"Kid Shin, you..." Thor stared at Shin in shock.
Shin shrugged lightly and smiled. "I told you before that you were lucky to have saved me, right? Well, now it's time for you to receive your reward. I've always believed that good people are rewarded."
"Uh, but..." Thor wanted to say something more, only to discover that Shin had already shot into the sky. In just a few seconds, he was nearing the Marine vice admiral's ship.
"He... he flew!" a pirate standing behind Thor exclaimed in shock.
Thor instinctively opened his mouth wide as well. "How is that possible? An ability to fly through the air... could Shin's true identity be Golden Lion Shiki?"
A figure flashed through Thor's mind, but he shook his head the next moment. Impossible. As the strongest pirate on the Grand Line, Golden Lion's fame was no less than Whitebeard's, and his wanted posters were plastered all over the world. Uchiha Shin looked far too different from him.
Besides, Thor clearly remembered that when they had rescued Uchiha Shin, he had been floating on the sea. That meant he definitely had not eaten any "Devil Fruit."
"Captain... what do we do?" Veer swallowed as he watched Shin approach the vice admiral's ship through the hail of gunfire.
After hesitating for a second, Thor gritted his teeth. "No matter what, the Thor Pirates do not abandon our brothers and run away! Turn the ship around! We're charging the Marines—let them see what we're made of!"
With a roar, Thor grabbed his spiked club and began bellowing at the top of his lungs.
Pirates were all hot-blooded, simple-minded creatures. Fired up by him, everyone aboard let out savage roars. The entire ship actually abandoned its escape route, turned its bow, and charged straight toward the Marine