"Do you dare get off my ship?!
Let's take this fight outside!"
Ace shouted.
His ability could still let him fly for a while.
And he was confident he could knock that wretched woman into the sea in that time!
Just then, Christa shifted her gaze.
She looked into the distance behind Ace.
Ace was baffled.
What was she playing at?
Was she trying to confuse him?
Then a thunderous boom came from behind him.
At the same time, an overwhelming aura seemed to rise in the distance.
It was drawing closer.
Ace's heart jolted. Forgetting Christa in front of him, he turned to look.
A point of light had suddenly appeared in the distance.
Then, in the blink of an eye, that point of light swelled into a dazzling sun.
An even more immense aura followed.
Under its weight, Deuce and the others were like trembling lambs waiting for slaughter.
They didn't even have the strength to stand.
They had never seen anything so terrifying in their lives.
Even Ace couldn't help trembling deep inside.
His body stiffened, and his fingers began to shake involuntarily.
That "sun" swept toward them.
Even the sea parted before it.
Soon, it arrived above the pirate ship.
Then the white light vanished instead.
All that remained was an "utterly ordinary" man hovering overhead.
But that oppressive presence remained.
Perhaps its owner wasn't even deliberately exerting it.
His very existence was enough to intimidate lesser beings.
Ace gritted his teeth, then summoned every ounce of strength and courage he had to look up.
His scalp instantly prickled with terror.
That man.
He knew that man.
Randall, the Marine the pirates called Enma!
That damned old man had mentioned his name more times than Ace could count.
He was the legendary "other people's kid."
That