Chapter 258

The wall collapsed.

Countless scattered debris and stones buried more than half of Gart's massive body.

Visible to the naked eye.

Gart's lion-blade form slowly began to vanish.

Returning to his human form…

Both arms shattered,

Skull cracked,

Head exploded!

Tell me,

How could a man like this possibly survive?

Even if Gart's vitality were as resilient as ever, he could not stop the wild loss of life force within him at this very moment.

"Am I going to die?"

"How humiliating…"

"A lifetime of glory, ruined in an instant."

"I never imagined I'd die at the hands of a four-year-old brat."

Gart, clinging to faint traces of consciousness, gave a bitter smile.

His eyelids felt as heavy as a thousand jin heavy, relentlessly forcing him to close them.

Moments later,

Gart, riddled with wounds, finally closed his eyes.

Thus,

Gart's life had completely withered,

All vitality gone!

A renowned pirate with a bounty nearing fifty million Berries, a Zoan-type Devil Fruit user—the Lion-Blade Gart.

Today, he died violently.

Crushed utterly by Lu En, a mere four-year-old child, with invincible might…

Final punch—exploded!

Gart is dead.

The captain of the Lion-Blade Pirates, a notorious sea king with a bounty of forty-eight million Berries, a feared presence in the Grand Line, met his end today.

If this were to spread,

No one would believe it.

The one who exploded Gart was a four-year-old brat!

The vast warehouse.

The atmosphere was suffocating!

Silence!

Not a sound!

The ground bore countless pitted scars and dense, spiderweb-like cracks that sent shivers down the spine.

A scene of utter devastation,

Heart-stopping to behold.

Like a ruined, abandoned ruin.

The entire warehouse had been reduced to unrecognizable ruin.

Upon seeing Gart's corpse, the four officers of the Lion-Blade Pirates were thrown into utter panic.

Even though each of their bounties exceeded thirty million Berries.

But having witnessed their captain Gart being brutally exploded before their eyes, they naturally lost all courage.

Even their captain—a sea king with a bounty nearing fifty million Berries—

Was crushed on the spot!

Tell me,

How could they possibly face such an utterly terrifying monster?

"D-dead…"

"Captain's dead!"

"Explosively crushed!"

"Face-to-face, directly pounded to death by a four-year-old monster."

"My god!"

"I never dreamed I'd ever witness a scene so utterly mind-blowing."

The four officers trembled violently, faces pale with terror.

Their gazes shifted,

And without a word, they all turned toward the four-year-old monster who had exploded Gart.

At the same moment,

Lu En cast his calm gaze upon them.

In an instant,

The four officers' minds went utterly blank.

For a moment,

Glug!

They involuntarily swallowed their saliva, their fear magnified infinitely in their hearts.

"W-what do we do?"

"We…"

"It seems that monster has locked onto us."

A cadre said in a trembling voice.

He's staring right at them!

This naturally filled them with intense terror.

Their bodies trembled,

Shaking uncontrollably.

Under the gaze of these four cadres and several other pirates,

Lu En, who had just shattered Gade, glanced at them with a hint of amusement, his lips twitching: "Next, it's your turn, you little rats."

The words fell.

The four cadres felt as if thorns pierced their backs, a chill rising from their soles straight to the crown of their heads.

Their bones prickled with dread,

Every hair stood on end.

"He—he's going to kill us?!"

One cadre cried in panic.

"Run!"

"Run fast!"

"This monster's gotten a taste for killing!"

"He clearly intends to crush all of us!"

"If we don't run now, we'll never get another chance."

Overcome by overwhelming terror, the four cadres turned without hesitation, hearts racing, and bolted toward the direction of the Cangkuda Sect.

Even their own boss…