The dazzling lightning faded, and the CP0 agents who had been alive just moments ago now lay silently on the ground. A pungent burnt smell instantly spread throughout the hall.
Standing in the corner, the Vinsmoke Family's eldest daughter, a woman named Reiju, looked at Bright on the ground before turning back to look at her father.
She had truly never seen Father in such a miserable state before.
Judge's body trembled. Sweat was already seeping out uncontrollably beneath the mask on his face, and his perfectly tailored silk clothes were now plastered against his body.
He was absolutely not a cowardly man.
On the contrary, his birth into the Vinsmoke Family—the North Blue royal house—had given him confidence, or rather, outright arrogance. He never showed the slightest hint of panic when facing most people on the seas.
But things were different now.
Although he had spent most of his life operating in the Four Seas, Judge was by no means some ignorant country bumpkin.
He had once been a member of Vegapunk's research group. In his youth, he had also sailed freely through the Grand Line, and he knew exactly what kind of power the sea's greatest warriors possessed.
Fish-Man Bright, the man known as the Emperor of the Deep Sea, was naturally one of the most powerful monsters on the ocean.
This was bad!
Judge screamed wildly in his heart as his sharp mind raced, urgently searching for a solution.
His beloved sons, however, clearly did not share his breadth of knowledge.
"Whoa! That was really impressive!"
A red-haired man wearing a battle suit the same color as his hair—the Vinsmoke Family's eldest son, Ichiji—cried out loudly.
Pointing at the several corpses that had turned into charcoal on the floor nearby, he grinned at his younger brother. "The