Trampling the Empress's Pride Underfoot!

When Feng Lei's voice rang out,

Hancock, who was always proud and aloof, couldn't help but freeze.

Then,

Her gaze fell on Feng Lei, and a look of disbelieving shock appeared on her face.

"How is that possible?"

The lowly Marine before her hadn't been petrified?

Was he completely unmoved by her charms?

Impossible!

She must have missed him just now.

"No one can resist my beauty!"

Hancock raised her hands again, forming a heart with them toward Feng Lei.

"Mero Mero Mellow!"

A pink heart-shaped beam shot from her hands, engulfing Feng Lei's entire body.

However,

The expected petrification never happened. Feng Lei stood where he was, completely unharmed.

"Impossible!"

Hancock's beautiful eyes widened, full of disbelief.

Why hadn't he been petrified?

No one could resist her charms, from eighty-year-old grandmothers to little brats of three or four.

A first!

This was the first time Hancock had ever seen someone stare straight at her without being drawn in by her charms.

At that moment,

Hancock's brain crashed!

She couldn't understand it.

And the members of the Kuja Pirates couldn't understand it either.

When they saw Feng Lei hit by Mero Mero Mellow twice in a row without being petrified, they were utterly dumbfounded!

"Why wasn't that Marine petrified?"

"How did he do it!?"

"That's impossible! No one can resist Lady Snake Princess's charms!"

"Is he really not moved by Lady Snake Princess's beauty at all?"

"How could someone like that exist in this world?"

The members of the Kuja Pirates stared at Feng Lei as though they had seen a ghost.

Feng Lei ignored their shock and looked at Hancock. "There's no need to try again," he said coolly. "Your ability doesn't work on me."

"My patience has its limits. Undo their petrification, or I won't go easy on you!"

Hancock had been wondering why Feng Lei couldn't be petrified, but his rude words immediately brought her back to her senses.

She glared at Feng Lei, her face full of anger.

So what if you can't be petrified?

What right did a mere Marine, a man who didn't even seem to have a rank, have to threaten her?

"Marine!"

"You think that just because I can't petrify you, I can't do anything to you?"

A flicker of killing intent flashed in Hancock's eyes.

If she hadn't been concerned that losing her Shichibukai title would put her in a difficult position, she would have killed him herself.

"Since you insist..."

Feng Lei wasted no more words on Hancock.

The next moment,

Hum!

A faint aura slowly emerged from Feng Lei's body like a thin stream. In an instant, it surged higher and higher, becoming a raging tsunami.

Magnificent!

Vast!

Beyond words!

The change was so sudden that no one could react.

Immediately afterward,

The incomparably terrifying aura spread out from Feng Lei in the form of a transparent shock wave, sweeping in every direction.

Boom!

In an instant,

The astonishing aura engulfed the entire Kuja Pirates at a terrifying speed.

Hancock and the more than one hundred members aboard the ship were all awed by it.

Their expressions

Froze in an instant!

Then,

Something bizarre happened.

The Kuja Pirates' eyes rolled back one after another. Their minds and consciousness were struck by the aura, and they collapsed, foaming at the mouth.

Thud!

Thud!

More than a hundred members fell in droves. Only a handful of the strongest could force themselves to stay conscious.

But when they saw their companions falling unconscious around them one after another,

A chilling sense of fear welled up in their hearts.

"This is..."

"How could this happen?"

The few who remained were horrified.

That aura had seemed to crush their fighting spirit from within.

For an instant, their hearts had even skipped half a beat.

"Con... Conqueror's Haki!"

Among them,

Two tall women looked on in shock.

One had long, thick, fluffy curls of dark green hair. The other was broad and powerfully built, with a tall, full figure and a mass of voluminous, flamboyant orange-gold curls.

They were Hancock's two younger sisters, Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold.

At that moment,

Both women stared at Feng Lei in disbelief.

They had never imagined that the lowly Marine before them, who looked to be only in his teens, possessed Conqueror's Haki just like their sister!

"It's definitely Conqueror's Haki, and..."

Boa Marigold's eyes went wide.

She didn't finish her sentence.

Because when Feng Lei's Conqueror's Haki had engulfed her, she had sensed that his Conqueror's Haki seemed even stronger than her sister's.

It was a pride that looked down on everything and placed itself above the entire world.

In other words,

In that Marine's eyes, he stood above everyone, even the entire world!

It was as if...

He came from a world on a higher plane.

That indescribable pride made his Conqueror's Haki utterly terrifying, enough to strike awe into people's hearts.

No wonder he could resist her sister's charms.

How could someone with such Conqueror's Haki possibly be petrified?

It wasn't just them.

Even Hancock's expression changed.

The moment Feng Lei released his Conqueror's Haki, her earlier contempt, displeasure, and disgust gave way to shock, stupefaction, and disbelief!

Because within that Conqueror's Haki, she had noticed something even she found unbelievable.

That was...

His Conqueror's Haki seemed stronger than hers.

That Conqueror's Haki gave her a feeling that made her heart tremble.

It was as if Feng Lei were looking down on ants like them from another, higher world!

She was the empress of Amazon Lily!

Exalted above all!

How could anyone make her heart tremble like that?

"Boa Hancock, you can undo their petrification now, can't you?"

Seeing that his show of force had worked, Feng Lei spoke again.

"Are you ordering me?"

Hancock stared coldly at Feng Lei, her eyes full of unwillingness.

Who was she?

One of the Shichibukai!

An empress who stood above countless others.

How could she possibly obey a man and undo the petrification of those stinking men so easily?

Boom!

A majestic aura surged from her body, forming a powerful wave that bore down on Feng Lei.

Conqueror's Haki!

Feng Lei's expression darkened when he saw it.

"You still want to fight?"

"Fine by me!"

Boa Hancock was a neurotic woman to begin with. Unless he crushed her completely with overwhelming strength and beat her into submission, she wouldn't listen to a single sensible word!

Boom!

Then,

Feng Lei unleashed his Conqueror's Haki again.

This time, he held nothing back.

So what if she was one of the Shichibukai?

So what if she was an empress who stood above everyone else?

To him, Feng Lei, she was nothing more than a slave the Celestial Dragons had grown tired of playing with, an anime character he had once watched at his leisure.

"That pride of yours is like a mayfly gazing up at the sky before me!"

In an instant,

Feng Lei's majestic, boundless Conqueror's Haki descended like the bright sky itself.

Before the stunned eyes of the Kuja Pirates and the others, it instantly crushed the empress's Conqueror's Haki...