Outmatched

"Zehahaha..."

Blackbeard made no attempt to hide his arrogance.

"They attacked first. We were perfectly polite."

"Hmph! What a glib tongue!"

"If you hadn't invaded our island, why would our sisters have attacked?"

Hancock's sisters, Sanda and Mary, spoke up fiercely.

Granny Nyon arrived too. Being short, she had ridden over on a python and reached them a little later. When she saw that the invader was Blackbeard, her expression changed dramatically.

Before anyone noticed her, she quietly withdrew and headed for the communications station in the palace.

The bodies strewn across the ground were proof enough.

"Enough talk! I won't let scum like you hurt my sisters!" Hancock's face flushed with anger, and fire burned in her eyes.

"Slave Arrow!" She kissed her fingers, drew back a bowstring with her slender hand, and loosed countless pink arrows.

Blackbeard's expression changed. He hadn't expected her to attack so decisively. "Get out of the arrows' path! Don't let them hit you!"

"Wahaha! What's so fearsome about some woman? Watch this." Confident in his physical strength, Wolf coated both hands in Armament Haki and smashed several arrows with the force of his punches.

But his body was enormous. Arrows struck his leg before he could dodge.

His thigh instantly turned to stone. "What the hell is this?!"

Haki surged through his body, but it could not break the seal of her Devil Fruit ability.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Several more arrows struck his limbs. In an instant, he was almost entirely a statue.

"How rude. Perfume Femur!" Hancock moved with startling speed. While Blackbeard was still dodging, she had already taken one of his companions out of the fight.

Her kick was coated in Haki too. If it landed, Wolf would likely shatter into rubble.

Van Augur stayed calm. With a slight movement