The Most Mysterious and Eerie Shichibukai
"I'm Speed Man ate the Speed Fruit, which amplifies my speed hundreds of times. Can you imagine that scene? Before you can even react, I'll have already cut off your head with my knife, warm blood splattering before my eyes, the aroma of blood filling the air—it must be an absolutely beautiful sight." As she said this, an unnatural flush appeared on Meredith's face, as if she were drunk, completely immersed in her fantasy.
Roy felt a headache coming on. Revealing his trump card before the fight was truly a characteristic of the Pirate World. The fact that he had survived until now and even became Supernovas must be because of his Devil Fruit power.
"Captain, why don't you leave this guy to me?" Kenkon stepped forward, scanning Meredith with a suspicious look.
At first, he thought these Supernovas were all monsters like Fire Fist Ace. Now it seems that Fire Fist Ace is like the captain from two years ago. Although he is called Supernovas along with the others, he is a person from a completely different dimension.
"Hehe, this person specifically named me to challenge me. If I don't make a move, he might think I'm scared." Despite saying this, Roy didn't even move his body, lying in the chair, looking lazy.
Upon hearing this, Kenkon retreated, but like the others, he looked at Meredith with pity.
"Heh heh, you do have some guts. Otherwise, I would have thought that the so-called Shichibukai are nothing but a bunch of good-for-nothings who only know how to talk big." Meredith held the dagger across his chest and said with a sinister smile, "Keep your eyes wide open and watch carefully. Don't blink, because once you blink, you'll never have the chance to open them again."
"Enough with the nonsense..." Before Roy could finish speaking, Meredith had already vanished.
It must be said that, given Meredith's arrogant personality, not only did he not perish in the tide of the times, but he also rose to become Supernovas and earned the title of "Headtaker." The Speed Fruit deserves immense credit for this.
Even for a powerful individual who has mastered Observation Haki, who can sense Meredith's movements, the speed of their physical actions cannot keep up with the speed of their mental reaction. They can only watch helplessly as Meredith cuts off their head, which is precisely why Meredith said those words.
At Meredith's speed, the short distance from the bar entrance to Roy's location was covered in the blink of an eye.
The sharp dagger is one of the Skillful Grade Sword passed down through generations; it can cut through gold and jade, and slice through iron like mud.
Sizzle!
Looking at the head lying at his feet, Meredith couldn't help but laugh arrogantly. Even he himself hadn't expected that this operation would go so smoothly.
"What a load of bull! The Shichibukai are nothing but empty titles." Meredith said this, but his body language betrayed him as he put his hands on his hips and laughed heartily.
"Something's not right. Why is it so quiet around me?" Meredith suddenly realized that no one around her was reacting to such a big change.
Looking around, he was horrified to find that everyone around him had vanished without a trace, and even the heads that had fallen at his feet had disappeared.
Looking up, he found Roy back in his previous spot, not even changing the way he was swirling his wine glass.
"Hmph, it seems that killing a Shichibukai is not so simple after all." Meredith composed herself and continued, "This is your legendary resurrection ability, isn't it? I wonder how many times you can revive under my attacks."
Inside the bar, the Vice Captain of the Headtaker Pirates lay in a pool of blood, his head rolling at Meredith's feet. His eyes were filled with shock, confusion, and disbelief, as if he simply couldn't believe he had died so inexplicably.
"Captain, what are you doing?" Meredith's men asked in alarm.
"Nightmare Roy, do you think you can escape my pursuit with your resurrection ability?" The Headtaker Pirates' Ship Doctor, seeing his captain staring intently at him, felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. He pointed desperately at Meredith's back and shouted, "Captain, Roy is right behind you!"
"Haha, want to beg for mercy? It's too late. Go to hell and repent!" Meredith cut off the Ship Doctor's head without a second thought and then turned his gaze to the other crew members. "So you've come back to life after all? It's no use. No matter how many times you come back to life, you can't escape the fate of being beheaded by me."
The crew of the Headtaker Pirates just thought their captain had gone mad. He had clearly killed one of their own men, yet he kept insisting that he had killed Shichibukai. Come on, the man hadn't moved an inch while sitting in his chair.
After the third crew member died at the hands of their own captain, the entire crew of the Headtaker Pirates completely collapsed and fled in all directions for their lives.
However, this escape scene was even more terrifying to the terrified bar patrons.
Because the crew of the Headtaker Pirates were circling around Meredith, like a ghost wall in legends, unable to escape this strange circle no matter what they did.
"This Nightmare Roy truly lives up to his reputation as 'the most mysterious and enigmatic man among the Shichibukai.' He didn't move an inch from beginning to end, yet he manipulated the Headtaker Pirates with ease." Bruno felt a chill run through him. "Perhaps even what I'm seeing now isn't real."
This was a massacre. Meredith, no matter how weak he was, was still one of the Supernovas, and his crew simply couldn't handle him.
"Nightmare Roy, are you just going to keep running away like Nezumi?" Meredith couldn't help but mock. "Well, I've killed you dozens of times. Perhaps, even hiding in the shadows, you'd tremble at the sight of me."
The crowd's expressions were strange. Your men have almost all been killed, how did you have the courage to say such a thing?
Slap! Slap!
Roy gently clapped his hands, restoring Meredith's senses.
Looking at the blood-stained blade, the heads scattered all around, and the fear and hatred in the eyes of the few remaining crew members, even Meredith, if she were slow-witted, could roughly guess what had happened.
"It was you, it was you who blinded my senses?" Meredith's face was very ugly. A cruel person like him would naturally not feel sad about the death of his subordinates. Even if those crew members died at his hands, he would not feel the slightest guilt.
What he feared was that since Roy could mislead his senses without him even realizing it, it meant that killing him would be no difficult task for Roy.
"Damn it, the gap is so huge. It seems that challenging an enemy of the Shichibukai level now is too unwise." Meredith thought bitterly, looking for an opportunity to escape. He was very confident in his speed and believed that he could escape his current predicament with just one chance.