"You bastard! How dare you use the name Fairy Tail?!" Natsu glared at the man pretending to be Salamandra.
"Natsu…"
The blue cat had a swollen mouth from a punch.
"Happy's holding on, I'll get us out of here… uwek," the pink-haired boy immediately vomited after speaking. This boy was Natsu Dragneel, Allen's target, but now he was in mortal danger.
Bora ignored Natsu, turning toward some of his henchmen. A purple flame shot from his hand and pierced through one of their chests.
"Je… fe?" The man collapsed to the ground.
"They only had a support mission! They were supposed to help me transport while I lured the girls with my charm ring and put them to sleep with the sleep ring. But did they really have to kidnap women in broad daylight?!"
The henchmen looked guilty.
"Bastard, why did you do that?! Wasn't he your partner?!" Natsu shouted.
Bora looked coldly at him, "Hey, why is this brat still alive?"
The henchmen grew scared…
Bora snatched a sword from one of his men and approached Natsu. Without hesitation or blinking, he attacked Natsu with the intent to kill, but Natsu rolled across the floor despite feeling dizzy.
"Ahh, that was close! What the hell are you doing, bastard?!" Natsu felt like his life was about to end — it would be embarrassing for the son of a dragon to die to some random thug.
"What am I doing?" Bora said coldly, looking down at Natsu. "I'm a human trafficker. If this gets out, I'll spend my life in the deepest dungeon. I'm not throwing you into the sea so you can escape. I'm not locking you up waiting for you to break free and cause me trouble. I'm killing you right here, right now, without wasting a second… that's what people like me do, kid."
Natsu shivered; in his whole life, he had never encountered a criminal like this before. Was he going to die? No, not yet. He still hadn't found Igneel.
"Natsu!" Happy, the talking blue cat, flew toward Bora's path and shielded him.
"Happy!"
"What are you doing, Natsu? Jump into the sea?!"
Natsu regretted it. He suffered from extreme motion sickness during travel, so it would have been practically useless. Still, he didn't hesitate when he heard someone was pretending to be from Fairy Tail, though it cost him dearly.
Natsu stood up when he saw his friend in danger. "I'm Natsu Dragneel, and I won't run while my friends are in danger!"
"Then die, both of you!" Bora shoved Happy away from his face and raised his sword without hesitation to cut the blue cat in half. Natsu felt an intense sense of danger and prepared to jump to protect his cat.
However…
A comet crashed through the bow of the ship, tearing through several walls before appearing between Bora and Happy.
"…"
Allen's cold gaze made Bora shiver.
"Who are you?! No matter, Prominence—!"
Before Bora could finish, Allen's fist slammed into his chest, breaking his ribs. Bora crashed into the wall, broke through it, and kept flying, his body spinning and skimming the surface of the sea. Nobody knew if he was dead, but it was not something easily survived.
"You…" Natsu, pale-faced, looked at Allen in surprise.
Allen stood back up. "I see… so that's your plan, Lucifer?"