"Kuroobi!!"
Arlong's face twisted in horror as he stared in disbelief at the scene before him.
Even he couldn't have killed Kuroobi in the blink of an eye like that.
Just who the hell was this guy!?
"No! No! Nooooo!!"
Hachi dropped to his knees and howled toward the sky as he looked at Kuroobi's corpse.
Blinded by rage, his already not-so-bright brain short-circuited. He grabbed six swords and charged forward.
"Damn human! You killed my best friend! You're dead meat!!"
With that, he gathered the six swords into a circular point and launched himself at Jin, shouting:
"Six-Sword Style Secret Technique—Six-Blade Waltz!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Hachi leapt into the air, spinning downward in a deadly spiral, aiming to slice Jin to pieces.
But Jin had already summoned lightning the moment Hachi left the ground.
Reverse Scale Judgment!
He raised a finger toward the sky and abruptly brought it down.
A thunderclap burst through the heavens as blinding lightning surged downward, forming a blue-white beam that struck straight through the air.
Hachi turned his head mid-air, eyes filled with fear, but it was too late to dodge.
CRACK—!!
The moment the bluish-purple lightning touched him, his body was scorched and torn apart, the beam drilling through his chest.
He didn't even have time to cry out before crashing to the ground, knees hitting first.
He weakly covered his mouth with a hand, coughing up mouthfuls of blood.
His eyelids felt unbearably heavy as consciousness slipped away.
He trembled as he lowered his head, glancing at his charred chest and murmuring:
"Hachi… turned into takoyaki…"
Then he collapsed forward, eyes glazing over.
But Jin ignored the corpse and turned with a mocking grin toward the fishman crouching by the pool, rear end in the air.
That fishman was gulping down water like mad, his belly swelling grotesquely.
Meanwhile, Arlong unsheathed his massive serrated blade and prepared to attack from behind.
"OIOIOI, two-on-one's not very sportsmanlike, now is it?"
Jin smiled brightly—and vanished from Arlong's sight.
Soru—!
In a flash, he appeared beside the pool.
Fishman Chew had just finished storing water and hadn't even reacted yet when a towering shadow loomed over him.
"Shit! Get out of the way!!"
Arlong's eyes shrank to pinpricks as he noticed Jin beside Chew. He roared at the top of his lungs.
But it was already too late!
"Looks like you really like water?"
Jin's voice came gently, like a benevolent samaritan: "Then let me help you drink your fill."
Thousand Streams: Swallow the Sea!
Before Chuu could even react, Jin stomped his head down into the water. The pool—connected directly to the ocean—suddenly surged violently.
A tidal wave of seawater gushed into Chew's body, swelling him up like an enormous balloon.
BOOM—!!
An instant later, he exploded.
A torrent of water and bright red blood sprayed in all directions, pieces of his corpse too gruesome to look at.
The upper half of his body was completely gone. Only the head and lower half remained, separated by meters.
Dead. Absolutely dead.
"You bastard!! What the hell did you do to Chew!?"
Arlong's scream of anguish echoed from behind, blade raised as he charged.
Jin glanced back and raised an eyebrow.
The scene looked fierce, but Arlong's face was a mixture of fear and despair.
Jin casually caught the blade between two fingers, tilting his head.
"You're afraid of me?"
"Why are your hands shaking? Can't even hold your weapon steady?"
Huff, huff…
Even as Arlong used all his strength, he couldn't reclaim his sword. His face turned purple, but he had no words to refute Jin.
Because he really was afraid.
Seeing this, Jin lightly flicked his fingers.
The giant blade shattered like a spiderweb—splitting into countless fragments.
He then wrapped the shards in crackling lightning and scanned the unconscious fishmen nearby, knocked out by his Conqueror's Haki.
They were all in range.
Jin gave his fingers a twirl, like a conductor raising his baton—and the lightning-coated blades exploded outward!
Swish swish swish—!!
Whispers of slashed throats followed. Blood dyed the earth red.
Jin seized Arlong by the throat, tore out his fangs, and began a rampage of slaughter.
Blood. Mangled limbs. Severed heads…
The fishmen's screams of agony echoed across Arlong Park.
And Jin, as if deaf to Arlong's struggles and screams, gleefully wielded him as a living weapon to butcher every last fishman.
"Ahahaha, Arlong, look!"
"Your teeth and saw-blade were such powerful weapons! Look at how your fellow fishmen are howling in pain!"
Arlong: !!!
…
At the same time—
Outside the estate, a group of wide-eyed villagers stared in horror at the brutal scene.
"Nami… where did you find this guy?"
The villagers clutched their hoes and farming tools, jaws slack at the terrifying youth within.
"I met him while I was away. He's my captain now."
Even Nami was visibly stunned. She knew Jin was strong—but this strong?
"A-Amazing…" Nojiko muttered under her breath, expression full of mixed emotions.
That shameless pervert who had slapped her butt… just wiped out all of Arlong Park by himself!
Watching the fishmen get ruthlessly slaughtered stirred an unexpected sense of satisfaction in her.
The three girls had been frozen in awe while Jin was unleashing his power. They hadn't even noticed when the rest of the villagers had shown up.
Now a growing crowd stood there, stunned, all deeply shaken by Jin's overwhelming power.
They all just stood dumbfounded, staring straight at the legendary scene playing out before them.
"No! No! Nooooo!!"
Arlong dropped to his knees, weeping bitterly.
He stared at the lifeless corpses of his comrades. Tears streamed down his face.
They're dead! They're all dead!!
This damned human monster… had slaughtered every last one of his people!!
"…Huh? You're actually crying?"
[End of Chapter]
Note (unrelated to this chapter): Just wanted to clear something up—earlier I translated the tag "Accelerated Growth" as "Speed Burst", which sounded like a combat speed buff. That was wrong—it actually boosts growth/development speed, not movement. It's fixed now, just wanted to let you all know! Sorry about that :c .
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