Roy's calm voice rang out.
The next moment, the bullets that had been frozen in midair all reflected back at a speed even faster than when they had been fired.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft!"
The sound of bullets sinking into flesh rang out one after another. Clearly, the Marines had been caught completely off guard by Roy's move. After being struck by their own bullets, many of them collapsed to the ground, their fates unknown.
The battlefield instantly emptied out quite a bit.
"Oh my, oh my. You've already developed your ability to this extent? Did you eat the Rumble-Rumble Fruit the moment you were born?"
Borsalino teased him with his mouth, but his hands did not relax in the slightest.
A golden light had already appeared at his fingertip.
When the other Marine soldiers realized that firearms were useless, they also drew the blades at their waists.
"We'll divide them up just like we agreed earlier. This creepy ojisan is mine. Don't disappoint me."
Roy glanced at Gin and the others behind him and spoke calmly.
The response he received was three wicked grins.
"Wee-hahaha! Don't worry, Captain. These rotten shrimp aren't enough for me to handle even on my own. Hey! CP agents, get out here! This great me is going to properly pay you back for how miserable you made me look when you chased me before!"
After all, most of the people on the ship were fish-men. Calling the enemy "stinking fish" really would not have been very appropriate.
The very next instant after Burgess shouted, a figure suddenly thrust toward him from the side.
"Wave Motion: Boiling Shot!"
Burgess met the attack without the slightest hesitation.
The other side seemed to know Burgess's intelligence and did not choose to clash head-on. Instead, he launched several Rankyaku from a distance.
Almost at the same time Burgess fired the first shot, as though they had agreed on it in advance, three other agents appeared in an instant from the blind spots of the battlefield, using the refraction of sunlight to conceal themselves.
With perfect coordination, they attacked Roy from three directions.
"Bang!"
The three attacks passed straight through Roy's body and struck the ground.
"Afterimage!"
The pupils of all three agents shrank.
They were just about to withdraw immediately after their failed strike, but the others, who had been watching the battlefield closely the entire time, instantly locked onto them.
"Whoosh!"
A bullet shot toward one of the agents' eyes from an extremely tricky angle.
Although the agent had trained Armament Haki to a fairly strong level, the eyes were still one of the weakest parts of the human body.
One mistake, and that bullet would pierce straight through his eye and into his brain.
As expected of members of CP, the strongest in Cipher Pol, the agent calmly adjusted the angle of his body. But just as he dodged the bullet, a long sword stabbed diagonally toward him from the corner.
"Yo-ho-ho. So this is the strongest force in Cipher Pol?"
Laffitte's entire body gradually began to transform.
"You really are quite strong."
An eagle's head, sharp talons, and wings, combined with the body of a lion.
Griffin form!
Clearly, this agent also recognized it. He said in a deep voice, "A Mythical Zoan griffin? Just as the intelligence said, there may be all kinds of unusual ability users among your group."
The theft of the Holy Land's core warehouse naturally could not be leaked.
But that did not stop the World Government from giving CP0 some clues about the abilities of certain Devil Fruits.
"If it's a Mythical Zoan, then you should obediently be locked up in Impel Down."
As he spoke, two strange masses of air appeared in his hands.
"Whoosh!"
Another bullet shot toward him.
This time, however, he did not even turn his head. He simply flung one of the air masses in his hand.
When the air mass collided with the bullet, there was no explosion.
Instead, the air mass flowed around the bullet, wrapped it up, and dropped it to the ground.
"I ate the Bottle-Bottle Fruit. I'm a Bottle-and-Jar Human. I can seal anything inside a bottle."
The agent very frankly spread open his palm and explained.
Speaking of which, people in the One Piece world always seem to have a tradition of casually revealing their Devil Fruit abilities during battle.
Apparently, even CP agents were no exception.
While Laffitte and Yasopp were facing off against one agent, the other two agents were also intercepted by Fisher Tiger, Kasta, and Chalcis.
"The criminal behind the Mary Geoise attack, Fisher Tiger?"
The tall agent spoke in a sinister voice.
The next moment, the clothes on his body began to tear apart, revealing a beast-like body.
Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Tiger!
"So you people are the slaves who escaped from Mary Geoise?"
The CP agent facing Kasta and the others was a short man.
"Will you obediently go back and continue being slaves, or will I execute you on the spot right here?!"
As he spoke, the clothes on this agent's body began to rapidly lengthen.
Paramecia-type, Cloth-Cloth Fruit user!
Kasta and Chalcis said nothing. They also began using their own abilities and launched an attack against this agent.
"Looks like your crew members are all pretty impressive."
Borsalino first glanced at the battle on the agents' side, then looked at Gin and Daz, who were already locked in battle with Kadar, as well as Jinbe, who was in a close-quarters fist-and-palm brawl with Dalmatian after the latter had transformed into a dalmatian.
He clicked his tongue in admiration.
Then his tone changed.
"However, that also means your pirate crew has extremely strong potential. If we don't strangle you in the cradle as soon as possible, then once you grow up, you'll become an existence that gives both the Marines and the World Government headaches."
As he spoke, the light at his fingertip shot toward Roy in an instant.
The Glint-Glint Fruit's laser ability allowed him to fire several beams of light in succession.
"The Glint-Glint Fruit's laser ability really is a pretty good ability. But I have to say, aren't you wasting it a little?"
Facing the lasers shooting toward him, Roy did not panic in the slightest. With a casual wave of his hand, just like the Z-Fighters in Dragon Ball casually knocking away ki blasts, he deflected all the lasers.
Borsalino's pupils shrank.
He had never seen anyone instantly break through all of his lasers before.
Yet before he could think further, Roy's figure instantly vanished from his sight.
"Where?"
Before he could even shift his field of vision, a rumbling voice sounded from behind him.
"Too slow."
At the same time, an overwhelming force smashed into his back, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood. His body then flew out like a cannonball.
(End of Chapter)
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