Pirates: Invincible from the Start

But the little boy gave off a revolting aura of brutality that Kuta particularly despised.

From the dark, blood-red aura around him, Kuta could sense that the boy had killed countless people.

At such a young age.

He couldn't imagine it.

Kuta ignored the boy. Red light flared in his eyes as his Observation Haki swept across the entire cruise ship, then both warships.

Suddenly...

Everyone in those waters felt it.

The sky darkened.

Crack!

Thunder erupted from nowhere, and violet-red lightning filled the sky.

Rumble!

Countless bolts darted and collided overhead like violet-red snakes.

An overwhelming killing intent surged skyward from the bow of the cruise ship.

It swept outward in every direction.

Thud!

Thud!

Thud!

Guards and Marines alike felt that killing intent strike, raising every hair on their bodies.

It carried crushing pressure, as though the entire sky were bearing down on them. They bent at the waist despite themselves.

Some of the less resolute Marines dropped straight to their knees beneath Kuta's killing intent.

Stainless

On the warship to the left.

A middle-aged man with a handlebar mustache and slicked-back hair looked up at the sky. He wore an orange suit, a yellow tie, and a Marine Vice Admiral's coat draped over his shoulders.

"He could already do this much?"

"How terrifying."

He had actually combined his killing intent with Conqueror's Haki.

Silver Hair's Conqueror's Haki wasn't aimed at them, but the indiscriminate pressure of his killing intent was hard enough to bear.

To Stainless, the world seemed split in two. One sky was clear and sunny; the other was gloomy, threaded with darting violet lightning, as if it might collapse at any moment.

Clearly, what he saw was an illusion produced by Silver Hair's killing intent mixed with Conqueror's Haki.

He didn't know why