At Full Strength! Massacre on the Slope!

"What are you waiting for?! Kill them!!"

"Once you deal with them, all this treasure will be yours!!"

Kuro's gritted voice rang out from the pirate ship behind them, especially piercing in the silent night.

The pirates who had been scared senseless by the Great Fireball finally came to their senses. Seeing their captain's murderous glare from the ship, fear overcame their hesitation.

"Charge!!"

"Kill him!!"

"Ohh! For the treasure!"

The pirates roared again, brandishing their weapons as they charged toward the top of the slope.

This time, however, they had learned their lesson.

Rather than crowding together in the middle like headless flies,

they spread out, pressed close to the rock walls on either side of the slope, and slowed their steps as they warily watched for that terrifying fire-breathing boy.

At that moment, Jango, standing below, swung the sharp ring in his hand in an attempt to salvage his pride.

He shouted up at Nami:

"In that case, let me take care of that woman first! Take this!"

Jango struck a strange pose, gently swaying the ring in his hand as he said to Nami:

"After I say 'one, two, Jango,' you will immediately faint and fall asleep. Watch my ring..."

"One, two..."

Nami instinctively looked toward the ring.

However, Victor, standing beside Nami, slowly turned his scarlet eyes and cast a cold gaze at Jango below.

Genjutsu: Hell Viewing Technique.

"Jango..."

"Thud!"

A dull impact sounded.

But the one who fell was not Nami. It was Jango himself, right in the middle of using his technique.

As though he had seen something horrifying, he rolled his eyes and collapsed stiffly onto the beach, foam spilling from his mouth.

"Lord Jango?!!"

The surrounding pirates were shocked out of their wits.

"How did you hypnotize yourself?!"

"Wake Lord Jango up!!"

The single tomoe in Victor's eyes slowly spun as he calmly withdrew his gaze.

Against someone with such weak mental fortitude, he did not even need a proper genjutsu.

By now, the pirates in front had already closed in.

Seeing the fierce-looking pirates charging up at them, Nami instinctively shrank back.

She very consciously hid behind Victor, grabbed his clothes, and shouted:

"Go, Vice Captain!! Go get my... no, our treasure back!!"

Victor did not respond to her nonsense.

"Whoosh."

His figure vanished from where he stood.

Victor did not retreat simply because he was outnumbered.

On the contrary, a blazing fighting spirit rose in his eyes as they shifted from black to red.

He also wanted to know exactly how far his full strength had reached after the system's enhancements and his recent training.

The pirates before him were the best whetstones he could ask for!

At the top of the slope.

"Hey! Why did you hit me just now?!"

Usopp clutched the swollen lump on his head and glared furiously at Nami. "That hurt! Are you some kind of demon woman?"

"Hah?"

Nami's brows shot up. She raised her long staff again as though preparing to strike him once more. "Got a problem with that?"

"N-No!"

Usopp hurriedly waved his hands and backed away, putting on a fawning smile.

"Ahahaha, I was just joking. The atmosphere was too tense, you know... But speaking of which..."

As he spoke, he turned to look at Victor below, who was cutting down pirates one after another like a tiger among sheep, and could not help swallowing.

"...He really is incredible. He's practically a demon..."

Hearing that, Nami immediately lowered her staff and proudly lifted her chin, as though she were the one fighting.

"Hmph, of course he is. Now you know how strong our pirate crew is, right?"

"Then why aren't you joining the fight?"

Nami's expression stiffened, but she immediately looked at him with complete confidence.

"Hm? Aren't you ashamed to ask a delicate navigator like me that question when you're a man?"

"Huh?! Delicate??"

Usopp looked at the long staff in Nami's hand, the corner of his mouth twitching.

But he took a deep breath, seemingly fired up by the battle below as well.

"Fine! If that's how it is, then the great Captain Usopp will join the battle too! Leave the covering fire to me!"

With that, he walked to the edge of the cliff, pulled back his slingshot, and aimed at the pirates below.

"Take this!"

"Special Attack: Gunpowder Star!"

Nami snorted and folded her arms.

But as she watched Victor's lone figure fighting below, she pressed her lips together slightly, an inexplicable feeling rising in her heart.

What's wrong with me... He's just a pirate... Treasure is what matters most! That's right!

Meanwhile, on the battlefield below the slope.

Victor was in the midst of fierce combat.

"Clang!"

He swung his sword to block the attack, sparks flying everywhere. Then, with a flick of his wrist, he borrowed the force and sent the pirate before him crashing down.

Immediately afterward, the sound of wind came from his right.

As though he had eyes all around him, Victor instantly ducked low, narrowly evading a curved blade swung at his head.

The next second, he swept his leg out and viciously kicked the attacker to the ground.

"Die!!"

Two more pirates leaped from below and slashed down at Victor.

Victor remained calm, raising his sword one-handed. With a clang, he firmly blocked both attacks.

Then his arm muscles tensed, chakra erupted, and he violently knocked them away.

The instant the two stumbled back off balance.

"Shine."

Victor turned his wrist, his sword drawing a cold arc through the air as it precisely sliced across their throats.

Blood sprayed.

"Urgh..."

The two clutched their throats and fell.

Seeing Victor's brutal, fluid movements, the pirates behind them showed terrified expressions. Their hands trembled around their weapons, and they hesitated to advance.

"What's wrong? Not coming at me?"

Victor instinctively felt that he had entered a strange state of perfection.

Everything around him became slow and clear in his Sharingan.

Every enemy's breathing, every twitch of muscle, every trajectory of their blades was laid bare before his eyes.

"Body Flicker."

His figure flashed again.

Victor took the initiative, driving his sword straight through the heart of the nearest man.

Then he kicked him away. The corpse flew like a cannonball and knocked down two pirates preparing to charge from behind.

The slope here was narrow. Although there were many pirates, only two or three could truly face Victor at once.

With this terrain advantage, combined with the Sharingan's dynamic vision, Victor was practically unstoppable!

This was a one-sided bloody massacre.

In just a few minutes, the slope was already covered with groaning pirates.

By then, the remaining pirates were truly terrified.

They looked at the black-haired youth who had held back so many pirates with nothing but a sword, unable to stop trembling.

The night sea breeze stirred Victor's black hair, revealing the pair of eyes beneath that glowed with an eerie red light in the darkness.

"M-Monster!!"

At last, one pirate could no longer endure the terrifying pressure. His mental defenses collapsed. With a clatter, he threw down his weapon, fell to his knees, and burst into tears.

"This is too terrifying! We can't beat him at all!"

"That guy isn't human! He's a murderous demon!"

Just as the pirates' morale was about to collapse completely.

"What monster?! Stop boosting someone else's confidence!"

"Watch the Cat Brothers kill him!!"

The crowd behind them parted as two sharp, arrogant voices rang out.

Two strangely dressed pirates wearing cat claw gloves leaped forward.

They were the Cat Brothers from the original story—Buchi and Sham.

Victor stopped moving and expressionlessly flicked the blood droplets from his sword, drawing a line of blood across the ground.

Then he bent his knees slightly, ready to cut down these two noisy kittens with a single strike.

"Hey, hey, my dear Vice Captain. At least leave some for me."

As soon as the words fell.

"Wahh!! Victor, you're amazing! You knocked them all down! Shishishishi!"

A burst of hearty laughter sounded from behind.

Luffy held down his Straw Hat as he and a displeased-looking Zoro finally ran out of the darkness and reached the battlefield.

Victor turned around and looked at the two latecomers. A smile curled at the corner of his mouth, but his words showed no mercy.

"You're too late, idiots."