"Golden Emperor!"
Mantis King and Chameleon King stood together, watching Chaos, Crocodile, and Archino land in the clearing, along with Ivankov and Kuma. Their eyelids kept twitching.
With this lineup alone, they were already at a disadvantage before the fight had even begun.
They wouldn't be easy to deal with!
If it were just one person, Mantis King was confident he could take them down with overwhelming strength.
That wasn't wishful thinking. He really was that strong.
After all, he was the second-in-command of the Explosion Pirates, with a bounty of 1.236 billion. He couldn't have risen to that position or earned such a bounty without some real ability.
"Golden Emperor, we—"
After considering things, Mantis King didn't seem inclined to attack right away.
In a two-on-five fight, he and Chameleon King had little chance of winning.
But before he could finish speaking, a crimson sun appeared in front of him. Archino's right hand gripped the blazing orb and swung it at him with overwhelming force. Steam billowed around them, and ripples spread through the air.
Even the ground began to melt, turning into flowing liquid.
It was Archino!
He was a man of action, not words.
Why waste time talking?
Boom!
A powerful shockwave burst outward. Mantis King's right hand, coated in Armament Haki, met Archino's attack head-on. The ground exploded around them, and Mantis King staggered back a step. Archino, meanwhile, shot away as quickly as he had arrived, flying off with a rush of wind pressure and setting off a chain of explosions.
"Yee-haw!"
Ivankov's two 36E breasts swayed in the wind pressure. He turned to look at the explosion behind him, still a little slow to process what had happened.
"Mantis King Ssubik, second-in-command of the Explosion Pirates, with a bounty of 1.236 billion. You've got