Just as expected, hearing Good's voice behind her gave Ulti a shot of adrenaline. She pressed harder against Yamato, still finding time to taunt her.
"Hahaha, you're finished, Yamato!"
"Damn it!"
Yamato seethed in frustration.
Ulti had subordinates, while she had none. No one would come to help her. All she could do was wait helplessly for defeat.
"Sorry about this, Princess Yamato."
Good charged up behind Ulti and leaped into the air with a vicious grin, raising his door-sized greatsword overhead and aiming for Yamato's head.
Hehehe, let me crack that skull open!
I lost.
Yamato closed her eyes and stopped resisting.
But she was still locked in a contest of strength with Ulti. The sudden loss of resistance let Ulti shove her backward uncontrollably.
Ulti took her place.
"Thud!"
The greatsword struck the back of Ulti's head.
"Plop!"
Ulti fell stiffly forward in front of Yamato, the door-sized greatsword wedged into the back of her head. She went peacefully.
"..."
The battlefield fell silent.
Good stared at the fallen Ulti, the greatsword embedded in her head, and the utterly bewildered Yamato before him. His brain nearly crashed.
Holy shit, I hit the wrong person!
Why did that stupid girl have to push forward?!
I'm done, done, done, do-
Wait!
Look on the bright side first. With Ulti dropping out halfway, wouldn't all the credit go to me? The thirty-seventy split of the reward would become a thirty-seventy split?
As for hitting the wrong person...
Right, find someone to take the blame!
Good scooped Ulti into his arms and looked at Yamato with grief and indignation. "Princess Yamato, you actually used Lady Ulti as a shield! How despicable!"
"Huh, me?!"
Yamato grew even more bewildered.
You were the one who did it!
And why did this scene feel so familiar?
Hearing Good's accusation, the watching pirates-especially Ulti's fan club-finally "understood" what had happened.
So that was it!
The crowd erupted in outrage.
"How despicable!"
"Lady Ulti! Boohoo!"
"I almost misjudged Big Brother Good."
No, you didn't.
Good couldn't help making that retort inwardly.
Luckily, pirates are all idiots.
Operation Save My Life was a success!
Next...
Good gently set Ulti down, then pulled the bloodstained greatsword from the back of her head and pointed it at Yamato.
Sorry about this, Princess Yamato.
"How dare you knock out Lady Ulti, the cutest girl in the world! Prepare yourself! I'll avenge her!"
"It wasn't me! I didn't-"
Yamato tried to explain, but Good's greatsword was already swinging toward her, giving her no chance at all.
Bastard! Just like Ulti, this guy wouldn't listen to a word anyone said!
With no time to think, Yamato hurriedly raised her kanabo to block the greatsword. The powerful blow numbed her arms and drove her backward.
Normally, an attack like this wouldn't even count as a warm-up for her, but now she couldn't fend it off at all.
I'm so tired.
And so hungry!
The greatsword rained down like a raging storm. There was no technique, only raw force, and the barrage left her drenched in sweat.
Boohoo, I really want some sashimi.
Slurp~~
"Clang!"
The greatsword sent her kanabo flying!
Yamato staggered backward, her guard wide open.
Yet Good didn't follow up. Instead, he turned his greatsword and drove it into the ground with both hands.
An invisible ripple spread beneath the earth.
"What's he doing?"
Yamato sensed danger, but in her current state, she couldn't maintain her Observation Haki. She could only keep her eyes on Good.
Her hair stood on end.
"Crack-crack-!"
Her ears twitched. Realizing something, she looked down in disbelief at the splitting ground.
There was something underneath!
She wanted to dodge, but her body was too stiff to move.
"Precipice Blade!!!"
With Good's roar, a conical stone pillar gleaming coldly erupted from the ground, brutally stabbing into Yamato's backside and launching her into the sky!
"Aaaaaah!!!"
The girl's screams echoed across the Back Mountain.
Chapter 4: Groudon Jinchuriki
"Ow, ow, ow!"
Yamato clutched her bloodstained backside with both hands, rolling back and forth in pain as two huge teardrops swung to and fro.
It hurts! It hurts even more than getting hit by Pops's kanabo!
Her palms were wet.
Waaah~~ I'm bleeding!
"What's-!"
A shadow fell over her.
Yamato looked up in fright. A massive dark shape was falling from the sky!
It was Good!
The man's thick, muscle-knotted arm was bent into a triangle, his rock-hard elbow aimed straight at her!
Yamato's pupils contracted sharply!
Wait, if that hit me, I'd definitely-
"Boulder Elbow Strike!!!"
His elbow slammed deep into her abdomen!
"Blergh!"
Yamato's eyes bulged. Her waist sank into the ground while both ends of her body shot straight upward, folding her into a V.
I'm... I'm losing consciousness...
In her daze, her body was dragged along. Then the world began to spin.
"Gyroscope: Big Windmill!"
Good seized Yamato's feet and spun rapidly in place. Once the centrifugal force reached its limit, he abruptly let go and hurled her away.
"Whoosh!"
The girl shot toward the distant cliff like a cannonball.
"Boom!!!"
The cliff shattered, rubble raining down and kicking up clouds of dust that buried the girl.
Any normal person would have watched from a safe distance, but Good charged into the dust despite the risk of being struck by falling rocks.
Less than three seconds later, Good burst out of the dust dragging a limp Yamato, then sprinted vertically up the cliff.
The wind howled past the girl's ears.
Wind?
Barely conscious, Yamato struggled to open her swollen eyes. She found herself upside down, moving farther and farther from the ground.
Soon, she realized the truth.
I'm ascending to heaven!
What the hell is going on?!
Nearly a hundred meters above the ground, Good suddenly flung Yamato into the sky. Then he kicked off with both feet, launched himself toward her, and locked his arms around her upside-down body as he began to spin.
The two plummeted at tremendous speed!
"Aaaaaah! Help! Help me!"
Realizing her predicament, Yamato struggled desperately in terror, but her weakened body couldn't break free of Good's grip.
"Finisher: Spiral Pile Driver!!!"
Locked together, the two crashed down like a meteor.
"Boom!!!"
The earth shattered and burst apart. Dust swept across the Back Mountain like a tidal wave.
The terrifying spectacle left the watching pirates dumbfounded.
This guy was a beast!
At last, the dust cleared.
Good stood tall in the center of the crater. Nearby, the girl's upper body was buried in the ground, her long legs sticking straight up into the sky.
She looked like an upside-down planted scallion.
"Flop!"
Her legs seemed to lose all support and flopped limply down.
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