"Which of you wants to die first?"
As Yas's cold, utterly emotionless "question," laden with supreme majesty, slowly descended like a divine decree from the highest heavens, all of God Valley once again fell into suffocating silence.
Wanted?
To die?
Those two words sounded so perfectly natural coming from his mouth, as though he were asking a flock of lambs awaiting slaughter which one wanted to be sent to the butcher's block first.
This was no longer arrogance!
This was a god's proclamation to mortals!
"Bastard."
Utterly dismissed by Yas's remark, "This one's broken," Rocks's eyes, burning with the ghostly fires of hell, had turned blood-red with overwhelming humiliation and rage!
He felt as though his lungs were about to burst with anger!
He, Rocks D. Zebek!
The future King of the World!
Had actually been tossed aside like a broken toy?!
"Aaaaaaah!!!"
Rocks let out a roar like a wounded beast, filled with impotent fury. The darkness within him erupted wildly once more, mingling with his Conqueror's Haki, as he tried to charge at the Marine who dared humiliate him so!
But before he could move.
"Jihahahahaha!"
An even more arrogant, even more brazen laugh suddenly erupted from the other side!
It was Golden Lion Shiki!
His long, lionlike golden hair stirred without a breeze, and he had clenched another cigar between his teeth. His eyes, always filled with disdain and arrogance, were fixed on Yas, his face contorted with the fury of someone whose most inviolable boundary had been crossed!
"Interesting! How very interesting!"
Shiki's feet slowly floated off the ground, and the two legendary famous swords at his waist, Sakura Ten and Kogarashi, hummed with excitement.
"First that bastard Rocks treated me like an appetizer for his warm-up, and now some Marine brat who came out of