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CHAPTER 22 - TRISTAN
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Tristan tasted blood as he bit the filthy hand that gaped his mouth, then he heard the pirate scream behind him. With a hard reel backward, Tristan shoved him until they bumped into the bulwark. He freed the palm from his bloody teeth, turned around, then pushed the pirate over the rail with a forward thrust of his fist.
Screams and grunts of men noised all around him. Tristan spat the blood remaining in his mouth and wiped his lips. That’s a close one. He almost had let that pirate slit his throat with the dagger. He had lost grip of his sword after plunging it through the gut of the pirate when that dying fool held the blade of the sword, preventing Tristan from pulling it out. That’s when the pirate from behind had grabbed him by his face.
With a quick glance on the ship’s deck, he could see the prisoners around him disarming the pirates, fighting with impressive hand-to-hand combat skills. This made Tristan doubt
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