Given the dire circumstances, seeing Sinan actually have the mood to eat something—especially when he was just paralyzed with hyperarousal seconds ago—left not only Nami but even Bakal completely stunned.
Speechless!
Utterly speechless!
Was he determined to die on a full stomach?
Sinan was literally putting on a masterclass in swallowing things whole.
Sinan, acting like a starving ghost, soon displayed an expression of extreme difficulty in swallowing.
He was visibly choking on it.
Nami stared blankly at Sinan for a moment, but quickly snapped out of it.
Slap!
A crisp slap echoed into the night sky.
Smacked heavily across the face by Nami, Sinan’s throat constricted, and he finally forced the Devil Fruit down into his stomach.
The flesh of the Devil Fruit was quite tough.
Swallowing it almost whole without properly chewing caused a sharp pain in his throat.
As the Devil Fruit settled in his stomach, an unprecedentedly disgusting flavor assaulted his brain.
Having somehow managed not to vomit from watching two men get decapitated, the atrocious taste of the Devil Fruit finally made him dry heave violently.
It was impossibly foul, yet an intense surge of warmth began radiating from his abdomen.
Sinan’s bizarre sequence of actions completely baffled Bakal, causing him to burst into hysterical laughter.
“Kid, if you wanna die, I’ll give you a quick, clean death with my sword!
The hell are you trying to accomplish choking yourself?
Hahahaha!” While Butcher Bakal mocked him, Nami was anxiously patting Sinan’s back.
However, her pats grew heavier and heavier as she angrily scolded, “You idiot!
Even if you’re terrified of dying, there’s no need to kill yourself first!” Despite being scolded by Nami, Sinan had absolutely no time to reply; he could physically feel intense, dramatic changes occurring inside his body.
Just as Nami went to slap his back again, a sudden arc of electricity burst from his body, shocking her so badly she instantly yanked her hand back with a painful cry of “Ah!” The power of the Devil Fruit aggressively expanded inside him, completely restructuring his body.
The weakness caused by transmigration and de-aging was entirely wiped away, and the intense exhaustion triggered by his massive adrenaline dump vanished.
It wasn’t just Sinan’s internals changing; his exterior was transforming as well.
His previous appearance could only be considered “average,” with a slightly dark and rough complexion.
But in just a few breaths, all of those flaws completely disappeared.
His skin became extraordinarily fair, smooth, and supple.
His facial features were perfectly realigned, and even his physique and muscle lines evolved into absolute flawless perfection.
A mysterious, ethereal glow seemed to ripple across his skin.
The most shocking change was his face.
If his original looks scored a 70 out of 100, he had now effortlessly shattered the 100-point limit.
Enhanced by the Devil Fruit’s power, Sinan could confidently declare that absolutely no living being could rival him in pure physical attractiveness.
“Sinan!” Even though the light at the bow was extremely dim, Sinan’s body looked as if it were literally glowing.
When Nami finally got a clear look at his new face, she called his name in an entranced, dazed whisper.
Nami hadn’t fully matured yet, and combined with past malnutrition, she still retained a youthful greenness.
Nevertheless, she was already a top-tier beauty.
Because of this, she naturally had zero interest in ordinary men.
But seeing Sinan’s face right now, she felt her heart racing like absolute madness.
She completely forgot the deadly danger they were in; all she wanted was to stare at that face for the rest of her life.
His previous state of paralyzed hyperarousal was entirely swept away.
In this exact moment, Sinan felt an overwhelming surge of unimaginable power coursing through his veins.
Pushing himself up from his half-kneeling position, Sinan stood tall and locked his eyes onto Bakal.
Even though he was strictly into women, when Bakal saw Sinan’s current face, his own heart started pounding frantically.
Sinan’s charm stats had literally been maxed out.
“Handsome” or “beautiful” were no longer adequate descriptions.
Much like the Pirate Empress Boa Hancock, the raw charisma radiating from his Devil Fruit was so terrifyingly potent that it could completely enchant men, women, the young, and the old alike.
While Bakal was utterly mesmerized by his beauty, Sinan made his move.
