Chapter 41

## Chronology

**My Count Is** (僕のカウントは, *Boku no Kaunto wa*) is the 41th chapter of *Plunderer* manga.

## Plot

While travelling to the Abyss, Hina Farrow keep telling Sakai Tokikaze let her go just so she could heal Licht Bach's injury. Tokikaze insisted to not allow her moving and told her to stop or else she would died from falling from the sky. Soon, both Tokikaze and Hina is arrived at the Abyss, which is revealed to be ruined Japan as the results of Abandonment War. After they reached on the land, Tokikaze tries to heal Hina's injury and stated that her injury wasn't fatally wound so she won't be in danger. This make Hina confused and asked him on why'd he heal her when she's supposed to be a hostage, in which Tokikaze didn't answer. Soon, a bunch of children appears to greet Tokikaze, their "father", from returning home. Tokikaze then told one of the children to bring Hina to her camp for rest.

While walking in the city, Hina noticed that there's no adults living in Abyss, the kid explains to her that Tokikaze is the only adult living here, as the country has it's own custom rules. After the kid brought her into the camp, Hina is still confused at Tokikaze's goal and wonder what he want to do. She also wondered if she should ask him that if he is really her father like what Licht told her before, but she then decided to keep it as secret and last resort to stop him from harming Licht.

In the next day, Hina created a doll for the young girls to play. The girls have a fight over the doll which angered Hina, she told the girls that she will made another one so they should stop fighting. Tokikaze noticed the noises coming from Hina's camp so he went inside the camp to know what's going on. Hina explained to Tokikaze that she just simply creating dolls for the children to play, and he thanked her for doing so as he doesn't know how to give them motherly love. To her surprise, Hina asked Tokikaze why she didn't any adults beside him living here, which he only stated he want to shows her something. Hina and Tokikaze soon arrived at the volcano area, she asked him about the volcano as she had never seen volcano in Althea before, and he explained this volcano was created during the creation of Althea and thanks to the heat coming from it they were able to survive the nuclear winter despite how dying the land is. Hina then noticed the graves near the volcano and wondered why there are so many of them.

Soon, there's married couples with baby appeared to see Tokikaze, to which confused Hina as she thought there's no any other adults living here. The woman said that her baby had just wean from breastfeeding and then let Hina hold the baby for her. Tokikaze asked the married couples if they have any last words and if they want to eat before leaving, in which they stated they don't have any regrets and said Tokikaze should left the foods for their baby instead. Hina noticed something's wrong going on here and tried to stop, but the woman told her not to worry at this is part of the country's rules. Soon, Tokikaze killed the married couples in a instant. Hina couldn't believe what just happened in front of her so she slapped Tokikaze and asked him if his mind has gone crazy. This enraged Tokikaze and explained that he killed them not because he loves to do it but because he was forced to do so. He then points his finger at the oldest graves and told her than those were the graves of Class A students. He explains that 300 years ago, despite being slashed by berserked Licht, he was actually still alive but he had been left unconscious for 2 years long. During those time, the Class A students tried their best to live on Abyss and help those children that were abandoned by the Althea, but due to resources continuously stolen by the Althea, people slowly dying left to right in the Abyss. When Tokikaze finally awaken 2 years later, he saw a letter about the Class A will commit suicide so the children can fill their stomach. Tokikaze went to find them and only discovered they already committed suicide in a volcano. After he discovered this, he started crying for a while. After that day, Tokikaze became the King of Abyss and made a rule that anyone had becomes an adult would have to die for the sakes of the children. Although there were some who were afraid at death, they often requested Tokikaze to kill them with his Baron ability just so they could died painlessly. Although Tokikaze personally doesn't want to do this, he was slowly get used to it to the point he doesn't mind anymore. Tokikaze also revealed that he had a wife and a unborn daughter who was killed by berserked Licht 300 years ago. Although Tokikaze is aware that Licht didn't killed them at his own will back then, he can't support Licht's current goal on wanting to save both Althea and Abyss at the same time, as it's impossible to achieve due to the Earth don't have enough resources for both countries to survive. As Tokikaze left, he revealed his count stands for how many loved one he has killed. Soon, Hina cries and finally understand why her mother fall in-love with Tokikaze and married him in the first place, as he is pretty similar to Licht, a person who would fight for other's sakes at any costs and willing to sacrifice himself for the others, in which she called both Tokikaze and Licht idiots. And because of this, Hina has decided to leave Abyss as soon as possible in hopes to stop the Sakai brothers from fighting against each other.

As several days has passes, Hina keep finding a way to return to Althea without success. Hina also hiding her Ballot from Tokikaze as she has a hunch that he would use it for the bad, seeing that he had already stolen three other Ballots from Licht earlier. After a while, a girl went to ask Hina to follow her, as she want to introduce Hina to her "mother", in which she's confused. As they arrived at a plant, the "mother" saw Hina's face and stated that they've meet again just like what she had told Hina and Licht before. The "mother" is revealed to be Pelmo who's still alive even after she was absorbed into the Abyss.

## Characters

By order of appearance:

* Sakai Tokikaze
* Hina Farrow
* Licht Bach (flashback)
* Ichinose Saki (flashback)
* Akui Genji (flashback)
* Suda Kyouhei (flashback)
* Sumitani Asumi (flashback)
* Narimiya Kyouka (flashback)
* Tsukina Farrow (flashback)
* Pelmo