"You don't need to know." Hikaru casually waved his hand, and the massive blade he wielded seemed to come alive, turning its edge to strike its own wielder.
Killer's strength was no match for Hikaru's Triple Devil Fruit power. He could only watch as the blade pierced through his mask and forcefully lodged into his head. As the searing pain began, his consciousness gradually faded...
"So many moves to try..." Hikaru chuckled. Now, it truly felt as if he could declare: My energy is endless! "However, you lot are simply too weak. You don't deserve to witness my new techniques."
Using a combination of electromagnetic attacks on them felt like using a cannon to kill a mosquito—a complete waste of resources.
The remaining members of the Kid Pirates were also firmly bound in place by electromagnetic and floating forces, only able to move their mouths to speak.
"You can kill me or chop me up as you please. Anyway, we all expected this ending the day we became pirates!"
"That's right! I've killed so many people; I've already made back my money!"
"Grandpa, spare me! Grandpa, spare me!"
Between life and death, everyone reacts differently. Naturally, most were terrified and begged for mercy. Hikaru's role wasn't that of a judge. All he had to do was crush those ants who might block his path forward.
"Sayonara, pirates!"
Hikaru raised and waved his hand. The giant mechanical arm around Kid's right arm automatically separated and disassembled into weapons, revealing their sharpest and most deadly sides. They then relentlessly surged towards the Kid Pirates.
"Ah..."
Screams echoed, and bright red blood flowed across the ground. In this world, the lives of these low-ranking pirates were truly the most worthless thing.
Law had about twenty men, but he seemed to be the only one truly capable of fighting. Bepo's case was quite outrageous. Seriously injured and on the brink of death, he took a drug and transformed into his Moon Lion form, somehow managing to interrupt Blackbeard and his crew's retreat.
It was unbelievable that Van Augur, who could fell a Biscuit Soldier with a single shot, couldn't even break the boulder Bepo casually picked up. His Warp-Warp Fruit became useless as he couldn't even catch up to a recovered and exhausted Bepo.
There was no helping it. Perhaps Eiichiro Oda had some other mission for Law, such as performing an "Immortality Surgery" on Luffy, saving him from death. The same applied to Kid. None of his subordinates were capable of fighting.
He was instantly struck down by Shanks's Divine Departure and plunged into the sea, his life or death unknown. If he still had any purpose, Oda could simply fish him out later.
Luffy inadvertently put them in danger (just kidding, of course). These two had followed Luffy into a Double Emperor confrontation against Big Mom and Kaido, earning bounties that far exceeded their actual abilities. They believed they were incredibly powerful, but once outside Luffy's influence, their true weaknesses were exposed.
"Divine Emperor Hikaru, bounty of 3 billion Beri, target confirmed, eliminate!" The Pacifista program searched for Kid for a long time, and when it couldn't locate him, it began executing the next elimination command.
"Huh? I almost forgot about you." Hikaru raised his hand and clenched it. The electromagnetic force lingering in the area instantly acted upon the Pacifista. Clicking sounds continuously emanated as the Pacifista's mechanical parts began to deform and twist inwards.
Boom—!
Finally, the laser emitter inside the Pacifista couldn't withstand the pressure and exploded.
"It's so easy for the Magnet-Magnet Fruit to defeat these mechanical killing weapons. I don't know how Kid could fight this guy for so long..." Hikaru shook his head. Perhaps Kid's Devil Fruit ability wasn't developed enough? He didn't want to dwell on these details. The electromagnetic field spread out once more, searching for Luffy's location...
Sabaody Archipelago, Grove 27.
Borsalino had just been hit by two stray bullets from two minor pirates, but he effortlessly dodged them using his elemental transformation. The two small-time pirates saw the dire situation and fled, but before they could take two steps, Borsalino appeared in front of them with a flash of light, asking nonchalantly:
"Oh~ I'm looking for a man named Sentomaru. Do you know where he is?"
Before he could finish his words, the two pirates scurried off in another direction. Borsalino shook his head helplessly, raised his foot, and condensed a laser in their general direction, "Really, am I that scary~"
Whoosh—!
The laser streaked across the void, accurately hitting the gap between the two pirates, and then struck the Yarukiman Mangrove tree with the Grove 27 logo, causing it to explode.
The laser was so powerful it actually split the Yarukiman Mangrove in half, emitting a golden light bright enough to illuminate the sky. If it were nighttime, the entire Sabaody Archipelago would likely be bathed in light as if it were daytime.
Boom—!
The Yarukiman Mangroves collapsed to the ground. As for whether they hit any civilians, that's a question for Borsalino.
"How can this be... No matter how extreme Mr. Borsalino is, he wouldn't blow up the Yarukiman Mangroves..." A Marine man, born and raised in the Sabaody Archipelago, spoke, suspecting that the intense busyness of the past two days was the culprit. Borsalino, who always enjoyed punching in and out of work and leaving on time, couldn't take it anymore, so he had come here purely to vent.
With such a loud commotion, even Hikaru, far away on Grove 3, noticed it. He curled his lips and instantly realized that Borsalino had arrived. The battle between lightning and flash... who would win? It was truly exciting...
Turning around, Borsalino encountered X. Drake, Scratchmen Apoo, and Urouge, and began to kick them one by one, laughing teasingly: "You guys with bounties over 100 million are all as strong as monsters. So scary~"
This wasn't even the end of it. He was still being lazy, watching the battle from the side and letting a Pacifista fight these pirates. Unfortunately, there was a Marine undercover agent, Drake, on the scene, and these pirates were ultimately allowed to escape by Borsalino.
On the other side, on Grove 13, at Shakky's Rip-Off Bar.
Luffy and his companions were chatting with Silvers Rayleigh and Shakky. Rayleigh promised to coat their Thousand Sunny, but it would take six days. Shakky also thoughtfully gave them a Three-Log Pose for the New World. This confused Sanji and Nami.
Nami clearly remembered that for a ship as large as theirs, even the most inexperienced coating craftsman in the Sabaody Archipelago shouldn't take six days to finish. Sanji, who had researched the market situation beforehand, also began to doubt Rayleigh's coating expertise.
The two immediately questioned Rayleigh, and he smiled and explained. It turned out that Rayleigh had discovered something wrong with the Log Pose not long ago.
In addition, the death rate of coated ships heading to Fish-Man Island had been significantly higher recently, so he had secretly boarded a pirate ship and ventured into the seabed to investigate what was truly going on.