"You bastard! I finally found you!"
Sure enough, Franky, whom Xie Wen had sent flying with a single sword strike not long ago, did not have a scratch on him. Standing on a medium-sized BULL shaped much like a shark, he roared at Xie Wen, "Those cats don't matter anymore! I need to beat you to a pulp to vent my anger!"
Xie Wen, however, looked disappointed. If Franky had already rescued Sodom and Gomorrah, he would not have been riding a rented BULL.
And so Xie Wen quickly lost interest in Franky...
"Hey! What's with that look, you bastard?!"
The disdain on Xie Wen's face was far too obvious, and it successfully made Franky even angrier.
But Xie Wen ignored his shouting. Holding down Klee Meow, who was about to pull out a bomb, he instructed Meow Jūshirō, "They aren't really bad people, and killing them would be a bit troublesome. Go easy on them."
"Understood, meow."
Meow Jūshirō nodded, then vanished in a flash.
A moment later, the little black cat returned to Xie Wen's side and made a sheathing motion...
"Flying Cat Hiten-Mitsurugi Style: Melynx Flash, meow."
As the hilt met the scabbard with a click, the Franky Family members on the medium-sized BULL screamed one after another, then fell onto its back, clutching their wounds. Even Franky howled as he held his slashed back.
Even Xie Wen could cobble together a whole assortment of sword techniques. As the gifted swordsman who had created the Flying Cat Hiten-Mitsurugi Style, Meow Jūshirō naturally would not stop improving. This "Melynx Flash" was a technique he had developed by combining West Blue's "Soul King Brook: Arrow-Notch Slash" with East Blue's Kuro's Silent Step. Its name came from the Melynx, famous for stealing in the Monster Hunter world. It was roughly