"Quick! Quick! Quick!"
Countless fully armed guards hurriedly gathered in one place.
Several CP0 Agents followed behind them.
The CP0 Agents took their place at the front of the guards.
Then, right in front of the agents in suits and masks,
a door suddenly opened.
Without the slightest hesitation, everyone rushed straight through it.
Many Celestial Dragons watched the scene, their faces lighting up with interest.
"Some slave actually thinks he can escape... Hehehe, this is getting more and more interesting!"
"Heh heh, I want that slave. No matter how much he costs, we'll have him pierced alongside the other slaves. It'll be a blast."
"Hehe... There's another good show to watch. If all these slaves keep thinking about escaping, won't we have a good show every day?"
"Looks like Tiger's slave liberation wasn't entirely pointless after all. At least it gives us a good show to watch, hehehe..."
"..."
Many Celestial Dragons trampled slaves as they crowded toward the scene of the disturbance.
Meanwhile, elsewhere,
Lynn grabbed Saint Charlos, whose legs were mangled and bloody, and fled with Penny.
It wasn't that he hadn't considered using the Transformation Technique to disguise himself as Saint Charlos and escape with Penny.
But there were many powerful Observation Haki users in Mary Geoise.
If they were discovered without Saint Charlos as a Celestial Dragon hostage, they could easily end up in another fierce battle.
Just then, a door suddenly appeared in the wall of a building up ahead.
Immediately afterward, squad after squad of guards emerged, along with several CP0 Agents in suits and masks.
Their eyes were cold and their faces utterly expressionless. They looked at Penny and Lynn as if they were corpses.
When Saint Charlos, held by Lynn, saw the guards and CP0 Agents arrive,
he seemed to already be picturing Lynn and Penny being captured and dragged back. A smile spread across his face.
"Quick! Kill that slave! I want him chopped to pieces!!"
As he shouted, Saint Charlos turned to look at Lynn and Penny, his smile full of mockery.
"You damned slave, let me go! Otherwise, you'll—"
But—
before he could finish gloating,
a massive, muscular arm gripped his right hand and yanked it down with a violent tug.
Rip!!
The agony drained the color from Saint Charlos's face.
Bright red blood gushed from the severed arm, and Saint Charlos let out a shriek like a slaughtered pig.
Even after seeing the Celestial Dragon's arm torn off, the guards remained completely unmoved.
Their only duty was to keep the Celestial Dragons alive. Whether they were injured or lost a limb wasn't their concern.
Lynn narrowed his eyes and stared intently at the people before him.
The door that had just appeared had clearly been opened using the Door-Door Fruit.
There might even be someone among them who could sense everything happening across Mary Geoise.
The CP0 Agent leading the group looked at the two slaves, a man and a woman, and spoke coldly:
"Slave, put down Saint Charlos and return to accept your punishment."
His tone carried an unmistakable air of command, making Lynn frown.
He raised his head and looked at the group before him. His expressionless face broke into a cruel smile.
His lips curled upward, revealing teeth that gleamed like ice.
"You damned dogs, acting like you're above everyone else. You really make me want to crush you to death!"
When the slave didn't do as he'd ordered, the CP0 Agent in charge raised an arm and waved.
"Attack!"
At his command, the CP Agents behind him turned into streaks of shadow and charged at Lynn.
Lynn didn't move. Only the crimson pupils of his eyes shifted slightly, transforming into Mangekyo.
Then black Amaterasu flames rose from beneath one of the Agents and spread to those nearby.
The terrifying heat instantly robbed the Agents of their ability to move.
"Armament Haki!"
The Agents all tried to use Armament Haki to shield themselves from the black flames.
But the flames burned with terrifying intensity, and keeping them at bay with Armament Haki consumed enormous amounts of stamina.
So the Agents charging at Lynn ground to a halt halfway there, struggling against the suddenly rising Amaterasu flames.
"Black Spear!!"
In the sky, a spiraling wave of black light tore through the air with a fierce howl and shot toward Lynn.
His expression unchanged, Lynn swiftly formed Hand Seals.
"Lightning Release: Thunder Blast!!"
A Lightning Spear, six or seven meters long, burst from his mouth and bore down on the black wave ahead.
Boom!!
The Lightning Spear collided head-on with the black wave, triggering a violent explosion.
Ripples spread through the air as a terrifying surge of wind blasted outward in every direction.
Smoke billowed and was swept away by the gale.
With a thunderous crash,
the ground collapsed beneath a heavy stomp.
A man over three meters tall, dressed in a white suit and built like a mass of corded muscle, charged out.
He, too, wore a mask. His eyes were cold as he stared at Lynn.
He had naturally noticed the black flames covering the CP Agents behind him.
He looked at Lynn and said coldly, "Slave, put down the Celestial Dragon and come back!"
Lynn gazed back at him indifferently, overwhelming Dominating Will in his crimson eyes.
"Heh... Slave again."
He remembered what had happened to him after he'd crossed over into this world.
"Do you know I was a Marine when I first got here?" Lynn sneered at the man before him.
"The righteous Marines become slaves to a Celestial Dragon? What the hell kind of world is this?!
Slave, slave..."
Those damned Celestial Dragons treated him like a slave and used everyone else as slaves, too.
Everyone could only eke out an existence beneath the Celestial Dragons' feet, without even the right to be treated as human.
All they could be was slaves!
At the thought, an intense fury erupted from Lynn's chest like a volcano.
In almost an instant, a terrifying aura surged around him.
It was almost tangible, shot through with faint golden sparks of lightning, and spread in every direction.
The CP0 Agent in the white suit suddenly paled. He hurriedly used Shave to flash away.
He dodged the attack, but the Celestial Dragons who had rushed over—
along with the CP Agents struggling to withstand the Amaterasu flames with their Armament Haki, and the guards—
all rolled their eyes back and collapsed unconscious under the force of that aura.
Saint Charlos, in Lynn's grasp and closest to him, was directly shaken to death by the terrifying aura.
"Conqueror's Haki..."
The white-suited Agent's face turned grave as he watched.
In the world of the Pirate King, Haki came in three types.
One was Observation Haki, which let its user sense things. Another was Armament Haki, which strengthened parts of the body.
And the third was Conqueror's Haki.
Only one person in several million possessed it. It was a sign of the qualities needed to become a king.
Seeing Lynn awaken Conqueror's Haki, the white-suited Agent charged without hesitation.
In an instant, his hands were coated in black Armament Haki.
He lunged forward, surging toward Lynn.
He crossed his hands, then spun them at high speed, like the center of a spiraling storm.
A black spiral storm formed with a roar, carrying dazzling sparks and becoming a spiraling firestorm.
"Black Spear: Fire Storm!!"
But in the next instant,
a massive, corded arm crackling with golden lightning punched straight through the firestorm
and seized the white-suited Agent by the throat.
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