Hey, You're Stepping on My Sun (Seeking Votes)

"Big Brother Norse, you're amazing! Actually, I know you don't really hate them. Otherwise, you wouldn't have stepped in to heal them like this." Marguerite clutched the leg of Norse's white trousers, beaming as she spoke.

Faced with a real loli telling the blunt truth again, Norse merely whispered, "You're still young. What do you know about things between adults? Alright, I'm going to catch some big fish now. Stay here and don't move. Just watch!"

"Mhm, mhm! Go on, go on! I won't go anywhere!"

Marguerite nodded earnestly, then said, "Big Brother Norse, be careful! The fish in this sea seem to be a little bigger than I imagined!"

"Whoosh...!"

In the next instant, Norse seemed to turn into a gust of wind and abruptly vanished from everyone's sight. When he reappeared, he was already hovering above the sea.

The sight made every female warrior present swallow hard.

The impact was terrifying as well.

Lord Norse was outrageously stronger than they had expected. He could actually fly and hover in midair—it was simply unbelievable!

What was laughably self-mocking was that—

They had once considered kidnapping Lord Norse, carrying him into the forest together, and conducting an in-depth study of him.

If not for the Pirate Empress, they would have acted long ago.

After all, Lord Norse was the only sacred fruit of Amazon Lily. He was overwhelmingly attractive to them, tempting them with a desire they could scarcely control.

So, in secret, everyone wanted to take a bite.

But now?

After witnessing part of Lord Norse's strength, they felt a deep sense of loss.

Ah, what a pity. Such a powerful man—there was no way they would ever be able to tie him up and drag him into the forest now!!!

"???"

At this moment, Norse had no idea what these women were really thinking.

He had only ever thought that these women all wanted to have their way with him and were practically insane. Still, Norse believed that the female warriors were somewhat better than the ordinary citizens of Amazon Lily—at least they should have had much stronger self-control.

Heh, but if Norse learned now that the female warriors did not have stronger self-control than he imagined, but were actually even bolder—

Who knew whether he would wear a completely devastated, hopeless expression?

"Experience deep-sea fishing with explosives!"

Looking at the various Sea King creatures beneath the surface, Norse stopped holding back. Since he had chosen not to remain quiet, then he would thoroughly shake the entire sea!

"Sun-Burst Art!"

Using the immense gravitational force generated by the sun within his body, Norse hovered dozens of meters above the sea. A scorching power of the sun flowed from both his hands, continuously being compressed inward.

A fireball like burning magma, mottled with black patches, condensed before him.

It grew larger and larger.

At that moment, it was as though the entire sky had been scorched, and the sea's surface was the same.

It was an utterly suffocating display.

Even the surrounding space visibly twisted beneath that power.

One could imagine just how blisteringly hot and terrifying that burning fireball was at this moment.

Yet as Norse continuously compressed the fireball in his hands, it seemed to be condensing. But that was not entirely the case, because the temperature of the fireball was steadily dropping. The fiery red glow in the sky gradually faded, and the flame-like color on the sea slowly returned to its original ocean blue.

Several minutes later.

The fireball in Norse's hands was still crimson, as though formed from scorching magma, but it no longer gave off that terrifying heat. The surrounding space no longer warped, either.

However, only Norse himself understood the truth.

In fact, this compressed Sun-Burst Art had become like a bomb that could explode at any moment. Once it detonated, it would unleash unimaginable destructive power.

Even if he threw it into the deep sea now, the shockwave would be enough to stun countless fish and sea creatures within several miles.

Moreover, he generally did not dare use this move on land. He was afraid he might fail to control it and injure innocents; its range of effect was simply too terrifying.

"Start the countdown for me!"

Norse released his hands, and the compressed, condensed Sun-Burst Art fell straight down, sinking continuously like a red-hot lump of solid iron.

Five minutes later, this sun sphere containing compressed destructive power would explode as it sank.

Creatures within several miles would be affected. Even Sea Kings hundreds of meters long would be stunned unconscious by that force.

On the calm sea several miles away, a warship had appeared.

Rear Admiral Strawberry stood at the bow, holding a handheld telescope.

He saw a man hovering over the sea and dropping a strange sphere from his hand, yet nothing happened to the surface of the water.

"Strange. Why is there a man on Amazon Lily?"

Strawberry was deeply puzzled. He asked the Marine lieutenant behind him, "Are there any men on the Kuja Pirates' ship?"

"Rear Admiral, every person depicted on the Kuja Pirates' wanted posters is a woman."

The lieutenant replied with a foolish grin.

He held several Kuja Pirates bounty posters in his hands. It seemed as though he had been studying every member of the Kuja Pirates along the way, but to put it plainly, it was because Boa Hancock's portrait on the poster was as beautiful as a celestial maiden.

He looked at it again and again, almost unable to tear his eyes away. What a beautiful, captivating young girl.

"Impossible!"

Strawberry immediately rejected the idea.

He even raised his telescope again to look at the floating figure, then snatched the several bounty posters from the lieutenant's hands.

Boa Hancock, bounty: 80 million Berries.

Boa Marigold, bounty: 30 million Berries.

Boa Sandersonia, bounty: 30 million Berries.

Boa Norse...?

"That's right, it's him!"

Strawberry's eyes lit up. He snorted coldly. "What a bunch of idiots. They actually drew him as a woman with breasts on this bounty poster, and even his information is completely wrong. Those fools who provided the intelligence have made Marine Headquarters into a complete laughingstock."

The lieutenant beside him glanced at it and laughed disdainfully. "Vice Admiral, this matter shouldn't be that serious. He's only a person with a bounty of a mere hundred Berries.

"If they even drew a man as a woman, that only proves he's some fair-skinned ordinary person—or perhaps the pretty boy of those women!"

"Hmph! Full speed ahead!" the vice admiral snorted.

Just a few minutes later, the warship was completely exposed before the countless pirates and warriors on Kuja Island.

"It... it's the Marines."

"There's a blue G on the sail. This is a warship from Marine Headquarters."

"Quick, go report to the Pirate Empress!"

However, Norse raised an arm, signaling everyone to remain calm. He snorted. "It's just a warship. I'll handle it myself!"

The next moment, Norse vanished from where he stood.

He stepped through the air all the way forward, ripples of gravitational force forming beneath his feet. In no time at all, he had sprinted several hundred meters into the sky above the warship.

"Hey! You stepped on my sun. Are you looking for a fight?" Norse crossed his arms over his chest and arrogantly looked down at everything below.