"Hey, you... what are you trying to do?"
"I just happened to take a job about a human trafficking ring, and now I just happen to run into them."
"I can finish the job in half a day. My luck is great."
Kai waved his hand, and a magic cannon appeared in the air before him. He took a magic scope from the Warfire King's Armory.
"Happy, aside from Natsu and those guys, there are other people on that ship, right? Like hostages or something?"
Kai roughly calculated the direction, then adjusted the position of the cannon. Once he poured magic into it, he could fire at any moment.
"Do not shoot. Besides those bastards and Natsu, there are a lot of ordinary girls on that ship."
"If you open fire, they will definitely get caught in it."
Kai looked at Lucy, then gave her a bright, carefree smile.
"Wait, you... what are you going to do? No...!"
The shot curved neatly past the fleeing ship, blasting into the water near the hull. The ship veered off course, its escape path cut off, while the upper decks where the hostages were remained untouched.
The hull began to take on water, and the ship lurched.
"The ship is starting to sink. Next, those guys will definitely try to run. That is your chance to save people."
Kai lowered the scope, then cast Triple Hawk Eye on himself. His gaze sharpened as he began to lock onto each trafficker one by one.
"Happy, wait for me. No, that is wrong, I cannot fly either. How am I supposed to save anyone? You want me to swim over there?"
She could not do a thing. That was the downside of being a Celestial Spirit wizard.
"You do not know how to use your magic to run over the water."
Kai asked calmly.
"I... I do not."
Lucy froze when she heard the phrase "run over the water with magic." What was that supposed to be? She had never learned anything like it.
"If you cannot even do that, can you still call yourself a wizard? You are not even as good as Happy."
Kai gave Lucy a look full of disdain.
"I am not that useless."
Lucy squatted on the ground in defeat and started drawing circles. Sometimes the truth really was a sharp knife. Her mental defenses crumbled.
BANG!
While Lucy was still in despair, a gunshot cracked behind Kai. A massive beam of magic shot forward at extreme speed.
BANG!
Then came another shot, and another. The gunfire rolled on without stopping.
...
The traffickers who had just managed to escape from the ship immediately fell into panic and despair again.
"Calm down, everyone, calm down."
"The enemy is at... bang."
The man had just raised his arm when his head exploded a second later, blown apart by a magic sniper round. Blood instantly dyed the surrounding sea red.
BANG!
Someone fell, and the sound of that shot was like Death calling a name. Every time it rang out, it took a life away.
"No amount of money matters if you are dead. Mister Paula, I am out of here."
One man dove under the surface, planning to escape along the seabed. A heartbeat later, his head burst open underwater.
"Where is he? Where is he shooting from?"
"At the harbor. He is attacking us from that far away, and it still has that kind of power."
Paula judged the distance. From here to the harbor was at least over a thousand meters, yet every shot hit without fail.
"Hide among the women. He will be afraid of hitting hostages and will not dare shoot as he pleases. Move."
BANG!
It took longer to say it than it did to happen. In only a few short seconds, every last one of them had already fallen under Kai's bullets.