Chapter 31

Father (父親) is the 31th chapter of Plunderer manga.

Plot
In Althea, Jail Murdoch just arrived at the royal capital in attempt to meet Alexandrov Grigorovich. Upon his arrival, the soldiers from Althea Royal Guard says that it's great that Jail will finally deserted the army, as they hate his attitude and behavior so much.

As secretary Erin leaving the commander's room, Jail asks her that if Alexandrov is in the room or not. Erin replies with yes but she suggests Jail to wait for a moment, as Alexandrov has been busying with his stuffs lately and only now that he got some free time to eat launch. However, Jail doesn't listen Erin's suggestion and kicks the door instead, which the door ended up hit Alexandrov's head while he ask him if he know the difference between good and bad actions. After Jail saluted, Alexandrov tells him that he doesn't need to continue his mission on capturing Licht anymore and that he will help him to deal with his crime against the Althing, under the request from Nana Bassler asking for forgiveness. Soon, Alexandrov shows a photo of the helicopter from the "Abyss Demon" incident, he states that a new war is about to start in the future. Alexandrov tells Jail that he and the Gefängnis need to be prepared for the upcoming war, as losing any one of their strongest soldiers from the army within this period would only weaken their strength and it may lead to their defeat. After explaining the situation, Alexandrov tells Jail to relax and give a hug to him, which he do give Alexandrov a hug afterwards. This confused Alexandrov so much that he asks Jail if something's wrong happened to him, as he have never once give him a hug before until this moment. Soon, Alexandrov realized that Jail has finally made a friend and feel happy about him. Alexandrov gave Jail a hug again and says that while it's good that he has friends now, Licht is the only person he can't befriend with as doing so will marks Jail as a traitor.

Soon, Jail only says he want to wager his stars. Jail says that while he do want to discuss the stuffs about the Althing, Alexandrov isn't the person that he want to discuss with. Jail also ask Alexandrov, or known better as "Captain Alan" in the past, that why he betrayed the Class A 300 years ago. Alexandrov, being angered, he called Jail as "Shitty Four-eyes" like his past self and accepted his challenge in the Startheft Bout battle. Once the hands of Althing starts appearing, the fight between Alexandrov and Jail begins. During the fight, Alexandrov claims Jail never learn his lesson and his fighting pattern is too obvious. When Alexandrov land his kick, Jail dodged his kick and attacked his chin, which Alexandrov surprised that the reason why Jail fought him back in 300 years ago was to found his weakness for this fight. Alexandrov said that he clearly had became older now that even a youngster's attack could hit him. Jail claimed that his attack hit Alexandrov was not because of he's younger than him, but because he has a conviction of punishing evildoers. Then, Jail summoned his iron devil and asked Alexandrov why he betrayed Class A. However, Jail's iron devil is melting due to Alexandrov's power, while claiming that conviction doesn't matter as it stand no chance against the Blast Baron's flame. Soon, Jail was defeated and his count reduced to only 1.

After the fight, Alexandrov explains his past to Jail, about how his real children were killed and how the world gone "mad". Alexandrov explains that he has two children whose age was below 8 and he loves them. One day, Alexandrov was ordered to go back to the headquarters of the Russian army, he had no choice but to leave his home from his children. Alexandrov's son told him that they will be fine so he shouldn't worry. To return his children's kindness, he decided to buy some candy and toys for them. However, when Alexandrov returned home, he saw that his children were killed and the food was taken away. Alexandrov was shocked and tries covering his children's corpses, as he started crying and he believed he heard their voices of wanted him back home. Being angered at his children's death, Alexandrov finds the murderer in the village and discovered that the murderer has a baby that's scrawny and small. After seeing that baby and murderer's tears, Alexandrov didn't kill him and realized it's the world's fault that they don't have enough foods to live.

After Alexandrov revealed his past, he told Jail to start his recruit to increase his count. Then, Jail stands up and said he wants to continue the fight, claiming that Alexandrov would never defeat him despite his power, which confused him. Jail asked Alexandrov why didn't he asks Nana to sent him back to the past to save his own children, Jail explains that he doesn't because Alexandrov afraid he would change the future and erased Jail from existence. Jail also asked Alexandrov why didn't he choose to save his real children, rather than his adoptive children who can't even make friends and be nice to the others. Alexandrov stated he didn't he didn't do that because he is sure that he has been destined to adopt Jail as his foster-child. Soon, Alexandrov fired Jail from the army and told him to never see him again. As Jail leaving the royal capital, Alexandrov ordered Erin to gives Jail his military uniform for one last time. After Jail wear his new uniform, he noticed his uniform has few meters shorter, which Erin said that children usually grows much faster than their parents imagined they would be. After hearing Erin's words, Jail starts crying. At the same time, Alexandrov then sitting at the commander room, saying he was proud at Jail and how he grew as a person, while looking at his family photo with his real and adoptive children.

In the abandoned capital, Hina Farrow and the others has been handcuffed and was shocked to see Douan Taketora and Schmelman.

Characters
By order of appearance:


 * Jail Murdoch
 * Alexandrov Grigorovich
 * Nana Bassler (flashback)
 * Hina Farrow
 * Lyne Mei
 * Gespenst Zerlegen
 * Douan Taketora
 * Schmelman Bach (Clone)

New Characters

 * Erin