With a thunderous crash, a shattered crater appeared in the hard ground.
Hancock's slender body was seized by the leg by Bullet and slammed heavily into the earth.
In an instant, her neat and elegant attire was stained with dirt and stone dust, becoming grimy and disheveled.
Several tears had split open across her pink-and-white high-slit cheongsam.
The fair, alluring skin beneath was exposed to the air.
Hancock lay on her back in the shattered crater.
Her eyes were wide open.
She seemed not to have recovered from the shock.
Ever since becoming the ruler of Amazon Lily, captain of the Kuja Pirates, and successfully joining the Shichibukai,
Hancock had never been treated like this before.
The Pirate Empress had actually had her breathtaking beauty ignored and been handled so brutally.
Crack, crack.
Hancock clenched her silver teeth, and intense killing intent and boundless fury burst from her eyes.
"I'll kill you! Devil's Heir!"
Buzz!
A mass of pink energy rippled violently out of Hancock's body, whipping up a storm across the plaza spanning more than a hundred meters.
"Hm? Conqueror's Haki?"
Bullet paused.
There were quite a few powerful women in this world.
But Bullet had truly seen very few women who possessed Conqueror's Haki.
Among the current Four Emperors, Big Mom was one.
He had not expected this vase-like woman before him to possess the qualities of a king as well.
Overwhelmed by rage, Hancock let out a sharp cry. Her graceful, curvaceous body suddenly arched, and she sprang from the crater in the ground.
Her fair right leg shot out from beneath her cheongsam, swiftly turning pitch-black as it became coated in Armament Haki, kicking toward Bullet's neck.
"Honestly, why are all powerful women so violent?"
Bullet casually raised his left hand.
Bang!
Hancock's right leg swept across and struck Bullet's left arm with a dull thud.
The powerful recoil sent her flying far away.
But Hancock, consumed by fury, refused to let up.
The instant she landed, she tapped the ground with her toes, and her body vanished with a whoosh.
Whoosh!
She dashed rapidly across the ground, then leaped high into the air, her Armament Haki-coated right foot kicking at Bullet's chest once again.
"Great Perfume Femur!"
Boom!
This kick was clearly far more powerful than the last.
Before she even reached Bullet, Hancock's extreme speed had already produced a heavy sonic boom in midair.
Bullet's eyes gradually turned cold. He raised his thick right arm as a blue-green Half-Demon Form emerged, and one of his right eyes turned blood-red.
Terrifying baleful energy surged forth like a tsunami, filling everyone with fear and unease.
"Since you want to die, I'll grant your wish."
Watching Hancock's airborne kick, Bullet stomped his left foot heavily onto the ground!
Boom!!
The earth caved in, and the ground within dozens of meters cracked apart.
Muscles throughout his massive body tightened and contracted, pumping out incomparably immense power as he threw a punch at that slender long leg.
Bang!
Fist and foot collided in an instant, erupting with a deafening explosion.
The proud expression on Hancock's face suddenly changed drastically.
She only felt an irresistible force crash into her from the right foot she had kicked out. It directly tore through the defense of her Armament Haki, crushing everything in its path as it surged through her entire body.
A series of crackling explosions rang out.
The red high heel on her delicate outstretched foot gradually crumbled into powder.
Then, the boundless power traveled upward in waves, spreading throughout her body.
Hancock's cheongsam instantly shattered completely.
Not only that, but vast clouds of blood mist sprayed from the pores of her exposed skin.
A crisp crack echoed out.
Hancock let out a muffled groan as the bones in her right foot and lower leg fractured.
Before such an enticing body,
Bullet's gaze was as indifferent as if he were looking at pork laid out on a butcher's table.
Before Hancock, whose right leg was broken, could fall from the air, his fan-sized left hand opened wide and swung toward her.
Under Hancock's furious, bloodshot gaze, Bullet slapped her fair, tender cheek.
"Slap!"
A palm larger than half her body sent Hancock spinning through the air like a top, as though he were swatting a fly.
She whistled backward for several hundred meters before crashing into a large cluster of buildings.
Across the surrounding battlefield, the Marine officers who witnessed this scene were all dumbfounded.
"Pirate Empress Boa Hancock was defeated in an instant!"
They looked at Bullet as though they were staring at a demon.
"The Devil's Heir is far stronger than we imagined!"
"Without combat power at the level of a Marine admiral, no one can stop this monster!"
"All units, attention! Focus your fire!"
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
A dense barrage of bullets whistled through the air, striking Bullet's towering body with a rapid series of crackles.
Yet he neither dodged nor evaded, allowing the bullets to wash over his inhuman physique.
He did not even use Armament Haki.
The flintlock guns in the Marine officers' hands simply could not break through his flesh.
Even small-caliber shells were little more than a scratch to him.
But suddenly, Bullet's brow furrowed slightly.
He looked down at his own shadow.
A strange sight unfolded.
His shadow began to twist as though it had been given life.
Dragged by an invisible force, it rapidly stretched out, extending toward the distance where numerous Marine soldiers had surrounded someone.
The shadow beneath Bullet's feet had become long and narrow, like an elongated thread.
"Ki shi shi shi! You were too careless, Douglas Bullet."
In the distance, Moria was protected so tightly by hundreds upon hundreds of Marine soldiers that not even water could pass through.
A triumphant, grotesque grin appeared on his face.
In his hand, he was holding a massive shadow shaped exactly like Bullet.
The lower part of the shadow's body was black and slender, connected directly to the shadow beneath Bullet's feet.
Moria held Bullet's shadow in one hand and a huge pair of scissors in the other, cackling as he snipped toward the thin line connecting the shadow to Bullet.
"As long as I cut off your shadow, even if you're powerful, the sunlight above will turn you straight into ashes! Ki shi shi shi!"
"Gecko Moria? Another Shichibukai."
Bullet's expression remained indifferent, without the slightest ripple.
"Trash like you, don't you have any self-awareness?"
Against someone like Moria, who had even forgotten Haki and eaten himself into a bloated mass,
Bullet could not summon even the slightest desire to fight.
Seeing the disdain on Bullet's face,
Moria seemed provoked. Gritting his teeth, he brought the large scissors in his hand straight down on Bullet's shadow.