Chapter 113: Do You Think You're Hawkeye?!

Under the night sky.

In the sky, the giant red dragon flapped its wings and soared; merely the flapping of its wings stirred up gusts of wild wind.

Its ferocious form, merely whistling through the high heavens, left countless people staring in shock, their souls trembling.

For the oppressive pressure brought by such a powerful and towering creature simply could not be described in words.

"God!"

"Is today the end of Loguetown?"

"Pirates attack the port, a devil dragon soars in the high sky!"

Countless people instinctively feared, collapsing directly to the ground, even forgetting to resist the butcher's knife before them.

And the pirates before him, hearing the dragon roars coming from the high sky, were instantly stunned; after recovering, only the instinct to survive remained.

Frantic, wailing, searching the surroundings for cover to hide in.

Just to avoid being gazed upon by that giant dragon!

In the streets and alleys.

Sasha and Daz-Bones, side by side, led their subordinates in tracking Gao Wen, but helplessly discovered the target had long vanished without a trace.

Only the dragon roars coming from the high sky, and the wild wind whistling past.

Everyone looked up and saw a scene rarely seen in a lifetime.

"What kind of joke is this?!"

"Something that only exists in legends has appeared in the East Sea?"

"A Devil Fruit user?"

Sasha's face turned deathly pale.

If tracking the target went wrong, though she would inevitably suffer a scolding, the problem now before her was only how to survive an attack from that kind of thing.

"What should we do?"

At this moment, Sasha's voice was infinitely panicked, even uncontrollably emitting a tremor.

Daz-Bones looked up at the giant dragon in the high sky, then looked down at the figure long vanished in the distance, and said unwillingly:

"Whether it is a Devil Fruit user or a true demon dragon, that size, that speed, with our power, there is no possibility of resistance whatsoever."

"You take the subordinates and leave first... I will try again!"

Sasha was slightly stunned, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes:

"Is it really necessary to go to this extent?"

Daz-Bones did not waver at all; his eyes, even accompanying his voice, revealed an increasingly resolute brilliance:

"The boss's order must be achieved even at the cost of life; this is where my value lies!"

"To accomplish that man's goal, this extent must be reached; that fruit must be obtained!"

Seeing this, Sasha stopped continuing, turned around, and led her subordinates to rush toward the surroundings.

Whether it was the Warlord Hanafaza in the port, or the giant dragon, suspected to be a Devil Fruit user, soaring in the sky, both made tonight's mission head toward collapse.

It was already beyond her ability to stop.

Tap!

Tap!

Tap!

The dense footsteps gradually faded away, until completely disappearing.

Daz-Bones looked around once, and finally, following the previous tracking direction, rushed into the port.

Yet he did not know that Hanafaza, standing in the port at this moment, was so furious his lungs were about to explode, to the point that the face beneath his mask was a mass of red.

Even within his worldview, he knew there were no such creatures as demon dragons in the world; they were fantasy species existing only in legendary stories.

Therefore, the thing appearing before him now had only one possibility: someone had eaten that Red Dragon Fruit!

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

"I paid such a huge price, even willing to fight a death battle with that old man Zephyr, only to benefit you in the end?"

"I will grind every one of your bones to dust!"

Accompanying the voice was Hanafaza's rapidly swelling body.

In just a few breaths, he transformed into a human-beast form over eight meters tall, his whole body muscles knotted, and the tail behind him like a steel whip.

This is the form with the strongest comprehensive combat power for Zoan-type Devil Fruit users.

Possessing both the fierce physique of the beast form and the agility of the human form, along with body techniques and Haki cultivated to the extreme.

Boom!

Hanafaza's strong and powerful hind legs stomped heavily, directly cracking the ground of the port; the powerful momentum propelled Hanafaza's body, shooting toward the giant dragon in the sky.

Black Haki coiled around the dragon tail behind him, striking heavily toward the giant dragon over a hundred meters long in the high sky!

"Even if I kill you, I can find that fruit again!"

Hanafaza, furious and desperate, attacked with full force, not even caring that the wound on his chest had torn open, only wanting to strangle the giant dragon in the high sky!

In the midst of the explosive charge.

Hanafaza's pupils were slightly stunned, for he saw in the giant dragon's eyes a mockery as substantial as reality.

Immediately, a dragon claw covered in red scales extended from the high sky, and within Hanafaza's vision, grew larger and larger.

Though not yet touched, pressure like the heavens collapsing was transmitted, instantly making Hanafaza feel his whole body tremble, even recalling the helplessness he felt when fighting Queen and King in the Beasts Pirates back then.

"What kind of joke is this!"

Accompanied by a roar.

A dragon tail covered in Armament Haki struck the dragon claw high in the sky with vicious force, yet could not deflect it by so much as a hair.

For that dragon claw was not only covered in crimson scales, but also bore the same pitch-black Armament Haki!

"You—!"

Before Hanafaza's words could leave his mouth, the dragon claw had already gripped him tightly. He felt a pressure like a mountain surge from the claw, nearly crushing every bone in his body.

"Earth Throw!"

