On the deck of the Red Hair Pirates, the air seemed to solidify, heavy and oppressive.
The crew members' faces were grim, their eyes burning with raging fury; Uta was not just their Captain's daughter, but also their little princess whom they had all collectively cherished and watched grow up.
In those years, Uta's bell-like laughter always filled the entire ship with joy; Yasopp had taught her how to shoot, Lucky Roux had made her special snacks, and even the usually serious Beckman would patiently listen to her talk about her newly composed songs.
"Those running dogs of the World Government..." Yasopp's finger was already on the trigger, his eyes, usually filled with a smile, were now as cold as ice, "Daring to scheme against Uta, are they tired of living?"
Lucky Roux, uncharacteristically, threw away his beloved chicken leg, his corpulent body trembling slightly with anger: "I'm going to tear their bones out one by one and use them as firewood!"
Beckman's cigar crunched audibly in his mouth, his sharp gaze fixed intently on the approaching warships: "They're really courting death."
Just then,
Shanks slowly stood up, his movements were slow, yet they caused the entire sea to fall silent.
The moment gryphon was unsheathed, red-black Conqueror's Haki solidified and coiled around the sword, and the surrounding space began to twist and tremble.
The deck groaned under his oppressive power, and the sea, centered on the Red Force, caved in to form a massive vortex hundreds of meters in diameter.
"You..." Shanks' voice was very soft, yet it made the CP0 agents on the three warships shiver simultaneously, "Shouldn't have come here."
Before his words even finished,
Shanks stomped and shattered the deck, his entire body shooting into the sky like a cannonball; gryphon carved a deadly arc in the sunlight, and the red-black Haki condensed into a sword energy dozens of meters long, tearing through the air with a piercing shriek.
"Divine Departure!"
Boom—Amidst the earth-shattering explosion, the leading warship was directly split in half vertically.
The cut was smooth as a mirror, and even the sea was cleaved by the aftermath into a trench a hundred meters deep; the CP0 agents on the warship didn't even have time to scream before they were torn to shreds by the violent Haki.
"The first one." Shanks landed steadily on the sea, stepping on the ship fragments floating in the water, slowly walking towards the remaining two warships; his eyes were terrifyingly cold, and each step made the seawater tremble.
The CP0 officer on the second warship, his face under his mask already pale: "Open... open fire! Everyone open fire!"
Dozens of heavy cannons roared simultaneously, and countless bullets poured down like a storm; however, Shanks merely waved his sword lightly, and all the cannonballs strangely stopped in mid-air, as if encountering some enormous resistance, and then returned the way they came!
"The second one."
The second warship turned into a fireball under its own bombardment, its burning wreckage slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea.
The last warship had already begun to turn and flee, but Shanks' figure appeared like a ghost at the stern; gryphon lightly flicked, and the entire warship was thrown high into the sky like a toy, exploding into countless fragments.
The people on it lost consciousness under the impact of the Conqueror's Haki, falling into the sea like dumplings.
When Shanks returned to the Red Force, there was no trace of any warships left on the sea, only floating planks and scattered flames proving what had once happened there.
"Uta..." Shanks looked towards the island, the killing intent in his eyes gradually turning into deep worry, "I will never let anyone harm you!"
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