17 Will Of The Mad Pirate

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Though he had promised Cletina to survive, Kruxe now felt that he couldn't fulfil that promise.

Today was another new day for him, the last night having been thankfully at a moderate temperature, but with the way things were going, Kruxe doubted the cold would be the one to kill him.

With hunger rampaging through him, and the occasional bird attacks which saw him jumping unit the sea and wasting more of his energy, Kruxe felt he was at the last moments of his life.

So far he had seen no ship or island, the only thing in his sight being an unending stretch of water.

.....Next day….

Surprisingly Kruxe had made it through the previous night, making this now his third day since the Breezing Ania sunk.

Kruxe lay sprawled on the platform, his face dry and his lips cracked, his body which once thirsted for food, now begging for just a sip of fresh water.

From time to time he opened his eyes to stare at the bright sky, having to squint so the sun's rays wouldn't torment his eyes.

An hour of peace went by when Kruxe heard the now traumatic screech and though his eyes instinctively moved to identify the bird's owner, his weary body had already kicked into action and was already stumbling for the sea.

A white and brown bird bigger than the one he had seen the first day dived at him, and with that image in sight, Kruxe's body went underwater.

"Screech" the birds screamed several times before flying away, yet close to a minute after its departure Kryxe still hadn't surfaced.

Underwater, Kruxe's tired hand had slipped as he held onto the platform, and now he was pushing his body to his limits to keep it from sinking.

Using all his might, Kruxe surfaced a few moments later, grasping onto the edge of the platform with fear in his eyes, knowing that he had just escaped death.

With a pain-filled grunt, he tried to lift himself from the water but then heard the traumatizing sharp screech in the sky.

Normal humans who had not unlocked their genkai had no business sailing into the sea all alone and Kruxe's current situation was the reason why.

Before these normal common sea birds, Kruxe was nothing but an ant that had to keep running from them else a swipe of their giant claws would either see his body in several pieces or sliced as it was being carried away.

With his tired body and trembling arms, Seth was forced to make a decision, risk drowning at sea or die by being eaten alive.

With thoughts of his flesh being poked and tone while he was conscious, Kruxe made his choice and pushed himself back underwater, but try as he could his hands were too tired to even hold on to the platform, and like that Kruxe found himself sinking.

"Damn Cletina, she knew this would happen but still forced me to promise her I would survive."

"Now I can't move my body, I'm definitely going to die, I'm so going to blame her if we meet in the next life, no way I'll let myself feel guilty and be shouted at,"

"I'll even get to meet Mom…"

"No way mom is dead right…, that man said to capture mom, she could be held in captivity ad be getting tortured…. I need to save Mom"

With these thoughts, Kruxe who had already surrendered to death began fighting to live.

He had first envisioned dying and meeting his loved ones but now he realized his mother would not be there.

Kruxe completely disregarded what Cletina had told him, the things he had heard and images he had seen to vivid in his head.

Kruxe began struggling to swim back to the top but alas, it wasn't willpower that moved the body but rather energy, and at the movement he had none of it.

Kruxe's hands moved and his legs wiggled, but those subtle movements did nothing to stop him from sinking.

Soon Kruxe ran out of oxygen and his mind became heavy, and other than let out tears which were instantly washed away by the ocean, there was nothing he could do.

Imagining her sick delicate figure being tortured or harmed, Kruxe's mind raged with fury and he began throwing curses on the pirates that attacked them and most especially his father.

At that moment, his dislike for his father morphed into pure hatred, and he wished with every fibre of his being to kill the man.

A myriad of thoughts flowed through Kruxe's head, but as the last of his moments, arrived, all his tired mind could do was weep for his mother.

Seth had given up all hope and his head had began going blank till it suddenly was not.

[This is the will of the mad pirate]

[You have been selected as a candidate to be the heir to the mad pirate, do you acc….]

Kruxe heard a strange voice suddenly sound in his head, but what it said didn't concern him as he struggled to scream through his mouth, and through his mind.

"Save me, save me, I need to save my mother, help me save my mother"

This was all Kruxe's desperate mind thought of and desired at the moment.

[If you do become the heir to the mad pirate you can save your mother, but…]

That was all the voice was able to say before Kruxe's frenzied cries of 'yes" began raging in his head.

[Bonding with candidate….]

[Bonded with candidate….]

[Congratulations Hans Don Kruxe, you are now a candidate for the position of heir to the mad pirate]

Still Screaming "yes" in his head, this was all Kruxe heard before the darkness took him.

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