A bullet came from nowhere, sending ripples through the air like a stone thrown into a calm lake.
The pirates who had stayed out of it were instantly dumbfounded.
They had clearly heard no gunshot, but...
They looked at the Gangster underling who had been shot through the temple and died, their faces filled with disbelief.
No one knew who had fired the shot, but it was definitely connected to Maud.
With that thought, they turned to look at Maud, who had already drawn his long blade in the middle of the road.
Before this, it would have been hard to imagine anyone openly causing trouble for the Gangster.
After all, the Gangster was one of the giants of the West Blue underworld. Although they did not sail the seas, even the pirate crews that had long been famous throughout the West Blue would not easily provoke them.
Maud blocking the road had not stopped Begg from moving forward.
But this shot, fired without a gunshot being heard, made Begg stop outright.
"Protect the boss!"
The Gangster underlings' expressions changed drastically. They suddenly closed in around Begg, forming a wall of flesh to block the bullets.
Surrounded by his underlings, Begg looked at Maud without a ripple of emotion.
Based only on the brief sound of the bullet whistling past, even Begg, who had played with firearms like toys since childhood, found it difficult to determine where the shooter was.
At most, he could roughly judge the direction the bullet had come from by looking at the direction the blood had sprayed when his underling was shot and the location of the impact.
But the incident had happened too suddenly. His eyes had not had time to gather any information.
And even if he determined the bullet's trajectory, he could