The bloody hand Mary of the pirate

Mary grabbed the sword without any scruples. The next moment, she felt a terrifying force that was almost irresistible erupting from her hand.

Extremely bright light leaked from the gaps in her fingers, and the next moment, Mary's hand was completely shattered.

No, it wasn’t just the hands that were shattered, it started from the arms, spread to the chest, and headed towards the head——

Broken inch by inch.

An earth-shaking huge shock wave erupted from the palm of Mary's hand, and the sea was instantly pushed downward, forming an arc-shaped hole hundreds of meters long.

At this moment, Mary remembered what her mother once taught her in her previous life -

Don't touch anything else directly.

"What the hell..."

Before she could even finish a surprised curse word, Mary's body was blown to pieces and turned into bloody foam.

The next moment, Mary's body regenerated.

As soon as her head regenerated, she cursed:

"Nima..."

Crushed again.

Reborn again, Mary closed her mouth this time, controlled the remaining blood and rushed towards the sky.

smash.

regeneration.

smash.

The light group expanded rapidly, instantly filling a ball with a radius of several hundred meters. The entire ball was filled with hot white light, and the intense heat even boiled the sea for a short time.

If Mary's blood residue hadn't been urgently entangled with Overlord Haki and Armed Haki, she would have almost overturned.

You must know that her vitality can be regenerated, but if all her body tissues are burned out at once, she will not be able to regenerate.

So when she faced Kaido, she always created a sea of ​​blood, because she knew that Kaido had the ability to burn her up in one breath.

This time...she didn't make any mental preparations.

"boom----"

A roar, a huge roar.

A huge ball of light, a thousand meters in size, appeared. In the ball of light, except for the blood foam that was drained of Mary's life force and barely rushed out into the sky on the shock wave, everything turned into nothingness.

"Buzz——"

I don't know how long it took before the light and heat slowly dissipated, and coldness and darkness covered it again.

The sea water also returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

"..."

"Wow..."

In the storm, a drop of blood squirmed.

"Wow!"

The next moment, the cloak opened and a young girl was reborn.

She pressed her military cap fiercely, her face turned pale and she was sweating profusely.

Mary stared intently at the newly recovered sea surface and couldn't help but gasp.

"Hoo, ho..."

"Damn...how could this happen?"

"I almost, almost died here!"

"What was that just now!"

There was a kind of irrepressible anger in Mary's tone.

A sword, a sword...

Is this really a sword?

The power of the explosion just now was even more exaggerated than the powerful Thunder Gossip that Kaido faced in Wano Country.

Directly clearing everything within the kilometer ball... What kind of ability is this?

Mary swallowed and looked in the direction where the sword was coming from.

"Who is the person who threw this sword...and I didn't see him at all with my sense of sight. In other words, is the other person's sense of sense better than mine?"

Mary racked her brains to think, but she couldn't figure out who in the original novel had such an ability.

"New generation? No, it's impossible. Even if the original book didn't say it, there is a new person with such strength in the sea. It's impossible for me to know nothing about it..."

"But where does the already famous strong man get his explosive ability?"

"Mr.5 has soared?"

Mary thought in surprise.

Taking a deep breath, Mary recovered from the aftermath.

Her eyes darkened slightly, and she looked in the distance in the direction where the rock sword had been shot.

"...Do you want to follow?"

It was obvious that the other party's knowledge was better than his own. He did not discover where the rock sword appeared from, but the other party was able to accurately thrust it towards the location where he was about to arrive.

Not only is the range astonishingly large, it is even possible to predict the future within this range...

Who is the other party? Although Mary is not good at seeing and hearing, but combined with the blood mist that spreads from time to time, her survey range is definitely no less than that of ordinary strong people. Although she cannot reach the Seven Waters Capital

It can reach the level of covering the whole island like Enxia, ​​but it only extends for a few hundred meters, which is more than enough.

And the detection range of this person is even beyond this range.

This also means that Mary doesn't know when she will be tracked by the other party - speaking of it, she is not sure that she is safe yet, because after that sword, Mary never felt any other abnormality.

