Chapter 06

Hunch (勘) is the 6th chapter of Plunderer manga.

Plot
In a place that's supposedly called "Linden", Hina is staying at Nana Bassler's mobile tavern and waiting for her, as Nana is currently busying on somewhere else. While waiting for Nana's return, Hina saw a girl who's being harassed by a ugly man. Hina went to save the girl from the man by revealing her counts. While only has count of 656, The man was annoyed at Hina's count and attitude, so he take out his bow and says they will play the game of "Startheft Bout", which terrifies her as it remind her of her encounter with Davi earlier. The man says that having higher counts doesn't mean anything if they can't defend themselves, and also says that he despises those who believes they can randomly order people simply because they had higher counts.

Just as Hina and the other girl is in trouble, Licht Bach fall from the sky and shows his 5700 counts to the man, saying that he will challenge him in Hina's place. This scared the man and he ended up ran away. After that man run away, Licht said that he would leave. Despite he's wearing a mask, Hina immediately realized it was Licht that saved her so she keep holding his cape in attempt to not let him escape. Soon, that girl thanked them and asked Licht if he could fly while touching his body, in which he was embarrassed. That girl revealed her name is Pelmo, she introduced herself to them and revealed that she has been doing the aviation research since childhood. While her research always failed, she didn't give up her hope and kept on creating more "steel birds" until her research succeeded. Pelmo then asked both Licht and Hina for help, in which Hina agreed as she find her research to be interesting. While the girls talking to each other, Licht looking at her "steel bird" design sketch, he noticed there's something missing on the sketch so he drawn the missing parts. Pelmo soon saw his drawing and realized this is why her experiment always failed. She also asked Licht for his true identity but he ignored her question. As Pelmo prepared to upgrade her airplane, she told Licht and Hina to temporarily stay at outside.

While Pelmo was busying, Licht and Hina having a conversation about what happened back after he deal with Davi, which she called him a liar for broke his promise. Hina asked Licht about his purpose for travelling, but he ignored her question and went to see her panties instead. Although it's interrupted by Pelmo just finished upgraded her airplane. Pelmo later begin to experience her "steel bird", but Licht destroyed the "steel bird" for unexplained reason. Soon, the man with 656 counts and the Althea Royal Guards appeared as the soldiers was reported by the man that Pelmo is doing aviation research, which was considered to be forbidden and that she would received death penalty by doing so. Pelmo laughed and asked them where the evidence that she's doing the aviation research. The Royal Guards realized that she's only "repairing" her house so they captured that man instead for gave them false report.

After the soldiers left, Licht apologies Pelmo for what he done earlier, she said that it wasn't his fault and the situation is understandable as there's nothing he can do. Hina said that if Pelmo want to remade her "steel bird" again she will always be there to help her. However, Pelmo said it's impossible as her count was dropped to zero, which leads the black hands appearing to take her away. Before Pelmo is taken, she told Licht and Hina that she will be fine and she predicted that she would surely meet them again in the future. Both Licht and Hina hopelessly watching Pelmo left the world. After Pelmo has sent into the Abyss, Hina asked Licht to heal her wound on her right hand. As Licht doing so, he makes a strange face while his left eye showed a code "001" around. Hina wondered what's happened to Licht but He told Hina not to look at him, apologized her and stated that he can't see someone's blood. Soon, both Licht and Hina saw a smoke coming from actual Linden, which they wonders what's happening there.

At the same time, Jail Murdoch and his comrades just arrived at Linden after they received a report from the soldiers that something had happened. Both Jail and Lyne Mei were confused at what exactly happened at Linden. Soon, Pele Poporo found the only survivor from the city who outright claimed the "Abyss Demon" had destroyed Linden.

Characters
By order of appearance:


 * Hina
 * Nana Bassler (cameo)
 * Davi (flashback)
 * Licht Bach
 * Tsukina Farrow (flashback)
 * Jail Murdoch
 * Lyne Mei
 * Gespenst Zerlegen
 * Nikola (masked)

New Characters

 * Pelmo