Teacher Austin's Recruitment Attempt

"What kind of joke is this?!"

The expressions on the faces of the people trapped within the circle were varied and spectacular.

Doflamingo's face was grave as cold sweat ran down it, desperately searching for a way out.

The young Crocodile wore a disdainful expression, a swirling sandstorm already gathering in her hand.

The young Mihawk showed no expression at all. He merely slowly gripped the black blade on his back, ready to unleash a charged slash at any moment.

As for the young Moria, his face was filled with fury.

"Hey! You bastard, did you just do something to my crew..."

He had seen it clearly. When Austin's enormous dragon body had spiraled down, it had crushed many members of his pirate crew into pulp.

Even his companions aboard the pirate ship had been blasted into ashes.

Perhaps this was fate. He was destined to be defeated by a dragon, and all his companions were destined to perish here.

"What useless rage..."

Austin slowly shrank amid a storm of black-red lightning, completing his transformation.

A "dragon-man" with scarlet vertical pupils and only a few draconic features appeared before everyone, draped in a Marine coat of justice.

"Do you want revenge? Do you want to sail out to sea? Do you want to seek the Great Treasure? Or do you want to destroy the world?"

"Then defeat me. Kill me."

Austin calmly looked over everyone around him. Four of the future Shichibukai had been surrounded by him alone.

And judging by his contemptuous attitude, it was as though he did not consider any of them worthy of notice.

"Bastard!"

Faced with such provocation, Moria, the most hot-blooded of them all, was the first to lose his patience.

Raising his long blade, his muscular body charged forward as he swung at