"Admiral! You can't!" Gin lunged forward in horror to stop him. "Our men... a lot of them are still over at the restaurant! If you fire that poison gas shell, they'll die too!"
"Get lost!" Don Krieg roared, viciously backhanding Gin across the face and knocking him down into the bottom of the boat.
"From this moment on, you're no longer one of the Don Krieg Pirates! Coward! All of you can go to hell!" Now, nothing remained in Don Krieg's eyes but a crazed urge to destroy, and he slammed down on the firing button.
The two golden skulls opened their mouths, and a shell filled with lethal purple poison gas instantly shot out, tearing through the air above the sea with a piercing shriek as it flew straight toward the Baratie.
Meanwhile, inside the restaurant-
Spurred by intense pain and sustained by his powerful will, Hawkeye Mihawk slowly opened his eyes.
Though weakened, those sharp, hawklike eyes remained calm.
The first thing he saw was Kirishima Bupai sitting nearby, tucking into his food with even a faint, satisfied smile on his face.
"...You... cough, cough..." Hawkeye fell silent for a moment before speaking hoarsely, his searching curiosity hard to conceal.
"It's good to be young. You can just lie down and fall asleep, huh? Heh..."
Ignoring Kirishima's teasing, he endured the pain that felt as though it were tearing his entire body apart and rose to his feet with extreme difficulty.
Every stumbling step pulled at his wounds, and cold sweat instantly soaked his shirt.
Hawkeye kept his gaze fixed on Kirishima and spoke, his face deathly pale. "You... what's your name? With such... overwhelming power, there's no way you could have gone unheard of on the seas..."
This made no sense. How could a monster like this