“Yasuo-sama, we have a problem…”
“The Fallen Angel Pirate fleet is here!”
At that moment on Baskenny Isnd, a panicked pirate ran up, drenched i as he reported nervously.
“Hah! Hahaha—what are you panig about?”
A man with a sharp face, tied-back ponytail, and short beard sneered dismissively.
“It’s just the Fallen Angel Pirates. Don’t fet who I am—I’m Blood Fox Yasuo!”
With absolute fidence, he asked, “Who’s leading the fleet?”
“It seems to be uhe ‘Fire Camity’ fg.”
“What!?”
Hearing this, Yasuo’s pupils shrank in shock. His fidence evaporated, repced by creeping panic.
“Are you sure it’s Fire Camity Afar? This is just a remote, low-value isnd… Why would someone like that show up personally!?”
He cursed under his breath. “Damn it! We’ve already found clues to the treasure buried here by Jack the Ripper, that legendary pirate from over a tury ago. Just two or three more days and we’d have uhed it!”
Having survived for so long in the New World, Yasuo was well aware of the Fallen Angel Pirates’ dominance. Pig a fight with them was akin to c death. But he couldn’t resist the temptation of the treasure map he had found aboard a sunken ship. The map led to the treasure of Jack the Ripper, a fearsome pirate from over a tury ago who had supposedly buried the spoils of his decades-long career on this very isnd.
The legend had attracted tless treasure hunters, yet no one had ever succeeded in finding it—until now.
Yasuo had gambled everything on this opportunity, invading the isnd to dig up the treasure. He never inteo linger, pnning to flee as soon as the treasure was secured.
“Jack the Ripper’s treasure?”
Suddenly, a young voice rang out from above.
“ I see that treasure map?”
“What?”
Yasuo and his pirates instinctively looked up, startled.
H in midair was a tall, youthful figure.
The boy had a strikingly heroic appearaanding over five meters tall with bck wings and a bzing fme behind his head. Most uling was the third eye in the middle of his forehead, which exuded an aura of mystery and overwhelming pressure.
“Who’s that?”
“A Lunarian?”
“Wait—he’s not old enough to be Fire Camity Afar!”
“Hold on… that third eye… Is he part of the Kukulkan Family?”
A wave of panic swept through the pirates as realization struck.
“If he’s from the Kukulkan Family, wouldn’t his bounty be two billion berries!?”
Their gazes became feverish, a votile mix of greed and disbelief.
“Haha! What luck!”
Yasuo grinned viciously, his expression turning savage. Resting one hand on the hilt of his bde, he felt his fideurning. Drawing his on in a fsh, he crouched low and then shot forward like a bullet.
“So, you’re the infamous Lunarian–Three-Eyed hybrid? Well, kid, your head will fetch a nice price!”
If he mao take the boy’s head back, he reasoned, even losing the treasure might be worthwhile.
g!
Sparks flew as Yasuo’s bde cshed with a beautifully orana, wielded by the boy with effortless ease.
The young warrior didn’t flinch, meeting Yasuo’s fierce blow with a calm smile.
“Take my head? This two-billion bounty won’t e cheap, you know.”
Bang! Bang!
From all around, Yasuo’s crew opened fire, unleashing a hail of bullets aimed at the boy. It was obvious they had no iion of fighting fair.
Whoosh!
Yet, as if he had foreseen the assault, the boy remained pletely posed. With a sharp gleam in his eyes, two figures suddenly appeared, one on each side of him, shielding him from the gunfire.
“Ahh!”
Those two figures took the bullets meant for the boy, colpsing to the ground with dull thuds.
“What?”
“Damn it…”
“Is he a Devil Fruit user?”
The pirates were thrown into shod terror. Even Blood Fox Yasuo, locked in a standoff with the boy—now revealed to be Dal—turned pale.
In the moment, Dal suddenly vanished into thin air.
“You’re really not pying by the rules… I guess I’ll deal with the nuisances first!”
“He disappeared?”
“Everyoay alert!”
Whoosh… Whoosh…
“Aaaaah!”
To everyone’s astonishment, screams broke out around them. Oer another, pirates dropped into pools of blood. Some were decapitated; others were sliced ly in half. The gruesome sight defied description.
“You bastard!”
Blood Fox Yasuo’s face twisted in a blend e and fear. As the user of the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Fox, he shifted into his hybrid form, his body t before everyone’s eyes. Clutg his bde tightly, he lu Dal—but he couldn’t track the boy’s movements.
He had no way to stop him.
“Aaaaah!”
In mere moments, another dozen pirates were sin. Dal was like an invisible, scythe-wielding reaper, felling anyone in his path. Not even pirates with bounties iens of millions could react before their heads rolled. The surgical precision of the sughter made everyone’s blood run cold.
“Run!”
“He’s a devil!”
Terrified beyond belief, several pirates turo flee. Yet not a single one escaped. In the blink of ahey were cut down, their bodies colpsing lifelessly.
“Stop it—!” Yasuo roared, his voice raw, eyes bloodshot.
He could hardly believe it. A mere ten-year-old boy was butchering his entire crew.
Though Yasuo could faintly sense Dal’s preseh his Observation Haki, every attempt to strike ended in futility as Dal shifted positions instantly. In under a mihe entire Blood Fox Pirate Crew y annihited.
The horrifying spectacle sent shivers through Yasuo.
“It’s your turn now.”
Dal finally reappeared, standing tall amidst the age. With a quick flick of his wrist, he cast off the blood ging to his ornate bde, then leveled its tip at Yasuo, a mischievous smile pying on his lips.
“You little devil—”
Yasuo, trembling with fury, his hybrid form bristling with power, charged Dal with murderous i.
g… g…
Sparks showered the air as their bdes collided again and again. But Dal, far more poised—and far taller—casually parried each strike.
“Damn it, I’ll kill you!”
Dal’s third eye glowed crimson, exuding a chilling aura. Smirking, he said,
“That’s what you were about to say, right?”
He paused for effebsp;
“A, you’ll say…”
“You bastard!!”
Yasuo’s eyes bulged in shock the instant the words slipped out. He froze, drenched in cold sweat, staring at Dal with utter disbelief. The boy had predicted his every move.
“Y-You bastard!!”
Bleam
