This thing. This very thing had put him in his current, inescapable death trap.
Clang!
The bullet struck Kodora's head, producing the ringing vibration that only metal striking metal could make.
Kodora's face twisted hideously. In that instant, he looked like a demon, his eyes so bloodshot that they had turned entirely crimson.
Yet no matter how fiercely he resisted, he was only delaying his death.
Like an unstoppable drill, the bullet paused for only an instant before continuing into the spot between Kodora's eyebrows.
Crack, crack, crack!
At that moment, Kodora seemed to hear a mirror shattering. He knew it was a sign that his Armament Haki was about to collapse.
His heart sank into an abyss.
If he couldn't stop it, he could only die.
But he had no options left. Even as the captain of a Cipher Pol Aigis Zero squad, he was facing a top-class sniper with a special gun from this far away.
His opponent's Armament Haki might have been weaker than his, but his Observation Haki was definitely stronger.
With the bullet's own penetrating power added to that, even driving his Armament Haki to its limit could only stop it for a moment.
And that moment wasn't nearly enough for him to escape.
His mind could react, but his body couldn't keep up. He couldn't use Teleportation like Silver Hair and simply vanish into thin air.
How was he supposed to escape?
Crack!
Before he could think any further, the bullet pierced his Armament Haki and shot straight into his head.
Since the bullet was created through Hell Hound's own Devil Fruit ability, Hell Hound, after working with A-Luo for so long, would never let a bullet pass straight through an enemy's head. Instead, it would explode the moment it entered, leaving the enemy