Kill!

"Six-Sword Style Secret Technique, Six-Sword Rondel—"

"It's already too late!"

Before Hachi could even fully turn his head back, an unimaginable force slammed into his back in an instant, piercing straight through the spot opposite the fist mark on his chest.

Li Mingyuan's eyes were cold as he said in a low voice, "Nintaijutsu, One-Finger Nukite!"

Concentrating most of his chakra into one hand, then condensing it from that hand into a single finger, Li Mingyuan thrust his hand fiercely into Hachi's back. Even an octopus's skin tore like thin paper, and his finger pierced directly into Hachi's body.

Blood slowly ran down Hachi's back.

Li Mingyuan pulled out his finger, and Hachi dropped to both knees with a thud, like a puppet that had lost its support.

Li Mingyuan watched the scene without the slightest ripple in his eyes.

"Piercing through your body was a little difficult, but I still did my best to accomplish it."

"If you want to blame someone, blame the fact that you're my enemy."

Li Mingyuan crouched down halfway and leaned close to Hachi's ear, speaking softly. "Your instincts are truly sharp, to notice the change in my eyes."

With that, Li Mingyuan stood again. Hachi's body lost its support and crashed heavily to the ground, never moving again.

The Arlong Pirates' three top officers.

All of them had now been wiped out by Li Mingyuan alone.

Li Mingyuan rose to his feet, his gaze still resting on Hachi. Of everyone present, not a single one had reacted strangely to the change in his eyes. Yet only Hachi, who looked like the biggest fool of them all, had noticed.

Normally, no reaction should have been the most ordinary reaction.

The Sharingan was not yet something memorable in this world. Aside from a few individuals, most people had no concept of eye techniques at all. Even if they saw the change in his eyes, they would probably only think they looked a little strange. The bandit Dick had been exactly like that. He had been caught head-on by Genjutsu, yet instead of paying attention to Li Mingyuan's eyes, he suspected him of being a Devil Fruit user.

He wondered whether such a change foreshadowed something.

Pulling back his gaze, Li Mingyuan turned his attention toward Arlong in the distance. At that moment, Arlong had emerged from the main building again, carrying his massive sawblade.

The two locked eyes without exchanging another word.

"Die!"

Arlong charged toward him, roaring.

The great sawblade Peak Cutter nearly became a whirlwind in Arlong's hands, sweeping away the surrounding walls and bricks as it surged toward Li Mingyuan.

Li Mingyuan raised his hand again. His movements were as natural and fluid as antelope horns hanging from a wall, assuming a karate stance.

Thousand Brick Fist!

The explosive speed was so terrifying that, in everyone else's eyes, Li Mingyuan's body nearly twisted into a black shadow. His fist was faster than Arlong's blade as it shot toward Arlong's heart.

If things continued like this, Li Mingyuan was one hundred percent certain that he could strike first and knock Arlong back.

That was how it should have been...

"Wait! Do you not care about this human's life at all?!"

A hurried voice suddenly rang out from beyond the battlefield.

Out of the corner of his Sharingan, Li Mingyuan clearly saw that several Fish-Man grunts, who had been standing around the perimeter like NPCs, had drawn guns. They were not aiming at him, but at Carina.

At the same time, Arlong, directly in front of Li Mingyuan, curled his lips into a horrifying smile.

The reason his movements had been slightly slower than Li Mingyuan's was because, after taking out his great sawblade, he had also grabbed several guns from the neighboring armory.

In the past, ever since the Arlong Pirates had ruled this land, Fish-Men rarely used weapons. To display their confidence that Fish-Men were naturally superior, they usually relied on their powerful bodies to deal with the residents. The same had been true of this banquet; most of the firearms had remained in the armory.

But today, for this man whose true strength he could not gauge, Arlong was willing to make an exception.

"Shahahahaha!!"

"What do you think of that, human?!"

Arlong laughed wildly, and the great sawblade in his hand sped up even further as it cleaved toward Li Mingyuan's head.

Yet Arlong, consumed by the ecstasy of imminent victory, failed to notice that Li Mingyuan—who should have been thrown into panic by this development—was still throwing his punch without changing expression, speeding toward his chest.

With his back to the Fish-Men, Arlong had no way of noticing.

The moment the Fish-Men raised their guns, aimed them at Carina, and voiced their threat, Nami—who had been standing at the very back of the Fish-Men—suddenly raised the staff in her hand without warning.

"How could I let you kill Carina?!"

Her swift staff strike nearly became a warped afterimage, knocking the guns from the hands of several nearby Fish-Men.

Everything happened in an instant.

But among everyone present, only Li Mingyuan's Sharingan could capture that instant.

"Fish-Man Karate: Thousand Brick Fist!!"

Li Mingyuan's fist did not slow in the slightest. Instead, it accelerated even more as it smashed viciously into Arlong's chest.

The ecstatic expression on Arlong's face had not even had time to fade.

The next moment, his entire body was sent flying backward by the terrifying force.

Boom!!

Arlong crashed into the main building, and the entire structure seemed to shudder.

Dust gradually rose from the crater he had smashed through.

The other Fish-Men were caught completely off guard by the rapid succession of changes, staring ahead in disbelief.

Only after a long while did they finally come back to their senses.

"B-Boss Arlong!!"

The Fish-Men's panicked cries echoed through the sky above Arlong Park.

"Phew..."

Li Mingyuan lowered his stance and looked up at the large hole in the main building. His breathing was somewhat hurried at first.

But after taking several breaths to steady himself, he quickly returned to normal.

"If that level of force couldn't even kill Hachi, then it probably won't be enough to kill Arlong in one blow, considering his body is even tougher."

"I just don't know whether it can at least leave him seriously injured."

Li Mingyuan knew perfectly well that the battle was not over.

He continued staring at the hole, holding his breath as the Sharingan in his eyes spun rapidly.

But compared with the still-vigilant Li Mingyuan—

Carina, who was covered in sprayed ink and had only just managed to climb back up, looked toward the other orange-haired girl nearby.

"Nami."

Carina murmured her name.

"Don't say anything. I already know."

After knocking away the guns with several swings of her staff, then kicking them directly into the sea inlet, Nami ran away from the Fish-Men. She now held her staff tightly, staring at the opposite side with a solemn expression.