"Aren't you afraid people across the seas will laugh at you? The great World-Destroying Tyrant Shane, fighting like this!"
"If you've got the guts, leave my men alone and fight me one-on-one! Let them fight one-on-one too!"
Shiki had always stopped at nothing. Renowned for his ruthlessness, he loved nothing more than making others afraid.
Many people felt fear the moment they heard the Golden Lion's name.
When the Hachinosu Pirate Game rose through the ranks, he had recruited a great many crew members.
He struck terror into many enemies and had quite a bad reputation on the seas.
Until...
He shamelessly watched others fight from the sidelines, hoping to grab a share of the spoils.
Then he met Shane.
A brat who had come out of the Rocks Pirates and was even more shameless than Rocks!
Even after fighting Wang Zhi and Saint Kelin one after another and suffering heavy losses.
He had used the Golden Lion, dragging him into the battlefield to intimidate the Marines into temporarily withdrawing.
Then he had turned around and used Zephyr of Marine Headquarters to establish a three-way standoff with the Golden Lion.
If that had been all, it would merely have been making use of everything available.
Over all these years, the Golden Lion had seen at least a thousand people do the same.
It was just that some lost and ended up being called clowns.
Until...
Shane used his Devil Fruit ability to buy his teammates time to recover, transfer pain, and steal life.
After this display of truly stopping at nothing.
The Golden Lion was stunned!
He held his prized Dual Swords as smoke rose beside his face.
His mood could not have been worse!
What now?
Do I fight or not?
Meeting Shane was truly rotten luck.
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