My Trump Card—Can You Understand It?

Li Mingyuan would never fight a battle he was not sure of, nor would he casually promise anyone something he could not accomplish. Since he had promised to protect Carina, he would keep that promise.

Just now, when Carina had fallen into danger, Li Mingyuan had actually already prepared himself—

Prepared to use the Mangekyō Sharingan's Kamui!

He had not expected Nami to suddenly interfere, saving him from having to use it.

That was a good thing.

After all, Li Mingyuan's standard for using Kamui was the appearance of a monster whose movements even his chakra-enhanced physique could not keep up with. That would be the best time to use it.

Against ordinary cannon fodder, he did not want to waste the ocular power of these eyes either.

"Hmph! It has a bit of weight to it..."

"So Arlong really can use something like this so casually. Arms ten times stronger than a human's—he was not lying, after all."

Li Mingyuan withdrew the Dual Kamui from his eyes, crouched down, and casually picked up the massive sawblade sword Arlong had dropped after being knocked flying.

Weighing the huge sawblade sword in his hand, Li Mingyuan found it somewhat heavy as well.

Looking again toward Nami and Carina, no matter how concerned he was about Arlong's condition, he could not let them remain under siege. Since he was not using Kamui, he would have to solve this with something simple and brutal.

There was no way he could use Flash Slash with a sawblade sword like this. If he really used it to kill over a dozen Fish-Men in a row, his own arm would definitely give out first. He had no intention of betting that arm on the new era.

Still, a sawblade sword like this had its uses because of its unusual shape.

"Ha!"

With a sharp shout, Li Mingyuan tapped the huge sawblade sword several times with the fingers of his One-Finger Nukite. In an instant, the serrated blade broke apart at its joints, separating into several heavy individual teeth.

Li Mingyuan casually picked up one of the blade teeth and aimed it toward the Fish-Men.

Though he felt a little sorry about it, even without using ninjutsu, he seemed to have more skills than he had imagined.

In the world of Naruto, using shuriken and other concealed weapons was a ninja's basic skill.

"Do you know, Fish-Men? Humans die very easily."

"Especially when a huge gash is cut across their throats."

A sharp gleam flashed through Li Mingyuan's eyes. The tomoe in his Sharingan spun continuously, locking onto every movement of the Fish-Men.

Personally taught by Madara.

Uchiha Shuriken Throwing Technique!

In an instant, Li Mingyuan violently swung his arm. The massive sawblade teeth at his side turned into streaks of shadow one after another, thrown forth at terrifying speed and vanishing into the air.

At the same time, Nami and Carina, surrounded and attacked by the Fish-Men, had been resisting with all their strength. Yet only a dozen or so seconds had passed since the battle began, and they already felt they could not hold on.

Their wooden staffs had been broken, and their blades shattered.

Under these circumstances, Carina at least still had a broken blade she could barely use as a weapon. But after losing her composite staff, Nami was practically no different from fighting barehanded.

With their arm strength and steel-like bones, the Fish-Men could even lift houses. Killing someone with a single punch was nothing to them.

"If this continues, Carina will die!"

"No, I can't fight the Fish-Men. As expected, I can only leave this to that mysterious man. I'll shield Carina and get us out through the gate by the sea..."

"Eh?"

Knowing the Fish-Men did not dare kill her, Nami had already formed a plan in that split second: use herself as a shield and protect Carina as they charged through the gate at the sea entrance. But before she could put it into action—

She suddenly felt something hot splash across her face.

Nami stared blankly ahead.

Blood blossomed through the air like a fountain, spraying from the Fish-Man's neck before her.

Then, as if some mysterious chain reaction had begun, huge gashes suddenly opened across the necks of the other Fish-Men around them. Human fountains erupted one after another, forming a scene that could only be called hellish.

"Th-this is!?"

They did not even have a chance to react.

By the time they noticed something was wrong, the Fish-Men were already faced with the reality that their throats had been cut open. Despair on their faces, they clutched their necks, seemingly trying to say something before their deaths.

Unfortunately, not a single Fish-Man managed to leave behind a complete final sentence before collapsing to the ground.

There was no more movement.

The overwhelmingly shocking sight left Nami unsure how to react for a moment.

Only Carina, who had already seen what Li Mingyuan was like when he acted, shuddered. She instinctively thought of someone and cautiously looked toward Li Mingyuan, only to meet his eyes directly.

Why does it always look like this whenever this person makes a move?!

That's terrifying!

If he's saving people, which is supposedly a positive thing, couldn't he be a little more normal about it? Couldn't the scene at least be a little more respectable?!

Carina screamed inwardly.

Outwardly, Carina did not dare protest to Li Mingyuan about any of this, but she still had the nerve to complain in her heart.

Sure enough, just as she had expected, this terrifying hellscape before them was Li Mingyuan's handiwork. Earlier, when he had dealt with the Fish-Men, he had simply disemboweled them and crushed their throats, splattering blood everywhere. Now, she could not even see how he had attacked, and the scene had become one of bloody flowers blooming all over the ground.

She simply could not understand why, in theory, they were the righteous side, yet they looked far more like villains than the vicious pirates.

Only after quite a while did Nami come back to her senses.

She touched the liquid on her face, lowered her head to look at the bloodstains on her hand, and her expression became extremely complicated.

"The Fish-Men... were defeated that easily?"

Nami murmured softly, "So these guys, just like Bell-mère, have red blood flowing through them."

"Nami..."

Carina turned her head and looked at Nami worriedly.

"I'm fine. It's just that, all of a sudden, I feel like the weight on me has become a little too light."

Nami raised her head again and looked toward Li Mingyuan in the distance.

Only then did she see the remaining hilt of the huge sawblade sword by Li Mingyuan's feet, along with scattered bits of steel slag nearby, and finally realize something.

From that distance, he had thrown the sawblade teeth directly over here?

And it had not merely been a simple throw. Those blades had moved so fast that the naked eye could not even see them, tracing arcs through the air and precisely cutting across every Fish-Man's neck. That was how he had saved her and Carina in that desperate situation.

That godlike technique was, in a sense, even stranger and more terrifying than the very existence of the Fish-Men.

Just who was this man...?