The Pirate Who Refused Red-Hair's Invitation

"Uh, fight the Sea Kings?" Kaku didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Beside him, Enel was already spinning his Golden Staff. He struck the Thunder Drums on his back twice, sending a Thunder Bird straight through the centipede-like Sea King nearest them.

But the attack barely hurt it.

"Heh. The Sea Kings around here have some staying power." Enel smirked and struck his Thunder Drums again. The Thunder Bird had carried only thirty million volts. This time, he unleashed a sixty-million-volt Thunder Dragon.

The Thunder Dragon pierced the giant centipede just as the Thunder Bird had, but this time the creature took the full shock. It passed out and crashed onto the still waters of the Calm Belt, throwing up a huge spray.

The other Sea Kings paid no attention to their sinking companion. They surrounded the Flying Ship from every direction, then attacked at once.

With no way out, Kaku sighed helplessly. He drew two swords he had recently bought on Sabaody, jumped onto the deck railing, and looked at Enel. "Five left. Can you handle four on your own?"

Enel gave a disdainful laugh. "A few Sea Kings? To me, the Thunder God, they're trash."

"Everyone but Lin Mo is trash to you..." Kaku muttered. He sprang from the railing and landed squarely on the head of a giant sea cow thirty or forty meters from the Flying Ship.

Kaku's jumping ability never disappointed.

Meanwhile, Enel used his lightning to activate a chimney-like outlet on the Flying Ship's roof. Billows of black mist poured out and shot skyward, spreading into a vast Thundercloud crackling with lightning less than a hundred meters above the ship.

Enel had built the device to help him unleash wide-area attacks. He had used it once on Sky Island and never since.

"Yahahaha!