Chapter 302 Stranded - Final
?Filled with hope, Emma promptly responds.
"This is Emma from Aldenmere Conglomerate, requesting assistance! Over!"
"This is Lamborghini rescue team. Where are you? Over." The pirate, posing as a sea rescue team member, inquires about Emma's specific location.
"I don't know, but I'm on the island south of Japan. My plane crashed!" Emma replies.
"Your plane crashed!? Where!? Is there any other survivor!?" The voice on the other end asks.
Emma considers whether to inform the pirates that Daniel has already left the island on a raft. However, fueled by frustration with him, she decides against it, hoping he faces the challenges alone.
"No, there's only me and the other one, she's..." Emma is about to reveal her lady's identity to expedite assistance, but an enthusiastic shout from the other side cuts her off.
"She? Two women!? That's great!" The excitement in the voice belongs to someone other than the initial speaker, likely the communicator guy's friends nearby.
"Two women!?" Emma repeats, sensing eagerness, excitement, and something unsettling in the other voice. Something is off.
"I'm sorry, my friends are too excited. I mean... It's good that you're both safe despite being women." The pirate attempts to smooth things over, sensing that Emma is catching on to the ruse.
"You're on the island where the plane crashed, right? Can you make a campfire and create smoke? So that we can know exactly where you are." The pirate asks. Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m
However, Emma, already suspicious, doesn't answer. She quickly cuts off the communication and runs to find her lady.
On the pirate side, they realize their cover is blown. The communicator guy curses at his friend for jeopardizing their scheme and promptly reports the situation to his superior. They now have two helpless women as merchandise to sell to the confederation.
Regret gnawed at Emma as she sprinted back to her lady, cursing herself for not heeding Daniel's warnings. Yet, resentment towards him lingered, fueled by the frustration of being kept in the dark about the reasons behind his actions.
Palpitations quickened her heartbeat as worry clouded her thoughts. They were now entangled in a perilous situation, and she couldn't shake off the feeling of impending danger.
"We need to move! Now!" Emma urgently urged as she reached their camp, her voice trembling with a mixture of fear and urgency.
"What!? What happened!?" Seraphina startled, but she quickly followed Emma's instructions without protesting.
Step by step, the pirates moved in, their guns pointed at the entrance of the cave. One of the pirates received the signal to go check it out. He nodded at his captain and cautiously entered to inspect.
Pierced! Splout!
"Arrrrrrrrrrggghhhh! My eyes! My fucking eyes!" The first pirate who checked the cave screamed in agony as two sharp stones flew directly toward his eyes, destroying them in the process.
Ratatatata!
He immediately fired randomly inside the cave, hoping that the bullets would eliminate the one assaulting him. As the bullets ran out from the current clip, a silhouette rushed from the dark toward the first pirate, and a sharp stone pierced his neck, ending the scum's life.
The one who assaulted the first pirate was none other than Emma. Before any pirate could react, she used the first pirate's body as a shield and grabbed his sidearm to fire at the pirates whose weapons she judged as dangerous enough to penetrate her makeshift cover.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Four shots, three pirates down, as the others quickly took cover to shield themselves from Emma's line of sight and returned fire.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
A fierce gunfight rang out, with Emma at a clear disadvantage. She was both outnumbered and outgunned by the pirates. Her ammo reserves, procured from the first pirate, quickly ran out, and she managed to kill only four additional pirates from the remaining group of ten.
Determined to survive the ordeal, Emma made a quick decision to risk it all. She sprinted toward the nearest pirate, utilizing her speed at the peak of human capability.
The targeted pirate returned fire, but Emma, judging the bullet trajectory by its barrel, evaded the shots before they were even fired.
"Impossible!" The pirate who had shot at Emma shouted in disbelief, witnessing a living, breathing human evading bullets with such precision.
Emma's reflexes and split-second decisions were precise and decisive, as if she were accustomed to fights like this.
The moment she reached the nearest pirate, she swiftly killed him with a sharp stone she had prepared and used the pirate's gun to fire back at the group, taking down two additional pirates.
At that moment, Emma noticed a grenade-like object flying toward her. She quickly rushed out from cover and dropped to the ground. Instead of the usual explosive blast, a large amount of smoke billowed from the grenade.
"Cough, cough, cough! Damn it, tear gas." Emma felt the tear gas sting her eyes. She randomly fired in the direction of the pirates, trying to scare them away. While still firing, she sensed movement nearby and quickly shot.
"Argh! God damn it, you bitch!" The one who cried out was Captain Red, attempting to sneak up behind Emma but getting shot in the arm. However...
"Emma! Run!" A familiar voice rang out, and Emma briefly regained her sight to see that her lady had been captured by one of the pirates. Before she could react further, she felt a sharp pain at the back of her head, knocking her unconscious. Captain Red had used the butt of his rifle to strike her down, and that was the last thing she knew before losing consciousness.