Flower Capital, the General's Mansion.
Dong！！
The tremors from the outskirts caused the castle to shake slightly.
Black炭大蛇, clad in a kimono, exclaimed in panic:
"What happened?! An earthquake?!"
Swoosh.
A black-clothed ninja entered the bedroom, kneeling on one knee: "Black炭-sama, it's tremors from the outskirts, the cause is unknown."
"Then why haven't you gone?!" Black炭大蛇 roared, grabbing a porcelain bowl from his bedside and smashing it to the ground. "The Flower Courtesan, the Flower Courtesan can't be found, and even something like an earthquake needs to wake me up? What use are you? Good-for-nothing!"
"Yes!"
The ninja, struck on the forehead, silently obeyed and left.
At the same time.
Outskirts.
"Stop hitting… stop! You'll kill me! I…!"
Brachiosaurus Quinn was being pounded by dozens of Kannon giant hands, as if they were trying to bury him in the mud.
Each attack was extremely heavy, even as an Animal-type: Ancient Zoan, he could hardly withstand such intense assaults.
Boom boom boom!
Countless arms swept across the entire forest, instantly turning it into a wasteland.
Trees fell, bodies lay scattered everywhere.
The 233 pirates who had invaded this place were reduced to mud, turned into corpses.
After a long time.
The giant Kannon statue disappeared.
Where Quinn had stood, a giant crater, hundreds of meters in diameter, appeared, revealing the yellowish earth beneath.
In the center of the crater, a wax-yellow Brachiosaurus had fainted.
"So weak?"
Eric stood on the edge of the crater, watching the Brachiosaurus in the pit slowly shrink, transforming back into the fat Quinn.
He walked closer, his Observation Haki locking onto the target, confirming the other's unconscious state.
He immediately snapped his fingers.
The next moment, shadows spread, Calvin leading more than sixty Marines appeared.
"Eric-sama."
"Tie him up, use Seastone chains."
"Yes!"
Calvin noticed Quinn and was startled.
As a high-ranking cadre of the Emperor's crew, one of the Three Disasters, Calamity Quinn, how could he not recognize him?
...
After an unknown amount of time.
A bucket of cold water was poured over him.
Quinn shivered, suddenly opening his eyes.
What he saw was a group of Marines, and Eric standing before them.
"You… I'm not dead?"
Quinn tried to move his body, only to feel weak. He looked down and saw that he was tightly bound by numerous Seastone chains.
Seastone!
Devil Fruit users' bane!
"Not bad for an Ancient Zoan, you took such heavy damage, you're recovering quite quickly."
Eric stood in front of Quinn, placing a foot on the other's chest, leaning down slightly, getting close: "I have a few questions for you."
"What do you want?" Quinn spoke gruffly: "You won."
Monster!
He couldn't believe that the other's strength was so overwhelming, it was like facing an Admiral.
"I remember you said you wanted to use me as your experiment material?" Eric's eyes gleamed with amusement.
"...Just a joke, just a joke." Quinn forced a smile, knowing how powerful the other was, he wouldn't dare say that.
100 million?
The World Government are fools?
300 million would be more like it!!
While bounty doesn't represent a person's strength, it's based on the threat they pose to the World Government.
But someone this strong only has a 100 million bounty, it's unreasonable!
The World Government is scamming him!
Damn World Government!!
Quinn cursed in his heart, but still had to put on a smile, he didn't want to die.
"Is it too late to apologize? Kaido-sama truly admires you, what you did in the West Blue made Kaido-sama very happy." Quinn secretly brought up Kaido.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you, I still need you to make a deal with Kaido."
Eric smiled, taking his foot off the other's chest.
Hearing this, Quinn instantly relaxed.
"Where's Kaido? On Onigashima?" Eric asked directly.
In the inland sea of Wano Country, there's an off-island called Onigashima, that's the true base of the Beasts Pirates, not far from the main island.
Quinn replied: "Kaido-sama went to the West Blue, he left yesterday."
"West Blue?"
"I told you, Kaido-sama admires you very much, he saw yesterday's news and immediately went to the West Blue to… cough, cough… invite you to join the Beasts Pirates!"
Eric was surprised and laughed: "He went alone?"
"King's Flame燼 went with him." Quinn said helplessly.
"So that means, your current base only has ‘Drought’ Jack left?"
Eric raised his eyebrows, wasn't this a great opportunity?
Kaido's three most powerful forces, his three Disasters, are "King's Flame"燼, "Calamity" Quinn, and "Drought" Jack.
All three have bounties of over 100 million.
"What… what do you want to do?" Quinn had a bad feeling.
Eric laughed: "Your Kaido-sama, does he prefer a grandson or a granddaughter?"
"Ah?"
Quinn was immediately dumbfounded, what does that even mean?
"Just stay put!"
Eric thought for a moment, his Shadow of Lineage instantly engulfed the other, sending Quinn into the Marine base's prison.
Plan change!
He originally planned to take the Kozuki Hiyori and her mother to kill Black炭大蛇, but now that Kaido isn't in his base, he'll first go visit Onigashima.
He hopes that when Kaido returns, he'll be able to hold a grandson or granddaughter!
"Kamikaze."
Eric summoned a Lineage from the shadows.
Kamikaze appeared and instantly transformed into a black dragon, spreading its wings high in the sky.
Eric retracted his subordinates into the Shadow Space, then leaped onto the black dragon.
"Let's go, to Onigashima."
...
...
Shortly after they left, a group of ninjas quickly arrived at the scene.
Looking at the devastated forest, turned into a wasteland, they were all shocked.
"What happened here?"
"Strong fighters engaged in battle…!"
"Look, it's pirates! The Beasts Pirates!"
"All dead!"
The O-Tsubo-Yori no Mono ninjas gasped in unison, a force capable of causing such destruction…
Is it human?
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