Flames erupted in a bright flash.
For a moment, the sky and earth were filled with fluttering pieces of "Red Beard."
Gus's thrown knife, however, unexpectedly missed its target, whizzing past Byron's body.
"What did I say?" Byron began, shading his eyes with his hand. "Leaping into the air amidst battle and forsaking one's original ability to dodge is the gravest of mistakes. Why won't you people ever listen? Besides, no one ever said that you can't use a warship's main guns when backstabbing, right?"
He watched as the Captain, who had been riddled with holes and shattered by five hundred rounds of bombardment, had the largest piece of his remains carried away by an animated rope.
He quickly dispelled Bill's Cognitive Revision, downed a cup of "Flying Grasshopper," and casually took a large bunch of iron-plate squid tentacles from Bruh. He activated "Mountain Goat Steps" and followed.