Although I used Usopp's name...
But how do I look anything like a Fish-Man???
Maud stared speechlessly at Nojiko, who was sitting on the floor.
This woman must have been scared silly...
Maud lowered his head and glanced at the shovel in his hand. It had already turned into a stick with a small iron ball attached.
After thinking for a moment, Maud used both hands. One pressed down on the small iron ball, while the other pressed down on the end of the stick.
Then, with a little force, it was like crushing a soda can. As his hands came together, the entire stick and the small iron ball were compressed into a tiny flat cake.
This wasn't something that could be done with brute force alone.
Maud released his hands. The shovel-cake fell to the ground, kicking up a little dust.
Nojiko realized that she had said something foolish, but as she stared at the shovel Maud had crushed into a tiny cake, she was genuinely dumbfounded.
The boy before her was clearly a real human, but where had this kind of strength come from?
She had seen Fish-Men uproot houses with sheer strength. She had also seen Fish-Men destroy five warships with ease.
No matter how many Marines had come in the past, before those monstrous Fish-Men, they had all been as fragile as oranges that could be crushed with a casual squeeze.
Over time, not only Nojiko but every villager on the island had come to believe that Fish-Men were beings humans could never stand against, and that human strength could never surpass that of the Fish-Man Race.
The Marines who had been easily killed by the Fish-Man Race were bloody proof of that.
Then what kind of person was this boy?
If human strength could