A golden-haired head flew cleanly from Golden Lion Shiki's body and into the air. Tsugikuni Yoriichi stood behind Golden Lion Shiki, holding his long blade level as he gazed impassively at the headless corpse before him.
Bang! Golden Lion's corpse collapsed onto the ground with a soft thud.
In the distance, the four hundred-meter lions created by Golden Lion Shiki's ability shattered with a crash and fell to the ground. The massive river hanging in midair also tilted down toward the earth. The giant ball of pirate ships that Tsugikuni Yoriichi had set ablaze with a slash suddenly broke apart as well, plummeting into the sea.
By the shore, the pirates stared open-mouthed at Tsugikuni Yoriichi and the familiar yet unfamiliar corpse lying before him. None of them could speak.
Gasp—
After a long while, one pirate finally came to his senses, sucked in a sharp breath, and cried out, "Captain Shiki... Captain Shiki is dead?!"
His hushed exclamation snapped the pirates on the shore out of their daze. For a moment, all of them began breathing heavily.
A few quick-witted pirates silently retreated behind the crowd and turned to flee by ship, only to suddenly realize that the pirate ships they had arrived on had already sunk beneath the sea.
Golden Lion probably had never imagined he would lose when he came here. He had used every pirate ship as a weapon to attack Tsugikuni Yoriichi.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi paid no attention to the other pirates. His gaze remained fixed on Golden Lion Shiki's corpse, believing that Shiki might still have something up his sleeve!
Even Tsugikuni Yoriichi himself had not expected his opponent to be beheaded by a single strike so easily. Yoriichi even suspected that this might be some ability belonging to Shiki's subordinates—perhaps they had created a