After King Oro stepped out of his bedchamber, his expression turned grim. "Everyone, leave this area now!" he commanded the guards around him.
"Yes, King Oro!"
The guards and maids immediately cleared out, a sight they were all too familiar with. Once the room was empty, a man wearing a cat mask with a skull on it appeared. He had mechanical hands made of Seastone, a retractable scythe in his right hand, and a spiked meteor hammer attached to the scythe's handle with a chain. His entire getup was bizarre.
"I told you it's better if we don't meet in the palace anymore," Oro said, his voice tense. "That woman is not a fool."
The masked man didn't reply right away. He walked to the window, staring out at the vast blue sea before turning back to Oro. "Hehehehe... Oro, it seems you've become dumber since you became king."
"What do you mean, Hanafza!" Oro's voice was low and full of suppressed anger.
Hanafza! One of the Warlords!
"Why did you let the Marines handle the Hyena's Fang Workshop?" Hanafza said, his voice laced with annoyance. "If our involvement is exposed, do you even know what that means?" He looked like he wanted to cut this idiot down on the spot.
Oro scoffed at the mention of the Hyena's Fang matter. "Hmph! They're just some low-life pirates from the West Blue. The Hyena's Fang Workshop made a ton of money every year at Erguotou Mountain! Now that they've been wiped out, of course I have to deal with that hateful Red Hawk!" He paused, a look of contempt on his face. "And Lieutenant General Lucas's strength is more than enough to handle him!"
"More than a year ago, that guy went to the West Blue just for Red Hawk. Do you really think Red Hawk is just some ordinary guy if he caught that kind of attention?" Hanafza's anger was almost boiling over. He felt that choosing this fool as a partner was the biggest mistake he had ever made. Red Hawk was someone Hawkeye was interested in, and Hanafza knew just how strong Hawkeye was. He knew that Red Hawk was not someone to be trifled with.
Ever since he became a Warlord, Hanafza had been working with the Beasts Pirates. They needed a lot of Animal-type Devil Fruits, but as one of the Four Emperors, they couldn't just go searching for them in other seas. So, Hanafza was the perfect solution. To maximize their search area, he helped Oro, the husband of the Floran Kingdom's queen, become king. He also suggested that Lucas, who was just a guard captain at the time, join the Marines. With Hanafza's cooperation as a Warlord, the Floran Kingdom's influence, and the Marine forces controlled by Lucas, they had managed to get several Devil Fruits over time.
But recently, after Lucas was promoted to Marine Lieutenant General and the Vice Commander of Marine G-10 Fortress, this idiot Oro seemed to have gotten too big for his britches. He often gave Lucas orders that could easily arouse suspicion. Now, with the Hyena's Fang Workshop destroyed by Red Hawk, Oro was so eager to get revenge that he wanted Lucas to retaliate immediately. Hanafza knew that this time, Lucas was doomed. Red Hawk had already killed a Marine Lieutenant General before! If Lucas was gone, their influence in the Marines would crumble. But this fool Oro still hadn't realized his mistake!
"Purupurupuru~"
Just as Oro was about to argue with Hanafza, the Den Den Mushi in his bedchamber started ringing. "You're both Warlords, and you're so afraid of Hawkeye?" Oro scoffed, a new sense of arrogance in his voice. He walked into the bedroom, picked up the Den Den Mushi, and answered it.
"King Oro, it's Lieutenant General Lucas... Lieutenant General Lucas has been killed by Red Hawk!"
"What did you say?!" Oro shouted in shock.
"Lieutenant General Lucas was killed by Red Hawk! It's terrifying... not a single person he cut was left in one piece!"
"Ah!!!"
The person on the other end of the Den Den Mushi screamed in terror before the line went dead.
"Oro?" a voice suddenly came through.
Hanafza immediately walked over. "Are you the King of the Floran Kingdom?" the voice asked.
"You're Red Hawk?!" Oro spat, gritting his teeth.
"Oro, I don't let people who provoke me live. Clean your neck and wait for me to chop it off, got it?" Andy's chilling voice came from the Den Den Mushi, full of a deadly killing intent. Oro's whole body trembled. At that moment, he finally seemed to understand what Hanafza meant when he said that Red Hawk wasn't simple. But as he saw Hanafza standing beside him, his lost confidence returned.
"Red Hawk! Don't get cocky!" Oro said with a proud look. "My backer is the Warlord Hanafza! Do you dare to lay a hand on me now?!" He didn't even notice that Hanafza's face had turned incredibly grim, and the scythe in his hand was twitching.
"Warlord Hanafza? Hahahaha... Then you and Hanafza can both wait for me to chop you down!"
"Click~"
As soon as Andy finished speaking, the Den Den Mushi was hung up. Oro couldn't believe that Red Hawk would still dare to threaten him, even after hearing Hanafza's name. At that moment, Hanafza was also furious. Although he wanted to stab Oro right then and there, a kid who just arrived in the Grand Line actually dared to provoke him! This was too much.
"Bang!"
"Ugh, ah!!"
Hanafza suddenly threw a punch, sending the idiot Oro flying and smashing him into the wall. "I'll let you live this time. If you ever act so foolishly again, you won't live to regret it!" Hanafza glared at Oro with cold eyes. With that, he turned and left the place that always made him angry.
It wasn't until Hanafza was completely out of sight that the terrified Oro dared to move. Hanafza's sudden punch had made him think he was going to die.
"Someone!" Oro shouted furiously.
At Erguotou Mountain, the port was filled with the floating, incomplete bodies of Marine soldiers. On the shore, the remains of Marine personnel were scattered everywhere. The people of Erguotou Mountain were filled with terror. Just one day later, Red Hawk had attacked again, and his methods were just as the newspapers described: decisive and ruthless! But what terrified them most was that this time, Red Hawk's opponent was the Marines!
Andy, the person responsible, looked at the scene with a calm expression. The only thing that surprised him was how many connections this Marine Lieutenant General had. King Oro of the Floran Kingdom, Warlord Hanafza... What was the connection between these two people? It was said that Hanafza's hobby was collecting Animal-type Devil Fruits, especially Ancient Zoans...
"Whatever, I'll just chop them all down when the time comes!" Andy shouted, then walked toward Madame Serena's house. "Hey! Get out here and clean this mess up! And don't forget to loot the bodies!" He was so tired from the fight; he needed Madame Serena to give him a good massage.
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