Chapter 431

Unexpectedly.

What Cerberus Kulin never imagined was...

When he mentioned that five-year-old brat.

Smoker before him did not show any sign of distress.

On the contrary,

the man began to stare at him with an odd gaze.

That odd gaze...

made Cerberus Kulin's spine prickle.

He had a faint illusion.

The way that brat looked at him

was as if he were looking at a clown,

or at a cold corpse.

"Damn brat..."

"What's that look for?"

Instantly, Cerberus Kulin grew angry.

Being stared at by Smoker's odd gaze...

Cerberus Kulin's mood grew increasingly furious.

Pausing briefly,

he gritted his teeth and continued in a cold voice: "Aren't you even worried about that five-year-old brat? Aren't you afraid he'll die at my men's hands?"

"Are all Navy personnel this heartless?"

"Disregarding the lives of your comrades?"

"Is this the Navy that claims to uphold justice? Ridiculous."

Facing the furious Cerberus Kulin,

Smoker's eyes flickered, his expression strange: "You can let your men try."

After all,

he had never in his life seen...

someone who actively went looking for death!

Who is that five-year-old brat?

That's Lu En!

The most terrifying genius in Navy history!

The most fearsome monster of the sea!

A vice admiral in strength at only five years old!

A few days ago,

he single-handedly captured a pirate known as Whitebeard the Second, said to possess the same power Whitebeard had in his youth.

And yet...

What did Smoker hear now?

He actually heard

that these pirates intended to attack Lu En?

What did that mean?

Smoker silently mourned for these pirates for three minutes in his heart.

"Are you so confident my men can't handle that mere five-year-old brat?"

Seeing Smoker's calm expression, Cerberus Kulin was frantic.

Dealing with a Logia user was never this simple.

Even if he held a Seastone weapon...

he still couldn't subdue Smoker before him in a moment.

Precisely because of this,

he had sought every possible way to provoke Smoker into revealing a weakness, so he could seize an opening.

But he hadn't expected...

that Smoker wouldn't take the bait at all!

As if,

the man didn't care at all about the brat's life or death.

"Hurry up, stop wasting time."

"Order your men to kill him!"

Smoker looked impatient.

"You!"

Cerberus Kulin was stunned and furious.

Was this the first time he'd seen Navy personnel this heartless?

Did they truly not care about their comrades' lives?

"If that's the case..."

"Then I'll oblige you!"

"Damn brat, do you think I won't dare?"

Cerberus Kulin's hair bristled with rage.

He glared at Smoker with a face full of fury and cold malice.

Then,

taking advantage of a momentary lull in his clash with Smoker, he quickly ordered his nearby subordinates: "Boys, kill that five-year-old brat outside the arena right now!"

"He's the key!"

"If we capture that brat, we can force this group of Haijunjiu Society members to surrender."

"Hurry! Grab that brat for me!"

With a loud roar,

it echoed in all directions.

Instantly,

pirates who had entered the battlefield turned their gazes toward the direction Cerberus Kulin had pointed.

Then,

they saw Lu En standing outside the battlefield.

Seeing Lu En's childish face, barely five years old…

The pirates bared vicious grins.

"Who would've thought? If not for the boss's reminder, I never would've noticed—this group of Haijunjiu Society members actually has a brat with not a single hair grown!"

"What a lucky surprise."

"This brat looks frail as a reed—he won't survive one punch from me."

"Such a young child—how dare the Haijunjiu Society send him here to join the crackdown on our Cerberus Kulin Society?"

"Brothers, move!"

"Grab that brat! Don't let him escape!"

"The boss just said, if we capture this brat, the whole group of Haijunjiu Society members will surrender."

"Go!"

"It's just a brat who looks barely five—catching him should be a cinch!"

"…"

A full thirty to fifty pirates were stirred by Cerberus Kulin's order.