"Navy, what are you hiding from?"
"Aren't you here to take my life? Come on up!"
"ah!"
Seeing Cyrus dodge his attack, Lou Winter forced a grimace and shouted at Cyrus. The pain in his arm became more and more pronounced, and strangely, there was an intense burning sensation at the broken arm.
The excruciating pain made it difficult for Lou Winter to concentrate.
Blood, spilled all over the deck as he attacked, Lou Winter could feel himself growing weaker. The punch he had just thrown at Cyrus hadn't exerted his full power.
"If I don't take down this navy quickly, I'm definitely going to die here!"
"Tsugikuni Yoriichi didn't attack again, but allowed us to attack the navy in front of us. Why is that?"
"Is it because I need to meet some conditions to activate the Devil Fruit?"
"Is it because this guy has no more energy? Or is he using us as stepping stones for this guy in front of him?"
After missing the attack, Lou Winter did not continue to pursue. Instead, he watched his subordinates besiege Cyrus, while observing Tsugikuni Yoriichi who was sitting at the bow of the ship with the corner of his eyes, thinking quickly in his mind.
He was a little confused about Tsugikuni Yoshiichi's intentions and didn't know how to break the deadlock.
While Lou Winter was thinking, the pirates on the deck had already surrounded Cyrus.
Under siege from numerous pirates, Cyrus tried his best to perform the shaving technique, moving among the crowd, his sword in hand never stopping, either to block or to counterattack.
In the blink of an eye, three or four pirates' bodies had already fallen at Cyrus's feet. However, under the siege of so many people, Cyrus was also in trouble and was attacked by several pirates. If he hadn't mastered the use of Armament Haki and Iron Block, he would have been in trouble.
By now Cyrus would probably have fallen to the ground.
Even with his Armament Haki and iron shield, Cyrus still had several wounds on his body. These were the work of Lou Winter's officers.
The Giant Pirates share the same name as the legendary pirate group composed entirely of giants. On the pirate ship at this time, in addition to the great pirate Lou Winter, whose bounty exceeds 500 million, there are three other cadres whose bounties exceed 100 million.
These people hid among the crowd besieging Cyrus, occasionally launching a sneak attack on Cyrus. More often, these cadres focused their attention on Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
These pirates all knew very well that the biggest threat on the ship right now was not Cyrus, but the red-haired boy sitting at the bow.
"We must try to attack that Tsugikoku Yoriichi."
"Although it's highly unlikely that he's just pretending, we can't rule out the possibility."
Lou Winter thought to himself, glanced at Cyrus who was under siege, quickly tore off the corner of his clothes, and tied it around his right arm to minimize bleeding.
After doing all this, Lou Winter bowed slightly, then rushed directly towards Cyrus and joined the siege.
"call--"
Lou Winter's movements were very dramatic, and as he attacked, a whistling sound filled the air. Cyrus had been paying attention to Lou Winter's movements. The moment the pirate attacked, he immediately used his sword to block the pirate's attack and then quickly dodged and left the scene.
"Boom!!!" Lou Winter's fist hit the deck again, and for a moment, smoke and dust filled the air.
However, Lou Winter did not look at Cyrus who had retreated several meters at this time, but quickly exchanged glances with a cadre in the crowd.
The next second, a black shadow rushed out of the crowd and, with the help of the smoke, rushed directly towards Cyrus.
A blade appeared directly in Cyrus' pupil.
“So fast!”
"This guy is very powerful, but he has been hiding his strength and hasn't used his full strength!"
Cyrus stared at the approaching blade, his pupils shrinking slightly. His body, needing no instructions from his brain, began to move. The longsword, already held high in front of his chest, quickly blocked the incoming blade. While exerting force in his hand, Cyrus also quickly turned his head.
The next second, the black shadow passed by Cyrus and disappeared beside Cyrus.
"Um?!"
A blood mark appeared on Cyrus' cheek at the moment when Cyrus and the black shadow intersected. Feeling the stinging pain on his face, Cyrus quickly turned around, ready to resist the opponent's next attack.
However, the moment he turned around, Cyrus actually saw the black shadow rushing directly towards the bow of the ship behind him. The other party's target was not him, Cyrus, but Tsugikuni Yoriichi who was sitting at the bow at this time.
"oh?"
This was a skinny middle-aged man about 160cm tall, holding a dagger in both hands, rushing towards Ji Guoyuanyi quickly.
Although the opponent was very fast and had turned into an afterimage in Cyrus' eyes, he could be seen clearly from the perspective of Tsugikuni Yoriichi.
Even Jiguo Yuanyi could see the blackheads on the middle-aged man's face.
