Chapter 276: Contract

Chapter 276: Chapter 276: Contract

Kuzan shuddered violently, almost blurting out, "Wait!"

Charlotte Linlin paused, looking with interest at the trembling Kuzan.

Wasn’t he quite courageous before? Why is he so soft now?

Charlotte Linlin had no idea of the psychological trauma her previous slap had inflicted on a teenage boy.

Countless thoughts flashed through Kuzan’s mind:

Resist hard? No, he would die, or suffer something worse than death. He didn’t want to taste that slap a second time, and he was currently shackled by Sea Stone, with no power to resist.

Pretend to comply? First pretend to agree, and when he became strong enough, find a chance to escape this Pirate Crew!

Yes! This method is good! Anyway, this looks like just a Pirate Crew from the South Blue; even if they have some strength, once he gets familiar with his ability, he will always have a chance to escape!

His goal is to join the Marine and fight against those truly powerful, legendary pirates of the New World! How could he be trapped in such a "local small gang"! That is where the opponents he needs to challenge in the future are!

Yes, that’s it! Lurk, work hard to get stronger, then find a chance to slip away!

In just a few seconds, Kuzan made what he considered the wisest decision.

"Thump!"

Kuzan kneeled in front of Charlotte Linlin very smoothly, his back straight, hands properly placed on his knees, his little head slightly lowered.

The eyes that were full of stubbornness just now were now cast down, staring at the floor, in a "I am very obedient, I am very well-behaved" manner, only his slightly trembling eyelashes betrayed his inner turmoil.

Charlotte Linlin raised her eyebrows again. She looked at the instantly "obedient and sensible" Kuzan, then looked down at her own hand, an amused and knowing light flashing in her purple eyes, and the curve of her mouth became more obvious. Her palm moved.

Kuzan’s whole body stiffened. He quickly raised his head and said rapidly: "I... I can... temporarily... listen to you."

He didn’t say "be your son" directly; he kept a mental reservation.

How could Charlotte Linlin not see his little thoughts? But she didn’t care. She deliberately drew out her tone: "Oh? Just ’temporarily listen to me’? Then it seems you still haven’t thought it through..."

As she spoke, that hand made a gesture to raise again.

"mother!"

Kuzan called out hurriedly. Although humiliated, it was better than getting slapped again.

"Tsk!"

Kuzan looked up slightly in confusion, only to see Charlotte Linlin frowning slightly, a look of undisguised disgust on her beautiful face, as if she had heard some unbearable word.

She shook her index finger and said with an unquestionable command: "Who told you to call me ’Mama’? Call me ’otousan’."

"O... otousan?! "

Kuzan’s eyes widened instantly, a sense of humiliation surged to his head, making his pale face flush red, and then turn iron blue.

Insult! This is definitely a deliberate insult! Kuzan roared in his heart.

Making him, a boy determined to become a Marine, call a female pirate "otousan"? This is not a distortion of physiological cognition, but an extreme trampling and mockery on a spiritual level!

It is a vicious trick to completely shatter his self-esteem! It makes him harder to accept than just beating him up!

"No... impossible!" Kuzan raised his head suddenly, anger rekindling in his eyes, mixed with intense shame and indignation. The fear from just now seemed to be temporarily suppressed by this stronger emotion.

"You might as well kill me! I will never..."

His "never" hadn’t finished when his voice came to an abrupt end.

Because Charlotte Linlin didn’t say anything; she just casually flicked that hand that had been hovering near his line of sight, making him terrified, upward.

It was just a tiny, almost negligible movement.

But this movement was like pressing some switch of fear in Kuzan’s body.

"Slap!"

In his mind, the dull sound of that slap hitting his body seemed to clearly echo!

"Thump!"

His body seemed to experience again the suffocation of being slapped away by irresistible giant force, smashed into the cold seawater, and struggling helplessly!

All the courage he had just mustered, based on self-esteem and anger, melted away instantly in the face of this pure fear derived from bodily memory, like ice under the sun.

Humiliation? Insult? In the face of the pain and powerlessness of absolute strength that might descend again, it seemed... not so unbearable. At least, calling "otousan" wouldn’t hurt, wouldn’t make him fly away, wouldn’t make him choke on water...

Kuzan’s body was more honest than his mind. He bit his lower lip and stared fixedly at that hand, as if it were the palm of a God that dominated everything.

"O... otousan!" Kuzan closed his eyes, using all his strength to squeeze this word from the depths of his throat.

The voice was hoarse, with a tremor, full of indescribable humiliation and compromise.

"Hmm~" Charlotte Linlin nodded with satisfaction.

She looked at Kuzan’s appearance, which was like mourning for the dead and enduring grief and indignation, and found it extremely interesting.

’It seems that my slap has caused quite a bit of psychological trauma to this future Admiral,’ she thought.

As for Kuzan calling her "otousan"... As a transmigrator whose soul is a male college student, being called "Mama" always feels strange somewhere. "otousan" sounds better and gives a feeling of having taken advantage.

Anyway, in the pirate world, the strong are respected, and she can do whatever she wants with titles.

Of course, she could also see that Kuzan did not truly submit. The light flashing in that kid’s eyes was clearly "temporarily endure, wait for the future".

But so what? In her view, this is like a Wolfy cub that has just grown milk teeth, baring its fangs and planning to escape the lion king’s territory, not knowing that the lion king has long seen through everything and just feels that the process is quite interesting.

Charlotte Linlin crossed her legs and looked leisurely at the kid in front of her who had just been "claimed" by her, but whose mind had clearly drifted to the clouds.

"Then..." She drew out her tone, a sly light flashing in her purple eyes, like a cat that had spotted interesting prey.

"My ’dear’, future Admiral’son’..."

Kuzan heard the term "Admiral" said teasingly from the female pirate’s mouth, his body stiffened slightly, feeling uncomfortable at having his secret ambition seen through.

Charlotte Linlin seemed not to see his discomfort and continued in that lazy tone:

"Shouldn’t you think about how to repay your ’lifesaver’ and ’new father’ me?"

Kuzan was stunned. Repay? He hadn’t fully recovered from the blow of being forced to call "otousan" and the thoughts of planning to escape.

"You see," Charlotte Linlin stretched out her finger, counting slowly,

"First, I’saved’ you from that group of scumbag pirates—although the method was a bit rough. Second, I provided medical treatment so you didn’t die in that broken box. Third, and most importantly..."

Her gaze suddenly became sharp: "That strange fruit you swallowed... ’tastes like shit’..."

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