She didn't know if the other party was gone now or if he was attacking her.

The explosion just now...

"There is no doubt that it can easily create that level of destructive power... To be conservative, it won't be a big problem if its strength is comparable to that of a general."

"Is it the fruit ability?"

Mary was startled by a thought.

In this mysterious sea area, such a powerful mysterious man suddenly appeared.

I have found information from ancient times in this sea area, and also obtained the key to control the power of the King of Heaven.

Stone of Lunaria.

Mary turned her palm over, and a snow-white stone appeared in her palm.

There is indeed something strange about this sea area, and...

Could it be...

"King of Heaven, if the King of Heaven can control the weather... then could the black fog in the Devil's Triangle be the work of the King of Heaven?"

If you think about it this way, it is not difficult to guess the reason why a top powerhouse appears here.

This strong man also came for the King of Heaven's unusual movements.

Moreover, he must know the historical truth, at least part of it, and the connection between King Lunaria and this sea area.

People with this kind of ability are probably people from the World Government... those at the highest level.

Coupled with this never-before-seen ability, incomparable power and color...

In Mary's mind, an extremely bold conjecture emerged.

“Damn it…it’s not Im, is it?”

Thinking of this possibility, Mary felt her heart beat a beat slower.

By analogy, it's like you've just finished a mid-level boss in a game and bumped into the hidden final boss while wandering around on this level.

Surprise, fear, excitement, curiosity...all kinds of emotions.

This time, Mary's determination to follow was strengthened.

She went deep into the Devil's Triangle alone to explore the secrets of this sea area... Now a broad road is in front of her.

If you can follow this mysterious man, many things may be revealed.

However, thinking this way, when she really planned to leave, Mary hesitated.

Strength... this is something she has to consider.

I don't know if the other party did the explosion just now. If such an attack is just a level A for the other party, then the risk factor is too high.

Thinking of this, Mary frowned slightly, and blood burst out from her body, turning into a fake body and hanging it behind her.

The fake body can be maintained within the longest control range of Mary.

If you are attacked like the one just now, you only need to use your regeneration ability to directly move to the fake body to avoid it.

After arranging a backup plan for herself, Mary raised her head and looked towards the direction where the sword had been thrust.

"I'm afraid if I miss this opportunity, I won't be able to do it again..."

Speaking softly, Mary quickly leaned in that direction.

…

Watching Beckman and Golden Lion leaving gracefully, watching their ships flying high, standing on the bald land, the dissatisfaction in Xia Qi's brows never dissipated, but in the end she still

It turned into a complicated sigh.

After all, Xia Qi was once a pirate herself, and she knew that it was impossible for her to reach a consensus with Beckman and others based on the concepts she had lived with ordinary people for so many years.

Beckman and others bought face for their senior, at least verbally promising to treat these civilians who were taken away... Even if Xia Qi was dissatisfied with the [accidental injury] caused by them, it was difficult for her to say anything from her position.

Nothing else.

After all, what others are selling face to is the face of being a [senior] with some friendship in the past... If Golden Lion and Beckman want to join forces to take people away by force, Xia Qi can't stop them.

"What on earth do you want to do, Beckman, Shiji..."

Xia Qi stomped on the cigarette butt she had just thrown away and crushed it hard.

It was as if he was stepping on Beckman and Shiji, venting his dissatisfaction.

"You destroyed three islands in the Chambord Archipelago, captured four Celestial Dragons, and killed dozens of CP0s... You are going to declare war directly on the World Government."

"Don't you know what happened to Rocks back then?"

Having said this, Xia Qi took a deep breath and looked into the distance. They rushed over in a hurry, but because the Golden Lion and others moved too fast, the navy who could only clean up the mess couldn't help but shake their heads.

"The navy has just achieved a great victory, and you are fighting back. With such a radical style, it should be said that the pirates are indeed some guys who are unwilling to be left alone."

"What is the use of doing this to you other than to slap the navy in the face and stabilize the base of the pirates?"

