Chapter 28

"Just as Bokato said."

"If that kid Lu En doesn't join the Marines, this old man truly has a premonition that in the future, on this very sea, there will surely appear an extremely terrifying Great Pirate! An extremely dangerous and vicious Great Pirate!"

"Within that kid Lu En's body, lurk extremely dangerous factors of violence."

Captain Kapu thought about many things.

At his side,

The young Ace stared blankly at the fighting and brawling on the pirate ship ahead.

That little face covered in freckles turned deathly pale; the pallid little face revealed the panic and unease within his heart, and his hands trembled slightly without being able to help it.

"This is the cruelty of this sea…"

"Every day, people die!"

"The strong prey on the weak!"

"The survival of the fittest!"

Ace's young heart received a tremendous shock from the scenes unfolding before his eyes.

When he saw Lu En's body covered in muscular lines, Ace felt from the other party an incomparably powerful, overwhelming pressure.

At this moment,

Ace once again deeply realized.

A profound helplessness.

"The gap between me and this guy Lu En…"

"Is more than just a little!"

"It can completely be said to be worlds apart!"

His face full of unwillingness, yet he had no choice but to admit this fact.

……

On the pirate ship.

The atmosphere was utterly strange!

Silence!

Not a single sound!

A sea breeze drifted gently over.

The pungent smell of blood in the air filled the nostrils of every pirate present.

Swoosh!

The sea breeze stirred up a wave, rippling out in rings.

The crew of the White Ostrich Pirates, led by Captain Kukali, all stared fixedly at Lu En, who was bare from the waist up, with eyes full of shock and wariness.

At close range,

They saw clearly.

Lu En's upper body was covered in muscular lines.

Even though he was thin and young, the bulging muscles of his body still brought an intense pressure to many of the pirates present.

"This little brat…"

"Is no simple matter!"

Captain Kukali took a deep breath, his face full of gravity.

Even he himself had failed to see clearly just now.

The details and process of his own crew member being smashed apart by Lu En's single punch.

Vaguely,

He caught from Lu En's eyes before him.

Ripples of negative emotions—savagery, bloodlust, coldness, and the like.

In an instant,

Captain Kukali's face shifted slightly, and his heart grew somewhat heavy.

"This little brat is probably a monster!"

"At such an age, he already possesses the disposition to kill decisively…"

"As if he was born specifically for battle!"

His mood grew increasingly low and gloomy.

At this moment,

He no longer dared to look down on the Lu En before him.

Even,

The wild, violent aura emanating from Lu En made even he himself—a Great Pirate with a bounty of eleven million berries—feel a faint, indistinct pressure.

"Boss, let me teach this little brat a lesson!"

"Brothers, charge!"

"Kill!"

"Kill this damned little brat!"

"He's only one person after all; even if each of us just spits on him once, it's enough to drown this arrogant little brat to death."

"Could it be that he's trying to overturn their entire pirate crew single-handedly? What a joke!"

"……"

Over a hundred pirates struck out at the same time.

"Don't act rashly!"

Captain Kukali was just about to open his mouth and stop them.

But unfortunately,

it was already too late!

Over a hundred pirates charged at Lu En from every direction, swarming in from all sides, each wielding sharp weapons, launching a frenzied assault on Lu En.

Lu En was surrounded.

Weapons attacking from every angle of three hundred and sixty degrees radiated incomparably fierce killing intent.

"Brat, go to hell!"

A thin, short man, gripping a dagger, tried to pierce straight through Lu En's heart.

But just before it was about to hit,

Lu En's right hand seized the man's arm.

Raising his head,

the short man then saw Lu En's eyes—utterly devoid of emotion, like a volcano that had been suppressed for far too long and was about to erupt, flickering with bursts of ferocious light.

Like a fierce tiger opening its eyes!

The murderous aura was overwhelming!

"N-no, don't!"

In an instant, the short man's face went deathly pale, and he tried to shrink back in terror.

Crack!

Lu En's right hand squeezed hard, and the bones in the short man's arm shattered.

"Ah!"

The stabbing pain spread through his entire body, causing this short-statured man to let out bursts of shrill, agonized screams.

"The battle officially begins!"

Lu En grinned.

His right hand, single-handed, gripped the body of this short man,

and suddenly exerted force,

terrifying distance-launching power erupted from his body,

he used the man in his hand like a stick, and without the slightest hesitation hurled him toward the group of pirates charging from the front.

Boom!

The short man's body slammed brutally into the crowd, producing a deafening, earth-shaking roar.

Unparalleled, savage force directly sent several pirates flying; they vomited blood on the spot, their bodies hurled several meters away, tumbling wildly across the deck.