Pfft! Pfft!
Two muffled thuds rang out. The objects that had just spun through the air finally hit the ground...
"..."
"..."
Although the fighting was still raging around them and the battlefield was filled with noise, the dog-headed Mink Wanda and the bald Mink Carrot heard the sound of the two scythe blades, smashed apart by the tremendous force in the hands of the terrifying pirate Jack, hitting the ground and sticking into the dirt perfectly clearly.
Dumbfounded, they instinctively looked along with Jack at the two broken blades, which had spun through the air and stuck into the ground not far away.
"Huh?!"
"What is this..."
Seeing that his weapons had been broken by the strange, transparent red barrier before him, Jack—the Lead Performer of the Beasts Pirates and a trusted subordinate of the Four Emperors' Kaido—was furious beyond reason.
In a fit of rage, he flung away the lower halves of his broken weapons, then reached out and slammed both hands against the red barrier, intending to grab the two Minks and tear them apart with his bare hands.
"?!"
"Ah!!"
Unfortunately, things didn't go as he'd hoped. The instant his palms touched the red barrier, they were burned. Grimacing and crying out in pain, he staggered backward.
"We..."
"Didn't die?!"
"!!"
"Look out! Get back!!"
Realizing they were still alive, that the objects flying through the air had been Jack's scythes, and that a bright red transparent shield had appeared in front of them—one that had made the terrifying Jack howl and stagger backward—the two finally snapped out of it. They quickly leaped back, using their powerful legs to jump onto a nearby tree and put a safe distance between themselves and Jack.
"Carrot!"
"What was that red light just now?"
After the red light gradually