"Pirates teaming up to seek death?"
"First time seeing a pirate saving a pirate."
Hyuga Hanabi blinked, watching the show.
The merchant ship not far from Cocoyasi Village was invisible to others, shrouded in Lucian's spatial power.
This led Kuina to believe that she was completely free-range, and Hanabi and the others had already left.
In fact.
The merchant ship had been following Kuina, traveling while witnessing her growth.
Neither the new Buggy Pirates nor the Red Hair Pirates saw the merchant ship where Lucian was.
"Lost your left hand?"
Noticing the bandage on Red-Haired Shanks' left shoulder, Lucian could see that he had lost his arm not long ago.
Betting his arm on the new era?
In Lucian's view, ridiculous.
If a certain brat wasn't the protagonist, he would have died dozens of times already.
Lucian didn't go to Windmill Village, not because he couldn't sail there, but purely because he wasn't interested.
Protagonist?
The moment the Empire descended, protagonist or not, he might die in a storm as soon as he went out to sea.
There were no shining points on him that made Lucian look sideways. When a stubborn protagonist loses his luck, he is a typical teammate killer who doesn't pay for his life.
Also one point.
On the day the Straw Hat Grand Fleet was established, on the day the protagonist accepted countless evil pirates as minions, the Straw Hat was no longer the Straw Hat of the past.
"Why should I give you face?"
Hearing Kuina's words, Red-Haired Shanks didn't recover for a long time.
But the crew laughed loudly.
"Hahaha, dying of laughter, Captain's face is useless at all."
"That's right, can't even subdue a little girl, Captain is so embarrassing."
"First time seeing Captain with this expression, really dying of laughter, let's have a party to celebrate."
"..."
One crew member after another laughed.
But Beckman, Yasopp, Lucky Roux, and other cadres looked solemn.
That little girl.
Is standing on the sea surface.
Ninety-nine percent likely, a person from the Empire.
"Shanks, you must stay calm."
Beckman walked to Shanks and said in a deep voice, extremely serious.
"Ah?"
Shanks was stunned, then smiled: "It's just a little girl, how could I be angry because of a sentence?"
Beckman's expression remained serious: "I don't mean this. If the person in front dies, you must stay calm."
Die?
Buggy can't die!
Shanks looked at Buggy screaming in pain on the distant ship.
Three days ago.
Shanks saw Buggy's ship arrived.
But Shanks didn't rush to meet Buggy, just followed from a distance, wanting to see when Buggy would discover him, that would be a surprise.
But after following for three days.
Shanks found that Buggy hadn't changed his old habit of loving treasures. After losing the captain's management, he completely let himself go.
Three days.
Shanks watched from a distance with Observation Haki as Buggy robbed two villages, destroyed half a town, and killed many people.
He didn't stop him.
As Garp said: Bad guys don't need sympathy. But family is different.
Buggy, in Shanks' heart, is family, a brother.
Robbing treasures, burning, killing, and looting, that's Buggy's choice, Buggy's freedom.
Shanks won't interfere with his brother's choice.
But an accident happened today.
A little girl heavily injured Buggy with a blade and wanted to cut off Buggy's head.
Must stop her.
So he signaled Yasopp to shoot, deflecting Kuina's Spirit Blade.
Shanks frowned slightly: "How can a blade hurt Buggy? Even I find it hard to hurt him with a blade..."
The Chop-Chop Fruit is the nemesis of swordsmen, recognized by all members of the Roger Pirates.
The purpose of slashing is to split open, but the root of the Chop-Chop Fruit is splitting, the two conflict.
The little girl ahead.
Cut off Buggy's hand with one slash, making Buggy wish he were dead, hard to understand.
"Die!"
Ignoring the Red Hair Pirates sailing from afar, Kuina jumped up from the sea again, slashing at Buggy.
As Bell-mère said, Buggy the Clown is one of the worst pirates in the East Blue.
In Kuina's heart, he must die.
"Kill him!"
Under Bell-mère's surprise, little Nami also picked up a sword from a dead fish-man and ran to the coast to cheer for Kuina.
Full of guts.
"Will die, I have to run!"
Seeing Kuina slashing again, Buggy was completely terrified, he would die.
Swish!
His whole body split apart.
Turning into fragments, flying towards the incoming Red Hair Pirates.
"Shanks, you bastard, hurry up and save me."
Buggy couldn't care about the grudge between the two, survival was important.
"Not good!"
When his body flew 200 meters away, Buggy was full of nervousness.
Currently, Buggy's ability range is a radius of 200 meters with his feet as the center. Exceeding 200 meters won't kill him, but he will lose control.
Most importantly.
When splitting, feet must be on the ground.
That is, feet stay in place.
"Devil Fruit? Hmph!"
Watching Buggy fly away, Kuina looked at the feet left on the ship again.
Slashed directly.
Directly shattered Buggy's feet, the soul on them was shredded.
"My feet ahhhhhh!"
Feeling the pain in his feet, Buggy roared again, his eyes rolling back.
"Enough!"
Shanks shouted explosively.
Terrifying Conqueror's Haki swept out, like exploding thunder, sweeping over in an instant.
Crackle crackle!
Black-red lightning raged in the void, Conqueror's Haki crossed a thousand meters in the blink of an eye.
"Thump thump!"
Little Nami and other villagers in Cocoyasi Village rolled their eyes one by one and fainted on the ground.
