Eye for an eye

But Ken wasn't done with that; he threw multiple kunais at Augur. Augur, expecting this move, used his rifle to shoot at the kunai in mid-air. Normally the guns of One Piece weren't so advanced, and in fact the gun of Augur looked like it belonged to the old age, but apparently it could shoot multiple shots from this long rifle.

Just like last time, Augur was able to deflect the kunai that were thrown at him at different parts of the body. Though it might not be instantly fatal, he still had to make sure that he didn't get hurt. Plus, he needed to return the favor. After deflecting the kunais, Augur shot at the masked man.

The bullet went straight through the head of Ken, but Augur wasn't delighted because he knew that this move of his didn't do any damage to the guy. The body of Ken slowly vanished. He had already moved using his body flicker jutsus, and Augur only saw an afterimage.

Ken appeared again high on the branch of a tree nearby.

"You have quite the expertise, Augur. No wonder that fat, ugly dude went ahead and recruited you." Ken said.

"Ugly fat dude? You mean our captain? Are you from the Whitebeard Pirates?" Augur asked.

Augur knew about what his captain had done, and since this guy mentioned their captain, there was a chance that he belonged to his previous crew. He became more serious and pointed his gun at Ken, ready to shoot again.

"Of course I don't belong to that relic. I am not here for your past. But your future." Ken said as he made a simple hand sign and shouted.

Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu

Ken blew through the hole created by the fingers, and soon fireballs started popping out. It wasn't a single huge fireball but multiple small ones that flew towards Augur at high speed.

"What the hell?" Augur had, until this time, thought that this masked man didn't have any devil fruit, but this move proved otherwise. Someone who had a devil fruit and was proficient in Haki was quite dangerous.

Augur couldn't just use his bullets to stop this attack and could only dodge. He jumped from one place to another. The fire was real, as it burned the places it touched. He dodged and did so in a fast manner, but he also lengthened the distance between the two. He was a sniper, so he wasn't very good at close range and could only be effective from a distance.

Ken already knew what he was going to do, so even after using his fire jutsu, he threw a kunai at escaping Augur. Augur's Observation: Haki had already alerted him of the flying kunai, and instead of dodging it, he used his gun to deflect the kunai. Augur had a smile on his face, as he had gone quite a distance and it would soon be his time to counterattack.

But he was in for a surprise. The moment he stopped and turned back to look at Ken in the distance, who didn't chase after him, he felt a cold feeling at his neck. With the cold feeling came a trickling sense of hot blood flowing down his neck.

It was Ken! He had placed a kunai on his neck, and he had inserted the kunai on his skin, prompting the flow of blood. Augur stiffened at the spot because he knew he had been caught and a single move from him could make him lose his life.

"You are quite the slippery fish."

The reason Ken was able to get back at him was because when he faced Augur in the beginning, it wasn't his actual body at all but just a shadow clone. Ken had actually put a few shadow clones around because he felt like Augur might try to run away. Augur was quite unlucky, as he met the original body in his run.

Augur became silent, and he shuddered a bit. He felt death really close here.

"What do you want? I don't have any enmity with you. So why are you coming after me?" Augur asked.

"Didn't you hear what I just said? I said, I am not doing this for the present but for the future." Ken replied, and before Augur could even understand what this guy was blabbering about, Ken proceeded to insert the kunai right into his right eye. He was wearing a monocle over one eye.

The kunai burst open the monocle and went straight to his eyeball. The blood splashed out instantly as he cried out in pain. Ken, after that move, stood a bit away. He wanted to give Augur some time before he proceeded with the next move.

Blood poured out of Augur's eye like a stream as he was trying his best to stop the flow. There was only a single cry of pain from Augur, and then he didn't utter a single word. He immediately cut a piece of cloth from his dress and wrapped it around the head and the eye to stop the blood flow. He knew that this fight had just turned into an extremely dangerous one in which he could lose his life.

Augur didn't stop himself and just took out a small gun and shot it at the sky. It was an emergency flare gun given to him by his crewmates, and he proceeded to use it. Ken didn't expect this from Auur, but he let her do it. This made his job easier.

Now all the scum would be in one place! Augur was looking like a wounded beast, and he couldn't wait to take revenge.

"You will die even if you kill me," Augur said.

"Hahahah. You think I came here to kill you? Hahahah..." Ken laughed out loud. Augur was taken aback by the words of Ken.

"If you aren't here to kill me, then why cut my eye?"

"Death is quite easy. It's the living that should scare the crap out of you." Ken replied as he again threw a kunai at Augur.

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