Bright sized up the man floating above the pirate ship before him.
Vander Decken IX, a tiger shark Fish-Man, captain of the Flying Pirates, and a Target-Target Fruit user.
Bright had already memorized this information by heart.
Because this bastard had caused Bright no small amount of trouble lately.
Fish-Man Island had pirates too—not pirates like the Sun Pirates, who had originally sailed the seas, but Fish-Man Pirates who roamed the waters near Fish-Man Island, attacking passing human vessels as well as Fish-Men from the island.
Arlong had once been one of them.
Vander Decken was the same sort of bastard.
As trade on Fish-Man Island gradually flourished, he seemed to have spotted a business opportunity and began attacking passing human merchant ships from time to time.
Sometimes he was driven off; sometimes he succeeded.
It infuriated Bright.
If this guy had gone out to sea and attacked other human merchant ships, Bright could not have cared less. But he insisted on operating near Fish-Man Island, and he had even killed quite a few Fish-Man guards. How could Bright tolerate that?
At times like this, Bright understood the Navy's troubles. He knew the bastard existed and wanted to hunt him down and kill him, but Vander Decken never returned to Fish-Man Island. He only operated around the massive hollow, making him impossible to find.
But that ended today.
Just as Bright had said, Vander Decken's luck was truly terrible.
In complete contrast to the joy and excitement of the Fish-Man warriors and merchants, the Fish-Men aboard the pirate ship instantly went pale and cried out in terror, "What do we do, Captain Vander Decken? It's that bastard Bright!"
The Fish-Men did not know about Bright's feat of killing several high-ranking Navy officers. All they knew was that the man before