The next morning.
Enel had everything packed early.
He stood at the door waiting for Sakazuki.
Impatient.
Sakazuki inside chuckled and walked out:
"Let's go."
"To Giant Red Tree No. 41."
On the way, Sakazuki took out one of several wanted posters.
He handed it to Enel.
It listed the bounty, and on the back was a record of Sakazuki's deeds.
Enel looked at the deeds, and softly read aloud:
"The Melody Pirates, hailing from the South Blue."
"Composed of musicians with high combat power."
"Their dream is to hold world tour concerts."
"........"
"........"
"Recent deeds."
"Annihilated the Goa Pirates who were plundering on Fuyu Island."
Enel finished reading and looked up, saying:
"Are they... pirates?"
"They don't seem to have done anything bad."
Sakazuki was about to say something when his Observation Haki sensed something.
He took out the wanted posters again, drew out another one, and handed it to Enel.
Enel took it blankly and scanned it.
This pirate group was far more brutal than the Melody Pirates.
There were three records of town massacres.
The number of people killed was countless.
Then he heard Sakazuki say:
"Tear it up."
"I'll show you another show first."
With that, he grabbed Enel's shoulder and stomped his foot, and the two instantly disappeared.
Leaving only scattered fragments of wanted posters fluttering in the air...
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Giant Red Tree No. 10.
A burly man, four meters tall, wearing pirate captain's clothes.
Ran in terror.
The thick collar around his neck and the huge chains on his feet indicated.
This... was a slave.
Sakazuki and Enel stood on the branches of the Giant Red Tree.
Watching indifferently below.
Enel saw the figure and said:
"Isn't that the pirate from the wanted poster we just tore up?"
Sakazuki nodded:
"Keep watching."
Perhaps this pirate hadn't eaten for a long time, and after running halfway through the town,
He was now drenched in sweat, cold sweat constantly dripping from his head.
Bang!
A gunshot sounded in the distance.
Then a bullet hit near the pirate captain slave, and the surrounding people fearfully dodged.
Knowing he couldn't escape, this pirate slave tried to grab someone nearby as a shield.
But he only heard.
Swish!
A sound of air being cut through, a CP agent in black clothes appeared.
With a single saber strike, he severed the pirate's arm, while saying:
"Foolish slave."
"Being favored by Saint Tveas is your fortune."
"How dare you try to escape."
"Now Saint Tveas has declared that you will be executed."
Cold words came from the CP agent.
The pirate captain slave cried out in fear:
"Please, let me go!"
"I have tons and tons of treasure, I'll give it all to you!!"
"I've already given up being a pirate!"
"My wife and children are waiting for me back home!!"
"Please!"
"My child was just born when I left!"
"He doesn't even know what his father looks like!!!"
"Please!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
The black-clothed CP agent ignored the stories the pirate told.
He simply coldly swung his saber and severed the other arm.
Then, with two "crack" sounds.
Both leg bones were kicked and broken.
Bending forward at a 90° angle.
The CP agent picked up the severed arm and forced it into the pirate's mouth,
Preventing him from screaming.
Then he disappeared to attend to Saint Tveas.
Sakazuki said to Enel beside him:
"This is a pirate slave captured by human traffickers."
"The collar around his neck is filled with powerful explosives."
"If he escapes a certain range, he will be reduced to ashes."
Enel nodded and continued watching.
Soon.
A tall, thin figure wearing a soap bubble on his head.
A Celestial Dragon with an arrogant expression.
Saint Tveas arrived.
He looked at the crippled slave lying on the ground.
And kicked him fiercely twice:
"Bastard, useless!"
"Damn lowlife!"
"You actually wasted so much money buying me."
"I was planning to brag to Saint Villamia."
"Now it's all ruined!"
Getting angrier as he spoke, he drew his pistol and fired shot after shot.
Watching the pirate captain's terrified and pained expression.
Saint Tveas thought of a fun game.
He ordered the CP agent to pull the severed arm from the pirate's mouth.
Then he took out a remote control and said to the pirate:
"As soon as I press this remote, the collar on your neck."
"Will blow you to smithereens."
To make him believe, he casually took a collar from a follower.
And threw it into the hands of a thin slave:
"Hold this, and run there."
He pointed to a spot several hundred meters away.
The thin slave nodded and ran towards it.
Seeing that the distance was about right.
Saint Tveas said softly:
"Look."
As he spoke, he pressed the button in his hand.
In the eyes of the pirate captain slave, the slave in the distance suddenly exploded.
A mushroom cloud dozens of meters high formed.
The scorching air wave blew over.
His heart filled with infinite terror.
Saint Tveas said to him:
"I'll give you a chance."
"If you run to that shop using all your might,"
"I'll let you go back."
The pirate captain slave's heart filled with hope, and he looked at the shop a hundred meters away.
Saint Tveas whispered like a demon:
"Begin."
The pirate slave captain twisted his body and crawled forward on the ground.
His broken legs dangled to the left and right, a comically grotesque sight.
His ferocious, angry expression showed the immense pain he was enduring.
And Saint Tveas's laughter was so ear-piercing.
Enel frowned and continued watching.
After an unknown amount of time, the pirate captain slave's consciousness began to blur.
Perhaps the desire to survive was the only thing propelling him forward.
Suddenly, he bumped into something and couldn't move forward.
The pirate captain slave slowly looked up and saw the shop sign.
Even through the intense pain, a smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. He looked back.
But then Saint Tveas's voice came, cackling:
"I wasn't talking about this shop,"
"HahahahaHahahahahaha!!!!"
The pirate captain slave's heart filled with infinite shock, anger, and despair.
The collar on his neck began to beep.
Faster and faster...
In the final moments of his life...
"I'm sorry, Dolly."
"And Pruus..."
Boom!!!!!
The pirate captain, along with the shop, was blown to ashes.
Looking at the cackling Saint Tveas.
Enel said:
"Truly vile..."
"Is this the World Noble that the Marines have to protect?"
Sakazuki said:
"That's right."
"They enjoy everything in the world and call themselves gods."
"To distinguish themselves from the people of the world."
"They wear those air-blocking helmets."
"The Celestial Tribute extorts most of the world's countries."
"The entire world supports that small group of people."
"Do you think that's fair?"
Enel said:
"It's not fair."
Sakazuki said:
"Indeed, it's not fair."
"But they control the lifelines of the world."
"They possess weapons that can cleanse the world."
"Even the Navy's annual military budget needs to be allocated by them."
"In such circumstances,"
"What would you do?"