Kinoki's Encounter with the Straw Hat Pirates

Kinoki tapped the void with his hand.

Bullets appeared out of thin air, each one brimming with intense energy, as though they would fire at any moment.

The Marines approaching Kinoki came to a halt.

"A Devil Fruit User?"

The snake-like officer stopped, staring at Kinoki with uncertainty.

But Kinoki did not stop. He lightly lowered his hand.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The bullets surged forth in an instant. Every Marine soldier trembled like a sieve, their bodies blown into countless chunks of flesh and blood amid the barrage.

Only the snake-like officer collapsed limply to the ground as a foul stench suddenly filled the air.

Kinoki waved his hand, summoning a gust of wind that coiled around the officer's body and dragged him over.

"Now, I ask, you answer."

"The Land of Water won't let you go," the officer said fearfully.

He was merely a rear admiral who had risen through merit, with no combat ability of his own. Faced with someone far stronger than himself, he had no ability to fight back at all.

Kinoki did not know whether the Land of Water would let him go.

But under Kinoki's interrogation, the officer revealed everything he wanted to know.

What Kinoki wanted to know was everything that had happened in this Sea Star World.

Naturally, this officer knew the most.

Since the final battle of Sea Star ended, Madara Uchiha had become Sea Star's uncrowned king.

He had forcefully suppressed the entire Sea Star World time and again. With overwhelming strength, every wave of pirates that emerged had been slaughtered one after another.

Among them, many powerful pirates had either died or submitted.

But pirates could never be completely wiped out. Unless more than half the people in the entire world were killed, there would be no way to