Chapter 181 - Miyazaki Aoi (1/2)

Before everything, Aoi firstly told John her complete and real name, Miyazaki Aoi, from the Miyazaki family.

A family that have served the Fujiwara clan even before the Hylotl-Floran War.

It was a custom that the younger generation of the Miyazaki family would serve and be the most loyal aide of the younger generation, and future leader of the Fujiwara clan.

Aoi was one of the children selected to go through the training to become Fujiwara Rei's most loyal aide.

Of course, Aoi was a rebellious young girl and just rejected her father and mother's choice for her.

She always tried to leave, to escape from her predestined fate.

One day, she managed to flee when she ran inside a Cargo Spaceship.

She was barely 11 years old when she was suddenly thrown at the endless and expanded universe without any direction or help.

As a normal young girl, she was afraid at first, but also happy that she didn't have to return.

And so she stayed hidden in the ship.

From time to time, she would use the skills she learned with the shinobis in her family to steal food and water from the people of the ship.

Of course they realized some of the food disappearing, but when they looked at the amount, they thought it was some kind of rat or other alien creature with similar behavior.

They tried to capture it, but Aoi was simply too nimble and smarter, so they could only leave it be and see if they could do something once the ship landed.

Since Aoi was inside a Cargo Spaceship, she didn't experience a Warp Jump, the ship was way too big and heavy for the FTL Engine to work.

It was all peaceful, when the spaceship was suddenly attacked by pirates.

Aoi stayed hidden in the air vents.

From up there, she watched as the crew was brutally murdered by those bloodthirsty pirates.

The pirates only killed those that resisted and fought back, as such, they kept a few alive and threw them in prison.

Aoi was shocked as she never saw people dying in front her.

She was no strange to blood, fights and injury, but she never saw people dying.

It was in that day that Aoi learned that the universe wasn't as peaceful as she once believed.

People day everyday, and if she wasn't careful enough, she would be next.

Even today Aoi could still remember the name and symbol of those pirates, the Redhook pirates leaded by the infamous Captain Redhook.

Luckily for Aoi, she had stored enough food from stealing the crew.

Now, she kept herself hidden and fearfully awaited for what fate decided to her.

Maybe it wasn't her time yet, as not very long after the spaceship was captured by the pirates, some Terrene Protectorate patrol fleet.

After a fierce battle, the pirates ran away, some of them hid in the Cargo ship.