44 [44] Smallfry Pirates (3)
Chapter 44: Smallfry Pirates (3)
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The Bellamy Pirates consisted of 12 members.
Amidst them, naturally the Captain and the Vice-Captain held the most power. They also enjoyed most of the benefits too.
So, from an outsider's perspective, these two were the most heinous couple in this group.
However, bad people they may be, to their own people, to the crewmates, they were the best. They have been together for years, and in that time they had become like family.
Right now, they just witnessed the gruesome death of their close friend.
Their Vice-Captain had just died.
"Nooooo!!!"
Bellamy sounded just like his namesake; like a howling Hyena.
The other crewmates were too shocked to speak. They were frozen in their spots with expressions of horror. One girl even fell on her knees and started to puke.
Bellamy's eyes grew further enraged seeing the puking scene. How could she puke, seeing the corpse of Sarquiss…!?
When his howl stopped, Bellamy grunted. He held back from yelling at the girl, Lily, and instead turned around to face the direction from where the cages came flying.
"Everyone, be on alert. Now that both cages have been sent, the attacker bastard might send something worse… That sneaky bastard. Come out and face us directly, if you have the balls!"
Bellamy tried to taunt the enemy.
Usually, Bellamy would have rushed right into the enemy and fuck him up. However, this was a 'forest'. That's a disadvantageous area for his powers.
His main attack pattern was using the things in the area as a foothold to jump from one spot to another.
The crew's current spot was a circular empty space at the end of the forest, so it was still a place where he could fight. However, if he rushed inside, he wouldn't be able to use his jumps properly because of the countless trees.
Bellamy was getting pissed, as seconds passed, and he began to believe that the enemy didn't fall for his taunt.
Just when he was about to rush in either way, a figure walked out from within the forest.
"That's it?"
With a flat expression that had a slight sign of disappointment, the young man said.
Bellamy's eyes widened in shock and rage. Wearing a black jacket over a white shirt, coupled with black pants, this bastard didn't even look 20!
Seeing his enraged expression, the young bastard started to speak.
"You just saw your crewmate die. Yet, a yell was the most you could do? You don't even have the courage to rush into the forest?"
A weak smirk formed on the bastard's lips as he spat on the ground.
"Pathetic, isn't it?"
Bellamy couldn't hold it in anymore.
This bastard was a no-name. Bellamy didn't even recognize him, which meant he didn't even have a large enough bounty. He must have used some sort of trick to throw those two cages.
He had no real power; how dare he kill Sarquiss?!
"You fucking bitch! I am going to shatter your hips, and then I will kill you!"
Bellamy howled and rushed to attack.
His calves turned into spring. He kicked the ground and dashed to a tree nearby.
His speed was so great that he vanished from sight and reached the tree in a second. He bounced off the tree, and then rushed to another tree on the opposite side. All that movement started to charge up his momentum.
– Swoosh!
– Swoosh!
Under a few seconds, he had grown into a blade of wind that left a cut on each tree he bounced off from.
"So bland,"
All the while the attacker bastard stood on his spot, with his hands loose as he rolled his shoulders. He didn't try to run; neither did he panic.
"I was thinking you would be better, since Robin came crying so hard to me. Turns out you just have one trick in your sleeves. Weakling bitch."
"Fucckerrr!"
That was the final nail for Bellamy. Knowing that this was all the doings of Robin, he felt blood about to burst into his head.
With a loud growl, he kicked the final tree and rushed toward the enemy.
The scene next all happened in under a second. Bellamy couldn't even see his own surroundings due to just how much momentum he had built up. All Bellamy could see was the enemy in front of him.
Confidence and rage were flowing through Bellamy's veins as he was just about to head-butt into the bastard's abdomen.
Until just at the last moment, the enemy's foot raised in the air.
– Bam!
Bellamy's chin was slammed against by a ground-shattering force. Bellamy, even as fast as he was, couldn't outrun the kick.
The kick hit right below his chin and made his neck twist backward due to the two opposing forces.
A whirling air bomb left the impact spot. All the leaves chattered against one another, as the bird fled.
Only the Bellamy Pirates' members were left; left to watch their Captain's body— with a severely twisted neck— drop to the ground.
The "sneaky bastard" put his feet down and looked at the crew mates with a blooming smile.
"Two dead. Ten left."
"…?!"