He had actually been so shocked that he lost control of his own body—an absolute humiliation.
Sinan was going to exact his revenge.
Raising his hand and aiming it straight at Bakal, streaks of electricity violently sparked across Sinan’s arm before a brilliant bolt of blue-white lightning blasted from his palm.
BOOM!
The lightning pierced right through the air, causing the rapidly heated oxygen to violently expand and generate a deafening sonic boom.
Everything flashed blindingly bright, followed by a thunderous crash.
In the blink of an eye, Bakal’s hair stood perfectly on end, his chest was scorched pitch black, and fractal Lichtenberg burn patterns crawled wildly across his skin.
The lightning bolt slammed completely through Bakal and struck the wall behind him, instantly igniting the wooden hull of the ship.
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Due to Nami’s break-in and Bakal using one of their own as a throwing weapon, the two remaining prostitutes in the captain’s cabin were already terrified out of their minds.
This sudden, violent lightning strike made the two naked women scream in absolute horror.
Perhaps it was because Sinan had just eaten the Devil Fruit and hadn’t mastered his powers, or perhaps people in the One Piece world simply possessed superhuman lightning resistance and monstrous vitality.
Despite being electrocuted until he was charred black, Bakal did not drop dead.
Taking a direct, devastating hit, Bakal refused to fall.
Instead, like a mortally wounded, cornered tiger launching a final counterattack, he grabbed his massive broadsword with both hands and slashed downward, attempting to cleave Sinan completely in half.
Facing Bakal charging at him with the ferocity of a wild beast, Sinan didn’t even attempt to dodge; he just stood perfectly still.
The blinding flash of lightning had already snapped Nami out of her trance.
Seeing Sinan making absolutely no effort to dodge Bakal’s lethal slash, Nami was terrified to her core.
“Sinan!” Nami screamed out a warning, but it was far too late!
Seeing Sinan just standing there with a stern expression, Bakal assumed the kid was once again paralyzed by fear, and a twisted, triumphant sneer surfaced on his hideous face.
Bakal’s monumentally heavy slash packed enough raw power to sever massive tree trunks and split solid boulders.
Yet, Sinan merely raised his arm in a slow, casual parry.
The boulder-splitting slash crashed directly onto Sinan’s seemingly fragile, pale arm.
In Bakal’s mind, this single devastating strike would undoubtedly split the brat who hurt him perfectly in two.
But reality played out far differently.
Bakal had spent a fortune buying this ultra-sharp broadsword capable of slicing a hair dropped on its edge.
Yet, it failed to inflict even the slightest damage on Sinan.
The razor-sharp edge struck his arm but couldn’t even scratch his fair, smooth skin.
“Impossible!” Bakal stared at Sinan in absolute disbelief.
The terrified Nami was equally shocked.
Neither of them could comprehend how Sinan’s thin, slender arm had perfectly blocked a full-power slash from a massive broadsword.
Not giving Bakal any time to process this, Sinan counterattacked.
Channeling the immense new power coursing through him, he threw a punch.
A stark white halo instantly coated his fist, solidifying into a white, spherical aura before violently colliding right into Bakal’s chest.
Crack!
A horrifying sound of shattering glass echoed through the air as several thin, web-like cracks fractured the very space right in front of his fist.
BOOM!
The power of brutal vibrations erupted, generating a terrifying shockwave.
The shockwave transformed into a raging hurricane, and Bakal—having taken Sinan’s punch squarely to the chest—was blasted backward like a fired cannonball.
Massive mouthfuls of blood erupted from Bakal’s mouth, laced with grotesque chunks of ruptured organs.
Sinan’s vibration punch had completely pulverized Bakal’s insides.
Blasted all the way to the rear, Bakal violently smashed clean through the back of the ship, punching a massive hole from one end of the pirate vessel to the other before crashing heavily into the ocean, kicking up a massive pillar of water.
Sea Circle Calendar Year 1520.
Butcher Bakal, a notorious grand pirate of the East Blue, infamous for his brutal acts of mass murder and pillaging, perished on a quiet, completely unknown night.