"Give me a ship! Quickly!!!!"
"I want a ship!!!!!!"
"Ahahahahahaha!!!!"
His bloodshot eyes bulged as if about to pop out, his words slurred, like a person on the verge of falling into an abyss, grasping at a life-saving straw.
Unfortunately, his luck wasn't good... he met the wrong people...
The Marine soldiers who had finished their battles surrounded him, leaving no gaps, indifferent to the pirate captain's pleas.
"Damn it!!! Nobody move!!!"
"Aren't you Marines upholders of justice!!!"
"Don't you care about the kid in my hands!!!"
"Give me a ship!!! Quickly!!!!"
The pirate captain looked at the approaching soldiers as if they were dead men, fear consuming him, on the verge of collapse.
"You want a ship?"
A towering figure, nearly three meters tall, appeared. The surrounding soldiers silently made way for him. Sakazuki stopped, his deep voice resonating.
"Ye... Yes!!!"
The pirate captain looked at Sakazuki's imposing figure, swallowed hard, and forced himself to speak.
"Yes, give me a ship!!!"
Sakazuki slowly raised his arm and extended a finger. The bewildered pirate captain, remembering his objective, yelled loudly.
"Hurry up and give it to me!!!"
*Whoosh!*
*Whoosh!*
*Bang! Bang!*
"Aaaaaaaah!!!!"
Two faint whistling sounds were heard. The pirate captain's arms exploded, turning into bloody mist, and he howled in pain.
It wasn't over yet. The moment his arms were blown off.
*Swish!*
*Swish!*
*Swish!*
Three Captains appeared before and to the sides of the pirate captain using "Soru."
The one in front crouched down to catch the child. The Captains on the sides pressed down on the pirate captain's shoulders, simultaneously kicking his forward-facing knees.
*Crack!*
Both legs snapped forward at a ninety-degree angle from the knee!
"Aaaaaaaah!!!!"
"Aaaaaaaah!!!!"
"Cough... Cough!!!"
"Mmmph mmmph!!!"
After catching the child, the Marine in front casually picked up a stone from the ground. When the pirate captain's legs were broken, he shoved the stone into the pirate captain's mouth.
"Report!"
"Major General Sakazuki."
"All pirates have been eliminated and captured."
"Battle is concluded."
"Please give your orders!!"
The Captain who had rescued the child, after delivering the final blow to the pirate captain, turned to report to Sakazuki.
"Some of you, inventory the supplies."
"After inventorying, escort these pirates and the supplies to the town."
"The rest, go extinguish the fires."
"Yes!!"
Sakazuki looked at the billowing smoke from the distant town and issued orders. Then he led the rest of the group to the town to rescue the citizens.
At this moment, the town was an inferno. Ruins and debris were everywhere, with the bodies of civilians, not a single sign of life.
As the Marine soldiers arrived, the conflagration was quickly extinguished. Some hiding civilians, seeing the fire being rapidly put out, cautiously peeked their heads out.
"Mai..."
"Marines are here!!!!!!"
"Wuwuwuwu!!!"
"Wuwuwuwu!!!!!!!"
"Aaaaaaah!!"
Amidst the heartbreaking cries, more and more hidden civilians began to emerge.
As if they had found their backbone, they all burst into tears, as if to cry out the nightmare from their hearts.
Sakazuki had seen this situation too many times over the years. He could only sigh inwardly, his expression remaining cold and stern as he directed the rescue efforts.
Most of the soldiers on board had personally experienced such scenes. Each time they were moved by such sights, their eyes would redden.
Once the civilians had vented their emotions, Sakazuki ordered the inventoried supplies to be distributed to the surviving residents. Life had to go on...
As for the captured pirates, a spacious area was found. After the soldiers made the pirates kneel one by one, Sakazuki handed a knife to each resident.
"Please spare me!!!"
"I'll never dare again!!"
"Please, don't kill me, my child hasn't learned to walk yet!!!!"
"I'll definitely be a new person!!"
"Wuwuwuwu!!!"
"I know where the captain hid the treasure!!! Spare me!! I'll give it all to you!!!"
"Wuwuwuwu ahhhh!!!"
Pleading words echoed endlessly, but they seemed so pale and powerless against the backdrop of the ruins behind them.
The residents holding knives remembered their loved ones, friends, who yesterday were alive, now reduced to countless mangled limbs. Hatred brewed within them as they looked at the pleading pirates with bloodshot eyes.
*Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!*...
The sounds of blades meeting flesh continued for a long time.
Just then, a small figure caught Sakazuki's attention. A child, barely half a meter tall, held a long knife pointed at the pirate captain.
He glared with hatred but dared not step forward to stab. The pirate captain noticed the boy's anomaly, his mouth, stuffed with stone, widened slightly, and he lunged ferociously towards the boy in front of him.
The boy flinched, his grip loosened, and the knife was about to fall. Just then, a large hand appeared in time, grasping the boy's small hand and tightening its grip on the knife.
"Look over there."
Sakazuki appeared beside the boy, bent down, and held the boy's hand that was about to drop the knife. His deep voice spoke, pointing to the ruins.
Looking at the ruins that buried his parents, friends, neighbors, and many kind grandfathers and grandmothers from the town, the boy could no longer hold back.
"Aaaaaaaah!!!!"
"Aaaaaaaah!!!!"
"Aaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!"
Screams of pain erupted. Glaring at the pirate captain with hatred, Sakazuki, holding the boy's hand, pushed the knife forward. One stab... two stabs... three stabs... After an unknown period of time.
The boy's body went limp, and he collapsed to the ground, exhausted. He realized that the Marine adult who had been holding his hand was long gone, and the pirate captain in front of him had also breathed his last.
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"What is the situation?"
"Report, Major General Sakazuki."
"All personnel have been rescued, and all supplies have been inventoried and distributed."
Sakazuki walked at the front, with Captains flanking him, walking from the town towards the coast. He asked the Captain to his right.
"Gather up, heading to the next..."
He nodded slightly, giving orders to the Captains, when suddenly, Sakazuki, walking at the front, froze and turned to look back. Everyone else also turned around.
A small boy, panting, ran towards them holding a long knife. Seeing Sakazuki stop, he accelerated.
"Huu... Huu... Huu..."
*Clang!*
He finally reached Sakazuki and threw the knife beside him.
*Plop!*
He knelt down, and his head forcefully dipped forward.
*Thump!*
He hit the stone ground with a thud. When he looked up, his forehead was already bloody.
"Please let me join the Marines."
"General Sir!"
The boy looked up at Sakazuki with a determined expression and shouted loudly.
"I am not any General Sir."
"And..."
"Give me a reason."
Sakazuki looked at the kneeling boy, his deep voice resonating.
"I want to..."
"Wuu..."
Hearing Sakazuki's question, he thought of something, and tears streamed from his eyes.
"I want to..."
"Wuu wu ah...."
The boy tried hard to maintain his composure, but finally... he couldn't hold back anymore...
"I want to kill all the pirates in the world!!!"
"Wuwuwuwu ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!"
The cry, echoing through the heavens and earth, was filled with immense hatred for pirates.
Sakazuki glanced at the boy kneeling on the ground, turned around, and continued walking towards the coast. The Captains also turned and followed.
Staring blankly at the line of greatcoats adorned with the word "Justice" disappearing into the distance, the boy stopped crying, lost.
At this moment, a low voice came from ahead.
"Keep up."