"Hmm? There are still people who dare to come here now?" Apophis, who had just finished a moment of silence for Buffett, looked out the door and suddenly found a large group of pirates running towards him, "This kind of costume, is it someone from Kano Country?"
"That guy... is Apophis? What a terrible gaze, such eyes, he really will be human?" Kanojao, who walked in the forefront, met Apophis's sight. The scarlet-like blood gaze looked a little shaky in his heart, but the aura still didn't fall, "You are the guy... holy shit, what is it?"
It seemed to step on some kind of round sphere. Kanojao stumbled and nearly fell, causing those men who were looking forward to a tough talk, fall down.
"Damn, too much tension in my heart that I didn't even notice what was under my feet!" Kanojao's heart secretly resents it. He intended to lay down his voice, but now he is only afraid that he has clumsily made a mistake. His gaze cannot help but glance evasively towards the culprit who has caused him to lose face.
"Wait... this is a human head? It is the head of the Skull Crusher Buffett!" Seeing the head of Warren Buffett, with whom he had talked about a deal only some time ago, rolled down at his feet, Kanojao could not help but withdraw his breath. He always felt that Buffett's eyes were looking at him.
It seemed to be blaming him for coming so late. It was also like a curse, waiting for him to go to hell together.
Whereas Rōge thought more, "Although the hall collapsed a corner, but there is not much trace of the battle. Moreover, Apophis is not covered with dust. It means that the battle is likely to be over in a flash!"
After thinking of this, Rōge's mind is also a little beaten back, "The strength of the Skull Crusher Buffett is not weak, but was defeated by the other side with an overwhelming advantage. He can see that the strength of Apophis is perhaps more terrifying than rumored! While Kanojao-dono, although powerful but in terms of combat experience, is far too poor. The risk of a life and death battle is the too big variant. It is better to advise him to dismiss that impractical idea."
"The most crucial point is that Buffett, who invited us to come and help in the war, is dead. It would be too stupid to stick around at this time."
With a bit of thought, Rōge had already made a decision.
"Apophis-dono, we have no intention of disturbing you. We will leave soon. Please pretend that nothing has happened!"
"Rōge! I'm the commander. Who are you to make decisions instead of me?" Kanojao angrily asked the question.
Although the desire to fight in the heart receded, Kanojao is not willing to go back in this way as soon as they left. He can no longer escape the shadow brought by his father.
When combined with the fact that Rōge decided for him, it made Kanojao even more furious and finally no longer hesitated to make a choice.
"Kanojao-dono, please be rational. Buffett is already dead. Do you want to invite a powerful enemy to the Happo Navy because of a dead man?" Rōge rebuked rather sternly.
"It's my business, no need for you to care. It's a big deal for me to fight in my own name. If I leave without saying a word and put my tail behind my back, what face do I have to be the admiral? The 13th commander of the Happo Navy will definitely not be a coward!"
"Both of you, I do not intend to interrupt your exchange, just... Apophis has almost left. Do we stop him?" Just as the two argued, the underlying pirates came running to tangle and asked.
"What?" Kanojao looked in the direction the men were pointing. He found that Apophis was already almost out of the garden. He didn't seem to care about the two of them at all.
"Even you ignore me. Am I really a leader?" The humiliation and anger of being ignored came together. Kanojao no longer hesitated and rushed forward with a loud shout.
Apophis turned his head, and his eyes surged with killing intent. His sword power actually created an illusion of a sea of blood around him, and the fierce aura struck Kanojao's heart and soul, and he halted his feet involuntarily.
"Damn, Kanojao-dono is affected by the enemy's aura!" Rōge panicked in his heart. Had he known that the enemy's sword power was so powerful to this extent, he would have put his life on the line to stop Don Kanojao's reckless behavior.
Don Chinjao once mentioned, in his battle with the Shirohige Pirates, there is a powerful swordsman under the command of Shirohige who can also create a physical illusion of their own sword power. The difference between the two is just a sea of flowers and a sea of blood.
Kanojao is worthy of being trained by the great pirate Chinjao. Even if the actual battle experience is not enough, it will break free from the mind shock in one breath.
However, in the encounter of strong, one breath of time is already enough to decide the battle's winner.
When he returned to his senses, his pupils reflected in the dark green flames that kept enlarging. The tip of the sword caused a strong wind that even cut his face, and it seemed that the demon sword would split him in two in the next moment.
"AHHH!!!"
A harsh and painful scream broke out. Even the scavenging vultures on the outside port were scared to flee with wings flapping.
One arm fell to the ground and is still twitching.
It was only then that Kanojao, whose back was soaked in a cold sweat, reacted to the fact that it was Rōge who pushed him away at the last moment and took the near-certain death of his sword for him at the cost of one arm.
However, Rōge's wailing still didn't stop. His whole body was bruised. The sweat soaked through his body as if someone had pulled him out of the water.
"Rōge, what's wrong with you? Gather yourself, don't scare me!" Kanojao knows very well that even a broken arm is absolutely impossible for Rōge to suffer to this extent. A battle-hardened pirate like him should not act similarly.
"That sword... has, has strange things, never be... wounded, or that deep marrow pain... will make you lose the ability to fight! " Rōge gritted his teeth and finished his explanation with the most tenacity before continuing to roll and hiss in pain on the ground.
The surrounding pirates looked at this scene with trembling hearts. They knew better than anyone else the stoicism of their vice-admiral, but it was such a man of iron that he showed such a wretched gesture, even to the point of pain and snot and tears mixed together.
"Can't a person with a weak mind stare you straight in the eye?" Rōge's pain made Kanojao mature a lot at once. He lowered his eyebrows, "In that case, I will fight you by judging your pace. The wound you left to Rōge, I will return it to you as it is, I swear!"
Apophis gently lifted Nanahoshi and placed it in front of him. He was indifferent and silent, seemingly treating his opponent's oath as a boring joke, not even bothering to utter a single comment.
Rōge covered the wound on his right arm and struggled to stand up, but the stabbing pain in his soul made it impossible for him to see the blurred scene in front of him, and he stumbled and was about to fall to the ground.
"Vice-admiral, vice-admiral!" The pirates next to him hurriedly held him in place and called out worriedly.
"Forget about me first. He will not be the enemy's opponent. You guys hurry up and support him and use your guns to sneak in a while fighting with our leader. Since you decided to do it, don't hold anything back." Rōge said decisively.