"Ow..."
Sandra let his attention slip for a moment. Wind whistled behind him, and Gin kicked him square in the backside. Following Hendry's example, Sandra plunged into the sea.
In a fight at sea, the loser was not necessarily the weaker one. But seawater was the natural enemy of Devil Fruit users. Once they fell in, their chances were grim.
Ye Chen smiled and nodded at Gin. "Nice work. This head isn't worth much, but we shouldn't waste it." He leaped across the water to Sandra. With a flick of his wrist, an eerie flash of cold steel swept over the surface, and another bloody head flew toward Kuina.
Back on the boat, Ye Chen wrapped the two heads in a scrap of cloth. Kuina's face was still frighteningly pale, so he said gently, "Don't worry. The first time is the hardest. You'll get used to it. What kind of Pirate doesn't kill anyone?"
The flames on Hendry's Pirate ship burned hotter and hotter. Their captain was dead, and Sandra was gone too. The Pirates aboard screamed in terror, their eyes full of despair and fear. None of them dared look at Ye Chen.
They would rather burn to death than be killed by him.
Ye Chen was terrifying. Hendry had a bounty of nine million, yet before Ye Chen he had been as helpless as a three-year-old. Ye Chen had toyed with him, crushed him, and finally taken his head.
The sight shook them to the core. Who would have thought the East Blue had produced someone so ruthless? Still in his teens, he had easily killed a notorious Pirate with a bounty nearing ten million.
"Watch the boat. I'll be right back."
After telling Kuina, Ye Chen jumped onto Hendry's ship again. The Pirates scrambled aside. One of