is payback!" I yell while justifying myself, but its shortlived as the only thing I punch is Popshot's open palm.

"You never learn do you." He says with a small mocking laugh as he uses his other arm to send a quick jab towards my face, followed by a kick to my shins, and a bunch of other hits that are on a whole nother level from when I first fought him keep on slamming into me as I make a pathetic attempt to block and dodge.

"Damn it, I've gotta apologize or this could get really bad!" I think to myself in fear as I continue to get massacred by Popshot.

He finally stops, but not for long as he's preparing a huge punch with his Blessing.

Without a word, he finally launches the hit and I shut my eyes, but for some reason it never slams my face.

"Hey, hey, hey just what did you do to my unexperienced pal?!" I hear a voice and open my eyes once again, and I can see King Metallica's silver hand in front of me.

"Damn it stay out of my way you idiot!" Popshot yells out as he tries to hit King Metallica with his other arm but it's to no avail as he isn't strong enough to break through metal.

"Well I would chat, but you hurt my pals and we've gotta fly so... bye!" King Metallica says as he puts his open palm on Popshot's chest, and a second later with a loud sound launches him far off into the dark distance of the ship through the air.

I'm feeling guilty, but he was whopping my ass to the next dimension a minute ago so hey we're even now.

"Thanks a lot, what happened to the crowd attacking you though?" I ask as I'm about to fall to the floor but King Metallica catches me.

"Oh we just finished up our lesson on why to NEVER damage my awesome, shiny metal face and hurt my pals!" King Metallica says passive aggressively.

"Holy shit you beat all of them?! Also by the way, you know where Karia is?" I ask as King Metallica let's me go now that I'm recovered, walking back to the two giant bags of loot he dropped in the alleyway beforehand.

"Oh she just came out to watch my fun little teaching lesson!" King Metallica says as he nods his head back to Karia who just now appears behind him.

"Hey, yeah I agree the prize was so worth it." Karia says with a laugh as she cooly shakes her now messy long purple hair from her forehead.

"Right?! And thanks a bunch for the help by the way." I say with "gratitude" to my lovely friend who was watching a show while I got my ass kicked.

"No problem, anyways let's get the hell out of here before anyone else comes." She responds as King Metallica now once again has the two giant bags over his shoulders.

"We're definitely having a talk about something called "morals" later on." I say with a sigh, but nonetheless start running out of the alleyway with the two as I'm easily the slowest.

*5 minutes later...*

"Damn it, King Metallica can you please stop- swinging those- stupid bags around?!" I say in annoyance as I'm running right behind him up the spiral staircase, with another mob of Adesia's crew chasing right behind us. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't getting slapped in the face by a few hundred pound bags packed with what feels like bricks every two seconds.

"Shut up already, we're almost there!" Karia yells from in front of King Metallica as she leads the way.

*BANG*

"OW!" I cry out and trip as a revolver once again fires up in our direction, and for the second time I'm shot in the back, all the while Karia and King Metallica are still running.

"Spirit of Kodan: Strike!" I hear Karia yell in the distance and the loud sound of cracking wood.

I try to stand up the stairs and fail, causing a nimble member of the crew to snatch my leg in which I kick them off into the following crowd. I start running through the pain until I reach the non existent wooden door and charge outside onto the wooden deck to see the blue sky covered with clouds along with the shining sun.

"Come on, I think you've got to learn how to run too pal!" King Metallica says as he and Karia are impatiently waiting for me by the railing of the ship, with Karia already about to jump off.

"Oh shit this is-", I start to say as I run as fast as I can across the wooden deck towards the railing with Adesia's crew right behind me.
"INSANE!" I yell out as without hesitation I jump on and straight off of the railing of the ginormous height of the ship.

A/N: After betraying the generous Long Sleeved Pirate's, it's... over? Have the trio actually managed to pull off the heist, or does Adesia's crew have something else in store?

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