Xia Qi's expression turned gloomy. As someone who has been away from the pirate camp for many years and has been running intelligence work, her perspective has long been distinct from that of Beckman and others.

She neither belongs to the World Government, nor to pirates, nor to the navy, nor even to ordinary civilians...

She does not belong to any force, so her perspective on things will not be affected by her own camp. In other words, her current perspective can be said to be extremely close to God's perspective.

"The authorities are confused, but those who watch are clear."

"The era of great pirates launched by Roger was essentially to take advantage of the greed of the vast majority of people to trigger an overall trend. The strong men of the old era and the new era served as the pillars to fight against the pirates and maintain this trend."

"But, Beckman, after the war, the era of great pirates is over."

"Profit will be countered by public welfare, and the constraints of morality are still sacred to most people. The delicate balance between the pirates, who were originally used to support the times and fight against the navy, has been broken."

"The navy is rising...and surpassing the pirates."

"When the navy suppresses the pirates and a wave of justice sets off in the entire world, even if you can maintain your remnants, what's the use?"

"Decades ago, Rocks, Roger, Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Red Earl... they were all extremely strong men, but their era was not the era of great pirates."

"Era is not determined by individuals. A cutting-edge strong person can guide the direction of the era, but he cannot truly symbolize an era."

Xia Qi stretched her waist, and then slumped down listlessly.

She looked sad and rubbed her eyebrows.

"Beckman, you still only think about how to maintain the current pirate situation."

"But just maintaining it is not enough."

"The momentum of the rise of the navy can no longer be stopped. Even if the pirates maintain their current status, the era of great pirates that has lasted for nearly twenty years will have entered the dust of history."

"The era that belongs to you... I'm afraid it will really come to an end soon."

She looked at the sky with a melancholy look on her face. After all, she was also a pirate, and she had something to do with these powerful men who dominated the sea. Things fall into their own category, and now she could see the decline of pirates, even if it was early.

Even as I wash my hands in the golden basin, I can't help but feel sad for a while.

However, it didn't take long for the gloomy feeling on her face to disappear.

"Forget it, don't worry about it."

"You have your own destiny. Why do I, an old widower, care about so much?"

"Little Edna, I'll come back to find you~"

After all, before the navy arrived, Xia Qi quickly left this place of right and wrong in order to avoid suspicion.

She walked quickly back to her bar, looked at the dilapidated streets, and secretly clicked her tongue again.

Sure enough, the attack just now was too light. Anyway, that guy Beckman is in his prime, so he will probably be able to recover after beating him to pieces.

Just beating him to a bruised and swollen face would be too easy for him!

Thinking of that playful and smiling face, Xia Qi couldn't help but feel itchy with hatred, and her fists couldn't help but have the urge to strike.

However, just as she walked past the low wall of a ruin, this emotion soared to the extreme in an instant, and then suddenly, there was another chill in her heart.

The place where she had just dropped Edna was empty.

"..."

Naturally, Xia Qi would not think that it was haunted, nor could she think that Edna woke up and left on her own. With Edna's physical condition, she would not have woken up so quickly after being slapped by Lucky Lu.

Secondly, even if she wakes up, this is her home and she will not run around.

So the question is, why is Edna gone now?

For Xia Qi, the answer can be said to be quite obvious.

"...Beckman!!"

At this moment, Xia Qi was furious.

On the surface, he was talking to himself, but in fact, he was secretly robbing people.

Even Edna, a girl with no fighting ability, was spared. Beckman's previous promise to treat civilians well now seemed like fart in Xia Qi's eyes.

Moreover, Xia Qi felt a great insult at this time.

"Who dares to rob me on horseback!?"

At this moment, Xia Qi fully explained what she said before.

[The authorities are confused, but the onlookers know clearly].

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

The author spent a lot of effort today to create a concept map of the Devil's Triangle in my mind, so I will update it...

Tomorrow I will try to get the concept map of Mary’s mental world.

(ps: I posted the picture in the Easter Egg Chapter. If you can’t see the Easter Egg Chapter, you can see it in the book club group)