Chapter 738

"Sound Empress Koans."

"You have no chance of winning!"

Amid a storm of gunfire, Onigumo and another Vice Admiral recruited through the draft joined forces to drive Koans back. Their gazes were cold, their expressions grave.

Across from them stood Koans.

Her black, shoulder-length hair hung loose, and rose-shaped earrings adorned her ears. She wore a white T-shirt and denim shorts. After two elegant backflips through the air, she landed lightly on the ground.

She looked like a youthful girl of seventeen or eighteen, but her true age was already somewhere in her fifties or sixties.

"You two alone can't stop me, Sound Empress!"

Koans's smiling eyes curved like two crescent moons, giving her a playful, adorable air.

So young.

She really did look young.

Her face and figure were completely at odds with her age.

Especially with that catchphrase of hers—she added "y'know" to the end of every sentence—which was enough to muddle anyone's senses.

"Be careful not to die, y'know!"

"Sonic Laser Cannon."

Koans opened her mouth wide. Dazzling blue-white light swallowed every color around her as the air hummed and vibrated.

"Careful! She's a Paramecia-type Sound-Sound Fruit user!"

"Her bounty is as high as 1.53 billion!"

Onigumo's hair stood on end as he warned the drafted Vice Admiral beside him.

After all, before becoming a Revolutionary Army officer, this woman had been a captain of one of the Four Emperors' crews—the Explosion Pirates.

BOOM!!!

The blue-white laser beam arrived in an instant, wrapped in pale blue lightning. It tore through the air with a deafening shriek, piercing and erasing everything in its path, whether people or buildings.

In the blink of an eye, it carved straight across the entire massive plaza, from one end to the other.

The fighting all around them stopped. Everyone swallowed hard as