"Kaido!!"
He was the one they had pinned everything on.
The moment they saw Hyuga Akira acting overbearingly toward Yamato, all the officers of the Beasts Pirates rushed forward, shielding Yamato.
"What are you trying to do to the young master?!" They glared at Hyuga Akira.
"What are you doing?!" Yamato shouted angrily. "We're enemies! Why are you protecting me?!"
She could not understand it at all. They were clearly enemies, so why had these subordinates of Kaido rushed to protect her at the first opportunity?
She could not make sense of it.
Instead, Hyuga Akira explained for them. "From the very beginning, Kaido was raising you as his successor. Once he died, you became the sole heir to the Beasts Pirates."
"The beatings he gave you as training were actually meant to make you capable of shouldering the entire Beasts Pirates. Unfortunately, you ended up treating him as an enemy instead."
"On this sea..."
Hyuga Akira drew another sword and slowly raised it high.
"Kaido was the only one I could acknowledge, so I'll send you to join him."
His sword fell the next instant.
An enormous slash suddenly appeared. It was a slash from the Ame-no-Murakumo Sword, the strongest slash with all his power concentrated into it, hurtling toward them.
It swiftly engulfed everyone.
They roared and resisted, but not one of them backed down. In the end, most were reduced to ashes by the slash.
Only one person suddenly appeared above Hyuga Akira, along with Jack, who had broken free of the Demon Fox. The two charged at Hyuga Akira together.
"We'll kill you, no matter what!!" they roared in unison.
The next instant.
Their bodies dropped to the ground, and two heads rolled across it.
"Even Kaido was no match for me. What could you possibly