Coming to the Rescue

Lafitte's cane sword was already inches from her face. In the next instant, it would ruin her breathtaking beauty!

Hancock wanted to turn and dodge, but Observation Haki showed her that Shiryu had sealed off her path.

Either die, or be disfigured!

In that split second, she had no time to think.

All she could do was instinctively let out a scream, her fists clenched tightly before her shoulders.

She suddenly thought of Swain. She did not understand why, after becoming one of the Four Emperors, he had never come to take her away and marry her.

She wanted to get an answer. It was a thorn buried deep in her heart.

Unfortunately, she had no chance to ask.

Suddenly, a spear shot over from afar at extreme speed.

It was so fast that the naked eye could barely follow it.

"Watch out!" Van Augur warned.

He hurriedly used his ability to teleport Lafitte away. As a sniper, his Observation Haki was exceptionally strong.

Sure enough.

A nearly two-meter-long spear appeared where Lafitte had been standing.

It plunged straight into the ground, leaving behind a tiny, pitch-black hole. It was easy to imagine that without Van Augur, his head would have been pierced clean through.

Blackbeard also grew alert at once, immediately releasing pitch-black flames. The Dark-Dark Fruit's black mist surged across the ground, corroding everything in its path.

"Who?!" Cold sweat broke out across his face. He judged that the opponent was no weakling.

But it definitely was not Swain!

If it had been Swain, that strike just now might have killed even him.

After all.

That was the man who had ambushed Mary Geoise and still escaped unscathed.

A figure could be seen sprinting wildly from the distance.

Hancock seized the chance to break free, retreating to the