"Crack—!"
The palace's specially made floor tiles, sturdy enough to withstand cannon fire, instantly split into a dense web of horrifying cracks! Stone fragments flew everywhere!
"Urgh..."
The two female guards rolled their eyes back and spewed blood from their mouths, their poisoned blades clattering to the ground.
The martial arts and Haki they had always taken such pride in were thinner than paper before this man's absolute power!
The murderous pressure that erupted in an instant had directly robbed them of the right to breathe!
"Answer my question."
Rochi slowly loosened his fingers from around their throats and looked down at the two women as they coughed painfully.
There was not the slightest trace of human warmth in his mismatched red and blue eyes—only absolute coldness that seemed capable of freezing one's very soul.
"Where is this?"
His flat tone seemed to say that if they dared utter even half a lie, their necks would be snapped the next second!
The two female guards coughed violently, their eyes filled with undisguised terror and trembling.
Having followed the Pirate Empress for years, they had seen countless vicious wanted criminals, but they had never encountered a man in this world with such pure, nauseating deathly aura!
"Th-this is Amazon Lily..."
One of the short-haired guards endured pain as though her bones had been shattered. Her face pale with terror, she stammered out the truth.
"O-our queen, Lady Snake Princess, saved you from the beach and brought you back..."
"Amazon Lily?"
Rochi raised an eyebrow slightly.
The wildly spinning Mangekyo Sharingan in his right eye slowly came to a halt, eventually returning to an abyss-like, deathly black.
He swiftly reviewed the memories of this world from his previous life.
Amazon Lily lay deep within the Calm Belt on either side of the