Bang!
"Finger Gun!"
Splat!
A spray of bright red blood scattered through the air.
No one saw what the attacker looked like. In broad daylight, they only caught a fleeting afterimage.
A huge hole was punched directly through the chest of the base commander of the East Blue's 25th Marine branch.
It had all happened in an instant.
He had not even had time to scream.
Thud!
The Marine branch base commander, who had been so high and mighty only a moment ago, collapsed into a pool of blood the next.
"Ah!"
The women and children on both sides of the street screamed at the sight.
The originally lively scene welcoming the victorious Marines home instantly descended into chaos.
One Marine after another gripped his rifle tightly and stood on guard in every direction as though facing a formidable enemy.
Meanwhile, the citizens who had been welcoming the Marines on both sides of the street scattered like headless flies, throwing the entire street into disarray.
The once lofty Marine branch base commander lay in a pool of blood, surrounded by several Marines.
Watching their superior continuously cough up blood,
those rough, burly men shouted for doctors and medics like frightened young wives.
By the time an elderly doctor with white hair and beard was brought to the middle of the street, the Marine branch base commander, who had been vomiting blood moments ago, was already growing cold.
Suppressing his fear and the answer he already knew, the doctor reached out and felt the base commander's carotid artery.
A white bedsheet from who knew whose home was, unsurprisingly, draped over the base commander's face.
At that moment, everyone with eyes could tell that the island they were on was about to undergo a drastic change.
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