Paramecia Castle-Castle Fruit.
It was the Devil Fruit Begg had eaten at the auction last time.
As its name suggested, its ability allowed the user's body to turn into a sturdy castle.
Thus, Begg's body was like a castle, capable of storing anything inside it, including living creatures.
Anything that entered his body would shrink, returning to its original size only after leaving the ability's range.
In short, it was a mobile castle.
As the leader of the Gangster, Begg had no shortage of money or manpower, so he had naturally deployed as many weapons and men inside his body as possible.
That was why he had brought only seventy or eighty underlings with him when he went out today.
Now that Begg was in a desperate situation, he directly revealed his trump card.
The Gangster members deployed inside his body quickly mobilized, extending cannon after cannon from the gunports and aiming them all at Maud before lighting the fuses.
Amid the thunderous roar, black cannonballs the size of marbles shot out from the gunports in Begg's chest, returning to their original size in midair.
Aboard the long street, the sharp whistling of cannonballs suddenly rang out.
Maud understood the Castle-Castle Fruit's ability. The moment Begg made his move, he immediately withdrew from the approximate area the cannonballs could reach.
However, the pirates on both sides of the street knew nothing about Begg's ability. By the time the sharp whistle of cannonballs reached their ears, it was already too late for them to flee.
"Boom—!"
Ten cannonballs exploded almost simultaneously.
A wave of scorching heat swept outward with the shrapnel.
More than a dozen unlucky pirates standing nearby were riddled with shrapnel and died on the spot.
Quite a few other pirates were blown away by the shock wave, suffering