Childhood Anime Grand Tour

Chapter 91 The Pegit Refugee Ship, Lasdale

The atmosphere of the banquet had reached its peak. Kiel sat in the main seat, his body stiff and unable to move, but his mind was still sharp.

"So, old friend, are you planning to stay in this valley? I'm already in this state, I..."

Gil knew his body wouldn't last much longer, and the Valley of the Wind needed another protective force, which was why he had this little scheme. As a friend of many years, Yuba knew this all too well, but he ultimately didn't agree, while Nausicaä looked at Yuba with hopeful eyes.

Compared to the innocent and naive San and Sheeta, Nausicaä was clearly much more mature, and she naturally understood her father's intentions.

"Hehehe, no way, Yuba is destined to be a wanderer, a man who is always searching!"

Fortunately, the atmosphere didn't become too awkward, and the ancestral priestess immediately stepped in to defuse the situation, saying that only an elder like her could resolve it so easily.

"Grandma, what do you mean by 'searching'?"

"Oh! Nausicaä, don't you know? Look, isn't it on the flag hanging on the wall? Although I can't see it clearly anymore, there's a person in the left corner of the flag!"

In fact, this flag has been passed down for a hundred years, and the legend has also been passed down for a hundred years. It depicts a man dressed in fine clothes, standing on auspicious clouds, holding a scepter, and carrying a divine bird on his shoulder.

"A saint dressed in blue robes descended upon the golden plains, rekindling the bond that had been lost with the earth!"

"Ultimately guiding people to the tranquil blue land!"

Nausicaä recited it as if chanting, and everyone in the Valley of the Wind had grown up hearing this legend. Then, Nausicaä looked at Yuba and said:

“Master Yupa, I always thought this was just an ancient legend!”

Nausicaä had not expected Master Yupa's ideals to be so lofty, but Yupa said:

"Priest, please stop making fun of me!!"

When pursuing an unattainable ideal, one inevitably faces ridicule. Therefore, even though one may still firmly believe in something and strive for it, there are things one would never say aloud.

Just like Balu's Laputa ideal, it must have been ridiculed by others, so he eventually stopped mentioning it, but he continued to quietly build flying machines at home.

"Hehehe, isn't it the same thing?"

"I simply want to unravel the mysteries of the Sea of ​​Decay. I don't believe that we humans are destined to be swallowed by the Sea of ​​Decay. For this reason, I want to pursue the truth."

The banquet ended amidst the four people's lamentations. As the banquet concluded, the winds of the Valley of the Wind began to rage, seemingly foreshadowing that things were far from over.

The next day, before dawn, the nanny knocked on Nausicaä's door.

"Your Highness, we should start repairing the gunboat. The wind is unusual today!"

"Hi..."

Nausicaä had gotten up early, put on her helmet, and went outside. She quickly arrived at a platform not far away.

"Grandpa Mitt, thank you for your hard work!"

A short old man stood atop the tower, gazing into the distance. Hearing Nausicaä's call, he immediately said with concern:

"Your Highness, the storm shows no signs of stopping tonight; it seems something is about to happen?"

Not only Mito, but Nausicaä also seemed to sense it, and both of them looked solemnly into the distance.

"The sound of the wind is wrong!"

Sure enough, Grandpa Mitt, being an old man who had lived in the Valley of the Wind for many years, immediately heard the noise mixed in with the sound of the wind.

"Ah! There, there's light!"

Sure enough, following Nausicaä's gaze, a point of light appeared faintly in the clouds.

"It's a spaceship!"

"Why would a spaceship appear in such a remote place like ours?!"

The largest flying vehicle in the Valley of the Wind is a gunboat; such a large spaceship must have originated from a large country. At that moment, Yuba also stepped forward.

"What happened?"

"Lord Yuba, it's a spaceship!"

"They're already heading this way!!"

Sure enough, before Nausicaä could finish speaking, several bright lights appeared ahead, gradually revealing the outline of the spaceship.

"It's huge!!"

Having said "enormous," the enormous spaceship appeared directly overhead. Its massive form loomed over the Valley of the Wind, and the previously fierce gale subsided, but as the spaceship passed, the storm intensified.

"Is it Petit's spaceship?"

"Something seems to have happened. They're about to make an emergency landing. I'll guide them!! Grandpa Mitt, help me take off!"

"Your Highness, the wind is too strong, please don't do anything reckless!"

"It would be dangerous if it just crashed straight down. I need to guide them to land on the beach, quick!!"

Seeing this, Grandpa Mitt had no choice but to activate the jumping device. A burst of bright light erupted from the tail of the aircraft beneath Nausicaä's feet, and the aircraft instantly leaped into the sky.

"May you be safe, child who can ride the storm!!"

Yuba watched Nausicaä's departing figure and couldn't help but sigh. In people's minds, Nausicaä was indeed a perfect wind rider, which was one of the reasons why she had such a high reputation in the Valley of the Wind.

