However, Kai immediately felt relieved. In the storyline, Shakky had personally admitted to eavesdropping on Navy Den Den Mushi communications. He just hadn't expected this had been going on ten years ago.
"You don't need to know about that. How about it? Are we even now?" Kai said.
"Hmph! Whether we're even or not isn't for you to decide," Shakky said coldly, directly lifting her leg to kick at Kai without holding back in the slightest.
Kai raised his hand to block, grabbing Shakky's ankle and throwing her away with a reverse motion. At the same time, Kai spoke:
"Women shouldn't resort to violence."
Seeing Shakky stand up and prepare to attack him again, Kai looked somewhat helpless. He still needed Shakky to find Rayleigh, so naturally he couldn't let their relationship become too strained.
Having no choice, Kai's expression grew serious as overwhelming killing intent surged toward Shakky!
Shakky, who was preparing to lift her leg and continue attacking Kai, suddenly felt a chill throughout her body, as if falling into an ice cave. Her movements stiffened as she froze in place, her body no longer obeying her brain's commands.
Her body's instincts were telling her: absolutely! Absolutely! She must not attack Kai!
Shakky gritted her teeth and struggled to lift her head, looking directly into Kai's eyes. Instantly, Shakky's expression became vacant, her pupils dilating continuously as her face turned pale and sweat beaded on her forehead.
Seas of blood! Mountains of corpses!
In Kai's eyes, Shakky saw scenes like purgatory itself! As if she would die the very next instant, this torment spread through Shakky's entire body like poison seeping into her bones.
Using killing intent alone, even Kai couldn't achieve this effect.
After all, Shakky had once been a great pirate who traversed the Grand Line, with no small amount of blood on her hands. Even if Kai's killing intent could affect Shakky, it wouldn't leave her in such a sorry state.
What happened was that Kai had just had the system synchronize genjutsu abilities from the Naruto world into One Piece world's power system.
Of course, it wasn't the heaven-defying genjutsu of the Rinnegan. Though Kai wanted that, he didn't have enough reputation points. He only synchronized the most basic ninja genjutsu abilities.
This didn't require many reputation points—five hundred thousand was sufficient.
And Kai's successful completion of the Sabaody pirate elimination plan had earned him nearly two million reputation points, naturally enough to pay for synchronizing genjutsu abilities.
But this alone was already sufficient!
As everyone knows, a genjutsu ninja's strength isn't determined solely by the level of their genjutsu, but mainly depends on the caster's mental power.
Kai's mental power was terrifyingly strong. Just a simple constructed genjutsu world wasn't something a pirate of Shakky's level could resist.
After several seconds, Kai saw the light in Shakky's pupils gradually becoming unfocused. Knowing that if this continued, Shakky would become a vegetable, he released the genjutsu.
"Huff... huff... huff..."
Shakky supported herself on the ground with both hands, gasping heavily. After a while, she struggled to lift her head and look at Kai. Her eyes no longer held any trace of resistance, only fear remaining as she asked in terror:
"You!? What... what kind of Devil Fruit is this!?"
In Shakky's understanding, only a Devil Fruit could produce such an effect.
Kai smiled without explaining these matters to Shakky, instead speaking calmly: "Now, can we call it even?"
Seeing Kai direct his gaze toward her again, Shakky instinctively looked away, her face showing unwillingness, but she still spoke: "Yes..."
"In that case, can we proceed with the next transaction?" Kai asked.
"What transaction?" Shakky replied.
"You tell me where Rayleigh is now, and I'll tell you my origins. How about it?" Kai smiled slightly, looking at Shakky as he spoke.
Hearing Kai's words, Shakky's pupils contracted sharply as she said in a low voice: "Who is Rayleigh? Sorry, I don't know."
"Really don't know? Silvers Rayleigh—oh, now he should just be a coating craftsman on Sabaody Archipelago. Don't tell me you want me to mobilize the Navy's power to conduct a large-scale search of Sabaody Archipelago? Don't forget, the Navy has photos of Rayleigh..."
Kai sat on a nearby sofa, casually placing his hands on the backrest, looking at Shakky with a playful expression.
"You wouldn't dare!" Shakky glared and scolded.
"Why wouldn't I dare?" Kai shrugged with an indifferent expression.
Shakky's face flashed with anger, but then immediately calmed down. As Sabaody Archipelago's biggest information broker, she naturally wasn't an idiot and caught the implication in Kai's words.
Looking at Kai, Shakky frowned tightly and asked: "What do you want with Rayleigh?"
She didn't make any more excuses, because Shakky understood that as Kai had said—as a Navy Headquarters Rear Admiral and the highest-ranking officer of Sabaody Archipelago's Navy branch, if Kai really wanted to find someone on Sabaody Archipelago, it indeed wouldn't be troublesome.
"Some matters you don't need to know," Kai said directly.
Hearing Kai's words, Shakky looked somewhat displeased but still spoke: "Rayleigh... he should be at the Human Auction House right now."
"Human Auction House!? That old guy's out of money again?" Kai was stunned and said somewhat speechlessly.
"How do you know about this?"
Shakky was also stunned, looking at Kai with some wariness. When Rayleigh was short on money, he would often sell himself to the Human Auction House, then rob the auction buyers afterward.
Rayleigh was quite fond of this no-cost business.
"I know much more than just this," Kai smiled mysteriously and headed toward the door.
"Stop!" Shakky called out to Kai.
"Hm? Is there something else?" Kai stopped in his tracks.
Shakky said: "You haven't told me your origins yet!"
"Oh, I almost forgot. My origins? They're beyond your comprehension," Kai smiled and strode out of Shakky's Rip-off Bar.
"Beyond my comprehension? Don't tell me you're not from this world?"
Shakky muttered somewhat irritably, not knowing that her casual words had actually revealed Kai's true origins.
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