Thanks to the big shot Blood Fiend Demon Venerable for the 12,700-coin tip! The first big tip of the month was already here! Dashu was so excited he didn't know what to say.
How did that saying go again?
Good luck, and chicken dinner tonight!
"Shame it looks so flashy when it's basically useless." Loa clicked his tongue, feeling sorry for Mingde and the others.
When neither skill nor outside advantages were enough to overwhelm an opponent, only two things really decided a fight.
Who hit harder, and who could take more hits.
For Drake, there was no question: Mingde and the others didn't hit very hard.
And Drake could take far more punishment.
Just as Loa expected, the instant the Jerome Brothers finished their attack, a broken curved blade spun through the air, slicing through dust and smoke as it flew toward Minnie.
Minnie had only just landed. There was no time to turn. She glanced instinctively at Loa, then gritted her teeth and drove her fist backward.
She couldn't always count on someone else to help her. If she wanted to grow stronger, she had to stake her life on it!
Squelch!
The blade cut into flesh, splashing bright red across the snow. But it stopped, lodged in Minnie's right hand.
Its sharp edge had sliced through her palm and caught against the bone. If she had been a little faster, she could have dodged. She wasn't.
So she had chosen that clumsy way to keep the blade from piercing her heart.
ROAR!
A roar erupted from the dust. An ancient apex predator was unleashing all the majesty of Poseidon.
"That's Rear Admiral Drake's Ancient Zoan Dinosaur-Dinosaur Fruit!"
Behind Loa, the Marines trembled beneath that ancient predator's menace, hardly daring to breathe.
The human instinct was to