He met the jackal scimitar, a blade that could cleave stone, with that hand.
Clang-!
A deafening crash erupted inside the cramped tavern, leaving everyone's ears ringing!
The gale unleashed by the shock wave sent everything loose flying.
Time seemed to stand still.
Every pirate still standing in the tavern, along with Sally and Gion, stared wide-eyed, their mouths open wide enough to fit an egg.
They had witnessed something they could not believe.
That infamous scimitar had been caught firmly in his palm.
The blade was less than half an inch above Lin Xuan's head, yet it could not advance another fraction.
"Roar-!"
Humiliation and shock drew a bestial roar from Jackal Od's throat.
The muscles across his body began to writhe and swell. Black fur grew wildly, and his bones crackled.
His body rapidly grew taller, his face elongated, his fangs protruded, and his eyes turned completely scarlet.
A Zoan Devil Fruit, the Dog-Dog Fruit, Jackal Form!
"I'm going to... kill you!"
Od's strength surged after his transformation. He became a vicious werewolf over two meters tall, his terrifying killing intent mingling into a suffocating pressure.
Abandoning the trapped scimitar, he drove his other hand, now a sharp claw, viciously toward Lin Xuan's heart with devastating force!
That swipe seemed capable of tearing space apart!
The force of the wind extinguished the tavern's remaining lights, plunging it into darkness. Only the claw's air-rending wake shone with an eerie green light, illuminating the terror on everyone's faces.
They finally realized just what kind of monster they had provoked.
Boom-!
A deafening crash rang out, as though explosives had detonated inside the tavern, and tremendous energy swallowed everything.
Chapter 118: A Marine Admiral's Rather Unusual Way of Collecting Debts!
The tavern was deathly silent. Only the wind poured through the