Chapter 221: The Devil Transformation
"Ara, Poojack, this question is too easy."
"Who cares about that nonsense Pirate King?!" Deidara said angrily. "How dare you belittle my art...!"
"Poo poo, wrong answer. The correct answer is our boss, King Bear!" Poojack's hand suddenly stretched backward, making an inviting gesture for the big boss to make his entrance.
"What kind of guessing game is this? How foolish," Kuina, the youngest, said bluntly.
Esdeath had a disappointed expression, "I don't know where these little thieves come from, thinking they can come here to die."
"Poo poo, you guys are underestimating the Poker Card Pirate Crew!" Poojack scowled, tightening the fat on his face, squeezing out a layer of oil.
"It seems I'll have to give you a punishment," Sweetheart Queen snapped her fingers. From a few pirate ships nearby, a bunch of pirates rushed out.
Deidara had already thrown his explosive clay birds, which expanded in the air and flew towards the ship's waterline.
"Ha!" Deidara quickly formed a hand seal and detonated the clay.
Boom!
Two explosive clay pieces exploded simultaneously, blasting large holes in the sides of two pirate ships. The sea rushed in, causing the ships to flood and begin to tip over. Pirates on the deck fell in a heap as the two ships slowly sank into the ocean.
"What?!" Sweetheart Queen and Poojack were shocked. Deidara's attack power far exceeded their expectations.
"What's all this noise?!" The main ship's cabin door suddenly opened, revealing a large, ugly man with fur on both sides of his face. He truly looked like a brown bear, the kind that would be in last place in a bear beauty contest.
"King Bear! These people sank two of our ships!" Sweetheart Queen, now dressed, pointed at Deidara and his crew while reporting to King Bear.
'Got a good view! Too bad it's just the back...' Eric , standing at a high spot with a telescope, muttered, "Can you give me a front view at least? Without a good picture, how can I tip you!"
"Bang!"
Suddenly, the sound of a gunshot startled everyone, and all eyes turned to where it came from.
Kurumi's gun barrel let out smoke, shattering Eric 's telescope. Eric , dejected, walked up to Kurumi for a scolding.
King Bear took a careful look at the cold and beautiful Kurumi and suddenly blushed, "She's my type. I want her as my bride!"
"Hahaha!" Esdeath suddenly mocked Kurumi, "Just marry that stupid bear!"
"Huh?!" Kurumi glared at King Bear, the culprit, and then at Esdeath, who was laughing while holding her stomach.
King Bear gave an order: "Go get her, Poojack!"
"Wait!" After carefully observing the Dawn Pirate flag, and then cautiously looking at the clowns, Poojack was astonished, "Aren't they the Dawn Pirates, famous worldwide a year ago?!"
Kuina commented, "...It's 'world-famous,' not 'famous worldwide.'"
Corrected by a young girl, the clown's pale face flushed pink with embarrassment.
"Hahaha, who cares about the Dawn Pirates? This is a good chance to show the world my power!"
"Go, Poojack!"
Poojack's round body curled into a ball, and a layer of black spikes covered the surface as it spun towards them.
In the air, it was frozen into an ice block by Esdeath.
"Bang!" It was smashed to pieces by Gin 's iron ball at the end of his cane.
The remaining four of the Poker Card Brothers were shocked, "Poojack!"
"Damn it, you dared to take down Poojack..." King Bear, furious, drew his gun and aimed at Gin .
"Where do you think you're looking..." Eric flashed in front of King Bear and punched him over.
"My body is steel... Why can you hurt me..." King Bear clutched his stomach, kneeling, unable to rise again.
"King Bear!" Sweetheart Queen gasped, covering her mouth in shock.
"Secret move — Needle Sword!" The clown quickly moved both hands, shooting a mass of yellow feathers at Eric .
Bang bang bang!
The pitch-black bullets shot down the flying feathers one by one.
"What?!"
"Ara, I can't let you attack Eric like this." Kurumi holstered her gun, standing proudly, her posture incredibly beautiful in the eyes of the clown.
"Such beauty, like a flower hidden in the moonlight."
"It's 'hidden moonlight,'" Kurumi coldly corrected the stunned clown, and proceeded to shoot three holes in him.
The clown of the Poker Card Brothers was down for the count.
"Can't even get the most basic words right, even a grade-schooler knows how to say it better. What an idiot."
Seeing that three members of the Poker Card Brothers were easily taken down, the Skunk decided to take advantage of the chaos to escape. His bag behind him suddenly began to inflate, and a yellowish gas shot out from the bag's exhaust.
But Esdeath, prepared in advance, created a spherical al ice wall that sealed the gas inside without letting any escape.
"Smelly, such a horrible stench! I hate things that smell!" The skunk, trapped in the ice wall, rolled on the ground, gradually losing strength, unable to raise his arms to cover his nose. His eyes were vacant, and saliva leaked from his mouth as he stared at the ice wall.
"Yuck!" Sweetheart Queen, the only woman of the Poker Card Brothers, watched in horror as Eric and his crew. Her clothes were instantly stripped off, and her body turned into pink slime, rushing towards a steel pipe.
On the other side of the pipe, Deidara, waiting for her, caught her with his clay bird, "You're the one who said you weren't interested in my art, right?"
"I'm going to blow you up into pieces! Mhm."
"I didn't mean it, I'm very interested in your art!"
"Then you'll get to experience it firsthand. Mhm."
Seeing the Poker Card Brothers defeated, the remaining pirates of the Poker Card Crew desperately adjusted the sails, trying to escape.
"Want to run?" Esdeath waved her arm, and all the nearby pirate ships were frozen together, forming a giant iceberg.
"!" Kuina, watching from the Undaunted, widened her eyes, staring at the pirates inside the iceberg, seeing their panicked expressions, unable to speak for a while.
Akame, who had emptied the storage room of food, came over to Kuina's side. "Keep training, one day, you'll become strong like this."
"Really?" Kuina was a bit unsure. Until now, she understood that Eric and his crew's strength was on a different level from hers. The past version of herself was like a frog in a well, unaware of how vast the world's sky was.
"Of course." Akame smiled, drawing Muramasa from her waist. She swung it forward with great force, sending a huge black sword aura shooting out, piercing the giant iceberg in front of her.
A crack appeared at the top of the iceberg and gradually moved downward until it pierced the entire iceberg.
Boom!
The massive iceberg split in two, and the shattered ice cubes fell into the sea, causing splashes.
"I couldn't do the Flying Slash back then, but I learned it in Shimotsuki Village from Master Keng Shirou," Akame encouraged Kuina. "If you train as hard as Kuina, you can do this too."
The doubt in Kuina's eyes disappeared, replaced by determination. "Of course, I'm going to become the world's greatest swordswoman!"
...
On the main ship of the Poker Card Pirates, Eric set up a summoning array and dragged King Bear into the center of it.
"Do you have any last words?"
"...!" King Bear stared with bloodshot eyes, "I am going to be the Pirate King! How could I die here?!"
"Ah, I see. Then go ahead and be crowned king in your eternal dream." Eric 's right fist punched through King Bear's arm and into his heart without losing momentum.
The massive body, supported by strength, slowly fell to the ground.
Eric extended his right hand toward the summoning array, preparing to recite his dramatic summoning words—
But Esdeath, Kurumi, and Scáthach gathered beside him.
...Never mind.
"Come on, my comrades—Summon!"
White light covered King Bear's entire body, gradually transforming him into a well-proportioned figure.
"I... What is this?" The man in the summoning array looked down at his hands.
Yellow hair, yellow eyes, with black sclera different from normal people, and the mechanical arms exposed.
(END CHAPTER)
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