"Tsugikoku Yoriichi!"
"Your head is mine!"
In the blink of an eye, the attack was already approaching Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
An excited and sharp howl entered Yunyi's ears, and a cold light, under the moonlight, reflected on Yunyi's face.
“Puff!”
Suddenly, a soft sound was heard, and the sharp howl stopped abruptly at this moment.
At some point, the long sword that Tsugakuin Yoshiichi had placed beside him had been unsheathed and was held in Tsugakuin Yoshiichi's hand.
Under the moonlight, the long knife in Ji Guoyuan's hand had pierced through the thin man's chest. The man's movement of raising the knife to stab also stopped abruptly. The blood blocked the man's throat, making him unable to speak.
Looking at Tsugikoku Yoshiichi who was still sitting on the ground with an indifferent expression, the middle-aged man's eyes were full of astonishment and hatred. His raised arms fell down weakly, and the dagger in his hand fell on the head of the golden statue of the girl, making a crisp "clang" sound.
Soon, the middle-aged man's eyes lost focus and he completely lost his breath.
Tsukuni Yoshiichi's strike pierced the opponent's heart. To the people on the deck, the opponent's life-threatening blow was like a collision with Tsukuni Yoshiichi's long sword.
This scene also made all the pirates on the deck break out in cold sweats and feel a chill on their backs.
Chris Qiang Laden, a leader of the Giant Pirates known as the Dark Walker and skilled in surprise attacks and with a bounty of 120 million berries, was killed instantly.
“Just gravel.”
"Not even half as good as me."
Ji Guoyuan glanced at the corpse on the knife, and threw it into the sea with a flick of his hand.
“Plop!”
As the body fell into the sea, the sound of falling water echoed from the surface. Under the gaze of the pirates, Jiguo Yuanyi supported himself on the ground with one hand, slowly stood up, and said to Cyrus:
"Well, Cyrus, please step back."
"It seems that this kind of trial is still too early for you. Once your Armament Haki reaches a higher level and you have completely mastered the use of Ryuo, I will arrange a suitable opponent for you."
"It's late, I have to make sure I get enough sleep."
As Jiguo Yuan said this, his eyes fell on the many pirates on the deck.
Lou Winter, who was standing in the crowd, felt a flash before his eyes, and the figure of Yuichiro Tsugakuten appeared in front of him. Subconsciously, Lou Winter wanted to punch Yuichiro Tsugakuten, but at this moment, he suddenly found that his vision had inexplicably shifted.
The night sky illuminated by moonlight and starlight appeared in Lou Winter's sight.
If he wasn't in the middle of a battle, Lou Winter would really want to calm down and appreciate the sky.
“A very bright night.”
"only."
"Why would I look at the sky when I clearly didn't look up?"
“.”
A last thought flashed through Lou Winter's mind, and then his consciousness fell completely into darkness.
“Plop!”
Lou Winter's head landed on the deck with a soft thud.
Standing in front of Lou Winter, Yoshiichi Tsugakuin held the knife in one hand and maintained the chopping posture. After killing Lou Winter with one knife, Yoshiichi Tsugakuin slowly raised his head and looked at the other pirates.
“!!!”
“Run!”
As Lou Winter's body fell on the deck, the surviving pirates saw Tsugimiya Yoshiichi's gaze and lost their will to resist.
Someone yelled in fear, and the pirates who had been surrounding Cyrus with a fierce look on their faces suddenly scattered like birds and beasts, and fled in all directions. Some of the faster pirates had reached the side of the ship in the blink of an eye, grabbed the side with one hand, and wanted to jump into the sea.
However, at this moment, a thunder exploded from the deck, and a terrifying pressure came from behind the pirates and was instantly exerted on everyone.
Domineering and powerful.
A terrifying domineering aura emanated from Yoriichi Tsugikuni's body, intentionally ignoring Cyrus who was standing next to him at the moment, and enveloped all the pirates.
Some of the weaker pirates, under the cover of Tsugakuin Yoshiichi's domineering aura, had their eyes turned white and lost consciousness in an instant.
Some of the stronger pirates also slowed down their movements under the pressure of Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
On the calm sea, as Tsugakuni Yoriichi's domineering aura spread, it also stirred up layers of waves. Standing on the deck, Tsugakuni Yoriichi quickly raised his long sword and slashed at the fleeing pirates.
“Buzz!!!”
The buzzing sounds intertwined with each other. Cyrus only saw Ji Guoyuan swing his sword once, but hundreds of slashes were made at the same time, rushing towards different directions.
One cut, a thousand blows!
The skills that Tsugikuni Yoshiichi now displayed were terrifying abilities that Cyrus had never seen before.
