Chapter 300: The Punishment of the Donquixote Family: The Song of Love (6)
"Torrepol!" Sugar was blown away by the shockwave of the explosion. The raging flames lit up the entire factory, and the scorching heatwave rushed towards her.
"No!" Perona emerged from the ground, "You can't go help him!"
"Princess Ghost Perona?" Sugar said in her childish voice, Speaking coldly, "Become a toy for me!"
"Huh?" A small hand reached out from Perona's body.
"Heh heh heh~ I'm a spirit, you can't touch me!" Perona laughed loudly, waving her hands forward, "Negative Ghost!"
Several transparent ghosts came out, floating through Sugar's body.
"I'm sorry, I'm so useless..." Sugar suddenly knelt on the ground.
Perona waved her finger, "Servant Number One, bring the Sea-Prism Stone handcuffs."
"I'm not your servant." With a quiet murmur, Shachi placed the heavy Sea-Prism Stone handcuffs on Sugar's wrist.
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Outside the Toy House, Kurokage and Senior were engaged in a brutal fistfight.
There were no flashy special effects, only the sound of fists meeting flesh, echoing through the bodies of the two.
"Ha~ ha~" Both of them panted heavily, bruises and wounds covering their bodies, fresh blood flowing out.
Kurokage knocked Genos down with a punch and gritted through the pain, "Why do you keep taking my attacks head-on?"
"Isn't it the same for you?" Genos , covered in blood, still had a pacifier in his mouth.
A bikini-clad woman on the sidelines, looking worried, asked, "Genos , you've taken thirty punches from the same attack, why do you keep taking it?"
Genos snorted, "Hmph... A bunch of young girls, you don't understand a man's battle." He then vanished into the ground, like a fish swimming through water.
Several members of the Tontatta tribe shouted, "Kurokage, that move is coming again!"
Genos suddenly emerged from behind Kurokage, "Take this—Backdrop Throw!"
With precision, worthy of a professional wrestling match, Genos slammed Kurokage into the hard ground, creating deep cracks in the stone tiles and covering the arena with a cloud of dust.
A small Tontatta man anxiously asked, "Kurokage, you should be able to dodge that attack!"
"When you're at a tavern and someone forces you to drink, as a man, can you pull your cup back?"
The surrounding people widened their eyes: "!"
"Could it be…"
"This guy is a man of integrity, so I won't dodge his attacks! Even though I'm a bit uneasy, this is the way of men! I will win, just watch quietly."
The Tontatta tribe was moved to tears and cheered, "Kurokage!"
"Your words have made me drunk..." Genos crossed his arms, "Don't forget what you said earlier."
"It's coming…!" Genos accelerated through the ground, tackling Kurokage, causing the land and walls to become like a swimming pool. They flew high along the walls they had just created.
From Kurokage's teeth, he grunted, "You...!"
"Alright, shut up, be careful not to bite your tongue."
"Even if it's Kurokage, falling from such a height..."
"Kurokage!" Several members of the Tontatta tribe cried out, their faces wet with tears.
"Cat Cat Backdrop Throw—BABY Ambush Slam!"
The two crashed through the air like the sword of Damocles, diving into the street below.
Boom—!
The violent tremor even lifted the small Tontatta tribe members, and the resulting dust cloud covered the entire street.
Genos stood quietly, staring at Kurokage who lay in the deep pit.
"Kurokage!" The Tontatta tribe rushed to the edge of the pit, their tears staining the ground below.
Genos turned, wordlessly leaving the pit, until—
"Hey, kid, I haven't lost yet..." Kurokage's hoarse voice came from behind.
"Kurokage!" The Tontatta tribe cheered with joy, dancing around.
"As agreed, it's my turn now." Kurokage's eyes burned with fighting spirit. The blood from his forehead dripped into his eyes, but it couldn't extinguish the fire burning inside.
Genos whispered to himself, "I lost…"
But the hard man's style didn't retreat or block. He stood straight in the middle of the street, waiting for Kurokage's massive fists to come down.
"Sorry, Master…"
Kurokage's fists rained down on Genos like a violent storm.
"Truly no mercy, it's just like a tempest. Thinking back to it, Lucian—"
"—The day I met you, and the day you lost your smile."
"I like the rain." That was a young girl with spots on her face, but wearing a radiant smile.
"You like it too? The rain."
At that moment, he fell in love...
"Annoying things?"
"Pirates, I hate them. What do you do for a living? I'm asking you."
The woman's soft voice made the man, who could face thousands of soldiers and bullets without flinching, break out in cold sweat.
The man, who never lied, told a lie just to avoid her hating him: "I work at a bank."
They went on dates, fell in love, married, and had children—scenes that etched into Genos 's heart, flashing like a revolving lantern in front of his eyes.
The child died from a fever, and Lucian repeatedly asked herself what she was doing, punching her chest weakly, but each blow was as heavy as a thousand pounds.
She stormed out during a storm.
"Slap!"
A heavy slap, "Don't follow me!"
Her powerless words made this man, who had crossed countless battlefields, freeze in place.
The next time he saw her, she had become a vegetable with no expression...
Every time he visited with different flowers, telling stories while she remained expressionless on the hospital bed.
To make her happy, to see her smile again, he tried everything.
Until one day, he wore a Jimlette baby outfit he found by chance to make her laugh. Lucian actually smiled, though slightly, but her mouth did smile!
To please her, he wore diapers, a baby hat, and sucked on a pacifier, disregarding the stares of others in the hospital, and once again saw her smile.
From that moment on, his outfit became fixed. No matter how the passersby mocked, he smiled and wore it.
Because this outfit had—unimaginable meaning to him.
'Because only when I wear this, you'll smile at me.'
'Once again… once again… to see Lucian's smile…'
'The rain you liked—' The lenses of his sunglasses suddenly cracked, revealing his infatuated eyes, thick clouds, and a few rays of sunlight.
'—It seems to have stopped…'
Tears welled up in the hard man Genos 's eyes.
(END CHAPTER)
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