Powerful, handsome, gentle-natured, kind and brave... In the eyes of all the merfolk, at this moment Hikaru represented the very definition of the word perfection.
"May I ask what our benefactor's name is?" a male merfolk asked. "We will never forget this great kindness!"
Hikaru had been waiting for them to ask this question. Now he could use their mouths to spread the word, letting the entire merfolk race know that he, a human, was entirely worthy of their trust, and that he could offer help in their time of peril, making him far more reliable and trustworthy than those cruel and vicious humans!
"My name is Uchiha Hikaru."
The merfolk silently repeated it to themselves a few times, memorizing the benefactor who had rescued them from their cage.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a massive explosion erupted outside. Even the pirate ship docked within the bay was shaken by the huge shockwave, and the expressions of the merfolk inside the cabin changed.
"Hm?" Uchiha Hikaru turned his head to look outside, walking quickly up from the bottom of the cabin. Standing in the corridor, he looked toward the beach and saw a scattering of mutilated corpses and broken limbs all over the sand. Law had truly accomplished the feat of slaughtering a pirate crew of hundreds all by himself.
Yet now, a group of even more ferocious and vicious-looking pirates was rushing over from another direction. Hikaru could sense that this newly arrived group of pirates was far stronger than the batch that had been guarding the ship just moments ago.
Law was intensely staring down the dozen or so pirates who had just arrived.
"Those are... those are pirates from the West Sea..." Upon seeing this group of pirates, a merfolk spoke in terror, his voice trembling so much he could