Beating Arlong Senseless

"Shahahaha..." Arlong's distinctive Fish-Man laughter rang out. He laughed so hard tears nearly spilled from his eyes.

"Just you alone, and you dare provoke us?" Arlong picked up his large blade, a serrated katana called Peak Cutter.

"Let the whole East Blue see what happens to anyone who dares provoke Arlong!"

"Is that so?" Ling Donglai tensed slightly, and his muscles coiled together like dragons. Then he drew his revolver, aimed at Arlong, and fired three shots in quick succession.

"Damn it, you think a weapon like that can take me down?" Caught off guard, Arlong had been prepared to take a punch. Who would have thought his opponent would pull out a revolver? Three bloody holes instantly appeared on his body.

But to a pirate worth twenty million Beli, injuries like these could practically be ignored.

"As expected, an ordinary pistol isn't enough against pirates like this. A headshot should do some damage, but my marksmanship is terrible." Ling Donglai put away the revolver. This had only been a probing attack.

The pirates' technological tree was bizarre. Ordinary Marines still used firearms like flintlocks, yet high-end robots, human modifications, artificial humans, and projection screens all existed.

Ling Donglai had picked up this revolver from the corpse of a dead pirate. Its performance was even better than standard Marine firearms.

"Come on, Fish-Man!"

Electric light erupted from Ling Donglai's body. Every cell in his body discharged electricity, continuously strengthening his physical abilities. In an instant, he rushed before Arlong and punched his serrated long nose, breaking it clean off with a single blow!

"Uwa..." Arlong instinctively clutched his nose and crouched down, tears mixing with blood.

"Electricity really is devastating against Fish-Men!"

The instant Ling Donglai touched Arlong, he discharged electricity into him. Arlong's mind and body both began convulsing, leaving him unable to retaliate immediately.

That was not even the deadliest part. The instantaneous high heat carried by the current destroyed the moisture-retaining membrane on the Fish-Man's body, drying out his skin and drastically shortening the time Arlong could remain active on land.

Ling Donglai raised his hand high, then drove it heavily into Arlong's eye socket with Current Drive. His protruding index-finger knuckle struck once and directly burst one of Arlong's eyes.

"AAAAAH! I'LL KILL YOU!" Arlong's scream pierced the sky, but his body was too numbed by the current to mount any proper counterattack.

Ling Donglai's barrage of punches lasted only thirty seconds before he had to temporarily retreat as the surrounding Fish-Men closed in.

Though every punch had landed heavily on Arlong's head, he still had not managed to kill him completely due to Arlong's physique.

Thirty seconds was too short. True experts could fight for days and still have stamina. They were practically monsters.

Thirty seconds might not have been enough to kill Arlong, but it was enough for Ling Donglai to beat him into a pigheaded mess. By the time his subordinates helped Arlong back up, he was almost unrecognizable as the same fish-headed man from thirty seconds earlier.

"Boss, are you all right?" The Fish-Men around him touched Arlong's body, and in that instant, the current spread through them. Their bodies went numb, and several weaker Fish-Men could not even hold their weapons, dropping them to the ground.

"A Devil Fruit... You ate a Devil Fruit. No wonder you had the confidence to come make trouble for me..." Arlong spoke with a lisp. Several of his teeth had fallen out, though new ones quickly grew in.

He was, after all, a well-traveled Fish-Man who knew of the secret treasures of the sea. Under normal circumstances, ordinary humans could only rely on physical techniques. For someone like Ling Donglai to erupt with electricity all over his body, it could only be a Devil Fruit ability. The Mink Tribe could also discharge electricity, but that was a racial ability and could not be lumped together with this.

"I'll be your opponent next!" An octopus monster wielding six swords stepped before Ling Donglai, shielding the pigheaded Arlong behind him.

"Six swords. Having lots of hands is pretty damn impressive." Electric light wrapped around Ling Donglai's body, making his hair stand slightly upright.

"I'm quite skilled at grilling octopus too!"

"Hatchan, don't let your body touch him. That guy's Devil Fruit ability is extremely effective against us, but his punches are weak!" Arlong said miserably as his subordinates supported him.

He had not even thrown a single punch just now!

What utter humiliation!!

"I got it... Black Ink!" Hatchan nodded, then turned and sprayed black ink at Ling Donglai.

Ling Donglai dodged aside, but Hatchan was already charging straight at him with six swords. "Six-Sword Style: Body Destruction!"

"Your speed, in my eyes... is far too slow!" Ling Donglai slid low to attack his lower body, a smile curling across his lips.

"For Fish-Men like you, getting caught by me means the game is over!"

Electricity erupted!

The scent of cooked flesh wafted from Hatchan's body.

"Ah..."

Hatchan's cry had barely begun before the current rendered him unable to speak. His body began convulsing.

"Damn it, get him! Kill that man!" Arlong flew into a rage. He had clearly warned Hatchan, yet he had still fallen for it.

So he abandoned the one-on-one fight and intended to settle the enemy with a group assault.

"Huff..." Ling Donglai took a deep breath, grabbed one of Hatchan's arms, and pulled hard, tearing it right off!

"Arlong, low-quality human-wave tactics are meaningless. You should understand that!"

Ling Donglai stopped lingering in battle and desperately squeezed his cells for greater speed. He did not need to deal with every Fish-Man. So long as his body touched them, the current would spread and paralyze them.

Facing the sea of Fish-Men, Ling Donglai charged straight toward Arlong.

"Not good, retreat! Hurry, retreat! He's only a Devil Fruit user. Once we get to the sea, he won't be able to do anything to us!"

Faced with Ling Donglai's speed, Arlong's pupils shrank. He threw one of his subordinates toward Ling Donglai, then fled toward the sea with the Fish-Men behind him.

"Huff..." Ling Donglai exhaled a breath of stale air, and the electricity around his body began to fade. This mode consumed a great deal of energy as well.

Suddenly, the ground shook. Ling Donglai turned and saw the pigheaded Arlong leading a massive sea beast toward him.

This was... a monster from the Grand Line, a gigantic sea cow as tall as a small house.

"Hahaha, Momoo, crush him for me!" Arlong laughed smugly from in front of the sea cow.

"This sea cow... I remember it being very close to that octopus monster, right?" Ling Donglai remained calm. He confiscated the weapons of the paralyzed Fish-Men on the ground, then drew a katana and aimed it at one of the motionless Hatchan's arms.

"Get back into the sea!" Ling Donglai reversed the katana, pointing its tip at one of Hatchan's tentacles.