A figure flashed past, and Fugaku appeared on the battered Pirate Ship.
He walked across it step by step, then suddenly stopped and looked down. At his feet lay the dog that had caught his attention before, the one that walked upright.
Others from the Wood Realm might have found it strange, but Fugaku had a good idea what it was. The dog had likely eaten a Human-Human Fruit.
Feeling its faint breath, Fugaku had to admit it was remarkably hard to kill.
A Death Ray shot from his eyes, pierced the dog's forehead, and took its life.
Almost everyone else was already dead. Fugaku spread his sleeve and swept the Pirate Ship, along with every corpse, inside.
A Space-Time Passage opened, and Fugaku entered Origin Ball Space.
Inside, Little Ten was still growing. The corpses of more than a dozen powerful fighters were a tremendous boon to him.
Fugaku had no intention of bringing the earlier corpses back to the Temple. Several powerful Otsutsuki had died at those people's hands, and someone might be able to uncover hidden details from their bodies.
The Otsutsuki possessed countless strange abilities. There was no telling who might spot something.
This group of pirates, on the other hand, could be taken back to the Temple in exchange for battle merits. Even the weakest among them rivaled an Otsutsuki with the power of a Ten-Tails.
If Little Ten had not absorbed several Ten-Tails in succession, Fugaku might not have been a match for them.
The powerful fighters of the Wood Realm and the Sea Realm followed two entirely different paths.
The ruling line of the Otsutsuki Main Family leaned more toward using techniques, while its subordinate clansmen excelled at close-quarters combat.
Most fighters of the Sea Realm had clawed their way up from the