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After glancing around and seeing that Saint Charloss was surrounded by guards and soldiers—many of them already aiming guns at him and Da Hong—Droopy casually rubbed his ear and said in an unhurried tone:
"Da Hong. Crush them."
Whoosh—
The moment Droopy's words fell, the bullet embedded in Da Hong's forehead shot back out, streaking straight toward Charloss's brow.
Bang!
The bullet smashed through the Celestial Dragon's bubble helmet like it was nothing, punched cleanly into his forehead, and burst out through the back of his skull in a spray of blood before burying itself deep in the wall of a mansion across the street.
The entire sequence happened in a flash.
No one present had expected Da Hong to fire the bullet back out of his forehead.
Even less had they expected it to move that fast.
By the time anyone reacted, Charloss had already toppled off the back of his slave and slammed heavily onto the ground.
As the fat Celestial Dragon's body hit the street, silence fell.
Then, after a few stunned seconds—
The entire scene exploded into chaos.
"AAAAAH! The rabbit killed Saint Charloss!"
"Quick! Catch that rabbit!"
"Protect His Majesty!"
"Princess Sari, come with me!"
"Lord Outlook, run!"
"Stelly! Stelly!"
The first people to truly lose their minds were the royals of the Goa Kingdom.
Amid shrill screams, the king fled for the palace under the protection of several guards.
At that moment, Gniyals arrived on the scene.
The instant he stepped onto the street and saw Charloss lying in a pool of blood, even a CP0 agent like him couldn't help sucking in a sharp breath.
Since joining CP0, where he served both as an intelligence operative and as a bodyguard for the Celestial Dragons, this was the first time he had ever personally witnessed a World Noble being killed.
A Celestial Dragon dying—
That was not just a serious matter.
It was the kind of event that could shake the entire world.
The reason was simple:
The Celestial Dragons stood above all order and law.
Even frightening one of them was enough to cause an international uproar.
And once one was harmed, Marine Admirals and CP0 agents were required to arrive at the scene as quickly as possible.
It didn't matter who the attacker was.
And it didn't matter why they did it.
They had to be punished.
Now, here in the Goa Kingdom, Saint Charloss—who had come to the East Blue to collect the Heavenly Tribute—lay dead in the street.
Gniyals could not even imagine how Mary Geoise would react when the news reached them.
By then, not only Da Hong, but all of Charloss's guards and attendants—including Gniyals himself—would face severe punishment.
Bang bang bang—
Just as Gniyals stood frozen, staring in disbelief at Charloss's corpse and not knowing what to do, a series of violent impact sounds suddenly rang out and snapped him back to reality.
He looked up—
And his eyes widened again.
Ahead of him on the street, Da Hong—who normally looked like a blunt, heavy-headed bruiser—had become a demon out of hell.
He was charging through the formation of royal soldiers and Celestial Dragon guards like an unstoppable monster.
Every time his fist came down, another body was launched into the air, flying clear out of the royal city.
"Gniyals! Do something!"
A terrified voice suddenly shouted from the crowd.
"If you don't move now, we're all going to be sent flying by that rabbit!"
"Damn it!"
Gniyals came fully to his senses.
At this point, he no longer had the luxury of dwelling on Charloss's death.
There was only one way left for him to preserve his own life:
Capture the rabbit if he could.
"Soru!"
The instant he made up his mind, Gniyals used one of the Six Powers and vanished, reappearing in front of Da Hong.
Then, with no hesitation, he drove a finger forward in a vicious Shigan, aiming straight for Da Hong's heart.
Da Hong, who had been tearing through the crowd with savage delight, didn't expect someone to cut in mid-rampage and attack without warning.
But in his berserk state, dodging simply never entered his mind.
So while the finger thrust came for his heart, his own fist came crashing forward as well.
"!!!!"
Gniyals had never imagined the rabbit would ignore the attack entirely and counterattack head-on.
The moment he felt the force behind that punch, he didn't dare underestimate it at all.
"Tekkai!"
He bellowed and instantly hardened his body.
Pff—
BOOM!!!
The two sounds came almost at the same time.
A terrifying shockwave exploded outward from the point of impact.
At the center of it all, Da Hong glanced down at the finger still pressed against his chest.
To him, it felt like nothing more than a scratch.
Thinking the enemy was looking down on him, his rage spiked even further, and he raised his huge fist again.
At the same time, Gniyals—who had just barely endured Da Hong's blow with Tekkai—looked down in disbelief at his own chest.
The moment he did, his pupils constricted.
Then he opened his mouth and spat out a flood of blood.
"Bwah—!"
"How is that possible?!"
He had never expected that even after going all out, he still wouldn't be able to withstand one of Da Hong's punches.
Blood spraying from his lips, he stared in shock and screamed:
"He broke through my Tekkai! You—"
Thud!
Da Hong had no interest in listening.
His anger still climbing, he simply threw another punch.
Gniyals, whose Tekkai had already been shattered, had no time left to dodge.
The blow landed with a heavy, meaty impact—
And he shot straight into the sky like a cannonball, vanishing completely from everyone's sight.
"Monster! It's a monster!"
"Even a CP0 agent couldn't take two punches from him!"
"This is insane—run!"
As those terrified cries spread through the street, the last remaining sliver of fighting spirit vanished from the Celestial Dragon's guards and attendants.
They scattered in all directions, fleeing for their lives.
But the one they had provoked wasn't only the temperamental Da Hong.
Even Droopy—who normally never caused trouble on his own—had been angered by the Celestial Dragon's arrogance.
True, Charloss himself had been effortlessly killed by Da Hong.
But Droopy did not stop there.
As the crowd broke and ran, he moved through them with elegant ease, always appearing just ahead of whichever soldier or attendant tried to escape.
Then, with a light tap of his finger—
They would be sent right back to where they had started.
Waiting there for them—
Was Da Hong's fist.
In less than a single minute, there was no one left standing on the street.
Aside from Saint Charloss's corpse lying in a pool of blood, every other person there—including the royal family members of the Goa Kingdom—had been punched into the sky by Da Hong and sent who-knew-where
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