Having smart people as teammates was always a pleasure.
Lindsey knew that all too well.
Not that they had to be the type who could plan everything from behind the scenes. They just had to understand how you thought, and you had to understand them.
Just like now.
A particularly special "musical" was about to begin at the Grand Theater of Elegia.
Lindsey activated Earth Demon Form. His massive hand clamped around the afro and slammed him into the ground.
Rokushiki: Tekkai: Modified!
His entire body was covered in Armament Haki!
Clang!
The afro's body gleamed with a dark metallic sheen. He managed to withstand the blow, but it drove him into the stage.
"Ugh!"
The afro spat out a mouthful of blood, his pupils flooded with red veins.
"'Demons,' don't underestimate the World Government's 'tools'!"
The afro often called himself a "tool."
They were all orphans the World Government had scoured from across the land, and the afro had been one of the most gifted among them.
Before he was even ten, he had mastered all of Rokushiki. Then he was sent into the underworld to expand their influence.
Now, in his thirties, he had become the most powerful among the many slave-trading groups.
With the World Government's tacit approval, the afro's organization supplied the government with countless talented orphans every year;
for example, there had apparently been a boy named Rob Lucci not long ago?
There were too many like him for the afro to remember them all.
Besides that, the afro often used his standing in the underworld to handle dirty work for the World Government.
This mission was one such job.
He was widely recognized within the government as a genius, and the best person for the task!
Whoosh!
He tensed his abdomen and snapped