Kazan and Kerra, led by Monet and Fon Clay, went to one village after another.
When we reached the fifth village, we seemed to have found the place.
What caught Kazan's eyes was a village that looked slightly poor.
Each small wooden house is built on this scorched earth, looking increasingly difficult.
There is a small "field" next to the village. It is said to be a field, but it is actually just plowed scorched earth.
The plants inside are all weird-shaped cactus, which is the only plant that can survive in this kind of wasteland.
"Kerra, are you sure it's the village in front of you?"
"Um..."
Kerla's voice trembled slightly because she saw a familiar figure working in the farmland.
Those seemed to be the uncles and aunts who took good care of her in the past.
Everyone has become so haggard now, how could it be like this...
Kerla stretched out a small hand and gently grasped Kazan's sleeve. Although the village was not rich in the past, at least everyone lived happily and at least did not have to worry about food and clothing.
But now.
Many adults in the village have become a bit like walking zombies, with almost no energy in their eyes. The children in the village are also relatively thin, and they are not as lively and cheerful as ordinary children.
"Let's go."
Kazan took little Kerla straight towards him without realizing anyone was approaching.
Kazan looked at this small village. Not only him, but also Von Klay and Monet.
The three of them couldn't help but frown. When it comes to little Kerla's future living environment, their requirements are relatively high.
"The entire village may only have more than thirty life breaths in total, and none of them are very healthy."
Monet, who was domineering and close to a senior person, immediately sensed that the situation in the village was not very good.
"It must have been affected by the war. In the past two years, there has been a fierce struggle for power within the Kingdom of Forchart. There are also rebels running rampant. It seemed that the shadow of the revolutionary army was seen in the sky before."
Feng Clay collected a lot of information when he flew in the sky before. Of course, he did not collect it himself, but asked it from the few animals in the country.
"Tsk..."
Kazan smacked his mouth and was very dissatisfied with this situation. It just so happened that his monster family wanted to stay here with Kerla for a while.
Let's help improve the environment in the village during this time.
When the four Kazans passed by the fields, people in the village finally discovered their presence.
A middle-aged man in the field squinted his eyes and looked around. Except for the scary man with two knives on his waist, the others seemed to be kind-hearted people.
"Huh? That girl..."
"Are there any outsiders coming at this time?"
"Well...go and call Irene over! It seems...Kerr has come back..."
"Nani?!"
After several people in the field saw the appearance of Kazan and his party, they suddenly started to get busy.
After a while, when Kazan and the others had just entered the village, a group of villagers suddenly ran out. It seemed that everyone in the village had come.
"Kra!"
"...Mother?"
Kerla looked at the woman running at the front. Her mother seemed to have a few wrinkles in the corners of her eyes, and her complexion became a little yellower.
Looking at her mother's appearance, Kerla's eyes suddenly filled with moisture.
She could probably imagine how sad her mother had been since her death.
Kerra looked up at Kazan, with timidity and confusion in her eyes.
Kazan nodded and gently pushed Kerla from her back with his big hand.
Encouraged by her brother, Kerla ran towards the woman named Irene, who also bit her lip, opened her arms with tears in her eyes, and pulled Kerla into her arms.
"Kurra...my Korra."
"Mother..."
"You're finally back."
"Um..."
Irene did not expect that her daughter, who was captured by the Celestial Dragons, could come back to her. Initially, everyone in the village, including her, thought she was dead.
This is simply... a miracle.
Feng Clay and Monet watched Kerra fall into her mother's arms, their eyes filled with relief and some sighs.
But there was no envy or sentimentality.
Others have their own mothers, but they also have their own eldest brothers and brothers and sisters. There is no need to envy others.
"Kra."
"dad."
Beside Irene, there was a man with tears in his eyes.
Kerla came out of Irene's arms and threw herself into the man's arms. The man who couldn't hold back anymore finally shed tears, but he quickly wiped them away with his arms: "You can come back.
..It’s really...great.”
"Well... Nissan and the others sent me back."
Although Erin and Kella's father still wanted to chat more with Kella, they understood that there was a more important thing to do first.
"Um...thank you for bringing Kerra back. I'm really...really..."
Erin held Kerla's little hand and walked up to Kazan and his group. She looked at Kazan's terrifying eyes without evading them, and bowed deeply, her voice trembling so hard that she couldn't even say a complete sentence.
.
Kerra's return is so happy for her as a mother.
"Really! Thank you very much!"
Kerla's father, on the other hand, simply planned to kneel down and kowtow to Kazan and his party.
For a man to be able to do this, it seems that Kerra's return is really something that makes him put aside his dignity as a man.
However, Kazan had no intention of letting a father kneel down in front of his child, so he stopped him directly.
"Need not."
Kazan's current mood is a bit complicated. Although he has been mentally prepared for a long time, he also thought that he would be relieved.
But when this moment came, Kazan was still a little sad. The little girl he had protected for a year was leaving.
How can I be happy?
"Let me explain first, we are pirates."
Kazan looked at the group of villagers in front of him, whose eyes were full of happiness, and directly revealed his identity.
The villagers who would be happy for their fellow villagers to return should not be bad in nature, but Kazan didn't know what the villagers would think when they knew they were pirates.
Just like before, everyone in Donghai Windmill Village, Xiluobu Village, and Cocosia Village rejected their monster family at first, but only accepted them after getting along with them for a while.
"We know."
"Lord Red Dog, the Shichibukai, is very famous in the Grand Line."
"If the big man sends her back like this, of course little Kerla will go home safely."
Kazan's eyes opened slightly, and the behavior of these people was slightly different from what he thought.