Gao Wen, holding Hanafaza in one hand, flapped his wings behind him and plummeted from the sky like a meteor.

Just as he neared the ground, he slammed Hanafaza hard onto the earth...

Boom!

The ground in the harbor suddenly collapsed, sending cracks exploding outward in ring after ring across the surrounding stone slabs, spreading for hundreds of meters.

Immediately, a shockwave with tangible force radiated from the impact center, shattering nearly every window in the nearby buildings.

The earth let out a wail in the next instant; nearly half the harbor was torn directly from the main body of the island, causing seawater to rush in.

In the center of the massive crater.

Hanafaza opened his mouth and coughed up a huge mouthful of blood; immediately, his complexion turned visibly deathly pale.

He was already severely injured, and now, having suffered Gao Wen's earth-shattering strike, he had lost most of his life, yet his eyes still burned with intense resentment:

"I am the King of the Lizards, one of the Seven Warlords!"

Gao Wen pressed his hand down on Hanafaza, pinning him so tightly he could not move a muscle, while a trace of unmasked mockery curled at the corner of his mouth:

"Seven Warlords?"

"Do you think you're Mihawk or something!"

!

He had recognized him long ago.

The one pinned beneath him was none other than Hanafaza, one of the Seven Warlords who was defeated by Ace in the original story.

And since he could be defeated by Ace, who had only just entered the Grand Line and whose combat power barely touched Silver, even Hanafaza at his peak would absolutely not be stronger than Ace.

In other words, if there were a floor to the Seven Warlords' combat power, Hanafaza would certainly be one of them.

He was even the kind of existence capable of competing for last place with Crocodile and Moonlight Moria, who had already lost their hearts of the strong.

With Mihawk's legendary combat power, he could be finished in a single slash at most!

Now severely injured, he was only fit to bully the weak; if he truly met a strong one, he would still have to kneel.

"You..."

Hanafaza, furious, then saw the naked killing intent, unmasked and bare, in Gao Wen's eyes.

"I am a Warlord!"

"Behind me stand not only the World Government! But also the Beasts Pirates, you..."

At this moment.

Hanafaza, feeling the cold chill of death, finally revealed a fear in his eyes as tangible as a physical object.

That feeling was just like when he had once harbored the beautiful dream of obtaining One Piece and conquering the world, entered the New World, only to be met by Kaido of the Beasts' spiked club.

Despair, powerlessness, confusion...

Countless sensations intertwined, finally crystallizing into the survival instinct of the weak:

"Spare me..."

"Please, spare me..."

His suppressed voice grew from low to loud; amidst his tears and snot, the world before Hanafaza's eyes began to distort, while all he could hear was Gao Wen's mocking voice:

"In this world, only the strong have the right to survive, don't they?"

Familiar words destroyed Hanafaza's last shred of hope; before he could even open his mouth, the world before his eyes was filled by a crimson dragon breath...

Boom!

A pillar of crimson fire erupted in the harbor.

Just a few minutes later, in that massive crater, there remained only a charred black skeleton and the crimson lava flowing around it.

A hundred-meter-tall giant dragon stood at the bottom of the pit, its feet on magma hot enough to melt steel; this scene brought the onlookers nothing but an indescribable fear.

"M-monster!"

A group of East Blue nobles who had not managed to flee were simply scared stiff by the giant dragon before them.

The man who had bought the twins collapsed on the spot, a warm wetness spreading between his legs.

The servants who should have sacrificed their lives to protect him abandoned their so-called loyalty in an instant.

They instinctively tried to run backward, but found that facing the giant dragon before them, they could no longer control their bodies freely, collapsing directly onto the ground.

In the next instant, more cries of agony came from the surroundings.

"I don't want to die! I... I still have family, I must live for them, I... I hurt my daughter, I must atone!"

"I cannot die!"

"My country needs me; if I am not here, those commoners, no, those subjects, who will they pay taxes to?"

Before the crisis of life and death, these beings who should have stood at the very peak of power in the East Blue each revealed their ugliness.

Just as mad and heroic as they had been when buying those slaves with money in the auction house, so small and pitiful was their posture now.

"So even the high-and-mighty nobles can make such expressions."

Gao Wen licked his lips, finding the scene before him so incredibly ridiculous that he couldn't help but want to laugh aloud, so...

"Roar—!"

The giant dragon reared its head and let out a long, earth-shaking roar; the low, rumbling sound of its chant stirred up endless clouds of dust, while the violent shockwaves threatened to tear the eardrums of everyone present.

In the corner.

Dazhbonis, who had rushed over in haste, witnessed the scene before him, yet for the first time felt an icy chill running down his entire back.

"How could such a being appear in the Eastern Sea?"

He instinctively tried to step backward, only to find that his leg was as heavy as if it had been filled with lead, unable to move even an inch.

When his gaze dropped downward, he finally realized that his legs had already begun to tremble uncontrollably, to the point where he could barely keep his footing.

For the first time, he regretted his decision, regretted why he had not followed Sasha away; that way, he would not have to face this monster right before his eyes.

(End of this chapter)