At the same time.
Shanks, as if stepping on Moonwalk, jumped in the air, grabbed Buggy who lost control due to the distance exceeding two hundred meters and reassembled, and retreated back to the ship.
"Heal him!"
Handing the convulsing Buggy to the crew, Shanks calmly looked at Kuina hundreds of meters away, who was unaffected by Conqueror's Haki.
The other crew members also stood up one after another, following the captain to look at Kuina.
For a moment.
The air solidified.
On the hidden merchant ship.
Hyuga Hanabi curled her lips: "Pirates are pirates. Didn't stop the red nose when he robbed Cocoyasi Village, only jumped out when he was being killed. Where were you earlier?"
Mikoto flipped through the information downloaded on her phone and saw Shanks' information: "Red-Haired Shanks, proficient in swordsmanship and three types of Haki, fought many times with great pirates in the New World, left the chaotic New World this year, wandering around."
"Once... an apprentice on Roger's pirate ship."
Hearing this, Hyuga Hanabi clenched her fist: "Roger, even if you were alive, don't bully Kuina."
If not for free-ranging Kuina, Hanabi would have rushed up.
In the silence of the whole place.
Kuina said coldly: "Robbing villagers, destroying towns, doesn't he deserve to die?"
"Or, do you also deserve to die!"
Boom!
Turning around, Kuina shattered Buggy's ship, and under Shanks' gaze, launched a slaughter on the pirates falling into the sea.
"Is this girl so bloodthirsty?"
Shanks couldn't help frowning. At 11 or 12 years old, shouldn't she be eating, drinking, and playing?
Beckman said in a deep voice: "People of the Empire cannot be viewed with common sense. The best strategy now is to leave immediately with your friend."
Although no other Empire people were seen currently.
But provoking one might provoke a bunch, countless times more troublesome than encountering the Marines.
"...Okay."
Shanks chose to listen to Beckman.
Buggy is his brother, understandable, but those pirates who did evil in the East Blue with Buggy, Shanks didn't care about their lives.
"Bang bang bang!"
But just as they prepared to sail, Kuina killed all those pirates and ran fiercely on the sea surface.
"Really want to kill us?"
Noticing the killing intent in Kuina's eyes, the Red Hair Pirates crew were astonished.
The captain's Conqueror's Haki just now was obvious enough, isn't she afraid of death?
Beckman took a puff of smoke and said steadily: "That look, not wanting to kill us, but wanting to kill all pirates."
"Stop!"
As Shanks spoke, his right hand drew his sword and slashed at the sea surface.
Boom crack!
Under Kuina's bated breath, a terrifying slash directly cut open the sea surface between her and the pirate ship.
A bottomless abyss appeared.
The slash was far stronger than her father's.
"I can see the confusion in your heart. You must have just gone to sea and seen pirates doing evil, right? So you think all pirates deserve to die."
Sheathing his sword, Shanks spoke loudly: "Undeniably, ninety-nine percent of pirates are evil, but there are always pirates who go to sea for freedom."
"I won't ask you to be more tolerant of pirates, but you are still young, don't let slaughter affect your nature."
"Killing intent too heavy, can't control it."
Sail.
Shanks signaled the crew to sail.
Let alone now that he hasn't reached the peak, not even one of the Four Emperors, even if he becomes one of the Four Emperors, Shanks wouldn't want to provoke the Empire.
"Done with your nonsense?"
After a moment of silence, Kuina calmed down inside and said coldly: "You haven't answered my question, doesn't that red nose deserve to die?"
Shanks was silent.
From the perspective of East Blue civilians, Buggy, who robbed and destroyed everywhere, deserved to die ten thousand times.
But.
Shanks said in a deep voice: "Evil pirates indeed deserve to die, but my brother is different, he is my brother."
Clang!
Kuina held the Spirit Blade with both hands again, saying calmly: "Don't think being loyal makes you a good person. Releasing him today will kill more people tomorrow."
Swish!
Kuina paved the way with spirit particles and raided, slashing out a Sword Pressure slash of more than ten meters in the air.
"Boom!"
Shanks waved his hand casually, directly collapsing Kuina's slash.
"Today I must take Buggy away!"
"Sail!"
Shanks was like an insurmountable barrier.
No matter how Kuina attacked, she couldn't get close to Buggy.
"?!"
The next moment, Shanks' body stagnated.
Beckman and the others were also shocked because their movements were messed up, completely losing control.
"You finally acted, Mikoto."
"I just can't stand a group of adults bullying a little girl."
Opportunity!
Kuina's gaze narrowed, brushing past Shanks.
One stab in.
Buggy the Clown's head.
"Boom!"
With the eruption of spiritual power, Buggy's soul was shredded directly.
"Buggy!!"
The furious Shanks directly erupted all his Conqueror's Haki, many crew members fainted on the spot, and the deck was tearing apart.
Hum!
At the same instant.
A terrifying coercion descended, crushing Shanks' Conqueror's Haki with rotten ease.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
Unable to bear the heavy coercion, Shanks, Beckman, and other cadres knelt or lay on the ground one after another, their eyes full of horror.
What kind of aura is this?!
"Knowing Kuina is an Empire person, yet still obstructing, then you must pay the price for your choice."
"At this moment, the game begins."
Shanks and the others' hearts shook in horror.
This domineering voice full of panic-inducing majesty made their souls tremble.
Game?!
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