Chapter 173

The voice fell.

The entire arena fell deathly silent!

The three captains were so shocked they stood rooted like wooden chickens.

His gaze shifted,

Oren paid no heed to the three captains beside him, but with those eyes brimming with terror, fixed them on the figure ahead — a mere four-year-old child.

"N-no, it can't be?!"

"Could it be that…"

"No!"

"This is absolutely impossible!"

"It must be someone else!"

Oren still could not bring himself to believe the astonishing truth laid out before his eyes.

At his side,

the three captains, jolted awake from their shock, asked in trembling voices: "B-boss, then who exactly unleashed that Conqueror's Haki?"

As for the name Conqueror's Haki, the three of them had also heard whispers of it.

They knew.

It was an exceedingly rare and terrifying power!

Only true monsters of the sea were qualified to possess such a gift.

It was called…

the Qualities of a King!

A person without the Qualities of a King, even if they spent their entire life, could absolutely never awaken Conqueror's Haki.

This point was beyond doubt.

Then.

The question arose.

Right now,

looking across the entire arena, who exactly had unleashed that Conqueror's Haki?

The Qualities of a King — possessed by only one in a million — whose body did it reside in?!

With hearts filled with boundless shock, the three captains gazed anxiously at their boss, the Demon Man Oren.

But they only saw,

Oren, with a pair of terrified eyes, staring at the mere four-year-old brat not far away.

Following Oren's gaze,

the three captains beside him were likewise struck dumb.

"T-this!"

"It can't be?"

"Eight nine three"

"Could it be…"

"The monster possessing the Qualities of a King is this mere four-year-old brat?!"

"How could that be?!"

Led by the First Squad Captain Huoma, the other two captains — Jia Er Sen and Green — one after another revealed hearts of boundless shock, their eyes bulging round, deeply unable to accept it.

They were stunned into utter bewilderment.

"T-that was…"

"The legendary Conqueror's Haki!"

"The Qualities of a King, possessed by only one in a million."

"How could it possibly be wielded by a mere four-year-old brat?"

"This isn't scientific!"

The three captains' minds were shaken to the core, and on the spot began to doubt their very existence.

They still could not imagine it.

That in this world, there could actually exist such a terrifying monster.

Wielding Conqueror's Haki at the age of four!

What kind of concept was that?!

Gulp!

Oren swallowed another mouthful of saliva, a chill surging from the soles of his feet straight up to the crown of his head.

A creeping horror,

a chill that made the flesh crawl.

He too had been scared silly.

A great pirate with a bounty of sixty million Beri, utterly shattered by the truth laid out before his eyes.

"Wielding Conqueror's Haki at the mere age of four?"

"Is this really not a dream?"

"How could such a monster exist on this sea!"

"No matter how terrifying a prodigy, at such a tender age, they still shouldn't be able to wield Conqueror's Haki."

Oren stood rooted like a wooden chicken, his heart wildly trembling without end.

Watching helplessly,

in every direction.

Everywhere, his pirate subordinates lay sprawled on the ground, unable to rise.

Oren was thoroughly panicked.

He had already realized it.

Sending this group of subordinates to capture that little brat — what a terribly wrong choice that had been!

It was precisely this move…

that led to

their Demon Pirate Crew being nearly wiped out!

A monster possessing Conqueror's Haki — how could such a person possibly be ordinary?!

"I had thought…"

"Dealing with that mere four-year-old little brat should have been as easy as turning over a hand."

"Never could I have imagined."

"That little brat actually commands the legendary Conqueror's Haki!"

"What on earth kind of monster is he?!"

Oren was deeply moved and lost his composure.

He was sunk deep in fear.

The Demon Pirate Crew's only chance of survival…

from this point on,

turned to foam.

Vanished into thin air.

He wouldn't dare imagine it even in his dreams.

That seemingly weakest four-year-old little brat was actually an extremely terrifying monster!

The other party had hidden far too deeply.

No!

More precisely,

the other party's tender young age was far too deceptive.