Resolve After the Battle, and an Instant banquet!
The smoke slowly dispersed.
The clearing in the forest had been completely transformed into a chaotic meteor crater.
Cracks spread like a spiderweb, and broken giant trees smoked as a scorching smell filled the air.
Everyone's eyes were fixed firmly on the enormous humanoid pit.
Marco's blue flames flickered faintly over his body, and his expression was as amused as could be.
Hancock, on the other hand, trembled slightly, all color draining from her breathtakingly beautiful face.
Silence.
Oppressive silence.
"Luffy..."
Hancock parted her red lips, her voice carrying an uncontrollable tremor.
The next second.
Whoosh!
A graceful figure moving at incredible speed vanished from where she stood!
Marco's vision blurred. By the time he came back to his senses, the Pirate Empress had already appeared at the edge of the pit!
She did not look into the pit. Instead, she abruptly turned around. Her phoenix eyes, usually filled with pride and disdain, now burned with towering fury as she glared fiercely at Chen Ye!
Her rage was so intense that a tangible aura of Conqueror's Haki radiated from her body!
"You bastard!!!"
Hancock's voice was icy and piercing, every word seemingly squeezed out through the gap between her teeth.
"If anything happens to Luffy..."
"I will never forgive you!!!"
As one of the Shichibukai and the Empress of Amazon Lily, she had never lost her composure like this before.
It was a complicated mixture of heartache, anger, and fear.
Marco's heart tightened. Just as he was about to step forward and mediate, Chen Ye stopped him with a calm look.
Chen Ye merely watched her quietly, his face expressionless.
He offered no explanation.
Nor did he need to.
Just before Hancock's fury was about to erupt completely.
"Cough... cough, cough..."
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