"Hiss!"
Just as Uzuki Tempura reached to grab Black Maria by the hair and drag her toward his room, the Black Maria, whose leg he had just kicked, suddenly sprang up and bit down hard on his palm.
That bite used nearly all of Black Maria's strength. Even though Tempura was fairly powerful, without Armament Haki protecting him he felt a sharp pain radiate through his palm.
Realizing he'd been bitten by a courtesan, Uzuki Tempura flew into a rage and slapped Black Maria across the face.
The tremendous force sent Black Maria flying, and she landed right in front of Rosse.
"Dammit, shameless bi*tch!"
Uzuki Tempura cursed in fury, already thinking of how he would torture Black Maria, and strode toward them.
Facing the charging Uzuki Tempura, Black Maria's expression held only despair.
She had already used everything she had, but she simply couldn't resist; her whole body ached.
If she were caught again, she could already foresee the outcome.
As Uzuki Tempura reached out once more, Black Maria collapsed weakly to the ground, wanting to fight back but not knowing how she could win.
Her thoughts were in chaos; Uzuki Tempura's motion did not stop.
But just as his hand was about to touch her, he suddenly froze.
"Wha? What the hell are you doing?", Uzuki Tempura looked up angrily, staring hard at Rosse, who had grabbed his hand.
He was still in a bug-brain state and had no time to carefully identify who Rosse really was.
He had never actually met Rosse in person. He had only seen Rosse's portrait, and the real thing looked somewhat different.
He didn't think Rosse would be in the Flower Capital at this time, let alone run into him by chance.
He had come to the Flower Capital to hide, afraid Rosse would go after Udon. Most of Wano's Seastone mines were in Udon; even they knew the World Government wanted Seastone, there was no telling that Rosse's next target might be Udon.
If not for that reason, he wouldn't have come to a pleasure hall to vent.
"Eh...", Black Maria watched Uzuki Tempura being stopped; in those once-desperate eyes a few ripples of emotion flickered.
She blankly looked at Rosse; gratitude and relief flashed across her eyes but passed without words.
To her now, Rosse and Uzuki Tempura were no different, both wanted to use her like a ragdoll.
"I don't like noisy people," Rosse said coolly. The hand he held began to slowly turn into seawater.
The arm and hand that had been solid were transforming into liquid, flowing downward.
"What kind of sorcery is this?", Uzuki Tempura felt his perception of his arm slipping away and panicked, hastily trying to pull his hand back.
But what he pulled out was not a whole arm, only the part that had not yet turned to seawater remained.
He could only watch helplessly as the rest of his arm dissolved into seawater and pooled on the floor, leaving a wet stain.
"You want to kill him?", Rosse ignored Uzuki Tempura and crouched down with a faint smile, gently stroking the stunned Black Maria.
"Yes!", Black Maria blurted out instinctively.
She didn't know what Rosse had done, but she felt Rosse was amazing.
The Uzuki Tempura who had bullied her was utterly powerless before Rosse.
"You take this knife and kill him," Rosse smiled slightly and extended his hand; seawater condensed in his palm and formed the shape of a dagger.
"But I can't beat him,".Black Maria instinctively gripped the seawater dagger; it felt no different from a real blade.
But when she looked at Uzuki Tempura, she still hesitated.
She had just proven that even if the man only had one arm left, she couldn't kill him.
Besides, she had never killed anyone and didn't know how to do it.
"You just go. He won't be able to resist. Trust yourself, you can do it," Rosse spoke softly, like a devil's whisper.
"Ah?", Black Maria hesitated for a moment, but in the end chose to trust Rosse.
Rosse was so powerful, there was no reason for him to lie.
And the way Rosse looked at her was different from others.
Other men looked at her as if they wanted to consume her whole.
In Rosse's eyes she saw encouragement and expectation.
As if Rosse expected her to grow, to become someone useful to him.
Black Maria had never known the feeling of being trusted since she was born.
With that thought she tightened her grip on the dagger and, as if mad, charged at Uzuki Tempura.
"Black Maria, are you crazy?", A nearby courtesan cried out at the scene. If anything happened to Uzuki Tempura in their hall, they would be finished.
But the moment she spoke, an invisible pressure washed over her.
The courtesan instinctively looked to Gion and met those icy eyes. An overwhelming terror seized her and she collapsed to the ground, forgetting whatever she had intended to say.
'Too terrifying!'
She had never seen anyone so terrifying.
"Filthy bi*tch! You actually try to stab me?", Uzuki Tempura, not knowing Rosse's sorcery, would show no mercy to the weak Black Maria.
He sneered and tried to reach out to give her a lesson.
But no sooner had he raised his hand than a Conqueror's Haki rolled over him.
Under Rosse's Conqueror's Haki, Uzuki Tempura immediately went into a stunned state.
Don't talk about resisting, just not fainting was only because Rosse held back.
Ssshhh!
The dagger in Black Maria's hand slid smoothly into Uzuki Tempura's abdomen.
"AHH!"
Uzuki Tempura screamed in agony, yet his body could not move; it was as if the nerves between brain and body were severed.
He could feel the pain but could not control his muscles.
Black Maria stared at his contorted face and instinctively stepped back.
But then she saw blood gushing from his gut and suddenly felt that she shouldn't be the one afraid.
With that thought, fury edged into her eyes; she raised the dagger again and stabbed Uzuki Tempura.
One cut... two cuts... ten cuts...
Black Maria kept driving the blade into him. Even as her once-flawless face was stained with blood, she showed no sign of stopping.
She didn't know exactly how to kill a man, but she knew that if Uzuki Tempura lived, she would suffer far worse.
'I must! must kill him!'
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