After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 464

Trigger warning: Rape, Violence.

You’ve been warned!!!

(I’m sorry, considering how these people are, it’s just not natural not to include these themes. BUT I assure you, they’ll get their punishments)

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In the outskirts of Bright Territory, a group of 10 young adults traveled around along with one of the new Aborigine hires, Badjau, who they commissioned to guard them.

They were training to increase their strength and skills, hoping to be as cool as the soldier group. Most young adults tended to prefer this to doing any of those jobs. After all, many youngins’ longed for adventure and a life of thrill.

They were still filled with optimism characteristic of people their age, and it was really refreshing to be with for a similar-aged Aborigine like Badjau.

Badjau was not very handsome, but he was quite strong. He had very curly hair and very dark skin. He seemed to be younger than others, only in his teens, though was in fact around their age at 23 years old.

He was also a bit shorter compared to the other aborigines—only about average Terran height. He was also a bit disproportional with his short neck, slightly oblong build, and pudgy fingers.

And he was also a level 12 spearman who liked going around half-naked.

"I’ve always been wondering… Badjau," one of the young men asked, holding out his sword in case of an attack. "Why do you like going around naked?" Wasn’t he concerned about lacking equipment?

The man shrugged, "I dunno. It’s just how we are back home."

Sera, one of the girls with them, blinked at him. Badjau was not traditionally handsome with his flat nose and not-so-prominent features, but he was a very very good spearman and he happened to have saved Sera many times during this excursion of theirs. "Tell us more about your home."

It was an obvious flirtation and Badjau flinched a bit, flushed, and looking around in shyness. However, he forced himself to do his job and observed their surroundings, only speaking when he was sure that there was no enemies.

"We live near the sea and we have taken our livelihoods there. Some of our houses are even in stilts."

This made the young men and women look at him in wonder and nostalgia. "Sea?! I wonder if it’s near here… I miss it so much."

Another one rolled his eyes. This was Inigo, one of the more practical lads. "Hey, you think the sea here is as peaceful as Terran? There should be monsters here right?"

Badjau nodded at this. "The lowest level sea monster I have encountered is level 10."

Cringe.

Their looks of admiration didn’t budge though, making the seaman even more shy.

No wonder Badjau was so strong despite only being from a village and with his young age.

"What about food then?"

"Our main source of food is fish," Badjau answered. "I am surprised to see some in the market."

"It’s from Altera," Inigo said, eyes with a bit of longing.

"Altera?"

"Ah, we forgot you’ve just been hired." It was Sera who answered with a smile. "It’s a place where we get a lot of our goods. It’s not actually so far, just a couple of hours away. We should go there someday. There’re a lot of fun things we can try!"

"Deal!"

"Deal!"

Badjau smiled at them. "Yes, I’ll protect you guys."

"No, we’ll be strong enough to protect ourselves by then. You.. are going with us as our friend."

"There are so many fun things to do there!" Inigo said, "I heard it from Luis and the other citizens when they were visiting. A lot of new facilities got opened!"

"How exciting…"

Another girl couldn’t help but comment. "I wanna see the golden god again…"

Another girl sighed, "Ah, how handsome…"

At this, someone at the back cackled, poking a shy-looking girl beside him.

"Lani’s saving up so she can move to Altera and see her prince."

Everyone laughed at this, most of whom knowing the inside joke.

When Altera first showed their presence in the territory, Ansel was there and Lani was one of his great patrons!

She pretty much used up her savings to buy a bit of everything!

Of course, fortunately, they were all good buys so she didn’t die of her impulsive decisions. She even made money by reselling.

Badjau looked at the others with a smile, curious. "Prince?"

"Prince Ansel~"

"Oh, you know of a prince?"

"Well, not a noble prince, but he’s as close as it could go."

Badjau was very confused.

The jeering continued until the shy Lani couldn’t take it anymore. "He smiled at me!"

"Yeah, cuz you bought everything he sold."

Laughter erupted again.

Badjau couldn’t help but laugh with them. He had never been like this with his other peers. After all, everyone was focused on surviving…

It’s nice.

However, he stopped as he felt some droplets fall down. He frowned, lifting his hand and catching a droplet on his palm.