The Ultimate Speed, The Ultimate Strength

Bang!

Just as Ochoku was racking his brains to devise a countermeasure, a loud crash suddenly echoed from next door.

A blood-soaked pirate was thrown like a torn cloth sack, smashing straight through the wall and landing right at his feet.

Terrified out of his wits, Ochoku scrambled to activate his ability, teleporting back with a swish to the marked point inside the skull.

Before the front entrance of the skull, dozens of pirates had hearts in their eyes, drool dripping from their corners, their mouths stiffening as they turned into lifelike stone statues.

House stood before the group of statues, his upper body maintaining human form with smooth, bronze muscle lines, a pair of pure white wings gently flapping behind him to kick up gusts of wind.

His lower body transformed into an athletic horse's body, covered in a fine layer of silvery-white mane.

Having transformed into Hybrid Form, he strode on all fours, his hooves emitting a dull roar as they struck the ground and kicked up a trail of dust, dragging several high-speed motion afterimages behind him as he galloped toward the area where Hancock was locked in by Observation Haki.

"Hmph, you're only good for hiding."

Hancock gently tapped her red lips with a delicate finger, a tiny, exquisite peach-colored heart-shaped substance condensing at her fingertip.

[Kiss Gun]!

She flicked her finger, and the heart-shaped substance turned into a bullet coated in Busoshoku Haki, shooting accurately toward the approaching centaur.

It wasn't that she didn't want to charge straight into the fortress to cut down Ochoku, but House's speed was simply too fast, always capable of accurately intercepting her just as she was about to break through.

What made it even more troublesome was that this guy was also severely nearsighted, rendering the petrifying passive of