Chapter 288 Ginny

Chapter 288: Chapter 288 Ginny

Hearing Ginny’s cry, he instinctively wanted to activate his ability, just like in God Valley, to send Ginny flying to a safe place first.

However, the thought had just arisen, and before he could move—

"Whoosh!"

A light breeze brushed past.

In the next second, Ginny and Kuma both felt the back of their necks tighten, and they were instantly lifted off the ground!

Charlotte Linlin had appeared beside them at some unknown moment, her massive left and right hands each gripping one of them, easily lifting Ginny and Kuma by the scruff of their necks.

"So... so fast!" Kuzan’s pupils shrank, his heart filled with shock. He hadn’t even seen how Charlotte Linlin moved!

"What are you still standing there for?" Charlotte Linlin glanced at the stunned Kuzan while holding the two struggling brats.

"It’s time to head back. Or do you want to stay here and watch over the church?"

"Ah? Yes! otousan!" Kuzan snapped out of it and hurriedly trotted to keep up.

"Let me go! You bad woman! Demon!" Ginny was suspended in the air, flailing her arms and legs in a desperate struggle, but it was useless.

She suddenly noticed something was wrong and turned her head to look at Charlotte Linlin.

"Wait! Weren’t you looking for Bear Cub? Why did you grab me too! Put me down!"

Her little mind raced; if she could escape, she could find Big Brother Ivankov, who had gone to sea, and ask for help!

Charlotte Linlin carried her, striding out of the church, and scoffed at her words.

"Who said I only took an interest in that big guy? Both of you seem quite interesting to me. Come with me."

She paused, as if remembering something, and asked the well-behaved Kuma in her other hand.

"By the way, Kuma, where’s that big-headed boy? The one named Ivankov."

Kuma, being held like a puppy, answered honestly, "Big Brother Ivan... he has already gone to sea."

"Bear Cub—!!!" Ginny, in the other hand, was nearly driven mad with rage. She transformed into a little monster with sharp teeth and roared at Kuma across the gap.

"Don’t just answer whatever this woman asks! Why are you so honest?!"

Kuma scratched his head a bit sheepishly and defended himself in a small voice, "But... the auntie probably won’t do anything to us..."

He still remembered Charlotte Linlin’s figure standing in front of Demon Rocks on the coast of God Valley; she didn’t seem like a bad person.

"Won’t do anything?! Then why are we being held by her right now! Bear Cub, wake up! Don’t just trust strangers! Especially women who look this strong and scary!!"

Ginny flailed her little fists and feet in the air in vain, her body swinging back and forth.

After making a fuss for a while, Ginny seemed to finally realize that struggling was useless and slowly stopped. Her little stomach let out an ill-timed "growl" at that moment.

She thought of the bag of food left on the church floor, then looked at Charlotte Linlin who was carrying her. Her eyes darted around, and she suddenly adopted an extremely obedient, even slightly fawning expression, saying sweetly:

"Um... this... powerful pirate lord?"

"Hmm?" Charlotte Linlin glanced at her sideways.

Ginny tried her best to make her smile look incredibly sincere.

"Could we... take the food we just bought today with us?"

In her heart, she thought: even if I’m being kidnapped, I want to be a well-fed ghost! Besides, maybe I can find an opportunity on the way... Hearing this, Charlotte Linlin’s face showed unmasked disgust.

"That kind of tasteless black bread and dried salted fish that can barely fill a stomach? What’s so good about that?"

She paused, looking at Ginny’s instantly slumped little face, and her mischievous streak surfaced again.

"Call me ’Dad’, and I’ll take you to eat some real delicacies."

Ginny’s eyes lit up. "Can I eat my fill?"

For a child like her, who was constantly on the edge of hunger and had a massive appetite, those words held incomparable temptation.

Charlotte Linlin looked at the thin girl with burning eyes in her hand and nodded.

"Of course. I’m a woman of my word."

"otousan—!!!" Ginny didn’t hesitate, her voice crisp and loud, shouting it even more smoothly and naturally than Kuzan had in his moment of desperation, as if she had practiced it countless times.

Watching this scene of "light-speed surrender" from the side, Kuzan felt a surge of Nameless anger rush to his head. He couldn’t help but point at Ginny and roar:

"Hey—!!! You surrendered way too easily, didn’t you?! Just for a meal?! Where’s your backbone?!"

Ginny was startled by the shout, then retorted righteously, even glancing at Kuzan as if he were a fool.

"Backbone? Can backbone be eaten? This... otousan said I could eat my fill! Do you even know what ’eating your fill’ means?! And besides,"

She craftily rolled her eyes. "Following such a powerful otousan who provides food must be better than staying here and not knowing where the next meal is coming from, right? Bear Cub, don’t you agree?"

Kuma, being carried, looked at Ginny, who had "defected" in an instant and was trying to drag him down with her, his honest face showing an even more bewildered expression.

The turn of events seemed to have completely exceeded the understanding of his simple mind.

Charlotte Linlin listened to Ginny’s "pragmatic" manifesto and saw Kuzan’s frustrated, speechless face, and she finally couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

"Interesting! So interesting! All right, children," she strode forward with her newly acquired "son and daughter," in a joyful mood.

"Come back to the ship with your ’Dad’! A feast, as much as you can eat!"

The sun sank completely below the horizon, and night fell. Charlotte Linlin, carrying the future "Tyrant" Kuma in one hand and the "pragmatic" Ginny in the other, with Kuzan following behind with a face full of "incomprehension" and "moral decay," set off on the way back to the St. Freya.

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