Splash!
Chunks of flesh flew everywhere, and purplish-black venom splattered in every direction. In the blink of an eye, it had coated almost the entire surface of the pirate ship.
At that moment.
From the deck to the stern, the pirates' terrified screams rang out everywhere.
"Ah! Stay away!"
"How did this happen... Lord Sonic!"
"It's the scorpion's venom! The venom's inside me!"
The screams gradually faded.
The venom took effect quickly. Even the few pirates who had reacted early and scrambled to the railing, intending to jump into the sea, swiftly collapsed from the poison.
In less than half a minute.
Every one of Giant Scorpion Sonic's subordinates aboard the ship had become a corpse on the ground. No one survived.
"Why bother?"
Amid the hellish scene, Noah casually kicked aside two corpses lying beside him and returned to the spot where Sonic had blown himself up. Looking at the organs scattered across the ground, he gave a slight shrug.
Unlike before, ink-black Armament Haki now covered his entire body, protecting him like a suit of indestructible armor.
From a distance, he looked like a statue cast from black iron.
Clearly.
Sonic's dying counterattack had only killed this shipload of Beasts Pirates. It had done nothing to Noah.
He had not even needed to use Barrier-Breaking Edge, the skill that could neutralize any poison.
He released his Armament Haki coating.
Noah's body returned to normal.
"They're all dead. Saves me the trouble of chasing them down one by one if they'd scattered."
His Observation Haki swept across the entire ship in an instant. After confirming that no survivors remained aboard, Noah's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked up at the sky, where the rain was growing heavier.
*I've wasted over ten minutes on this ship. I'll have to