The body that had been cleaved in two sprayed a large amount of blood before falling to the ground.
But Begg was unharmed. He took a step back, fear in his eyes.
At that critical moment, if not for one of his men rushing out of the castle in time to take the slash for him—
The one drenched in blood would have been him.
When had someone like this appeared in the West Blue?
Begg's heart trembled.
His gangster subordinate's timely protection failed to stop Maud's blade. Without a pause, he slashed a second time toward Begg.
At that moment, another gangster member leaped out of the castle. Just as his body was barely recovering its original size, Maud's blade struck him.
In an instant, another corpse cleaved in two lay on the ground.
"Interesting."
A hint of amusement surfaced on Maud's face.
Begg's strategy of preserving himself by sacrificing his tail had amused him.
After all, Begg had only eaten the Castle-Castle Fruit a little over two months ago. His proficiency was clearly low, so he couldn't bring out the fruit's true effects or play all sorts of tricks like in the original story.
Otherwise, under these circumstances, the Castle-Castle Fruit's abilities offered at least three ways to respond.
Yet Begg could only passively take the beating.
Rending Slash
Maud pressed his advantage, rapidly delivering five slashes toward Begg.
But Begg kept throwing out subordinates like a seahorse giving birth, using them to block the swiftly incoming blade.
Slash...!
Thus, five more corpses appeared on the ground.
Maud smiled and sent another slash over.
Begg could only throw out another subordinate to slow Maud's assault.
Thus, another corpse appeared on the ground.
Amid this peculiar advance-and-retreat, a glaring trail of mangled corpses and blood was dragged across the