Pirates: Invincible from the Start

A-Luo only laughed louder. "Ha! Do you have to end everything you say with a 'meow'? How am I supposed to stop laughing?"

"You bastard."

A-Tao glared at A-Luo, his yellow pupils narrowing as anger spread across his face.

"Okay, okay! Haha!"

Seeing A-Tao about to lose his temper, A-Luo hurriedly covered his mouth.

He said to A-Tao, "Mmph! Hahaha!"

"Go after that woman! If she really gets away, we'll be laughing at you for a year!"

"Hahahaha!"

"I'll deal with you later."

A-Tao looked away and fixed his gaze on Mikita, who had flown a short distance off. A murderous glint flashed in his yellow eyes.

He lowered his body, bent his legs, then kicked off the ground.

Boom!

The ground caved in. Propelled by his powerful legs, A-Tao shot toward Mikita like a rocket.

Whoosh!

In an instant, he was right in front of her.

"Run? Where do you think you're going with me here? Meow!"

As he spoke, A-Tao kicked off the air.

Bang!

He came to a steady stop in front of Mikita.

Four months earlier, just days after they had arrived at Little Garden, they had found a Devil Fruit.

Without a guide to Devil Fruits, none of them knew what it was. But A-Tao wanted to get stronger, and he didn't care what kind of fruit it was as long as it could help him.

So the moment he got his hands on it, he ate it without hesitation.

Only afterward did he learn that it was the Zoan Cat-Cat Fruit, Orange Cat Form.

This fruit was nothing like the ones A-Luo and Ahua had eaten. It had boosted his physical abilities considerably from the start. That was why he had been the first of the three to awaken Armament Haki, and why his