Kuro gently sheathed Shusui. "Unfortunately, it's too late. Even though it was a downpour, you still heard it, didn't you..."

Click.

The blade is sheathed.

"The soft sound of the divine wind."

Pfft!!!

A huge wound suddenly tore open from Barber's chest to his shoulder, and blood gushed out, mingling with the falling rain and splashing onto the ground.

The wound almost split Barber's upper body in two; beneath the huge gash, he split open from the right chest, his arm hanging down, with only a little flesh and blood holding it together.

This cut nearly dismembered him.

They won't survive.

Thump!

Just as Kuro was thinking this, a sound suddenly came from behind him.

His eyes flickered, and he turned to look, only to see the obese man stomp his feet forcefully to straighten his swaying body.

"Hey, are you kidding me?" Kuro asked in surprise.

That doesn't make sense.

He should have died immediately.

Although his injuries hadn't healed, he was absolutely certain of victory against someone of that strength.

"You lowly commoner! You mere lowly commoner!"

Barber stretched out his left arm and walked step by step through the bloodstains on the ground toward Sager, causing the boy's eyes to widen and his slumped body to crawl back a few steps.

"You are nothing but lowly people!"

Barber walked up to Sag, his massive, obese body resembling a small mountain. He stared coldly at Sag, raising his free left arm high and coldly declaring, "You lowly commoner have no right to resist! Absolutely no right!"

As he spoke, he turned to look at the other citizens who had stopped digging because of the battle, staring at him with bewildered eyes, and roared, seemingly out of nowhere:

"You too! The lowly will always be lowly! Your children, your grandchildren, as long as they remain in this country, generation after generation, will be our puppets! Our source of amusement! Don't even think about resisting, you can't resist!"

These words did not cause the slightest ripple in the expressions of these people.

“Sag, you too…”

Barber turned back to Sager, whose face showed fear, and said, "Why do I often bully you? Because you look like you'd fight back, but you don't. You're a lowly commoner too. Even if I were dying now, you wouldn't dare to fight back. Oh, right... I heard you have a younger sister. Go and get your sister, no, let those scum pirates take your sister away and make her a slave."

Barber chuckled and said, “Although I may not be able to see your expression, I know it will be a lot of fun, it will definitely be a lot of fun.”

“You…I…” Sager’s pupils contracted, as if he were thinking of a scene he absolutely did not want to imagine.

"Look, even now, you still won't resist. That's why you're a lowly person, and generation after generation, you'll be a lowly person."

Barber's eyes widened in anger, and his fist slammed down.

Just as his fist was about to land, Sag's trembling body suddenly stopped. He gripped the hoe that had just fallen to the ground and shouted, "I'm not a lowly commoner!"

"You're not allowed to arrest my sister either!!!"

With a loud shout, the descending storm was almost blown away, and a shockwave suddenly appeared from somewhere, blasting away the surrounding rocks.

"Conqueror's Haki?"

Kuro's pupils contracted, and he looked over in surprise.

This aura is definitely Conqueror's Haki!

The boy, with tears in his eyes, jumped up and slammed the hoe into Barber's left chest.

"I will fight back! I definitely will!"

Sag roared, "I will never let you bully me again!!"

Barber looked surprised. He opened his mouth and continued to swing his left fist downwards, while Sager stared at the left fist without fear, the hoe embedded in Barber's flesh going even deeper.

The fist, falling halfway down, transformed into a palm and gently rested on Sager's shoulder.

Thump.

Barber's knees buckled, and he knelt down, his expression gradually becoming blank and stiff, still bearing the shock and disbelief of fear.

However, a slight ripple appeared deep within those eyes.

A surge of joy.

"Yeah?"

Barber's hand fell limply from Sager's shoulder, and he said softly:

"If you're so capable, then show me..."

His head was lowered, and from an angle where Sager couldn't see him, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.

Your Highness...

The fire has been lit...