Nausicaä's aircraft was actually quite advanced, but compared to Pejite's massive spaceship, it was like a small bird under the wings of a phoenix! Unfortunately, this phoenix soaring in the sky is now in dire need of its own survival!

Nausicaä, who was nearby, soon heard gunshots and the deafening roar of an explosion coming from inside.

Nausicaä instantly accelerated and rushed ahead to guide the spaceship, but when she looked back, she was instantly shocked because the spaceship was covered with countless earthworms!

Nausicaä knew that the spaceship must have landed in the Sea of ​​Decay, which had provoked the Ohmu's revenge.

bang bang bang...

Sure enough, although the spaceship had been overrun by the earthworms, some people were still fighting desperately, but the most common sound was the crying of girls.

"How could this be? They're all women and children. Is this a refugee ship?"

But Nausicaä didn't have time to think about that now. Seeing the spaceship about to crash, she immediately activated its signal light and shouted towards it:

"Turn the rudder quickly, we're going to crash, turn the rudder quickly..."

Unfortunately, the spaceship continued to head uncontrollably towards the valley. Nausicaä knew it was all over. In her final moments, all she saw was a beautiful little girl through the flight window!

From... boom... bang... hiss...

A violent impact, the sound of the spaceship shattering, the resulting explosion, and the roar of flames erupting everywhere! Nausicaä couldn't bear it any longer and turned her head away; the intense flames instantly illuminated her profile.

"Ah! Why is this happening?"

Nausicaä was a strong girl. Although she was heartbroken to see such a tragic scene, her eyes glistened with tears as she stared in shock at the still-burning flames not far away.

"It's fallen?"

"Your Highness!!"

"Hurry up and get there!!"

Master Yuba reacted the fastest, jumping down the stairs first. Grandpa Mitt, of course, didn't have such skill and immediately ran into the village. Such a huge tremor naturally alerted everyone, and the entire Valley of the Wind was mobilized.

Nausicaä disembarked from the aircraft and rushed toward the flames. Fortunately, the flames had shrunk considerably after burning intensely.

At that moment, Nausicaä looked at the flames around her, and the smell of burning corpses filled her nostrils, causing her to instinctively cover her mouth and nose. Amidst the chaos, Nausicaä suddenly noticed a little girl still breathing beneath the rubble.

Nausicaä immediately ran over and used both hands to forcefully lift the hull of the boat off the girl.

"Ah! It's a girl!!"

The girl was quickly carried to a safe place by Nausicaä, and at that moment the girl's eyes began to tremble.

"Ah! Where am I?"

"Are you alright? What happened?"

As Nausicaä was speaking, she was unbuttoning the girl's blouse, not to take advantage of her, of course! She was checking if the girl had been infected by the spores. If she had been infected by the spores of the Sea of ​​Decay, lesions would soon appear on her chest.

"what!"

Nausicaä immediately stopped moving, because she knew it was too late; the girl's chest was already completely diseased and there was no way to save her.

"Do you have anything else to say?"

"I am... Rasdale of Pegit... Please... give this... to my elder brother, I beg you!"

As she spoke, Lasdale slowly released her hand, revealing an oval-shaped object about the size of a goose egg, with some strange patterns on it, resembling a large walnut.

"This thing? Cheer up!!"

"Please!! Run...run away..."

As she spoke, the girl slowly closed her eyes.

"Lasdel, Lasdel!"

No matter how Nausicaä called out, Rasdel did not open her eyes again. After saying that, Nausicaä took the walnut-like thing in her hand, but before she could examine it closely, she saw a figure walking towards her in the distance.

"who??"

The other party was coming from the opposite side of the Valley of the Wind. Nausicaä was certain that they were not from the Valley of the Wind. She then drew her crystalline sword, but no one responded to her in the darkness. Instead, two red lights appeared, and the huge figure slowly approached her.

Illuminated by the firelight, Nausicaä could finally see the newcomer's appearance, and she gasped in surprise, for the creature before her was not human at all.

Its oval body, long arms, thick yet angular legs, and small head seemed extremely disproportionate. Its uneven eyes, one large and one small, added to its strangeness, and two red dots adorned its nose; the light had just emanated from these dots.

"robot?"

Although Nausicaä had never seen a robot before, she recognized it immediately, and the detector on the tip of the Guardian Robot's nose flashed twice, confirming that Nausicaä was not in danger.

But as she slowly lowered her head, Rasdel was in extreme danger, so the guardian immediately stretched out his long arm and went towards Rasdel.

"Wait! What do you want? What happened to Petit?!"

"She needs treatment!"

The voice did not come from the robot, but from Nausicaä's heart.

"Telepathy? Who exactly are you?"

"Wait, wait a minute! Wait a minute!"

While Nausicaä was still on guard, Yuba called out from afar.

"Nausicaä, wait a minute, he's not an enemy!!"