"Since she's dead, you can die too!"
At that moment, Rayleigh's face twisted with malice, like an evil spirit.
His eyes brimmed with blood-red killing intent.
Hearing the bone-deep hatred in that voice, Sambel's mind went completely blank.
"W-why... Pff—!"
Sambel coughed up a mouthful of blood.
However strong a Fish-Man's body was, a pierced heart meant certain death.
But none of that mattered anymore.
No matter how hard he tried, Sambel could not understand why his Vice Captain had stabbed him in the heart.
He had already killed the Marine and rescued his Vice Captain.
He couldn't understand!
"Why? I'm not telling you!
Die!"
Rayleigh grinned viciously and twisted the dagger in his hand.
Sambel let out a muffled groan, feeling all the strength drain from his body.
Unable to hold on any longer, he flung Rayleigh to the floor.
He collapsed beside him.
Then a question suddenly occurred to Sambel.
Hadn't Rayleigh been crippled?
How could he suddenly move again?
And where had the knife in his hand come from?
Had Rayleigh joined the Marines to save his own life?
Was all of this a trap aimed at the members of the Roger Pirates?
At that thought, Sambel's heart went cold.
"Vice... Rayleigh, did you betray me... us?"
He stared at Rayleigh with bloodshot eyes, his gaze full of venom.
Rayleigh suddenly calmed down.
"Betrayal? How can you call this betrayal?
You should call it abandoning darkness for the light.
Only after getting to know the Marines did I realize how vile pirates were.
As a pirate, I was once steeped in sin myself.
Now, I'm simply atoning.
Scum of the sea like pirates should all die!"
A faint smile rested on Rayleigh's face as he looked at Sambel as though he were a piece of trash.
His