Stay calm, stay calm!
Good, you can't beat her right now!
But the tides change over thirty years.
Sooner or later, you'll be able to ride her back!
The important thing right now is business; if someone else beats you to it, your plan to buy real estate and collect rent will go down the drain!
Let's go, screw Yamato!
Chapter 2: Lord Ulti is Peerless!
Onigashima, back mountain area.
As the smoke and dust cleared, the white-haired girl lay sprawled across the center of the explosion, covered from head to toe in wounds-clearly, she was extremely badly hurt.
Even so, the girl still hadn't lost consciousness.
"Ow, ow, ow! Dammit, I lost again!"
Yamato gritted her teeth and rolled over, panting for quite a while before climbing to her feet. Before she could even stand steadily, countless pirates surged out from all around.
She'd been found!
The pirates licked their blades, wearing exceptionally "kind and amiable" smiles.
"Yo, Lady Yamato."
"Please be so kind as to surrender."
"It won't be good if you get hurt, you know."
Facing the pirates' threats, Yamato gripped her kanabo without a moment's hesitation, glaring back with fierce eyes.
"I won't let you capture me!"
She knew very well what the consequence of getting caught would be.
That was-starvation!
But right now, her whole body ached and her stamina was nearly at rock bottom. Wanting to defeat this many pirates was undoubtedly a pipe dream.
She had to fight her way through.
"Grumble grumble~~"
Her belly cooperated very well by staging a protest.
"So hungry! So hungry!"
Yamato's eyes flashed with a red glow, as her craving to fill her stomach and her fear of hunger gradually stirred up her ferocity.
Tatakae!
"Get out of my way, all of you!"
The girl roared as she charged, taking a giant stride into the crowd and swinging her kanabo wildly, sending a dozen pirates flying with answering cries!
"Waahhhhh!!!"
"Boom! Boom, boom, boom!"
Smoke and dust rose everywhere amidst continuous roaring, and the battlefield descended into chaos in the blink of an eye, with pirates constantly screaming as they flew into the sky.
Unstoppable!
However, the girl's remaining meager stamina was also rapidly draining, and her strength and reflexes were dropping at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Suddenly, the earth shook!
"An earthquake?"
"Awooooo!!!"
Just as the pirates were doubting and panicking, a beast's roar exploded.
"Out of the way, you small fry!"
A Spinosaurus, which should have existed only in ancient times and was larger than a house, appeared, charging blindly forward without any regard for the surrounding pirates.
"Whoa, it's Lord Page One!"
"Get out of the way quickly, you'll get stepped on!"
"Damn it!"
The pirates scattered in panicked flight; if they were trampled by the Spinosaurus, it wouldn't just be a matter of getting hurt.
They would die.
The Spinosaurus opened its bloody maw, charging ferociously toward Yamato.
"It's Page One!"
Seeing the charging Spinosaurus, Yamato's heart skipped a beat, as she knew very well the strength and endurance of an Ancient Zoan.
Getting entangled with him would spell the end.
She had to finish this quickly!
"Hoo~~"
Yamato took a deep breath, gripped her kanabo tightly with both hands, and wrapped all her remaining Haki around the surface of the club.
Black lightning crackled across the kanabo.
The next instant, the girl turned into a bolt of lightning and vanished from the spot, unleashing the technique she had stolen from that scumbag Pops right then and there!
"Thunder-Bagua!"
Almost instantly, the kanabo wreathed in black lightning appeared beside the Spinosaurus's head, its terrifying momentum causing the Spinosaurus's pupils to shrink drastically.
There was no dodging it!
"Bagua!!!"
"Bang!!!"
Accompanied by a piercing roar, the kanabo slammed viciously into the side of the Spinosaurus's face, smashing its jawbone along with dozens of fangs to pieces!
Point-blank ultimate move!
"Awooooo!!!"
The Spinosaurus swung its head while shrieking, its massive body falling sideways onto the ground out of control and kicking up a large amount of smoke and dust.
The pirates were utterly shocked.
"Lord Page One!"
"So strong, he took down Lord Page One with just a single club strike!"
"That's only natural, the opponent is the Oni Princess, after all!"
For a moment, the pirates were too awestruck to step forward.
Yamato stood tall in the center of the battlefield, secretly recovering her stamina; if any pirates rushed up right now, she wouldn't have any strength left to resist.
Damn it!
So tired! So hungry!
She really wanted to eat sashimi~ Slurp!
As the smoke and dust cleared, the Spinosaurus had vanished, leaving only a half-kneeling youth wearing a black-and-white mask on the ground.
Shinuchi of the Beasts Pirates, Page One!
"Cough, cough!"
Page One covered his cheek and coughed up blood, half his face stained crimson. He was clearly injured extremely heavily, a sight that made his subordinates' hearts leap into their throats.
Having his head hit by an attack like that-one could only imagine how terrifying it was; the fact that their superior could still maintain consciousness was already astonishing.
Just how durable are Ancient Zoans anyway!
A subordinate asked cautiously: "Lord Page One, you don't look lightly hurt. Do you need to call the medical team?"
"No need, it doesn't hurt at all!"
Page One couldn't even stand steadily at the moment, but he was still stubbornly putting up a tough front, his eyes filled with gloom as he looked at Yamato.
"Even though he took heavy injuries, he still has such formidable combat power."
Strong!
Even he didn't have the assurance of a guaranteed win!
Suddenly, the hairs on Page One's body stood on end, and his keen perception of a certain danger made him instinctively want to flee.
However, it was too late.
A shadow enveloped him.
"Little Pei!!!"
Slender hands grabbed his neck from behind, and immediately afterward, the other person's entire body pressed down onto him, shoving him heavily to the ground with his face embedded directly into the earth.
Oh no, it's Big Sister!
"Little Pei, Big Sister missed you so much!"
Ulti knelt on top of Page One, gripping his neck with both hands and shaking him up and down with excited force, slamming Page One's head into the ground over and over again.
She found her little brother, she was so happy!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The cracks in the ground rapidly widened.
Page One's head kept slamming into the ground, and his consciousness grew increasingly hazy. He had already been heavily injured to begin with, and now this was injury on top of injury.
"Save..."
The youth raised his head with difficulty, spotted Good not far away, and immediately reached out for help. Good was the only one around who could stop Big Sister's rampage.
That look in his eyes-finding a shred of hope at last while dwelling in despair, along with that hand desperately trying to reach out and grasp that hope-was truly touching.
Good turned his head away and skillfully began to whistle.
"Whew~ whew~ whew"
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As Ulti's considerate subordinate, he certainly could pull Ulti back, but he didn't want to get involved in his superior's family affairs at all.
Who knew if she'd turn her spearhead toward him instead.
"Good, you bastard!"
Page One plunged into despair, his outstretched hand dropping to the ground, followed immediately by little ghosts with crossed-out eyes floating out of his mouth.
He passed away peacefully.
"Little Pei?"
Failing to sense any resistance from him, Ulti stopped shaking him in puzzlement. When she discovered that her little brother had lost consciousness, she instantly flew into a violent rage.
"Bastard, who beat you up like this!"
It was you, lady!
Good muttered inwardly in complaint.
"I know!"
Ulti glared angrily at Yamato: "Yamato, you did this, didn't you? How dare you knock Little Pei out-I'm going to avenge Little Pei!"
"Huh? You're the one who knocked Little Pei out yourself, aren't you!"
Yamato wore a baffled expression, unwilling to take the blame while making sure to accuse Ulti in return: "If you could just be a little gentler with Little Pei, he wouldn't run away from you every single day!"
"Crap! I am the gentlest person in this world toward Little Pei!"
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