Rubick did not know when he had started taking life so lightly, or when killing a few people had begun to seem like no big deal.
But in this world, if he did not kill others, they would kill him.
"Luffy, Zoro, Sanji! One ship each for the four of us. Leave the last one to Usopp," Rubick shouted. "As long as Usopp can sink one ship, the others should be safe aboard the Going Merry."
The two sides were at least a kilometer apart. Anyone who fell into the water would have to swim all the way to the Going Merry—unless Baroque Works had some real experts among them.
"Are you ready?"
Luffy held down his straw hat, Zoro tied on his bandana, and Sanji lit a cigarette. Their eyes were steady, eager, and hungry for a fight.
Rubick lifted them together on a current of wind and flew toward the Baroque Works fleet. "Let's treat this battle as training. Nothing pushes you past your limits like a brush with death."
Boom!
A cannonball reached the enemy before Rubick and the others, blasting another huge hole in the lead ship. Even from a distance, they could see the people aboard starting to panic.
Rubick had once heard that sailors in the navy did not necessarily need to know how to swim. Out on the open sea, if disaster struck, swimmers and non-swimmers had about the same chance of surviving.
Unless they were like Rayleigh and could swim straight across the Calm Belt.
"Fire!"
The Baroque Works members below pulled out crude muskets and fired at the four of them as they flew in.
Rubick summoned a swirl of wind to block the bullets, then used his power to send the Straw Hat Pirates' three heavy hitters hurtling down onto