Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

Chapter 487 Leaving The Islands - Part 1

Three days had passed and Raven had finally decided to approach the people of Aranuvia–the only ones left without any knowledge of what had happened to their king. Standing before the idolized angel at a fork in the path leading to the farms, he curiously glanced her up and down. Reminded of his time in the dream and meeting her, he was greatly curious about her purpose on the island, however, with things moving so quickly, it was finally time for him to teleport and join Regalia, Linkle, and the injured fox girl on the ship.

Closing his eyes, he gripped the necklace and let it work its magic, and as he opened his eyes again, he found himself standing on a ship just a few miles away from land that was visible in front of him.

"You're here? I've been waiting for you," Regalia whispered, leaning onto the ship's railings with her eyes set on the island. "Thought it'd be best to go in a group of four, three's a crowd but a four's a company, isn't that right?"

"It's the opposite," Linkle hurled at the wolf girl from the other side of Raven's body.

Leaning against the ship's edge, the trio all had their eyes set on the island–even Raven was staring at it. They had little clue about what to expect, but thankfully, a stumbling fox-girl and her dragon were going to be their guide throughout the confusion.

Stumbling her way closer, Choux–still recovering from the surgery on her legs, leaned against the edge as well. Following the gaze of everyone else, she took a deep breath, turned to her dragon companion walking up beside her, and finally heaved a sigh with a smile riding on her lips.

"We're gonna get him back, Daema. We're getting my brother back," reaching out to his soft scale snout, Choux gently brushed the dragon's face. Leaning into her touch, Daema, who was still recovering from his injuries like his master, purred like a kitten and nuzzled up to his master's neck.

Right as he noticed the fox-girl working with a knife on something, Linkle decided to fill Raven in on much-needed context for the situation.

"I brought them back, Maria too–she's in the basement resting since she stayed up all night to keep watch," as Raven looked at her, the upset witch quickly turned her head away from him. "We didn't have enough people to work this thing, of course, I would bring them back and they agreed so don't look at me like that!"

Looking right through the greedy witch's intentions, Raven squinted his eyes as he continued to stare at her.

"And she says I'm using them," knowing full well that Linkle was aware of the dangers that might come crashing on them on this journey and yet bringing along Moxy and Reina, Raven wanted to pin her to the wall and give her an earful. "If anything happens to them it's on your ass, you greedy lizard."

"Speaking of lizards," having dried up completely, Reina chimed into the conversation again. Looking around at the many faces that had suddenly turned to her, her brows squinted in confusion before she decided to just go along with her question. "Have any of you seen Sally? I haven't seen her in a while..."

"What do you mean you hav–" Responding to her owner's voice while riding Linkle's back, Sally the salamander choked the witch out of her words. Frozen in fear from the strange sensation on her spine, Linkle turned her head like a crank toy and the moment her eyes landed on the salamander she jumped in shock and cried. "WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT THE FUCK?!" Enjoy more content from empire

Hopping around the deck with her legs spread wide and her hands continuously trying to shake Sally off of her spine, the witch danced about in fear while the others openly laughed or masked their sadistic joys. In a sense, she'd paid for dragging Reina and Moxy into the mix by turning into the ship's only source of entertainment, even if it only lasted a while.

That lighthearted moment was the last that the party shared on the ship before finally arriving at the island whose council wasn't going to be too pleased by them killing their king. However, even to that, Raven had already planned an answer–one that would quite literally blow their minds off, if they proved too much trouble that is.