Wakou: (Japanese Pirate)

By JUDE LAHAYE

Rin is a survivor of the first Mongol invasion of Tsushima Island, Japan, in 1274. She is the sole survivor of her village, and watched as the Mongols brutalized her parents and then burned their home down around them. Rin survived because she had help: a girl her own age appeared immediately before the Mongols reached her home in Sasuura village. This girl possessed a great secret which was soon revealed to both Rin and her attackers: she had a third eye in her forehead. When she opened that eye, she transformed, revealing the true form of her demon: Moritaka, a huge, blue, problem-devouring demon. Once Moritaka had taken care of the threat to Rin, he closed his third eye and transformed back into a little girl, a little girl with grey skin and hundreds of sharp little teeth: Rin calls her Sameko, her dear little shark.
The two girls live by foraging in the woods and combing the beaches. One day, Rin recognizes the bowlegs and big feet of a man who approaches her and Sameko on the beach. It is her long lost uncle, Zaku. After an emotional reunion, her uncle invites her to join him and the few men he has been able to recruit. They have cannibalized three sunken Mongol boats and have built one ship which is set to sail. They will be pirates. When Sameko hears this news, she shares her very first smile with Rin and Zaku: she is excited, no delighted, to join the crew of the ship Same, or Shark. She smiles once more when she hears the name of the ship: no coincidence, that, she says. We were made for each other.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B6XJHJN2
• ISBN13: 9798841651093
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"