Massacre

Gin the Man-Demon saw Pirate Hunter Zoro cutting down his men one after another and heading straight for Captain Krieg, so he immediately moved to stop him.

He used his Iron Ball Tonfas to block the powerful Three-Sword Style swordsman.

His Demon Man Combat Style was actually being suppressed by the Pirate Hunter's Three-Sword Style swordsmanship. It left him deeply shaken.

This was just a young pirate hunter who had only recently come of age and didn't even have a bounty!

How could he be so strong?!

"Get out there! Stop him!!"

Krieg kept shoving the pirate underlings around him forward, all to hold back Dai Die, the reaper, and wear him down.

But after seeing so many of their companions die at Dai Die's hands, the underlings were terrified too. Their faces were pale, their bodies trembling, and they had already begun thinking about fleeing!

This pirate was terrifying!

"Get out there! Anyone who dares to retreat, I'll shoot him dead!"

Krieg immediately shot down a fleeing pirate. His face twisted into a terrifying, demonic expression, leaving the underlings no choice but to grit their teeth and charge forward!

Only then did Krieg look satisfied. He raised his gun again and aimed it at that bastard Dai Die, ready to take a cheap shot at any moment.

He had already figured out that Dai Die was a Devil Fruit User, and one with a power that made him impervious to blades and bullets. So he needed to find a crucial weakness!

He touched the Poison Gas Bomb at his waist, but seeing so many of his men surrounding Dai Die, he could only hold back. It wouldn't be worth poisoning all his own men!

What happened next, however, was hard for him to accept. That bastard Dai Die seemed tireless, hacking away for a whole hour without showing the slightest sign of fatigue.

The Krieg Pirates' morale had already plummeted. They had lost more than half their men.

With the fleet already wiped out by the Big Daddy Pirates, their numbers had fallen below two thousand. And the Big Daddy Pirates' slaughter was still whittling them down, bringing them close to fifteen hundred.

The entire port of Debo Island could now be described as a river of blood and a field of corpses. The remaining pirate underlings were on the verge of a mental breakdown.

More and more pirates tried to flee, and even Krieg's warning shots couldn't stop them.

Seeing this, Krieg knew he couldn't let things go on like this. At last, he brandished his Great War Spear and charged at Dai Die.

Krieg's move finally rekindled a flicker of hope in the pirate underlings.

"Clang!"

Krieg swung in an almost-sneak attack, the heavy Great War Spear smashing into Dai Die—but the sudden appearance of a barrier rendered the attack useless.

"Finally decided to fight, coward?"

Dai Die sent Krieg flying with a hard blow. He was drenched in blood, his hair soaked through. He had slicked it back into a bloody pompadour, and tossed aside his cloak, which was saturated with blood. Bare-chested, he revealed his knotted muscles.

"You must be nearly out of strength by now!!"

Krieg grinned. He had seen the hand Dai Die held his sword with trembling slightly. The man had to be exhausted.

That bastard had cut down seven or eight hundred of his men in just one hour. The loss pained him deeply.

After all, he had already recruited every strong pirate in the nearby seas. He had no idea how long it would take to rebuild his fleet of five thousand!

His plan to conquer the Grand Line might have to be delayed too. And it was all Dai Die's fault!

"I've got more than enough strength to kill you!"

Dai Die grinned. He was trembling with the thrill of battle, not from exhaustion. Anyone capable of developing Armament Haki couldn't have a weak physique!

They'd only been fighting for an hour!

"Then come on!"

Krieg, equipped with several layers of armor, had plenty of confidence in his own defense.

"I've had enough hacking away for today! I'm going to kill you another way! Ready to die?"

Dai Die sheathed his Sandai Kitetsu and grinned excitedly before activating his Barrier-Barrier Fruit ability.

Barrier: Susanoo: First Stage: Unit Zero!

Plates of barrier armor appeared on his body and began fitting together. A giant mecha took shape, several times cooler than Mr. 3's wax champion and Cracker's Biscuit Soldiers, with a heavy, mechanical feel.

Best of all, it shone like the diamond body created by the Glint-Glint Fruit.

Dai Die had put a lot of thought into developing this technique!

A giant mecha was a man's romance!

"What is that thing?!"

Krieg stared at the transparent mecha towering four or five meters tall, swallowing nervously.

Zoro, fighting Gin the Man-Demon, saw the mecha appear and his eyes lit up. He had already been envious while Dai Die was developing it.

The next moment, Gin's fierce attack came at him again, forcing him to focus on his opponent.

Kuro had already stopped using his indiscriminate ultimate move, Shakushi, and was hunting down anyone who resisted with Silent Step.

Protected by four men, the El Drago Sonic Cannon was unstoppable. Pirates died wherever its sound waves reached, and it had already blasted countless men to pieces.

Meanwhile, the orange-haired girl had finished stealing and was waiting for a chance to escape. When she reached the port, she saw a battlefield as cruel as hell.

She nearly threw up. Pirates lay dead in all kinds of gruesome ways, their flesh and blood flying everywhere. Even she, Cat Burglar Nami, was traumatized.

Was all this the work of the Big Daddy Pirates?

Then she saw the famous East Blue Overlord Krieg being treated like a kitten or puppy by a robot-like monster. It grabbed him by one leg, slammed him against the ground from side to side, and then flung him away.

And he came flying right toward where she was hiding. Her pupils shrank in terror.

"Crash!"

Krieg's body smashed into a building. The wall collapsed into rubble, sending stones flying everywhere, and the orange-haired woman behind it backed away in panic.

She avoided being hit, but a flying stone ripped open the bundle on her shoulder, spilling a pile of gold and jewels onto the ground.

The commotion drew the attention of countless pirates to the fight between the two captains, and the thief hiding in the building was spotted at once.

Under the fixed stares of so many pirates, Nami felt her scalp prickle with fear. Still, she gritted her teeth and hurriedly scooped up the treasure, hoping to grab some and escape.

But the next moment, a mecha appeared in front of her with a thunderous rumble. Her hands and feet went stiff, her face went pale, and she slowly looked up at the giant.

But the giant seemed to pay no attention to the orange-haired girl. Instead, it reached into the rubble, pulled Krieg out, and grabbed his entire head in one hand!

Nami turned to flee, but a giant battle spear suddenly stabbed into her path, scaring her so badly she wet herself.

She stiffly turned around, only for a golden suit of armor to crash down beside her.

She saw that the East Blue Overlord was utterly helpless before the mecha. The armor and weapons on his body were being torn off one by one!