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"Gah!" Uchiha Hiko's complete lack of reaction thoroughly enraged the pirate. The humiliation of being ignored felt as though Uchiha Hiko were slicing his dignity to pieces with a thousand cuts. That feeling of being disdainfully overlooked filled him with fury.

"Die, you little nobody!" The man clenched his fist and lunged forward in a flash. His fist was already wrapped in Armament Haki as he threw a punch through the air. The force of it was immensely fierce, sending the cargo around the merchant ship swaying violently.

"Pfft!"

The raging wind abruptly ceased. A crisp sound of flesh tearing rang out. The pirate opened his mouth, whimpering as though he wanted to say something, but his words turned in his throat and never came out. In the end, all strength left his body. He crashed to the ground, dead, with a kunai embedded in his throat and blood continuously gushing from the wound.

Everyone was stunned. That pirate had clearly struck first, yet no one had seen when Uchiha Hiko had counterattacked and killed him in a single blow. It had been too fast. Only after the pirate was killed did they realize that Uchiha Hiko had already made his move.

Hiko slowly lowered the arm that had thrown the kunai. He did not even glance at the pirate he had killed with one shot, instead sweeping his gaze toward Pekoms and Baron Tam Tam, who were likewise stunned in the distance.

It was impossible for Pekoms and Baron Tam Tam not to be shocked. Even though bounties of a hundred million were common in the New World, even the two of them could not casually kill a pirate worth over a hundred million with a single strike.

This was an expert. Pekoms and Baron Tam Tam were deeply