Anime Survival

Accompanying the guards, they walked through the streets of a small, dilapidated town full of slaves.

The slaves all had wounds of varying degrees of severity, they were thin with a body emaciated by hunger, some slave corpses even lay on the ground, decomposing to satisfy the appetites of worms and flies.

There were Giant Mermaids, humans and several slaves of different races.

James quietly followed the guards and other travellers while inspecting his surroundings.

"This town is big enough, I can smell the sea towards the west, this must be a port, depending on the task, we just have to survive 7 days here but with Survival world it's never that easy, you could run into unknown dangers in those 7 days like Ole and the young lady who died in a pretty stupid way in the end."

"The best way to survive is to escape, within the parameters of Survival world, escaping from here could even be considered a bonus task earning points."

"Escape could have adverse consequences, such as failure of the main task."

A few minutes later they arrived in front of a huge square building under construction, it was a kind of giant half-constructed stadium, hundreds of thin and tired slaves were working on the construction of the stadium without rest under the watchful eyes of the armed guard.

Then the guards and the giant took off their handcuffs.

"From now on you'll work here until nightfall, you're free to stay wherever you want in the city." Said the giant before leaving with the guards.

James without delay stepped forward and picked up some bricks from the ground before following the other slaves, the other travelers remembering the previous spectacle in the cell did not even dare to think of antagonizing the guards, they also stepped forward and began to work.

They worked like this for more than 13 hours before they were allowed to return to their cells, on his way back James suddenly stopped and looked at a fish man lying on the ground with his body covered with scars.

He had round eyes, salmon-pink colored skin, a flat nose, wide lips with slight peach fuzz, a thick dark beard and sideburns, and a spiky dorsal fin on the back of his head.

Seeing this slightly familiar face James was stunned for a moment.

"Fisher Tiger!"

Tiger is a legendary figure among Fish-Men, known for his many feats and his amazing will.

Without fearing the consequences of challenging the World Nobles and their guards, he proceeded to rampage across Mary Geoise and free all the slaves imprisoned there, including both fish-men and humans.

According to the manga, he was himself a slave of the celestial dragon having managed to escape, this adventure made him extremely disgusted with slavery thus pushing him to fight to free all the slaves he met, without distinction of races.

James seeing Fisher Tiger in agony couldn't help but smile.

"I have my exit key."

He walked slowly towards Fisher Tiger who, sensing someone approaching him, tried to get up with difficulty, but finally could only sit down on the ground.

He looked angrily at James while clenching his teeth.

"Damn humans, if you come any closer I'll kill you."

Cannibalism was not uncommon in this city, because the celestial dragons did not feed them, they were given just a few pieces of bread or fruit once a month.

Then the corpses were often stolen, or the weaker wounded were attacked and killed by the other slaves, the guards didn't care about such cases, their job was simply to prevent them from fleeing or force them to work.

James, seeing Fisher Tiger so vigilant, didn't back away but rather approached him. Fisher Tiger, exhausted and injured, then raised his arm with difficulty, drops of water appeared around his hand.

James, seeing Fisher Tiger so vigilant, didn't back away but rather approached him. Fisher Tiger, exhausted and injured, then raised his arm with difficulty, drops of water appeared around his hand.

*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

The drops of water around his hand flew towards James, hitting him so hard that they threw him against a wall tens of metres away.

Fisher Tiger then tired fell to the ground again.

"I can't feel my body anymore, damned humans..."

"My wounds are too deep, if this goes on like this I may die of anemia..."

Fisher Tiger felt his eyelids getting heavier and heavier, fatigue and his wounds were gradually making him fall into slumber

But as he went to sleep his eyes suddenly opened as he saw James with some bruise on his face walking towards him.

"Your technique is powerful, I'd like to learn it someday."

Fisher Tiger tried to get up again, but he couldn't even move a flipper, finally being unable to do anything, he resigned himself to death.

He closed his eyes and waited patiently for his death, but a few seconds later he opened his eyes and was surprised to see James, who had torn off pieces of his slave outfit and tied them around his wounds to stop the bleeding.

"What are you... what are you doing?!"

"I'm stopping your bleeding."

"Why? Don't you want to eat me?"

"Why should I eat a man like me?"

"I'm a fish man, not a f.u.c.k**g man like you!"

James remained silent for a moment as he continued to bandage Fisher Tiger's wounds and then said in a calm voice.

"Men or fish men it doesn't matter to me, in the end we're all men."

Hearing this, Fisher Tiger was stunned and looked at James as he bandaged his wounds as if not to forget the face of the man in front of him.

Since he left his island, the humans refused to let him sleep in their inns, he could not eat in any restaurant, the boats at sea refused to carry a fish man, he was finally captured and sold by slave traders who pretended to be friendly with him before inviting him to eat poisoned food,, then sold him to the celestial dragons who forced him to fight every day.

It was the first time a human or a surface dweller was ever nice to him.

Coupled with James' words, tears began to fall from his eyes.

"Men and fish men are all ultimately only men."