A piercing whistle rang out openly above the island.
Everyone looked up. A black speck was plummeting toward them... it was Bullet, carrying a missile on his shoulder.
The leader under Hale Nock who controlled this island grabbed his great saber and rushed outside, looking up at the sky:
"On guard!!!!"
Hum-
Haki coated his arms, and his great saber turned black. He stamped down and shot straight toward the black speck, swinging his blade.
A slash of sword aura dozens of meters long shot toward the descending Bullet.
Bullet looked at the incoming sword aura, grinned viciously, and activated a fraction of his power.
The missile on his shoulder expanded several times over, coated in pitch-black Armament Haki. It smashed straight through the incoming sword aura and hurtled toward the pirate leader.
There was no time to dodge. Terror and despair engulfed him.
"Wha..."
Crack-
The enormous mass of Haki and the ten-meter-wide missile crushed every bone in the pirate leader's body.
With his corpse pinned beneath it, the missile hurtled toward the panicking pirates...
Boom-!!!
All the slaves in the enormous pit looked toward the explosion in terror, unsure what had happened.
At the center of the explosion.
Bullet, bare-chested and covered in wounds, swept his hand through the smoke and walked out.
He walked over to a spilled ammunition crate, casually grabbed a handful of Round Bullets, and looked toward the distant pirates with a savage grin.
Thud!
He tossed the last pirate onto the pile of corpses.
Bullet found an unopened barrel of liquor, sat on a boulder, and began drinking in great gulps.
Buru Buru~ Buru Buru~
His Den Den Mushi rang.
Thump-
Bullet set down the barrel and took out his Den Den Mushi:
"Hello."
The voice on the other end said:
"Vice