Chapter 948

If they are ability users.

Now,

they may have already lost their combat capability.

However,

there is one prerequisite for anyone wishing to join the Red-Haired Pirates.

That is…

Non-Demon Fruit ability users!

This, is the condition for joining the Red-Haired Pirates.

Including Captain Red-Hair, Vice-Captain Ben Beike Man, and officers Luo Qi Lu, Ye Su Bu, and others, there is almost not a single ability user.

Obviously.

The Red-Haired Pirates are a crew entirely devoid of Demon Fruit ability users.

Completely different from the Beasts Pirates, the Charlotte Family, and the Whitebeard Pirates.

Red-Hair seems determined to build one.

A pirate crew with not a single Demon Fruit ability user!

Without relying on Demon Fruit powers…

Become one of the Four Emperors of the New World!

This, is Red-Hair's wish.

Unfortunately,

today,

the Red-Haired Pirates have encountered an unprecedented great enemy!

A terrifying ceiling-level powerhouse.

The strongest person in the world!

If they have no way to break the deadlock, then today the Red-Haired Pirates may be utterly annihilated in these waters.

"Cough! Cough!"

Ye Su Bu and Luo Qi Lu successively surfaced from beneath the sea, coughing violently, spitting blood, crimson stains spreading along the edges of their mouths.

Their faces were extremely pale, appearing as if they were corpses, nearly devoid of all color.

Upon closer inspection,

their inner Qi had become incredibly weak and withered.

Their erratic breathing patterns revealed their current state was dire.

Puff!

With a single breath, Ye Su Bu spat blood again.

He gripped his two guns tightly, the only thing granting him a sense of security.

"This old man is just too strong."

"He's already so old, how is he still this strong?"

"This defies all logic."

Ye Su Bu couldn't help but complain.

His face full of heaviness, low and grim.

Clearly,

he had keenly realized.

At this moment,

their Red-Haired Pirates had fallen into a life-or-death crisis.

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If they cannot break the deadlock,

they will surely be wiped out entirely!

From now on,

this sea will know no more the Red-Haired Pirates.

"There's no choice."

Luo Qi Lu raised his arms, staring at his bloodied, mangled fists.

The bones in both fists had been shattered.

The sporadic waves of piercing pain made him gasp in agony.

"Even with Armament Haki covering them, I still couldn't block that old man's iron fist."

"He's truly terrifying."

Though he had activated Armament Haki, when Luo Qi Lu's fists clashed with Captain Kapu's, he still felt a soul-rending pain surge from his fists through his entire body.

This made him realize.

So…

Armament Haki and Armament Haki are not equal.

At least,

the Armament Haki possessed by the Navy's legendary hero Captain Kapu.

Is vastly different in strength from the Armament Haki he possesses!

The opponent's Armament Haki completely towers over his!

"Is this the legend of the Navy?"

Lao Qi Lu's eyes went blank for a moment.

On the other side.

Red-Hair, blasted away by Captain Kapu's punch, flew backward across the sea toward the Windmill Village harbor.

Where his body flew backward…

The sea surface erupted into towering waves.

Waves spread outward in all directions,

A colossal current seemed ready to surge straight into the clouds.

Finally—

Boom!

A deafening crash.

Red-Hair's back slammed hard into the Windmill Village harbor, smashing a jagged crack nearly ten meters wide.

Boom boom boom!

The entire harbor trembled violently.

As if struck by a minor earthquake.

Crack!

Crack!

Cracks spread in all directions, dense as a spiderweb.

A horrifying sight.

After a long while,

The harbor's trembling finally began to subside.

At this moment,

Red-Hair lay flat on the ruined harbor, on his back, face pale, breath weak and ragged, steadily adjusting his breathing rhythm.

Blood flowing from his body soaked and stained the shattered surroundings.

The pungent stench of blood drifted far on the sea breeze.

Strange blood…

Had already dyed the entire area red.

Giving off a chilling visual impact.

Just then,

The famed sword Griffon, which Red-Hair had gripped tightly in his right hand, now lay on the ground over ten meters away from him.