Being forced back by a child, Burjiam felt unprecedented humiliation.
Using the momentum of his retreat, he abruptly raised his left hand, aiming the short-barreled flintlock he had hidden in his sleeve directly at Ace’s head.
“Die!” “Bang!” Muzzle flash erupted.
The distance between them was less than three meters; this was a blind spot from which evasion was absolutely impossible!
Luffy, tied to the pillar, was so scared he closed his eyes: “Ace—!” However, the wanton smile on Ace’s face did not diminish in the slightest.
“Bang!” A strange, muffled sound echoed in the air once more.
Ace did not dodge to the left or right; instead, he slammed his right foot onto the empty air!
In that instant, the air seemed to turn into a solid staircase.
Rokushiki: Moonwalk!
Just as the bullet left the barrel, Ace’s body was abruptly propelled two meters upward.
The lethal lead bullet flew past the soles of his feet and shattered the wooden pillar behind him.
“He…
he stepped on the air?!” Burjiam looked up in despair, staring at the black-haired boy hovering in mid-air like a demon god, his brain completely losing the ability to think.
How could a backwater place like the East Blue produce a monster who had mastered such a legendary martial art?!
“Warm-up is over, you ten-million-level trash.” In mid-air, Ace flipped his body, his right leg raised high behind him like a fully drawn giant bow.
The muscles under his red vest bulged to the limit, and with a suffocating sound of breaking the air, it descended like a massive battle axe capable of splitting heaven and earth, crashing down from above!
Burjiam could only instinctively raise the broad-backed sword in his hands above his head, attempting to block.
“Crack—!” A teeth-grinding sound of metal breaking echoed through the cabin.
That heavy broadsword, which had slaughtered countless people, shattered into pieces from the center like fragile glass under Ace’s pure physical leg kick!
Ace’s heel, its momentum undiminished, smashed into Burjiam’s shoulder with destructive force.
“Rumble!!” The entire abandoned cabin shook violently.
The enormous impact force smashed Burjiam, body and bones, straight through the rotten floor.
Wood chips and mud erupted into the air.
Burjiam vomited a large mouthful of blood, his body sinking deep into the mud pit below like a dead dog.
With countless bones broken, he passed out completely.
The remaining twenty or thirty pirate underlings, looking at the unconscious Burjiam in the pit, were completely terrified.
“Monsters!
These two brats are monsters!” One underling screamed in terror, suddenly drawing a short blade from his waist, turning abruptly to press it against Luffy’s neck, and roaring in despair: “Don’t…
don’t come any closer!
Come any closer and I’ll kill this brat with the straw hat!” Ace, who had been laughing and preparing to continue, stopped in his tracks upon hearing these words.
He turned his head, his pitch-black eyes coldly looking at the pirate holding Luffy hostage.
There was no anger, nor despair.
There was only that extreme, detached indifference, like a dragon looking down upon an ant.
“Kill him?” A cold and arrogant arc curled at the corner of Ace’s mouth, “You can try, if your hand isn’t shaking yet.” The moment the words fell.
An invisible, terrifying aura, seemingly capable of crushing the entire space, erupted from Ace’s body without any warning!
There was no gale, nor explosion.
But the moment this aura appeared, time inside the ruined ship seemed to stand still.
The air became incomparably thick, and a tremendous fear originating from the depths of the soul gripped the hearts of every pirate present like an invisible giant hand.
“Wh…
what is this…” The pirate holding Luffy hostage felt his mind go blank, his legs shaking uncontrollably, and with a “clatter,” the short blade in his hand dropped to the floor.
Immediately following that, “thump,” “thump”…
the twenty or so pirate underlings around them, without even letting out a scream, rolled their eyes in unison, foamed at the mouth, and passed out in droves like wheat being harvested!
In just one second, the only ones left standing in the entire cabin were Ace, Sabo, and Luffy, who was tied to the pillar in stunned silence.
Conqueror’s Haki!
There was no stimulation of life-or-death despair, nor any painful realization.
During these three years of wild growth, Ace’s ambition to conquer the world and his kingly aura had already built up to the peak within him.
When this group of low-class trash tried to touch his bottom line with inferior means, this Haki, like an overflowing cup, naturally and inevitably poured out!
“Wh…
what just happened?” Sabo looked in shock at the pirates passed out all over the floor, then at Ace, who was standing in place without having moved a finger.
Even he, at that moment, had felt a terrifying pressure that made his heart constrict violently.
“Nothing, just cleaned up some annoying trash.” Ace retracted his pressure, the coldness on his face melting instantly, and he returned to that bright and flamboyant smile.
He walked forward, looked down at the thick iron chains binding Luffy, and felt the unique, cold touch belonging to Sea Stone.
“This is Sea Stone, with a hardness comparable to diamond.
I didn’t expect to find Sea Stone in the hands of this small-time pirate.” Ace chuckled, turned around, and walked to the side of Burjiam, who was smashed into the bottom of the pit and unconscious.
He unceremoniously kicked this great East Blue pirate over, roughly tore open his clothes, and fished out a string of blood-stained copper keys from his embrace.
He walked to Luffy, inserted the key into the keyhole.
With a crisp “click,” the heavy Sea Stone handcuffs and chains slid off in response, hitting the wooden floor.
“Wow!
I’m saved!” As soon as Luffy was free, he immediately jumped up and down with excitement, waving his two rubber arms, “Ace!
That’stare’ move you just did was absolutely cool!
Teach me, teach me!” “Hahaha!
This thing can’t be taught; it’s the natural aptitude of a king!” Ace laughed wantonly, reached out to press down on the straw hat on Luffy’s head, and then turned to look at the ruins.
“Sabo, don’t just stand there, time to work!” Ace kicked aside a few broken wooden planks and dragged out several heavy iron chests from under the ruins.
With a “bang,” he pried open the lids, and dazzling golden light instantly flashed from within.
It was all the gold and treasure that the Burjiam Pirates had plundered in the East Blue over the years!
“Pirates preying on pirates?” Sabo walked over, looking at the treasure worth tens of millions of Berries, his eyes lighting up immediately.
“This is called returning things to their rightful owners.” Ace hoisted the heaviest chest of gold coins onto his shoulder, laughing with unparalleled wantonness and arrogance: “The rules of this great sea: the winner takes all!” “With this money…
Sabo, the startup capital for us to build the ‘eclipse’ has finally been gathered!” Looking at Ace, who was full of arrogance and announcing his ambitions while standing on the bones of pirates, Sabo couldn’t help but reveal a helpless yet boiling-with-blood smile.