Early morning, quite a few Loguetown citizens passed through the central square. When they saw the corpse hanging beneath the Execution Platform, many women screamed in terror.
The news quickly reached the Navy Branch.
"Eric is dead!"
When the yawning Murak heard his adjutant's terrified report, it was as though someone had dumped a basin of ice water over his head in the dead of winter. All traces of sleepiness vanished.
"Impossible!"
Murak could not believe it.
Eric was a top assassin who had long been famous throughout the East Blue. He had taken down countless powerful figures, yet someone like him had died an unnatural death, with his corpse even hung beneath the Execution Platform.
Behind the Execution Platform stood Loguetown's city government!
This was a provocation.
Without a doubt, that brat had done it!
Cold sweat poured down Murak's face.
Even "Whirlwind" Eric had died at Luo Ya's hands. No one else could possibly be that brat's match. More importantly, this meant Luo Ya had the strength to kill him too!
The hard approach was no longer an option.
Siro quietly reminded him, "Commodore, if this continues, Loguetown's rules will be completely finished."
"I know!"
Murak pulled out a banana and viciously bit off a huge mouthful.
The situation was gradually slipping out of control, making him increasingly agitated, yet he had no good way to deal with Luo Ya.
He finally understood that the black-haired brat had never come to become his subordinate. He had come to seize territory.
It had nothing to do with ideals of justice.
If that brat were like those Navy soldiers who truly upheld justice, he would never have hung an enemy's corpse beneath the Execution Platform in front of City Hall, a place of immense symbolic significance.
Such extreme behavior severely