[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-one-piece-bounty-hunter-king":3,"chapter-one-piece-bounty-hunter-king-one-piece-bounty-hunter-king-chapter-189":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","One Piece : Bounty Hunter King!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1297270,1721,"Chapter 189: It's Him! He's Here!","one-piece-bounty-hunter-king-chapter-189",189,"\u003Cp>In Grove 1, the syndicate paraded the iron cages holding the Fish-man slaves down the main thoroughfare, making a public spectacle of the delivery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss Jinbei!\" a young Fish-man growled from the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of Fish-men stood behind the Warlord, their eyes burning with helpless rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is only the vanguard. The majority of the captives remain in the holding cells,\" Jinbei rumbled, forcing his fists to unclench.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew his presence here constituted an act of treason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had to trade blows with Kizaru to shatter those cages, he would. The underworld had crossed a sacred line. Past kidnapping rings operated in the shadows, fearful of the Sun Pirates' retaliation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This syndicate operated in broad daylight, turning the systematic enslavement of his people into a theatrical event.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jinbei glared at the procession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, his gaze tracked down the street, and his blood ran cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man wearing a resin bubble over his head rode upon the back of a massive, crawling human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slave possessed the build of a gladiator, yet his scarred back bore the fresh, weeping lacerations of a riding crop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Celestial Dragon,\" Jinbei rasped, his expression hardening into stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The furious murmurs of the Fish-men died in their throats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They possessed reckless courage, but they understood the hierarchy of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Striking a Celestial Dragon meant invoking the wrath of an Admiral!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Celestial Dragon had not come alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A grotesque procession of Celestial Dragons, each riding a broken slave, marched down the avenue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of submission rippled through the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Auction guards, captured slaves, and hidden underworld brokers dropped to their knees, pressing their foreheads to the cobblestones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You worthless beast!\" a shrill voice shattered the silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bloated Celestial Dragon lost his balance and tumbled from his mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A black-suited Cipher Pol agent blurred, catching the noble before his velvet clothes touched the dirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why can't you crawl in a straight line?!\" The indignity sent the Noble into a screeching frenzy, his face flushing crimson as his peers snickered at his clumsiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Celestial Dragon drew a flintlock and fired point-blank into the crawling slave's skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The slave's dense bone structure and sheer muscle mass caught the projectile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man possessed the durability of a New World veteran. Yet, despite surviving the execution attempt, the giant didn't rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remained on his hands and knees, shivering, terrified to voice a single plea for mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zaslor, you lack the strength to put down a dying dog. How embarrassing. Watch a master at work!\" Another Celestial Dragon giggled from his perch, drawing his own gilded pistol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BANG!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fired straight down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bullet shattered his mount's spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive body slumped onto the pavement, dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deprived of his mount, the second Celestial Dragon pitched forward, requiring another CP agent to catch him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Insolent trash! How dare you die and drop me!\" The Celestial Dragon kicked the corpse of the man he just murdered, shrieking in outrage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding Celestial Dragon erupted into vicious, mocking laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a high rooftop overlooking the plaza, two towering figures observed the drama.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiral Sakazuki chewed his cigar to shreds, his rugged face locked in a grim scowl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him, Admiral Kizaru maintained his lazy, half-lidded smirk, masking his thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When is the Hunter making his move?\" Sakazuki grunted, shifting his smoldering gaze to Kizaru.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have no idea, Sakazuki,\" Kizaru sighed, adjusting his tinted glasses. \"I delivered the snail. I cannot track a man of that caliber.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sakazuki's frown deepened. \"If Headquarters knew this auction was a targeted trap, why did we allow the Celestial Dragon to leave Mary Geoise?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That falls outside our jurisdiction. The Five Elders sign their travel passes, not Sengoku.\" Kizaru returned his attention to the avenue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below, Saint Zaslor emptied his pistol into his kneeling slave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flintlock rounds tore through flesh but failed to pierce vital organs, lodging deep in the man's dense musculature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Execute this beast!\" Zaslor screamed, his pride fracturing under the continued laughter of his peers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Cipher Pol agent stepped forward, his leg blurring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rankyaku.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A compressed blade of wind severed the slave's head from his shoulders. Mollified by the blood, Zaslor snapped his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A handler dragged a fresh slave out of the lineup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zaslor climbed onto the new mount's back, the captive stared at the headless corpse, a haunting spark of envy flashing in his hollow eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our guest has arrived,\" Kizaru murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the procession neared the auction house doors, Kizaru dissolved into a beam of light, materializing in the center of the avenue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His lazy demeanor vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Admiral Kizaru!\" the Cipher Pol agents shouted, forming a defensive perimeter around the Celestial Dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the agents could draw their weapons, a suffocating pressure descended upon Grove 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The oxygen grew heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like a primal apex predator had stepped into a den of rabbits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sheer weight of the aura crushed the plaza!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, the Celestial Dragons went limp, tumbling from their mounts like discarded dolls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elite Cipher Pol strained to catch their charges, but the invisible gravity locked their joints and paralyzed their muscles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud. Thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Celestial Dragons struck the pavement in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Haki had stripped them of their consciousness before they even hit the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lone figure emerged from the shadows at the far end of the avenue, walking with measured, deliberate steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carried a sheathed longsword in his right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every footfall, jagged arcs of black lightning violently ruptured the air around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cyrus had arrived!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kizaru braced his stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The lunatic had actually shown up, and he opened his gambit by knocking the Celestial Dragons into the dirt with a supreme burst of Conqueror's Haki.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the street, Sakazuki locked his furious gaze on the Pirate Hunter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thick black smoke hissed from the Admiral's coat as his arms began to drip with molten rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What manner of Haki is this?\" Jinbei gritted his teeth, his massive frame resisting the oppressive wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fish-men behind him collapsed to their knees, teetering on the edge of blackout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Who possessed such a monstrous haki? And who possessed the sheer madness to knock out the gods of this world?'\u003C\u002Fp>",1041,"2026-06-05T17:57:20.376Z",1,"novelbin.me","14c042821dbf6356c5822b1c0429d86eacc28e92c413c0f88993c903b4e72f70","one-piece-bounty-hunter-king-chapter-190","one-piece-bounty-hunter-king-chapter-188",263,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fone-piece-bounty-hunter-king-cover.jpg"]