Facing the black dragon's assault, the deck was in utter chaos.
“Don't panic! It's just an animal-type Devil Fruit user after all!”
“Quickly prepare the Seastone nets!”
While they were scrambling to act, the black dragon was incredibly fast. Its supersonic flight covered the distance of five or six nautical miles in just a few seconds.
Boom!
The black dragon swooped down from the sky, its powerful wings creating a wave that nearly capsized the transport ship.
By the time everyone regained their footing, a figure was already standing on the deck.
It was just a child. Seeing him alone, the government official holding a wine glass immediately shouted:
“Attacking the Sky Gold, you're doomed! You still have time to kneel down now!”
Akahito's eyes narrowed, his black eyes turning blood-red, and three crimson Kougyoku appeared.
The next moment.
The man holding the wine glass “砰” (peng) crushed the glass, his body began to swell, his face grew fur, and his teeth became sharp.
Animal-type·Dog-Dog Fruit·Wolf Form!
“Devil Fruit user?” Akahito remained expressionless, unmoved.
The werewolf, trapped in a hypnotic state, began to slaughter, but his target was not Akahito who came to seize the gold, but his comrades!
As the security captain of this ship and the only Devil Fruit user, the werewolf's strength was the strongest.
For a while, screams filled the air.
“Ahhhhh! My hand, my hand!”
“Gaishuu!! What are you doing?!”
“You're with Capone Bege?!”
“Damn it! Traitor! Stop him!”
The scene was bloody, the deck had turned into a battlefield.
The young black dragon descended from the sky, landing beside Akahito, and transformed back into the young boy, Kaze.
“Your power is so convenient… I'm so envious…” Kaze said, dazed.
Akahito remained silent. Kaze was the strongest in the family, besides their father.
He never trained, spending his days eating and drinking. His black dragon physique gave him incredibly powerful defenses, even in human form, most attacks couldn't pierce his defenses.
They stood together, like overseers, waiting for the chaos to end.
By the time Capone Bege’s pirate ship sailed the five or six nautical miles and arrived near the transport ship, there were no living people left on the deck.
No, there was one.
The werewolf stood covered in blood in a pool of crimson.
Upon seeing this, Capone Bege was terrified, gasping in shock.
“Making them kill each other? What kind of devilish power is that!”
His fear of Colonel Eric grew even stronger. Just sending two children possessed such overwhelming power.
“The last one, leave him to me.”
At this moment, Kaze moved, he transformed into a black dragon again, grabbed the werewolf who had regained consciousness, and flew into the air.
“I… what did you do?!”
The werewolf’s eyes widened in terror, looking at the carnage on the deck.
That kid… he had just been killed by him, yet now he was standing there unharmed.
He went completely mad.
“I didn't do anything.”
The young black dragon tightened his claws, crushing the man alive.
The werewolf howled in agony, desperately begging for mercy. Even though he was an animal-type Devil Fruit user, he couldn’t resist the black dragon's brute strength. His bones were shattered.
Being crushed alive while conscious, hearing the cracking of bones, the fear within was far greater than the pain of the body.
Filled with endless terror, the werewolf vomited blood and died.
Finally, the black dragon released its claws. The corpse fell from the sky, plunging into the sea, becoming food for sea creatures.
“Bege, find all the Sky Gold.”
“Yes… yes! Kaze-sama!”
Capone Bege was sweating profusely. He had no doubt that either of these children could wipe out his Fire Tank Pirates.
Soon, all the Sky Gold was moved onto the pirate ship.
“Akahito-sama, there are over thirty women and dozens of slaves locked in the cargo hold. They were probably going to be presented to the Celestial Dragons.”
“Take them aboard.”
These people were victims. Akahito didn’t know what to do with them. He would ask his father later.
Soon, all the slaves were rescued and brought onto the pirate ship.
As they prepared to leave, a warship was already faintly visible in the distance.
The black dragon hovered high in the air, squinting its dragon eyes.
“It's the Navy. That's Vice Admiral Tsuru?”
He opened his dragon's mouth, a ball of dark energy rapidly gathering in his mouth.
“Black Dragon's Roa……”
He prepared to obliterate the ship and its crew with his dragon breath. But Akahito, on his back, quickly stopped him.
“Are you an idiot? That's father's ship!”
“Uh……”
The dragon breath was stuck in his throat, neither spit out nor kept in.
Kaze’s eyes were embarrassed. He almost blew up his own ship.
So, the dragon breath swerved at a subtle angle.
“Black Dragon's Roar!”
Dong!!
A beam of dark light struck in front of the warship.
A deafening roar echoed, creating a monstrous wave.
The warship was washed by the wave, the soldiers on deck were terrified, some unfortunately fell into the sea.
Tsuru held onto the helm, swaying with the ship's ups and downs.
“It's the black dragon from before!” Tsuru’s face turned pale. “What incredible power… one blast could erase a mountain!”
The giant wave, along with the hurricane, actually swirled the warship off course.
The aftermath subsided after a long while. Tsuru could only watch helplessly as the black dragon departed, along with the pirate ship.
“No direct attack on the warship, is it a warning?”
Tsuru’s heart was heavy. After hesitating for a moment, he immediately gave an order, shouting, "Save the men first!"
The soldiers who had fallen into the water were rescued one by one. Afterward, the warship set off again toward the transport ship.
After about ten minutes, the two ships finally met.
When Tsuru and his men stepped onto the deck, the sight of blood and carnage made him clench his teeth.
“I’m too late! Damn it!”
“Those fools in the government! They let them sail back to Flower Country Port and wait for escort!”
Another transport ship had been hijacked. When the Five Elders learned of this, they would surely fly into a rage.
Tsuru took a deep breath, anticipating the bloodbath that was about to unfold.
……
……
Amongst the powers that be, Saturn Satan Saint's face was dark as night.
“Capone Bege! This bastard… provoking us time and time again!”
When the news reached the ears of the five highest authorities, the Five Elders’ anger was beyond control.
Simple physical annihilation could no longer appease their wrath.
“Public execution!”
“Capture Capone Bege alive!”
“Tsuru, you are authorized to mobilize all branches of the West Sea! Within a month, I want to see results!!”