Chapter 282 - Aquagius (1/2)

The Argo crew throw the anchor down the harbor, allowing the Argo to slowly descend and land to the landing area. The harbor crew are quick and quickly prepared the landing space that would allow the ship to land without any disruption. I also notice that compared to the people in Sandurk where the people seem to like seeing the sight of the Argo in their harbor, the people in Aquagius, or more precisely, the people in the Insect Kingdom seems to be indifferent to the Argo and treat it like any other ship.

After the ship settled, the passengers leave the Argo one by one. Before I went down the Argo, I decided to meet with the people of the Argo for one last time. Just like the first time I have seen them, Tora is still smoking on the deck and currently, Holia is just relaxing on the side. I thought she was smoking at first but I just noticed that it was just the long hard candies sold in the store inside the Argo's recreation room.

”Oh? Boy, you are also boarding off the Argo in the Insect Kingdom? I didn't expect that you would be among the passengers that are going to the Insect Kingdom. We had quite a lot of requests to board a lot of passengers to go to the Insect Kingdom lately so the news might have been so grand that even in distant lands, it arrived with clarity!” Holia tapped my shoulder.

”Huh? There is an event currently happening in the Insect Kingdom?” I didn't know about this, and even Queen Tanya didn't tell us about it.

”What? Really? You don't know that it is currently the new heir selection for the kingdom after the first heir met their untimely end in Sandurk?”

”This is the first time I heard about it so I don't have any idea about this one.”

”Huh... so then you and your companion are just here to visit?”

”Yeah. We didn't know that there is that kind of news but we are not here to witness that thing.”

Tora who was just listening to our conversation decided to join in. ”Ah, is that so? You guys have other business here that is not even related to the royalty huh? In that case, I bid you guys success on whatever it was.”

I talk to them a little bit before I bid farewell and with Lina and Tina, I went down the Argo and headed to the Harbor of the Insect Kingdom.

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”They were the people that Queen Tanya sent here right? I didn't expect her to already know the next move of the royalty of the Insect Kingdom. And to actually send the person holding the weapon that holds the two ”sins”, is she trying to solve the problem of Aquagius?” Holia bites off the candy in her mouth and although it was very clear that the candy is hard, she seemed like she is chewing a gummy instead of hard candy.

”That's most likely what she was trying to do. That stupid woman is capable of predicting many things and she is just not trying to interfere with it but tries to make sure she is involved in it. From the looks of it, she already knows what is going to happen and decided to intervene. But who would expect that the ”dead” princess of the Insect Kingdom would be alive and currently going back to where she was born and where the people who plotted her death lives,” Tora puff off a cloud of smoke on his mouth before reducing the remaining tobacco into ashes by igniting it to flames.

”Maybe that is the influence of that thing? I doubt they would do something that troublesome without any influence of outside force.”

”Who knows? We are just spectators so we will just watch everything unfold. It's not like it is needed for us anyway. The symbols of ”Sins” are outside of our jurisdiction and we are not here to even care about it.”

”Heh, I look forward to the show that they will be making after this.”

”You are using [Clairvoyance] again huh? Tch,” Tora clicks his tongue.

Holia didn't say anything and just responded with a meaningful smile as she swallow the remaining half of the candy whole.