Turn the World Upside Down

After killing a Celestial Dragon and taking care of his lackeys along the way, Richard and the others did not leave.

Killing a Celestial Dragon had crossed the World Government's bottom line. No matter where they went, the World Government and the Marines would hunt them down at any cost.

For the sake of traveling peacefully afterward, they might as well settle it once and for all here. First, they would beat the Marines into submission, then head to Mary Geoise and wipe out the Celestial Dragons.

This world was not suited for playing weak to overpower the strong. If you had strength, you had to show it. Otherwise, there would always be endless trouble.

They might not be able to hurt them, but they were still disgusting, weren't they?

"Kuina, you won't be lacking strong opponents to fight from now on," Xia Mi teased.

"That's just fine," Kuina replied calmly.

After a while, the Marines finally arrived.

It was not really fair to say they had been slow. A Celestial Dragon had been attacked, so they had already rushed over as fast as possible.

In fact, Marine Rear Admiral Kadakombo, the base commander, had been cursing inwardly. Couldn't those damned Celestial Dragons just stay in Holy Land Mary Geoise?

They always loved running around and causing trouble for the Marines.

And those Cipher Pol people were useless too. They called themselves an elite intelligence agency, yet they could not even keep an eye on one person.

Richard's group had moved too quickly and dealt with their opponents too fast.

They had even had time to rest after the fight.

"Hm? Didn't they say a Celestial Dragon was attacked? Where is the Celestial Dragon?" Rear Admiral Kadakombo looked at the World Government personnel lying all over the ground, but there was no sign of the Celestial Dragon.

"Hey! Were you the ones who attacked the Celestial Dragon? Where did you hide him? Hand him over now!" Kadakombo shouted.

"Sir, don't these people look like the Ghost Pirate Crew?" one of his officers said quietly. Yet at this distance, his whisper was no different from speaking directly into Richard's group's ears.

"The Ghost Pirate Crew? It really does seem to be them." Kadakombo looked over Richard and the others, then recognized them. Weren't they the group that had defeated Shichibukai Crocodile just a few days ago?

They had reached the Sabaody Archipelago so quickly?

As expected of the Ghost Pirate Crew. They truly came and went without a trace, like ghosts. Kadakombo sighed inwardly.

"What Ghost Pirate Crew? Since when did we have that name?

And a pirate crew? We haven't even raised a skull flag, have we?" Richard once again wore an expression full of question marks.

The others also felt offended.

"That name is really awful," Xia Mi complained.

"Forget it. Don't expect pirates, a bunch of people with the average education of a toddler, to give us a good name.

We should have expected this day when we didn't give ourselves a title in advance," Lin Feng said.

"That Celestial Dragon? Who knows? Maybe he got lost.

After all, he didn't look very smart," Xia Mi added.

"Hey, get up. Stop sleeping. Tell me where the Celestial Dragon went." Kadakombo casually flipped over someone who did not seem too badly injured and immediately slapped him twice, swelling his cheeks high enough to make it obvious there was a personal grudge involved.

"Saint Makazu was buried underground by that woman," the man said after waking up. Ignoring the pain on his face, he pointed at Xia Mi.

He could only hope Saint Makazu was not dead yet. If the Marines could pull Saint Makazu out, then they would not have to die.

"Hmph, you heinous criminals, prepare to die." Kadakombo tossed the man aside and pointed at Richard's group.

He had thought these people were bold enough to attack a Celestial Dragon, but he had not expected them to actually try to kill one.

No, he had to defeat them quickly and make them release the Celestial Dragon.

In truth, Richard could have told him there was no need to bother. The man underground had already stopped breathing.

Having received the order, the Marine soldiers opened fire.

With a thought from Richard, a wall of water blocked every bullet.

"Kuina, I'll leave this Marine rear admiral to you. He should be a decent opponent." After saying that, he froze the water into ice, and a sky-filling barrage of ice needles shot toward the Marine soldiers.

Their ability to fight was swiftly wiped out. The Marine soldiers fell one after another, and only a very small number managed to keep their lives.

Some Marine elites tried to use Iron Body to withstand the attack, but was the ice Richard condensed ordinary ice?

The Six Styles' Iron Body was useless against this ice. Those who should have been pierced were pierced all the same.

After all, Richard had no reason to spare their lives or hold back.

"You bastard, unforgivable!" Seeing his subordinates dead and wounded in droves, Kadakombo charged toward Richard.

However, Kuina intercepted him midway.

He was an elite rear admiral who had come from Marine Headquarters, not some worthless fraud who had risen through connections.

He possessed Two-Color Haki and was proficient in the Six Powers.

Kuina swung her blade. Armament Haki coated the long sword, and its sharp sword aura arrived before the blade itself. Kadakombo shifted aside in a flash and closed in.

His fingers hardened, carrying traces of Armament Haki as they thrust toward Kuina. It was one of the Six Powers: Finger Pistol.

Kuina rotated her blade and slashed downward.

Kadakombo felt the edge of the blade. This was definitely a famous sword. He did not dare receive it with his fingers, just as he had not dared use Iron Body against the enemy earlier.

How could flesh and blood block a sharp blade?

If it had been an ordinary weapon, he might have dared to try. But a Skillful Grade Sword or higher? Forget it. He could not block it.

Kuina's raw strength was superior, and she also held the advantage in weaponry. She soon gained the upper hand.

But everyone in the Pirate World was a physical monster, so even with the advantage, Kuina could not win quickly.

Meanwhile, the Marines had already sent a request for reinforcements to Headquarters.

A Marine Admiral was supposed to be deployed whenever a Celestial Dragon was attacked. Their renewed request for assistance only showed how urgent the situation was.

That man known as the fastest in the world would probably be here soon, right?

"When Kizaru gets here, which one of you is taking him on?" Richard asked.

"I will," Fenrir said without hesitation.

"No. Kizaru is very strong, but more importantly, he is incredibly fast.

Fenrir, unless you use World-Ending Words of Power, you can't deal with him. Even if you use them, you won't be able to hit him.

A tiny difference in speed makes an enormous gap. Once Kizaru gets serious, we will lose very quickly.

Among us, only Richard and Xia Mi can suppress him reliably.

If it were Akainu or Aokiji instead, we could give it a try," Lin Feng said.

Lin Feng's rebuttal was logical and well supported.

"Then you should go. Don't you like playing with water now? You should be able to counter that guy, right?" Xia Mi said to Richard.

She did not like facing enemies who were that fast. They bounced around like fleas, making them far too troublesome to fight.

"Fine, I'll do it." Richard did not object.

Speak of the devil, and he appeared. A streak of golden light flashed in the distance.

Very quickly, a leering middle-aged man dressed in shit-yellow clothes appeared before them.

"That guy was bragging. He isn't moving at light speed, only a few dozen or perhaps a hundred times the speed of sound at most," Richard said. He was certain that Kizaru was not as fast as light, and was not even as fast as Richard was now.

"Of course he can't move at light speed. Do you even understand what light speed means?

If he really could move at light speed, he could kick the planet beneath his feet around like a ball," Xia Mi said.

Even if this shit-yellow fellow was not moving at light speed, judging by how fast he had arrived just now, he was at least countless times faster than her maximum speed.

And that might not even have been his fastest speed. So irritating.