“Puff! Puff!”
With a series of light sounds, Tsugikuni Yoshiichi's slashing blows quickly swept across the pirates' bodies. The pirates who were trying to run away a second ago were now frozen in place.
As the sea breeze blew, bodies fell one after another, either into the sea or on the deck.
In just a short moment, hundreds of pirates on the deck, regardless of whether their bounties were high or low, were killed under Tsugikuni Yoriichi's sword, truly realizing the principle of "equality for all" and all of them died.
"So powerful!" Cyrus looked at the scene on the deck, his mouth wide open, a look of astonishment on his face, and he couldn't help but murmur.
Tsugikoku Yoshiichi slowly sheathed his sword, glanced at Cyrus, and said:
"You can do it in the future."
“It’s not something very remarkable.”
"Let's go."
As he spoke, Tsugikoku Yoriichi leaped into the air. Cyrus looked up in shock, his figure overlapping the moon in the sky, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he took a look at the corpse on the deck and couldn't help but mutter to himself:
“It’s nothing. Great.”
"In your eyes, such ability is only worthy of such an evaluation?"
"You really are enviable! Lieutenant General Jiguo."
Cyrus lowered his head, looking at the wounds inflicted by the pirates. His mind was in turmoil. Born in the Dressrosa Arena, he had once been somewhat complacent.
He was able to grow wildly in a place like the Colosseum, from being a "troublemaker" to rising step by step and achieving hundreds of consecutive victories.
How is it possible that I don't have a little pride in my heart?
When Yoriichi Tsugakuni and Kuzan came to Dressrosa to find him and ask him to become a navy, Cyrus fought with Yoriichi Tsugakuni.
Cyrus still remembers the scene clearly.
After just one encounter, he was defeated one by one by the twelve-year-old Ji Guoyuan.
After joining the navy, Cyrus received formal training from the navy, and his strength improved significantly. He thought that the gap between him and Tsugakuni Yoriichi should be getting smaller and smaller, but unexpectedly, the gap between him and Tsugakuni Yoriichi was getting bigger and bigger.
If Cyrus was originally a clear spring and Jiguoyuanyi was a vast lake, then the current Cyrus can be regarded as a pond of river water, and Jiguoyuanyi has become an endless ocean.
When Tsugumi Yuichiro just mocked the pirates with the word "sand and gravel", wasn't he referring to Cyrus?
"Lieutenant General Tsugukuni, you must be very lonely."
"I will definitely follow your pace and won't slack off for a moment!"
Cyrus exhaled, looked up at the bright moon, made up his mind, and then quickly ran to the bow of the ship, jumped, and caught up with Tsugikuni Yoriichi.
"it's over."
On the deck of the warship in the distance, when Jiguo Yuanyi released hundreds of slashes, Mihawk murmured softly, turned around and returned to the cabin, leaving only Yixiao and the others.
As Ji Guoyuan returned to his warship using the Moon Step, Yixiao and others quickly surrounded him and asked about the situation on the pirate ship.
"Lieutenant General Jiguo, how is it? Has everything been handled?"
Although Koshiro has mastered the Observation Haki, the coverage range of his Haki is a bit small, and he cannot sense the situation on the pirate ship at all. When he saw Yoshiichi coming back, he hurried forward and asked.
Yixiao didn't say anything, but just looked at Tsugikuni Yoriichi with a smile on his face. He knew everything that happened on the pirate ship.
"Koshiro, let the crew work hard tonight."
"Inventory the property on the pirate ship and compile a list. Then we can compensate the people of Dressrosa for their losses."
"All bodies will have their faces photographed and archived. Those with bounties on their heads will be sorted out separately."
"Have Cyrus write a battle report and submit it to headquarters before the day after tomorrow."
As he said that, Ji Guoyuan hurried back to the cabin with a long knife in his hand and went back to sleep.
"Yes!" Although the leader, Yuichiro Tsugikuni, went back to sleep, the sailors on the deck were all excited.
Sleep? Only someone like Tsugikoku Yuichi could sleep at a time like this, right?
Merits, treasures, all of these are on that pirate ship!
Sleep? Go to sleep!
As Cyrus returned to the deck, the navy took action.
However, when the navy excitedly went to the pirate ship to look for "treasure", they suddenly discovered that the warehouse of this old man's pirate group was empty.
Not to mention treasure, there isn't even much paper money.
There was nothing of value on board except the dead bodies that covered the decks.
Even the golden statue of a girl on the bow is painted with gold and is not worth much. The most valuable thing, apart from the pirate ship itself, is probably the heads of those pirates.
(End of this chapter)
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