One of the crew members, Ross, looked more terrified than any other. However, he wasn't alone. All ten of them yelled as their desperate voices resounded on this side of the Jaya island.
'No, no, no…! We can't die here!'
However, their indifferent enemy didn't care at all about their screeches or their pleadings.
Taking a step forward, he kept his pose straight and clasped his hands in front of him. With a sharp mental command, straight tree branches came out to form beside the running idiots. With another command, sharp thinner branches were left from the main ones.
They spread like a spider web, connecting with the other branches, and as a result, they penetrated through all the fleeing bodies.
Countless finger-thick branches with sharp ends bloomed like a flower. To give the Bellamy Pirates' crew members more holes than an emmentaler cheese.
Under a split second, the ground was painted with the color crimson.
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It had been a minute. Hashirama stood in the same spot he started the fight with.
With his hands in his pockets, he was staring down at the dead body of Bellamy beneath his feet. With eyes wide, filled with shock, Bellamy's neck was broken and turned backward. Not horizontally, but vertically. His vocal cord was torn apart, and visible from the outside.
Staring down for a few more seconds, Hashirama shrugged and rubbed the back of his head.
"Fuck, man. I didn't want to kill them all. Titi was right when she said I can't control myself in certain situations."
Perhaps more so, since the scene he had walked into earlier reminded him a little of himself and his master. With his master being Bellamy, and he being the other NPC.
"…Ugh,"
Sighing, he crouched down. His hand reached out to Bellamy's open vocal cord and slipped his hand in. There, he waited for a few seconds, and then yanked his hand out with a Devil Fruit in his hand.
Hashirama stood back up and brought a handkerchief out of his pocket. With it, he cleaned the fruit and his hand of the blood. Then, he put the fruit in his pockets.
'Should sell for a few million.'
Hashirama pocketed the good stuff and turned around to go see the girls.
However, just as he turned, he found the girls standing right to the side. The other former prisoner, Mont Blanc Cricket was also there.
The four of them wore grave expressions, due to the bloody incident just now, as they all stared at Hashirama. Vivi even flinched when he first turned around.
It was Robin who spoke before anyone, wearing a sweaty frown.
"What did you just pocket right now?"
Hashirama suddenly looked annoyed.
"His guts. I am gonna cook it tonight and eat it. Why do you ask?"
"Hashirama, this isn't a joking matter."
"Same thoughts here. I am not feeling that great. Let's talk later."
Hashirama turned around and started to walk away. While Robin shouted with desperation.
"You didn't have to kill them…! Just breaking a few of their bones would have sufficed. But you killed them all. Killing so many, so nonchalantly, isn't good. Hashirama, come back."
Clenching his jaws, Hashirama was about to yell. But he stopped himself. No, yelling won't help. He loosened his jaws and turned around. Hashirama walked over to Robin and stood while matching her 6"2 form.
"I will do the same thing for you,"
Hashirama declared as she blinked.
Robin looked taken aback for a moment, but she quickly shook her head and tried to make her point clear.
"T-that's not the point. I didn't mean-"
"I will do it for this girl too,"
Hashirama interrupted her and pointed to Vivi.
"I will do it for my sister, and I will do it for myself. If you don't like me killing people who plan to rape you, well fuck you then. I will do what I like, I don't give a fuck if you don't find that to be a good thing."
"…."
Robin shut her mouth. She had reached the area afterward, so she hadn't heard what Bellamy and Ross were talking about.
Robin looked at Mikita instinctively. Mikita nodded in affirmation, wearing a weirdly dazed expression as she stared up at Hashirama.
Seeing her nod, Robin's expression took a complicated turn. She looked at Hashirama and sighed.
"I didn't know. I thought-"
"Did I want to hear your reasoning? Stop being such a pussy, you're soon going to be announced wanted again. This personality will get you killed then."
"..."
"I am not telling you to kill everyone. I didn't kill Sir Crocodile, either. But I am just going to advise you of one thing. Be ready to take responsibility and kill, in more situations than naught."
Hashirama shut her up with factual words, the reality of her depressing life, and walked away.
The four people stayed silent in their spots until Mikita broke the crowd and ran after Hashirama into the ship of the Bellamy Pirates.
…With that, came to an end the first official battle of the soon-to-be-named Senju Pirates. With that, the crew rescued their newest member.
As the sun started to rise upwards in the sky, welcoming noon, the atmosphere was cold with the scent of blood filling the air.
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